Honkai Impact 3rd: I picked up a Seele at the start of the game.

Chapter 177 The Cognitive Growing Pain Period

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Wilvi sneaked into May's office and, unsurprisingly, got caught red-handed.

Because she never intended to hide it.

After being caught, Velvet neither resisted nor cried out. Instead, with a smug look on her face, she sat down on May's desk, leaned slightly forward, one hand holding her hat and the other supporting herself on the desk, and said:

"Look, isn't this our intelligent and calm Dr. Mei? Little girl, you seem to be looking confused. Do you need my help?"

Mei sighed: "Vilvie, just say what you have to say."

Vilvi laughed out loud... but stopped halfway through, coughing twice: "Ahem, I mean, really? Don't you feel something's off?"

Mei held a pen in her right hand, scribbling casually, and asked rhetorically, "Time?"

Although the weather forecast and diaries all say it's winter now, and there seems to be no problem, a clever person can still find inconsistencies in time from subtle clues.

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In 'Alissia's' vision, reviving Yunfuyu's consciousness requires a large number of conscious beings to 'sing my name,' which is an immeasurable number.

Perhaps it would take a full year of deep longing to be enough.

But she personally erased all of Seele's memories of Yun Fuyu, and this time will be extended indefinitely, long enough for her to 'wake up' again, or even... another 50,000 years.

In this way, there's no need to worry about the issue of discontinuous time.

But as it turned out, things just happened to be so coincidental. Seele preserved the memories of Seele in the bubble world, and the latter happened to be in a bubble world with an extremely fast time flow, which is why Cloud Rain was able to be revived in just one month.

Afterwards, the Sea of ​​Quanta brought Seele information and memories, and she quickly went to find Cloud Rain, triggering the "world reset" program.

All of this took only two months.

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"time?"

Velvi nodded in satisfaction: "As expected of you! So, what are your thoughts?"

May countered, "I'd rather know your thoughts. Velvet, time may have gone wrong, but time waits for no one."

These words struck a nerve with Velvi. She stopped joking, sat down, took out a storage chip, and tossed it to Prometheus beside her, saying, "This is something I left behind. I came to you as soon as I realized something was wrong. Let's take a look together."

The Prometheus tool obediently projected the information from the chip onto the screen.

There is text, pictures, videos, and also some encrypted strings of symbols.

Vivi stroked her chin as she looked at these things, occasionally interjecting with an explanation, roughly meaning—

There's something wrong with this world.

There's something wrong with Alicia.

There's a problem with the cloud-assisted rain.

Seele has a problem.

Vervi is really smart.

haha~

"..."

Mei rolled her eyes and asked, "And then? We can't find any evidence to prove what you're saying, so I can completely assume you're just kidding me."

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

After much deliberation and pacing back and forth, Velvet finally slammed her hand on the table: "A face-to-face confrontation is not advisable. How about this: call Yun Fuyu and Seele here, and trick them again by saying that we are certain that Seele is a Herrscher, and let them confess so that they will be treated leniently!"

May: "You suspect they know something?"

Velvi: "Yes! Do you remember the 'earth-shattering weather cannon' I made before?"

Mei remained silent for a moment.

Actually, at that time, May deliberately gave in and allowed Velvet to tamper with the Second Herrscher's core; otherwise, this so-called cannon wouldn't have appeared.

Abusing the core of the Lawyer class is a serious crime!!

Velvi: "I can say with certainty that someone was trying to observe the world with their own power at that time, and my Honkai energy monitor detected it clearly. As for who this person is, I can only say that Yun Fuyu and Seele are the most suspicious."

It was Seele. She hadn't noticed anything at the time.

Mei nodded: "Alright, let's do it that way. But if they really are innocent... you know, Yun Fuyu once saved an entire transport ship, including Kevin and Sakura."

Velvi was straightforward: "I apologize in person! Besides, there are too many unanswered questions right now, and it's still hard to say who's behind this. If the Honkai can alter time, we might as well just give up and surrender!"

Mei sighed, her hand on her forehead, also filled with worry and sorrow.

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The next day, early in the morning.

In a blur, I suddenly felt a heaviness in my chest, as if something was pressing down on me, and I couldn't move at all.

Yun Fuyu struggled and struggled again, finally taking a deep breath and soaring—

This time, he's truly awake.

Looking down, I realized that at some point, Seele had come to my room and was lying on her side on the other side of the bed, her little head resting on my stomach.

Who is this Seele?

He stroked the girl's soft hair, leaving a delicate fragrance on his fingers, and asked softly, "Xi'er, is something the matter?"

Seele lay quietly, her voice drifting over: "I... I'm afraid you'll disappear."

It shouldn't be World Bubble Seele.

Yun Fuyu lowered her voice: "How could that be? I've said it before, no matter what happens, I will always be with Xier."

Seele remained motionless for a long time before finally saying, "I... had a nightmare. In the dream, we were forced to separate and even forgot each other."

What a coincidence.

That's just bad luck.

Yun Fuyu continued to stroke Xier Miao's hair, and couldn't help but smile: "But Xier still remembers me, still likes me, and is still with me."

Xi'er's face wasn't facing him, so Yun Fuyu couldn't see her expression.

But he could tell that Seele's voice was somewhat low.

She said, "But I'm scared. What would we do if something like that really happened?"

She was actually asking: What should we do if this happens again, if Seele leaves? What would you do?

"..."

Yun Fuyu was silent for a moment, then suddenly began to recall her memories: "I remember saying, 'No matter what happens, I will always be with Xier.'"

Seele's reply was: No matter what happens, Seele will do everything she can to be with you.

They certainly did not betray this promise/oath/vow.

Seele: "...Yes, I remember."

Yun: "So, does Seele want to break the contract?"

His voice was gentle and full of emotion, but his words were like sharp knives.

It wasn't intentional, because he didn't want to hurt Seele; yet it was also intentional, because he wanted to know the answer.

Yun Fuyu could clearly feel Xi'er's body trembling slightly, so he quickly patted her head a few more times. The gentle touch calmed Xi'er's panic.

She did not speak.

But the answer is actually quite obvious.

Yunfuyu's world only has Seele, but Seele's world has many, many people. She wants the world to bubble Seele in place of herself, something that was hinted at yesterday in the coffee shop.

They didn't say it out loud simply because they are currently experiencing "amnesia".