Honkai Impact 3rd: I picked up a Seele at the start of the game.

……

"Did you know? I once wrote a fairy tale, and the protagonist in the fairy tale was just as smart, beautiful, and kind as I am."

Eden nodded gently and said with a smile, "It's a beautiful fairy tale, and the protagonist is just as lovable as Ellie."

"Hehe..." Although Alicia liked to boast, she would still show a girlish coquettishness when praised by others.

Eden: "The only pity is that the story has no ending. Even if it did... it probably wouldn't be a happy ending."

Because that fairy tale is a complete reflection of reality.

"No!" Alicia suddenly exclaimed, "Of course, the fairy tales I write will have perfect endings!"

Her expression was serious, but she looked naive and silly as she began to tell the story she had written.

The girl made a grand wish—

She said: "Gods, if the sun and moon are indeed your eyes, then please open your eyes and look at the human world."

All their efforts should not go unrewarded.

If the gentle breeze is indeed your messenger, then please carry my long-cherished wish to you.

I would transform into a moth drawn to the flame, burning myself in the raging inferno, just to ignite the warmth in your heart.

—And so, the steps to heaven quietly appeared.

"The chariot carrying her creaked along in the wind, and a baby sparrow carrying a flower crown landed on her head; the gardens of the four seas bloomed with vitality for her smile, and a hundred flowers cheered and expressed their welcome with love songs."

"The beautiful maiden returned to the kingdom of angels. The angels smiled and said: 'El'yanis, God has heard your wish; God has received your blessing. Is there anything else you wish to ask?'"

The girl asked: "Did the deity say anything?"

The angels gave her the answer she wanted: God said that the devil had repented and that he had given people a chance to win again in the future.

And because the girl's story moved the gods, the gods bestowed blessings upon her.

He gave the girl an opportunity—an opportunity to resurrect everyone.

After overcoming numerous hardships, the girl successfully resurrected everyone, and they lived happily ever after!

Everyone listened to the story, but it left them with a lump in their throat.

This is hardly a perfect fairy tale ending. It's just Alicia's last act of defiance, using divine intervention to carve out a path from the brink of death. It's... the reverie of a dying person.

There are no gods in this world. Besides, even if there were, why would a god help people? What a cruel and arduous story that was only mentioned briefly must have been?

No one said it outright, but their somber expressions betrayed their thoughts.

Alicia sniffed and bit her lip: "Isn't this a beautiful story? Why aren't you all saying anything? Don't you like it?"

"..." She was met with silence.

"I'll cry... I really will cry!"

She said this stubbornly, yet tears were already welling up in her eyes.

Eden suddenly hugged Alicia, burying Alicia's head in her arms and resting her chin on the top of Alicia's head.

A slight tremor, as if she was choking back tears that she could no longer hide.

Water stains dampened Eden's chest, but Alicia insisted that it was saliva, not tears.

Vilvi, Kevin, and Aponia all looked at her with sorrowful eyes, unsure of what to say.

Well then... it's time to say goodbye.

The banquet is about to begin.

[P.S. In the original story, at this point, Ellie invites Kevin to dance... I really hate it. I feel like the writers are throwing in their own biases, like making Shiva and Parvati (the goddess of the Himalayas) a married couple.]

This is Alicia's final banquet, a moment when the girl, like a falling flower, anticipates her own blossoming.

She took a deep breath, danced gracefully, and brought the banquet to a climax.

Perhaps it is a dream reflected in the human world. Skirts flutter, bells sway gently, ribbons fly, and dance steps are graceful.

Perhaps it was a lingering wish. Sorrow for the passing of time and the passing of spring, a myriad of longings, the past fleeting by, the end drawing near.

She is a girl named "Love," and she will bring "Love" to this world and to the non-existent god—the Honkai.

Alicia wants to give the "gods" a human heart.

As the drumbeats intensified, the fluttering petals were instantly shattered by an invisible force field. Ribbons were ground to dust piece by piece, and long pink hair began to disintegrate from the tips…

She was breathtakingly beautiful, so beautiful that it took my breath away, so beautiful that... it felt like my heart broke along with her.

As everything was about to end, as everything about the girl was about to vanish into nothingness—

Suddenly.

It was as if someone had pressed the pause button, and everything in the world suddenly came to a standstill.

The audience's sorrowful expressions and gazes, the slowly drifting pink sunset on the horizon, and Alicia gradually melting away... all were frozen in time.

A voice suddenly resounded in her heart—

"You... your name is Alicia?"

"Eh?"

Alicia suddenly opened her eyes, but she couldn't do it at all.

She may already be dead, but her last wisp of consciousness has been frozen in time to speak with the visitor.

She proudly proclaimed her name in her heart: Yes, I am Elysia! Meaning eternal, beautiful, and flawless paradise!

Her name was her lifelong pursuit and her lifelong pride.

"...So, what do you want to do?"

"I?"

Alicia hesitated for a moment, then the voice in her heart became radiant:

I want all Herrschers to find salvation, I want this world to be free from the ravages of Honkai! People have given everything, they shouldn't be left without a response!

As she spoke her heart, it was as if the myriad phenomena of the world and the thoughts of people were all echoing in her voice!

The souls of the deceased weep, and the people in despair cry out to the heavens in anguish, but there is no response.

Alicia confronted the Honkai, sacrificing her life to make a once-in-a-lifetime wish.

—Those who have not yet died are walking step by step toward destruction. They would rather die than break, they despise the existence that brings suffering, but in the end there is no response.

Alicia walked forward with a smile, making her only wish in this world at the cost of her life.

She didn't crave the attention of any so-called deity; she only wanted to save everyone and the world. The non-existent deity was merely an outlet for her emotions.

"..."

"……I see."

The voice seemed confused, pausing for a long time after each sentence. Alicia couldn't quite understand what it was saying.

She asked: Who are you? A god of decay? Or the Herrscher of the End?

"..."

no respond.

Suddenly!

It was as if the movie's progress bar had been pulled back, and everything had returned to before that voice appeared.

—Alisia, to give the "gods" a human heart.

As everything was about to end, as everything about the girl was about to vanish into nothingness—

The next moment, her blessing arrived, and the Cocoon of the End received the blessing of humanity.

In the next instant, along the cocoon of the end, along the tip of the tree of imaginary numbers, the blessing led to the God above the Gods, which existed only in the concept.

Weak mortals actually dared to substitute their own hearts for the will of Heaven, to make the gods also have humanity, and to let "humans" who "identify themselves as human beings" take over divine authority.

But things are just that strange.

She did it.

The price was that Alicia, after that, also vanished into thin air.