Weird Honkai Impact: Chasing Husband Crematorium

Volume 1: Funeral

Chapter 1: Love Spreads Across the World

"I love you... I love you... I love you..."

"I love you... I love you... I love you..."

"I love you... I love you... I love you..."

(TL: Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru)

There was only half a figure in the huge St. Freya Academy. The figure was missing a head, and the body was constantly twisting and deforming, spreading everywhere, trying to find the missing part.

"It's a bit cold."

"Is there no one in this world?"

Riku couldn't help but tighten his clothes. The entire Saint Freya was empty and silent.

Only the title pages floated to the ground. Riku looked up but did not find any drones or other machines in the sky that could have thrown the title pages.

This is unreasonable. Countless title pages seemed to appear out of thin air and fall to the ground on their own.

Just like snow.

Riku picked up a title page curiously, which was densely covered with "I love you... I love you... I love you..."

The red handwriting was very bright and seemed to still be flowing. It felt warm in his hand, as if it had been written recently with some warm liquid.

The layout was not neat—messy, sloppy, and disorganized.

Riku frowned slightly. "It seems that this world is more dangerous than I thought."

"There's still a strange smell on the paper..."

"It's blood."

After taking a closer sniff, Riku finally determined what the liquid on top was.

"Every one of them?"

As a veteran traveler who had Transmigrate seven times into different worlds, Riku was extremely cautious and would not miss any incomprehensible details.

The worlds he traveled through would often be invaded by weird phenomena for various reasons, and these weird occurrences would change the worlds beyond recognition.

For example, Pardofelis of Can turn all the Flame Chasers into cat dolls, retaining only their heads and consciousness.

Or perhaps the Herrscher of Domination spread across the world, and in the end, everyone except Riku himself turned into puppets.

Once these weird phenomena were not contained, they would invade other worlds and eventually spread to Riku's hometown.

This was something Riku could not tolerate.

"Huh..." Riku came back to his senses and picked up several cover pages repeatedly. The contents on them were exactly the same as the first one. There was no doubt that the source of these strange phenomena that could not be explained by science was caused by an unknown entity.

Although he didn't know what it meant, Riku still wrote it down.

At the same time, he once again confirmed that his understanding was correct.

Weird phenomena cannot be killed.

Once death is determined, it will restart immediately.

Tireless and invincible.

There are many forms of existence—it could be a person, an object, a law of death that will kill you if you touch it, or an incomprehensible supernatural phenomenon.

"Remember this bloody cover page phenomenon. It should be useful later."

"What I need to do now is to use the characteristics of my death and restart to try to get more information."

Riku analyzed the situation very calmly. It was not the first time he had to deal with these strange newcomers. If he could not maintain rationality and calm judgment, he would die over and over again.

But restarting is not without cost. Every time Riku restarted, he lost a piece of the concept of "human."

"Do I want to use a notebook to predict the future?" Riku took out a strange notebook but hesitated to use it.

(TL: Where did he get it? well...DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT~)

This notebook was certainly useful, but Riku's intuition told him that the more useful something was, the greater the price he had to pay for it. It was just that he wasn't sure what price he had to pay yet.

Riku raised his head and looked at the school behind the fountain in the center of Saint Freya. According to the normal development of the world line, the three major Heroes should still be attending school together at this time. He needed to confirm this news.

"I'm going to enter Saint Freya Academy where Kiana goes to school."

Riku said seriously, his eyes fixed intently on the notebook that had opened by itself.

Gradually, several lines of text appeared on the yellowed pages.

[My name is Riku. When you see this sentence, I am dying and about to be restarted.]

[I am now in the period after the third Honkai outbreak in Nagazora City, one month after Mei Raiden was taken to Saint Freya Academy. Kiana Kaslana, Bronya Zaychik, Mei Raiden, and others should have enjoyed a short period of peace at the academy during this time.]

[However, not a single student appeared outside Saint Freya's perimeter. Instead, it was filled with blood-stained cover pages.]

[So I took out the notebook I got after my first death, hoping to find a breakthrough from it.]

[It is now 5:35 pm. I walk straight to the school door and open it.]

[At 5:45, I died.]

"???" Riku was stunned and froze for two seconds.

Theoretically speaking, the danger on the first day shouldn't have been so great. As time went on, the weirdness would become more and more obvious, and reality would grow increasingly distorted.

'If I followed my thoughts just now, wouldn't I only live for ten minutes on the first day?'

"I can't rule out the possibility that the notebook is deceiving me, but... after using it so many times, it has indeed never told a lie. If I assume that the content displayed on the notebook must be true, then this weird phenomenon is a bit difficult to solve."

"I need to know the cause of death."

[...]

The laptop is not responding.

Riku closed his notebook and sighed.

The notebook sometimes didn't answer his questions, especially about the cause of death.

It's as if he's hoping to die a few more times.

"If this weirdness is just a pattern of death, it's not difficult to solve. I just need to know how I died. I can avoid death by not triggering this pattern after restarting."

Riku said slowly. With the determination to die, he walked towards the school in the center of the school.

At this moment, a brand new title page with a strong smell of blood fell on Riku's face. Riku grabbed it without even looking at it and threw it on the ground.

A gentle breeze blew, and the title page turned over.

All the above content is subject to change.

"I love you, please eat me. - Kiana Kaslana"

The title page was bent and deformed, and a thin piece of paper was stiffly squeezed into a smile that resembled a human face, cold and mechanical.

Riku looked at the watch on his wrist. Just as the notebook predicted, he arrived at the door at exactly five forty-five.

However, Riku did not rush to open the door. Instead, he waited patiently for time to pass and observed the door during this time.

"There's nothing wrong with the door, the thermometer didn't drop the temperature, and there's no spiritual aura coming from the door, so why did I die after I opened it?"

(TL: Where does the Thermometer come from?.... DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT~)

At this time, Riku looked at the thermometer in his hand and fell into deep thought. If there were any supernatural phenomena, the thermometer could alert Riku. After all, the normal summer temperature dropped from more than 30 degrees to two or three degrees. It was impossible to say that there were no ghosts.

The watch now showed five fifty, five minutes later than the notebook had predicted.

"It's five fifty now, but I'm not dead yet, which means I haven't triggered the death law by walking from the college gate to the school gate."

"It's not like I will die at 5:45, so the cause of death must be that I opened this door, or there is something related to this door... But the thermometer shows that there is nothing wrong with this door."

"Huh... maybe there is something wrong with my perception. I can't correctly judge the temperature around the thermometer."

Riku analyzed the reasons. There have been examples of cognitive errors before, so he must be fully prepared.

"Use this to open the door. If it breaks, there must be something wrong with the door."

Riku used brute force to break off a thicker branch, held it against the door with both hands and then pushed hard.

"Squeak…"

A creepy sound was heard.

The door opened and the branch did not break.

Riku's heartbeat quickened. This might be the second before death. He had to be extremely alert and observe carefully.

It can't be a waste of life.

Just when Riku was concentrating, the school radio suddenly sounded.

"Student, come in quickly! You'll die if you stay outside!"

Riku stood there, looking at the source of the sound, and pondered for a few seconds in the dark radio.

"Hurry up! If you don't come in, everyone will die when those things come in! Those things can't get in!"

After hearing the broadcast, Riku decided to go in and find out what was going on.

After all, the temperature on the thermometer had begun to drop sharply, from the original 32 degrees to 11 degrees in an instant, and was still dropping at a very fast rate.

When it reaches zero degrees, maybe something scary will appear.

Notebooks don't lie.

'I opened the door with the branch, I didn't die and the branch didn't break.'

Add a thermometer to test the door before adding it. All these factors combined can determine that there is no problem with the door.

So the problem is the sound coming from the radio, or... the act of entering the door.

After all, the thermometer began to drop sharply after the sound was heard, which means that the weirdness was attracted by the broadcast.

If you feel the cold yourself, there is probably nothing wrong with your cognition.

"Don't hesitate any longer. Go straight to the broadcasting room and you'll find out the answer."

Riku took quick steps, but when he stepped into the school, the tree branches broke and the scene in his vision rotated.

The sky became the ground and the ground became the sky.

What happened... the perspective changed.

'And... I feel a little sleepy and tired... I shouldn't feel tired so quickly...'

'My thinking slows down...'

Riku's thinking speed became slow, and he didn't know why until he saw his body.

There was no head on the neck, only blood gushing out.

With a "thump", the body fell to the cold ground.

'Oh no, I can't open my eyes, my vision is blurry.'

Riku was speechless as his vision went completely dark for a few seconds before his life signs disappeared.

Riku saw Kiana.

Yes.

It's Kiana Kaslana all over.

Her complexion was extremely pale as if she had been dead for several days.

The eyes that used to be bright blue were now dark and empty.

Wearing a clean white dress.

A sick smile appeared on her face.

Kiana's cold eyes met Riku's head, then she squatted down, hugged Riku's head in her arms, and opened her mouth...

After that, Riku could not see.

Riku's brain was about to die. Vision is the most luxurious sense of the human body because the process of producing vision requires the most energy. When the brain gradually stops functioning, vision is the first perception to be abandoned by the brain.

The second is the sense of touch. Riku could no longer feel anything, but he could still smell a strong smell of blood, so strong that he could clearly distinguish it from two meters away.

Then there is smell and taste.

The last thing to disappear is hearing.

But before his hearing completely disappeared, Riku heard——

The crisp sound of bones breaking.

The sound of drinking water.

The sound of flesh being torn.

And faint sobbing and chewing sounds...

(TL: Why do I feel like I'm playing a horror game than reading fanfic? it's just me?)

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