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

……

Taken aback by Vervi's imposing manner, Yun Fuyu paused for a moment before immediately replying, "What I want to see is not an ordinary magic trick."

No matter how amazing ordinary magic is, it is insignificant in the face of the Honkai disaster or the threat of "Alicia".

What he really wanted to see was a "sky-shattering weather cannon" or a "memory backup"—a kind of "grand magic trick" that might offer a solution to the problem.

Vervi's smile grew even brighter: "I never do ordinary magic tricks here~~ Why don't you tell me specifically what kind of magic trick you want to see? Perhaps I can provide you with precise and personalized service?"

Yun Fuyu cautiously probed, "For example, your previous cataclysmic weather cannon?"

Vilvi was increasingly convinced that Yun Fuyu knew something, and she answered frankly, "That thing is not easy to replicate. In fact, I violated the rules by using the Herrscher core of the Second Herrscher to create it, hoping to try to tear the curtain of space with human power, but as you saw, there was nothing there."

Upon learning the truth, Yun Fuyu was dumbfounded: "Vilvie, you're really something!"

Vilvi loved this undisguised surprise. She jumped down from the platform and walked to Yun Fuyu's side, poking his chin: "Alright, stop making such a fuss! Weren't we 'cooperating' so well before? What are you pretending for now?"

(P.S. For clarity, let's refer to the time when Yun Fuyu was suffering from amnesia as the "trap".)

Yun Fuyu's mouth gaped open even wider: Wilvi also remembers what happened in the "trap" before? ...So Seele really didn't lose her memory, right?

No wonder she kept trying to create opportunities for herself and Seele the World; she clearly wanted Seele the World to replace her.

With her mind racing, Yun Fuyu forcefully interrupted her increasingly distressed mood and said to Wilvi, "Since you remember too, then it's good to communicate! Shall we share our information? I urgently need to understand the current situation!"

Vilvi nodded readily: "That's possible, but I think we should invite Seele and May as well. What do you think?"

Yun: "Xi'er... try not to invite her. Our relationship isn't settled yet. By the way, does Mei remember the story from before?"

Velvi replied, "No, we don't remember, but I found a black box deep inside the workshop that contained my memories. As for May, it's mainly because she's too clever; she sensed something was wrong from the smallest clues."

By the way, when Velvie opened that black box, she almost turned into sixteen equal parts, and only managed to adjust back to eight equal parts... Hmm? Actually, thinking about it carefully, sixteen equal parts isn't so bad, is it? Pretty exciting, huh?

Vervier composed herself and asked, "What happened between you and Seele? Shouldn't a couple who've been apart for so long be enjoying each other's company?"

She wiped away the non-existent tears: "When you two were finally reunited, I almost burst into tears~"

Yun Fuyu sighed: "Actually, it's nothing much. It's just that Xier isn't from this world, and she'll have to leave sooner or later... That's why I came to you to exchange information, hoping to understand the current situation and try my best to keep her here."

Seeing Yun Fuyu's frankness, Wilvi began exchanging information with him, one sentence at a time.

The key pieces of information that led to the consensus include:

The world we live in now is not the intrinsic world on the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, but an enormous world bubble;

There's something wrong with Alicia;

The story of this world has already repeated itself many times;

The world we live in today is a shadow of a previous civilization. The story of that previous civilization is undoubtedly a tragedy, yet it is also a story that lingers in our memories and is full of hope.

Seele comes from beyond the world; she is a native of this world, an inheritor of the previous civilization, and a person of the current civilization.

……

Only at the very end did Velvi ask thoughtfully, "You told us about the true nature of the world, our fate, and Seele's origins, but you didn't tell us what your story is?"

Yun Fuyu was slightly taken aback, then confessed frankly: "I am not from this world either, but a transmigrator who knows many stories."

Velvi: "Who were you before you traveled through time? How do you know our story?"

Without hesitation, Yun Fuyu replied, "Just an ordinary gamer, except I've made a video explaining the Honkai Impact story, so I know a bit more details..."

Velvi's expression was strange: "Isn't that right? I remember you've reincarnated countless times in this world, your trajectory almost completely overlapping with Seele's, and you always ended up perishing along with the world's destruction. The so-called Honkai stories in your memories are actually things you personally experienced, right?"

Yun Fuyu looked completely bewildered: "That's impossible! I remember it very clearly, I used to be..."

Yes……

?

Orphan? Student? Working person? Ordinary gamer?

Or something else?

Vervi clicked her tongue in amazement: "I've read plenty of time-travel novels, but I've never seen anyone with such a hazy memory as you."

"I'll ask you one more time: the things in your memory, whether true or false, are you absolutely certain that your memory has never been wrong?"

"..."

There's absolutely no way to be sure.

That 'Alicia' is a devil who manipulates people's hearts; altering memories is something that comes easily to her. Besides, he had never been wary of Alicia before.

…………alert?

trust?

He/She sighed softly: "Alice, you're so naughty..."

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In his memory, he was a gamer, and everything in the Honkai Impact story was virtual.

But actually?

In Erinnis's reincarnation, he stayed with Seele in an orphanage, was a student, worked odd jobs to make a living, and tried to become a video creator...

The exact opposite of memory.

He is the God above all gods, and the story of the collapse is something He personally experienced and witnessed.

The reason why his cognition is so confused is because Alicia did it on purpose—or perhaps, he is not the all-knowing god, and this is something He did on purpose.

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He never rejected Alicia, even when she tried to take away His authority and power.

Except that time.

Alicia begged the God of Gods to save the world, but He flatly refused.

Cause and effect can be reversed, but they must never be confused. Without Alicia's sacrifice, there would be no God above Gods.

Therefore, He rejected Alicia.

Then, in despair, the drowning man grasped at a straw, and the gentle, beautiful girl, with tears in her eyes, fiercely attacked him.

He never rejected Alicia, even when she tried to take away His authority and power.

And even so, he still believed in Alicia as always.

Therefore, when he came to this world, Alicia easily twisted his memories, making the fake real and the real fake, making him mistakenly believe that he was a transmigrator, and using many subconscious thoughts to deceive himself, from which he could not break free and could not "awaken".

...Alice, you're so naughty.

The old father would not blame his daughter. All he could do was offer his blessings and sigh in vain.

Alicia, without the status of a god above gods, you can do nothing.

What you yearn for: to sever humanity, sacrifice yourself, and resurrect beings from a pre-civilized world...

—A fate destined to perpetually cycle destruction within the paradox of cause and effect.