The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Hoo-ho-ho-"

Mikael's hand gently covered the door in front of him, and his other hand was touching his chest, which was rising and falling slowly.

He was a little nervous. Today was indeed a special day. This was what Mikael realized after looking at the calendar after Hua reminded him.

【3——2——1】

No matter how you look at it, this is a series of magical numbers. It can be used as a countdown to something that is about to happen. It can be placed on the calendar. It can also represent the [Spring Equinox]: the day when the sun's direct point returns to the equator, and the length of day and night. Average days, days when spring is divided equally, days when the rain starts to increase...

It's also... my birthday...

Mikael's hand pressed on the door gently, and the door was naturally pushed open a small crack.

There was silence behind the door, not even a light. He naturally knew what it meant - Ai Li probably wanted to give him a surprise, but he didn't expect that he got the news from Hua one step ahead.

"Gulu..."

He swallowed hard, and his five fingers began to feel numb, and it quickly spread to his palms and forearms, until finally, all his limbs became limp in this numbness.

Then this numbness also climbed up the waist, back, and heart and lungs, causing the heartbeat to "dong-dong" in the abdominal cavity, making breathing gradually become sluggish, and when the inhalation entered the final stage, it even had a faint feeling. A tingling sensation.

"hiss……"

Mikael bit his lip, retracted his hand, and rubbed his chest violently, as if this could relieve the tension...

No, compared to "nervous", his mood at this time may be more appropriately described as "shy".

Just a door away, the same long and hard breathing sounded, intertwined with Mikael's breathing, and finally overlapped completely.

When the two of them took a breath in unison, Mikael's consciousness suddenly emptied out. It seemed that a part of the heavy things in his mind suddenly had its weight removed, and then became light and airy, like feathers, like a light dream, and like a dream. The hazy catkins I saw this morning soared up, flying out of the emerald crystal, soaring towards the crimson "dome" in the darkness, and then passed through the thirty-three armor plates without any hindrance, facing the The dark curtain, the vast stars, and finally the full moon.

But suddenly he fell from the place where the full moon was within reach, and fell into the cold ruins. The girl beside him playfully took out a potato from her armpit and brought it to him:

"Now! I gave you potatoes, should you give me a bowl of chicken soup?"

The potato still had the girl's body temperature on it. The boy took it, but instead of using it as food, he held it in his hand and put it on his lips and face...

The cold wind in Siberia quickly took away the temperature on the potato, and it became cold and hard again. Only the girl's body fragrance was left, still lingering around the tip of the boy's nose.

But the girl's jumping tone was too deliberate, causing Mikael to unconsciously cast his gaze in front of him.

In mid-spring in Siberia, the snow began to melt, and even the roads became extremely muddy.

There are black mud blocks wrapped in white snow blocks everywhere, even in the dark, they are still so conspicuous.

Of course, the night also covers certain colors, such as dim blood red.

The ruins are full of broken corpses of dead soldiers. This is the origin of the ruins, and this is why Mikael and Ellie stayed here.

Unfortunately, no one survived.

Michael lowered his head, staring blankly at the full moon, suddenly counted with his fingers, and then asked:

"Ellie, is it March now?"

"Yeah, what's wrong!"

"……today is my birthday……"

Mikael held the potato in his chest and closed his eyes silently, as if he had made a wish. Then he opened his eyes and blew on the potato in a ceremonial manner.

"Gulu..."

Mikael turned to look at Ellie who kept swallowing her saliva. She didn't know it yet, but she was still sullenly whispering: "Idiot Mikael! Idiot Mikael! There is no cake on the birthday and no one sings happy birthday. What kind of birthday is this!”

So desolate and miserable, this was the first and only birthday that Mikael spent in this world.

In the days that followed, I either wandered around, got entangled in various collapse events, or simply forgot about "birthday". If Hua hadn't mentioned it this morning, Mikael really forgot all of this.

"call……"

His hand pressed on the door panel again, and he exhaled the breath he had just taken. Only then did Mikael realize that the long memories just reflected into reality were only a short moment.

He exerted gentle force with his five fingers. The force was extremely controlled and not enough to push the door open.

But he felt that the person who was only separated by a door would use the same force to open the door inwards. The two of them worked together, and after a soft "creak", a pair of people were still shining brightly in the darkness. Eyes appeared in front of Mikael's eyes.

"like……"

Mikael only uttered a syllable before being dragged into the room by Ally.

The door behind him closed gently.

"Snapped!"

The candles flicked up, and they kept beating, looking like the igniter sitting on the seat scratching his head and making a cold snort from time to time.

The firelight illuminated familiar faces one after another, and a familiar warmth came from the palms of their hands.

"Happy birthday to you--"

The first singing voice sounded from Mikael's ears, and there was no doubt that it was Alicia's voice. It was brisk, lively, and a little cute, as if she couldn't wait to hear Mikael's praise.

And what followed was a loud and resonant soprano.

"Hey, hey, Alicia, isn't it too wasteful to ask Eden to sing this kind of song?"

Mikael was quite dumbfounded.

Ellie held his arm, stood up on tiptoes slightly, and brought her lips close to Mikael's ear: "Don't move, just keep it like this, okay?"

Mikael nodded blankly, then closed his eyes and began to make a wish.

Eden sang the birthday song once, and the tail notes lingered in the air, making people sigh at her long breath.

But suddenly, her tone began to change, and she sang the first line again - of course, she was not the only one, everyone in the whole room, except for Mikael and Ally, started humming softly.

Mikael even heard Qianjie's suppressed and violent voice, as well as Kosma's tone-deaf sonic attack...

"this……"

"Happy birthday to you! Oh oh oh!"

Kevin yelled like a child and reached for the light switch on the side.

"Snapped!"

Before the gorgeous chandelier lit up and the light reflected in all directions, like a dazzling snow surface, Mikael was suddenly pecked on the right cheek.

He first calmly blew out the candle in full view of everyone, then wiped it on his face in disgust, and then wiped his palm on Ellie's cheek.

"?"

"Mikael!"

Ellie pouted and turned her head, but her arms were still holding Mikael in vain.

The latter tried hard, but couldn't free his hand, so he could only say "thank you" while collecting the gifts sent by everyone with one hand.

Kevin and May's gift was a piece of fire - a burning, dancing flame trapped within the ice.

Mebius's gift was two shiny Fire Moth medals with the words "001" engraved on the back, which made Mikael and Ellie embarrassed.

Aponya's gift was two pendants. The one for Ellie was a pitch black cross that looked like it had been burned. The one for Mikael was a pure white but somewhat dim thorn rose. .

Seeing the pendant, Aili suddenly whispered in his ear: "It would be great if Xier was here..."

Mikael tensed up and didn't dare to answer.

Then there was Velvet. She confidently took out a long purple knife and boasted that it was her most proud work - the Key to the Third God. But the long knife was delivered to Mikael's hands. In an instant, after a series of complicated changes, it turned into a small slingshot?

Mikael quickly threw the Third God Key to Sakura. While the latter took it, the expression on her face gradually became embarrassed. Finally, Suzu took out a paper bag, which was full of things. Self-forgetting flower tea...

This coincided with Su's gift again. What he had prepared was a can of fine wolfberry, which was said to be Luzren's favorite variety now.

Then, Su stepped to the side, revealing Qianjie behind him. Qianjie hesitated for a moment, and finally threw two small wooden sculptures to Mikael.

Those are the Q version of Mikael and Ellie. Although the craftsmanship is as rough as Master Qian's, the hands of the two wood carvings can hold each other, as if they are intentional.

Then came Pado, who finally took out two huge luminous pearls from her bulging pocket. The green color was like the eyes of a cat in the dark night.

After that, there were watches from Destobia and Kosmo, leather boots from Aldemir and Evelyn,... bandages from Carol and Hua, and...

Underwear given by Yimer?

He was kicked out immediately.

The gifts sent by Himihu were a tuxedo and a white wedding dress. The meaning was self-evident. The two parties could only hold a pile of gifts each and try to hide their red faces.

"Ah - is it my turn?"

By the time it was Eden's turn, she was already drunk.

"I originally wanted to give you a nice glass of wine, but now it seems that this gift is a bit thin..."

She looked at the clothes given by Himihu and chuckled twice: "Well, how about I give you a real golden courtyard?"

Just as Mikael was about to refuse, Eden smiled and shook his head, sat down alone, and poured a glass of wine by himself.

Finally, the family of three arrived. Gratitude, who was just around Mikael's waist, took out a painting with the help of his parents. He smiled and opened the canvas, but the next second, his expression changed. .

Of course he didn't know what his daughter had drawn in advance, so he could only awkwardly block the painting with his body, then approached Mikael and asked softly: "This... do you really want this painting? "

The lower right corner of the picture is in simple black and white, and a blurry figure is nailed to a cross, standing in a snow-white and dead field.

The figure looked up at the sky in the upper right corner.

The upper right corner is brightly colored. Against a bright red background, a few strands of golden branches emerge from the cross-shaped cracks, like fingers, as if to caress the figure's cheek.

That's it.

Mikael looked at the painting quietly, his pupils trembling slightly and his lips moving a few times, but he didn't say anything unnecessary in the end.

"I like it very much, thank you little Gratius!"

After that, he silently put all the gifts, including the painting, into the space rift.

"Okay, let's cut the cake!"

He clasped his hands on his chest and said in a cheerful tone he had never heard before.