Honkai Impact: Capturing the Little Herrschers starting with Sirin

"Do you hear my call?"

The chip in his hand glowed slightly.

That was the only and first ray of light in this darkness.

"Take me away and show me the way."

"Is she, the one I forgot, abandoned, and regarded as everything by me, okay now?"

Yulandel, who didn't even know why she was talking to herself like that, smiled bitterly and shook her head.

"I do not know."

"I'm sure you don't know either, but you care."

"Just like I've been wondering, where does my love for her come from?"

"A sudden heartbeat? A chance encounter, a chance look back?"

"call……"

I had all kinds of thoughts in my mind, but in the end, they turned into the sighs I feel today.

"After forgetting, I have a greater curiosity, yearning, and unknown expectation about the past that love carried."

He slowly opened his palm, and the chip in his hand seemed to respond, slowly floating away into the distance.

Taking a step forward and following this only lighthouse, Yulandel found the direction she wanted to go.

Suddenly, as they were walking, pictures gradually appeared in the darkness around them.

"What are you thinking about?"

It was a cheerful voice, an impatient one, but one that could not suppress its concerned inquiry.

"Have you ever thought about smiling again today?"

"This feeling, called heartbeat, is the love for another thing."

“When affection reaches a certain level, it will produce the result called love.”

"Do you know why I never taught you how to get to know someone?"

"Because I'm afraid you'll know that your little third brother is actually a very unreliable person."

"Do you want to know what love is?"

"Then when you look at me, do you have any other feelings?"

"Uh...it's just a test, don't think too much about it."

"Although you probably don't know what to think about..."

"Maybe... I should teach you more."

"Look, these are the thirteen dying stars I collected. They will be beautiful when they bloom."

"Just like you in that light."

Is that... me?

Yulandel stared at the blurry figure in front of her.

But he shook his head again.

"No, it's not."

On the screen, there is a young man with short black hair.

He followed the girl, and continued to do so.

Although he never said any good words, he never left.

pat!

Ripples rose up under her feet, and Youlandel seemed to have come to the surface of a lake.

With every step you take, ripples appear under your feet.

And with each ripple, the lake surface is like a mirror, reflecting past scenes.

That was the life that He, as 003, spent beside "Him".

From the first meeting, to the acquaintance, from the initial dissatisfaction, to the third child following behind the princess.

Excessive human nature breeds emotions that should not exist.

The excessive divinity buried this emotion.

Step...step.

Time has left no trace on them.

The only thing is the memory sealed here, and...

Those calls.

At last.

At last……

Yulandel discovered that the figure on the screen gradually turned into her own appearance.

Her long golden hair reached her waist, and her slightly childish face gradually became familiar.

Until finally...their figures overlapped.

Push away the darkness before your eyes.

The girl stood in front of a door.

Her hand stroked the door in front of her, and in her ears... a boy's voice asked.

?:"Hello……"

"Ok?"

?:"you……"

? : "No, my lord."

"..."

"This is the first time that the third child has called me that."

? : "Because... I want to know an answer."

"If you have any questions... you should go find Little Second. He knows everything."

? : "But I want to hear it from you."

? : "Have you...learned to love?"

"No."

? : "..."

? : "Yeah...it's always been like this."

? : "So, why have we come to this point?"

? : "Princess."

"..."

"Maybe... it's so that I can love someone in the future."

……

The door was pushed open.

Before my eyes was a battlefield, an endless flame, broken wings, and the fire of judgment that had burned eternally but was now extinguished.

The war that the gods swore to "Him" has come to an end.

An ending without any suspense.

How long did this war between gods last?

Nobody knows.

On that vast and distant battlefield, the only one standing in the end was that lonely figure.

And the long sword in her hand stained with divine blood.

There is no doubt that in front of "Him", gods are like ants.

Every time that sword fell, it was the fall of a god.

Except for those who chose to live in disgrace in the end, that day, the era of God ended.

Or in other words, before "Him", God has never existed.

But, is that all?

The scene flashed before his eyes, and he saw the truth that 003 saw when he returned that day.

In mythology, after the war of gods, it was used to celebrate and express the joy of the lord ascending the throne.

Forerunner 003 left, preparing a gift for that victory.

And when He returns, in the flames, before the throne.

The Apostle of Rules held the sharp blade stained with divine blood and pierced the heart that had never beaten.

The blood that this sword finally bathed in.

It is “Him” Himself.

……

Perhaps we all know very well that if “Him” is not willing, even an apostle as powerful as the Rule will never be able to send the blade into “Him”’s body.

That was His voluntary choice.

The deep sleep that day was “His” self-closure.

"Him" who ended the Age of Gods was eventually regarded by "Him" as an apostle of the family, ending "Him"'s upcoming rule.

And that scene was seen by the naive youngest child.

……

Now, let's summarize.

The third child who accompanied "Him" throughout his life, either because of his childlike innocence, or because of his accidental selfish desires, or because of his confidence in the power to look to the future.

He became the only lost one on this road.

He stubbornly believes that the future he sees is the only one because that is the future He wants.

But when He pushed open that door, He was destined to see another result beyond time.

His innocence made him, without understanding the princess's thoughts, go against his two brothers.

He became a loser and sat on the tree as an enemy of the two apostles.

He became the only traitor in the midst of confusion and deception.

He didn't know that the two apostles were always fulfilling the princess's duties, and he didn't know that the sword was his own choice.

If “Him” did not want to, how could the Apostles of Rules defeat “Him”?

But the selfishness and hatred that grew and could not be concealed prompted the youngest brother to stand against everyone.

Perhaps even he himself did not realize that the two brothers who sealed "him" had never betrayed him.

But I, who have always stood by the princess, am the real traitor.

An ignorant and ridiculous loser.