The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Jingle Bell--"

"Hey, who is it...Oh, Mebius, what's the matter?"

"It seems that I need to remind you that after today passes, it will be a new year again."

This reminder is not without effect. For example, if it weren't for Mebius's words, Mikael would have almost forgotten that almost two months have passed since the incident with the Thunderbolt Ryoma.

But being useful doesn't mean being able to endure it. Mikael held the phone in his hands, his brows and eyes full of the animosity that comes with waking up.

"So? Is this the reason why you called me early in the morning to prevent me from sleeping?"

"Haha, don't you like sleeping?"

"...when did I say that?"

The voice on the other side of the receiver just sneered and didn't reply. Mikael recalled it carefully, and he seemed to have indeed said such a thing, but it was a long, long time ago, because he felt that people were too confused when they first woke up and could not fully concentrate on anything. Greatly reduces the efficiency of task execution...

Moreover, if he remembered correctly, he once couldn't sleep. The reason why it is possible now is because of one person's wishful thinking.

But regardless of these...Mikael's eyes slowly closed, and his vision fell into darkness little by little, then slowly opened, and slowly regained the light.

"Um?"

Between breaths and breaths, he seemed to wake up a little, sober enough to finally realize that something was wrong - he touched the side of his naked body, even the sheets under the quilt were cold, and he looked again Looking at the big "Mebius" characters on the call interface on the phone screen, I am still a little confused about the situation.

"What? Are you thinking now - Huh? Why isn't Mebius with me? Huh? Why did Mebius call?"

"..."

"First of all, you'd better take a look at the current time. Forget it, let me tell you directly. It's already past 11:30 noon. If you don't get up, Mei Yi's lunch will be ready. Ah, that's right! You must You still want to ask why your alarm clock didn’t go off? Hehe! I pity you for working hard day and night, so I secretly turned off the alarm for you. How about you have a good sleep? "

There was a hint of ridicule in Mebius' tone, as if he was asking for credit. But what attracted the most attention was the way of speaking that was very familiar, but did not belong to her.

"Mebius, do you like to imitate her so much?"

"Ahem! Okay, I'm too lazy to joke with you anymore."

Sensing that Mikael was not in a good mood, Mebius naturally did not want to get into trouble. She quickly changed the topic back on track:

"I just said that I am in the ME club building now. You have a pretty good eye for people. I have always regarded this woman Cocolia as a clown. I didn't expect that she has some tricks. In less than a month and a half, she... The relationship that Raiden Ryoma has been working on for more than ten years has almost collapsed - at least on the surface it seems to be almost done."

"Oh? So what you're saying is that you got up early in the morning to take the initiative to check the post, and then come and report to me on the results of Cocolia's work?"

Mikael rolled on the bed, touched the warm quilt with his hand reluctantly, and finally sat up with gritted teeth.

"Ha-ha! I don't have that much free time... We work 'overtime' together. Of course you are tired and I am tired too..."

Mebius emphasized the word "overtime" with a hint of emphasis. Mikael's Adam's apple rolled hard and he stopped his desire to curse.

"Then you should come back early and take a nap in the afternoon to rest for a while."

"Tch! Do you think everyone is the same as you?"

Neither Mikael nor Mebius must rely on sleep, but although sleep cannot bring many changes to their bodies, it can give their constantly tense consciousness a negligible rest.

However, Mebius didn't appreciate it either.

Mikael couldn't figure out what she was thinking, and he had no intention or obligation to figure out such things. So he made his tone stiff again.

"So, what happened, did Cocolia want to call you over?"

"Ahem!"

Mebius cleared his throat. Mikael didn't think she was a person who would think carefully about her words. But the attitude she was showing so far, although it didn't mean that the king was looking around him, was obvious. Hiding something.

"Forget it, let's let Cocolia talk to you by herself... Well... things are a bit troublesome. I can't explain it clearly in a few words on the phone. How about I take her to the villa?"

"..."

"Hello? Mikael? Are you still listening?"

"Ah bah - I'm brushing my teeth!"

Hearing that the sound of washing on the receiver did not sound fake, Mebius covered the sound hole of the phone, breathed a long sigh of relief, and then made an "OK" gesture to Cocolia across the table.

"She still has a lot of things to deal with here. Why don't I just wait here until she has finished dealing with it and then brings her back after get off work?"

“Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr… ugh—you can just figure it out on your own.”

"Okay, that's it, hang up first!"

Mebius pressed the red button on the screen without hesitation, and after a short busy tone, she threw the phone on the table without care.

"Thanks……"

Cocolia gently put down the pen she held in her right hand, and twisted a corner of a document between her left thumb and index finger, rubbing it gently, making a "rustling" noise.

"Don't thank me, I don't know anything. You deceived me with your sweet words and got the opportunity to go there. Even if I was at fault, it was just an oversight. Do you understand?"

"I see!"

Different from the arrogance of the past, Cocolia is now extremely well-behaved in front of Mebius - World Snake. This is not the first time she has heard of this name. It is not that she has not tried to investigate this organization before, but the more she investigates, the more... The more they seem to be everywhere, not to mention the anti-entropy whose organizational structure is relatively scattered. Even established organizations like Tianming and Taixu are actually full of traces of World Snake erosion.

She didn't know if the archbishop of Tianming and the grand master of China knew about this matter. If they said they didn't know, it was definitely impossible, but it was also unreasonable to not take any countermeasures after they knew it.

There is only one explanation: there is something hidden behind this.

What's the secret? Judging from the information that Cocolia has access to currently, she can't figure out a clue at all.

But when she arrived in Far East two months ago, she would never have thought that her fledgling team would run into the iron plate of the World Snake...

What she didn't expect was that World Snake would actually extend an olive branch to her personally. Yes, it was a very strange thing. World Snake seemed to look down on her previous relationships and the ME club she had just won, and was only interested in her personally.

Cocolia didn't know what there was in her body that was worthy of the World Snake's fancy, but when her life and the lives of the children she adopted were in the hands of the other party, she had no choice.

Of course, there is no psychological burden on her to change her family. Whether it's anti-entropy, destiny, or world snake, it doesn't make much difference to her. The word loyalty ceased to exist in her world from the moment she was framed and imprisoned by her compatriots fifteen years ago.

Whether it was under the name of anti-entropy before or now it is under the control of the World Serpent, it is nothing more than a temporary measure.

If she had to say what she was still loyal to, it was and could only be the abstract concept of humanity itself.

However, it must be for the human civilization she leads.

Thinking of this, her eyes narrowed, as if she had seen it in the snowfields of her hometown. No matter what kind of beast, before launching an attack, it would lower its body and narrow its eyes, and she was also like this...

That's what she thought, but her eyes caught a hint of green.

"What are you thinking about?"

Mebius comfortably put all the weight of his upper body on the back of the chair, but his fingers painted with green nail polish stretched out in front of Cocolia and tapped the table lightly.

"No...I didn't think about anything. It's just...I haven't been able to see Xi'er and Bronya for almost two months. I feel a little excited when I think about tonight...especially on such an important day."

"whispering sound!"

Mebius sneered. Even though he was mentally prepared, the unabashed disdain still made Cocolia's whole body tremble.

"I said, you are quite a contradictory person."

"ah……"

"Obviously, my mind is full of conspiracy and conspiracy... No, saying that is simply insulting the word conspiracy. Ha... It's really ironic that even a person like me can't think of a word to describe you... In short, It’s really eye-opening that you, a woman who is full of cruel methods, are so interested in a group of children who have no blood relationship with you.”

Cocolia opened her mouth in vain. She wanted to explain something, but she hadn't even thought of her own "self-defense" yet.

"It's even funnier when you think about it."

Mebius stood up reluctantly, picked up a document in her hand and opened it.

"Tsk! He says he cares about them, but in fact he has even made plans to do experiments on them."

"Bronya and Seele are now under the personal care of Lord Mikael, so naturally they will not appear in this experiment."

Cocolia's explanation was feeble. Mebius smiled, turned the document to the last page, and pointed his finger at the blank signature and seal.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk! I thought this plan had been approved by you and was ready to be implemented."

"Of course such an important experiment must be reported to you, the doctor, and Lord Mikael before a decision can be made."

Cocolia laughed twice, but if you look carefully enough, you can see that her smile was actually forced out by the corners of her mouth twitching again and again.

"Oh, that's how it is."

Mebius suddenly pulled out the binding staples with his fingers, and then threw the entire document into the shredder.

"Then, on behalf of World Snake, I veto this meaningless experiment. Do you have any objections?"

"of course not."

Cocolia stared blankly at the pile of paper scraps spit out by the shredder into the trash can, and suddenly felt that her old club, Anti-Entropy, actually had an advantage that neither Destiny nor World Snake had - freedom and future.

Because she has no time to take care of the various branches outside the American headquarters, although reverse entropy can provide the least help, it can give Cocolia, who was once a polished executive, the greatest freedom of action. It is precisely because of this freedom that she can To seek the future she wants - such as killing the Thunderbolt Ryoma and annexing the Anti-Entropy Far East Branch.

And now, Mebius used the pile of snow-white scraps of paper to tell her: Sorry, none of these snakes exist in the world.

"Well, there are some things that are not suitable for keeping until now and in the future, so you should throw them away as soon as possible. Ah, by the way... you'd better deal with the remaining files quickly."

"What's the emergency?"

"No, I just think you'd better go and leave early so as not to disturb our dinner."

…………

"Ahhh! Uncle Mikael, you finally got up! Just three minutes later, you can successfully break my record... Ouch!"

Looking at Kiana, who was holding her forehead and glaring at him in front of the steps, Mikael grinned. He then looked at the wall clock on the wall beside him. The time displayed on the wall clock was eleven thirty-four.

"First of all, don't call me uncle. Secondly, uh... your stay-in-bed record only ends at 11:37? I thought it would last until one or two o'clock in the afternoon, at least it should be more than twelve o'clock... You are Didn’t you remember it wrong?”

"No, idiot Kiana remembers it right, because in idiot Kiana's world, eating and sleeping are equally important. Staying in bed has cost her breakfast. If she can't get up before twelve o'clock, she won't even have lunch. Losing all the opportunities is an intolerable situation according to idiot Kiana’s values.”

Bronya was helping Mei carry small plates with vegetables one after another from the kitchen to the dining table. Lunch started at this point, which was a bit early, so naturally Bronya fished for fish——

Refers to when Kiana stopped Mikael at the stairs, she walked behind Kiana expressionlessly with empty hands. With that look, even if the next second she took out a stick from behind and hit Kiana on the back of the head. , even Mikael wouldn’t be surprised.

"Ahem!"

Kiana put her hands on her hips and cleared her throat, imitating Mikael's tone and said:

"First of all! I don't call idiot Kiana... Oh, yeah, yeah!"

She wanted to learn the whole set. She originally wanted to use her index finger to hit Bronya's forehead a little harder like Mikael, but as a mercenary, the latter reacted much faster than her. She was in a daze before her eyes. Then she was held in Bronya's hand.

"Ahhhh! It hurts, it hurts! Be merciful! Be merciful, Bronya! I didn't mean it!"

“Ah—sister Bronya!”

Another exclamation came, and Bronya and Mikael looked at the same place——

At the dining table, Xi'er suppressed her smile and straightened the cup that had been knocked over on the table.

"snort!"

Bronya pouted at Kiana and walked back to Xi'er, swinging two silver drill bits.

"What happened?"

"It's nothing... I almost knocked over the cup accidentally... I'm sorry, Sister Bronya..."

"ah……"

Bronya sighed and patted Xi'er's head gently.

"I thought it was a big deal. It doesn't matter, anyway... the cup doesn't belong to us anyway."

"Ah? Our... home...?"

When Bronya didn't notice, Xi'er turned her head to the side, but she only saw the back of Mikael getting rid of Kiana's entanglement and hurriedly walked into the kitchen.