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

Compared to the general public, each of the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire was obviously different. And among these thirteen people, Qianjie was one of the most abnormal ones.

Of course, this is not meant to be disparaging or ironic. After all, from the perspective of birth and physiology, Qianjie... is not even an Earthling.

Between the fourth and fifth collapses of the previous civilization, a meteor in the universe fell on Earth, in a relatively backward village.

When Qianjie regained consciousness, he was tied to a pillar by the villagers. It was obvious that the way he appeared made him either a god or a devil in the eyes of the villagers.

Everything about his past, including his real birthplace and his past experiences, has become blurred. It can be said that this village is the starting point of a thousand disasters.

But... Qianjie now understands that the pillars behind him and the villagers with greedy looks on their faces are just illusions woven by someone based on his original memories.

Aponia? That annoying woman does have such ability, but there is no reason to do so now, so... the answer was obvious from the beginning.

When the villagers came to him, they did not start bleeding him as he remembered. Instead, they cut the ropes, then stepped back a few steps and kowtowed nine times and bowed three times to him.

"Tsk, do you think it's fun to play this kind of house game?"

Qianjie, who had regained his mobility, ignored the villagers who looked very pious, and directly started an artificial collapse. Like before, he tore a crack in front of him.

"...I knew I couldn't fool you, but...I think you could have made a better choice. You could have broken free of the ropes that bound you in no time. You could even break the stone pillars behind you at any time if you wanted to. Facing a group of weaklings who actually intended to hurt you, you chose to surrender..."

"It really doesn't seem like a decision that this hero, who fights to the end and seems to want to destroy everything, would make."

The unclear voice seemed to come from the sky, but Qianjie knew very well who was making the sound.

"Humph, after all this trouble, all you can do is hide your head and show your tail and show off your power of words. If you want to get what you want from me, get out here and face me!"

Soon, a strange yet familiar figure appeared in front of him. Blue hair, light blue pupils, a red [X] pattern on the back of a skirt that was darker than her hair color, and on the left side of her hair, she was wearing the same headdress as Alicia, and strange letters were written on her wide cuffs.

Seeing this person who looked like the product of the combination of Enosiya and Ailishia in loli form, Qianjie, who had been burning with anger, was stunned for a long time.

"Look, I really came out, and you don't dare to do anything again."

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

Qianjie came back to his senses, stared at the cute little loli in front of him who was looking at him with her head tilted, and laughed again.

"That so-called [End], I once prepared [A Blow] for Him... You didn't have the chance to see it before, but now you have the chance. Use all your strength and try to take it! If you can do it... then come and preach to me!"

Qianjie's power continued to rise, and the air became blurred again. The flames on his body seemed to turn the entire space into ashes. But the little girl opposite him, who looked weak, pitiful, and helpless, as if she would be torn into pieces at any time, still had no intention of taking action to interrupt his accumulation of power.

In those light blue pupils, a clear spring seemed to gush out at any time. People who didn't know the inside story, seeing this picture, would definitely have a preconceived notion that it was the monster on the left covered in flames that scared the little girl so much that she stared at the spot and would burst into tears the next moment.

Soon, in the paradise of the moment, the man who could be called the [strongest], prepared a blow for the [strongest] enemy in his eyes, like a stream of fire, approaching. Rather than an attack, as the man's name suggests, it was more like a catastrophe - impossible to resist, impossible to avoid. Facing such a powerful blow, facing such a near-death calamity...

The girl slowly stretched out her right hand and shook it casually.

Qianjie was like a flame with its core extinguished. Its original momentum of moving forward and destroying everything disappeared in an instant.

"【One-click recovery】"

After the girl uttered a few words casually, Qianjie instantly withdrew from the artificial collapse form. He remembered that when Xilin had not yet seen Yingjie's power and entered the expansion mode, when he was beaten half to death by him, Enosiya used this trick, just like pouring a basin of cold water on his head, extinguishing all the flames on his body.

"Well... next... can you please listen to me carefully?"

The little girl waved her hand, and the surrounding scenery disappeared instantly. Qianjie only felt that his body was falling and falling... until the front saw a scene that was vaguely familiar, but completely unfamiliar.

"Hmm~ It seems like you don't remember anything. Well, let's take a good look at this place before your consciousness completely fades away."

The tone of her voice, combined with her appearance, immediately reminded her of someone:

(…Alishia?)

Unlike Enosia, Enosia, apart from looking like Alicia, is very different from Alicia in both her way of speaking and her behavior. Just like when he sees Mei, he doesn't think of Mei automatically, but the one in front of him... Although she looks like Alicia, maybe not as similar as Enosia. But in other aspects... Qianjie can always see the shadow of Alicia in her, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

"Hmm? Why are you staring at me? Oh... I see. You must have seen the shadow of Alicia in me."

She pointed to her chest:

"After all... she can now merge with me. I was originally worried about what to do if the similarity between us was too low. After seeing your reaction, I feel relieved. Qianjie, can I give you a compliment?"

"roll!"

"Strange, judging from your reaction, my appearance, my voice, and my behavior are gradually overlapping with your impression of Alicia. Why are you still angry?"

"You have no right to mention her name!"

"...Okay, okay, since you said you don't want to mention it, let's...get to the point. Do you not remember where this place is...it doesn't matter, let's...add a few details."

Soon, dilapidated houses and collapsed stone pillars appeared in Qianjie's sight.

"Hmm~ As expected, when people remember places, they rely on key objects, such as houses, as anchors to leave impressions in their minds."

"A person who fell from the sky but was unharmed, instead of being regarded as a monster, they regarded you as a god?"

"Just because you're the first person they've seen...who can defeat a Honkai beast?"

"Isn't this enough?"

The collapse at that time... in this closed and backward place, it should be very reasonable, right? But it is true, after all, you are not a human being. Even... until today, it is [unique]. However, they are not very friendly to their gods.

Whether it is a [habit] or an [instinct], you should not let those people find out. An outlier who is blindly revered is still an outlier, and there will be no good end for him. "

"so what?"

"...Honestly, I still can't understand what those villagers did. On the one hand, they regarded you as a god, but on the other hand, they tied you to a pillar and kept bleeding you. Such a contradictory and absurd behavior, at least because they believed that your blood could be used as a good medicine for the Houkai."

"Those villagers who know nothing, of course, don't understand that disaster is coming. The fifth Herrscher of the previous civilization soon descended here, and the moment he descended, he turned the entire village into a deadly place."

"Of course, from a human perspective, the damage caused by the fifth collapse is even less than the first collapse. It is the one that caused the least damage among all the collapses. This is because the Herrscher of Ice encountered you, who was extremely angry, not long after his birth."

"When Hen arrived with the rest of the Fire Moth, everything... was already over. A group of uncivilized barbarians could be exchanged for a Herrscher. In the eyes of the Fire Moth, this was clearly a huge profit."

"But... what they don't know is that a [person] named Qianjie in the future has lost his [home] for the first time."

Before Qianjie could get angry, the scene before him changed in an instant.

"This is... the sanatorium. You met [them] for the first time in Dusk Street, a place full of talented people."

She was met with silence.

"Why...is this experience so unbearable to look back on?"

The man was slow to react for a moment, but it was not because the other party had hit the nail on the head, but because he could not get away from the memories that were rapidly passing by his eyes.

Most of the images were of the dead. In the faded hometown, in the newly found home, in the battlefield promised by others... he could always be the only, last survivor. He walked away slowly among the corpses. Why was he the only one so powerful? He had been confused about this for too long.

"If your memory hadn't been distorted by the frenzy, and Sakura had destroyed your second home because of the mission, right? Of course, that was also an opportunity. If the process of the Fire Moth finding you hadn't been so... cruel, I'm afraid you would have died as an ordinary person in the end, right?"

"That's enough, you have no right to judge Sakura!"

The corners of her mouth turned up, revealing a mocking arc:

"Ying... There are things about her that I don't understand. I have enough reasons to hate her, but you don't. Destroying the space of Paradise... You are even willing to do this for her, why?"

“I don’t need a reason to do something.”

"Although I can't see your true face under the mask, your tone tells me that you care a lot..."

"Humph."

She waved her right hand again, and the sanatorium in front of her disappeared in an instant. What came into view again were hundreds of broken weapons.

"This is... the Tenth God Key that you broke before you underwent the Transformation Surgery?"

When Qianjie looked at these broken swords, his expression was as if he was looking at a corpse.

"It seems that Imer's death is indeed very special to you? For Qianjie's [state of mind], this place is already at an absolute depth, but the memory of him is still preserved."

"...Imer shouldn't have died like that."

"Your lieutenant was chosen as the Tenth Herrscher, and even the most threatening one among them. You know he will definitely die."

Qianjie clenched his fists. Even through the mask, she could feel as if flames were bursting out of his eyes.

"You don't understand what others are saying, or you are deaf? Hmm? I know he will die, but his death should not be meaningless! I have personally made his end no longer insignificant... and you... a despicable imitator who has usurped the throne. You are not worthy of mentioning his name at all."

"It's really rare. I took you through the three most impressive clips. Qianjie has actually become more cultured. If the other heroes knew about this... they would probably be shocked."

After saying this, she glanced up at the sky intentionally or unintentionally.

"Although you refused to tell me anything, I already understood almost everything. No wonder you chose to fight a fusion warrior to the death in the sanatorium incident... No wonder you didn't agree with everything that Fire Moth did, but you didn't choose to leave. That Qianjie... Even if you look at the whole world, he is only second to two leaders..."

"enough……"

"What he really wants..."

"enough!"

"…It's just a place to go back to. A home. And all his anger, from the beginning to the end, was directed at only one person…that person who, despite having great power, could only witness his home being destroyed again and again, that powerless person…himself."

“Did I get it right?”

"enough!!!"

Qianjie swung his fist again at the figure who was much shorter than him.

But it was in vain. The punch that no one dared to underestimate was stopped in mid-air.

"Qianjie, if... among the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire, the most confident and optimistic person is Alicia, and the most inferior and conceited person... is you."

After regaining his ability to move, Qianjie did not continue to move. This was not because he realized his futility, but because he found that the person in front of him... all the mockery and ridicule disappeared, and on her face, Qianjie only saw sympathy... and pity.

“Perhaps in reality, Qianjie was unable to realize his wish in the end, and ended up with regret and unwillingness.”

"But... for you who are here, haven't you already lived in your home for more than 5 years?"