The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Ah!"

With a start, Seele lifted the heavy quilt and almost jumped out of bed, her face almost bumping into Cocolia.

"Huh?"

The blue eyes rippled like lake water, followed by confusion and confusion. It seemed that she had slept too long, she just felt a little dizzy and couldn't help but cover her forehead.

But her peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of the empty side, although it felt a little unreal, she still hesitantly called out the name of that person...

"Sister Bronya?"

"Huh? Who is that?"

"Huh?"

Before she could react to what happened, a warm and rough big hand gently fell on her head and gently combed her hair.

"Is it a sister that Seele once knew?"

"Yes... um."

Such a gentle mother Cocolia always gives Seele a strong sense of unreality. She doesn't know why sister Bronya, who slept in the same bed with her last night, suddenly disappeared, and even Cocolia mother has no impression of her?

If all this happened in the real world, Seele might have been anxious to find the "answer". But this is the quantum sea, a world bubble where she can't explain the principle of existence.

It is easy for people to accept some unexpected things in such a place.

When something incomprehensible happens, don't rush to investigate the principle of this thing, but face the consequences of this thing and find a way to solve it-after drifting in the quantum sea for a period of time, Seele has gradually learned this.

"I'm sorry, Cocolia mom, I seem to..."

"It's okay. I told the kids that you were not feeling well today, so you slept a little longer. How about that? You can sleep a little longer if you want. Are you really too tired? As the most sensible child here, you have worked really hard these days."

"No, no, no, Seele is fine."

Seele waved her hands repeatedly and even jumped off the bed to prove that she was fine.

The difference between the Cocolia mom in front of her and the one she remembered was really big. It's not that this is bad. Seele even thinks that there is a possibility that Cocolia mom will really become like this. It's just that she herself can't get used to it yet.

Staying in bed on a cold day, even if it's not a warm bed, is a very attractive thing. However, Seele has too many things to do. At least she has to find Sister Bronya who clearly came yesterday...

But at the moment when she was down to earth, a strange idea suddenly took root in her mind--Could it be that the Bronya she saw in her memory was just an illusion caused by sleepiness?

"Then go wash up quickly. It's lunch time soon. Someone will come to deliver a batch of supplies, and you will have to guide them to put the things into the warehouse. Oh, by the way, just like the last time, try to prevent those people from seeing the children in the orphanage, okay?"

Her face was gently held, Xier was stunned for a moment, and nodded with a dull look in her eyes.

The process of washing up doesn't take much time, but it makes people feel that time is unbearable inexplicably.

Wipe the water stains on her face and walk out of the bedroom. The children playing and laughing in the corridor greeted her loudly.

"Good afternoon, Sister Xier! Tamiani pooped in her pants this morning!"

"You are talking nonsense! Last time you blamed me for wetting the bed!"

The two boys soon started chasing each other upstairs and downstairs, and more children cheered and clapped their hands to cheer for the two of them.

Xier's face froze. After she came to her senses, she watched the scene with a smile. She was not worried about the two boys. Sure enough, after running for less than half a minute, the two children who were aggressive before were panting and holding the wall to throw the pot at each other. The children watching also dispersed and played amid the boos.

Xier smiled and walked forward, leaving a slap on the two boys' unusually pale foreheads.

"You two, you have to have a limit when you make trouble. You are obviously not in good health, but you still like to show off... Cocolia's mother has said many times that such intense exercise will accelerate the disease. You don't want to spend Christmas lying in bed, right?"

Xier helped the two children up one by one and carefully sent them back to the bedroom.

"Rest well first. Xier will ask Lilin to bring you lunch today. If you feel more relaxed after the nap, you can get out of bed and walk around, but don't run again. Do you hear me?"

Touching the child's arm full of purple lines, Xier forced a smile.

Tamini, who had just defecated in his pants in the morning, was already snoring. The child who took the initiative to cause trouble was still breathing in the cold air. It was not until more than ten seconds later that he looked at Xier belatedly.

"Sister Xier, did Mother Kokolia tell me when my and Tamini's illnesses would be cured..."

"Of course she did. As long as it is an illness, it will definitely be cured. As long as you are good, eat and sleep on time every day, and don't be naughty like you just now, you will get better soon."

"Well..."

The child's answer was as thin as a mosquito.

But the next second, he burst into tears, not giving Xier time to react, and his tears had already wet the pillow.

"Liar! Sister Xier is lying!"

"Where did I lie to you..."

The child covered his eyes tightly and didn't listen to Xier's explanation. He cried for nearly a minute.

Then, he let go of his hand, bit his lip and said:

"Sister Xier has said the same thing at least ten times... But, but... Tamini and my body... Don't we know it ourselves? Since this purple thing grew on my body... It's not okay... It's not okay... It started with me and Tamini, then Aura and Reina, then Mika, Pava, Octavi and Lana... Everyone will become like this... Everyone will..."

At this point, the child suddenly scratched the lines on his arm hard, and his sharp nails quickly scratched long blood marks on his arm.

Xier stared at this scene blankly, and it was not until two or three seconds later that she reacted and pressed the child's hands and feet hard.

"It's not like that! Listen to Sister Xier, okay?"

"I don't want it! I don't want it! I just want to play, I just want to run! Why can't we even do these things! We were so obedient before, but the disease didn't get better, right! Then why can't we... Uh! Uh!"

The boy's eyes widened, Xier held his body with her right arm, and then quickly took out two pills from her pocket with her left hand, crushed them in her hand, and stuffed them directly into the boy's mouth, and then took the cup from the bedside table and poured all the cold water into the boy's mouth.

The boy soon quieted down and didn't make any sound.

He opened his mouth and looked stupidly at the upper bunk bed, his eyelids slowly fell in trembling, closed his eyes, opened them again, closed his eyes again, and opened them again...

"Hey... Sister Xier... Why did we become like this..."

Xier bit her lower lip, held her breath, and didn't answer, but gently tidied the broken hair on the child's forehead with her hands.

"Sister Xier, Cocolia's mother said... it's because humans are born with original sin that they need to endure the test of suffering... is that true...?"

The boy bit the last syllable hard, and his eyelids fell again irreversibly.

Xier sat on the bed, looking at the boy nervously, until a slight snoring sounded, which merged inextricably with the snoring of Tamini on the upper bunk, Xier let out a long sigh, and her tense upper body was no longer straight, and she quickly hugged her head.

Teardrops fell, at first just one drop after another, until they formed a silver line.

The white dress at her knees was stained with tears, and turned into the same color as the wall gray. Xier tilted her head back, but still couldn't stop the tears from overflowing from her eyes.

According to Cocolia, the child in front of her was the first to be infected with Honkai disease, and then just as he said, the second infected person was Tamini, who had the best relationship with him, and then the other children.

According to the requirements of the Valkyrie Code, if the child in front of him is Seele's comrade, it is clear that he should be killed at this time. Next, whether it will infect more children or suddenly become a dead soldier, it is unpredictable.

But to be honest, Seele didn't even have time to think about this problem.

Because...

This scene in front of her is not unfamiliar...

From waking up to now, except for the initial sleep, everything should have happened "yesterday" in her memory.

This can explain why Sister Bronya suddenly disappeared.

But why?

Sometimes it's like this.

Obviously, we know clearly that there are many, many things more important than exploring "why", but humans always fall into the vicious circle of pursuing "why".

The arrival of Sister Bronya in my memory, couldn't it be a dream...

Seele thought so desperately.

Mikael in the world bubble couldn't take her out, so he could only try his best to maintain her existence. The experience of drifting in various world bubbles is indeed rich and colorful, but it is definitely not comfortable.

After meeting Sister Bronya, she thought...

She thought she could finally leave here...

However, if that was a dream, then what Mikael in the original world did was just a misunderstanding in the dream...

Blinking, feeling the blurred vision become clear again, Seele found it difficult to control her emotions.

No, perhaps even the boundary between reality and illusion is no longer clear.

If Sister Bronya's appearance was a dream, then what about other memories of "yesterday"?

Is that also part of the prophecy?

Or...

Everything she is experiencing now is a dream, a dream that she fell into last night without knowing when?

Twisting her thighs hard, Seele did not feel more awake.

Helplessly, she could only rub her eyes hard to cover up the redness of her eyes.

There is another way to define what is real or not.

"Another me, are you there?"

No response.

A melodious bell sounded outside the window, but there was a crack on the bell, and it always gave people a feeling of lack of energy when it rang.

Strangely, Xier could clearly feel a part of her body vibrating with the sound of the bell. It was as if someone was knocking hard on the wall in her heart.

Lunch time had come.

Xier stood up, smoothed the wrinkles on her clothes, and walked out after calming down. She gently closed the door and quickly came to the restaurant.

Cocolia's mother couldn't take care of more than 20 children by herself, so she had to rely on the older children to help.

Walking into the restaurant, he was busy arranging and distributing the food. While distributing the food, he had to comfort the children in the gentlest tone.

"Come on, new supplies will arrive this afternoon. You can have mashed potatoes and polenta tonight!"

She saw off two slices of bread as hard as sawing wood, put them gently on the boy's plate in front of her, and then filled her with a bowl of hot beet soup. Xi'er had to work very hard to squeeze out a bowl of beet soup. A little smile.

Boring prayers before meals, praying to gods that you don't believe in and are not sure of their existence are sins that only you know about.

Soak the bread that is as hard as bricks and crushed like sawdust into the blood-like beet soup. Although it becomes a little softer when you chew it, it is mixed with a soup that is sweet or not, but has no other taste. juice.

The children didn't speak either. After all, just chewing these foods requires all the strength of the whole body. Everyone just covered their heads and chewed, clearing away the food in front of them as quickly as possible, as if this could get rid of the bad taste and texture earlier.

After lunch comes a long period of washing dishes. If it's summer, this job can be regarded as a break after the morning, but now that the weather is getting colder, it can be said to be the pain of peeling off the skin on your hands.

Fortunately, there was a timely shout from outside the door.

After receiving Cocolia's instructions, Xi'er walked toward the door with dull eyes.

"The delivery guy is here."

After muttering softly, what he saw through the front door fence was indeed a man in black robes carrying a truck of supplies.

"Seventy-three boxes in total. The extra box contains twenty cans of luncheon meat."

Many children spontaneously came to help. Xi'er waved her hand and drove them back. Cocolia took the children back to take a nap. Then Xi'er and the man in black robe worked together to defeat seventy-three ordinary adult men. The moving boxes were moved and pushed to the warehouse.

The man in black robe did not take off his hat from beginning to end, and Xier was also immersed in thinking and did not notice this kind of thing at all.

Of course, it doesn't matter even if you notice it, because in the memory of "yesterday", the man in black robe in front of you also looks like this.

The afternoon became longer and longer, and the sun seemed to hang in the sky. The second hand jumped several times each time before slowly moving a little further to the west.

Xi'er realized that she was trapped in some kind of cycle, or "reincarnation", half an hour before the sun was about to set in the western wasteland.

At that time, she was gathering ingredients in the kitchen, preparing mashed potatoes and polenta for the children's dinner.

Suddenly, the ground shook, accompanied by the sound of heavy objects collapsing.

Cocolia motioned for her to stay in the kitchen and walked to the door alone.

Then, Seele heard Mikael's voice. (End of chapter)