HonkaiImpact3rdPart2 Stories-EngDub Ch2-Ph2-Pt1 Souls Abode
This #couple of #sisters, one keeping the other's #notes, and the latter #naming her #descendants after the former.
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00:00Look, that girl over there is being surrounded by monsters.
00:18Let's go help!
00:30Ah...
00:32Angel Mei Yue, from the clothing store on Amber Street. What are you doing here?
00:39Ah, it's you, Master Song Que.
00:44The girl looked at Song Que, hesitated for a moment, then lowered her head, saying nothing.
00:50Some things have been happening in Langqiu lately, so it's better to stay in Amber Street for safety.
00:58I, um...
01:00I'm Mei Yue, the designer for the tailor shop.
01:04Lately, we've been adjusting our clothing style, and I've hit a creative bottleneck.
01:09An elder in my family told me of a talented ancestor who used to travel around Langqiu for ideas,
01:15so I thought I'd check out her old house for some inspiration myself.
01:23Even though my family often warns me that it's risky outside Amber Street,
01:28I figured I'd only be gone briefly, so nothing bad should happen.
01:35Little did I know, when I came out, I see all this.
01:39The more anxious I became, the more lost I was.
01:42I got scared, and those monsters started chasing me.
01:47Ten faces of misery. Master Song Que, have I made a really big mistake?
01:54More than that, you've got bigger problems now.
01:59Uh...
02:01But don't worry, I happen to know someone who can handle this.
02:08She must be talking about Saga Bomb.
02:13I'll take you to her, and she'll sort things out in no time.
02:18But...
02:20I have one more favor to ask.
02:22Can I go visit where my ancestor used to gather inspiration?
02:27It's not far from here, and I promise I'll be quick.
02:38There's another girl up ahead.
02:41Doesn't seem like she's an Amber Street local.
02:44That's weird. Let's go find out.
02:53Hi, may I ask...
02:58A new face. You're not from Amber Street, are you?
03:02What brings you here?
03:04I'm A-Mei.
03:07A-Mei? What a coincidence.
03:10My name has a Mei, too. No wonder you seem familiar to me.
03:17Come to think of it, we do look somewhat alike.
03:22And your name is...
03:26I'm Mei Yue, designer for the tailor shop, the clothing store on Amber Street.
03:34The quiet girl nodded slightly.
03:39Are you heading up ahead?
03:45Yep, we're going with Mei Yue to gather some inspiration.
03:51There are quite a few shadow monsters around here, so be careful and don't stick around too long.
04:00I'll go with you.
04:04Were you heading to the same place?
04:08Yes.
04:11May I?
04:14Of course it's fine. Actually, it's better this way. We can protect you if we run into those monsters.
04:24Alright then, let's get moving.
04:36It seems you haven't realized yet.
04:40Realize what?
04:44Nothing. You'll see soon enough.
04:49As she said those words, the girl walked ahead.
04:56I get it now. No wonder she seemed like a stranger, yet oddly familiar.
05:02It's been a long time, so I almost forgot that this is how she usually looks.
05:08What are you muttering about, Song Que?
05:13Sorry, that's a secret for now.
05:18Come on, can you please quit it with the riddles? You're driving me crazy.
05:24I'm not doing it to tease you or anything, it's just the right time's not come yet.
05:31Don't worry, I promise she's not a bad villain.
05:35Just follow her, and you'll see what I'm getting at.
05:56This is it, where my ancestors used to search for inspirations at.
06:02It's pretty much like everyone else, with only marks left by the 10 feet of the mystery and the gloomy sky.
06:14After all these years and shadow intrusions, things might have changed compared to back then.
06:24Perhaps.
06:27Or maybe this place was always like this, just romanticized over time.
06:35I'm just finding it hard to believe the things that supposedly witnessed my ancestors' separation turned out to be so ordinary.
06:45It's ancient history now, and many in Embers already know about it.
06:49You've helped me a lot, so it's only fair to tell you.
06:54My family's been in the fabrics business for generations, though not large, it was well known in Langqiu.
07:10Back in my great-grandmother's time, there were twins, Hongmei and Bitao.
07:23Grandmother Bitao, a talented seamstress, drew inspiration from Langqiu's scenery.
07:29She pledged to travel the region, infusing its beauty into her designs and pioneering new clothing styles.
07:40Grandmother Hongmei supported her fully, taking over the shop so Grandmother Bitao could focus on her craft.
07:48It started as a beautiful story, but when Grandmother Bitao was ready to embark on her journey, a tragedy struck.
07:56Their father passed away in turmoil on Ember Street.
08:03The Ember Street Great Panic
08:06The incident caused significant damage to many industries in Langqiu, including our family's shop, and the two grandmothers went their separate ways.
08:26But that's all ancient history I've heard from my family elders.
08:30None of my recent ancestors were into sewing. I'm the only one who wants to pick up the old skills again.
08:44I heard Grandmother Bitao used to love this place, so I thought I'd check it out, but it seemed like I dragged you all along for nothing.
08:54Song Que smirked and turned to the girl named Amei.
08:58Okay, Miss Song Que, here indeed holds the notes of Bitao.
09:06With my current condition, I can't see through the illusion on it, though.
09:12Illusion?
09:14It's something I asked Miss Lantern to cast. Miss Song Que, could you please help me?
09:24I didn't expect Lantern's antiques to come in handy. Let's give it a try this time.
09:39What's this?
09:42These cuts and designs...
09:45Ah, so it can be done this way.
09:48These are early sketches by Bitao. Will they be of any help to you?
09:56Yes, they'll be a big help. Grandmother Bitao was truly a genius.
10:01These are the legendary designs I've been searching for. I've never expected to get them so easily.
10:09Amei, who are you exactly?
10:14I'm just someone who happened to know about this.
10:19Hongmei said if these sketches help you, Bitao will surely be happy.
10:29I see.
10:32I know you're not an ordinary person, but since you won't say anything, I won't pry.
10:40I'll make good use of these sketches.
10:44Great. All's well that ends well.
10:47Now that your wish has come true, it's not safe around here. Let us take you back to Amber Street.
10:54Yes, please, Master Song Que.
10:57She looked at Song Que, hesitated for a moment, and then bowed.
11:02Master Song Que, I'm truly sorry. Due to rumors spreading around Amber Street, it seemed that I've misunderstood you.
11:11When I get back, I'll do my best to battle those rumors.
11:15No problem at all. A little bad name is nothing. After all these years, I've grown used to it.
11:24If you want to repay me, all you have to do is taking good care of your business.
11:33Misena and Entropy don't recognize me.
11:37Bees come together to form a hive. Grains of sand come together to form the earth.
11:42And knowledge coming together brings us closer to happiness, closer to truth, and closer to love.
11:49Wait, you're...
11:52Yes, Misena.
11:54It's me, Sarah Palm.
11:57Sarah, how did you end up looking like this?
12:01No need to be surprised, Misena. I'm just temporarily borrowing Hongmei's body.
12:08Borrowing?
12:10Wait, so you mean you can control other people's bodies?
12:14More accurately, it's the body of those who are willing to trust me.
12:21We share everything, whether it's thoughts, emotions, bodies, or memories.
12:26From the moment they were willing to connect their inner worlds with mine, I gained the power to control their bodies, too.
12:33I see now. The people you've unified with, their spirits remain in the haven of love while their bodies can be controlled by you.
12:44So when you called yourself Amei just now, does that mean...
12:49Your current body belongs to that grandmother Hongmei that Meiyue mentioned?
12:57That's right, Entropy.
13:00The reason I came here is also because of Hongmei's request.
13:05Just like Meiyue said, Hongmei and Bitao were once very close sisters, and they were also early members of the Mutual Aid Society.
13:14What?
13:16After the accident, Bitao chose to leave home to further refine her skills and uphold the family's craft.
13:25Everyone in the Mutual Aid Society was happy for her, as it had always been her dream.
13:33But Hongmei was furious. She felt betrayed.
13:37That's when it hit me. It's easy to help one person, but helping everyone at once is a different story.
13:48They completely fell out, Bitao never returned home again, and considering Meiyue's story, it seemed that her skills were also not passed down to her descendants.
14:00Wait a moment, does that mean that Meiyue is Bitao's great-granddaughter, not Hongmei's?
14:08Yes, shortly after the real Mutual Aid Society began, Hongmei's fabric shop was completely destroyed.
14:17After that, she found me and decided to join the association, but Bitao's whereabouts have always been a mystery.
14:25Not long after that, we all fell into a deep sleep. What happened after that, I'm not sure.
14:32It's a shame, those who aimed to pass on their family legacy ended up losing it, while those who wanted to pass on their craft had no one to carry it forward.
14:43Besides turning closest allies into enemies, they've gained nothing.
14:54In that case, why have you appeared here in Hongmei's body?
15:02I want to make amends for what happened back then.
15:08Without my encouragement, Bitao might not have been so quick to make up her mind, and both of them wouldn't have had the falling out.
15:18The haven of love is where souls unite. Hongmei no longer feels anger or sadness about the past, but deep down, I can sense that she actually never truly hated Bitao.
15:32Unfortunately, Bitao can't perceive her feelings anymore.
15:37Yeah, over a hundred years, even the residents of Ember Street have changed multiple generations. If only I gained the power of union earlier.
15:49If only Hongmei and Bitao understood each other sooner, they wouldn't have fallen out and showed such regrets.
16:02I don't think that's the way things are.
16:07Since Bitao was always on the move, did the notes you gave Neiyue belong to Hongmei?
16:15Yes, at the Mutual Aid Society ceremony, she entrusted me with those notes.
16:22Even if she may have forgotten about them now, I felt it was right to return them to their rightful owner.
16:29So those notes were very important to Hongmei, right?
16:38Yes, many people, before joining the haven of love, entrusted me with the things they find hardest to part with.
16:47Then I was right. Now, if we link this with Meiyue's name...
16:53Yes, this couple of sisters, one keeping the other's notes and the latter naming her descendants after the former.
17:04Their relationship might not have been as strained as others or even as themselves imagined.
17:17But if that's the case, why did they argue?
17:20Perhaps it's because they understood each other too well.
17:26Huh?
17:28Miss Song Que, I don't get it. Isn't understanding each other a good thing?
17:34It is, but mere understanding isn't enough.
17:39In life, simply put, everyone has their own path to follow and everyone's path is theirs alone.
17:46I'm guessing that, exactly because they understood each other from the start, knew the path they had to take, and realized those paths wouldn't change, they felt somewhat bitter over it.
18:00Since they understood each other from the beginning, does that mean even if they were united with me, it wouldn't change anything?
18:10Well, that's hard to say.
18:14Your power of union is a great ability that can potentially change the trajectory of others' lives.
18:21After being united with you, their path might indeed change.
18:26So what will happen in the end? I think no one can answer that anymore.
18:31But, I still believe that even in the best of the spiritual world, there are some who would choose to step out, regardless of the outcome.
18:41Just like you, who is standing here right now.
18:46You don't understand, do you?
18:50Um...
18:52That's normal. You're still young, considering the time you've been awake.
18:56Besides, even I haven't figured out the matter entirely yet.
19:02A hundred years is not short, but not exactly long either.
19:19There's a huge mansion floating in the sky. I can see it from here.
19:23That's the masquerade corridor where Selima and the Tree of Pleasure is slumbering.
19:29But how come it's floating?
19:33It doesn't matter. I've seen stranger things before.
19:37Based on our previous experience, we need to be more careful.
19:41True, although Song Que, out of Sahapalm's gentle nature, led us to make contact with Sahapalm first,
19:47we didn't expect the Tree of Union to trap us without any subjective hostility.
19:55I made a mistake, but accidents do happen. At least, things didn't turn out too bad, did they?
20:03As for Selima we're looking for this time, aside from her temper, I think you're already familiar with her abilities.
20:12If you're referring to the replicated events on Ember Street, I think we can only grasp about half of the situation at best.
20:21Selima comes from nobility and has power to control others.
20:25She makes them submit to her by sensing their fear. That's pretty much all we know right now.
20:31Oh yeah, and Song Que once submitted to her too.
20:35That's a past I'd rather not recall.
20:39I'm sure we have enough intel to awaken the Tree of Pleasure. We'd better hurry.
20:46You wouldn't want to be noticed by Lector.
20:57Wait.
20:59What is it?
21:00What is it?
21:02There might be enemies ahead.
21:04But the Ninggui is in charge of surveillance and he hasn't alerted us, but he suddenly took his place as if ready to bolt.
21:14That's why I said there might be enemies up ahead.
21:17Alright, you made your point.
21:20I mean, I only have this much strength left anyway. As for the level of danger up ahead, well, see for yourselves.
21:35Is that a lantern?
21:50Hmm.
22:03Although it was only for a moment, this creature's demise was imprinted in everyone's eyes.
22:11Fierce, fragile, then dead in an instant.
22:16So this is how good Lector is.
22:23We can also handle a creature of this level, can't we?
22:27We can, but it'll take quite some time.
22:32Fair enough.
22:36That's not the point. Why is lantern here?
22:41Because of us, of course.
22:46There are only so many shoes, and she didn't say she forbids us to proceed.
22:53We shouldn't have harbored any false hope before setting off.
23:00It's clear the most efficient method for lantern is to patrol around the shoes who haven't awakened yet to prevent us from getting closer.
23:10As for whether she's discovered us or not, it's hard to say.
23:16Well, it seems we didn't have any other choice, did we?
23:22Indeed.
23:24Let's go, and be careful of what lies ahead.
23:45Hey!
23:56Is this an elevator?
24:00I was thinking about how we're supposed to get out of this building.
24:03Didn't expect the way up to be so normal.
24:08We haven't really been inside, so we don't know about Mr. Lima's design philosophy.
24:13But there used to be a rumor that the masquerade corridor was suspended in midair to demonstrate how unapproachable its owner is.
24:25Her vanity is quite something.
24:30So should we ask M. Perception to set a portal for us to return whenever we want, and have Domingue guard the door?
24:41It doesn't matter, that's not my concern.
24:47No problem, this time I can leave a few more free spells.
24:52Wait a minute, we don't need to risk confrontation with lantern and conquer by ourselves.
24:57Don't you have the ability to teleport us to Langqiu?
25:00I believe I mentioned that if you didn't make a request, I wouldn't take the initiative.
25:10Besides, I'm well aware that you're unwilling to pay a satisfying price for my teleportation service, so a fair exchange is out of the question.
25:21Fine, I knew it.
25:23Folded pages from Tales of the Strange.
25:27Tales of the Strange Vol. 5 Bookworm Fish Part 2
25:32At the end of Shenxiu, there was a student named Yi Minghai who was lazy but interested in Daoism arts.
25:40One day, he came across a bookworm fish.
25:44At the end of Shenxiu, there was a student named Yi Minghai who was lazy but interested in Daoism arts.
25:53One day, he came across an old yellow page tome, whose impoverished seller said,
25:59if thou hast any wish, writeth it on this book, and leaveth it for a few months, the wish shall cometh to thee.
26:06And so he wrote his wishes of finding Daoism immortals on his pages.
26:10pages. A few months later, when he opened the tomb, a puff of smoke emerged from between.
26:18Within it was a realm of innumerable towers, broadways, and horse carriages, one as lofty
26:25as Yao Chi and Lang Yuan, where the Celestials resided. Rejoiced, he leaned in, but before
26:33he could set foot inside, he heard some sound of decay and collapse, and when the smoke
26:39finally dispersed, a splendor was gone. He looked down and only saw pages scattered on
26:45the floor, and something hidden among them, a crumbled ring made of neither wood nor stone.
26:52He picked up the pages to see that nine words out of ten he wrote had been eaten away. He
26:58related the story to a Taoism priest, who said, This is the bookworm fish doing. It
27:04lives in books and feeds on words, and if it be true, it ingluts the same word thrice
27:11to understand its meaning and conjure an illusion. The illusion is palpable, but shall vanish
27:18the moment the bookworm fish dies. What they did see the other day were only illusions,
27:25all because it consumed the world's realm of Celestials.
27:32Within the margin below the fold is a slightly childish handwriting. When Ivanka came to
27:37borrow books, she recommended this book. The sentences were weirdly structured and hard
27:42to read, but if this is Ivanka's wish, I'll try to finish it. If thou hast any wish,
27:51writeth it on this book, and leaveth it for a few months, the wish shall come to thee.
27:59Does this mean a person named Thou wrote their wish on a book, and their wish came
28:03true for someone named Thee? I don't get it. Why would Thou's wish benefit someone else?
28:10I asked the oldest grandpa, Ivan, and finally understood the story. There is a fantastic
28:15bug that lives inside books, and if it eats the words on them, it would understand what
28:22their writers were thinking and use illusions to grant their wishes. That's so nice. If
28:28this creature really cannot be read due to being eaten away, and if I can really find
28:37it, can I understand everyone's thoughts and wishes through only letters, then I can find
28:43a way to make everyone happy. But Ivanka said this book is just math, which is something
28:50that doesn't woooo in the world. It's okay, even if this one thingy doesn't woooo, other
28:58ways to make everyone understand each other must woooo, so they won't fight or misunderstand
29:04one another again, and can live happily ever after. I swear, I will find it.