Honkai Impact 3rd: Starting with creating an anime version of Honkai Impact 3rd

Otto successfully transferred Karen's resentment from her character in the movie to Yaqing.

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"Ah!"

Chapter Twenty-Four: I Will Always Love Cecilia

In the training room of the Tower of Babylon, Siegfried questioned whether his choice was correct. If he had chosen not to save Theresa first, but instead stayed to fight with Welt, wouldn't the Second Herrscher have been able to escape, and wouldn't tens of millions of people have survived?

Using the lives of tens of millions to save one person. Siegfried went down a dead end, blaming himself for the deaths of tens of millions of people. In his turmoil, he could only vent his frustration with a water bottle.

Walter Young entered the training room, informed Siegfried that the session was over, and told him to prepare to go to the moon with him. Siegfried excitedly replied, "I've made up my mind, no matter the cost—"

"We must stop her!"

Walter remained noncommittal, ignored him completely, and turned to leave.

The scene shifts to the Yellowstone base of Anti-Entropy. The purple-haired youth salutes Walter, who responds and then leads Siegfried into the base. Siegfried and the purple-haired youth exchange a glance.

"Tch, Siegfried of Destiny, sounds like a lazy bum. I really don't know why the Alliance Leader values ​​him so much."

"Just now, I think I was glared at. He seemed like a very serious person... Did I offend him?"

Walter led Siegfried into the base. Seeing the familiar, enormous humanoid mech, the general-purpose mech Aharato, Siegfried was stunned. It was his childhood dream. He excitedly recited the famous line from the final episode to Walter, who simply smiled.

"Ryoma?!" Mei was stunned. Wasn't that her father's name? When she first saw the purple-haired woman holding the little girl in her arms, she was thinking how much the little girl looked like her when she was a child.

Kiana was still engrossed in watching the movie.

Bronya gave Raiden Mei a meaningful look.

……

"Aharato really is there!" Kevin was somewhat surprised. As a groundbreaking tokusatsu work, most people his age grew up watching it, especially the line "Tyrant of the heavens, witness the shattering of stars," which was very familiar to everyone.

"Piloting a mecha is truly a man's romance!" Su was unusually more excited than Kevin. Studying medicine was just his hobby; mechas were his dream.

A man's...romance?

After thinking for a while, the audacious cat actually asked Qianjie, "Does Brother Jie also like mecha?"

"Hmph!" Qianjie turned his head away. "You know perfectly well why I'm asking this."

"Won't this infringe on copyright?" Mei asked.

"No, this movie is a product of the collaboration between Destiny and Anti-Entropy," Ya Qing laughed. "It's a special collaboration between Honkai Impact and Alahato, after all, what man wouldn't be interested in mecha?"

“That’s right, that’s right!” Kevin nodded.

"Yes, yes!" Su nodded excitedly.

"..." Kosmo seemed to say nothing, but he said everything.

"Hmph, not bad." Qianjie reluctantly agreed.

The women looked at the men, who seemed to be on steroids, with suspicion.

To avoid wasting the remaining time, Walter interrupted Siegfried's excitement and explained the upcoming lunar plan to him:

After arriving on the moon, first hide Aharato, then let him attract the attention of the Second Herrscher, while Siegfried takes the opportunity to collect Soul Steel samples, and then pilot Aharato to meet up with him.

Welt Young was unsure whether he, along with Siegfried and Aharato, could defeat the Second Herrscher. They only had one chance, so he also devised a Plan B.

The screen suddenly went black, making Pado's heart leap into her throat. Siegfried quickly reappeared on the screen and slammed his fist into the wall, causing the metal wall to cave in.

"Tch, so this is your Plan B?"

"You are free to choose which plan to take."

Walter left with a cane, six hours before launch and 57 hours and 50 minutes before the meteorite fell.

On the bridge, Walter Young leaned silently against the handrail, watching Tesla conduct the final test for Aharato. He was speechless for a moment. When he called out "Dr. Tesla," Tesla's heart trembled. She knew that Walter's journey to the moon would surely lead to his death, but she was powerless to stop him.

"Do you remember when you were little, you said you would dance with me when you grew up?"

Tesla's smile looked forced.

There were 4 hours and 50 minutes left until launch.

Walter arrived at an empty room, where warm sunlight shone on him. Looking at the old-fashioned piano in front of him, he seemed to see himself as a child standing in front of the piano and playing.

"The piano... how long has it been since I last touched it... I remember, I loved it when I was little, and I kept begging Ai Yin to teach me..."

"Sometimes I imagine what kind of person I would be if I weren't myself...maybe a pianist, a teacher, or..."

"But ever since I got the name Walter..."

"She lost her father, lost the hero who saved her, lost her original identity, lost her life..."

"The power of the Herrscher tore apart every cell in my body; I couldn't sleep a wink every night during my childhood..."

“I have never harbored any resentment, because this is Walter’s mission.”

"And, when I'm in pain..."

Walter suddenly turned around and saw Tesla, dressed in a fine outfit, walking towards him with her hands behind her back. He smiled from the bottom of his heart, knelt on one knee, and gentlemanly extended his left hand in front of her.

"Miss Tesla, may I have this dance?"

Sunlight streamed into the empty room, and Tesla's smile dispelled Walter's sorrow. She gently lifted the hem of her skirt.

"Don't disappoint me, Mr. Joachim."

Joachim Nokianvitanen was taken aback by the name he hadn't heard in years. As he danced gracefully, Walter recalled the past and seemed to see his former companion watching the two dancing gracefully, a bright smile on his face.

"After becoming Walter, I lost a lot..."

"But I have never regretted it."

"Because you have shown me the beauty of humanity."

"Waaah, so sweet! Miss Alicia also wants to dance with someone!" Alicia's eyes sparkled as she scanned her surroundings, finally fixing her gaze on Mebius.

"Professor Möbius..."

Before Alicia could finish speaking, Mebius immediately interrupted, "Alicia, stop dreaming. I can't dance, and even if I could, I wouldn't dance with you."

"Sigh, what a pity." Alicia wasn't discouraged at all. "Looks like we'll have to wait for Eden to return. Eden, my dear Eden~?"

"Yaqing, you actually spent so much time describing the wonderful things before the war, you've set so many flags." Mei felt that she could already foresee the ending.

“This is no less than saying, ‘Wait for me, we’ll get married when I get back,’” Kevin joked.

"He will die," Qianjie said coldly.

"Don't corrupt the child, Qianjie," Ying said angrily.

"Hmph, he won't survive." Qianjie changed his tone to a more tactful one.

"It is precisely because of the courage to face disasters one after another that the strength of mankind can be truly demonstrated," Yaqing said. "The hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage, and the greatness of mankind is the greatness of courage."

In the story, Otto views humans as ants, but he respects Walter because Walter has the courage and determination to die for ants, which is exactly what the saint he pursues possesses.

Meanwhile, Siegfried was video chatting with his wife and daughter. The adorable little Kiana asked her father to come home early. Siegfried, though his mind was unclear, smiled broadly and agreed, promising to bring Kiana a moonstone as a gift.

Perhaps sensing Siegfried's deception, Cecilia took little Kiana away from the screen and let her play by herself, leaving Cecilia and Siegfried staring at each other in bewilderment.

Siegfried comforted his wife, saying that the leader of Anti-Entropy had arranged everything. Looking at his wife's worried face, he tried to speak several times, but no sound came out, so he had no choice but to hang up the communication.

Siegfried, sitting on the installation box, seemed to be trapped in darkness, while Cecilia, dressed in a white dress, walked behind him like an angel.

"Honey... I can sense that you're facing a difficult choice."

Cecilia leaned against Siegfried's back, her hand on his shoulder.

"Over the years, we have learned that not every problem can be solved perfectly, and I will always have to sacrifice something for certain purposes."

"That's why it hurts so much to want to protect all of you."

"However, I believe that the choice you made must be the right one."

Memories of Siegfried and Cecilia begin to flash through their minds.

"Because I know that your sense of justice has never changed, no matter what choice you make or what kind of pain it may bring..."

Cecilia grasped Siegfried's tightly clenched hand.

"I will share everything with you."

The screen went completely black.

"Love, Cecilia."

There are 51 hours and 50 minutes left until the meteorite falls.