The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Kiel, why are you initiating a [SEELE] meeting in the middle of the night?"

"What to do? Of course, discuss the next step."

"Next step? Wait! Kil, is it okay? I think we can stop! In the Fire Chaser, Vassago can no longer establish authority, Lezren cannot gain their trust, and Mei has lost The biggest helper is Kevin, who secretly instigated the relationship between the Fire Chasing Moth and Anti-Entropy - we have achieved all our goals and can stop the Poison Chrysalis!"

This time, the individuals participating in the meeting are no longer shown in the form of silver-white tombstones, but actual projections of real people.

Kil had silver hair and looked to be no less than sixty years old. He glanced at everyone slightly, lingered on Tarot with the "instant noodle-shaped" beard for a moment, and then silently asked:

"What about the rest of them? Do they all have the same idea?"

"This is really not a good time to continue weakening the Fire Chaser Moth. We still have to rely on them to fight against the Honkai Impact. Although I sometimes say some angry words, I have to admit that the Fire Chaser Moth has been suppressed. If the ground is too harsh, we will suffer even greater losses in the next collapse.”

"Oh, Tarot, who said, 'Humanity can't survive without Kevin'? Didn't you also say that you would use the information and models left by Mei to create your own fusion warrior?"

Tarot shook his hand and pulled out two beards. He did say those words, but of course he couldn't admit it. After all, those words were just words made out of anger and were not constructive suggestions. Afterwards, he actually followed Mei's instructions. The model given was screened by the own armed forces. Among the hundreds of thousands of coalition government troops, less than a thousand had a surgical success rate higher than 0.1%. The vast majority of experimenters were undergoing the kind of degraded version of ordinary collapse. The bad beast cannot even survive a minute after being injected with the fusion factor.

He could only ignore [.07]'s question and turned serious again.

"Kiel, what are you thinking? I think this step is enough. Do we really want the poisonous chrysalis to turn the fire chasing moth upside down and make the blood flow like a river? This is not good for us, let alone …The more you do, the more holes you leave behind…”

"Minister Tarot!"

Keir rarely raised his voice, but his somewhat cloudy eyes did not waver at all.

"Minister Tarot, don't you feel a little hypocritical when you say these words now and you guys say these words now?"

Before anyone could respond, Kil's voice regained its calmness, "Of course I don't want to destroy the Fire Chaser, but we can't give up halfway. What we do is, in the final analysis, to strengthen the Fire Chaser's influence on us. dependence, and obviously, the current situation is not enough for us, there are still two problems -

"First, although Lezren cannot be trusted by those people, at least half of the staff team we sent were his personal people. In order to maintain balance, we also need to carry out some kind of purge of the staff team.

"Second, what is Kevin's situation now? We don't know yet. If Kevin is still alive, then all our actions will be a joke - so he must be killed."

"Kiel! That's not what you said before!"

Tarot slapped the table and stood up. He took two steps forward angrily, as if he wanted to grab Keir's collar, but all this was just a projection. How could he do it?

The rest of the people didn't calm down either - this was not what Kil's original plan was!

In the original plan, Kevin should only be slightly injured, and then use this to slightly provoke the relationship between the parties, but what is the situation now? There are more and more "accidents", but Kiel appears to be so "well-prepared" that he keeps throwing out various "scripts", increasingly dangerous and radical ones. .

If there were logical and rational judgments in the past few times, then what is the purpose of continuing to condone Poison Chrysalis this time, and even secretly helping Poison Chrysalis to rebel against the Fire Chasing Moth?

"We have been working together for so many years, and you have no confidence in me at all? Don't worry, I am sensible and will not let Fire Chaser Moth suffer too much harm."

"Kiel" snorted softly: "Besides, the so-called plan is consistent. My secret agents have already arranged everything, and they are just waiting for you to vote to authorize it. Of course, of course, if you vote veto, it will stop abruptly. It’s not impossible... Humph, but how to recycle the resources that have been arranged?”

Tarot suppressed his anger and glanced at him suspiciously - this was the first time he had seen him speak in this tone after working with Keir for so long.

"Kiel" lowered his eyes, making his expression unclear.

In the end, [SEELE] passed "Kiel's" proposal with a narrow margin of six to five.

The projection gradually dissipated, and only "Kiel" was left in the dark space.

After a while, the darkness faded away like a tide, and he completely placed his body weight on the back of the chair without any image.

"Huh... The secret was almost exposed. If it is discovered or the resolution is not passed, I will have to trouble you to take action, Aponia."

As he spoke, the flesh and blood on "Kiel's" face continued to tremble, and finally transformed back into Mikael's appearance.

Aponya stood aside with his hands hanging, looking at the sleeping, real Kil behind him with compassion.

Mikael stood up, stretched his body, and said softly: "Please, Aponya."

She nodded slightly.

Her eyes gradually became hollow, and as the invisible spiritual tentacles slowly extended, she unknowingly engraved the scene just now in the form of a dream in the real mind of Keir.

Mikael moved Kil's body back to the stool, so that when Kil woke up later, he would think that the dream was the reality that had just happened.

After doing this, Mikael didn't move for a long time, so Aponya also didn't wake up the real Kil.

She reminded softly: "The time cannot be delayed for too long, otherwise he will feel greatly separated from reality when he wakes up, and... the time agreed with Velvet and the others is coming soon."

Mikael nodded, and he was silent for a moment, "Aponya, can you tell me, what is the cost of doing this?"

She was silent for a few breaths, her eyes were empty again, and then she spoke out numbers one after another in a calm tone:

"1,369 people will die, 148 will be seriously injured and disabled, 627 will be slightly injured, and the remaining 185 Poison Chrysalis members will become Mei..."

"I see."

Mikael interrupted Aponya's last half-sentence, as if he couldn't bear the words to reach his ears.

But this is nothing more than deception. How could he not have any clue about everything he did?

Although, although most of it was carried out according to [SEELE]'s original plan from beginning to end, he only really intervened in this matter twice——

At the beginning, he intercepted the Poison Chrysalis who was executing the plan and fired the shot at Kevin.

After that, he almost watched the whole process and did nothing to save it. He also added fuel to the fire at the last moment, causing the entire plan to get out of control.

This is all to achieve his goal.

Although he can deceive himself, after all, the so-called purpose is not despicable. After all, the so-called purpose is to lead to the possibility of a truly beautiful future.

But for those who died, and for the blood they shed, the possibility of a better future didn't matter at all.

One number after another is one sin after another that Mikael has to bear. Although from a certain perspective, these sins will be shared with him by another person who participated in the plan-Mei, but they are still sins. undoubtedly.

In the face of such a crime, using spiritually aware warriors to control other people's minds, especially manipulating such people's minds, cannot even be considered a crime.

But he had to force himself to do this, he had to hide those weak emotions.

The fifth collapse has ended. In total, half of the process has been completed, and there is no more time to waste.

So be it - in fact, it doesn't matter. Originally, the people he wanted to save were only a few people... What's more, in extreme circumstances, even if these [few people] are sacrificed to save the only one, for him It's all a win.

Even if she didn't like it, he thought so.

"Mr. Mikael, compared to the casualties caused by the disaster you call the collapse, these sacrifices are not even a fraction, and they will not even appear in the final statistics of human casualties."

"Apponia, is this how a nun comforts people? To be honest, I thought you would somewhat condemn me."

But she just shook her head slightly, "Why do you condemn, Mr. Mikael? What you are fighting against is the so-called fate. If you walk on the road of fighting against fate, you will inevitably bear [sin], because you gave someone The changes brought about by an individual may turn an originally bad fate into a good one, or it may turn an originally good fate into a bad one.”

"But……"

"Mr. Mikael, every decision you make is a kind of resistance. Whether the final outcome is a futile struggle or a heroic success, it is the undisputed right thing. As for the so-called Sin - as long as you can ultimately change this world into what you want, then so-called sin is nothing to you.

"What's more, in my opinion, you obviously have more and more brutal methods, but you chose the most restrained and least turbulent one. This is already a great decision."

"Despite this, the despicable people can survive, but some passionate warriors will die in vain for this. Aponia, can you accept this?"

"You think that as a nun, I should be compassionate to all living beings, right?"

"Um."

Aponya chuckled, "What about you, Mr. Mikael? Do you think you pity all living beings?"

"Me? Of course I'm not."

Mikael shook his head and denied it - he was already able to do such a thing, so how could he have the dignity to say that he sympathized with all living beings?

"hehe--"

Aponya chuckled.

"Mr. Mikael, if, I mean if - if you really don't care about the life and death, joy and sorrow, sorrow and separation of all sentient beings, why do you have such a deep sense of guilt? "

"No, Aponya, I don't think you know me well enough. The reason why I let myself feel this sin is to constantly remind myself - don't let her become one of the victims."

"Oh? Is that so..."

Aponya looked into those gray eyes.

She looked at his present, his past, and his future.

Watching every possible second of his life.