Honkai Impact 3rd, what should an ordinary player do at the start?

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After confirming that the boy was unharmed and that being shot had not left any lasting effects, her emotions calmed down, and she returned to being the ordinary, melancholic girl with a touch of chuunibyou in her daily life.

The main issue was that the rejection completely shattered any courage he had mustered. The only consolation he could offer was that Jiang Cheng was also thinking of himself...

……Bar?

Until she suddenly realized that there was only one other person of the opposite sex present who could see this petite girl's display.

—Jiangcheng.

"No, why are you suddenly acting like this? Who sits with their butt sticking out on the ground in a taxi?!"

The waist, stretched to its limit, highlighting the perfect waist-to-hip ratio and curves, was trembling slightly, and the fluorescent white skin was glowing.

“I’m sorry, Lord Jiangcheng said I had to win your forgiveness, so Bronya used what is said to be the most humble way to apologize in the Far East.”

Bronya still didn't dare to lift her head. The tight compression between her thighs and calves gave the leg rings, which were originally just hanging there empty, a unique visual experience as if they were sinking into fleshy legs.

Her body was clearly slender and thin, yet her thighs, which were tightly bound to her flesh and succulent, were snow-white and smooth.

Realizing this, the mercenary, skilled in killing with stockings, intentionally or unintentionally squeezed his thighs.

These scenes infuriated Raiden Mei even more.

He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and ground them.

The white, even teeth of humans seemed to be rubbing together as if they were about to explode with anger, as if a cat had invaded their territory and trampled on everything.

Even Jiang Cheng, who was standing in front of her, was pushed aside. The boy, who was already good at reading the atmosphere, didn't even have a chance to give up his spot as the main character. Her small feet, clad in black silk boots, were raised again and hovered in the air. The shadows cast by the lights covered half of the girl's head.

"you this……"

A scheming and wicked woman!

They were so close to trampling Bronya once again.

Someone who should have become one of the starter family members, one of the partners, was almost crushed underfoot.

The moment his feet touched the girl's head, and even the wind ruffled a corner of her long, messy silver hair, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the boy he had pushed aside—a complex emotion he could vaguely sense at that moment.

Mei's dissatisfied gaze suddenly deflated, and her raised foot remained suspended in the air, like a teru teru bozu (a Japanese doll that wobbles in the rain).

Sway to the left.

Sway to the right.

It was a mess, drifting around in the wind.

Who knows how things will turn out in the next second? It definitely won't calm down.

"I'm sorry, I... I didn't mean to interfere with you."

Raiden Mei lowered her head, her fingers fidgeting back and forth, finally clutching her purple school uniform skirt tightly. Her eyes flickered, like a puppy about to be abandoned/already abandoned once, looking pitifully at its owner. "I wouldn't have acted like this, but... but... I'm a little worried."

"If you're unhappy, I... I can step aside, but I can also do things like that!"

Jiangcheng clearly doesn't belong to them yet.

What happened yesterday...

It has already been rejected.

Jiang Cheng rejected him without hesitation.

So the girl could only bite her lip, unable to find any identity that could stand here and accuse him—the right to stop the philandering man like a wife would.

Clumsy.

Stupid.

The strong girl who had once held the reins, holding the boy's hand and pointing to the moon, then to herself, their eyes locked in a perfect gaze, her flowing hair bathed in moonlight, seemed to have vanished.

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P.S.: I heard that the latest version is no longer suitable for posting pictures at the end.

Do you think we should add these pictures?

Chapter 43 Jiang Cheng: We'll run away as soon as we find Kiana!

A conflict arose between Raiden Mei and Bronya.

This was not beyond Jiangcheng's expectations.

Or rather, when they decided to intervene in the plot for their own survival, rather than tacitly accepting that the girl would be saved by Kiana, they were already prepared for the extreme difficulty of trying to reverse the plot.

Whether it's Mei's feelings for herself, or because she missed Kiana and that complete loss, she can't accept Bronya's existence.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter at all.

It's just a bit of a hassle, but right now these are just suspension bridge reactions, only temporary hormonal effects.

As time goes by, and as Raiden Mei grows and matures, she will inevitably one day look back on her past actions as something she would laugh about with embarrassment whenever she thought about it.

Since Bronya couldn't smoothly integrate into the story as a partner, she decided to use a complete threat to coerce the girl into joining the trio.

At this stage, a single Herrscher of Thunder still commands a lot of prestige, enough to wreak havoc in this world where Durandal hasn't grown up and Kevin is imprisoned in the sea.

The new generation of strongmen did not have enough time to grow up, and the older generation was wiped out by Otto in the second collapse. The survivors were also continuously wiped out by him until he confirmed that he had no more troops under his command and had killed all the strongmen available to humanity.

If you change your perspective, this world isn't dangerous at all. To survive, all you need is a little brains and a bit of Honkai energy resistance.

Even to be on the safe side and deal with the possibility of a massive collapse at any time, as long as you properly avoid the Herrschers, half the power of a Stigmata is enough to live a good life.

Especially at this time, when many people consider it dangerous, they deliberately put pressure on each other.

But in reality, you can't find many S-class characters anywhere in the world, not even the minimum S-class characters available at certain points in time.

Even Rita, the queen of car crashes, probably isn't even an S-class Valkyrie anymore.

Otto's combat strength was just so-so; during the Second Honkai Impact, he only launched sneak attacks, and the quality of his Soul Steel body was also average.

One Herrscher is enough of a threat right now; they'll naturally gel as they get together once they're together.

The personalities of the three starter families are already very compatible. The only problem now is that the three of them are not all together, so they cannot form the perfect triangle.

Anyway, Bronya betrayed us once in the Honkai Impact 3rd storyline. She wasn't the most stable one in the relationship between the three of them, and she didn't have that much screen time. In the end, she didn't transform into a high-level being like Origin or End, but only participated in the battle after further sublimation based on reason—on the basis of an ordinary Herrscher.

Therefore, none of this was unexpected.

The solution is quite simple.

None of this will affect the bright future Jiang Cheng has prepared for himself. He can lie peacefully in the World Serpent and wait for the Honkai to be overcome, and then use the Stigmata and the Divine Key to become a winner in life.

The general outline is to give up, and the details of the framework, such as whether or not to date someone from QUN, are things to be filled in later.

"Cough cough..."

"In any case, you should apologize properly."

When it's necessary to play the bad cop, Jiang Cheng will naturally choose to do so.

This also gives Bronya some confidence—the key is to avoid having any relationship with Raiden Mei that goes beyond normal friendship and teammates, to avoid getting involved in the plot, or being abandoned after the suspension bridge reaction ends.

Bronya continued to apologize to Raiden Mei, saying, "If you want to fight, then fight, just don't hurt her too badly. But she's just a mercenary, a tool of Cocolia."

“She is a true orphan. She has never seen her parents since she was a child. She was captured and forced to be a child soldier. She was then tricked by Cocolia and forced to do experiments. Now she is like this because she was deceived by Cocolia with the comfort of her sister…” Jiang Cheng has already begun to help the other party play the victim.

Compared to the tragic lives of other main characters, Bronya is indeed the most miserable one. Rather than being abandoned by her family or losing her family later, she was someone who had no family from the beginning, could not find her family, and had lost her family.

As for how tragic it was, the fact that he had to handle a gun at the age of drinking milk, had to learn to kill with stockings, and called Cocolia "master" from the beginning already proves a lot. There is no need to criticize the morality. In the end, it is ridiculous to expect someone who has no parents and was abducted to be a child soldier in childhood to have any morality.

The problem is that Raiden Mei doesn't care about that at all, and she doesn't want to hear anyone playing the victim.

So what if they're pitiful?

Should we soften our hearts and forgive again?

It is impossible for a victim to forgive a perpetrator simply because the perpetrator once lived a miserable life.

Jiang Cheng naturally knew that this behavior was useless; at least for the time being, the two of them could not empathize with each other or feel pity for one another.

Raiden Mei, in particular, is even less likely.

Because Bronya never showed her any pity.

Only the purest and most thoroughly sanctimonious hypocrite could possibly empathize with the actions of the enemy—the perpetrator.

This was merely a prelude to their future, a way to get to know each other.

Understanding is the final step in communication, relying on a reverse approach to connect two people.

“This is the first step,” Jiang Cheng’s fingertip tapped lightly, then suddenly stopped in mid-air, as if striking a floating screen. “Next, we need to find another girl in this city. She will be an important partner to you in the future, a partner far more important than Bronya. She is truly important to you, Raiden Mei.”

"The help I can give you is just a little bit right now, a tiny breeze, but they are the real boost to your growth. At least for the girl we're going to find next, I hope you can get along with her as kindly as possible."

“I know a lot about him, but I hope to tell you after we find him. After all, this is the first step in exchanging information and understanding each other. Next…”

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The boy continued talking, but his voice turned into a noisy cacophony that could not be heard at all, with only a few lingering echoes around him.

It seemed as if they had been pulled away countless times in an instant; not only were their figures indistinct, but even the transmission of their voices became blurred.

The moment he opened his mouth—the simplest of actions—it was as if his saliva was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a single word.

what……

Wind?

only?

Was it on the edge of a cliff, where a gust of wind blew up from the front, causing the body about to fall to tilt backward and move away from the bottomless abyss?

Is it the cool breeze that blows across your face and lifts your hair when you're almost fainting from the scorching heat of summer, your head feeling like it's melting together?

……

Chapter 44 Getting on the Right Track and... Shopping?

Naturally, there was no chance to say these things aloud—Raiden Mei, who was just an ordinary high school student two days ago, didn't have that kind of courage. Her body, filled with emotions called restraint, lacked the skill to act rashly, so she could only choose to remain silent.

The weather, which seemed to darken in an instant, was expressed in the girl's eyes in the simplest way, and only a light, damp rain continued to fall from beginning to end.

That's all.

So let's just leave it at that.

Anyway, she had only known Jiang Cheng for a short time, and they needed to spend more time together to get to know each other. As the strongest fighter, she was definitely attractive to Jiang Cheng, so she just needed to wait—the girl comforted herself with these words.

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The next step was to follow Jiang Cheng's pre-arranged plan for the three starter Pokémon. As for Rin, she could be dealt with later. After all, she would only need to go to Paradise once, so there was no need to worry about her. After dealing with Bronya, who was relatively troublesome among the starter Pokémon, it would be incredibly easy to catch Kiana in Changkong City.

Because she doesn't even need to actively look for them; she will proactively search for places where Herrschers might appear.

“All we need to do is take a walk on the street.” — Jiang Cheng devised this arrest plan.

Yes.

Just walk around like this.

Simply walking like this will be enough to achieve the desired result—finding Kiana.

Want to go shopping?

Instead, Raiden Mei automatically translated into understandable words, and her bright eyes reflected a light that seemed to suddenly gleam, without any external light or sunlight reflection, but entirely from their own flashing, thunderous light.

"Compared to you and Bronya, who are both half-baked, Kiana has received training and has family heritage. Although she only has an unreliable father to teach her, she is still at the level of an unregistered Valkyrie and will actively seek out Honkai and try to resolve it."

Facing the girl whose interest had been instantly piqued—

"In short, this process will definitely not be very long."

While ensuring and emphasizing the accuracy of the events, Jiang Cheng tried his best to recall the parts of the Honkai Impact comic he had read before, piecing together those fragmented and incomplete memories in his mind, like the heroic figures in Paradise.

"Bronya too?"

Bronya tried to join the conversation.

All I got in return was a somewhat indifferent glance.