MGSFV?! Chapter 581: Accident-Prone Zone; What Kind of Short Was That? The Aftershock Hits Hard
[Happy Graduation, Kiana.]
[Co ho soon.]
[Toward tomorrow.]
Before the short even started—or rather, long before—many had already thought about what they would write once it ended.
So wrote simple but heartfelt blessings.
Others had so much emotion that even multiple comnts or barrage ssages couldn't contain it.
Of course, even if the barrage couldn't carry it, that didn't an they had no outlet.
For example, under the video on the other side, the comnt section was overflowing—so much so it felt like a spontaneous emotional essay fair had broken out.
Simple and ordinary:
"The two route maps in the train car were really interesting. One was the animated short, the other the story stage—Honkai Impact 3rd's story condensed in this form."
(Strictly speaking, there was also a gray line connecting The Final Lesson and Flascion Station—probably representing that even though Hiko is no longer around, she's still always been by Kiana's side.)
Deep analysis:
"It was hard to hold it in during the snowfield scene. From the Moon to Earth on foot—it would take exactly ten years."
Genuine feelings:
"Thank you, Honkai Impact 3rd, for accompanying all this ti.
From soone once considered below average, with no future—a failure—
To pushing through undergrad, then graduate school, and all the way to a Ph.D.
Whenever I felt I couldn't go on, I'd open the ga, watch their stories, see every one of them...
And then I'd find the courage to move forward again.
So even if the story ends, I'll always carry this feeling in my heart."
These emotional comnts weren't few—and not a single one was repeated.
You couldn't find two that said the sa thing.
Which, undoubtedly, made them all the more credible.
You could say—maybe one person was just doing it for show.
But ten? A hundred? Even more?
All different?
It didn't seem realistic.
So...
Of course—there were still the indispensable jokes.
Like...
"Holy crap, the CG of the silver-haired beauty leaping off the battleship is so cool! (What kind of comnt is this, it took six years to pass review.)"
"'I'm also the official account, notice QAQ'" (Alysia's earlier comnt using the official account got repeatedly quoted in the comnt section.)
😎 "After going through Honkai Impact 3rd, my heart is already hard as steel."
Hiko: Kiana;
😎 → 🕶️👌🏻😭 (Revealing your mask)
But when it ca to cody, miHoYo always seed to be on the sa wavelength as the players.
You could tell just from the usual staff credits at the end of the short:
"Rebirth: From Finality to Origin,"
"Tap : Graduation package 9.9,"
"Honkai brand tissues—spot the logo before wiping,"...
"Iron-Blooded Kevin Solo Stan,"
"Want to be pinched in Succubus Kevin's hand,"
"Kevin the Godfather,"
"Kevin his *,"
"Escape from Kevin's Hell"...
All the way to:
"Answer , dear Planner~"
Every na in the credits was a goldmine of jokes.
As for why it was like this—
Perhaps they were all sowhat influenced by Hokuto.
Hokuto: ?
Why does this end up on ?
What else? Don't you always say the sa thing?
Hokuto: What did I say?
"It's all Otto's fault~~"
Hokuto: ???
...
After losing control, getting emotional, composing themselves again...
When the credits fully rolled and the livestream screen finally went black,
A good while passed.
Only then did many people slowly exhale and recover.
Then they rembered—
Normally, after the short ends, there would be an epilogue.
And now that the short was publicly released, miHoYo should no longer lock the follow-up story.
Thinking of this—
They all picked up their phones and reopened the ga.
As expected, the previously locked story segnt had been hot-updated and unlocked.
Only...
When they swiped the screen to enter the story, they noticed sothing very important:
That "Graduation Trip" short—they had just watched it in the livestream room.
So...
If they wanted to proceed to the epilogue—
They'd have to rewatch "Graduation Trip" inside the ga.
Well... the ga lets you skip it.
That was...
They lightly tapped it—
The short's opening scene again. Kiana again.
"..."
They had planned to skip it—
But seeing the scene, their fingers subtly froze mid-air, motionless, unable to press the skip button.
Instead, they watched the short unfold again, taking in everything bit by bit.
Gradually, so thoughts began to surface.
Watching again... doesn't seem to hurt.
It's already the second ti—could it really hit people with preparation?
Impossible! Absolutely not!!
So—no problem.
Just a good chance to appreciate the details.
With that mindset, they seriously started their second watch.
Otto, Sentience, Corruption...
Alright, alright, we know you all wanted a curtain call.
Let the past stay in the past, and as for Corruption—
Even the Queen isn't tsundere anymore, and yet you're still...
The Queen...
Hearing her words to Kiana change from "struggle with all your might" to "well done" was truly emotional.
What she once thought Kiana could never do—
Kiana ended up accomplishing.
i...
Kiana x i sugar. Just sweet. Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet!
Raven...
miHoYo, it's the last ti—why didn't you give Raven her own island?
Let her stay on it?
Sigh~~
You really are heartless.
If it were us, we'd give Raven the coolest, flashiest island—
Even if it ant whitewashing a Herrscher, we wouldn't care.
Hokuto: ...
Honestly, if the animation really gave Raven her own island—
Putting logic aside (can Raven really get her second island in life?)—
She probably wouldn't be happy about it.
After all, there's a saying: "The past is too painful to look back on."
Li Sushang...
Besides the Da Hua BBQ pork bun larger than any pillow, that candied hawthorn sign in the background—
First-ti viewers might not have noticed, but now they burst out laughing.
Isn't that Theresa's emoji face?
Durandal and Rita... Arlene sisters, Seele, Bronya...
They practically picked out every possible detail in the story worth comnting on.
Gotta admit—
Even though the short was highly conceptual, the level of detail was insane.
(Like in the group reunion of the Fla-Chasers—
besides Elysia, careful viewers would notice Griseo looking at i.
Just like what Griseo said in Elysium Everlasting when saying goodbye to i...
"I and the stars will both watch over Sister i.")
miHoYo even stuffed a "V50" ad in the corner.
Hokuto: I'm a ti traveler. Send 50 V coins. I'll transfer you 5GB of knowledge from another world.
Players: My review? I'd sooner believe I'm Qin Shi Huang.
And so—
As they joked through the story, their confidence surged.
The second watch? Not that bad at all. Totally manageable.
(Puts down box of tissues.jpg)
With this smug mood—
They once again arrived at the accident-prone zone.
First ca the sound of a door closing—Canon stopped instantly.
Next shot—
Kiana switched back to Moonlight battlesuit.
Due to the angle, her eyes weren't shown—
The mood suddenly grew heavy.
Players: ...
They knew—
The heaviest mont wasn't this atmosphere...
It was what ca next...
Still—no problem.
This ti they were prepared.
It's just...
"Kiana."
[...]
[...] *N
Sothing got in their eyes.
Let's just say—you can't prepare for that.
What kind of short is this—why does the second ti hit even harder than the first?!
This wasn't sarcasm—
This was how they truly felt.
Proof?
The first ti, they used only one-third of the tissues they'd prepped.
This ti? That box was empty.
I'M OUT OF TISSUES!!
As for why they cried so hard—
Honestly, they didn't think it was sothing worth analyzing right now...
Maybe it was Kiana's familiar nose-rubbing gesture—
That made them rember the bright girl they t in Honkai's sumr years ago.
And the version of themselves who found everything new and fascinating.
Maybe it was little Kiana stumbling through the snow—
So innocent, so pure—
And knowing what ten years awaited her, all that suffering, that unavoidable fate.
Maybe it was seeing Kiana smile as she walked toward the Moon—
This world was not beautiful.
She had endured more than almost anyone else—
Yet her heart had never changed.
Maybe it was...
Seeing them move forward.
Seeing them live their own colors.
Seeing them find their purpose—and work toward it.
This journey.
This story.
It didn't tell you what to do.
It simply showed what they chose to do.
And left behind sothing radiant.
So smiled at it.
So lingered by it.
So stepped forward...
Hearing the blessing whispered to both the girls in the ga—
And to the players outside it:
"You are the beauty of the world—shining forever."
...
The short.
The atmosphere.
The lyrics...
The seamless blend of these elents created an experience like no other—
The true reason why they couldn't stop their emotions over and over again.
They were so imrsed, they forgot the short had ended.
Didn't notice the story had shifted.
Actually...
The real reason was probably because they were still frantically looking for more tissues. (cough cough)
Anyway—
The short ca to an end.
The ga moved to the next segnt.
[This is a story we created together.]
[Every story has an ending. But the mories left behind won't disappear. The feelings shared won't disappear.]
[They'll beco keys for those who follow—rembered, passed on... into the future, existing forever.]
"For example—every ti we open this ti capsule—
We'll et again a girl nad [Kiana Kaslana]."
With Kiana's narration—
Little Kiana appeared in the void—
Taking big steps toward Earth, continuing from the end of the previous scene.
Then—no visual style change.
No sudden plot twists.
Just a simple, straightforward walk forward.
Maybe because little Kiana's thoughts were simple right now.
Find her missing dad. That's it.
Hmm... if soone's willing to help—
Like spotting an uncle who looks just like her and bringing him over—
She'd personally make a hot, toasty pizza toast in gratitude.
...Honestly, that sounds pretty tempting?
After all, while the Kaslanas inherited i's kitchen-killer gene—
They could still barely pull off sothing simple like pizza toast.
So ti to go find Kevin—
The uncle who looks like Kiana. ()
Ahem, digression over—
Back to the story.
"At that ti, she still knew nothing about the world..."
"And we knew—on the road she chose—hardship awaited, and a fate she couldn't escape."
Little Kiana, so pure—couldn't possibly imagine what lay ahead.
She'd et friends who cooked amazing als.
Friends who were gaming pros.
"Friends" who'd teach her all sorts of things...
There'd be laughter and sadness.
Joy and pain.
"But more importantly... after all that—she'd also encounter the most beautiful thing in the world."
"A treasure called [Love]."
"..."
...
The screen darkened.
Bzz~~ bzz~~
Two vibrations rang out—so realistic that people thought their phones buzzed.
As they lowered their heads in confusion—
The screen lit up again.
Ah... it was i's ssage.
i: "Kiana, are you awake? :-) With the new Earth-Moon comm station, Dr. Tesla is ready to go wild."
Bronya: [image] ← new bandwidth
[St. Freya is now the new broadband, HAHAHAHA]
[It's bandwidth, not broadband ()]
[I have a feeling... this is another future accident-prone term. 9 out of 10 people will misread it.]
"Yeah... new work will begin soon."
"Then—before that—"
With the sa feelings—
She took a picture of the lunar surface.
Kiana exited the chat window—
Raised her phone—
Focused on herself.
Everyone wondered: what was she going to do?
"Feels like sothing's missing."
"Ah, right! Like this... then this..."
She thought, then did sothing they were all too familiar with.
Raised her right hand—
Struck a battle-ready pose forward.
Then—
A crisp sound echoed—just like that distant afternoon—
When she leapt from the drone.
"Kiana—launching!"
[...]
[Hahaha, I'm so happy.]
[I'm dying of joy (inhale inhale)]
[Ending with that—was perfect!! (tissues tissues)]
[At the story's end, return to its beginning—you did good! You did good!]
And to reward miHoYo for playing such a good hand—
They decided to imdiately order a box of Honkai brand tissues.
After all—they just ran out.
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