The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Okay! Let's not talk about this! Come and eat the bento, I'm going to starve to death!"

Kiana turned around gracefully while holding the lunch box, and then sat down against the railing of the rooftop.

Mei Yi's lips went up and down, down and up again, and finally she squeezed out a smile:

"You, be careful of getting your skirt dirty."

"Oh! It's okay! Just sit down, sit down!"

Mei Yi had a look on her face that was hesitant to speak, but in the end she reluctantly held Kiana's hand and pointed to the bench not far away——

"Aren't there seats there?"

"Ah...ah? Oh, didn't you see it just now?"

Kiana jumped up with a silly smile, handed the lunch box to Mei, and patted the dust on her skirt neatly.

The two ran to the bench and sat down. Mei took a lunch box by herself, while Kiana snatched the other two boxes.

"It's a pity. I made three lunch boxes. I originally thought that each of us would have one and share one with everyone. Now there is an extra one. If I had known better, I would have left it for Mikael..."

"Hey, what is this?"

Kiana smiled and held the remaining two boxes in her arms.

"Leave it all to me! If you don't waste this point, Mei Yi will definitely believe me!"

"You...oh, Kiana!"

Meiyi gently untied the knot on the lunch box and said angrily:

"If you really can't eat, don't hold on. Don't make your stomach full!"

"Oh, I know, I know! The lunch boxes of you Jidong people are a bit too small. If you add these two portions together, I might be full!"

She hummed twice, then suddenly clasped her hands together and shouted:

"I'm going to start!"

"Um!"

Meiyi nodded vigorously and opened his own lunch.

Probably due to the bumps in the past, the appearance of the bento has long been not as exquisite as when it was laid out in the morning, but it still looks reasonable - if compared with the Mebius brand omelets made at the same time.

But food that looks good may not taste good.

Yayi picked up a piece of cabbage with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. After chewing a mouthful, she immediately swallowed it with difficulty. She picked up a small piece from the potato pancake and tasted it. Her vision was blurred again.

"What's wrong, Mei?"

Kiana just opened the lunch box and took two big mouthfuls of rice. She was holding a whole piece of potato pancake and put it in her mouth. But when she heard Mei's crying, she quickly turned around and asked.

"It's nothing, it's just...it's just...the food I cooked is so unpalatable..."

The cabbage was so salty, but the potato pancakes had no taste at all. Probably only the rice steamed in the rice cooker could avoid being rated as "unpalatable". Although this was her first time cooking, the result was really... as bad as ever...

"Hmm? Does it taste bad?"

Kiana scratched her head, looked at the golden fried potato pancakes again, and took a big bite without hesitation.

"Hmm...hmm! It's delicious!"

"Really, I just said it tastes terrible...huh?"

“It’s delicious!”

Mei wiped away her tears, but what she saw was Kiana's smile. That smile was not a disguise, nor was it fake, but a smile made purely out of enjoyment.

"No...impossible, right?"

"What? Will I still lie to you?"

Mei Yi frowned. What she tasted in her portion just now was indeed not delicious, right?

She was still wondering, but Kiana had already taken a piece from the other side of the potato pancake she had just bitten and brought it to Mei Yi's mouth.

"Now! Won't you know after you take a taste?"

"this……"

Mei was really embarrassed by such an intimate gesture, but Kiana quickly put the chopsticks into her mouth while she was breathing.

Mei chewed two mouthfuls with a hint of hope, but her expression gradually became confused - she originally thought that Kiana thought it was delicious because she didn't mix the seasoning thoroughly, but now it tasted...the taste was no different from what she had eaten before. It has a pure potato flavor, and you can’t even feel a little bit salty. How can such food be delicious?

"Kiana, you lied to me..."

"Huh? No! I really think it tastes good! If you don't believe it, just look - burp!"

She mixed the potato pancakes, cabbage and rice together with her chopsticks, then swept away the whole lunch like a whirlwind, and burped in an inconspicuous way.

"you……"

Mei Yi had not yet wiped away her tears. She was a little worried when she saw Kiana's actions, but also wanted to laugh.

"Um...don't you think the potato cake is too bland? As for the kale, isn't it a little too salty?"

"not bad!"

Kiana swallowed the last bite of food and wiped her shiny lips.

"It's a little bit, but it's still delicious! Hehe, mainly because compared to the food cooked by my stinky dad, it's still delicious after all!"

"Huh? Your father... you seem to mention him often. Can you tell me more about him?"

"Uh, this... there's nothing to say, right?"

Kiana felt a little guilty. The name of the Kaslana family was still a taboo that could not be mentioned. Although there was no need to mention this surname when talking about the smelly dad, it would always give Kiana a sense of herself. The feeling of guilt for not being able to be honest with Mei.

So she instinctively didn't want to talk about those things, but if she refused directly like this, it would only make Mei Yi more curious, right?

Kiana closed her eyes and scratched her head and was silent for a while, as if she was recalling what had happened before. After a while, she spoke:

"Actually, I can't remember much! But in Siberia at that time, there was only so much food available. Basically, I ate whatever I could find. Occasionally, there would be some good things like toast on birthdays or holidays, so It’s time for Dad to cook himself, and his cooking skills... Hehe! In his own words, the ancestral talent of our Kaslana family is-the ability to turn all ingredients into hard-to-eat ingredients. Swallowing look!”

That's right, she didn't plan to avoid it anymore, so she just told Mei Yi like this. Instead of hiding it guiltily, it would be better to let the other party know everything openly. After all, Mei Yi is also the person she... trusts the most.

Should...it doesn't matter, right?

"Kiana..."

Meiyi held Kiana's hand with some distress. After half a minute, she asked belatedly:

"The Kaslana family? Wait, this name sounds familiar. Let me think about it...ah! Isn't this one of the three major families of Destiny?"

"Yes! How about it, you didn't expect it, did you? In fact, I am still a noble!"

"No wonder...no wonder you always call yourself 'Miss'..."

Kiana was already prepared, but she didn't expect Mei to just say such a sentence lightly. Also, how much can a girl of Mei's age understand?

"Ah, ah! Let's not talk about this anymore. If you are interested, Meiyi, I will tell you tomorrow night!"

Kiana tapped the lunch box with her chopsticks. According to Mei's original teaching, this was a very rude move, but now she only finds it cute.

"Anyway, I think the food made by Mei Yi is delicious. Um... Mei Yi, can I ask you something?"

"What?"

"Oh, please promise me first! Okay!"

"Okay, okay..."

"hey-hey!"

Kiana made a wicked smile while patting Mei's shoulder heavily.

"Miss Raiden Mei! From now on, I will leave the lunch box to you every day!"

"Ah... But, the food I cook is indeed not very delicious. It is far worse than the chefs hired by my father before..."

At this point, Mei herself was stunned for the first time - yes, the reason why she and Kiana gave different evaluations to the same food was because they had different comparison objects.

In Mei's perception, if the bento is not as delicious as the one made by the chef originally hired by her father, it is unpalatable, but in Kiana's perception, food that is worse than the ingredients picked up casually is delicious.

What's more, it was her first time to cook. Although it was just two simple dishes, they looked good. Strictly speaking, one tasted salty and the other tasted bland. In fact, the problem was not that big, just like Qi's. Yana just mixed it together like that, wouldn't it just neutralize it?

What's more, this is the first time someone has made a request to her.

Maybe someone had asked or requested it from her before. But rather than making requests to her, they were using her as a medium to ask her father to do something. In a real sense, this was the first time I asked "her" to do something within her ability.

To be honest, she still didn't have much confidence, but something still changed in her heart, or appeared suddenly - it was a feeling of being needed.

Especially at this moment, when she didn't know the meaning of her existence, when her existence was constantly denied by the people around her, there was such a person standing in front of her, telling her that she needed her, and that this need was related to her. Everything else has nothing to do with it, it's just because she is Raiden Mei.

Meiyi suddenly raised her head, held Kiana's hand in turn, and replied with a smile:

"Okay! From then on, I will be in charge of the lunch for the eldest lady of the Kaslana family - please don't dislike it!"

This time, Kiana, who had been taking the initiative before, couldn't stand it anymore. Her cheeks turned rosy visibly, and she finally lowered her head and said a subtle "hmm".

As a result, the atmosphere between the two girls suddenly became very strange and strange. They had wasted a lot of time before, and the two hurriedly finished their lunch in such a strange atmosphere, and then left the rooftop hand in hand.

"boom!"

It seems that no matter what, the metal door on the rooftop will only respond to everything with the loudest sound and the most violent collision, but that's fine, the metal door on the rooftop closes quickly and decisively, without giving the girls a chance to look back, so , two figures who had been standing on the rooftop from the beginning appeared under the change of light and shadow.

"so good……"

Mebius stared blankly at the ordinary metal door and sighed.

"Where's the best place?"

Mikael's rhetorical question was somewhat embarrassing. In fact, he regretted it the moment he said it. According to Mebius's habit, this kind of meaningless question with a touch of Alicia's teasing would at most be replaced by Just give her a cold snort...

But he guessed wrong again. Mebius actually lowered his head and thought seriously for a while, and then replied calmly with a trace of reminiscence:

"Maybe it's their age, or their carefreeness...otherwise, there's nothing to envy."

Mikael shook his head. It was not that he disagreed with the answer. To say that he was not touched at all would be absolutely false, but he did not think this was something worthy of praise:

"No matter what, it's just because of ignorance. Because we don't know the truth of the world, we can still indulge in this false happiness and joy. When they each embark on their destined journey... they will be as envious as us. It was such an ignorant and happy time."

Although it doesn't sound good, it's mostly true.

"Mikael, so, do you think happiness and joy can be divided into real and fake?"

Mikael turned his head in surprise:

"Mebius, when did you start studying these things?"

Mebius raised his eyebrows and sighed softly, his expression somewhat helpless.

"Not to mention that I am already very interested in these things, Mikael, I am also a human being. Over such a long period of time, I will have some changes, right?"

Mikael's tongue swirled around in confusion between the slightly open upper and lower jaws. To be honest, he had actually felt the change in Mebius from the beginning, but he still couldn't believe that the original paranoid man Mebius, who is crazy now, actually shows his gentle side more.

In fact, Mebius probably viewed his changes with such an incredible mentality.

But soon Mebius heard his signature cold snort.

"But you are right. I am really too lazy to think about this kind of problem now. It's just that more than two thousand years ago, I once saw a debate among humans in this era. One group believed that avoiding pain and pursuing happiness is can gain happiness, while the other group believes that such happiness is false, and that one must temper one's own character in order to gain true happiness."

"Oh? So what do you think?"

"How can I feel anything?"

Mebius sneered twice and glanced at Mikael.

"For me, there is no need to blindly think about the falseness and reality of happiness. No matter what method is used, as long as I can feel happiness myself, will this emotion be false?"

Mikael felt an unexpected coldness in his hand, which was when Mebius suddenly held his hand.

He didn't resist, just bit his lower lip gently, and applied a little force with his fingers, so that Mebius could feel the strength and warmth from him.

"Okay, let's talk about the qualified person to conquer the gem."

"What did you say? That she looks like Mei?"

Mikael made a joke pretending to be smart, but found that Mebius was staring at him from the side without saying a word.

"What's wrong?"

"nothing."

Mebius shook his head slowly, "It's just...Mikael, you seem to be very happy today."

"Is there any..."

Mikael touched his cheek with his free left hand. Mei had said the same thing this morning, but he didn't pay attention.

Of course, he doesn't seem to care now. He cleared his throat and continued following Mebius's original question:

"Huh? So, what do you want to say about Raiden Mei?"

Mebius took a deep breath, but didn't let it out for a long time. She stayed in this position for about ten seconds, and then said with a hint of sarcasm:

"It's nothing, I just think that rather than saying that she looks like Mei, it's more like her personality is a bit like yours."

"Oh, how could it be? She is much stronger than me."

Mebius shrugged and spread his hands again, as if to say - Look, I knew he was going to say this.

"Although there are some things that I really want to beat you up in retrospect, but Mikael, the fact that you can become what you are now step by step is enough to prove a lot of things."

"oh."

This salty response made Mebius's cheek muscles twitch hard twice.

"Actually, I'm more curious. She didn't have such a submissive character before, right?"

"This is quite normal! When you encounter such a situation at your age, you are afraid that more people will alienate you, so you simply adopt the most humble method - constantly trying to please others. If you think about it carefully, it is really pitiful!"

Listening to this familiar tone, Mebius clenched his free right hand into a fist, and then calmly replied with a sentence that Mikael used to use to deal with:

"maybe."

Mikael laughed twice, and there was a moment of silence between the two of them.

They have a lot to say, about Honkai Impact, about the Stigmata Project, about the origin and end, or about those memories that have long been so blurry that they can’t even see the outline clearly.

But there was nothing to say between them. Amidst the noisy wind on the rooftop, maybe it was better not to talk about those heavy things.

But apart from that, how much else can we talk about? Let’s talk about what happened in the last five hundred years? It's not impossible, but I just can't speak. Maybe five hundred years have made everything unfamiliar, or maybe the relationship between the two doesn't need the lubrication of this kind of topic at all.

"Hua has also come to Jidong."

"Um?"

"I arrived this morning. Hey, this guy has been retiring in Taixu Mountain for a long time, and his reaction has become so slow. Taixu Sect does not have a branch in the far east, but when she collapsed for the second time, she and the destiny of the far east branch We have fought side by side with Theresa. If nothing else, she must have a good temper and want to chat with her old friend, right?"

Mebius seemed to be talking to himself, and did not give Mikael a chance to speak:

"Okay, I'm going to find Gray Snake No. 114514 to get some information. See you tonight..."

After the words fell, Mikael turned his head and saw only a flash of green arc.

"Am I...happy today? No, I shouldn't be."

Mikael turned around anxiously twice, and he realized that this anxiety, like happiness, was an emotion that should be avoided.

"Is it because of this thing?"

He put his right hand over his heart, feeling the vigorous movement.

"No, it's not this. Could it be..."

He silently walked to the metal door of the rooftop. The door panel was polished smooth and could barely be used as a mirror.

Then Mikael saw the indelible trace of pink in the silver-gray eyes.