Honkai: It’s broken, I have become the Herrscher of Corrosion?

Darkness spread out before my eyes again, and when it dissipated, what appeared before my eyes was a nearly dilapidated city.

"Sister Mei, look over there! What a big fire!"

The overwhelming flames lit up the sky, and in the center of the flames, there was a faint red figure. In an instant, Mei suddenly realized where she was.

"This is... the seventh collapse of the previous civilization... That is... the Seventh Herrscher."

The flames rolled and invaded, devouring everything in their path. At the end of the blazing flames, Mei caught sight of that thin figure.

She lay helplessly in the ruins, covered in wounds, as if she could do nothing but breathe. Under the flames that swept across the world, she was as fragile as a crumbling leaf. Even so, she still leaned against the building that had already turned into ruins, and spoke with difficulty.

It seemed that there were still people alive under the ruins. The raging flames suddenly burst into a dazzling white light, then gradually died down and rose to a farther direction. Hua raised his head with difficulty and looked in the direction where the flames were going away.

"team leader……"

Against the firelight, Mei couldn't see the expression on Qinghua's face, but even so, she could still imagine what it was like. It was... a look of farewell.

"Pado, let's go to the next memory."

"Sister Mei, why don't you go help Ah Hua..."

"She cannot sense our presence. This is just her memory... It is the past that has already happened and cannot be changed."

"Is that so... But Ahua..."

Mei stared at the dying girl in the distance, as if she was picking up some of her own memories through time.

Those deep and painful separations will always remain dormant in the shadow of memory, turning into wounds that cannot be healed in the depths of the soul. But those wounds will eventually scab over and become the strength that supports the girl to move forward. She withdrew her gaze.

"Pado, this is just a memory. You finally defeated the Honkai Impact. Kevin, as the first fusion warrior, destroyed the Herrscher of Fire alone. This is an established fact and will not change in any way."

Padufilis's expression eased a little, and he nodded silently:

"It seems that the content here is not what Hua wants to convey to us now. Let's go..."

The blinding flames disappeared instantly, and before my eyes got used to the dim light, a familiar voice reached my ears.

"What a coincidence, Hua, I meet you here again. I guess you must have come here specially to chat with me, right?"

Looking at the enthusiastic Alicia, Hua shook his head calmly:

“That’s not the case…”

Alicia pretended to be surprised and asked:

"Eh, isn't it? Even so, you should have lied to me first. It's really sad to deny it directly like this."

"I…I'm sorry. I didn't think it through."

"No need to apologize...Okay, I won't tease you anymore.

Mei is not here, she is probably undergoing a trial deep in the paradise. You have to wait for her for a while."

"How did you know I was waiting for Mei?"

Alicia tapped her cheek twice with her right index finger:

"Maybe... it's the telepathy between beautiful girls? I was just guessing, and I didn't expect to guess it right in an instant. After all, you two seemed to get along very well."

"Mei...seems to be an old acquaintance of the real me, and we have a very good relationship. She told me about some of her past experiences, and I also have an inexplicable sense of closeness to her."

"Then you should talk to her more. It's not easy to witness your own [future] unfolding before your eyes. Mei will be very happy too. After all, there are not many people here who can talk to her, and the attitudes of the heroes towards her are somewhat complicated."

"Complicated? Is it because the truth she wants to find out is too secretive?"

"How could that be? Isn't the purpose of the existence of the Paradise of the Past to allow those who come after to find out the truth of that time? It's because of her identity, the identity of the Herrscher. When Ino came here, everyone was sweating profusely."

"It's just that Aino is reasonable and has the ability to show everyone her "completeness". I have gained a younger sister, and everyone has gained a good friend. As for Mei... she still has to go through some "tests"."

"Hua, the first thing you thought of was the truth rather than the identity of the Herrscher. It seems that you really don't care about this. Maybe you two can become good friends?"

"The Herrscher... Even I can't easily say "peaceful coexistence" with them. "The Herrscher never fights for humans, and she is the same" - Kevin once said this to me, just... after the battle with the Seventh Herrscher."

"Yes... I saw it too. The captain who fought with us through thick and thin just a day ago, turned into a flame that pushed countless lives into the abyss in the blink of an eye. Once you are given the name of Herrscher, will everything in the past be wiped out? Will you be left with only the will to destroy everything, and become an existence that cannot understand us?"

"So... the reason why everyone can live in peace with Enosia is based on the fact that she can destroy everything at any time but doesn't do it. And Mei... obviously didn't gain such overwhelming power in the paradise of the past."

“…But Kevin has his reasons for saying that. After all, no one has ever faced the Herrscher more directly than Kevin and his friends. The more times we defeat Honkai, the more we fear the Herrscher. It can’t be helped. After all, the existence of the Herrscher means the beginning of loss…”

"To me... [Herrser] is more of a stance than an identity.

If we only distinguish them by their extraordinary powers, we, as fusion warriors, are no different from Herrschers... Only those who betray humanity's past and try to overthrow everything with the power of destruction should be guarded against at all times. Mei is obviously not one of them. Therefore, I have never considered her a Herrscher.

She is first a person who longs to find a way out, and then a special person with the ability of a Herrscher. Perhaps this is the consensus we have always tacitly accepted. "

"I know. Everyone thinks the same way. First, we are companions, and then we have other identities. I have always believed this. They are really a group of people who say one thing and mean another."

Alicia smiled and looked in the direction of the anchor point, her eyes inadvertently crossed with Mei beside her, as if she was advising her across time and space.

"Mei, you have to work hard too. You have to break through that barrier as soon as possible. Because what's hidden behind it is not only the truth, but also everyone's recognition and trust."

"Sister Aili..."

Mei's expression is quite complicated:

"It seems... there are no more clues here. Let's keep moving forward."

The scene changed again, and the night filled the entire field of vision - it was an invaluable view for Paradise.

"This is... the night before Alicia disappeared."

Hua was in the eternal paradise, following the noisy streets, watching the crowds on both sides of the street gather and disperse. As the night deepened, the crowds constructed by virtual data gradually dispersed. Hua sat down on the empty steps, looking at the light signs above his head that changed in an instant. It was like watching a dream that he didn't want to be broken.

"Ahua...she just sat here like this for the whole night? Is she waiting for someone?"

"I'm afraid she's just feeling the peaceful atmosphere here. If nothing had happened, this is the life she should have had... This way, it can be proven that she had nothing to do with Alicia's death."

Mei sighed softly, not sure whether she was secretly relieved or had already expected this to happen.

Suddenly, the scene before their eyes changed again, like melting snow, becoming dim and distorted. At the same time, another scene seemed to be struggling, constantly trying to jump into their eyes.

"Sister Mei! What's going on?"

"More profound memories emerged from the depths of my consciousness, impacting this peaceful recollection. ...I'm afraid that's the sudden situation Hua wanted to tell us."

The blurred scene gradually became clear, and Mei finally realized where she was. Mobius's laboratory.

She had experienced an extremely difficult battle here. With the help of Klein and others, she was able to leave safely. However, at this time, there was only silence in the laboratory, and the experimental data that flowed on the light screen all day long also turned into indistinguishable garbled code.

"This is……"

"Sister Mei, wait for me!"

Mei didn't have time to answer. As if she had sensed something, she followed the owner of the memory and rushed into the laboratory... Then, there, deep inside the laboratory... they found Mobius. Or rather... something that used to be Mobius.

"Huh...Huh...Finally caught up."

Padofelius chased after her breathlessly and soon found Raiden Mei standing there in a daze.

"Sister Mei, something...happened...."

As soon as Padofelius poked his head out, he showed the same expression as Mei.

Because what came into view was a shattered ground, with familiar debris floating in the black mud. In the turbulent flow of light and dark data, only the last remnant of Mobius' figure remained.

Hua in his memory asked the biggest question in their minds:

"What exactly happened in Mobius's laboratory?"

Hua subconsciously wanted to go forward to check, but Su stopped her:

"Hua! Don't come near yet!"

Seeing Hua and Su breaking in, Mobius's lips curled up in a sarcastic arc, and his lips moved slightly. Then, the afterimage gradually became blurred and hazy, like smoke, and gradually disappeared into the air.

Mei and Padufils looked at each other, and both saw the same disbelief in each other's eyes...

Mobius...is dead?!