The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"……Well."

"ah!"

At the end of the dream, it ended with a piece of colorful black. Xier suddenly opened her eyes. The strange things in her eyes were mutually exclusive with the dream that had not dissipated in her consciousness, making her unable to tell where she was for a moment. Not sure what to do and what to do.

The only clear concept in my mind may be my own name.

Xier.

"Xie'er!"

"?"

Is someone calling me?

After a long period of drowsiness, there is always a feeling of being unable to move. This feeling is not laziness and sleepiness, but a disconnect between past and present, dream and reality. I always feel something in a trance, and even the sounds ringing in my ears have the hazy feeling of bursting blisters. She couldn't tell the direction from which the sound came.

Xi'er turned her head in confusion. Everything around her was shrouded in a thin blue-purple light. A little light condensed into a square solid in the air, and then connected back and forth into a long string, heading towards the huge and unreal vortex above her head. Extend past.

"Xie'er!"

This time the voice was clearer than before, probably because his consciousness had stabilized a lot over time, or maybe the person who made the sound was closer to him.

Just that sound...

"Xie'er. Have you woken up?"

Mikael's face appeared upside down. Xi'er was not frightened. Instead, she breathed a sigh of relief and sat up with Mikael's help.

"Do you feel okay?"

Xi'er nodded.

"Well... just to be on the safe side, let's test it according to the procedure."

Mikael stretched out his index finger against Xier's eyes, causing the latter's eyes to shrink toward the center unconsciously, and there was an obvious double vision in the sight.

"One plus one equals two, so what is this?"

"Two... one."

After rubbing Xi'er's head vigorously, Mikael continued to ask:

"who I am?"

"Brother Mikael."

"Where is this?"

"The Quantum Sea."

"How many days has it been?"

"Three... uh, four? Five? Ah!"

Xi'er covered her forehead, looking extremely aggrieved.

"Are you counting?"

Mikael covered her cheek and told a cold joke that was neither cold nor funny.

"It seems that the remaining concept of time in the world of real numbers in your heart has gradually become blurred, but it doesn't matter, there is no concept of time in the 'sea'."

"Then...Brother Mikael, how long has Xi'er been here?"

"Ah? I don't know either. Didn't I say that there is no concept of time in the sea, and I am a 'shadow' in the sea. Naturally, I don't know the time in your real number world. The reason why I ask this question is I’m not talking about time with you, I’m just observing the degree of integration between your consciousness and the quantum sea from the side.”

"ah……"

Xier sighed in disappointment, and waved her hand awkwardly:

"I'm sorry, Xi'er wasn't too sober just now. She thought brother Mikael was, uh... and brother Mikael here was the brother Mikael outside..."

"Well……"

Mikael supported his head and scratched his cheek.

"How should I put it? In a sense, he and I are indeed the same person, right?"

"Yes..."

"That's not right. I am just who I am now. I still have a long way to go before I can become who I am in the future."

So, are they considered the same person? Xi'er hesitated to express the questions in her mind, but she was also a little afraid that Mikael would start an endless tirade like he did several times before...

Uh... It's not that she doesn't want to talk to Mikael, it's just that the other person's attitude is a little too enthusiastic. He is so enthusiastic... so enthusiastic and sensitive that Xie'er always feels that there is some kind of fear in his words. The reason why he always He was talking against the clock, just afraid of something that might come in the next moment.

But Xi'er didn't know what that thing was, and she couldn't help him.

Perhaps, listening quietly is the best help. With this thought in mind, Xi'er finally turned her body over and sat firmly among the purple squares that were surging like a wave.

But this time, before Mikael even had time to speak, she felt "sleepy" first.

"Uh... did it come so fast this time..."

Her vision was dim and narrow, and her arms were unable to support her body, but she did not fall, but fell into a cold embrace.

Looking at Mikael's approaching face, she realized that it was a third person hugging her.

Before she could ask any questions, Mikael's index finger tapped her forehead lightly——

"If you want to sleep, just take a nap first. Don't force yourself."

"Um……"

The girl's answer was as thin as a gnat, and the confused ending was replaced by a long and profound breathing sound before it dissipated.

"The tidal fluctuations of the Quantum Sea seem to be more frequent."

"Um."

"Has she sunk in?"

"She's sunk in."

The exact same words came from different people, and the tone was the same as the question and answer.

The girl who looked exactly like Xi'er sighed softly and turned Xi'er in her arms so that Mikael could also see the foreign object that overlapped with her "body".

To describe it roughly, it was a blue-purple bubble, like an extremely small version of the big guy above its head. There is a faint blue light spot in the center of the ball, which looks like a small ball hanging from the head of a fish, and more small shadow squares surround the light spot like a string of jellyfish to serve as the boundary of the "bubble".

Such a thing, compared to a "bubble", is actually more like a planet and its satellite rings. The reason why it is called "bubble" is because this is the posture of the thing called "world bubble" in the subjective intentions of several "human beings" present.

But in the final analysis, it is just a bubble in the sea. The bubble reflects the last appearance of a leaf that fell from the tree. When this bubble blends with the person who fell into the sea, it will drag the person's consciousness into the endless world. In the phantom of reincarnation, it is not until the bubbles drifting on the ocean currents separate from the person, or the bubbles burst, that the consciousness can become clear for a period of time.

This kind of experience exists in Mikael's "memory", and "Xie'er" is no stranger to it either. Naturally no one would make a fuss.

"The world bubble this time seems to be quite complete. She will probably stay in it for a while, so let's continue the previous topic."

Mikael slowly retracted his finger. The other Xi'er, or rather, the Xi'er that Mikael was more familiar with, but in fact was really unfamiliar to him, raised his head as he spoke. The covered blood-red pupils were exposed, and after looking at each other for a moment, they turned their heads away in an extremely awkward manner.

"Don't be so silent, hurry up and continue talking. I would like to know what decision your 'real self' made in the end."

There is no concept of time in the quantum sea, nor in the imaginary number space. This is a fact that has been emphasized countless times. So the time people feel in it is just a subjective feeling in a sense.

It seems that at the moment, the real Xi'er feels that three or four days have passed, and has sunk into the world bubble more than once, but for Mikael and Xi'er as the existence of the will of the stigmata, what they feel Time was only a few sentences long, and during these few sentences, the two of them watched Xi'er wake up and fall asleep again and again, seven or eight times.

"Xie'er" rubbed her face and was constantly interrupted by the crybaby. She felt that a long time had passed and she needed to think carefully about what she had said to Mikael before.

"After all, I didn't witness those things with my own eyes. They were all relayed to me by Su later. Are you sure you want to continue listening... That... is not a pleasant-sounding story..."

Most of the time, she appeared to be more "violent" than the real Xi'er, but her words at the moment were very calm.

Fifty thousand years have passed, and she still hasn't figured out who she is. Is it the personality that has been suppressed in Xi'er's heart 50,000 years ago, or is it a brand new individual born through the miracle of the stigmata.

But no matter which one it is, some things cannot be changed or abandoned. Like the connection between her and Mikael.

Is this connection based on consciousness, soul, or the stigmata created by Mebius? The answer is self-explanatory.

There is no doubt that Mikael, who walked out of the world bubble in front of him, has stigmata on his body. The time when the stigmata was implanted was shortly before the Sixth Collapse, when he was suddenly attacked by a being from the imaginary space while fighting Vishnu.

Although it is just a "reflection", it has everything it should have. Through the stigmata on his body, "Xie'er" can also faintly feel his mood.

how to say.

Should it be said that he is worthy of being Mikael's reflection?

Just like him, he always likes to smile when his heart is the most painful.

He is not a fool. He should have already discovered the problem when he discovered that Mei and Bronya knew him in the world bubble.

"Xie'er" has always been vaguely aware of the fact that Mikael knows the future. This is the confidence that being the will of the Stigma brings to him (crossed out).

If I had to say it, he probably already roughly understood what happened next at that time. Otherwise, he wouldn't have collapsed and cried, and would have had to slap him hard to wake up.

Therefore, "Xie'er" is really worried, can he accept that reality?

But thinking about it on the other hand, since I have already anticipated what will happen next, it may indeed be easier to accept... right?

Their eyes met again, and Mikael did not respond with any words to her words. He just looked at her with burning eyes and bit his lips hard.

"whispering sound!"

Pouting her lips, "Xie'er" tried to keep her words concise and skip some... sensitive places:

"According to Su's description, the two of you disappeared on the second day of the wedding. The news announced by Mei was that you went to the imaginary space to find hope for victory for everyone. The Fire Chasing Moth also appeared on the third day after your wedding. Yue defeated the Twelfth Herrscher, but the only humans left alive at that time were the 30,000 Fire Chaser Moth warriors in the headquarters..."

"Then?"

Mikael tried to raise the corners of his mouth, but the corners of his mouth kept struggling, and in the end they were just barely flattened.

"A week after the Twelfth Herrscher disappeared, he finally landed on the moon. Su and the others rushed to New Atla, but..."

"But at the end of the day, what they see is me, right?"

"you know?"

"Xie'er" felt angry that she had been tricked, but as soon as she saw Mikael's soothing brows, drooped eyelids, and slightly raised lips, she knew that something was wrong and didn't care about it. Kind of angry.

"I just guessed!"

Mikael smiled and waved his hand, but his voice was not as calm as his expression. It was fluttering like a paper airplane being thrown out casually, as if he would be laughing the next moment, and as if he was crying the last moment.

"It's only possible that I can survive to the next era and still make Su and the others hostile to me. But... is it just me?"

"Xie'er" was stunned for a moment, and then she pursed her lips tightly, not knowing how to answer.

Mikael smiled and stuck out his tongue. "Xie'er" was caught off guard and was startled. Then she heard Mikael's explanation, although...she didn't understand it at all.

"I roughly understand what happened at that time. Since Mei became the Herrscher and retained the so-called 'humanity', it means that she succeeded. But that is definitely not something that 'I' can accept. I, who is from the original world, should know This is why he embarked on the road of 'return' with her, but he failed to stop her. The final outcome was that 'I' could not face her dissipation, so I chose to become the final one. In this era Looking for a way to save her, that’s basically it, right?”

"Hmph! Should I say that I am the one who knows me best? But...how did you judge that Su is hostile to you now?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

Mikael quickly spread his hands, and Xi'er noticed that the palms did not spread out until they were flat and then stabilized as usual, but quickly retracted them - probably to cover up the traces of trembling.

"You said before that Su and Kevin contacted you five hundred years ago. If it wasn't to deal with me, what else could it be? Besides, you may not have noticed that Xi'er exists in the sea in the form of a soul and can only perceive spiritually. Only fusion warriors can do this. Hen and Destobia are not good at this, and the rest are even less good. It can only be Su and Aponia, and I am too familiar with their powers. If I can’t even feel this… Humph.”

"Okay, you're awesome...eh? What are you going to do?"

Mikael suddenly stood up, but "Xie'er" was holding Xi'er, unable to make the same movement.

"It's nothing. If you're tired of sitting, go to the side and do some exercise. Xi'er, Xi'er will be taken care of by you first!"

"Eh!"

There was no room for rejection at all, leaving only a tongue-twisting instruction, and Mikael disappeared directly from "Seer".

…………

"Is this here... hmm?"

Arriving at the anomaly in the "ocean current" of the quantum sea that he felt earlier, the first thing Mikael saw was a sharp-edged blue gem.

It is buried among the tides composed of shadows. It is even difficult to distinguish at first glance, but what it contains is the power that Mikael is all too familiar with.

"Walter Young? Wait..."

He raised his head and saw a petite figure falling slowly under the huge "whirlpool eye" above his head.

"Bronya?"

Watching the girl fall, Mikael had no intention of helping. Although it is a completely low probability event that people who fell into the "sea" at different time periods will finally meet, it is not too late to wait until things actually get to this point.

The biggest problem now is not Bronya, nor Walter, nor Seele...

It's not even the Kevin that Mikael can vaguely feel exists in this sea.

But himself.

Mikael sat down cross-legged, picked up the core of the First Herrscher, and weighed it twice in his hands.

The "guess" he just mentioned about "Xie'er" was probably what Su was thinking. Because I lost Alicia, I abandoned the whole world to find a way to save her. The cause and effect, the logical closed loop, at first glance, there seems to be no problem.

But Mikael tried his best to put aside all unnecessary emotions, look at the matter from an absolutely neutral third-party perspective, and then put himself in, would he really make such a choice?

"I always feel a little..."

"Mikael, or rather, the past Mikael. I think we need to talk, don't you think?"

Mikael Oran looked back, Su crossed his arms on his chest, closed his eyes, and his long gray hair floated like a ribbon driven by the "ocean current".

"how?"

Su asked softly, and silently took half a step forward.

Mikael stood up while stroking his chest and responded with an awkward smile:

"I didn't realize when you appeared. It was really scary."