Chapter 115 Senti: Su Mu, You're Stabbing Me Again? I'm Gonna Smash You to Bits!!
In the game, Luna seemed to be in immense pain. The Captain picked up her petite body, leaning in to hear what she was saying. But in that instant, a mutation occurred.
The girl in his arms snapped her eyes open—they were blood-red pupils, not human at all. Her sharp canines lunged toward his neck; she wanted to drink blood. The mysterious girl appearing in a dark alley, the recent serial blood-sucking incidents—after the Captain was attacked, everything clicked into place. Without a doubt, this petite and cute girl was the culprit behind it all.
However.
"Wuu-mew..."
Because she was too weak, her fangs couldn't even pierce the Captain's skin, which allowed him to narrowly escape with his life. The crisis was averted. Watching Otto play, Kallen let out a sigh of relief but then began to worry: "If the Theresa of this world cannot drink blood, she must be in so much pain..."
Otto said with total gravity: "If that's the case, it wouldn't matter if she drained me dry! If it can ease Theresa's pain, my life is nothing!"
Theresa pounded Otto's shoulder with her small fists: "You're talking nonsense again! Grandpa! If a vampire bites you, you really might die from blood loss! Are you an idiot!"
Otto's expression was full of resolve: "As long as it reduces my lovely granddaughter's pain even by a little, I am willing to risk this life!"
Kallen put her hands on her hips, visibly annoyed: "Risking your life at the drop of a hat! Otto, you're not a child. Have you considered the feelings of those who care about you when you say those things?"
"Kallen, I... I was just making a metaphor!"
"Not even as a metaphor! Don't keep death on your lips all day. Life is a precious thing that only happens once; you must cherish it! Do you understand?"
"Yes, yes, I know... please, calm down..."
[Family status: clear at a glance.]
[LMAO, Lord Otto is a classic henpecked husband, isn't he?]
[Henpecked? That's called loving your wife!]
[I came to watch a stream, not to see you two show off your affection, dammit!!]
[Getting dog food stuffed down my throat even while watching a game stream, I can't take it!]
Kallen's few words disciplined Otto like a student who didn't dare talk back. This segment allowed the audience to see an unknown side of the wealthy and handsome Lord Otto. But for some reason, it didn't feel out of place. After all, the Otto in Honkai Impact 3rd really doted on Kallen to that extreme. He protected her throughout her time at Schicksal; when she went to the Far East and needed support, he sent the Oath of Judah without a second thought. Even later in prison, he proposed a fake marriage to save her life.
After Kallen passed away, to resurrect her, Otto went mad and endured five hundred years of time. One could say that for Kallen, Otto truly gave everything. Perhaps he was a complete villain and a loathsome person, but at least in his love for Kallen, no one would ever doubt him.
Precisely because their ending in the game was so tragic, seeing the two of them appearing together in the stream made many viewers feel nostalgic and relieved. Although in the world of Honkai 3rd, it was a tragedy through and through, in reality, they could walk together... it somewhat soothed the hearts of the players broken by the evil "Old Thief" Su Mu!
Continuing the game plot: The Captain couldn't bear to see Luna suffer, so he bit his finger and shared his blood bit by bit with the girl. Once her breathing stabilized, the Captain answered a phone call and returned to the HOMU Restaurant to regroup with Himeko. For some unknown reason—perhaps because he felt the white-haired girl was too pitiful—the Captain did not tell Himeko about the incident. Himeko, on the other hand, had gathered a strange piece of intel: a "white ghost" had been seen wandering nearby at night.
August 24, 2006, 23:44:56. After splitting up with Himeko, the Captain returned to the alley from the previous night and encountered the white-haired girl again. Having tasted the Captain's blood the night before, the girl keenly identified him. She was moved by the Captain's choice to save her.
[Wait, a beautiful girl faints on the roadside—if I don't save her, am I even human?]
[Don't look down on this Hyperion Captain's resolve to save a damsel in distress!]
[Saving beauties is my duty as Captain!]
The "Captains" in the chat were once again possessed by the spirit of roleplay, responding to the girl in the game across the screen. The girl didn't scent any lies, so she believed him. However, she made a strange request: she wanted to tell the Captain a story. In exchange, she hoped the Captain would fulfill a wish for "her." Since he had already come this far, the Captain naturally had no reason to refuse.
"Her name is Theresa, and her wish is..."
The dialogue cut off abruptly, and the game returned to the stage selection screen.
[Her name is Theresa, right? Isn't this the classic 'I have a friend' trope?]
[Your friend is you, right?]
[So what exactly is Luna Kindred's wish?]
[Is it to grow 5cm taller?]
[Pfft, do you want to get smashed by Judah?]
[Maybe she wants a cup of bitter melon juice!]
The viewers began speculating wildly about Luna's wish. However, the topic inevitably drifted toward "persecuting" Theresa. After all, Theresa was so cute that not teasing her would be a waste of her cuteness.
Otto didn't hesitate and clicked the next stage. Although he played a villain in Honkai 3rd, he was also one of the many Captains. Seeing the Captain in the game as another avatar capable of helping Theresa made him very happy. After all, Theresa was the cutest in the world; who wouldn't want to help her?
To everyone's surprise, in the next stage, Theresa seemed like a different person. The guarded, dangerous vampire image vanished, replaced by a girl full of curiosity about the world. She stood on a rooftop with the Captain, looking at distant buildings and asking him questions. The HOMU Theme Park, the arcade... Despite being a dangerous vampire just a moment ago, her face was now full of innocence.
Theresa's wish was simple: she wanted to understand what the world was like now. Not the descriptions in books, but the actual city, lights, and crowds. Although she wanted to taste ice cream and touch a HOMU doll... it didn't matter. Just this was enough for her. A simple, ordinary, and heart-wrenching wish. A wish that could barely be called a wish. And a girl who clumsily denied her own desires.
[Is Theresa's wish really that simple?]
[What on earth happened to the Theresa of this world?]
[Just listening to her makes my heart ache...]
[Analyzing her words, maybe this Theresa has never had contact with the outside world? She only knows things through books.]
[Is it because she's a vampire? Vampires are the ultimate outcasts; appearing in public would cause a riot...]
This simple wish moved the audience deeply. "Is it a theme park? Is it an ice cream truck?! Theresa, if you want it, Grandpa will buy them all for you!" Otto began fumbling for his wallet as if he were truly ready to buy an entire park on the spot!
"Grandpa! We're live! Stop it!"
"If Theresa wants it, I'll even pluck the moon from the sky for her!"
The viewers couldn't stop laughing at the interaction between the grandfather and granddaughter.
[God, these two are so funny!]
[Doting-madman Otto! A granddaughter-con in the game and a granddaughter-con in reality!]
[I'm starting to think the story of Honkai 3rd is adapted from reality, at least with Otto's obsession!]
[The world of the super-rich? Buying a theme park just like that?]
[LMAO, this is the most helpless I've seen Teriri during a stream. The content is 10/10!]
Even though Otto was a suave nobleman and a world-renowned entrepreneur in reality, in front of Theresa, he was just a doting grandfather. He was so invested that seeing Theresa suffer in the game genuinely pained him.
[I can't imagine what would happen if someone tried to marry Teriri. Lord Otto might actually go insane...]
[Becoming Lord Otto's grandson-in-law is not going to be easy.]
[That's for sure. If you don't have serious skills, Teriri liking you won't help! Lord Otto won't hand her over easily!]
The Captain in the game did not disappoint. He opened his thin wallet and immediately decided to take Theresa to the theme park, where there were HOMU dolls, so she could taste ice cream for herself.
["The night is long, I will always be with you."]
["Right, let's meet here again tomorrow night."]
["What we don't finish tonight, we can do tomorrow, and the day after..."]
The Captain actively invited Luna, but she refused. She had to leave the city tonight because she was a vampire, destined to never live under the lights. Furthermore, if she appeared in a crowd, she wouldn't be able to control her impulses...
Next, Luna told the Captain a sorrowful story. The girl was a doll; from birth, her life had no meaning. Aside from a room like a cage filled with books, "Grandpa" had given her nothing. Only Grandpa and her "sleeping sister" were people she could occasionally talk to. She was required to drink blood bags frequently and, every half month, she had to consume her sister's blood. It was all Grandpa's wish, so she continued that life. Because she was born for this, because she was needed. Because every time she finished, her sister would wake up and give her a very gentle smile. Only then could she feel a sense of purpose.
Even so, she still had one wish. She wanted to go out and see the world depicted in books. Even if just for a glance. With her sister's help, she tried to leave the cage she had never escaped. But she had thought everything was too simple. The human world outside... she found it harder and harder to control the impulse to drink blood. Despite her efforts, her instincts drove her to do something irreversible. By the time she snapped out of it, the blood on her lips told her exactly what she had done.
In this CG, Theresa sat by a coffin. Inside the coffin lay the white-haired girl, though she was intentionally obscured by a black screen. However, it wasn't hard to guess her identity and her name.
[Kallen...?]
[The Theresa of this world is Kallen's sister?]
[Wait, she has a 'Grandpa' too. Is that Grandpa the Otto of this world?]
[Never left the cage since birth... So this Theresa is just like the main story Theresa—she's an experimental subject created by Otto...]
[The meaning of her existence is to sustain her sister Kallen's life...]
[That is too pitiful...]
Otto gripped the controller tightly, his expression becoming extremely grim. Doing such a thing to his lovely Theresa was unforgivable! He didn't care if the "Grandpa" in the game was "him" or not; anyone capable of such deeds would not be spared by Otto!!
The subsequent plot made Otto close his eyes in pain. Under the moonlight, Luna invited the Captain to dance. The innocent image of the white-haired girl under the moon undoubtedly struck the heart of every Captain watching.
However. On the third night, just as the Captain planned to take Theresa to fulfill their promise, the plan was disrupted by Himeko, who had come to hunt Theresa, and Kallen, who had arrived as well. In the chaos, the Captain was killed by A-872 (Theresa), who was triggered by her bloodlust.
Clinging to the intense desire to save Theresa, the Captain should have died there. Yet, when he opened his eyes... he found himself lying on a maid's lap. The maid with the strange horn hair accessories—wasn't that Rita Rossweisse? Rita spoke cryptic words to him, telling him to find a future where "Lady Kallen" would not die.
As the Captain opened his eyes again, he had returned to the first night—the moment he met Himeko in front of the HOMU Restaurant to investigate the serial attacks.
"Is this... a death loop?" Kallen analyzed the plot and gave her opinion. "The Captain returned to the first night of the investigation, the moment before he met Theresa. Does he have a special ability to return to specific nodes?"
[Eh? Really?]
[Return by Death?]
[This Captain having such an ability is too cool!]
[Wake up. The last guy with that power died miserably countless times.]
[Do you like sticking your nose in other people's business and getting your stomach sliced open?]
[Do you like walking through a mansion at night and being smashed into meat paste by a morning star?]
[Do you like being eaten by a cute white rabbit in the snow until nothing but bones are left?]
[Hurry, shut up, you bastards! Can I just choose not to have this ability!!]
The viewers didn't know if the Captain had a special power, but they knew that since he could return to this point, he might be able to change the tragedy and save Theresa. But this "cycle" revealed different circumstances. Himeko and the Captain went together to the alley where Theresa had fainted. Although he met Theresa again on the first night, Himeko was attacked and injured by her, though she survived. After Himeko woke up, she chatted in the hallway with someone she had never met, yet who seemed like a "familiar old friend" to the Captain.
On the second night, Himeko proposed drinking with the Captain on the rooftop, talking about the past and saying something meaningful. On the third night, the Captain woke up to find Himeko missing. By the time he finally found her, he only heard her final farewell over the phone. Then, a gunshot rang out—
When he reached the scene, all the Captain could see was the white-haired girl holding a gun and Himeko lying on the ground, lifeless.
[???]
[??]
The sudden development caused a string of question marks to flood the chat.
[Wait? No no no no?]
[Himeko died again? She's dead again?!]
[You're pulling this in an event plot too?]
[Su Mu, you piece of trash! Don't you know this Captain has a weak heart!]
Looking at Himeko's lifeless body and thinking of the MIA Himeko in the main story...
[Old Thief! Traitor! Dog Thief!]
[!! Stabbing my Big Sister Himeko again? Old Thief, are you out of ideas?! You're specifically targeting our Himeko to shave her down, aren't you?!]
[Broken, I'm truly broken, brothers! Himeko fans are going to the rooftop tonight!]
[No way, sir, you're using Himeko for a 'blade' in the event plot too? Su Mu, are you even human!!]
For a moment, the stream was filled with wailing! In the Arc City branch, inside Fu Hua's room, a sharp explosion of sound erupted!
"Su Mu, you old thief! You bastard!!" Senti clutched her head; her entire brain was trembling! "Final Lesson" was already a psychological trauma for poor Senti! And now you serve up a new "World Famous Painting": Auntie Himeko on Patrol? That punch from before wasn't enough, not nearly enough!!
At this moment, Otto and the other two were also stunned by the plot. "I... I killed Miss Himeko?" Kallen covered her mouth in shock, clearly not expecting the story to unfold this way!
END OF CHAPTER
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