Chapter 4 (volume 1)

Ryusuke was sitting with his legs crossed in a futon in a room that Yae Sakura gave him to rest.

*mental sigh*

'It seems that I am really within the space of stigma created inside the black cube that keeps Yae Sakura and 12 ° Herrscher sealed...'

'Judging by the little information I heard while Yae Sakura was taking me to her home, I must have appeared just before Yae Rin's murder, Yae Sakura's little sister.'

'But to think that I would be played at Sakura Samsara events... This was quite unexpected.'

Ryusuke thought a little helpless for coming to a somewhat problematic place when he just had a Herrscher stigma.

"If I want to leave this place that has a bunch of superstitious rednecks and a spiteful Herrscher then I will need the help of Yae Sakura." Ryusuke murmured as he thought of everything he remembers about her.

Yae Sakura is one of the playable characters in the Honkai Impact 3rd. And she is one of the girls, she has the saddest past between them.

Yae Sakura was born and raised in Vila Yae 500 years ago, she inherited the position of miko ( priestess ) and worked hard and helped Vila. At first it seemed like a happy story but then for an entire year it didn't rain and a very strong drought lasted in the region. Food was running out and water was becoming increasingly scarce.

Then one day the head of the Village proposed the sacrifice of Yae Rin for gods, and all the residents agreed to this.

Yae Sakura listened to it in secret and made the smartest decision she could make at that moment... She tried to escape with her little sister in secret far from the village. But unfortunately the head of the village was one step ahead of Yae Sakura.

Her father discovered what Yae Sakura planned and told the villagers to paralyze Rin before the royal ritual. When Sakura was called to deliver the final blow, she cut Rin's bonds and tried to run, only to realize that Rin couldn't use his legs anymore. Her father then grabbed Yae Sakura's hand and directed the blade through Rin. While Rin's last wishes for "being a good miko" will haunt Sakura for years.

In the end Yae Sakura was forced to wield the sacrifice blade.

A few seconds after Yae Rin died the rain started to fall. Villagers celebrated the return of rain and the end of drought.

While everyone else was celebrating the return of the rain, Yae Sakura was there with her knees and tears in her eyes as she watched her dead sister there in front of her.

At that time the seeds of hatred were planted in the girl's heart.

Because of his little sister's desire, Sakura continued his duty as a miko from the village, but he hardened with an empty expression over the years.

A few years later, Yae Sakura met a young foreign woman with white hair and blue eyes who was injured and unconscious by the river. This woman was dressed like a Western nun and was holding a black cube in her hands.

This woman's name is Kallen Kaslana, and she is the saint of Schicksal and also the strongest Valkyrie rank-S of that time.

Kallen Kaslana was injured like that because she deserted Schicksal and stole the black cube from there so that she wouldn't create terrible disasters because of Schicksal's high-ranking greed. She ended up fleeing Europe to the Far East ( Japan ) but her pursuers still did not give up capturing her and taking her back to Schicksal with the black cube. At some point Kallen Kaslana managed to lose her pursuers but ended up badly injured and passed out near the river.

Yae Sakura brought Kallen Kaslana to his residence and treated his injuries. For a few weeks the two lived together and met, eventually Yae Sakura's hardened heart softened and little by little her gray world was gaining a little color and light.

In those few weeks, the two also ended up developing romantic feelings for each other.

( Author's note: a Western nun and a Japanese miko ... who are in love... Their yuri level is more than 8000. )

But unfortunately everything that is good is short-lived. One day Yae Sakura accidentally touched the black cube and the Herrscher who was trapped inside felt the hatred that was inside Yae Sakura's heart, taking advantage of this breach in the heart of Yae Sakura, Herrscher owned the body of Yae Sakura and began to massacre all the villagers in the village.

Kallen ended up discovering what happened after the Massacre and realized that Yae Sakura was being owned by Herrscher.

A fierce battle between the two ended that ended with Kallen Kaslana sealing Yae Sakura inside the black cube with Herrscher.

Some time later the Kallen Kaslana pursuers found her in a weakened and wounded state, they had no difficulty taking her back to Schicksal. But no matter what they did, Kallen did not reveal the whereabouts of the black cube. She did this both for the good of ordinary people and for the good of her beloved miko.

But unfortunately Yae Sakura's story does not end there.

Herrscher did not give up trying to take Yae Sakura's body but Yae Sakura had shown a strong willpower against Herrscher. Because of this, Herrscher created this space of stigma based on the memories of Yae Sakura to repeat the same events that occurred with Yae Rin to show how ugly and cruel this world is to break Yae Sakura's willpower.

In the past five hundred years, this space of stigma has repeated the life of Yae Sakura countless times, from the death of her little sister to her encounter with Kallen Kaslana. Yae Sakura has stood firm without submitting to Herrscher in recent centuries.

'As far as I could understand about this space of stigma, if i use my Herrscher of Binding powers to the fullest I may be able to destroy the black cube seal and thus escape that place and return to the real world.'

'But unfortunately by doing this, Herrscher who is imprisoned in this place will also be able to escape and break free. And probably the first thing she will do is to plunge the world into a zombie Apocalypse... or maybe hack the world's military bases to launch all nuclear bombs in the cities of the world?'

The Herrscher who is trapped in this black cube is the twelfth Herrscher of the Previous Era, she is the only Herrscher of the previous era who survived until the present era. ( Excluding the fourteenth Herrscher whose whereabouts are unknown. )

She is the Herrscher of Corruption.

Its powers are ... in fact its true form is a self-conscious lethal virus.

52 thousand years ago, in the previous era...

After humanity obtained a victory suffered against the eleventh Herrscher ( the Herrscher of Binding ) which destroyed 70% of human civilization, only three cities remained in the world.

Using its advanced technology, Fire Moth, the main defense organization against the Honkai of humanity was able to immediately identify the identity of the twelfth Herrscher through the artificial super intelligence created by Dr. MEI, the most brilliant scientist of that time.

She was just an ordinary girl of twelve.

Although they detected Herrscher-level Honkai energy in the girl, she showed no Herrscher power. She was in human form and thought like a human, she showed no signs of hatred or malice.

Having resisted the destruction caused by the eleventh Herrscher before it appeared, humanity refused to give it any chance to remain alive.

Fearing the potential of her powers, the only choice was to keep her under surveillance in one of the base cells.

Dr. MEI asked them to identify the reasons behind the girl's Herrscher level powers, but those reasons remain unsolve.

( This is Doctor MEI )

The girl asked Dr. MEI to release her, as she wanted to return to her family. But the Doctor knew that Honkai's latent powers could not be released...

Especially when the nature of these powers remained a mystery.

The girl remained even more human even through her incarceration, it was quite obvious that it would make her feel scared and lonely.

And then, humanity did the worst thing they shouldn't have...

Dr. MEI gave strict orders not to hurt the girl in any way, but the fear ended up speaking loudly to humanity.

The soldiers disobeyed orders and murdered the girl.

"She's just a girl..."

"The other Herrschers destroyed 70% of human civilization..."

"This is crazy! She did nothing wrong..."

"Sacrifices must be made for the good of humanity..."

"We have no choice..."

"Rejoice Humanity, we kill another Herrscher..."

The murder implanted the seed of hatred in the girl's heart, the seed spread and ended up awakening the power of the twelfth Herrscher.

The Herrscher of Corruption, who was completely dormant until the moment of the girl's death, woke up.

The girl's body disintegrated in a black mist mixed with Honkai energy.

The fog first infected the girl's killers who celebrated in front of her cell, turning them into killer zombies that attack humans close to them...

The base quickly triggered the countermeasures, the last zombie was killed in the control room, 15 minutes after contamination. But that was just the beginning...

It took her 1 minute to master all the computers at the base. The true form of the twelfth Herrscher ended up revealing itself...

A sensitive and hyper-contagious mytic and viral entity capable of infecting humans, animals and any form of processor or logical system.

Herrscher also felt the girl's hatred, she was carrying the girl's desire for revenge.

The base had 300 nuclear bombs to use against a potential Herrscher attack, it fired all at once in the last 3 cities in the world. The three cities disappeared in a few seconds. Leaving nothing but huge craters.

The 31022 people at the base became the only survivors of the attack. Herrscher used the base systems to lock all exits from the base.

"Disgusting humans! You didn't let me out, so I'm not going to let you go anywhere."

"You will never escape this tomb of darkness that you have made for me!"

But Dr. MEI did not give up, she connected the core of her consciousness to the last uninfected system at the base.

Herrscher hooked the bait. The Doctor quickly disconnected the black cube and imprisoned Herrscher right there.

After that the last Herrscher swept what was left of the civilization of the ancient era. The Herrscher of Corruption remained trapped in the black cube from that time to the present day.

In the 15th century Schicksal found the black cube and tried to unlock its secrets just to get more power. Because of this a small fraction of Herrscher's power of Corruption was used and the result was the emergence of the black plague in Europe. And it was for this reason that Kallen Kaslana stole the cube and fled to the Far East.

"Seriously, humanity only knows how to do shit..." Ryusuke took a discouraged sigh as he remembered information related to his current situation. He was really unlucky to have reincarnated in a fucked up world like this.

'Unfortunately, time is also against me..."

Ryusuke understood a detail while feeling the energy around him. Even if he does not use his Herrscher of Binding powers, only with his presence will he gradually weaken the seal of the black cube.

'I'm running out of time. I don't know what Herrscher's current status is from Corruption, but it is possible that she tried very hard just to pull me here and because of that she may be in a weakened state...'

'Before she regains her strength and manages to escape, I need to get help from Yae Sakura, after all besides me she is the only other person who is not an NPC in this place.'

"But to get her confidence, I'm going to have to do a little acting when I'm going to save little Yae Rin. " Ryusuke said as he gets up from the futon.

'It is a penalty that I cannot kill these motherfuckers, because if I did that then Yae Sakura would certainly consider me an enemy.'

Ryusuke thought with a little dissatisfaction when he remembered Yae Sakura's attitudes towards this village.