MGSFV?! Chapter 429. Dual Blade Style; Kiana and i's First Indirect…
Hiko's case—
Otto was technically responsible...
Hmm...
Well, even if we retreat 10,000 steps and don't count Otto's responsibility for that event,
isn't he still at least 1% responsible for bringing these stories into this world?
So really, the players bringing up "That Otto" again right now—
totally justified.
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All in all—
It was completely normal for players to suddenly shift bla to Otto again.
When facing unresolved historical trauma, players would fla him:
"Damn you, Otto!"
When Otto showed up as an ally, they'd say:
"Why is this comforting in a weird way...?"
And when directly confronted with irreversible tragedy, they'd whisper:
"Lord Overseer, please lead us back through the Imaginary Tree one more ti..."
Contradictory, emotional, chaotic—that was exactly how they should feel about Otto.
Because Otto himself was a chaotic yet deeply human character.
...
But the story didn't give players much ti to dwell on their feelings.
Soon enough—it moved straight into a really hard-hitting mont.
Kiana spoke again:
"i, do you know?"
"Right before she left, Hiko-sensei told all the things she wanted to do...
But would never get the chance."
"It was then I realized—
the things we thought were trivial in life...
might actually be the most important parts."
Players: ???
Players: "..."
With Kiana's words, everyone imdiately rembered.
This was...
"Hiko gazes at you gently, no longer speaking."
Hiss——
Everyone who once lingered in front of that chocolate door,
reluctantly clicking through every last line of Hiko's dialogue,
only to freeze at her final line, breaking down completely—
They now felt that the phrase "bittersweet sugar laced with glass" had been an understatent.
It wasn't just bittersweet.
It was:
They gave us a candy... and then beat us up.
It hurt. It hurt so much.
[Is this the pain of growing up...?]
[I understand now...
What's most precious... is the seemingly mundane, everyday monts.]
[Can't believe I had to learn this from a ga...
Thanks a lot, Honkai Impact 3rd (gritted teeth)]
You see?
They're still saying "thank you"...
Even Elysia had once said sothing similar to i.
So i could deeply relate to this mont.
"Perhaps...
That's what makes those monts the most valuable parts of life, no?"
If i looked back on the Elysian Realm now—
Her favorite monts might not be the final battles...
But rather, when she first arrived,
being led around by Elysia on lighthearted, daily adventures.
Sure, there were so ups and downs—
But everyone had been so happy.
Soone had even said before—
That the highlight of their day was returning to the Elysian Realm to see Elysia and the Fla-Chasers.
It felt warm.
Like coming ho.
But now... now it was just...
sigh
...
"Yeah..."
"Hiko-sensei said she wanted to go back to the real St. Freya.
To write on the blackboard again.
To return to her room and have a drink."
"She wanted to wear a new red dress.
She wanted to eat food cooked by i, and egg noodles made by the class president..."
Kiana paused for a long ti,
before forcing the next words from her lips:
"She... also wanted to see us graduate.
To see us grow up..."
[...]*n
i looked at her, worried:
"Kiana..."
"It's bittersweet...
But sohow, it fills you with strength, right?"
Kiana took a deep breath, winked at i, and showed that familiar bright smile again.
"Compared to tears, a smile fits these mories better."
"After all... 'If you cry for having missed the sun, you will miss the stars as well.'"
"That's...?" i asked: "Tagore's poem?"
Yes—one of the over 40 unique lines in Hiko's final farewell.
Kiana nodded:
"If you like it, i, I'll lend you the book when we get back."
Clearly, Kiana had actually read it—and even treasured it.
To be honest, the old Kiana wouldn't have enjoyed poetry at all...
But because Hiko had once read her poems by Tagore—
and had even told her:
"If you like it, look for this book after you leave."
Kiana rembered.
She rembered everything Hiko ever said.
And that's why she kept a copy of Tagore's poetry with her.
This might not be a big, elaborate "setup-payoff" mont—
But for anyone who rembered that scene...
It stabbed straight through the heart.
[Kiana really followed Hiko's advice and read Tagore. I'm crying.]
[This... THIS is a real hidden callback? I'm done.]
They truly didn't see it coming.
Words engraved in mory—
even after so long—
could suddenly return and stab them all over again.
...
The scene changed.
Kiana took the lead again, i close behind her—
The two walked down that long hallway...
"???"
Still going?
Why are we walking this hallway again?
Are you kidding, Honkai Impact 3rd?
The players' urge to complain surged—
But it stayed just beneath the surface.
Why?
Because of what i said next—
She brought up the Elysian Realm.
As ntioned before—
i didn't have ti to tell Kiana about everything that happened in the Realm.
But now?
They were in the ntal space.
No matter how long they spent here,
only an instant would pass in the outside world.
Now, i had ti.
She could talk to Kiana about the Elysian Realm.
"You know...
Soone once told sothing similar.
That when saying goodbye to the past—
you should do so with a smile."
"The Elysian Realm—
was a place of trials for World Serpent's agents.
A world built from mories and constructs."
"Thirteen heroes from the Previous Era rested there—
including the class president, Kevin...
and even the very first Herrscher who fought for humanity.
They called themselves the Fla-Chasers."
Players: "..."
No way... i, not you too...
Are you about to tell your whole story now?
Dual Blade Style???
Neverending Flascion, and now Immaculate Self?
Can anyone bla the players for being overwheld?
HoYoverse's writers just didn't plan to let anyone go.
[Don't tell the writer actually saw that "Dual Blade Style" video.]
[Could be. That writer's clearly a terminally online netizen. Might've actually seen it...]
[What if the writer got inspired by a fan video and added this scene because of it?]
[...]*n
...
The chat's speculations were not far off.
In fact, Hokuto had definitely seen that video.
Multiple tis.
And yes—it inspired many ideas.
Ahem...
Back to the plot.
i continued:
"In those past months,
I sought the secrets of the Honkai,
and the aning of being a Herrscher."
Her calm tone carried emotions very close to what Kiana had shown earlier when speaking of Hiko.
"At the end of that journey,
I found the answers I was looking for—
but also had to face partings I wasn't prepared for."
"To defeat the Herrscher of Corruption,
the mory constructs of the Fla-Chasers sacrificed themselves..."
"They left humanity to us in the past—
and now, they gave renewed confidence for the future."
"But more than sorrow—
what lingers in my mind is gratitude."
[That's right! The farewell scene in the Realm was so grand and beautiful.
The emotions... hit different.]
[Honestly, calling this part "just a knife" is too shallow.]
[Yeah. Every Captain knows—this story isn't just pain.]
[How do you even describe it... I don't know.
I just know that the goodbye between Elysia and i felt almost identical to the one between Hiko and Kiana.
Sa half-body CG, even.
And both tis—
they said, "Smile for , okay?"]
[That couldn't be a coincidence, right?]
[...Honkai Impact 3rd, how many more of these heart-wrenching details are hiding in plain sight?]
This—
This was the very definition of "terrifying upon deeper thought."
But—
They didn't hate that they rembered it all so clearly.
Even if it stirred up painful emotions...
Even if it made their hearts ache...
Because—
"As long as you rember us—
This story will never disappear."
"That's what Elysia—the most beloved of the Fla-Chasers—told ."
"Even though this story is full of regrets...
It's precisely those regrets that make it unforgettable—
that make it real."
"To not be dragged by fate.
To not be swept away by ti.
To not fear goodbyes.
To not run from death.
And to always walk forward—toward the future we believe in."
[That's the romanticism of history.]
[Because people of the past left sothing behind,
we—their result—stand here today.]
[That's what Elysia once wished for:
that our footsteps would beco soone else's guiding light.]
[...]*n
[So beautiful.]
So—
Kiana murmured:
"The Fla-Chasers?
They sound like... they had a lot of stories."
"Mm."
i's voice grew even softer:
"If you want to hear them—
I can tell you everything.
For as long as you'd like."
Really?
Would she even tell Kiana about...
That one ti Elysia touched her horns?
Kinda feels impossible...
Well—maybe not.
They'd already done... that, after all.
A little horn-touching was nothing in comparison.
Maybe?
...
Back to the ga.
The two girls continued walking through St. Freya.
Chatting as they strolled.
At one point, they reminisced about how Kiana used to be the first to bolt out of class every day—
Just to grab i's homade food a few minutes earlier.
You could almost picture that excitable little dork version of Kiana.
Mm... only back then.
Then i teased Kiana—
Reminding her of how she used to shout about becoming the strongest Valkyrie.
And well... she did beco one.
So technically—not wrong?
Then they recalled sneaking over the wall to grab ice cream and sweets.
i even ntioned how she still missed that white peach pudding they had.
Why the white peach pudding?
It tied back to a short animated event after the Flascion arc—When Stars Ignite.
In that story, Kiana had taken a bite of that pudding first.
And then i ate it.
Their first indirect... you know.
Ahem.
People who knew, knew.
Of course—none of that would've happened without a certain Academy Head...
"She was afraid you'd hurt yourself climbing,
so she never made the wall any higher."
Every line—
every exchange—
Sparked another mory in the players' hearts.
Little by little...
That's what Honkai Impact 3rd was.
Bit by bit.
A tapestry woven from so many monts.
The in-ga atmosphere ward back up again amidst their sweet conversation.
The players, thinking back on all those little details, began to recover emotionally.
Sweet, sweet, sweet.
Given that the writers finally delivered so solid sweetness—
They'd let it go... for now.
But still—
After all their reminiscing, the two girls finally approached a certain mory.
That's right.
Kiana knew very well—
That what ca next...
Would most likely circle back to that day.
And just as she thought of that mont—
Her ntal space fell into a sort of unconscious silence,
as if soone had hit a computer's reboot button.
—At the sa ti, everything around her began rapidly reconfiguring.
The screen faded to black.
And as the scene shifted—
More and more players were guessing what was coming next.
That day.
For Kiana and i...
It was sothing they could never avoid.
"Compared to this world—
you matter more to !"
After visiting the fad Chocolate Door,
Kiana and i now approached their second landmark—
The Wormhole.
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