Honkai Impact: I will save everything alone

Chapter 92: Audience and Actors

The first time she met someone who was willing to leave a message in her diary, Seele felt somewhat delighted.

She hurriedly and carefully wrote in the blank space of her diary:

"Hello, I'm Seele, may I ask... who are you?"

"I'm Kirataka, um... I'm Bronya's friend, and I came here specifically to find you."

Kirataka briefly introduced his name.

Considering that he had never met this girl before, it would be better to bring up Bronya's name.

'...Friend of sister Bronya?'

Sure enough, after her sister's name was mentioned, the girl's expression softened a lot and her nervousness was relieved.

However, compared to caring about herself, she obviously gave priority to caring about her sister Bronya, who once lived with her.

Therefore, Seele hurriedly read the words in her diary and asked Kirataka, whom she had never met before:

"Sister Bronya, how is she...how is she doing now? Is she okay?"

"She is doing well, and now lives in a special academy... Well, if you could go back from here, I think you would probably live there too."

Kirataka replied.

If Seele could be brought out of the Quantum Sea this time, her final destination would undoubtedly be St. Freya Academy.

After all, her best friend Bronya is there now, and it is impossible for Seele to return to Cocolia.

"The academy..."

Seele murmured.

For Seele, this is a rather distant term.

Because of the destruction caused by the second eruption, she lost her parents and her family when she was very young.

Since she was old enough to understand, she has lived in the Cocolia Orphanage, and the little education she received came from teachers hired by Cocolia's mother.

Words like "academy" and "school" can only be seen in storybooks.

Seele had never imagined that one day she would be able to live in the academy like other people.

But she lowered her head, thought for a moment, and then replied softly:

"But Seele can't leave here now."

To be precise, she didn't want to leave here before solving the problems here, but at the same time, she had no way to leave here now.

Kirataka also knew this, so he was not in a hurry to take Seele back.

Well, there's no point in being anxious anyway.

"…Because of these children?"

As he asked, he looked around and saw several children who were imprisoned here with Seele.

Although most of them were unfamiliar faces that he had never seen before and had no impression of, there was one person who was quite interesting.

——Speaking of the Second eruption and the Babylon Tower Laboratory, he naturally cannot avoid the Second Herrscher, Sirin, who was born in this eruption.

The purple-haired girl was also curled up in her bed at this moment. Her thin white short clothes could hardly cover the needle holes all over her body and her small, thin body.

The reason why this initiator of the Second Eruption was forced to become a Herrscher is quite sad.

——Because of her own powerful talent, she endured more experiments than other children and watched her friends disappear one by one from her side. In the end, in order to seek the power to take revenge on Schicksal and mankind, she became the second Herrscher.

If the first eruption that occurred in Berlin decades ago and the birth of the First Herrscher Welt were just an accident, then the birth of the Second Herrscher Sirin was a complete... self-destruction for the Schicksal.

Her anger and her hatred were all created by Schicksal itself.

And in Kirataka's opinion, I'm afraid... this girl will also be the key to this world.

In other words, she is likely to be the "protagonist" of this world bubble.

Seeing Kirataka's question, Seele answered seriously in her diary:

"Well...Seele wants to take them away from here, away from this...cage."

——Although, she doesn't know what to do now.

The only solution is to let those children undergo their human experiments instead.

"Okay, I'll help you,"

Kirataka replied in his diary.

Before doing anything, he should confirm with Seele what she has done since she came here and came to this world.

What happened made her become one of the people imprisoned in this sky-high cage?

Thinking of this, Kirataka formally asked the girl in front of him:

"Seele, can you tell me what happened after you came to this world?"

"Hmm...what happened after I came here..."

The blue-haired girl tried hard to recall and explained to Kirataka:

"After Seele arrived at this snowy land, she walked on the ice for a long time before finally seeing this tall tower."

Unlike Kirataka's rough and direct way of breaking down the door and walking in, she used her quantum ability and easily entered the Tower of Babylon without causing any commotion.

"...Then, Seele discovered that no matter whether it was the robots or the children and adults here, they seemed to be unable to see Seele."

The girl continued to talk.

Sure enough, Seele also encountered the same situation as herself...

Kirataka pondered to himself.

He and the people living in the tower are like the actors and audience in a stage play. They can only watch from afar but have no way to join in their performance or interact with them.

Although, it is also possible to use offensive means to destroy the facilities here and attract attention, but no matter how they investigate, they will not realize that it was done by them.

So, what did Seele go through to transform from a spectator in the audience to an actor on the stage...?

This may be the key to solving the problems and rules of this world bubble.

Then the girl continued:

"…Seele stayed in this tower for a long time, trying to rescue the children imprisoned here, but all her efforts ended in failure."

Of course, after all, she had no way to communicate with these children at that time. Even if she used brute force to tear down the door, the children who had become timid due to long-term inhumane treatment did not have the courage to step toward freedom.

"Until one day, Seele saw Sirin...she became strange."

"Seele, what do you mean by weird?"

Although he roughly knew what Seele saw, Kirataka still asked for confirmation.

"Sirin's aura became very powerful, and she could also pass through walls like Seele. She left the room, found the Honkai reactor, absorbed the Honkai energy there, and then... killed everyone in the entire tower."

Seele whispered what she had seen and heard.

'...Sure enough, from the girl's description, Sirin has become the Herrscher of the Void.'

Having said that, the term "herrscher" born in the world bubble must also be put in quotation marks.

In essence, it is nothing more than an afterimage of the original world. Even if it transforms into a Herrscher, its power is quite limited. After all, this "pirated Herrscher" cannot condense a Herrscher core in its body that can directly connect to the imaginary space like a real Herrscher.

Kirataka had not seen Sirin after she became the Herrscher in this world's bubble, but he guessed that her strength was at most close to that of a pseudo-Herscher.

And after everyone died, the world bubble was reset soon after -

"After Sirin destroyed the tower, Seele became very sleepy for some reason... When Seele woke up again, she was already in this room... It was as if nothing had happened."

Seele told about everything she encountered in her previous reincarnation.

Those children who had died in the experiments miraculously recovered and reappeared here.

And Seele became able to communicate with them and became a member of this place.

In fact, even she herself didn't understand what was going on.

"...Is that so? I roughly understand. Thank you for your help, Seele."

Kirataka replied in his diary.

He also thought in his heart:

The condition for pulling the audience onto the stage and becoming actors is to witness everything here, to witness the destruction of Sirin's world?

And the condition for resetting the world bubble is that everyone here except Sirin dies?

What is the point of doing this?

In addition, Seele mentioned that she became very sleepy at the last moment, which is also quite concerning.

The girl replied gently:

"Nothing. Did Seele's words...help you?"

"I do have some ideas. By the way, Seele, how many days have passed since you woke up in this room?"

Kirataka asked the girl again.

Through the information Seele provided him, he did have new questions:

The first thing to be addressed is, of course, the issue of the progress of resetting this world bubble.

 Does each reincarnation last the same amount of time?

 If the previous reincarnation was ten days, then after Seele joined here, would destruction also come on the tenth day?

 Can the addition of new actors to the stage add new twists to the drama?

 Or is it that in this drama, no matter what you do, it will be futile?

 In addition to this most critical issue, the issue of time is also what Kirataka is most concerned about.

 ——Due to the constraints of reality and his body's endurance, the time he can stay in the quantum sea is quite limited.

 It was estimated that he could only maintain activity for about twelve hours, and nearly six hours had already passed before he came to this world.

 In other words, the time he can stay in this world is at most six hours.

 If he had to wait for several days to observe the results, he might not be able to make it in time this time.

 Although he had updated the save point before entering this world bubble, if the problems with Seele and this world bubble could not be solved within six hours, then he really had no choice but to return first and make other plans.

 Of course, it would be best to resolve the problem here as quickly as possible.

 "Time? Well, Seele can't remember it clearly."

 The girl answered honestly.

 Drifting in the quantum sea, her sense of time has long become quite weak.

 There is no sun or moon in the sea. Only when you occasionally enter another world to soak in, can you feel the passage of time from that false sky.

 Fortunately, her habit of keeping a diary can help her and Kirataka confirm how much time has passed.

 In order to avoid any problems with her own narration, Seele planned to hand the diary directly to Kirataka and let him take a good look at the information recorded in it.

 "Well, I'll lend you my diary."

 Seele handed the blue diary to the air in front of her.

 "Well, that's fine too."

 Kirataka nodded and took the diary handed to him by Seele.

 This diary... looks like a creation created by Seele using Honkai energy rather than a product of this world. So, now I am just a "viewer" and can access it without any obstacles

 Time was limited, so he did not hesitate and immediately started flipping through Seele's diary.

 Seele looked at her diary being turned in the air and suddenly seemed to remember something. Her pretty face turned red, and she quickly added a sentence in the diary:

 "Oh, um...if it's possible, can we skip reading the previous content..."

 What she was referring to, of course, were the diary contents that had nothing to do with her experiences in this world.

 ——To be honest, before meeting Kirataka, Seele had never imagined that her diary would one day be seen by other people.

 Although she did write down thoughts like "I hope I can be found" and "I hope someone can read these diaries" in her diary, those were just the girl's unrealistic wishes.

 Therefore, everything she recorded in her quantum diary was her truest thoughts and ideas.

 Now, if she were to express her true inner thoughts without reservation to Kirataka whom she met for the first time, it would be somewhat... embarrassing for the shy girl.

 "...Yeah, I see. I won't read the previous content."

 The new words made Seele feel at ease.

 Unfortunately, she spoke a little late.

 Kirataka casually flipped through a few pages and happened to see some of her diaries that she had written before she came to this world.

 As for the content...

 After all, she is just a teenage girl who has fallen into such a dark abyss. It is normal for her to be sentimental and record her lost and helpless emotions in her diary.

 For example,

 "Even if a flower like a sunflower likes warm weather but can endure cold weather, always facing the sun and hope, it won't live long if no one takes care of it…"

 "I looked at myself in the mirror. My short hair looked messy. I wore a white shirt today. It was the one I bought with Sister Bronya before... But I still looked so inconspicuous..."

 "I know that no one except me and my other self will see these words. I only write them for myself, but I still want to record them… Maybe it's because recording this thing itself is not meaningless."

 Seele's loneliness and solitude can be seen between the lines. Even with the company of the other Seele in her body, her journey wandering in the quantum sea is indeed quite lonely.

 In short, Kirataka began to carefully read Seele's diary about this world and compared the passage of time.

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