The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

The smell of gunpowder smoke and blood condensed in the air, mixed with the smell of rust coming from the armored walls through the thick paint and the smell of machine oil from which the source could not be determined. Perhaps there was also the smell of sweat and some people with enlarged sweat glands. The unique body odor of human beings, all alone, are enough to make people vomit all the last night's dinner, but now they are completely mixed together, and they only make people lose their desire to live.

However, this is just Bronya's personal feeling. For the noisy soldiers around her, all this is enough to prove that she is still alive. In such an era, as long as she lives, as long as she can survive, Just fine.

In this world that is about to face the end, most people can no longer find anything more important than their own lives - no one would say this, but the noise around them converges Flowing into Bronya's ears, this is what she heard.

She didn't like this, it was too desperate.

“The essence of human beings is to lay down one’s life for something that is not ‘me’.”

Although Bronya wanted to use a dagger to poke eighteen holes in the body of the person who told her this sentence, she had to admit that this sentence was correct.

And these soldiers who were just living for the sake of living, or just living because of living, looked so pitiful to Bronya.

But poor people must also be hateful. From the moment she entered this warehouse, no living thing appeared within three meters of Bronya. It is true that there are many people holding corpses here, and the corpse in Bronya's arms is also covered with black cloth, but I don't know who spread the news. At least everyone here knows what is in her arms. Who does the body belong to...

Lawyer. The one responsible for all this harm.

At least that's what these soldiers thought.

Bronya wished she could calm down a little bit. She kept telling herself that the soldiers who killed Ling had all paid the price with their lives. These people in front of her were innocent. If she vented her anger on them, it would be the same as venting her anger on the Herrscher. What's the difference between those scumbags who vented their hatred on Ling?

"Ah……"

But this did not prevent Bronya from sneering twice, and turned back all the peeping eyes with the coldest eyes.

There are still too many people in this world, this world is still too big, maybe some people have to be killed to be clean - negative thoughts like this kept spinning in Bronya's mind, and when she realized her mistake , and I feel that it is better to just make mistakes.

Anyway, that’s all I thought. If people are convicted based on their thoughts, then no one in this world should be exempted from the death penalty. What's more, Bronya can feel the same emotions from the eyes of those soldiers...

To be honest, she didn't care, but she was definitely not able to ignore these malicious intentions. That look, everyone's look, made her sit on pins and needles in just twenty minutes. The desire to escape arose in her heart at least three times. Unfortunately, she had nowhere to escape.

Most of the people in the base, regardless of whether they have combat capability or not, have been concentrated into several huge warehouses far away from the battlefield——

The beds in the medical department are simply not enough to accommodate so many injured patients, not to mention that a large number of ordinary soldiers have withdrawn from the frontline battle. I heard from them that the Twelfth Herrscher is a "virus" that erodes reality and the Internet at the same time. In this world, not to mention ordinary soldiers, not even the few remaining fusion warriors can get involved in this kind of battle.

The warehouse is larger than expected. It must have been emptied very early. The floor is covered with thick and even dust, and there are no traces of the placement of materials. What does this mean?

Just observing without thinking is the same as not observing. Bronya is not such a fool.

No matter what was originally placed in this warehouse, was it arms? Or food? Or medicine? In fact, it doesn't matter. The only truth that Bronya can grasp is... there is nothing here except a group of human beings who are worse off than alive.

The warehouse is like a human stomach, and the dust on the floor is like the acid from not eating for a long time, complaining about the tragic shortage of supplies to everyone who is willing to listen.

It was also a world ravaged by collapse. Bronya had been here less than two hours, but she only felt that this place was completely different from her original world.

And is the reason for this difference the fifty thousand years or the distance of the eight Herrschers? As soon as she thought of this, Bronya became uncontrollably frightened. For a time, this fear dispelled the previous restlessness, allowing Bronya to calm down again.

"Captain Kevin!"

When Bronya heard someone shouting, she quickly raised her head, but her height was completely incomparable with the many soldiers. She saw almost all of the thousands of soldiers standing up from the warehouse door to her. Just like this With a simple movement, the sound can be compared to ocean waves, not to mention the friendly "Captain Kevin" they mouth.

But Bronya just sneered.

Bronya didn't know what attitude these people had towards Kevin, but she recalled what Sakura said earlier - "What do those people in the base think of us?"

Fusion warriors probably look like Rosalia and Lilia, but Kevin looks more human than the two of them. Except for the cold air lingering around him, at least there is no inhuman organization.

Despite this, in the eyes of these people, "Captain Kevin" has long been a non-human being who cannot be trusted. They usually don't respect Kevin that much.

After understanding this and looking at the scene in front of her, Bronya no longer felt shocked. The only emotion she could grasp was sadness.

I feel sad for these ordinary soldiers, but also feel sad for Kevin and Sakura.

However, I don’t know where Mikael is who has not yet appeared. As a Herrscher, he should receive more hostility than the Fusion Warrior. Is this the reason why he is like this? I always feel that this reason is too childish.

Just as she was thinking this, Bronya felt that the flow of people in front of her separated to both sides, even more exaggeratedly than when they were moving away from her before, forming a passage about five meters wide.

This is not the so-called "respect", it's just that when Kevin doesn't carry the sky fire, no one can get close to the invisible barrier formed by the cold air.

"Bronya. Follow me."

Kevin consciously stopped seven or eight meters in front of Bronya, his lips just opened a small mouth, and the slightly tired voice sounded clearly in her ears.

Bronya let out a breath. She was mentally prepared. After all, an organization like the Fire Chasing Moth must have a strict filing system. They only needed to check and find out that Bronya would never be in that place. At that time and place, she appeared in the room where Ling was once imprisoned. Now calling her to go and conducting routine inquiries was on the one hand. I am afraid that she also suspected that her sudden appearance was related to the collapse.

No matter what she thought, Kevin turned around and left after saying those few words.

Bronya glanced at the body wrapped in black cloth in her arms, hesitated for less than a second, put it on her shoulders, and followed Kevin.

Maybe it would be easier to leave Ling's body here first, but she couldn't imagine...no, she could only imagine what these people would do to Ling's body. If such a disgusting thing happens once, it is enough to be called disgusting, and Bronya never wants to see it a second time.

And... she has to help Sakura take care of Ling's body. This is the agreement between her and Sakura.

The warehouse became quiet at some point, so quiet that just the footsteps of a man and a girl could completely overwhelm the breathing of nearly two thousand people.

Bronya felt countless eyes gathering, but without exception, those eyes fell either on the body on her shoulders or on Kevin.

It wasn't until the two of them reached the door of the warehouse that someone suddenly shouted in a choked voice:

"Captain Kevin, have we won?"

"clatter--"

Kevin stopped, turned half of his face, and glanced across the two thousand faces.

"we won."

The same words, but Kevin gives them as declarative sentences.

The warehouse became quieter for a while. Kevin said nothing and turned around and walked out of the warehouse. Bronya trotted to follow. When she also walked out of the warehouse, deafening cheers came from behind. .

There were no words that could be clearly captured. Everyone just cheered nervously, glad that they had survived this disaster, and that mankind had finally defeated another Herrscher, and he was the last one before the end. ——This was mentioned in the history class taught by an unknown man at St. Freya Academy. There were thirteen Herrschers in total. At least there were only thirteen in the previous civilization, and they defeated the twelfth Herrscher. This means that humans have finally reached the finals.

Bronya turned around in confusion. She saw someone tearing at her uniform and shouting meaningless syllables at the top of her lungs. She saw someone kneeling on the ground, covering his face but unable to block the overflowing tears. But the lower half of his face was smiling, and there were countless couples of men and women they knew or didn't know who were hugging and kissing excitedly in front of the public. Even many wounded soldiers who were dying were also smiling. , the chest gradually lost its ups and downs.

"It's really sad..."

Because only Bronya here knows that the people here have not been able to cross the end after all, otherwise, there would be no era in which she was.

But... I just have a very strange feeling in my heart.

It seems that the negative emotions I had towards these people have subsided a lot.

why?

Are you pitying them? Or was there some unspeakable touch in my heart, and for a moment I felt that these people were no longer so hateful?

Bronya didn't understand.

"Have you seen enough?"

Kevin suddenly spoke, and Bronya turned back. He still maintained a distance of eight meters and looked at her expressionlessly.

Bronya didn't answer, but just took her own steps towards her.

The two of them walked quickly in the dark tunnel. The corpses of dead soldiers were piled on both sides of the road... No, perhaps it would be more appropriate to say the corpses of Kevin's compatriots.

For a full ten minutes, the two of them didn't say a word, and they didn't meet any human beings. They just walked forward...until a third person appeared in front of them.

At just the first glance, Bronya could tell that she was a fusion warrior. It's not because she's wearing weird nun clothes, it's just that from a biological point of view, in the natural state, the fat accumulation on the human chest cannot reach that level - it must be a side effect of becoming a fusion warrior!

Only when she got closer did she see that there was a palm print left on the nun's pale cheek, and there were traces of flames burning on it, which reminded Bronya of the man named Qianjie.

Bronya was not interested in what happened between them, and her eyes only stayed on her face for a moment, but the nun took the initiative to speak:

"This child must be Bronya. Come on, [please] hand over Ling's body to me."

"Um?"

Bronya only felt that her consciousness was in a trance. Her vigilance had not yet risen, and her hands unconsciously wanted to hand Ling's body to the nun in front of her.

"Apponia!"

Kevin drank lightly.

"Don't... don't use the commandments anymore."

Unexpectedly, Kevin's voice was pleading.

The nun known as "Aponia" bowed her head deeply and said nothing.

"Give Ling's body to her first. Don't worry, she may be... the kindest person here."

Not sure if it was an illusion, but Bronya heard a hint of absurdity and ridicule in Kevin's voice.

She didn't try to resist and obeyed Kevin's instructions extremely obediently. She didn't think she had the possibility of resisting in front of Kevin.

Kevin suddenly took a deep breath, and then motioned for Bronya to follow him.

After walking only a few steps, Bronya turned the corner of the tunnel and saw Sakura.

"Sakura, she's here."

Bronya's eyelids trembled, trying to swallow a mouthful of saliva, but the saliva and the breath got stuck in her throat, and she couldn't swallow it.

"You came."

Sakura wanted to raise her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, but she only raised her hand halfway and then dropped it weakly.

The entire blade of the ice-blue long knife that must have pierced countless enemies had penetrated into Sakura's abdomen, and the huge wound almost cut her slender waist in two.

"How... how is it possible... who did this..."

Sakura seemed not to hear Bronya's question and asked angrily:

"Ling's body, is it okay..."

"no problem."

Bronya had begun to slowly accept all this. She breathed a sigh of relief and nodded vigorously.

"That's good……"

Sakura's head dropped.

One second...two seconds...just when Bronya thought she was dead, Sakura raised her head with all her strength.

"My...wakizashi...is still there?"

Bronya quickly took off the wakizashi from her waist and handed it to Sakura's hand. She realized that the woman in front of her could no longer see clearly.

"I'm sorry... Bronya... I can't fulfill our agreement... The cherry blossoms in my hometown should have bloomed... It must be a beautiful scenery... But I haven't... for ten years Seeing the cherry blossoms... But so did Ling... If I went to see the cherry blossoms before I died behind her back... she would definitely blame me when I got to the spring..."

"No...no way!"

Tears began to well up in her eyes, Bronya shouted in Sakura's ear, but her voice became more and more choked.

"Bronya... I... completed the agreement with Ling... I accompanied her until the last moment... I can be considered a good sister..."

"Yes! Absolutely!"

"You are better than me... You must also find your sister..."

"Uh-huh!"

Sakura's eyes moved blankly, and her gaze fell behind Bronya.

"Kevin...you said...my ending...can be regarded as living up to the title of 'Fire Chasing Hero' given by her..."

"Absolutely not."

The man's voice was as steady as ever, but Bronya heard the sound of broken ice falling to the ground.

"hehe……"

Sakura grinned to both sides, but the severe pain prevented her from ending her life with a smile.

Sakura is dead.

"She could have lived."

From the direction of the sound, Bronya realized that Kevin had sat behind her.

"The Twelfth Herrscher launched a fierce attack on the Fire Chaser Moth from the online world, but in reality what we have to face are only low-level Death Warriors. With Sakura's strength, she could have survived."

"..."

"Sakura committed suicide. She firmly believed that Suzuo's personality had not been erased. She used her death to stop the Herrscher for two seconds, giving Mei the chance to seal the Herrscher. Her death was worth it, she She did accompany Ling until the very end, both as a warrior and as a sister..."

The rest of the words could no longer be uttered.

And what about Bronya?

She kept telling herself in her heart, telling herself that what was happening in front of her was just a play from 50,000 years ago. She was just watching it all happen as a bystander. She couldn't change anything at all, so she didn't need to feel bad about it. sad.

It was effective at first, and she gradually held back the tears that were swirling in her eyes. But with Kevin's superfluous explanation, the tears could no longer hold back.

"Sakura also asked me for a favor."

Kevin nagged obnoxiously.

"We will help search for your sister, but she wants you to bury her and Ling's body back home together with me. Perhaps in her view, this can be regarded as fulfilling the agreement with you."

"When to set off?"

Bronya wiped away her tears and snot with her palms.

"Now. No one knows when the end will come. Honkai Impact won't even give us time to hold a funeral."

This world is finally coming to an end, tears in my eyes