Chapter 49: The Curtain Falls
["I can't feel anything... Am I... dead?"
Siegfried, who thought he was done for, opened his eyes to find himself resting his head on Cecilia's lap. Cecilia's tears dripped onto his face. Hearing her choked voice, he was stunned.
"I'm sorry, Siegfried... I lied to you. This time, I can't go back with you."
"You have to take good care of Kiana. Let her grow up healthy and strong."
"I hope that by the time she grows up, the Honkai will be over, and she can live a free life..."
"There are so many more things I want to say to you, but unfortunately, my time is short."
"I love you, Siegfried."
Watching the departing Cecilia, Siegfried reached out his hand, wanting to hold her back, but he didn't even have the strength to lift it. After telling Abyss Flower to protect Siegfried, Cecilia left to complete one last task.]
"Cecilia..." Hearing Cecilia's final confession in the story, Siegfried couldn't hold back any longer. He hugged Cecilia, and the strong man shed tears.
Bella, who could no longer stand Sirin slapping her thigh so hard, ran off, pulled out a few tissues, and handed them to Siegfried and Cecilia. She then pulled out a few more, ready to hand them to the about-to-cry Sirin.
[As Sirin fell endlessly through the darkness, at the end of her life, she murmured "Mama." As if the heavens had answered her call, Cecilia embraced her from behind. That gentle embrace smoothed her furrowed brow.
"Sirin, my poor child."
In a sea of white flowers, Cecilia gently comforted Sirin. In the light of the Honkai fission bomb, Sirin opened her eyes. At the end of their lives, the two of them disappeared into the light together.
"Ich liebe dich."]
"Mama!" Sirin had never expected that at the end of her life, Cecilia would be by her side, even though in the story, she was a Herrscher who wanted to destroy human civilization.
Sirin snuggled into Cecilia's embrace, trying to push Siegfried away.
"Yàqīng, this part of the story is too much..." Cecilia said, though her heart felt otherwise, as she wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes.
"It's finally over. I never thought this story would be written so well. It had tragedy and tenderness, action and touching moments," Sakura said, wiping away her tears. Her impression of Yàqīng was still stuck on "The Saintess's Redemption."
"By the way, writing something so tragic, aren't you afraid of people sending you death threats in private?" Kevin asked, puzzled.
"I have my ways," Yàqīng said with a confident smile.
Kevin scratched his head. "What does that mean?"
"Silly." MEI tapped Kevin on the head. "Yàqīng means he has a way to deal with the death threats you mentioned. I think it's highly likely he'll use a pseudonym."
"Will he..."
[Amber's narration appeared again: "The Second Herrscher's Honkai energy once spread beyond the Siberian plains. More than a hundred thousand civilians were exposed to Honkai radiation. They could only wait helplessly for death to arrive. But a single blood-red petal descending from the sky saved them. For those who came into contact with the petal, the Honkai energy in their bodies disappeared. In the end, the death toll was less than three thousand people."
The Second Great Eruption had come to a close.]
"The movie is finally ending," Sakura said. "This is the first time I've seen a three-and-a-half-hour movie. It's so long."
"But it was really good," Rin said.
"By the way, today is the movie's premiere. As the director and screenwriter, are you sure it's okay for you not to be at the ceremony?" Sakura asked Yàqīng.
"It's fine. They can go without me. I don't want to deal with those reporters," Yàqīng said. He could already imagine their questions, like about that "Saintess's Redemption" show. He really regretted taking the fall for Otto back then.
"Mobius, after the movie, do you want to go shopping with me?" Elysia asked, deliberately avoiding looking at Yàqīng.
"No. It's a complete waste of time. I'd rather go back and do some experiments," Mobius said, not looking at Elysia.
[After the curtain fell on the Second Great Eruption, by Theresa's bedside, Otto was peeling an apple with his eyes closed, listening to Amber's report. The report exaggerated Schicksal's role. Hearing that it was Cecilia who had requested the launch of the Honkai fission bomb, Theresa couldn't hold it in any longer.
"That's enough. Grandpa, is what Amber said true?"
Faced with Theresa's questioning, Otto calmly stated that people will only believe the truth they want to believe. He used Fenghuang Down to hypnotize Theresa, making her believe this version of the truth.
Meanwhile, Siegfried, who had returned the Herrscher core to Anti-Entropy, learned from Einstein that Welt's consciousness had not disappeared but was residing within the Herrscher core.
At the same time, Einstein invited Siegfried to join Anti-Entropy, but he refused, because his daughter was still waiting for him at Schicksal.
At this time, wary of Siegfried's power, Otto extracted Kiana's DNA. But no matter how he studied it, he couldn't find the source of that power.
Just then, Amber reported to Otto that they had recovered the Second Herrscher's body and the four Herrscher cores. However, Fu Hua had already left Schicksal HQ.
Otto wasn't worried at all, because he knew...
"...she has nowhere else to go."
The movie's credits began to roll.]
"It's over!" Elysia stretched, showing off her ample figure.
"Hua has it so rough. To think she's homeless in the story now," Pardofelis said, looking at Fu Hua's retreating back as she walked into the darkness.
"Welt is still alive?" Su's eyes widened.
"Don't be so quick. It's not over yet."
Yàqīng suddenly spoke up, which made Kalpas, who had already reached the theater door, come back and sit down.
[After the credits, there was a post-credits scene. In the darkness, there was only the sound of leather shoes on the floor. Otto came to a culture tank and looked at the young girl inside. He was conducting a crazy experiment, an experiment to resurrect the Second Herrscher. The previous 422 test subjects had all failed.
"Or is it that you, Second Herrscher, are unwilling to wake up?"
The test subject's mind recalled the false illusion.
When the 423rd test subject opened her eyes, Otto knew his experiment had succeeded.
"I want to hear your voice one more time."
"Ich liebe dich."]
"That damn bastard! How dare he use Kiana's DNA for experiments!" Kevin felt a fondness for the little Kiana in the story, so when he saw Otto using her DNA for experiments, he was instantly furious.
At the same time, Siegfried nearly crushed the armrest of the sofa.
Otto suddenly had a bad feeling. He feared that after this movie, none of the Schicksal staff would look at him kindly anymore. But he didn't care. What he wanted to see more was what he would do for the Saintess later in the story.
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