Chapter 244 The Protagonist of the Event is the Captain? Kongming's Massive Jealousy Scene.
When Conan Doyle jolted awake, he found himself still in his original position. Everything he had just experienced felt like a dream... which he found incredibly hard to believe.
But clearly, none of it was a dream. Conan Doyle—the great detective played by the player in-game—had just narrowly escaped an attack by the mysterious girl, Seele. If Irene Adler hadn't appeared in time, Doyle would have been in dire straits.
[Irene-chan, I'm your fan!!]
[Thank you, Irene-chan, for saving my life.]
[I feel like if Irene hadn't stepped in, we detectives would have been the second to die after Jackal.]
[Wait, Class Monitor, what are you doing? I'm about to get jumped and where are you? I'm officially reporting Fu Hua for match-fixing.]
[After all, this is Fallen Rosemary's home field. You can't let the Immortal be the savior every time, right?]
Amidst the viewers' relief, Elysia wore a look of confusion. "Seele, who was supposed to have perished in the Catastrophe, suddenly appears... plus the legend of the 'Ghost of St. Fontaine'... could the Ghost be Seele?"
"Mhm... but what is the connection between the Ghost and the murders of Joyce and Jackal?" Detective Ellie struck a thinking pose.
After the plot of this stage ended, the content of [Fragment III]was unlocked. This chapter contained a letter written by Seele to her sister Bronya. In the letter, Seele mentioned that she, Little Jo (Joachim), and Bronya all suffered from a special disease that required regular medication—a disease only Joyce could treat. And Jackal, at that time, was actually playing the role of the "Doctor"...
"What does this have to do with Jackal's death? Mhm, I don't get it..." Without more intel, Elysia couldn't make a judgment and continued playing the next stages.
In the next chapter, the time jumped back to before Jackal's murder. From Fu Hua's perspective, she asked Dr. Tesla about the history of St. Fontaine. Originally, there was a church here, and Bronya used to live there. Five years ago, after the Catastrophe, Schicksal's Lab 42 was established. Joachim, Bronya's guardian, had been at Lab 42 longer than anyone. He was the priest here and also the children's "teacher." He was a knowledgeable biologist, but in many ways, he was as naive as a child.
Tesla described Joachim like this: ["The first time I met him was at the survivor containment facility. His eyes were vacant, as if the person inside the shell had already died."]
["He's a strange man. A brilliant biologist, yet surprisingly naive in some aspects."]
["He also loves spending time tending to the flowerbed in front of the manor, meticulous to the point of obsession. And... he often mutters to himself in front of the flowers."]
["I think the trauma that the Catastrophe inflicted on his heart has yet to heal."]
Later, Fu Hua and Tesla were attacked by the "Ghost of St. Fontaine" while picking up Bronya and Joachim. Even Fu Hua's proudest martial arts couldn't scratch it. Fu Hua didn't know much about the Ghost, but she had heard many rumors. Some said it was the manifested lingering thoughts of the victims; some said it was a failed product of a secret human experiment; others said it was the cause of the Catastrophe.
Seeing Bronya about to be harmed, Joachim incredibly squeezed between the monster and the girl before the tragedy occurred, shielding Bronya with his own body.
["Teacher—!"]Bronya let out a panicked cry for the first time.
The Ghost's claws stopped mid-air. It was as if the mysterious monster was stunned by Joachim's sudden and brave act. It might have been Fu Hua's imagination, but for a split second, a glimmer of humanity reflected in the monster's eyes. It cried out in confusion, stumbled back two steps, then emitted a piercing wail that cut through the rain before vanishing. Although they didn't know why it left, they were saved.
The shaken party returned to the Walter Manor, only to witness the crime scene where Jackal was murdered. They also learned from Raven that Sora had been kidnapped. To find clues, the group split up: Doyle's party searched the manor while Dr. Tesla and the others went to restore security measures.
While investigating Joyce's office, Raven was already there. Lacking clues, she vented her rage on Conan Doyle. Einstein, however, stepped forward.
["Save her? With what? Is this your excuse for joining the fight for the inheritance?"]
["I saw long ago that the girl's body was severely eroded by Honkai energy. This could never be natural."]
["do you think doing this will wash away your past sins? are you trying to save her, or yourself?!"]
Perhaps due to the stress, Dr. Einstein was irritable. Her words were sharp and cutting, reigniting Raven's suppressed fury. Before Doyle could warn her, Raven lunged at Einstein.
Clang. Thud.
Two sounds rang out simultaneously. Next, everyone froze.
Clang! Irene had reacted instantly, parrying Raven's strike.
Thud! Einstein had instinctively stepped back to dodge, crashing hard into the bookshelf behind her. Due to the impact, something fell from the shelf. It was a thin stack of papers, stapled neatly.
["Investigation into the 'Catastrophe'—Walter Joyce"]
Doyle quickly flipped through the files, catching the keywords. ["The current situation is terrible for me. I don't know how many researchers I can trust. Perhaps only Tesla and Einstein."]
["Initially, I only wanted to know the whereabouts of those two children."]
["Since this forbidden experiment that should never have happened has results, someone must take responsibility. I feel my own responsibility deeply."]
["I managed to find one of them. His physiological data is stable, but... I must stop all of this."]
["I am the beginning, and I must be the end. Perhaps this is fate."]
["I still haven't found the other child. Church high-level interests are involved behind the experiment; the intel is airtight."]
Through these first-person, diary-like entries, Doyle learned the shocking truth. St. Fontaine had been conducting forbidden experiments. Gray Serpent, acting as a middleman, constantly provided "materials"—which were undoubtedly children. Joyce had come to St. Fontaine seeking the whereabouts of someone codenamed Ω2.
Upon discovering the diary's content, Einstein and Raven's faces changed noticeably. especially Raven. She turned pale; the woman who had been so emotional earlier was now terrifyingly calm. clearly, the secrets behind St. Fontaine were about to be revealed.
"Church? Schicksal? I get it!" Senti's loud, confident declaration made Fu Hua look at her with surprise.
"Wh-what did you find?" Senti raised her hand. "All of this... was done by Otto!!"
Fu Hua stumbled, almost falling off her seat. Poor Lord Otto; he wasn't even in the scene yet was still being condemned...
[It has to be Otto. If you ask why, I'll ask if you understand the weight of Lord Otto's 100% participation rate in all incidents.]
[St. Fontaine is truly cursed. Occupied by the Sky People in APHO, used as a human experiment base in this parallel world, and wrecked by the Catastrophe.]
[The key is that Otto is connected to all of it, right? even if the one in APHO isn't the real Otto, it's Void Archive with Otto's face! Rounding up, it's Otto's fault!]
Aside from the persistent Otto-bashing in the chat, many viewers engaged in analysis.
[So the Catastrophe five years ago was purely man-made?]
[St. Fontaine was secretly conducting forbidden human experiments?]
[And it was orchestrated by the Church—by Schicksal?]
[clearly, Raven, Jackal, Einstein, and Tesla... they were all connected to the experiments.]
"Is Jackal dead because she was a participant back then? The blood word left at her scene was 'Revenge,' and her killer was undoubtedly Gray Serpent. According to Einstein and Tesla, Gray Serpent was also at Joyce's murder scene."
"Gray Serpent was the middleman who trafficked the 'materials'—the kids. He has a direct connection... so the culprit is definitely Gray Serpent."
"He appeared at both scenes... though no one in-game witnessed Jackal's murder... But is it really that simple? I don't think Su Mu would reveal the true killer so directly."
Perhaps due to being "tricked" by Su Mu several times, Senti remained suspicious of the "designated" culprit, Gray Serpent.
In the subsequent plot, Raven found Doyle alone and asked him to look after the children of "The Roost" if he survived. As payment, she would give him her savings. She then revealed everything. Years ago, Raven, Gray Serpent, and Jackal were all participants. Gray Serpent sourced the "materials," Raven secured and transported them, and Jackal was the researcher. The orphans were the materials. Joachim, as the head of the church, was part of their group but had been kept in the dark about the truth.
Raven believed the failed experiment caused the Catastrophe. The participants should have taken the secret to their graves. But someone was closing in on the truth. after killing Mr. Joyce, to ensure silence, Gray Serpent decided to eliminate his accomplices. The next target was Raven; Sora was taken just to make killing Raven easier.
But was that the truth? When the group found Raven, she was already lying in a pool of blood with the word "RACHE" nearby. Sora, as if seeing something horrific, was crouching and shivering. Furthermore, there was another body at the scene!
It was... Gray Serpent's corpse.
Doyle knelt to examine Raven; she had a fatal knife wound on her neck. Then he checked Gray Serpent; his fatal wound was also on the neck, but there was also a lethal stab wound to his heart from behind.
The truth seemed clear. "Fearing exposure, Gray Serpent killed Joyce, then Jackal during the blackout, kidnapped Sora, and finally killed Raven during a confrontation where they both died... is that the truth?"
Elysia was confused. If they both died, is the serial murder case over? Is Gray Serpent really the culprit? Rita Rossweisse proposed a different view.
"As a standard detective novel, Gray Serpent appearing at every scene would make him the culprit... he certainly has the motive. However... although this story has a strong mystery style, it doesn't necessarily mean it is a 'detective novel'."
Theresa agreed. "Exactly. A normal mystery wouldn't have 'The Ghost of St. Fontaine,' which defies scientific common sense... and Seele appearing before Doyle after supposedly dying in the disaster hasn't been explained..."
Elysia blinked. "So from the start, this wasn't a deductive mystery?"
[I'm surprised Ellie only just realized?]
[In a world with Honkai energy, anything can happen.]
[True. Doyle even joked at the start that Easterners don't appear in mysteries because they're 'magical,' yet Fu Hua is here. That's proof it's not a standard mystery.]
[Yeah, if this were a real mystery novel, I'd say the Old Thief failed the assignment!]
Whether due to high expectations for Su Mu or otherwise, even with the plot "pointing" at Gray Serpent, few in the chat believed it. This was Honkai 3rd; you can't conclude anything until the end. Like the Kongming event—everyone guessed how many loops it would take, but no one guessed ten million.
The story, as expected, did not end there. Later, Irene Adler and Conan Doyle discussed the analysis. As for how they discussed it... they talked over a communicator while Irene was bathing... which had caused Su Mu quite a "shock" in his previous life.
Atmosphere aside, their dialogue provided a new direction. Gray Serpent's motive didn't exist. "RACHE" (Revenge) appeared at two scenes. If it wasn't a message from the victims, it was a ritual by the killer. From that perspective, if Gray Serpent were the killer, "Revenge" made no sense. He had no reason for revenge.
Furthermore, at the scene where Raven and Gray Serpent died, neither could have calmly written on the wall after killing the other. Gray Serpent's wounds were also a problem. Irene checked the stab to his heart. with that injury, he couldn't have lurked for days without treatment and then fought an ex-mercenary like Raven to a double-kill. Based on the decomposition, Gray Serpent had been dead for days.
A dead man walking and killing? That was chilling. So the true culprit was someone else. Doyle suspected Bronya and Joachim, but they had perfect alibis for all estimated times of death. The truth became blurred again.
[Dead Gray Serpent double-killed Raven? What?]
[A corpse is killing people?]
[My brain is growing! If it's not Gray Serpent, and Bronya/Joachim have alibis, who is it?]
The viewers were baffled. Motive-wise, Bronya (the victim) and Joachim (the unwitting accomplice) were top candidates, but their alibis were airtight. Doyle asked Einstein for more intel and learned that Joyce was a valuable Herrscher test subject for the Church. He had two clones codenamed Ω2. They didn't inherit his powers. The Church wanted to scrap them, but Joyce saved one—who was Joachim. The other was missing. Joyce came to St. Fontaine to find him, but the Catastrophe happened, so he stayed to fight the disaster while searching.
This added context but no new lead. When Sora woke, Doyle asked her what happened. Her account matched his expectations but provided no answer for who killed Raven or wrote the blood words. But Sora mentioned a dream—she dreamed she became a "blue girl."
Sora's account sent Doyle into another vision, where he actually became Seele and saw her memories. In the subsequent investigation, a new clue was found. The wound on Raven's neck was at such a steep angle that it could only be formed if there was a height difference. only someone as short as Sora fit that angle. The height of the blood writing also matched a child.
Yet, while everything pointed to Sora killing Raven, Doyle reached a different conclusion. his argument was supported by a "scent." The scent of rosemary. The fragrance was everywhere. It was especially strong on Gray Serpent. According to earlier testimony, Rosemary was the only plant that survived the Catastrophe in St. Fontaine.
Elysia looked puzzled. "Rosemary? A plant? Is Doyle saying the killer is... a plant? A botanical murder case?"
[There seems to be a link between Seele and the rosemary.]
[In-game Doyle only saw Seele's memories after smelling the rosemary, right? Gray Serpent also smelled of it... and Seele was a victim of the research. Motive-wise, she has every reason for revenge!]
"But Seele died in the Catastrophe, didn't she? How is she killing people?" Senti asked. "Rosemary, rosemary... could Seele have turned into the plant? Controlling minds via scent to make them kill?"
Since the plot had gone "supernatural," Senti abandoned scientific logic. Fu Hua frowned. "But how can a human turn into a plant?"
Senti patted Fu Hua's shoulder and sighed.
"Old Antique, oh Old Antique, your mind still hasn't shifted! At a time like this, why are you still thinking about what's 'scientific' or not? The very existence of the Honkai is already a surreal setting!"
"Think about it—in the main story, you even merged with Fenghuang Down. You had no body, no brain, so why were you still able to maintain such clear memories and a personality?"
"In the end, everything can be pushed onto Fenghuang Down anyway. After all, Honkai energy is omnipotent!"
Senti's reply left Fu Hua at a loss for words. The "troublemaker" actually had a point; with Honkai energy involved, anything was possible. If the Captain could rewind time in the event plot, then rosemary being able to kill people didn't seem so far-fetched.
In the game, Conan Doyle began the final revelation. He gathered everyone in the hall and started laying out his deduction.
It was known that the killer's motive was revenge, and the common thread between the three victims pointed simultaneously to a heinous experiment from five years ago. So, among those present, who harbored a bone-deep hatred for these three?
Clearly, Bronya and Joachim were the prime suspects. However, Joachim stood up to argue that he and Bronya had no motive. This was the missing piece Doyle hadn't been able to figure out—until now, as he found a new clue.
Through the communicator, Doyle instructed Fu Hua to prepare to burn the rosemary in the manor. This move caused Joachim's expression to change instantly. Under Doyle's prodding, Joachim admitted to being the killer who took out Jackal and the others. But... Bronya stepped in front of Joachim.
["Be silent! you don't understand him at all, nor do you understand us..."]
["All of this... was my wish. My revenge."]
["And my revenge is far from over..."]
In Bronya's painful narration, the truth finally surfaced. Bronya had once been deeply grateful to Gray Serpent for bringing her—a child soldier whose life was treated like grass—back from the battlefield. In that church, Bronya met Seele and Little Jo. They were her precious sister and brother.
However, Bronya discovered the church wasn't just a church; it existed for a specific project: [The Pseudo-Herrscher Project]. That was the name of the experiment. By modifying clones of the First Herrscher, Walter Joyce, they sought to create "Transcendentals" with power nearly equal to a Herrscher. They performed human experiments not to cure Honkai sickness, but to satisfy their own hollow ambitions!
The result? The experiment failed. St. Fontaine was ruined. Bronya's brother, Little Jo, turned into a nameless monster. Seele died at the hands of that monster.
This made Tesla's eyes widen in shock. ["Ω2 is the Ghost of St. Fontaine?"]
Bronya hated the researchers and the gargantuan entity manipulating them—the Schicksal Church. Thus, her revenge would not end here. Amidst the shocked gazes of the group, Bronya slowly reached out and stroked Joachim's cheek.
["you will protect me, right... Joffrey?"]
Joachim's response shocked everyone even more. ["Correct, Bronya... Sister."]
This sudden development left the audience dumbfounded. What is going on? Why did Bronya call 'Mr. Welt' Joffrey? isn't that Little Jo's name? Why did Welt call Bronya 'Sister'?
Almost the instant he spoke, Doyle understood... The "Joffrey" Bronya referred to wasn't the timid child always following Dr. Einstein. It was the Ω2 from five years ago, the sibling of Bronya and Seele, the one who should have become the Ghost of St. Fontaine.
"Eh? Joachim is Joffrey?" "Wait? Then who is the Ghost of St. Fontaine?" "No, no, then who is the 'Little Jo' following Einstein??"
Elysia felt her brain was failing her. Who is who? Several Little Jos suddenly popped out—which one is real and which is fake?
In the following plot, a sudden twist left Elysia even more bewildered. After studying the characteristics of the Ghost, Dr. Tesla successfully built a device to deal effective damage to it. The group used the device and defeated the monster together. But just as Irene was about to deliver the finishing blow—
["Teacher!"]
[A sharp cry rang out, mixed with a massive clanging of metal.]
[The girl was sent flying by Irene's scythe along with her raised shield-weapon.]
Seeing Bronya protect the "Ghost," a piece of intel provided by Fu Hua flashed through Doyle's mind. It was from when they first encountered the Ghost. When Joachim stood before the injured Bronya, the Ghost, which should have struck him down, suddenly stopped and retreated.
So that was it. When Bronya shouted "Teacher!", she wasn't calling to Joachim, but to this hideous monster. This [Ghost of St. Fontaine]was the real Joachim, the "teacher" and "father" to those orphans five years ago!
It turned out that back then, the real Joachim—Mr. Welt—used a "Soul Swap" ability to anchor Seele's soul to a rosemary plant. He then swapped his own soul with Little Jo, who had turned into a Honkai beast. Thus, the current "Joachim" in the body held Joffrey's soul. The Ghost of St. Fontaine contained the soul of Welt. And Seele was attached to the rosemary at the gate.
This rapid-fire revelation forced a roast out of Elysia. "This is just straight-up magic, isn't it? Soul-swapping? Joachim isn't Joachim, Seele turned into a plant... I started this with a materialist deduction! Cursed Su Mu, give me back my brain cells!!"
At this point, Elysia realized her starting point was wrong—this was a supernatural fantasy!
However, Doyle proposed that the Seele within the rosemary had completed the revenge for Bronya, killing Joyce, Gray Serpent, Jackal, and Raven. Bronya remained stubborn.
["Thank you for the detailed explanation, Doctor. However, Bronya does not believe the one hidden in the rosemary is her sister Seele."]
["If she were truly Seele, why would she hinder my plans while completing my revenge?"]
Seeing Bronya like this, Doyle sighed. ["Is that so? you truly don't understand?"]
["It is because she loves her sister and brother so dearly."]
["—while fulfilling the revenge they sought five years ago, she hoped someone would notice and stop them from continuing down this blood-stained path."]
Unable to accept the truth, Bronya tried to continue her revenge. she gripped the rosemary, her form overlapping with a red silhouette as she vented her rage. After the battle ended—
[It was over. Everything was over.]
[Her strength was spent. she could feel the violent power that controlled her fading away, finally vanishing.]
[The rosemary in her hand, which should never have wilted, had shriveled into an ugly black husk.]
["I see... is this your way of denying me... accompanying Bronya to vent her rage until she is exhausted..."]
["In the end... is this sorrow all that lies ahead of revenge...?"]
[The rain continued to fall. The girl looked up weakly, her eyes suddenly widening.]
[A silhouette, vivid to the point of cruelty. It was her friend, her sister, her family.]
[For years, she had viewed this figure only as an illusion, a ghost, a convenient tool for vengeance.]
[Because a ghost doesn't smile like Seele, doesn't speak like Seele, and doesn't provide a comforting warmth in the coldest moments.]
[So, you were always by my side. I was just blinded by hatred and chose not to see.]
[Yes, it was undoubtedly Seele. Because—]
[—Only Seele would shed tears of sorrow for her.]
For all those years, she had used any means necessary for revenge. Yet no matter how she fought, she couldn't change Seele's death. she had even ignored the Seele right beside her.
A single sentence from the real Joffrey finally shattered Bronya's inner defenses. ["I'm sorry, Sister Bronya. Rather than revenge, I actually... I wanted us three to be together!"]
Tears rolled down her cheeks. Since armoring her fragile heart with vengeance, this was the first time she showed her true emotions. In that moment, she hallucinated. she saw a refined man leading a girl in blue away into a dazzling white light. Sensing her gaze, the man turned back and waved with a smile of relief.
"Goodbye."
They bid her farewell and vanished into the light. When she woke from the trance, the withered flower in her hand had scattered with the wind. And the monster called the "Ghost" had disappeared at some point.
["Waaaah... AAAAAAAAGH!!!"]
"Sigh..." By now, Elysia had stopped caring if it was magic or fantasy. she could see that this was a tragedy from beginning to end. Bronya, Seele, Little Jo, and even Joachim were all victims of Schicksal's plans. Bronya thought she had found a warm home and family, only for everything to be destroyed by cruel experiments. Tragedy is showing you all things beautiful, then breaking them.
The viewers felt a wave of sorrow for Bronya, Seele, Joffrey, and Joachim. At the mention of the culprit—the Schicksal Church—the chat became indignant again.
[It really was Schicksal, it really was Otto!]
[Seriously, is there any evil deed Otto hasn't done? How does he get into every mess?]
[Lord Otto is probably speechless; why is he the only one getting 'sheared' every day?]
[Heh! If it's a disaster in the Honkai 3rd world, it's Otto's fault! our game has its own designated scapegoat!]
But to their surprise, a second twist appeared. Joyce wasn't dead; he was in Joffrey's body, which explained why he acted so calm and logical for a child. From the start, the soul in that body was Joyce. The soul that should have belonged to Ω2 didn't exist; the body was an empty shell. after Joyce was "killed," he woke up in that body. Joyce did not punish Bronya and Joffrey, feeling they had already suffered enough.
However, Doyle still couldn't figure out where the soul-swapping ability came from. The source was explained in the next fragment: when the Catastrophe happened, the real Joachim (Welt) was granted this power by a mysterious woman. after the swap, Joffrey—now in Welt's body—ran toward the ruins of the church as if remembering something. All of this was watched by a witch. she held a small flower emitting a faint blue light. The light flickered with the rain, as if speaking the language of rosemary.
The mysterious woman's identity was now obvious. Shortly after the events of St. Fontaine concluded, Irene Adler visited Doyle again. From their dialogue, the aftermath was revealed: Walter Joyce announced that the members of Lab 42 were seceding from Schicksal and, with the help of North American branch high-levels, forming a new anti-Honkai organization: [Anti-Entropy]. In a way, this was "world-line convergence"; Anti-Entropy was destined to become Schicksal's rival.
Just as the audience thought it was over, Irene's next words brought the third twist.
["The Gray Serpent we saw was not Gray Serpent, the Ghost was not the Ghost, Joachim was not Joachim, and even Joffrey was not the real Joffrey."]
["If so, Irene Adler may not be Irene Adler, and Conan Doyle may not be Conan Doyle."]
["Who I am is not important. What matters is... you."]
[you are not without a clue to the answer, but a massive dissonance chokes your throat, preventing words.]
[Those people and events in your head are true memories, yet they carry the alienation of looking at old photos in an empty room.]
[Then, in the next heartbeat—]
[Irene Adler's silhouette merges with the blood moon behind her.]
[your consciousness sinks into darkness.]
When the "I" played by the players woke up, two familiar voices were heard. One was Irene Adler, and the other was Kongming.
["I have successfully helped him find himself; waking up is only a matter of time. However... his consciousness mapping is too frequent; too many things that don't belong to him have mixed into his personality. If this continues, one day..."]
["I know, and he knows... but this is what he chose to do. On the other hand, you. to be able to infiltrate the Hyperion silently and know his condition so well. you are different from me and the others on this ship. I can feel it. If anything, your existence is closer to his than ours."]
["I said from the start, my name is Rita. Rita Rossweisse. Though I may not be the same individual as the one in your memories. However, if you wish to act spoiled with me, I do not mind."]
"Eh??" Elysia's eyes went wide. she was completely stunned. The first and second twists had her brainstorming, but this third twist left her jaw on the floor. "Kongming? So that means the real identity of 'Conan Doyle' is the Captain??"
[WTF? There's more?]
[Wait, why is there another twist! So the great detective was the Captain all along??]
[And even Kongming is there, meaning the Captain is back on the Hyperion?]
[This Rita is clearly not the one from the Kingdoms events, so she's a Rita from another parallel world? And from her talk with Kongming, she seems to have known the Captain even longer than her...]
[So Kongming wasn't the first one?]
[Kongming was always after Luna anyway.]
[Did Luna get on the ship? Did Luna get on the ship? only Kongming counts!]
The audience was as shocked as Elysia. no one expected this plot to be another part of "The Captain's Bizarre Adventure." The reason the Captain lost himself in the "consciousness mapping" was that he completely synchronized with the subject's personality and memories; such a massive data burden couldn't be cleared without residue. The more residue, the weaker his self-perception became. It was Rita who entered his dream as "Irene Adler" and rescued him.
After recovering, the Captain headed to the bridge where someone was waiting for him in a huff. after he left, Rita let out a long sigh.
["Ha... despite a reunion after so long, he showed no sign of recognizing me..."]
["He was always like that—keen on everything else, yet speechless-ly dense regarding himself."]
["If I met him in those clothes, would he remember me?"]
["What do you think, Loki?"]
she looked at the small lantern on her fingertip, and her clothes transformed into a beautiful long dress. With Rita's monologue, the character event concluded.
Her final words left people confused. However, Honkai 3rd players never lacked investigators. Someone quickly pointed out that on March 1st, the game had a birthday event for Rita. The outfit Rita wore in that event was the exact one seen at the end of this story. Furthermore, the scene of "Rita under a blood moon" had appeared in Midsummer Night, where she also guided the Captain's consciousness mapping.
Thus, many players speculated: these Ritas might all be the same person!
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