The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

The air had become extremely hot since I didn't know when, and the asphalt road under my feet was slightly sunken, like a muddy quagmire.

The leaves and branches of the sunflower buds became crispy due to dehydration, and every time they were moved, they would make a light sound like potato chips cracking.

Finally, the familiar figure rushed out of the sunflower garden, and the false sky of the underground city was burning, as if it had crossed a day in an instant and arrived in the evening, but Mikael's eyes were only the most dazzling red.

"Captain!"

He rushed forward and hugged Himiko tightly without saying anything.

"It's good if it's not... It's good if it's not... It's good if it's not..."

He kept repeating this sentence.

The hot air made people feel difficult to breathe, and Mikael's overly strong embrace was the same, but Himiko did not push him away, but just silently endured it all, and gently stroked his back twice with her palm.

She counted ten seconds in her heart, and then gently patted the back of Mikael's head again.

"Okay, I'm fine. I don't know what you're worried about. But let go first, so as not to be laughed at by outsiders."

"Outsiders?"

Mikael's excitement stagnated.

"That... Brother Mikael..."

Hearing this voice, Mikael opened his eyes and looked at the three figures that were previously blocked by Himiko. The first person he looked at was naturally the one who made the sound, that is... Seele.

Tears suddenly flowed out, winding all over his face, but the sadness did not last too long. He wiped his tears hard, his eyes stayed on Mei for a moment, and finally fell on Bronya.

So the tears stopped.

He raised his right hand in a daze, as if looking for something in the void where there was nothing but heat.

Himiko took the initiative to lean towards him so that his hand could rest on her shoulder. At the moment of contact, Mikael almost put the weight of his whole body on that hand.

"You are... Raiden Mei? Bronya Zajicek, and... Seele Freya?"

Himiko's brows knitted together, and Mikael's five fingers were too excited and pressed hard, causing pain on her shoulders, and he didn't even realize it.

But she didn't remind him, just endured the pain and said:

"It seems that you know each other? I thought the girl with two drills was your parallel world counterpart. Oh, by the way, they also mistook me for some 'Teacher Jizi'."

Mikael's eyes flashed, and he asked again in a hurry:

"Do you know me?"

The three girls looked at each other and nodded in confusion.

Mikael pursed his lips and remained silent.

"He...He...He..."

He loosened his hand that was tightly holding Himiko's shoulders, and occasionally let out a twitching laugh.

He walked aimlessly around the sunflower bed, and then sat down on the ground.

"Hahahahahaha! Hahahahaha! Why are you here? How can you be here???"

Accompanied by neurotic laughter, tears fell again.

"I know, this is fate... No matter what I do, no matter whether I do it or not, it will end the same way."

No one understands what he is doing, and no one knows what he means.

He is crazy, desperate, and lonely that no one can understand.

In fact, the moment he heard Xi'er's voice, he understood.

This is a world where "the world allows consciousness to match new containers, but does not allow containers to collect dissipated consciousness". With the known information, it is better to believe that she is Xi'er from the next era than to believe in resurrection.

Not to mention, there are two people standing next to her who can fully prove this.

And they said that they knew him.

Haha, is there anything funnier than this?

What he had always wanted to do, what he had always tried to do, was to kill the possibility of the era in which these three girls lived, but now they came to his era for no reason, and they kept saying that they knew him...

Sure enough, it was a lie to say that fate could be changed. Even if he could influence some corners, he could not change the ending of the whole story in the end.

Of course, he knew that compared to the possibility he realized, there might be another better explanation. Their world might not be destroyed, and the three girls in front of him were just the product of the convergence of the world line, or their civilization was indeed destroyed, but the person he wanted to save survived.

In fact, it is very simple to figure out this question. You just need to ask: "Do you know Alicia?"

From the reactions of the three girls, you can get all the answers.

Unfortunately, he is a waste. He does not have the courage to ask this question, let alone the courage to believe in a beautiful ending that he dare not believe.

"Boom!"

The false sky above his head shook violently, and fine dust fell from the "high sky". He knew that the new Herrscher had been born, and he also knew that the Herrscher was now above his head.

But he was no longer planning to do anything.

Since the fate of this world has already been determined, the world will not be destroyed even if he does nothing.

Although there is also a voice in his heart telling him that he should not stop here, nor can he stop here, the fate of the world has been changed beyond recognition by him, now that the selection and location of the Herrscher in the Seventh Collapse have happened How can he know that the world will not be destroyed because of his inaction?

But in the end, those three girls who shouldn't have been here became the straw that broke the camel's back.

Besides, even if he really wanted to do something, what could he do? After the Herrscher Core rejected him, what else could he do?

Himihu pursed his lips and looked at Mikael. He had a lot of things to say and didn't know how to say it.

Meiyi wrung her hands together and looked at the collapsed man sitting among a pile of sunflower buds. She watched him collapse in despair. She didn't know what happened, let alone how to comfort him. But in her sight, this face that contained almost all the negative emotions she could think of at the same time gradually overlapped with the plain, calm face she was familiar with, sometimes with a gentle smile.

But that didn't make her feel unfamiliar with Mikael.

On the contrary, under such a contrast, she felt that she was closer to Mikael. She also wanted to comfort her the way Mikael once comforted her. But just as she took a step forward, she remembered that she did not know the specific details at all. The reason is that we can only watch.

Contrary to her, Bronya just stood aside indifferently and wiped the sweat from her temples with her hands. She quietly observed Mikael's appearance, looking at his face that was obviously exactly the same as in her memory, but seemed younger and more immature, and clenched her hands tightly.

And Xi'er, the most important Xi'er.

"Brother Mikael, you..."

She didn't know why, but so many emotions surged up in her heart at once.

“Bang tom—bang tom—bang tom—”

The beating of the heart was clear and rapid, as if it coincided with the heartbeat of another person.

Looking at Mikael's appearance, she felt inexplicably sad. She couldn't explain any reason. Maybe she was just sad because she saw Mikael sad. But why did her emotions synchronize with Mikael's so easily? This is really an incredible thing.

Of course, there were too many emotions crowded in her heart, and sadness was just a very weak one among them.

But what puzzled her most was not sadness, but...relief.

When she realized that she had such a feeling in her heart, she felt that it was too twisted to accept.

Why would you be happy?

Why was she relieved by Mikael's pain?

Whatever the reason, isn't this a distortion?

One person will feel relieved because of another person's pain. In the final analysis, it is only because of one reason-that person's sadness is caused by himself.

If a man hates another, he naturally rejoices in the sorrow which he himself has created.

If a person loves another person very much and desires to be loved by another person, it will naturally be gratifying for him to feel sad for her misfortune.

It's really an extremely twisted emotion.

But what does this have to do with her...? According to "Himeko", this is a parallel world different from the original world they live in. Mikael here is just a familiar stranger. Why would she...

Also, why did she think that the sadness of the Mikael in front of her was caused by her?

Isn't it twisted and arrogant to be so arbitrary about another person's motives?

No……

no……

Yes, no!

She suddenly remembered.

"Ji Zi" said that Xi'er in this world died two days ago.

What can this alone mean?

She couldn't explain anything, but she remembered more things from a long time ago.

That was the time she was kidnapped in Changkong City two years ago.

She vaguely remembered that she had a very long and chaotic dream, and she might even have been awake for a while in the middle.

But what exactly she dreamed about that day, and what happened during her brief period of wakefulness, she couldn't remember at all in the past two years. It’s just that she didn’t care about that matter. After all, it brought a beautiful result in the end. From this, she got to know Mikael, Mei, and Kiana, and later followed her to St. Frey. Ya Academy, this place is much better than the former orphanage... Moreover, she also found "another self", someone who can not only protect her when needed, but also become her friend naturally and closely. Own.

So, since the result is good, there is no need to investigate the intermediate process, right? Especially, those memories were not so good...

Yes, it's not like she hasn't tried to remember.

But even if I rack my brains to recall, all I can get is a blank, and of course, my heart aches for unknown reasons, and the tears that don't know when to fill my cheeks.

But now, feeling the increasingly hot air, looking at Mikael becoming more and more desperate. She remembered everything at once.

She remembered that that long dream was her first real contact with another self.

In that dream, the memories of the two "Xie'er" and even themselves merged with each other. Although she became an independent individual again when she woke up from the dream, some traces of her were inevitably left in her consciousness.

So she remembered, the time that "the other Xi'er" had spent with Mikael, and the feeling of her huddled in Mikael's arms at the end of her life, painful, unwilling, fearful, but relieved. And calm.

At the end, she thought of Mikael's face full of tears and regret.

"So, the other me, you are the Xi'er of this world, right?"

She pressed her heart hard and asked softly.

"Xier" did not give a clear answer.

Of course, she no longer pretended to be silent.

"How is it? Doesn't he look stupid and embarrassing now?"

She quietly changed the subject and asked rhetorically.

"..."

"Xie'er, the man in front of you is a complete loser. Most of the things he wanted to change could not be changed, and most of the people he wanted to save could not be saved. He even personally destroyed those who should have been saved. He killed the person he saved with his own hands. And what you see now, Xier, is his most stupid, cowardly and inferior moment. "

Xi'er raised her hand, feeling a little confused as she listened to her other self's confession.

"What? You don't think this guy is pitiful, right? Poor people must be hateful. Of course, in this guy's own words...a person's character is his destiny. No matter it is better than now Whether he is more despicable and selfish, or more selfless and ruthless than he is now, he will not be able to bear such pain. "

Xi'er retracted her hand and gently hit her heart twice, but there was still pain there.

"no."

"Ah?"

"No, Xi'er. Xi'er is the same as Xi'er. Xi'er can feel Xi'er's emotions... Although you have been belittling the brother Mikael you know, you are also heartbroken and relieved, right? If not, how could Xi'er feel this?"

The other Xier was speechless.

Xi'er showed a winner's smile, although, if she really had a choice, she only wished that this incident had never happened from the beginning.

She slowly walked towards Mikael. She didn't know if she could do it or how far she could go. She only knew that she had to make brother Mikael cheer up again and then defeat the Herrscher.

But just after taking a step, her whole body suddenly trembled, and a rage of anger ignited from the deepest part of her heart, and then became out of control, making her entire chest become extremely hot.

"Xie'er, you-"

"Shh! Even though it has passed...but when it comes to this moment, I still can't let it go."

The other Xi'er's voice was vague and sad. As for the anger, it was already beyond words.

So, everyone saw "Xie'er" walking quickly in front of Mikael, then grabbing his collar and giving him a hard slap.

I saw someone asking if this is an illusion or a bubble in the world? It must be a world bubble. The environment is a one-sided imagination. Naturally, it is impossible to psychologically describe it from the perspective of another person in the environment.