The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"O-o-"

The high-pitched and loud calls of seagulls have been ringing tirelessly for half the night, and Mikael also sat slumped on the roof of a random villa, listening indifferently for half the night.

Listen to the thin wings cutting through the airflow, listen to the night wind encouraging the waves to hit the breakwater, and listen to the light and chaotic footsteps getting closer and closer until they are behind you.

"Drunk?"

"Hehe... I just happened to find two bottles of red wine in the room... I originally wanted to take them back to Eden, but I couldn't help myself..."

Ai Li put her chin on Mikael's shoulder, scratching her fluffy hair, and his earlobes turned red instantly.

"Xier is asleep?"

"Oh... I was probably stimulated during the day. I told her more than a dozen stories before she fell asleep!"

The corners of Mikael's mouth twitched, and he snorted twice. Finally, he couldn't help it anymore, and he quickly shrugged his shoulders twice, and then laughed uncontrollably:

"Ellie, is there a possibility that Xi'er is almost fourteen years old and has passed the age of listening to bedtime stories to fall asleep..."

"Well...didn't I learn this from Aponya..."

Ellie scratched her head in embarrassment.

"Not entirely." Mikael denied her statement from a certain angle, "Perhaps compared to Aponya, the idea engraved in your subconscious that children need to be told bedtime stories to fall asleep is more Most of it comes from...our childhood memories."

"Ah - it seems so. I still remember that at that time you were responsible for borrowing books from the bookstore in the town. Sometimes Celia's mother had a discomfort in her throat, so you, the most literate person, came to read us stories... although Sometimes when I think about it, you fall asleep first before we fall asleep, hahaha!”

"You still remember this kind of thing so clearly..."

"Of course! I remember everyone I've ever met! What about you, Mikael?"

"I?"

Mikael held his hand on the railing, hesitated for a moment, and finally opened his heart in an incomplete state:

"My words... I feel that my heart is actually not big. No, maybe it is small. I can only accommodate a small number of people in my heart... The rest of the people are not so much that they don't care... but rather that they are unable to do so. Not caught. Since I’m destined to have no power to save them, it’s better not to leave a place for them in my heart from the beginning.”

"Yeah……"

Alicia smiled softly, otherwise how could she say that the person who knows a person best is never himself?

[Idiot Mikael, what you said is completely different from what I saw! 】

【ah! Wouldn't that be the same for me in his eyes? 】

so……

"Mikael..."

"Alicia..."

They both spoke at the same time and were stunned at the same time. After all, it was Mikael who spoke first with his lips moving.

"Alicia...but...but your weight, your weight in my heart will always be more than fifty-one percent - you will always be more important than everyone else, more than the entire world combined."

"Hmm~ Hey! Wait! I account for fifty-one percent...what about the others?"

Under the moonlight, Alicia's playful smile was getting closer and closer to Mikael. It was so close that the hair with her bangs gently tickled Mikael's cheek under the night wind. Even though Kyle completely held his breath, he could still feel the fragrance of alcohol mixed with her body.

She boldly stretched out her hand, first with five fingers, and then with the entire palm of her hand, placed it against Mikael's heart, carefully feeling the latter's suddenly accelerated heartbeat.

"How much is Felice's share? How much is Hua's share? How much is Mebius's share? How much is Sakura's share? How much is Captain's share? What's Siel's share? Be honest, Mikael!"

Mikael shook his head slightly.

"I don't know, I don't know, Alicia."

Mikael held Ellie's hand, and the two sat side by side on the roof. In the silence and speechlessness, the thick fog slowly opened.

Everything around him gradually became invisible and inconspicuous, the deep breathing sounds intertwined with each other, and the unstoppable seagulls' cries were more like lightning cutting through the space, passing by his ears from an extremely distant distance.

Mikael held the hand of the person next to him tightly, as if as long as this hand was still held by him and as long as the other person's temperature could still be felt in his palm, there was still hope for everything.

Although, despite her figure, many figures have gradually become blurred in the mist...

So he raised his hand, trying to disperse the smoke that prevented him from seeing everything. Kairi seemed to know what he was going to do, and raised his hand to stop her invisibly.

"There's no need to dispel the fog. If I don't consider other things, I still like this hazy weather. But... it's the middle of the night, so nothing particularly serious will happen, right?"

In other words, with the protective color of night, even if there is no fog, the evil things that should happen will never not happen because of this.

"Hey! Michael, how long has it been since we had such a good talk?"

"Probably……"

Mikael held his chin and thought hard, and finally reported a vague answer after more than ten seconds:

"It's been about more than two years, right?"

The last time was during the third collapse.

"By the way, Alicia, why do you like this hazy... No, no, hazy means that the scenery can still be seen vaguely, and this is completely gone."

"But... isn't that what we humans are like?"

Ellie gently scratched the palm of his hand.

“No one can exist apart from everyone else, so there is no spatial isolation between us and others. As long as we keep a firm pace, we will definitely meet somewhere in the world.

"But... people are separated from each other, just like this fog. I mean, what if this fog is not in the physical sense, but in the psychological sense?"

Mikael turned his head suddenly, and the pink outline was gradually submerged in gray, but he could feel that Ellie must also have turned her head to look at him.

"Mikael, I can no longer see your face clearly. Although I am still holding your hand, I can still feel your body temperature and hear your breathing, but I can no longer see your outline clearly. Not to mention the facial features...Mikael, what are you thinking about? Why haven't you told me for so long..."

Ellie's outline gradually became clearer in the mist. At first, Mikael thought it was because he was dazzled, but he suddenly realized that this was Ellie approaching him.

"Bang tom", "bang tom", "bang tom"...

The heart beat rapidly and clearly, and Mikael also moved closer to the blurry outline by accident, so that dim pink color appeared in front of his eyes again.

The next moment, the two closed their eyes in tacit understanding...

"boom!"

A ray of extreme light flashed at this moment, splitting the world into two halves. The entire mist trembled, and then thunder rolled in like a wave.

Then the rain also fell.

One or two drops hit Mikael's nose, and then it seemed like someone opened the floodgates, and heavy rain poured down.

It is not difficult to construct an umbrella, and even if you mimic the power of the Fourth Herrscher, it is not impossible to stop the rain quickly, but Ellie once again stopped him in her own way.

"Well!"

It was a kiss that came in a hurry, and Mikael even thought it was an unrealistic fantasy. When he pulled his thoughts back, Ellie had already held his arm, and her whole body was She snuggled closer, and her words rang in Mikael's ears again:

"Do you still remember the time when you first started traveling? There was a time when we only had one umbrella. When it rained, you threw it to me and told me that you couldn't construct an umbrella... Hehe! In fact, you just wanted to be with me. I’m holding the same umbrella, but I’m embarrassed to speak, right?”

The corners of Mikael's mouth turned up unconsciously.

In fact, these memories had already gradually faded in his mind. If Alicia hadn't mentioned them, he might have gradually forgotten them soon.

But as Alicia spoke plainly, those memories gradually came back. Although there were many bitter memories in them, when she pursed her lips, her lips and teeth were filled with sweet aftertaste.

The rain cut through the mist, and the white mist and dark mist that rose up after the water dropped to the ground mixed with each other, so the mist became heavy, turbid, and sticky. Take a gentle breath, and it is full of earthy smell.

He suddenly understood why Aili said this to him.

Yes, heavy and turbid, isn't this what Mikael's heart feels like now?

He is no longer the young man who was both desperate and excited because of becoming a Herrscher, and he is no longer just fighting for Alicia alone.

She fell into the world and walked around the world, thus leaving her footprints in the world, and she also left traces of the world on her body.

He walked around the world with her, thinking that he could avoid all ties and live only for her, die only for her, and fight only for her.

But that was a long time ago.

The world has left irreversible traces on him. He, the world, and the people in the world have long been entangled and inseparable from each other. Even he himself has to admit that the part of his heart that belongs to Ellie has been One hundred percent dropped to fifty-one percent, right?

But she didn't feel sad about it.

On the contrary, I am happy, happy that he has grown, happy that he has more and more connections, happy that he has more and more people worth caring about, happy that he has more and more people who care about him.

He is gratified that this world is gradually becoming real in his eyes, and gratified that he is gradually truly belonging to this world.

"So, Mikael, since everyone is someone you trust, everyone you love, everyone who loves you, everyone you want to save...why do you want to escape? Why not talk to me, How about explaining all the difficulties to everyone? Just like what happened with Xi'er, instead of just thinking about how to solve the problem alone, why don't you tell us everything and let everyone brainstorm a solution? "

"Mebius told you? Her mouth is not as hard as expected."

"It's okay if you know, Mikael... You don't have to bear all the burden alone, because since what you want to save is the entire world, then the world naturally has the responsibility to respond to you.

"I once said that Alicia and Mikael will be together forever. So now, Alicia and Mikael will be together forever and live in this world forever, until the end."

Mikael closed his eyes, and the green wind blew away the rain and all the fog.

To be honest, she said a lot that night, many of which were contradictory and logically confusing. After all, they were just drunken words.

But it was precisely this that made Mikael even more speechless.

She stumbled past Mikael's heart, took long detours, bumped into walls, and finally found the cancer in his heart and punched it hard.

The force was gentle, but it hit the softest and hardest part.

Mikael gently hugged Ellie, but she was snoring lightly and had already fallen asleep - this made him suddenly realize that he had been sitting there for a long time.

He borrowed the gentle wind to dry the rain off Ellie's body, but...

But his eyes began to wander unconsciously, and a shallow voice began to whisper in his ear.

He opened his left hand slightly, then gently made a fist, then opened it again, then made a fist again... Finally, he raised it tremblingly, moved forward bit by bit, and finally covered her chest gently.

"Gulu..."

Mikael swallowed furiously.

Nothing had changed in the world, but he did feel some changes in himself.

Yes, after all...

"ah!"

Ellie woke up instantly, and she didn't even notice Mikael's left hand that he hurriedly retracted - because the cry was not made by her.

"Xie'er!"

The two figures appeared next to Xi'er's bed in an instant. Xi'er was seen curled up, but the panic slowly dissipated.

Following her gaze to the floor beside the bed, there was a white calf twerking funnyly.