MGSFV?! Chapter 551: Senti Who Parted Ways with the Old Fossil; Making Honkai Impact 3rd Just to Be Happy Together
Alright.
Almost forgot this trick.
Watching Kevin morph into his Archfiend form…
[Transformation's fine, but what's with the invincibility frames?]
[Hot take: a transformation without i-frames has no soul.]
[This isn't just invincibility—Senti got blasted.]
[So… was that the end of the fight? Kinda fast, huh?]
They didn't expect Senti to actually beat Kevin, but the tension was there—and ending it in under three moves felt like a sudden cut-off.
So… surely it wasn't over yet?
They turned their attention back to the game, hoping to see what came next.
But the screen briefly cut away—from Senti's domain to a distant location where dreams could no longer reach.
Off-screen:
Theresa was talking with Seele and Rita…
About that daring, crucial plan discussed by Schicksal and Anti-Entropy.
To sever Kevin's shadow with the sacred sword and obtain a piece of the Power of Finality.
And the key to this plan: the Herrscher of Sentience, as well as Durandal, Theresa, Fu Hua…
Might as well name everyone.
In short, everyone was essential—but Senti was the first domino. She had to exhaust enough of Kevin's stamina to give the others an opening.
Which meant: getting punched… by fighting Kevin.
[Let's thank the great Herrscher of Sentience.]
[Senti's sacrificing so much for this plan. tears up]
[Show us your resilience, Senti!!]
No one in the livestream chat typed the words "bait and beatdown," yet everyone was clearly thinking the same thing.
That's the weird thing about the Honkai community.
It's an unspoken code.
Otherwise…
How would you explain the endless "train emojis," "乆乆乆乆乆," or "Chapter 25 comeback" spams?
Did they plan this in advance?
Of course not.
They all just knew that they were here for one shared goal—
To move the smile from someone else's face to their own.
Ah? You came for that?
Oh? You too?
Got it. Understood.
Hahahahaha.
Naturally, everyone knew what kind of mood called for what kind of barrage.
To outsiders, it felt like "community culture."
...
Back to the main story.
After a brief off-screen explanation of the plan, the view returned to Senti and Kevin.
Let's resume Senti's anti-beatdown mission... or maybe her fair-and-square showdown.
Senti wasn't one to give in.
Even if she'd been knocked down, she wasn't about to concede.
Yet for a fleeting instant, what she felt—
Could be called fear.
Which sounded reasonable, sure. She was just knocked down.
But for the Herrscher of Sentience?
That was anything but normal.
A Herrscher born to destroy. A predator by nature.
Feeling fear in battle? Ridiculous.
So… where did that fear come from?
"Could it be from Hua's memories…?"
"Hmm?"
"When did Kevin ever fight Hua?"
"..."
She glanced at the person next to her.
Had she really picked up on that?
Wow—color Beidou impressed.
He didn't say anything, just mentally noted to reevaluate her.
Elysia continued watching, thoughtful.
On screen, Senti was gasping, barely managing to prop herself up.
"Haa… haa~~hah!"
"You don't need to push yourself."
After knocking her down, Kevin didn't follow up.
"Hmph."
Recovering with heavy breaths, Senti stood again.
Lying on the ground while trash-talking was just too ugly. At the very least—
She had to trash-talk standing up!
"Don't get cocky."
Back straight. Aura unshaken.
"You think you can beat the Herrscher of Sentience… inside the realm of consciousness?"
Kevin: "..."
He paused, then calmly stated a fact.
"You know there's precedent."
"..."
Senti faltered.
Even if she hadn't seen Su defeat the Previous Era's Herrscher of Sentience in an inner realm—
There was something she had experienced.
A dozen chapters ago, when she was double-teamed by Kiana and Fu Hua…
Her confidence dipped for a moment.
But this was Senti we're talking about.
She quickly rallied.
"Fine—come on!"
The past me is not the present me.
Kevin, you really think—
"You're just a fusion warrior at your core… same class as the old fossil. You really think you can beat a Herrscher?"
Her confidence now stunned even the players.
At first, they thought Senti was here to mess around from a distance.
Then, they thought she had the home-field advantage in the mind realm—enough to delay Kevin.
Now…
They weren't sure anymore.
Did Senti actually think she could beat Kevin?
That seemed… unlikely?
But also, this was Senti.
Maybe it wasn't that unlikely.
Players were feeling increasingly conflicted.
But they seemed to miss the key word: "core."
Kevin was strong—but that was because he was Kevin.
Fusion warriors weren't usually that OP.
In fact, their base specs were way below Herrschers.
So while Kevin had transcended limits, the inherent limitation of a fusion base…
Didn't actually apply to him anymore.
...
"'Herrscher.'"
Kevin muttered the word.
His tone felt soaked in ancient memory.
But he wasn't one of those old teammates who kept score.
Still—his message was obvious.
He'd slain so many Herrschers, he'd lost count.
"I don't know what you've wagered to do this.
But go ahead. Show me everything you've got."
"..."
"Hold nothing back from the start. Let me judge your worth… Herrscher of Sentience."
At this point, Senti didn't hold back.
She summoned her weapons and lunged forward.
Players: ...Alright.
After a little breather, time to get into the second round…
Wait, what?
As they reached for the controls—
They realized this wasn't a cutscene, but it also wasn't player-controlled.
Senti was auto-fighting—fluidly summoning weapon after weapon and wailing on Kevin.
A grab from Taixu's Grasp.
A heavy hoe strike combo™ (foggy memory).
Kevin's HP chunked like crazy.
[Official tutorial: how to play Senti.]
[Brutal!]
[Senti might actually have a shot?!]
[You thought she was all talk, but actually…]
Kevin let Senti have her fun for a bit, then raised a hand.
The Power of Finality surged into ice, freezing Senti in place.
"To be continued."
[Turns out… she was all talk. (lol)]
But this time—players had spoken too soon.
The frozen Senti vanished in the next moment, leaving only a faintly glowing feather behind.
Kevin murmured in mild surprise.
"She should've still had energy…"
"羽渡尘… Feather Dust?"
So she ran?
That was the players' assumption.
Sounded like a good move.
Until—
"Wrong~!"
Huh?
Senti's voice.
"Wrong"? Did she still have something else up her sleeve?
The moment that thought formed—
"This is the real deal! A complete Herrscher power—!!"
The in-game camera yanked upward until Kevin was just a speck.
Behind the massive sword that had been looming in the background—
Senti reappeared, peeking out from above.
Then stretched out a hand—
And unleashed her iconic attack:
"Tai! Xu! Grasp~!!"
...
The world shrank in Senti's hand.
With a confident smirk, she used her power to lock down her entire mind-world.
Everything froze like amber.
Even Kevin was caught off guard and hit head-on by the collapsing memory-space.
And that blow…
Cracked the horn of his Archfiend form.
Back then, Kevin gave up dreaming in exchange for immunity to illusions—
Rendering Feather Dust ineffective.
But this? This was real.
Not a dream. Not an illusion.
[Let's gooooo!!]
[Senti OP!! Real damage!!]
[Kevin's first real injury—dealt by Senti.]
[That's the power of a 50/50 matchup?!]
But the crack alone wasn't enough to faze Kevin.
Instead, he analyzed her condition calmly.
"So you cut yourself off from her…"
He thought a moment, then said the name of someone from the current era.
"From Fu Hua?"
"Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to use this level of power."
[Wait—so even if Fu Hua can't use Senti's power, Senti's strength still depends on Fu Hua?]
"Tch."
Only when talking about her did Senti's tone soften significantly.
Like her voice dropped eight whole keys.
"Yeah, yeah—I'm the one who ditched the old fossil 'a bit.'
But it was her who broke the link.
If it weren't for that disciple of hers showing up to remind me, I wouldn't have known."
"Anyway—this power's legit, flawless. Who cares if I ascend or not?"
"...I see." Kevin nodded. "Someone must have retrieved the 8th Divine Key's core from Taixu Mountain, allowing you to reside within it. Or perhaps… your consciousness is that material."
[Wait—was that thing Senti secretly stashed when Li Sushang found her… the Feather Dust core?]
[So Senti's fully independent from Fu Hua now?]
[More like she moved out and got her own place (Feather Dust Core).]
[Controlling Feather Dust with her own will… doesn't that mean—]
"But no matter what…
Rather than calling you the full Herrscher of Sentience,
I'd say you're now a Divine Key with consciousness."
Kevin's view…
Matched the players'.
Or maybe he was just stating a fact that happened to align with their meme logic.
[Right?! Like the Divine Key awakened into a spirit.]
The players were amused—
But Senti?
Clearly not amused.
So she gave an indignant…
"TCH!!"
"You're the Divine Key!!"
That one crisp, righteous rejection—
Echoed from the game into everyone's ears.
You're the… YOU'RE the Divine Key!
[HAHAHA—Senti's delivery is gold.]
["Tch!" Iconic.]
[Instantly a classic Honkai 3rd moment.]
They were all cracking up.
...
[Wait—Senti's that mad. Does that mean she actually cares?]
[Well yeah. She's not even human (she's a Herrscher).
If she admits she's like a Divine Key… that means she's not even a person—she's a thing. Of course she hates it.]
[But if she denies it… then she's not a—]
[Stop. Stop. Don't finish that sentence.]
"Ahem."
Even in-game, Senti realized she'd overreacted.
She coughed, changed the subject.
"Anyway—whether or not I can beat you is one thing…
But I already told you: you can't beat me right now.
Do you believe it now?"
Kevin: "..."
"It's true.
In the past, your power relied on Fu Hua's state—and had a clear ceiling."
"But now—with the core intact—your conscious form can't be erased."
"And if your goal is to stall me, then that core must be somewhere I can't quickly destroy."
He looked up at the feathers swirling overhead.
Each one a potential vector for Senti's power.
To defeat her, every single one had to be destroyed.
A tough task.
Tough—for anyone else.
Not for Kevin.
He would now unleash a legendary attack.
Come to think of it…
Would this world understand that meme?
It never appeared in the main story or manga.
It came from a beta description of the Skyfire weapon:
"Skyfire unsheathed (SP cost: 22, cooldown: 24)—deals a NB attack to nearby enemies."
So even in a faithful recreation of Honkai Impact 3rd—
This iconic line might never show up.
Beidou: Don't worry.
He came prepared.
Because if Skyfire unsheathes…
And the chat doesn't say "I will unleash an NB attack"…
It just doesn't feel right.
He brought Honkai 3rd to this world—for one reason:
To feel joy, together with everyone.
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