Honkai Impact, please stop imagining it.

Although it is somewhat inappropriate, this behavior is quite funny while being unreasonable.

Meanwhile, in Himeko's office on the eighth floor of the military compound.

himeko was frantic as he watched the information on the screen about physicists boarding planes and heading to the vicinity of the military compound.

After inviting Einstein, the rabbit surprisingly failed to inform the physicists in Australia.

himeko didn't think to check when the physicists would arrive until the morning, only to find that the rabbit hadn't notified them at all.

After she gave an urgent notice in the morning, some physicists also took time out of their busy schedules to fly over.

Since Einstein has already been invited, wouldn't it be a huge loss if we didn't take advantage of this opportunity?

Chapter 72 We used to get along very well

"Only when you reunite after a long separation do you feel that excitement. After spending a lot of time together, you get used to it and take it all for granted. Without a sudden loss, there would be no sudden joy."

"The white moonlight in people's hearts is something that no one can surpass, not even the white moonlight herself. People's hearts have their own blurring filter, and they will unconsciously beautify everything about the person in their hearts, even their tantrums and rolling around are elegant and beautiful."

Lin Yu sat on the sofa at home, resting his chin on his hand, listening to Himeko read aloud the contents of the book she was reading.

"On a sweltering summer day, coconuts fell from the tree and landed on the van with a thud, marking the beginning of a lifelong dream..."

Lin Yu: "Okay, stop nagging. I've only been gone for two days, how did you become like this? I know I was wrong, okay?"

himeko closed the book. "So do you understand now? Sticking together will only lead to separation in the end. To succeed, you have to keep a distance."

Lin Yu: "It's been a long time since I've seen Mei. I only stayed at the research institute for two days. Himeko-nee, please stop analyzing. Don't you have any friends you haven't seen in a long time?"

himeko shook his head. "No, I can bring them over anytime I want. Once things become easy, I lose interest."

If you can easily see your friends, then you won't have the chance to miss them anymore.

It's like if you could easily reach the highest rank in a game, you wouldn't feel that same passion and excitement when you were striving for that rank.

"You're still young, um... be careful not to cause any fatalities, and remember to make sure Mei takes her medicine."

Lin Yu: "I didn't do anything."

himeko: "?"

Lin Yu shrugged. "We haven't reached that point yet."

himeko: "Then what are you doing staying there for two days if you haven't done anything?"

Lin Yu was shocked. "Himeko, your thoughts are too dirty. Do I have to do something to have a reason to stay there? Can't I just appreciate the environment and adjust Klein's schedule so that Mebius will give Klein less work?"

During the two days Lin Yu stayed in Mebius, Klein finished get off work at 5 pm every day and didn't start work until 9:30 am. Klein's dark circles under his eyes had disappeared.

himeko: "...Then it seems I need to arrange a schedule for the Biological Research Institute."

himeko sat cross-legged on the sofa, bent down and pulled out a bottle of wheat juice from under the sofa, bit off the top of the bottle and took a sip.

Is this the Himeko Lin Yu knows? What was with that literary girl look she was just now?

"My socks should be thrown away."

himeko finished chugging, wiped his mouth, exhaled a breath, and then collapsed onto the sofa like a panda, hugging a cushion.

Lin Yu: "Wash them yourself, you bastard. I can handle washing clothes, but do you expect me to take care of things like throwing away socks?"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush, there are still clothes to wash."

himeko said in a hesitant voice.

Lin Yu: "...It's hard to imagine what your life was like before I came along."

himeko: "I have no life without you."

Lin Yu: "Hmm?"

himeko: "I sleep after get off work every day, and go to work after waking up."

"You've overlooked a lot of things."

"I might drink a little alcohol at most. As for daily life, I always felt that those things were far removed from me. In fact, before I was going to pick you up, I had learned how to do laundry and cook. But after I picked you up, I found that you took care of all of those things I had learned."

himeko lay flat, hugging a pillow. "I thought I would be like a mother hen, telling you to play less games and go to bed early every day, making you breakfast in the morning, washing your clothes and cooking for you at night, and advising you not to associate with those shady soldiers and not to do dangerous things."

“I was already prepared to live that kind of life, but after picking you up, I found that my life hadn’t changed at all.”

Lin Yu: "Changing your life is something that can't be done by relying on other people. It has nothing to do with personal ability, it all depends on subjective will. If you wanted to change, you could have done it already, couldn't you?"

Lin Yu pinched his nose, threw Himeko's socks into the trash can, took them outside to dispose of them, and went back to wash his hands.

"There have been some changes. For example, I'm much happier now. Raising you is like raising a cat that can cook and do housework."

Lin Yu: "I really appreciate it if you didn't describe me as a dog."

himeko took advantage of Lin Yu passing by and placed the wine bottle in his hand.

himeko grinned mischievously, "Because I'm the real dog."

Lin Yu: "......."

Lin Yu went outside again and threw away the bottle. He gave up and lay down on the sofa opposite Himeko, not moving.

"Himeko-nee, what kind of people are my parents? I often hear you talk about my father, but I don't remember much about him."

himeko: "I've spent more time with your parents than you have. See my personality? Your father is ten times better than me, um, four times better."

Lin Yu: "Is he a dog too?"

himeko: "He's the safest person to be around when things are urgent, but he's the most dangerous when things are peaceful. Do you know how I learned to fight? I learned it by fighting your father."

"When he got tired of work, he liked to take me to the exit of the airport or high-speed rail station to watch people. If we saw a thief or a robber, we would go over and beat him up. After beating him up so many times, I naturally learned how to do it."

Lin Yu: "...That's quite interesting."

“Your mother is also a very interesting person. To outsiders, she is very rational, the kind of person who can quantify even emotions with data. She will even say things like ‘Your favorability is not high enough’ when someone gives her a gift or asks her for a favor.”

"But she's a completely different person when she's with her family. She gives them a lot of emotional support. I used to idolize her and strive to be like her, but then... I started to follow your dad's example."

Lin Yu: "It's amazing that there are two such people in this world who have actually become a couple."

"It's a pity. If you hadn't touched that altar, none of what happened afterward would have occurred. I don't know if you remember, but I truly regret it. More than once, I've wondered if our lives would be different now if I had stopped you."

himeko took another sip of his drink. "If there really is a quantum sea and countless world bubbles, then there must be a world where I successfully stopped you. I've stopped that event countless times in my dreams, but each time I have to go to work before I even finish the dream."

himeko: "Wheat juice can make people forget all their troubles, but it can't solve the problems that are bothering them. Whether it's escapism or redemption, who can tell in the hazy hangover?"

Lin Yu: "Just stop thinking about it. Dwelling on the past makes it impossible to look to the future. The present is the most important. If you do nothing, your memory will stay at that moment. If you keep doing things, you will quickly overwrite that memory. The human brain is amazing."

Just like I can't understand why my memories were sealed for sixteen years after birth before they were awakened. If it weren't for that accident, would I have been in the end times of the pre-civilization era when I regained my memories, and could only watch the end of the world come?

Lin Yu now understood why Himeko drank alcohol to fall asleep every day.

Lin Yu took the half-empty bottle of wine from Himeko's hand. "Go to sleep. Let bygones be bygones. Nobody blames you."

“Your parents passed away because I neglected you on the day I should have been watching over you. They were also my adoptive parents. Although your father told me not to call them Dad and Mom, but only Uncle and Aunt, they still took care of me for so many years.”

"You look a lot like your mother. If you wore makeup, maybe when I was drunk I would hug you and call you 'Auntie.' I might not want to try anymore."

Lin Yu: "......."

himeko: "So, if you die, I'll feel like it's my problem."

This is why Himeko was willing to spend so much money to build a biological research institute and invite Mebius to study the chimera.

Even if the big shots in the normal Firemoth branch were to repay a debt of gratitude, they would at most give their benefactor money to live a happy life.

himeko spent so much money researching the chimera experiment, which had never had a successful case since Lin Yu's time.

"You've got it backwards, Himeko-nee. I'll only feel it's my problem if you die."

If Himeko becomes the Herrscher of Flame, it means that the changes she made are meaningless to the Honkai.

Only when the technology of this era advances to a certain level will the Honkai change along with the technology, and test this world with a stronger form.

This would result in a more powerful Herrscher instead of Himeko.

“If you only see me in terms of atonement, you will make me feel like I am just a very precious and irreplaceable person, rather than myself.”

Lin Yu: "Hmm... just like the way Mebius looks at me. She treats me as a very precious and irreplaceable person. Although she is very good to me, it is not based on me as a person, but on the Honkai Beast genes that have been fused into my body."

"The fused Honkai Beast genes made her choose to be good to me, so before I was three years old, we were the closest family living together."

himeko: "Yeah."

Resting her head on Lin Yu's lap, Himeko hugged the pillow and let out a soft "hmm".

Lin Yu is not a continuation of his parents' lives, but rather the family that watched him being born and growing up when Himeko was thirteen.

“You’ve really struck gold. No one has ever used my lap pillow except Kevin and Klein.”

"Who is Kevin?"

Lin Yu: "Hey, Kevin."

Lin Yu was taken aback. "Don't you know Kevin?"

himeko rolled over and looked at Lin Yu strangely. "Is it your good brother?"

I thought it was some pretty girl. Klein is one thing, but what's with Kevin?

Lin Yu: "We used to get along very well."

Between straight male best buddies: patting chests, knee pillows, rubbing buttocks, jumping onto each other's backs and letting the other carry them, the three of them forming a human pyramid and spinning around like a whirlwind.

That's perfectly normal.

It's like straight female best friends sleeping in the same bed, walking hand in hand, and kissing and hugging each other.

Lin Yu: "The closer and more intimate good brothers are, the more foolish they seem to outsiders."

Lin Yu wholeheartedly agreed; in his previous life, he had even heard of a dormitory head organizing an outrageous and strange competition.

himeko: "I don't have many friends."

himeko turned to his side, while Lin Yu lay half-reclined on the sofa.

himeko: "When I was in school, I was busy studying; after graduation, I was busy researching; after changing careers, I was busy fighting. After I finished everything, I suddenly realized that none of these things seemed enough to cover up the memories of when you touched the altar, so I put it down."

"That's the downside of having a good memory; you can remember good things but you can't forget bad things either."

Lin Yu: "So, how about starting over and giving yourself a fresh start from tomorrow?"