Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

"Jiuxiao, have you ever thought that everything in this world is false, and everything in this world is actually meaningless. The starry sky is so cold and hateful, and the stars operate coldly like machinery, birth, destruction, birth, destruction... over and over again, eternal."

"Hey, after looking at the stars for so long, has your brain finally gone bad?" Jiuxiao patted Aha's mask, wanting to use physical means to repair its brain.

"No, I'm serious. Jiuxiao, you should understand that we stand on the branches of the tree, and we can observe thousands of worlds through the leaves.

So... is it possible that we are actually just one of the people being observed? The universe is eternal, cyclical, like a series of fixed procedures.

We may also be just characters in the works of higher beings, just like the creatures in the leaves who are kept in captivity without knowing it. "

"Yeah, it's really creepy to think about it like this..." Jiuxiao held her chin and thought for a while, but couldn't think of a reason.

Because everything is possible, right?

Aha wanted to continue to explain his point of view, but Jiuxiao interrupted it with a slap.

"Is there any point in discussing these? There is no point. Even if there are really higher beings keeping and observing us, even if we are really just the product of someone's writing...what does it matter?"

Jiuxiao took Aha to a leaf that could be observed, and looked at the world inside the leaf together.

"Look, even if someone is observing them and watching them, what does it matter? They are still alive and living their own lives. They can think, they can ask, they can laugh, they can cry, aren't they all Are you really living?"

"...But what if everything is false? Everything is just woven and arranged? Self-righteous people think that it is their own subjective initiative, but in fact they are all manipulated like puppets on strings. Just a miserable creature..."

Jiuxiao was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to answer Aha, so she could only change the topic.

"We have been together for thousands of years, but I have never noticed your pessimism..."

"Well, my brain hasn't been normal lately. But because my brain wasn't normal to begin with, maybe I'm in a normal situation now, so of course I'm thinking more."

"Smile more and be optimistic. The universe is already cold and silent. If you become depressed too, I will probably be driven crazy."

Aha stretched out his hands, pulled the corners of his mouth into a weird arc, and revealed a scary smile.

"Is that right?"

"You'd better go and die."

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He and Jiuxiao had many debates, but to no avail. Aha often lay down next to each leaf and re-observed the world inside.

The more he watched, the more Aha became addicted to it. It wasn't interested in these worlds before because it was tired of seeing them. But when he changed his mind and looked at it with a new mood, Aha was like a child who discovered a new toy and couldn't put it down.

Whenever I see something interesting or interesting, I will pull Xiang Jiuxiao to share it.

Gradually, gradually... Aha felt as if he had understood something...

The tear stains on Aha's mask gradually faded until they disappeared. Aha was born in tears, but the smile of life accompanies its growth.

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One day, Aha suddenly said goodbye to Jiuxiao.

"Jiuxiao, I'm leaving."

"…? Have you found the meaning you want to pursue?"

"Well. I am a fool, a clown... I observe all living beings from the perspective of a god, and I think self-righteously about what they should do and how they should do it.

But this is all wrong. The conclusions I have spent countless hours reaching are all wrong.

Life should not be defined or threatened by others. Life has its own dignity, they are all unique existences, and nothing can stipulate or limit their development.

Jiuxiao, have you ever seen a baby? Babies are the purest creatures in the world. They are not polluted by acquired things. They have all the most essential desires, the desire for life!

Babies are the greatest. Even when they are born, they face the cold world as soon as they open their eyes, but they can still fight against the ruthlessness of the world with laughter and crying.

Just like the laws of the universe are majestic and magnificent, but in the end they are nothing more than cold dead things, while life is as fragile as a reed, but it can still fight against the injustice and ruthlessness of the entire world with laughter.

I'm leaving. I've found my way and the meaning of my existence. "

Aha split a piece of his mask and handed it to Jiuxiao, bidding him farewell solemnly.

"Wait." Jiuxiao directly grabbed Aha and said to him seriously: "You should know what you are going to do, right...? Do you know what the consequences will be?"

"I know...but so what?" Aha smiled, just like when Jiuxiao first saw Aha, she smiled wantonly and innocently.

"Even if I never come out again, and I can never be as detached as I am now, I don't want to be a bystander anymore.

I want to be like that person and spread a smile to those who are suffering. I want the tree to respect my life and save me from destruction.

I want to become a member of the living beings again, be by their side personally, and pass on the laughter.

Life is struggling in this cold and indifferent world, and they need to be saved... I will pass on my smile to them, so that they have the courage to fight against everything. "

Aha transformed into a human form and hugged Jiuxiao.

"Take care." Jiuxiao patted Aha on the back. Aha had already made up his mind, so naturally Jiuxiao wouldn't say anything more.

In a trance, Aha walked slowly step by step, with illusory leaves fluttering around it, as if to see it off.

Seeing these leaves, Aha couldn't help but laugh out loud. The clear laughter tore through the lonely and silent universe, and spread through the leaves to all the heavens and all the worlds, so that people in the world began to welcome "Him" to come.

Aha was in a state of wonder. As the tree bid him farewell, he was washed away step by step, and the hole that Jiuxiao had dug out of his forehead was now filled with mysterious and unpredictable energy.

Aha came from the leaf world, and now returns to the leaf world.

Jiuxiao watched all this silently, and then sighed.

"Aha has made his own decision, so why am I still hesitating?"

Since the emergence of Apocalypse, St. Mark Kiana has lost news. Shenhua Na also cut off her connection with St. Mark Kiana long ago because she is the ruler of will.

Jiuxiao is afraid of death because he cannot feel the blessings left on him by the Tree of Imaginary Numbers and the Sea of ​​Quantum. If he dies, he will truly die.

So Jiuxiao chose to sit in the stars for ten thousand years, waiting for time to flow to his own timeline. But...even if the time is up. Can he find a world with Kiana, Mei and Hikaru again?

Jiuxiao didn't know, but he chose to take a gamble.

What are you betting on?

Let's bet on whether the title "Son of Trees and Seas" is useful.