Suke really had to sigh in admiration that Boss Mabel was indeed Boss Mabel.
Although she always displayed an explosively scummy attitude towards him and casually set traps for others at the drop of a hat, when something actually happened, she was also the first to calculate everything perfectly.
Come to think of it, an Omniscient and Omnipotent existence was just that. Even if her mighty power couldn't directly affect the things within this reincarnation loop, she could ensure the situation developed smoothly relying solely on her calculations.
"Ahhhhhhh————!!!"
The pyramid triangular pendant made by a multiverse god emitted boundless white light. Amidst Veliona's screams, this Cocolia Orphanage standing within the Mind Image completely shattered!
The debris of the Mind Image drifted in the void, resembling fragments of memories. Time was divided scene by scene like a film strip, causing the ground beneath Suke and Sin's feet to collapse along with it!
"Brother, be careful!"
Manipulating the black cat's body with his consciousness to leap up and jump into Sin's embrace, Suke looked at Veliona not far away—that is, Veliona—whose form was as broken as a figure reflected in a cracked mirror. The vigilance in his heart did not relax in the slightest.
Indeed, the girl named Sin Mal used the "strongest power" within her cognition to tear apart the memory known as the Cocolia Orphanage, but this did not mean that the outcome of Seele's death had already been reversed.
Because Suke saw a room built of concrete walls. Even under the collapse of the orphanage, it remained connected to those suspended concrete walls, floating there like a sealed iron box.
Its door was left slightly ajar. An unbearable stench still emanated from within the door, as if indicating that the most terrifying existence remained completely unmoved.
"Brother, is that faker pretending to be Seele dead?"
Sin tilted her head. She looked at Veliona, who was dimly vanishing in the distance, and asked the black cat in her arms.
That was right. Whether it was just now or at present, the so-called falling into "psychological trauma" was merely a pretense she put on to paralyze the other party.
The story named "Spiral Staircase" indeed recorded the most feared thing of a girl named Sin Mal, but because of the different encounters she experienced, the current Sin Mal had not chosen to transition from a "monster" into a "human."
"Humans" would feel pain, but "monsters" would not.
Those so-called pains of shattered fingers and torn flesh, as well as the confusing spiral formed by loneliness, were to her nothing more than superficial flesh wounds that could be endured with a little forbearance.
[...I'm afraid not yet.]
Suke stared straight at that building resembling an iron box.
The mighty power released by the golden triangular pendant, which was enough to annihilate all phenomena, had obliterated everything, yet it solely failed to damage that "iron box" in the slightest.
He realized that the so-called Cocolia Orphanage was actually jointly constructed from the cognitive stories of the three people, "Bronya, Seele, and Sin," serving as the origin of the story known as Honkai Impact 3rd.
But that "iron box" was different. Inside was a story belonging solely to "Seele," originating from an abandoned, no longer needed "Seele."
Although in a sense, Sin and Seele were also the same kind of victims.
"What's wrong, Brother?"
[No, it's nothing.]
Taking a deep look at Sin, Suke felt somewhat emotional, lamenting that she was just like Seele; no matter which Honkai world it was, they ultimately dissipated into smoke and clouds.
It was just that for one, there was at least still one person who remembered her, while the other was as if she had been spirited away and obscured by a cognitive barrier, completely unknown to anyone.
The broken floorboards flew forward along with his will, arriving right in front of the door of the "iron box." The current Sin could already see this door that had been concealed beneath the outer shell of the Cocolia Orphanage.
However, the aura spilling out from the crack in the door made Sin feel quite uncomfortable. She glanced inside; even though she couldn't see anything at all, it felt as though a rotting corpse was buried within.
[Sin, I'll leave the rest to you. Please keep your 'gaze' on me at all times.]
[Do not come in. Remember, no matter what happens, absolutely do not come in.]
"Mhm..."
Suke issued the command to Sin. The black cat manipulated by his consciousness bounded to the door and, under Sin's anxious gaze, walked through the doorway.
Suke was going to witness, to see clearly.
Using his eyes that shattered all falsehoods and obstacles, he wanted to clearly see the cause of death of the girl named "Seele," to see exactly how she perished in the reincarnation loop like a rotting corpse————
[Sister Sin came to joke around with Seele again. Seele was afraid that Sister Sin would do something excessive again, so she hid in the toy box.]
[But Sister Bronya didn't come looking for Seele. Seele felt the air in the toy box getting thinner and thinner, and her body became very uncomfortable.]
[Seele had a dream. The dream was very scary. Seele dreamed that the world didn't need Seele anymore. Other Seeles who looked exactly identical to Seele had replaced Seele. Seele no longer had any meaning to exist...]
The moment he stepped over the threshold of the door, Seele's shriveled body reemerged before the black cat's eyes.
She leaned against her toy box, as if she had finally managed to crawl out of it with her last breath right before her death.
[Seele doesn't want to be alone. Seele misses Sister Bronya. Seele misses Sister Sin. Seele wants to continue living together with everyone...]
[But looking at the other Seele who was much cuter and better-behaved than Seele, under the pleading of that Seele who was protecting her, Seele gave up.]
[Please, the other, no, the other two of me...]
[Please take Seele's place, and live on happily and joyfully.]
The fragmented title page of the girl's diary fluttered down before the black cat's eyes. The crooked handwriting upon it was taken in entirely by the black cat's bright red feline eye.
Between the two futures, Seele had made a choice. Perhaps even until her death, she never knew how many people were waiting for her in the other future.
"Why must you go to such lengths..."
"Seele has already made her choice by herself. Why must you outsiders still insist on interfering?!!"
A shrill voice rang out from above the black cat's head. He saw a phantom-like spiritual body reveal itself from the ceiling, glaring at the black cat with a ferocious expression and posture.
Veliona, or rather, a part of "Seele." At this very moment, she had absolutely no power within this sealed iron box. She could only stare fixedly like a wandering ghost at the initiator who had destroyed all of this.
"Do you think I wanted to see Seele die? Whether it's her, or Seele, they are both the ones I want to protect!"
"But a choice had to be made, a choice was unavoidable... If she didn't die, all of our futures would be completely annihilated due to the disaster. Seele merely made a rational choice, that's all!"
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