MGSFV?! Chapter 343. Is Elysian Realm ant to Leave No One Behind?
As the players grumbled inwardly about MiHoYo, they didn't forget to keep their eyes on the story.
Su, unable to withstand Kevin's persistent persuasion, finally relented.
"I just feel that… the doctor I want to beco isn't just soone who treats patients, but soone who tries to heal so of the world's chronic illnesses."
???
What kind of idealistic Su dialogue is this?
Treating humanity's collapse with a scalpel? Really?
This was seriously off the rails.
Or should we say—not surprising for a Seeker?
To have such a noble mindset even before becoming a MANTIS?
"Ah… huh?"
Kevin let out a confused noise.
At this mont, he really didn't understand what Su was saying.
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As Kevin's best friend, Su quickly saw through his confusion.
Yet there were things he himself couldn't quite explain.
"I don't really know how to explain it either—I don't even know how to start. Let's talk about you."
Changing the subject, Su asked, "Didn't you once say you didn't have any ambitions?"
"Ah, well, tis change."
Kevin replied with unusual excitent. "Su, you're gonna be shocked when you hear this."
"I've decided—I'm going to beco a hero."
Su: "..."
Players: "..."
Elysia: "..."
Su's silence might've co from genuine surprise.
But the players and Elysia—
Well… the word hero felt far too heavy in hindsight.
Even though watching Kevin say it with that wide smile, they knew they should just type a cheeky "cool" in chat to match the mood…
They still felt a bit stiff.
Fortunately, their emotions wouldn't influence the characters on screen. Otherwise, this scene wouldn't work.
"What's wrong?" Kevin blinked and asked.
"Uh…"
Su thought for a mont.
Though Kevin often ca up with seemingly random ideas, Su always took him seriously, thinking through every word.
Not just dismissing them as jokes.
That's probably what real friends are.
"Let's set aside why you'd suddenly think that. Do you… truly understand what it ans to be a hero?"
"Of course I do." Kevin answered instantly. "A hero is soone who resolves hardship when it arises, bears pain when it descends. There is no other way."
"Every hero is born from circumstance, never from intent."
Wait—Kevin actually understood that deeply?
Becoming a hero has a price…
One must carry burdens, give up things, rember everything…
And young Kevin already understood all this?
"…Hmm?"
Elysia suddenly let out a faint hum. She'd sensed sothing off.
Kevin saying he wanted to be a hero—it was sothing he'd say.
But…
For him to say it so eloquently, with such clarity…
That wasn't quite right.
The more you knew Kevin, the more you could sense sothing was fishy.
As expected—
Su caught on.
He nodded. "Yes… a hero can't be a goal. It's an action, a result."
Then he suddenly asked, "What else did i say to you?"
"Oh, she also said… um… you…"
Kevin, caught off guard, instinctively began to answer.
[So it was i who told him! I was wondering how Kevin suddenly beca so insightful.]
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[I really thought Kevin had an epiphany.]
"Sigh~~"
Su sighed.
"That doesn't sound like your own thoughts, Kevin."
Realizing he'd been caught, Kevin didn't bother hiding it anymore. He scratched his head and laughed awkwardly.
"Ahaha… Can't I, you know… suddenly have a breakthrough or sothing?"
"Sigh, Su… what's wrong? You never used to react like this when I talked about her."
Su answered frankly, "Because back then, you hadn't started becoming i's shadow. Haven't you noticed?"
Kevin didn't quite get it.
i was a genius—wasn't it right for him to learn from her?
Wasn't that better than stumbling around on his own?
So the signs of Kevin becoming i's follower were already there even back then?
Kevin explained his thoughts to Su.
Su looked at him, a trace of worry on his face.
He thought silently:
But once you choose to follow, you can never truly walk beside her…
When that day cos, how much pain will you feel?
But… these words, Su couldn't bring himself to say aloud.
[Otto was like that too. He followed Kallen from youth, only to find he could never walk beside her.]
[Every Kaslana ets their destined external brain.]
[All Kaslanas start off as passionate idiots… only for the one who once followed i to beco soone for whom rationality is second nature.]
[Probably because once the external brain is gone, he had to start thinking for himself…]
As the barrage of comnts rolled in, the mood began to shift.
So thoughts… were just too painful to dwell on.
Because once you dug deeper, you'd find—
It was all just one big knife to the heart.
Players: ...
They felt numb.
With blades hidden all throughout the plot, they couldn't stay emotionally grounded for long.
Their feelings were so intense, so heavy—they could barely breathe.
But just as the mood dropped—
The story, cunning as ever, flipped it all with a sweet twist.
"So, what did you say to her?" Su asked Kevin.
Kevin scratched his head, a little sheepish.
"Well… at the ti, I told her…"
"I want to be soone's hero."
!!!
Even if they were just drowning in emotional despair monts ago, they had to slam their keyboards now and type—
SWEET SWEET SWEET!!
Young Kevin was so good at flirting!!
Yes, the pain was real, but the sugar was equally sweet.
This story—such an addictive love-hate experience.
…
"But her reply was a bit strange… She said…"
"If you can be soone's hero, then you can be everyone's hero."
"Su, what do you think that ans?"
At the sa ti—
The tiline returned to the present.
Su, reminiscing, was filled with emotions.
"Yes, a person's fate… is their character. So in the end, perhaps a person only has one kind of fate."
Perhaps, even without the Honkai, sothing else would have brought them to this point.
It wasn't that they had no choice—it was that in the face of certain things, they always chose the sa way.
Even if… it caused unbearable pain.
Su looked at Kevin and understood.
Everyone thought Kevin was a man bound by the past, trapped in it.
But he wasn't.
This man never needed to return to the past—because from the beginning, he had never changed.
To this day, he still poured everything into that one-ti joke of a promise.
"If I turn away now, it's the sa as denying i. Denying you. Denying…"
"…her. Everything she brought us—and this world."
Her? Who?
"Elysia…" Su murmured, revealing the answer.
[Elysia? Then what is her Herrscher authority? Or rather… what kind of Herrscher is she?]
[What exactly did Elysia bring to this world? So mysterious.]
[Am I the only one thinking… maybe this is why the Kevin outside looks so broken?]
[You're not alone. Before entering Elysian Realm: "Why is Kevin so broken?" After entering Elysian Realm: "Why wasn't Kevin more broken?"]
As players speculated—
Su suddenly said: "Indeed, that's why we're here."
Kevin picked it up: "i was right. Compared to becoming a hero for all, saving one person is often harder—and more precious."
"But at least… we've been given that chance again."
To save one person?
To have that chance again?
Did that an…
Elysia was about to return?
That's what it ant, right?! It had to be!
They'd finally waited long enough!
Yes, they'd finally reached this mont. But before welcoming her back—
As the saying goes…
"When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it must first…" etc., etc.
"Since this is a dance ant for her… then this ti, let's save the guest of honor for last."
"Agreed."
Kevin no longer clung to the past and asked, "Alright, has the mont we need arrived yet?"
Su took a mont to feel it out and replied:
"Heh… keep waiting, Kevin."
"No matter how many tis it's repeated, a person's choice never changes—we've already proven that."
"Then the final piece… will begin turning now."
What did that an?
So close to the climax—and they were still speaking in riddles?
Players brimd with questions and frustration.
Then the ga screen suddenly shifted—
And a familiar voice echoed.
"The final piece? Boss, I don't really get what you an by that…"
Pardofelis???
The players imdiately stiffened.
Never mind the suspicious timing—why was Pardofelis getting more screen ti now?
And how did she know about the final piece?
They'd just been saying maybe Pardofelis would survive all this.
But now…
They'd clearly been too optimistic.
Overestimating the writers.
Is Elysian Realm really not going to spare even one??
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