Hokuto: ???
"Why are you all looking at ?"
"Otto's filming is already done, and you're still trying to pin it on him?"
"No."
Theresa was the first to shake her head.
Seeing this, Hokuto nodded slowly. "I knew it wasn't that bad..."
Theresa's next words floated in imdiately after: "We're looking at you not because you voice Otto, but because you're the scriptwriter."
She crossed her arms and lifted her chin. "This bla clearly shouldn't fall on Otto, but on you!"
"..."
Hokuto genuinely wanted to argue back, but after thinking it over, he found himself at a loss for words.
"Ahem."
He coughed twice, smoothly sidestepping the topic.
"I simply wanted to deliver this emotional 'resonance' that can truly touch the heart."
Everyone: "..."
"You believe that yourself?" soone asked with a suspicious expression.
"Of course."
"...Really? Then why do you look so pleased?"
Hokuto blinked at the remark.
Suddenly, he rembered a line from Su in a script Elysia had once shown him.
It seed quite fitting here.
"Please don't be misled by appearances. Internally, I am actually extrely anxious and in great pain."
"...Doesn't look like it at all."
...
Back at the MiHoYo studio—
While Theresa and the others were "discussing" with Hokuto whether he was truly anxious and pained inside—
Elysia was still seriously progressing through the main story.
In the plot, after hearing i's words, Su roughly understood her thoughts and decided to act alongside her.
He linked his consciousness to i's, accompanying her in visiting the other Fla-Chasers.
The first person i sought out was Eden.
At this mont, Eden had apparently just had so wine and still seed slightly tipsy.
"Eden, have you... seen Elysia?"
"I have sothing I want to ask her, but she seems to have vanished—I've already searched many places."
Although i's question was quite direct,
Eden, being currently intoxicated and unaware of Elysia's disappearance, didn't think much of it.
She cheerfully replied that Elysia sotis liked to disappear on purpose, to enjoy watching how people missed her.
Because...
"Elysia really cares about how everyone feels when she's not around."
"I've seen her alone at her desk, pondering deeply… When I asked what she was doing, she said... 'I want to write a long letter that anyone who reads it will rember by.'"
At this point, Elysia paused for a mont.
A long letter... That was never sothing the real her had considered.
Was it because she lived in a world so close to destruction? Though she always put on a cheerful face, perhaps deep down, she was never certain whether she would survive tomorrow.
Is that why she wanted to leave sothing behind? To avoid being forgotten?
She suddenly felt a little sorry for in-ga Elysia... Hmm, she wanted to be her friend...
Ahem. Wanting to be with herself... sounds kind of weird, doesn't it?
Maybe better not.
If 'Otto'-san found out, he'd surely mock her for being so excited that she even fancied herself.
Elysia: Still, who told Elysia to be such a flower-like lovely girl~♪
She took it all in stride.
But not the viewers in the livestream.
[I don't know why, but this scene makes feel really sad.]
[I rembered how Elysia told i before parting—begging her not to forget her. Her greatest fear was being forgotten.]
[Please don't make recall the happy tis I had with Elysia again... It hurts too much now.]
The players were emotionally stirred by this part of the plot. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel★fire
Elysia quickly collected her thoughts and continued on with the story.
After hearing Eden's response, i's voice grew slightly heavier.
"Then... Eden."
"What if Elysia really disappears forever—hypothetically, I an."
Even though i emphasized "hypothetically," Eden almost broke down when she heard it.
Eden: "..."
Her lips moved, but no words ca.
Or perhaps her voice was swallowed entirely by sothing unseen.
A visible "gravitational force" surrounded her.
[Is this... Eden almost losing control of her emotions? But she suppressed her voice with Star of Eden?]
[Actually, the thing Eden holds is called 'Harmonic Entropy.' The current era calls it the Star of Eden likely because Su renad it to commorate Eden.]
[Thanks for the lore, but... was Eden really about to break down and then forced herself to calm down?]
[That's what I think too. After all, Eden and Elysia were the closest of friends. There's no way she could accept sothing happening to Elysia.]
Eden's reaction fully confird what the audience suspected.
Her voice changed.
No longer was it—using Elysia's words—the soft, cotton-candy-sweet, slightly tipsy tone.
It grew faintly cold.
Clearly, the wine had been scared out of her system.
And i had only said "if."
"Miss i, in my eyes... that kind of hypothesis is simply impossible."
Eden's words were so firm.
i ended up swallowing everything else she wanted to say.
After a brief goodbye,
She found Hua in the Realm.
"May I take up a bit of your ti, Hua?"
"Please do. Ti ans little to us."
Uh...
To be honest, the players felt this line sounded oddly like a flag.
Could it be that after this... they'd never have ti to chat again?
...Calm down. Don't overthink it.
i directly asked Hua what would happen if all mories were deleted.
She didn't even care if Hua suspected anything.
Put simply, i was just different when it ca to the class president.
She had a kind of extraordinary trust in Hua.
And because i wasn't trying to hide anything at all, even Hua—the most straightforward of the Fla-Chasers—picked up on sothing unusual.
"i... sothing happened, didn't it?"
i nodded: "Sorry, due to so reasons, I can't tell you everything. But I won't hide the fact that I'm hiding sothing."
Only in front of Hua did the roles seem to reverse—this ti, i was the cryptic one.
Fortunately, Hua was used to dealing with cryptic people.
She'd lived in a Realm full of cryptic personalities for fifty thousand years.
So not only did she not mind, she even gave i a clear answer:
If all mories are deleted, the mory self will vanish, and theoretically, there's no way to recover.
With her answer, i moved on to find the next Fla-Chaser.
On the road, she—as always—encountered waves of monsters.
Not wanting to delay the journey, Su decided to offer i a little assistance.
Wheel of Karma
Right in front of i, Su activated his ability.
And then... all the monsters vanished.
Players: ?
i: ?
"You call this... 'a little assistance'?"
Su modestly replied, "A petty trick. Not worth ntioning."
[Assistance: eliminating every monster to help the teammate win.]
[Su: I'm just a doctor. I don't have their kind of strength (）]
[There aren't many combat specialists among the Fla-Chasers. We're just doctors, researchers, artists, painters... that's all.]
[Actually this fits the setting of Honkai Impact 3rd. Don't forget—little Sentience is also support.]
Elysia got curious: "The Fla-Chasers seem really strong. i feels way out of her league."
"You can't put it like that," Vill-V joined in. "Su is probably only this strong within the Realm due to its unique rules."
"It's not representative of real-world strength."
"Ohhh, I see."
Elysia nodded thoughtfully, then guessed: "But if Su's this powerful here, doesn't that an he'll play a major role soon?"
"Well, we'll just have to watch and find out."
"Mm."
...
With Su's help, i progressed smoothly.
She soon found another Fla-Chaser—Mobius.
"Oh...? Little white mouse? Didn't I say I don't want to be disturbed?"
Just as Mobius finished speaking,
Su's voice echoed in i's mind: "No, she never said that."
Then Mobius reacted as though she'd heard him.
"Huh? Su's actually working with you? Hmph, his taste is getting worse."
"You can hear him?"
"Of course not—but sensing his presence isn't hard. What did he say?"
"He said..." i paused, then replied mischievously: "'Soone your age shouldn't be speaking like that.'"
The tense atmosphere was instantly shattered by i's remark.
Players couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Though they'd been emotionally devastated by MiHoYo's narrative blades countless tis, whenever it switched to codic antics, they forgot the pain and burst into laughter.
Gotta admit—MiHoYo's scriptwriters really know what they're doing.
So...
Dear writers! Can you use those brain cells where they're needed?! Instead of writing that cursed nonsense from earlier?!
Players clearly hadn't moved on from the earlier Realm Typewriter incident.
Then again—
After Realm Icebreaker, who's still hung up on Realm Typewriter?
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