The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Sud-da-"

Catching the dark shadow above his head, Mei unconsciously tightened the muscles in his body, but in the peripheral vision, Mikael seemed to have expected this scene. He just slowly raised his arm. The next moment, a A gray-white dove landed on his hand.

"Hmm...have you ever appeared there?"

A smile appeared at the corner of Mikael's mouth, but it disappeared briefly.

Mei bit her lower lip with her tiger teeth and followed Mikael hesitantly and blindly on the broad street.

But this state only lasted for half a minute. In the end, she couldn't suppress a certain impulse in her heart and asked proactively:

"Have you... found Kiana's location?"

The steps stopped, then turned sideways, Mikael looked at his reflection in the purple eyes, and said softly "Hmm".

"Where?"

Mei Yi grabbed his hand in excitement.

Although the relationship between the two has undergone earth-shaking changes, Mei still holds on to a glimmer of hope. In the past, Mikael would have told her the answer gently.

But all I got was a very ordinary and normal sentence:

"Why should I tell you."

"..."

Mikael spread his hands. He was not the kind of person who would be speechless without making some movements with his hands, but sometimes, he also needed some external force to help his body adapt to something.

"Thunder Mei, what do you think I came to Kiana for?"

His words helped Mei Yi recall something - yes, with Mikael's current attitude, could it be that he came to Kiana to do something good?

"I……"

Mikael shook his head in disappointment, and was about to take another step, but found that the hand holding him had not let go.

"Can you...don't go?"

"well……"

Mikael's sigh was mixed with a little helplessness. He turned around again, his eyebrows were raised and lowered, and he looked at Meiyi strangely and said:

"Didn't you ask me to take you there just now? What, do you want to go or not?"

"No……"

"Then you think you can stop me?"

Seeing Mei retract her hand, Mikael shook his head again.

But he soon realized that Mei Yi's posture was not to let him go, but to assume a close combat stance:

"I know I can't stop you, but if you don't, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, he received a heavy blow on his head.

But... surprisingly, it didn't hurt.

Mikael gently rubbed the top of Mei Yi's head, just like he had done many, many times before...

"Don't do such meaningless things."

"How can you be willing to accept it if you don't give it a try...ugh!"

Her thoughts were disturbed by the warmth in her palms that she felt above her head, but she unexpectedly discovered something was wrong:

"Mikael, what do you want to do?"

"..."

"If you simply want to capture Kiana, you clearly shouldn't have brought me here. You should know very well that I will only..."

"Can't you understand? Isn't this very simple? I want the consciousness of the Herrscher in Kiana to awaken and replace the personality of Kiana you know. In addition to requiring a large amount of Honkai energy, It’s just a huge emotional upheaval. Well, how about the stimulation of seeing the girl you love die in front of you again?”

Unexpectedly, Mei Yi was not angry, nor did she make any defensive moves again. Instead, she looked at him with a look of pity and curiosity.

"?"

"But... Mebius told me that at the Destiny Headquarters, it was you who controlled the Second Herrscher and gave the Moonlight Throne engine on the Hyperion a chance to hit. Mikael, it was you who controlled the Herrscher with your own hands. It was you who pushed her back... What on earth... do you want to do? "

"Uh... Why does Mebius do all the unnecessary things..."

Having said that, Mikael recalled carefully that he did not seem to have told Mebius not to say these things.

Maybe it was because my mind was so confused at the time that I couldn't care about such a thing, but it's also possible that I just thought it wasn't important.

In fact, there is a third possibility - in his heart, he may also be looking forward to getting an understanding. It's like, even people who are determined to die and are fully prepared to sacrifice will unconsciously say "want to live" at the last moment. In fact, they are just conveying a futile cry for help. That’s all.

But... not yet, it's not the time yet.

"If you want to know, it's easy, just follow me."

Mikael tried his best to control his facial expression, suppressing the smile that would habitually form on his face when he rubbed Mei's head.

Then, regardless of what the girl was thinking, when he retracted his hand, he also turned around and walked away towards the distant street.

Then again, he was still wondering why Meibi acted so calmly all the way. He thought that the other party was immersed in the recent incident and couldn't recover. Now it seems that it was Mebius's unnecessary actions that made him so calm. She must be completely confused...

He walked with his head sullenly for a full minute, then his steps faltered twice and stopped where he was.

"well……"

His sigh was blown by the evening wind, and he turned sideways. Mei Yi was still standing at the very beginning, with no intention of moving.

He had no intention of following, but he also didn't take advantage of this opportunity to escape.

He seems to be a fool who is at a loss but extremely stubborn.

Mikael walked back to her step by step and silently held her wrist, just like many times in the past.

"Let's go."

He said.

But neither the man nor the girl made any move after hearing this short word.

"Let's go..."

The end of the man's words dragged out for a long time.

"This time, I might have to trouble you to save Kiana."

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-"

The light rail overhead slowed down with a clear ringing sound. On the deserted road, only a few withered yellow leaves rolled a few times, as if in response to the light rail that was about to arrive at the station.

Only then did Mei realize that something was wrong. Why was Tianqiong City, which looked so prosperous from the airport, so bleak in the evening?

She unconsciously held Mikael's hand instead - although she quickly realized something was wrong, the instinctive dependence she had developed over the past three years eventually overcame everything.

"Yeah? Have you noticed? Sorry, sorry. After all, there are some things that cannot be said in front of ordinary people! I just used some small tricks, so we just pretended that we were communicating with each other sincerely!"

Mikael tried to snap his fingers, but he didn't know if he hadn't done this action for a long time. He tried three times, but no sound was made.

"Uh hahaha, unexpected, unexpected!"

"Snapped--"

In fact, the fourth time still didn't start, but it was not a big problem. The power flowed quietly, using the power of consciousness to control the flow and friction of the air in the conscious world, and finally formed a sound similar to snapping fingers.

Mikael suddenly realized that he was also a person who liked to do "meaningless things".

No...he's always been like this.

The surrounding sounds suddenly became noisy, as if the dam suddenly opened its valve, and the flood poured out without any hindrance...

After regaining consciousness, Mei Yi saw Mikael in the chaotic flow of people.

He stood a dozen steps in front of her, and the heads of people hunched over occasionally obscured his figure, but he always stood there, looking at her expressionlessly.

That's right, nothing, no matter how crowded the crowd is, can't seem to make him change at all.

How long did this stare last? Mei didn't time it from the beginning, and there didn't seem to be anything around that could be used as a time reference. It seemed like a long time had passed, and it seemed like it was just a blink of an eye. She saw Mikay. Your smile.

That's not a comfortable smile.

Admittedly, Mikael's smile was sunny and warm, just like every time he faced her in the past three years. But that's why she felt uncomfortable.

People's memories are always presented in the form of associations, and Mikael is right. Therefore, when Mei saw Mikael's smile, it was hard not to think of the warmth of relying on him as a "father" for nearly three years. That's why the final betrayal was so...unacceptable.

Of course, Mikael's smile itself is not something that makes people feel comfortable.

For people who don't know his background, this smile may be really good. No matter how you interpret it, it is a smile that does not contain any malice, but is full of positive energy.

But if you look at it together with everything he has done, it can easily make people feel both psychological and physical discomfort.

He's obviously not a good person, so why do he put on such a nice smile?

Isn't that...a waste of such a smile?

She was thinking this, but she didn't notice that Mikael had already pushed aside the crowd and stood in front of her.

"Let's go."

The man sent out the invitation coldly. Of course, what will not be absent is the warmth from the palm of his head.

"Mikael...you...sometimes give people the impression that you are completely two people, you know?"

Mei looked into Mikael's eyes seriously, but could not see any fluctuations.

He didn't seem to hear Mei Yi's words, and just mechanically repeated the previous words in the conscious world:

"Let's go...this time, I might have to trouble you to save Kiana."

"Ah……"

Mei felt that if there was a chance, she should ask Mebius if there was something wrong with Mikael's brain.

It feels like having schizophrenia. Sometimes, even if there is only a second difference between the two, from the tone to the expression, they are two completely different people.

A pair of footsteps passed by the two of them ruthlessly. On the other hand, they were also the two people who stopped unexpectedly, like a small islet in the center of a river that separates the crowd.

Mei Yi suddenly realized that she didn't seem to have a choice.

Of course she was not the kind of person who would fall in the same place twice. She would never believe Mikael's lies again, but did it make any difference whether she believed it or not?

Could she say no here? Since three years ago, her life has been completely controlled by Mikael, and there is no way she can escape.

Without the strength to threaten the other party, there is naturally no so-called equality, and naturally there is no right to refuse.

If luckily he could see Kiana again as Mikael said... maybe it would be a good thing.

But not necessarily. It depends on what exactly Mikael wants to do.

He previously said that he wanted to kill himself in front of Kiana to promote the reawakening of the Second Herrscher. But this really doesn't make sense, not just what Mikael did in the floating port at the end... If he wanted to do this, he didn't need to treat himself so gently, right...

Or is this also a way for him to have fun?

Okay.

Suppose he didn't lie, and he really wanted to do this, how can I avoid this "most unwanted" outcome?

Even if she refused, the other party would have countless ways to bring her to Kiana and kill her.

Thinking over it, there is only one way to avoid this outcome...

Mei put the five fingers of her right hand together and slowly raised it.

When the angle between her upper and lower arms reached 160 degrees, she suddenly thought of a question: If he lied again, it was not what he wanted to do at all, wouldn't it be a waste of his life...

But soon she was relieved again.

Even so, death may not be painful.

If there must be a way to show her resistance to Mikael's manipulation of her fate, then it is this way if nothing unexpected happens.

Maybe, such a death is sweeter than imagined.

The angle between her upper and lower arms finally approached ninety degrees. At this point, perhaps she could try to extend her hand knife forward. If she was lucky, she might be able to pierce Mikael's heart when he was caught off guard.

But it was only possible.

No, perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe it as impossible.

Forward, or upward?

She quickly gave the answer, although she paused for a moment for that.

Then, her wrist was held again.

"Let's go. What are you thinking about?"

The annoying smile appeared again, and Mikael's mouth curled up slightly, and the hand holding her wrist gently pulled.

There was no word between the two of them for a while, but they kept moving forward in the noisy crowd.

The lights were lit up all around, and the high-rise buildings that rose from the ground were like huge fingers, holding up the dark gray sky.

The only small piece of sky that was exposed was decorated with a half-moon moon and a tiny star that followed the corner of the moon like a shadow.

"Are you hungry? Let's go eat something first?"

Looking at Mikael's smiling face, Mei resisted the urge to punch him, but she felt a sense of familiarity in her heart.

Thinking carefully, isn't this the scene when the two of them met for the first time in the true sense...

The strong and stimulating spicy smell swept over the body odor and perfume of thousands of people, and was easily captured by Mei's sense of smell.

She sniffed and wanted to refuse, but she couldn't help the saliva that kept flowing under her tongue.

"Let's go! It's rare to come to Tianqiong City. After all, it is one of the cities with the most food in Shenzhou. If you don't eat something, it's equivalent to coming here for nothing, right?"

But he just said he was going to save Kiana...

Mei wanted to remind him so, but in the end she wisely shut her mouth and blindly followed Mikael's footsteps.