The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Well……"

"Okay, my eldest lady, school is here and it's time for you to wake up."

The black car parked steadily on the side of the road at the school gate. Mikael turned his head and gently woke up Mei Yi, who was lying in the back seat catching up on her sleep.

Meiyi rubbed her sleepy eyes and sat up from the back seat. She had been lying on her side for a long time, and her waist felt uncomfortable. Moreover, she hadn't woken up yet, and her head was a little groggy. She couldn't help but rub her head.

"boom--"

The sudden closing sound of the car door drove away her sleepiness. She turned her head in confusion and saw Mikael slowly turning half a circle around the car, ignoring the stares of the students coming and going, and finally stood respectfully. Arrived in front of the rear door.

"rice……"

As soon as Mei uttered a syllable, the car door was gently opened. Mikael took off his right glove and handed it to her.

"Tsk, my eldest lady, [please] get out of the car."

"Huh? Huh?? Huh!!!"

The corners of Mei Yi's mouth twitched as she looked at the scene in front of her in disbelief.

She seemed to be quite frightened, and for a moment she started dancing in the carriage... No, she was actually so frightened that she didn't know where to put her limbs.

But Mikael, the culprit who caused all this, still didn’t understand what happened. He just frowned and asked softly:

"What's wrong, Miss?"

Meiyi frowned and looked at him, then put her hand in his with some hesitation.

Mikael gently used force to help Mei Yi get out of the car in a more elegant manner.

But Mei Yi did not leave immediately. She leaned next to Mikael, straightened her collar, adjusted the position of her schoolbag strap, and asked seemingly casually:

"Really, when school was over yesterday, who was just listening to music in the car and ignoring me?"

"Ah? It turns out that the eldest lady's doubts just now were because of this."

"That's... no! Huh! It must have been my father who educated you last night!"

"That's not true."

Mikael shook his head imperceptibly.

"I hate formalism. Of course, you can also understand that I am lazy. However, the situation now is different from last night. When school was over yesterday, besides you, there was only one idiot who seemed to have the same IQ as a Paramecium. , so I’m too lazy to do these etiquettes. But there are still a lot of students paying attention here, so of course I have to save some face for you and ME Club.”

"Sigh... I just said, how can a person change his gender overnight?"

Mei Yi shook her head, but she wasn't angry anymore.

This man said that he hated formalism and that he was lazy. He wanted to slap the label of "selfish" on his face, but in fact, he was quite considerate of others.

As for these etiquettes being the responsibility of the driver?

Meiyi seemed to have thought of something, chuckled twice, and took two steps to the side, leaving space for Mikael to close the car door.

After the car door closed, she stood beside Mikael and said softly:

"Last night...thank you."

Although thanking him was one-sided, Mei somehow wanted to get a response from Mikael. A deep intuition told her that men like Mikael were probably not good at handling other people's thanks.

Well, she just wanted to see Mikael also be at a loss, that must be the case.

But unexpectedly, Mikael didn't seem to hear her words at all. His eyes seemed to be attracted by something, and he didn't look at Mei Yi at all.

"Eh?"

Mei Yi followed his gaze and saw five strange girls walking towards her.

They were all wearing the uniforms of Qianyu Academy, but Mei Yi had no impression of them at all. Of course, there are a lot of people in Qianyu Academy, and Mei doesn't pay much attention to her surroundings. Is it abnormal that she is not a stranger to her classmates?

But to be honest, these five girls all have their own characteristics. The two girls at the front have conspicuous long pink and blue hair respectively. The one with pink hair is jumping around and noisy all the time, and the one with blue hair is The one with the hair was so quiet that she almost didn't speak. When people around her looked over, she just sighed tiredly.

The girl following the two of them took "quietness" to the extreme. Her face was "unhappy" and "reluctant". She did not carry her schoolbag on her back, but hugged her tightly. As if afraid that someone would snatch it away.

After her, there were two other girls. One had her hair tied into very conspicuous drill bits on both sides of her head, and the other held the former's arm and shyly looked at the people coming and going.

That's right, even if you are indifferent to everything around you, you won't have any impression of five people with such distinctive characteristics, right? Could it be another new transfer student?

Mei turned to look at Mikael. As the girls gradually approached, she was able to confirm where Mikael's eyes were really focused - the two girls at the back.

Mei turned her head to look again, and suddenly turned her head to look at Mikael again. She suddenly discovered that Mikael's hair color was the same as that girl's, which was an extremely rare silver-gray. Taking a closer look, even the eye color was the same silver-grey. If it weren't for the strange pink color of Mikael's pupils, she would have almost thought that the two were brother and sister.

Why don't you ask?

Meiyi slowly opened her jaw, but the sound reached her throat, and for a moment she forgot what she wanted to say or what she wanted to ask.

At this time, the two girls at the back happened to pass in front of them. I don't know if it was a coincidence or Mikael's eyes were too hot. The girl with the double-diamond hairstyle suddenly stopped in front of Mikael. , raised his chin and asked:

"What are you looking at?"

Mikael's eyes stayed for a moment on this face that was very familiar to him, but now felt a little strange, and then he turned to look at her side.

"Nothing, just..."

"If it's nothing, don't look around. If someone thinks it's obscene, it won't be good. Are you right, uncle?"

Mikael was not annoyed by her rude words, but looked at the girl next to Bronya blankly, looking at her inexplicably, and making her a little scared, so much so that she hid behind Bronya.

"whispering sound!"

Bronya bared her teeth, suppressed the desire to kick, and pulled Xier away.

But Xi'er seemed to feel something. As she walked forward, she turned back, and happened to catch Mikael's turning gaze.

Her pupils shrank, and the muscles in her eye sockets trembled due to the extreme exertion. Fortunately, she soon arrived at the school gate, turned the corner, and the figure that had attracted her attention for some reason disappeared completely.

"Xie'er."

"Ah? What's wrong, Sister Bronya?"

Bronya took two more steps forward, stopped, turned around and asked:

"Xier, do you know the man just now?"

"do not know."

Xi'er shook her head vigorously and denied it simply.

But Bronya asked uncharacteristically:

"You really don't know me? Xi'er, are you sure?"

Xier hugged Bronya's arm tightly, and after a brief hesitation, she explained:

"I should, indeed, not know him... In all my memories, there is no face of this person, but... I do seem to know him... No, no, how should I put it... I have clearly never seen him, But I also feel that I should know this person..."

Bronya narrowed her eyes.

"Could it be that I saw it when I was a kid, but it took so long that I can't remember it now?"

"maybe……"

Xier instinctively felt that this should not be the case, but what Bronya proposed was indeed the most likely scenario, and she could not refute it.

but……

"But, sister Bronya, don't you think... he looks a bit like you?"

"Huh? Me and him?"

Bronya shook her head repeatedly.

"How can he and I look alike?"

"But...it does look a bit like..."

"……real?"

Looking at Xi'er's determined look, Bronya was not sure. After all, whether it was herself in the mirror or in the photo, she was completely different from how she was seen by others, and few people would feel that she was different from her parents. , the relatives look very similar... Having said that, she was raised by her father's comrades in arms and has never seen the so-called relatives. What if the other person is really related to her by blood, is it not impossible, right?

"Xie'er, do you really think... I look a lot like him?"

Bronya touched her face and confirmed with Xi'er again.

"Hmm... uh... I, I'm not sure..."

Xi'er turned her head unconfidently, but Bronya thought about it for a while, but still recorded the matter in the memo in her brain - it had been more than two years since she was adopted by Cocolia, and she didn't dare to say enough She knew her adoptive mother well, but based on her one-sided understanding, facing such a powerful and ambiguous character, she would definitely have plans to recruit her, or at least send someone to contact her.

Then... let's talk about it then.

…………

"Those two girls just now...do you know them?"

Mei Yi's question did not receive a verbal answer. Mikael just shook his head slightly. As for whether it was "I don't know" or "I don't want to say", Mei Yi didn't know.

She took a deep breath and finally brought the topic back to the beginning:

"Thank you very much for what happened last night."

Without the interference of others, Mikael finally heard Mei Yi's words clearly this time, but he just replied calmly:

"It's just my job."

Meiyi's lips twitched twice, and a sense of frustration spread in her heart.

This frustration comes out of nowhere, but if you think about it carefully, since I met this guy yesterday, there have been more inexplicable things in my life.

In the end, she still refused to admit defeat. Even though Mikael's reaction was impeccable, she was still determined to attack again:

"So, when did my driver need to teach me how to do the sword and treat me to street food?"

Mikael turned his head, his expression still unchanged.

Just when Mei thought he was going to say something, he showed a joking smile:

"Miss Raiden Mei, you are going to be late."

"Eh?"

Mei Yi raised her hand and glanced at her watch——

【07：23】

"Oops! There are still seven minutes!"

She couldn't care about anything else anymore, she raised her feet and rushed to the school.

But Mikael happened to hold her right wrist at this moment. With just a slight force, he pulled Mei Yi back to her side, and then whispered into her ear:

"Mei Yi, you should understand your current situation, right? But don't worry, don't worry if anything happens. My mission is to protect your safety, no matter where you are, do you understand?"

"Eh?"

Mei broke away from Mikael's wrist and took a step back unconsciously.

She looked into Mikael's eyes, and the laziness, blandness, and joking she had seen before were gone, and the only word left was seriousness.

"you……"

Meiyi's left hand gently held her right wrist. She lowered her head, letting her bangs cover most of her face. Her lips seemed to open and close twice, but she made no sound, and then suddenly turned her head. Run wildly.

Mikael stood there, tilting his head in confusion, scratching his cheek with his index finger, and then smiled to himself:

"Oh my, my, I haven't interacted with humans for so many years, have I become worse than Prometheus?"

He slapped his face hard and returned to his unruffled expression.

He lightly tapped the black car next to him with his index finger and said to himself:

"Well! Xiaohei, you can find a place to stop where you won't get a ticket."

The car's headlights flashed, as if in response.

According to Mikael's habit, he would rather just be lazy. He also didn't believe what Cocolia would do to Mei Yi. After all, as early as eight years ago, he used curing Mei Yi's "disease" as a bargaining chip to persuade Thunder and Lightning Ryoma to implant the conquest gem into Mei Yi. The Entropy East Branch is considered a secret, but with Cocolia's all-pervasive intelligence capabilities, Mikael doesn't believe that she doesn't know.

Mei is such a perfect carrier for conquering gems. Cocolia holds the Silence Gem in her hands, but she has repeatedly postponed the long-overdue X-10 experiment because she was worried about the side effects of the carrier. And Destiny longs for the gem in order to transplant it. How many lives were wasted? There are simply too many to count.

Like Mei, her body did not produce any obvious rejection after the gem was implanted. If it was not due to a miracle, it would mean that she was the best suited body for the Herrscher of Thunder.

As for Cocolia, she would never be stupid enough to kill such a perfect and qualified body, so in fact, Mikael didn't have to worry about Mei Yi's life safety. As an enemy, Cocolia would only be more worried about Mei Yi's accident than him. .

Moreover, for a being like Mei who is both a Stigma Awakener and a Herrscher, she actually does not need Mikael's protection at all.

For Mikael, he only needs one result - Mei is alive and follows his steps to become the Third Herrscher.

He only needs this result. As for the process, it may be important to Mei himself, but it is not important to him, a bystander hiding in the gutter.

But... I don't know why, he just wants to watch the other person's growth with his own eyes.

Maybe it was just... these fifty thousand years of loneliness made him eager to have some fun.

When he came back to his senses, the car that Mikael casually called "Little Black" had spun away, leaving Mikael standing alone on the roadside.

"Really..."

Mikael slapped his face hard again.

"I want to see why you... forget it, just treat it as... entertainment."

He didn't care about the surprised looks of passers-by, stretched out his body without restraint, and then wanted to protect Mei Yi in secret as he had agreed to do...

This is not difficult for him. The simplest method is to directly use the power of wind to achieve the effect of invisibility. In this way, personal protection becomes possible anytime and anywhere... Wait, what should I do when going to the toilet? Don't want personal protection?

Mikael sighed and slapped himself hard twice.

But the phone suddenly vibrated at this moment. Now, he has no need to use this thing anymore. Besides, even the most advanced smart phone nowadays is too... in his eyes... This phone is still a Thunderbolt Ryoma. Naturally, the only contact in his mobile phone was Raiden Ryoma.

"What happened again?"

Mikael turned on his phone while complaining, and then his expression changed.

Two or three seconds later, he took a silent breath, swung his toes, and kicked away a pebble.

"Kokolia...this woman is really fast. Sure enough, whether it's an assassination or a kidnapping, it's just a cover-up. I'm sorry Mei, it seems that we are going to break the contract today."