The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

[Life is just a walking shadow, a fool who gesticulates clumsily on the stage. He appears for a moment and then quietly retreats silently, full of noise and commotion, but without any meaning. 】

It seemed that she heard someone say this in some book, but like most things at that time, Kiana could no longer remember it.

——

Eeyah - Eeeah -

The sound of wood blocks hitting each other was continuous, as if it never stopped for a moment.

Each doll just pretends to be in a variety of weird postures that are difficult for ordinary people to do. They seem to have no feeling of pain. Many people even accidentally removed their joints, but only to have their joints removed. He anxiously grabbed the people around him to help him put it back.

"What... what on earth are you doing... Siren, is this the farce you are talking about?"

The Second Herrscher did not answer. As she said, even if it is a stage play performed in real time, there is absolutely no reason for the protagonist on the stage to communicate with the audience off the stage.

And without the support of the voice that had always remained in her heart, Kiana's eyes were dodging in all directions - it was obvious that the eyes of the puppets were covered by huge blindfolds, but she could still feel the countless scorching sights.

Sadness, despair, madness, resentment, curse, these are by no means all the emotions contained in those sights, but they are everything that all the dolls try to vent on Kiana.

Click - click -

The doll transformed by Wendy-senpai in front of him suddenly started to dance strangely.

Her limbs twisted up and down, and her waist and neck each rotated in opposite directions. When she finished doing this, she leaned forward again, twisting and lifting her right leg back until it bent to the point of bending with the sound of joints. The top of the head is fixed by the arms.

"La-la-la-la-la-"

It's strange to say that the sound made when the joints of the whole body are twisted is no different from that of a wooden block, but the face of the doll seems to have muscles like a real person. Its mouth can grin a smile without any warmth, and the sound comes from its throat. The singing voice is extremely unpleasant, but if you listen carefully, it's not Senior Wendy's voice at all.

"What kind of... assimilation... is this?"

Kiana's heart was beating wildly. There was no fear, no anger, no reason. Just looking at the absurd and weird scene in front of her, her heart beat accelerated to the point where she could hardly breathe.

Crunch - crunch -

The puppet transformed by Wendy-senpai stood on tiptoes and spun like a ballerina.

But compared to the dance of a real person, its rotation fully complies with the basic laws of the puppet——

Just like a music box that is fully wound, it will only produce the set sounds in a precise manner. The puppet rotates under the control of the silver wire, and the amplitude of each rotation is accurate to 30 degrees. Twelve revolutions complete a full circle. There may be slight deviations, but since it is a delicate doll, perhaps it is normal for it to be as accurate as a machine.

In this unexplained rotation, the position of the doll moved slowly. Kiana's eyes followed it, and then she realized the lines on the ground in front of her.

It is a triangular knot that symbolizes the circle of fate, and the position where the doll finally stopped is exactly in the middle of the triangular knot.

"Dangdang——"

The puppet's feet were lowered from the top of the head, and the feet were staggered one behind the other. It covered its heart with its right hand, leaned slightly towards Kiana, who could not move, and then suddenly raised its body, raised its hands high, and shouted loudly road:

"Then - let's get started!"

Eeyah - Eeeah -

The puppets' joints groaned, and each puppet began to twitch again at the call of the individual among them.

But they have also achieved uniformity in a certain form, and that is the prayer chanted in the mouth——

[Praise be to the God who created the heavens and the earth. From now on and forever, the heavens were created by the words of your mouth, and all the phenomena were formed by the breath of your mouth. You dripped the oil of your decree on our way forward, and did not let us get lost. 】

[Grateful, dear God, we are filled with gratitude to you. Thank you for choosing us out of the vast sea of ​​people. Thank you for loving us unfailingly. It is you who has forgiven our sins and shown us the only way to achieve beauty. 】

[To the omniscient and almighty god, your believers, the children you have blessed have brought you sinners who once believed in you but betrayed you. Your followers uphold your equal love for all people in the world and try to guide her back to the right path. It is a pity, a pity, a lamentation that this sinner will never hear your voice again. 】

[God who swore to take us to the Utopia, we also swore to hand over our bodies to you. We will burn this wrong world. For this reason, even if those who stand in our way are our former brothers, sisters, parents, relatives and friends, we must sentence them. guilty. 】

【guilty! guilty! ! guilty! ! ! 】

"Rumble--"

The ground beneath the feet of the doll that Wendy turned into suddenly rose up with a roar. Two or three seconds later, it stood on a lonely hill, looking down at the [Sinner] under its feet.

With one move of five fingers, a small podium appeared in front of her out of thin air. When she grasped it with five fingers, there was a small gavel that could be called a pocket in her hand.

"That's the power of the Herrscher of Reason! Is it Mikael or Bronya?"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Without giving Kiana a single moment to think, the puppet gently knocked the gavel, announcing the start of this funny trial.

"Next, let me introduce the defendant, Kiana Kaslana's crime!"

The puppet raised its right index finger and raised it above its head (乆).

"At the end of 1999, she, who was still called Sirin at the time, caused the second collapse. She destroyed the infamous Tower of Babylon, but also destroyed the entire Siberia. The storm even affected Eastern Europe, at least millions of people were killed and injured, and nearly 100 million people were displaced-of course, this was limited to Siberia. She then went to the moon, where she stole the power of God and smashed meteorites to the earth, taking the lives of nearly 10 million people. Of course, the most important person who died because of her was the S-class Valkyrie named [Cecilia Shaniat], that is, Kiana's mother hahaha!

"However, this was just the beginning of her sinful life-after the end of the second collapse, Destiny created the K series of androids in order to control the power of the Second Herrscher. And her birth, numbered K423, meant the death of thousands of her "sisters". Just to save her like this, just to save her like this! The real Kiana also sacrificed her life for this——

"Oh my God! That man named Siegfried is so pitiful. You took his wife and daughter away from him, and he gave you his daughter's name, but how did you repay him? That's right——you cut off his arm and almost killed him. After he had to leave you, you felt that he abandoned you, so you always resented him. Oh, this man is so pitiful.\

,""I'm not, I——"

Although in a sense, what the puppet said was true, Kiana couldn't accept it all, of course she couldn't accept it all.

She wanted to refute, even though she didn't know how to refute, she didn't even have a clue what to say after the word "I", but based on her habit, she shouted directly.

"Silence!"

"Dongdongdong!"

The puppet on the high platform seemed a little angry because it was interrupted.

It knocked the gavel hard in frustration, almost breaking the podium. Then, while she was still organizing her words, it raised its hands and blocked Kiana's mouth with a chain, and tied her head to the cross.

The back of her head was hit hard again, and Kiana felt a buzzing in her mind. Her vision was also staggered by colorful double images, and the darkness that invaded from time to time, and she was already in a state close to coma.

But no matter how to describe it, one thing is certain for the time being - she can no longer interrupt the seemingly distorted and objective explanation on the platform.

"Kiana Kaslana's sinful journey is far from over. In Changkong City, she met a girl. She was addicted to the girl's gentleness, so much so that she kept shouting that she would save the world. At the moment when the girl turned into a demon that took the lives of millions of people in an instant, she actually, she actually, she actually did nothing! Saving the world turned out to be just a joke - she protected the sinner Raiden Mei and played boring house games with her until that happened. "Yes, it was another collapse before! Kiana, who kept saying that she wanted to save the world, once again took the lives of countless people, but she still lived and lived shamelessly, but until now, she still firmly believed that her mission was to save the world with this power taken from the hands of God - obviously this power killed countless people when she used it, and the people she saved with this power were not even a fraction of the people she killed. This is the crime of Kiana Kaslana! ! ! " "Oh oh oh! ! "

"Yaaaaayo!"

"Guajiguaji!"

"Pahpapapa!"

The puppets twisted their bodies again, making their own strange noises.

"Hua La——"

The trembling sound of the chain was completely covered by these noises, but the puppet on the platform was always paying attention to Kiana. It deliberately waited until Kiana's lightly closed eyelids opened before raising the small wooden hammer in its hand again——

"Dongdongdong!"

"Silence! Silence!"

The small space soon became quiet——both the puppet on the platform and Kiana, who had just woken up, felt that things should develop in this direction.

But...it didn't.

There was no tacit understanding or communication between the puppets, all they had was neurotic self-talk.

"Oh! This life full of sin, what a dramatic life, even so she still wants to live, why not join our big family, only to reach the utopia promised by God can her sins be erased!"

"Are you sick or deaf? Didn't you hear her say she refused? "

"If she refused, couldn't she invite me again? But you, did you eat garlic or shit? Why are you spewing shit right away?"

"I'll spew your mother! No! I demand the immediate end of the trial of Kiana Kaslana. I want to judge this guy who slandered me first!"

"Didn't you target me first? Do you want to look back at your bound volume!"

"What are you two arguing about! I think there's no need to judge Kiana. How many of us are in this situation because of her? Just sentence her to death. Even if it's a vote, this will definitely be the result."

"Death penalty! Death penalty! Hahaha! Death penalty!" (乆乆乆)

"Oh, the quarrel started again. I have something to do tonight, so I'm going to leave first. Remember to come and synchronize with me about the final outcome of the trial."

"Ah? Who are you——"

"Quiet! Quiet—!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!!"

The puppet on the high platform banged the gavel hard, and the violent vibrations and sounds easily attracted the attention of most of the puppets in an instant, and then——

"Who is this person? Why can he stand so tall?"

"That's right, isn't it just a trial of Kiana? What does it have to do with you? Why do you stand so high! Get down here!"

"That's right! Come down here!"

"Quiet! Quiet—!"

"Boom! Boom!! Boom!!! Boom!!!! Boom!!!!"

"I*! You are sick! Why are you knocking? If your eardrum falls off, you have to pay us!"

"Um, eldest sister, it seems like we don't have eardrums in this posture, right?"

Kiana stared at all this with her mouth open, and the other existence in her mind was laughing like crazy.

She finally understood what the "farce" the Second Herrscher meant, but she couldn't laugh at those dolls as heartlessly as the Second Herrscher did.

The pain caused by the previous "listing of evidence" did not dissipate with this scene that can be called a comedy. In other words, this too absurd and too lively scene made the previous "reality" seem even heavier.

Moreover, watching these dolls noisy, Kiana couldn't help but think of some things that she had never thought about before.

She couldn't count how many dolls there were, and it seemed that there weren't as many as she first saw. Maybe it's a few hundred, or maybe one or two thousand, but compared with the number [seven billion], it's just a little bit bigger than "a drop in the ocean".

However, even such a small group was quarreling for various reasons before the real thing started - if that botched trial could be considered a serious matter. Fortunately, they can still be regarded as [companions].

But if you think about it carefully, isn't what humans have done in the past six months exactly the same as them? We have clearly [declared war on Honkai Impact], but there has been no substantial change. Everyone is still in such disarray...

"Quiet! Everyone, please be quiet——!"

"Boom——"

The gavel was struck directly, but the puppet's noise had no intention of ending.

"Huh? So the guy who is the Herrscher is so amazing? How many people have he killed in total? Why do you still want to hang out with the brothers now!"

"That's right, now everyone is only one in a thousand, what do you have to do!"

"That's enough! I'm different from you idiots!"

As a last resort, the puppet on the high platform clasped its hands together. No one could hear what it was saying silently, but in the next moment, a harsh noise flashed through the entire space, and then it became completely silent.

"Say! Why don't you speak anymore!!"

Each puppet bared its teeth and claws, but could not open its mouth, let alone make any sound.

"It's easy to figure out the seniority! After all, I am the first of a thousand people granted by God to the Apocalypse, so I can't control you anymore? Say it! Keep talking if you have the ability! It's so boring for a group of people to shout and sneak around and cause destruction every day. , I brought the lawyers to you for trial, but each one of them was disobedient and kept talking! It really pissed me off!"

Kiana quietly watched the puppets on the high platform slobbering. No matter what, she could never imagine how gentle Wendy would be at that moment. Lying on the hospital bed, she would softly ask them about their training and give thoughtful guidance. Like this.

No, this is definitely not Wendy-senpai. This is no longer Wendy-senpai. Although I don’t understand why a thousand individuals appear at the same time, there is no doubt that they should all be [Herrschers]. Senior Wendy herself said that she had regained her power... So, even the person who spoke to her before was already the personality of the Herrscher...

As always, not giving her much time to think, the puppet on the high platform beat its chest, raised its forearms again, and snapped its fingers.

"Okay, okay, let's get back on track - we all said this is a trial, but there is no judge in this trial. The only one who can judge the Herrscher is the Herrscher. Therefore, Kiana's fate is up to us. , let the entire tenth child of God decide! First of all, those who agree to sentence Kiana Kaslana to death, please raise your hands!”

The puppet on the high platform raised its arms and quietly crossed out [all mute].

Eeyah - Eeeah -

Click - click -

One after another, the puppet arms were raised high, but suddenly, another discordant voice sounded:

"Um... I am not against the death penalty, but is there someone else who is not here?"

"Yes, yes, isn't Guinevere back yet? If she really brought back the Herrscher of Reason, we might as well try the two Herrschers at once."

"Woo! Woo! Woo!"

Upon hearing this, Kiana struggled hard again. It should be said that it was no accident, or it should be the case. In short, no one cared about her opinion.

"There is not much hope in itself, and that guy always refuses to communicate with us. Maybe, she is dead now!"

"It doesn't matter whether she dies or not. The main thing is that if she really brings back the Herrscher of Reason, she will have to hold another meeting. It will be very troublesome and a waste of time."

"But waiting for her wouldn't be a waste of time."

"Yes."

"Yes."

"Then just contact her directly and ask."

"She cut off the communication herself. What can we do?"

"Yes."

"Quiet! Quiet—!"

"Boom!"

The high platform was shattered into pieces under the blow of the second mallet, and the air reluctantly returned to silence.

"I have the final say. Vote immediately whether you agree to sentence Kiana Kaslana to death. Raise your hands if you agree!"

The arms were raised again, and the scene instantly seemed to turn into a bare forest. Of course, there are also some noises that are not harmful to the overall situation, such as - "What does sentencing Kiana to death have to do with K423?"

"Okay, okay! The people in favor clearly exceed a simple majority. Now, after... uh... \u0026%T￥%￥￥@# judgment, it is announced that the defendant Kiana Kaslana will be sentenced to death immediately!"

Without making any sound, she leaned the back of her head against the cross. The coldness of the metal dissolved the swelling at the impact point. She closed her eyes soundlessly and weakly. She used her last strength to twitch her hands, but the handcuffs were made of an unknown material and were hard. Incomparably, there is no sign of being damaged.

"Death penalty! Death penalty!"

"Death penalty! Death penalty! Death penalty!"

"Yeah! It's the death penalty!"

"Ah, can you wait for the execution for a while? I'll go home and get some steamed buns."

"Bring one for me too, my child needs to be treated too!"

"Get lost! You don't go back to buy steamed buns for 50 cents each!"

"Oh, there's a quarrel again. Brothers and sisters, let's kill Kiana quickly. I really have something to do tonight."

The voting was over, and no longer paying attention to the noise of the other individuals, the puppet walked down the high platform, with a dagger in its hand, and walked towards Kiana step by step.

"Woo——"

The cross that restrained Kiana shook. I almost feel like I can almost pull it out of the ground, but I can't do it. I can only listen to the footsteps getting closer and closer, and I can only watch the temperatureless doll getting closer and closer to me. ,until……

Until another voice suddenly sounded from behind:

"Wait a minute, I object!" (End of Chapter)