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

Walter Young was very persistent.

Making demands comes with consequences.

What do you want? Power, wealth, knowledge, technology—none of these are worth mentioning…

Einstein shook his head.

Tesla reassured him, "Don't think about Joachim. It may not have happened. It's just similar to a real or virtual memory."

A flash of lightning seemed to strike Walter Young's mind. He suddenly remembered that before the release of the second film, he had called Yaqing to question him about why he had put him in the editor's position.

At that time, Yaqing seemed to have said something like that.

"Well, it's only natural to make a request and then have to pay a price. Mr. Walter, what do you want? Power, wealth, knowledge, technology—none of these are worth mentioning."

Yaqing's words kept echoing in his mind.

"I got it?"

"I got it."

Tesla felt like he had forgotten something, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember what it was.

Different locations, same time.

Walter Young, Bronya, and Yaqing sneezed at the same time.

Chapter 255 Bella, have you betrayed me too?

The camera returns to the present, focusing on Mei and Tesla.

Mei is still unable to accept the devastating news that Kiana only has two months left. She had finally found Kiana and brought her back, but reality is just so cruel.

Tesla tells Mei that Walter is on his way, and she begs Tesla not to tell Kiana, because she doesn't want to see Kiana leave without saying goodbye again, and is afraid that Kiana will leave her again.

Mei pushed open the door to the infirmary. She didn't know what expression to wear when facing Kiana, but she saw Kiana on the hospital bed forcing a smile even in her condition.

Mei felt a sharp pain in her heart. She took out Kiana's coat and cried as she vented her long-suppressed emotions to Kiana, letting out all the feelings she had been holding back for the past few days.

Seeing Mei's emotional reaction, Kiana deliberately changed the subject and praised her new hairstyle.

"...I'm sorry, I'm back!"

Upon hearing this, Mei could no longer hold back. She rushed to the hospital bed and hugged Kiana tightly, tears streaming down her face.

"Kiana...you're back..."

Welcome home!

What should have been a heartwarming scene, even with the film's warm yellow filter, left the audience feeling no joy whatsoever. The thought of the pressure Mei was carrying and Kiana's condition, with less than two months left to live, made them feel as if a heavy stone was pressing on their hearts.

It was so oppressive that they couldn't breathe.

"Kiana and Mei have finally reunited and can be together forever, but why... am I crying?" Alicia blankly wiped away the tears streaming down her face.

The reunion between Kiyo and Alicia was exactly the plot that Alicia had been hoping for, as were the moviegoers. However, when the story actually progressed to this point, they found that it wasn't as happy as they had expected.

Mei felt a heavy burden on her shoulders, constantly feeling that she couldn't protect Kiana.

Kiana forced a smile to avoid worrying Mei, trying to revert to her original paramecium form, but the way she pretended to look was no longer the same as before.

"Speaking of which, with my body so badly injured, if Mei suddenly hugs me so tightly, will I suffocate?" Kiana, just like on the screen, wanted to break the somber atmosphere in the screening room.

However, no one replied to her.

Mei recounted to Kiana what had happened in the past four months, such as the Far East Branch breaking away from Schicksal and joining forces with Anti-Entropy. Hearing that Bronya and the others were rushing over, Kiana felt a little nervous.

Kiana suggested going for a walk, and Mei readily agreed, but on one condition: she wanted Mei to come along.

"I think Kiana is going to run away again."

"Sister Pado, don't assume she'll definitely run away."

Bell and Pado are talking.

Outside the Helios, Mei helped Kiana put on her coat. Perhaps because they were revisiting a familiar place, the two started talking about the past, about their escape from Changkong City, and about many other interesting things.

Unfortunately, the road to Chiyu Academy was flooded. Looking in the direction of Chiyu Academy, Kiana was somewhat discouraged. She confided in Mei and accepted her identity as K423. She wanted to make her birth a meaningful thing.

"Perhaps... my story isn't beautiful, but I can make this world a better place."

"This is... my promise to her."

"Looking back now, that might be why I returned to Changkong City."

"This is where it all began. Three years ago, I ran, fought, and marched towards the distance here, met you and everyone else, and made a vow to fight for all the good things in the world."

"This is my original aspiration, and now, I can still continue to move forward on this path that I chose."

"Thinking about these things makes me less afraid."

Kiana turned around and gave Mei a bright smile. The dark clouds gradually dispersed, and the warm sunlight shone on Kiana. She seemed to see the girl who had once held her hand, like an angel, warming people's hearts.

She told Mei that they would go to Chiba Academy after everything was over.

"Is this something Kiana would say?"

Xilin expressed her suspicion that Yaqing must have secretly given Kiana a backdoor in the script.

“It seems that Changkong City holds a very important place in Kiana’s heart. In the end, the first place she wanted to return to was here,” Fu Hua said.

"Isn't that a given?" Xiao Shi said, munching on popcorn. "Mei, Bronya, and Himeko were all people Kiana met in Changkong City. How could this city not hold a place in her heart?"

The knife skills have changed a bit over this period.

Continuing the narrative, the story begins with the promise made to Himeko, then uses Kiana's changing mindset to connect with Kiana's physical condition, a series of interconnected attacks that successfully break Alicia and the others' defenses.

"woo woo woo woo……"

Even Mei's gaze towards Yaqing seemed a little strange.

Yaqing looked at the gentle Kiana on the screen.

He remembered that when they were little, he had asked Sirin and Kiana about their birthday wishes. The two little girls kept emphasizing that their wishes would not come true if they were told, and he had to coax them out of their mouths.

Kiana's wish is to become a hero.

Celine's wish is to live a life of leisure and idleness.

"Yaqing, tell me honestly, do you really not have any psychological trauma?" Möbius said seriously.

"I really don't, senior," Yaqing said helplessly.

Möbius felt it was necessary to have a premarital checkup before marriage, not because he was afraid that Yaqing had any physical problems, but because he was afraid that she might have mental ones.

On their return journey to the Helios, Kiana and Mei encountered Benares lying on the ground in agony.

Ignoring Mei's warning, Kiana cautiously walked towards Benares, gently touching the wound and using Honkai energy to heal him.

Benares offered no resistance throughout.

Kiana felt something strange; whenever she saw Benares, she always felt a strange sense of nostalgia.

With Kiana's help, Benares managed to stand up again, letting out a low groan. He then lowered his head and meekly nestled close to the two of them, showing none of the hostility he had displayed towards Mei earlier.

Sirin looked at Bella, who was feeding her, in disbelief.

Bella, have you betrayed me too?

Bella continued feeding Celine without changing her expression.

Celine quickly began to enjoy it.

Fine, betrayal is betrayal.

Kiana looked down on her sister, thinking she had no ambition and that a simple act of feeding her had made her fall for her.

If it were her, she definitely wouldn't...

"Kiana, do you want to eat this?" Mei asked curiously.

"Mei, I want her!"

Chapter 256 Mei, you don't want Kiana to get hurt either, do you?

"Kiana, it's been following you. I think it doesn't want to leave. Should we... take it back to Helios?"

Mei looked at Benares, who was following them closely, as if walking a docile puppy, and said hesitantly.

"Oh no... I didn't think of that. But that red-haired, twin-tailed professor... should be easy to talk to, right?"

The scene shifts, and Tesla looks at Mei and Kiana with a strange expression, complaining, "I mean, stray cats and dogs are one thing, but I've never heard of anyone going out and picking up Honkai Beasts to take home!"

"First it was the cybernetic cyborg, then the refugee little girl, and now a Judgment-class Honkai Beast... I bet next time they'll just bring a World Serpent executive to throw a party?"

"Dr. Tesla's expression is so funny." Kiana laughed so hard she almost fell over. "Sure enough, I'm always happy whenever Dr. Tesla appears."

"So, this counts as subjugation?"

Theresa asked curiously.

Theresa wasn't the only one with this question; many viewers also had doubts. Could it be that Kiana possessed the core of the Void Force, causing Benares to mistake Kiana for Sirin?