Honkai Simulator: I'm Really not Seele!

[Ding! Simulator binding started...]

[Binding successful!]

[Congratulations to host Lunelle for successfully binding to the"Seele Simulator".]

As the clear prompt sounded in his mind, Lunelle's consciousness, which had been somewhat detached from his body, finally stabilized completely as the simulator bound itself to him.

His body still seemed to recall the moment before his death. Cold sweat instantly drenched his clothes as he gasped for breath, his eyes widening in fear. Almost instinctively, he shot up from the bed.

"Huh? Am I hallucinating? I'm clearly alive and well.

But why does it feel like... I died once?"

The immediate threat of death had finally faded, allowing Lunelle to calm his frazzled nerves. It felt as if he had barely escaped with his life. Once his mind settled, he finally had the energy to observe his surroundings.

He found himself in an unfamiliar place, and as he recalled the system notification he had heard in his dazed state, he thought about the simulator that had supposedly bound to him.

"Did I... time travel?"

The thought surfaced in his mind naturally.

And it wasn't without reason.

Even though his thoughts were still jumbled, his memories of dying moments ago remained vivid.

However, the cause of his death wasn't the infamous "truck-kun."

A few minutes ago, Lunelle, a devoted Seele fan, had been pulling from the Herrscher of Rebirth card pool. At the time, he was riding a three-wheeled motorcycle and decided to do a random ten-pull.

As usual, to avoid falling to pity, he jokingly declared in his fleet chat that if he managed to pull Seele in ten tries, he'd wear women's clothing.

Then, something completely unexpected happened.

His ten-pull resulted in ten Seele copies.

And they were all S-rank, not A-rank.

It seemed that this stroke of luck had drained all of his remaining lifespan...

The next moment, his phone—charging and playing at the time—suddenly exploded, claiming his life instantly in a double kill!

In the end, that explosion replaced the overworked truck-kun and sent him straight to another world on the spot.

No wonder, then, that his first sensation upon regaining consciousness was that he had just died.

As realization dawned upon him, a somewhat childish electronic voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

[Hello, host! Simulator Systema is here to serve you.]

"Hmm? A simulator?"

He noticed that Systema was speaking directly within his consciousness, seemingly an ability granted upon binding with the simulator.

Without any prior experience, Lunelle instinctively grasped how to communicate with it mentally.

"Uh... Systema, right? Can you tell me what kind of world I've ended up in?"

[The host is in a world called the Honkai World and is currently in an affordable residence in the suburbs of Nagazora City in the Far East.]

"Ah? It's actually the Honkai World? That's really... not that good."

After receiving this information, Lunelle—who was attractive but not particularly outstanding in appearance—felt a sense of impending doom.

Given his familiarity with Honkai Impact's setting, he knew all too well how hostile Honkai-type worlds were toward men.

In the Honkai world, if you were male, unless you had the halo of an elder or a teacher, your fate was practically sealed.

Otherwise, if you were even remotely connected to the main cast of Honkai Impact 3rd, survival was unlikely.

After all, the term "Honkai (Collapse)" wasn't just for show.

But the real question was: Had he ended up in Honkai Impact 2nd or Honkai Impact 3rd?

"Systema, do you know whether I've traveled to Honkai Impact 2nd or Honkai Impact 3rd?"

Tension coiled in Lunelle's stomach as he awaited the answer.

If given a choice, he'd much rather be in Honkai Impact 3rd.

After all, in the next-door Honkai Impact 2 setting, even protagonists with plot armor were wiped out eventually.

The story was so brutal that fans had joked for years—if the protagonists could die together, that would already be considered a happy ending.

On the other hand, in Honkai Impact 3rd's storyline, though characters suffered frequent stabbings, at least 70–80% of those moments were fake-outs.

Except for some necessary sacrifices for the protagonist's growth, most of the supposed deaths weren't permanent.

Take Welt Yang, for example. That man had cheated death so many times he was now working part-time in the Astral Express next door!

Even in the latest 1.5 Honkai storyline, where it seemed like a group had been wiped out, it ultimately boiled down to "only Hata got hurt."

(T/N: Idk who this Hata is)

Cases like this were prime examples of "fake-out deaths."

So, despite how hostile the Honkai Impact 3rd world was toward men, compared to the absolute nightmare of Honkai Impact 2, Lunelle felt that this world was at least a little more forgiving.

Besides, considering he had died because of his overwhelming luck pulling for Honkai Impact 3rd characters, the logic of cause and effect suggested that he was more likely to have ended up in the world of Honkai Impact 3rd.

[Querying, please wait...]

[The host's world classification belongs to the Honkai Impact 3rd division.]

"Phew! Thank god... It's Honkai Impact 3rd!"

The moment Systema confirmed it, Lunelle let out a sigh of relief.

But soon, he realized something.

He was in Nagazora City.

A high-risk zone in any Honkai World.

And considering how well he knew Honkai's general plot, the fact that he had been resurrected here had to mean something.

There was no way it was a coincidence.

The room I was in was still intact, and the electrical equipment remained functional. This was a relief—at least, for now, the situation wasn't as dire as it could have been.

Lunelle could roughly determine that the current point in the plot was before the official start of the story—before Cocolia's attempt to artificially trigger the third Impact in order to give birth to the Herrscher of Thunder and recover Bronya.

However, the exact timing of this "before" was not something Lunelle could simply deduce by guessing.

Before danger knocked on the door, the most crucial task was to confirm the precise stage of the Honkai World's plot progression.

"Systema? How long until Cocolia makes her move in Nagazora City?"

[According to the system's calculations, there are three days left before the host's dream becomes a reality.]

"Huh? Only three days left!?"

Hearing Systema's response, Lunelle, who had been actively analyzing the situation, tensed up.

Realizing that his "Novice Village" was set in Nagazora City, he immediately considered using his knowledge as a time traveler to interfere in advance.

For instance, he knew that two to three months before the third Honkai, the world's infamous chef's father, Raiden Ryoma, was imprisoned.

And in the months following that incident, the chef—suddenly fatherless and without a guiding figure—was subjected to relentless cold violence at school.

This tragic sequence of events not only gave birth to the Herrscher personality within Raiden Mei but also indirectly paved the way for the chef to embark on her journey as the Cook.

It was precisely because the once-proud Queen of Thunder had been dragged down to rock bottom by cruel social isolation that a certain white cat-like Kiana managed to take advantage of the situation—eventually even conquering both the Cook Lady and the Herrscher within her.

If Lunelle had arrived at a point in time where there were still more than three months before the third Honkai, he would have had a considerable chance to increase the Cook's favorability toward him.

After all, even if she was initially suspicious of someone suddenly offering help in her darkest moment, as time passed, the early days' Cook had a naturally kind disposition.

Not to mention, if he planned well in advance, he might even be able to steal Mei's cooking skills. But at the very least, he could form a solid friendship, right?

And with that friendship in place, when the Honkai erupted, the kind-hearted Cook would surely offer him a thigh to cling to. That should be a given, right?

As the famous saying in the Far East goes:

"Raiden Mei, you don't want your friend who helped you when you were at your lowest to die tragically in the Honkai, do you?"

Unfortunately, three days was simply too short.

Even attempting to get acquainted with someone within such a tight timeframe had a high probability of failure. Worse yet, his sudden approach would almost certainly raise suspicions of ulterior motives.

With that in mind, Lunelle had no choice but to abandon his plan of latching onto someone powerful for survival.

After all, who could blame him? It wasn't like he was even a cute girl now!

Thinking of the original plot, Lunelle couldn't help but feel a wave of envy toward a certain duck's situation.

In Honkai 3, Bronya had first appeared as an enemy fighting directly against the protagonists.

And yet, despite the heated battle, less than an hour after their initial encounter, the clearly untrustworthy Bronya had already joined the main cast's ranks without a hitch.

Not only that, but she was accepted almost unconditionally by the protagonists.

Why?

At the end of the day, wasn't it just because Bronya was cute—so cute that she triggered people's protective instincts?

If you don't believe it, just imagine if she weren't lovable. The moment she lost a fight, Paramecium would have bashed her head in without hesitation.

"Forget it. At least I have three days. It's not like it's three hours or three minutes—I still have some room to maneuver."

As for how Bronya managed to integrate into the protagonist group purely based on her appearance, Lunelle knew that was a skill he couldn't replicate.

All he could do was sigh at the world's unfair treatment of guys and move on.

Fortunately, Lunelle wasn't completely without his own trump cards.

After all, he had a golden finger, didn't he?

"Systema? What exactly can your... 'Seele Simulator' do? Is it like the 'Life Restart Simulator,' where I can roll ten times at the start and retain talents?"

As a true-blue 2D otaku, Lunelle not only played mobile games but had also read countless novels featuring simulators.

In his opinion, as long as this simulator wasn't absolute trash, and as long as he wasn't forcefully nerfed by some mysterious force, then this story could very well turn into one of those legendary OP protagonist novels!

Too bad Lunelle, who was busy daydreaming about his bright future, had no idea that his simulator was actually a genuine product.

Following Lunelle's command, Systema, acting as the simulator's AI assistant, provided a clear explanation of the simulator's general functions.

[This simulator allows the host's consciousness to be disguised as 'Seele' and then inserted into various simulated worlds.]

[As long as the host successfully conquers or alters the fate of a plot character and receives a high evaluation, she will obtain the corresponding talent rewards of the conquered character based on the simulation's performance rating.]

"Wait—so I have to play as Seele? Are you saying I have to be Seele in the simulation world?"

[The host's understanding is correct.]

"Huh!? I'm a tall and strong man! And you expect me to roleplay as my own waifu, Seele!? No way!!!"

Lunelle, a dedicated Seele fan, immediately erupted in protest after hearing the simulator's answer.

After all, as someone who had always considered Seele his number one waifu, how could he possibly accept this situation?

[Host, but—]

"No! Systema, just stop! I, Lunelle, would rather starve to death today! I'd rather throw myself off a cliff! There's no way I'll ever agree to play as my first wife, Seele, just to capture other men!"

Just the mere thought of becoming Seele—his own beloved waifu—and then using that identity to seduce other men?

Absolutely not! No way in hell!!!

He would rather die than submit!

[But host, have you considered that among the characters set for you to conquer, there may be other waifus you consider your own?]

"Huh? There's such a great perk? Systema, why didn't you tell me earlier!?"

Systema: ?????

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(T/N: Taking like a 2 day break from the star rail one before i do like a 20-30 mass release, and starting on this one. But this book uses so much insider chinese jokes that it's lowkey a fucking pain to translate)

This may seem like a straight romance, but this guy turns into a girl in like 10 ish chapters.