The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Pooh!"

Kiana spat a mouthful of blood onto Guinevere's feet. x ̸͍̘̳͂͊̂̊̀͊̕͘.̷̹̦̆̆c̶͙͈͚̽̄̈̎̒͜ó̶̧̧̝̳̠͇͕̺̲̹̔̈́ ́՝͝m̷̗͓̽̂̌̋̌̌

"No matter how much you say, it's just a waste of words. I will never give in!"

"oh?"

Guinevere's eyebrows were raised, but she showed no intention of getting angry. She just grabbed a small section of Kiana's hair with her hands and twisted it around her fingertips.

"But, did you hear it just now? What's going to happen next has nothing to do with your unyielding. On the contrary, if you can communicate with Xilin, you'd better give her a vaccination, eh , that won’t work either, this might actually make Xilin’s consciousness agitated…”

"you--"

Kiana's eyes gradually became wise (crossed out) and blurred. She was a little unclear about Guinevere's intention in saying these words. Was it because she felt that she had a chance to win, so she spoke freely, or was it a real reminder?

she does not know.

Her eyes became much more alert for a moment - maybe those words were just deliberately spoken by Guinevere to make her relax her vigilance.

But in the end, Kiana still looked at Guinevere with complicated emotions. She saw several dolls walking towards them in the distance, and she couldn't help but seize the last opportunity to ask:

"Guinevere! You... why do you... you still have self-awareness, right? You haven't lost to the Herrscher's personality yet, right? Let me go, I just felt it, every one of the Herrscher's... Individuals are not very strong and we have a chance, plus most of the individuals are not here now, we can definitely..."

"That's enough! Kiana!"

Her dark pupils stared at Kiana intently, staring, staring, for a full ten seconds before Guinevere's eyes trembled slightly due to sourness, and then she looked away.

"What she said is the same as Sister Bronya."

"you……"

Only then did Kiana recall her previous words.

"What did you do to Bronya!"

"An Xin, as you said, our strength is very weak, and it is definitely not enough to deal with a Herrscher, even an incomplete Herrscher."

"But you also said that your god took action."

Guinevere blinked, seeing that Kiana had completely missed the key word, she couldn't help showing a distressed expression.

However, if you can calmly analyze the opponent's words in this situation without caring about the life or death of your companions, then you can't call her Kiana at all.

Even the "Growth" that some people shout one after another can rarely bring about such a fundamental change. If Kiana can understand her subtext, then she will have to wonder whether the person she is communicating with now is Xi Lin.

But there’s no telling, it’s not impossible that Siren is dumber than Kiana.

"Now you should not worry about things that are beyond your control."

"..."

"Speaking of which, you just asked Senior Wendy why she became a Herrscher, right? What's wrong? If the target is me, you don't even have the desire to ask?"

Guinevere's words quickly attracted Kiana's attention.

But after another brief look at each other, Kiana's eyes became more confused.

"I don't understand. In my eyes, neither Wendy nor Guinevere should be the kind of people who simply succumb to darkness and collapse."

"Although I'm glad to be told that, Kiana, people who don't succumb to darkness will also fall into it. And... don't talk like you know me very well. I don't know, Wendy-senpai, but you They probably don’t know me very well. I have too many dark thoughts in my heart. I want to kill some people, and I want to arrest some people into a small dark room and torture them until all their muscles are shaved off, leaving only their internal organs and organs. The bones are still alive but not dead. Or let him eat himself starting from his feet to see if he will die first or bleed to death first.

"Of course, I can't restrain my jealousy. I'm jealous that you were born so lucky, carrying the power of the Second Herrscher, and receiving the inheritance of Kaslana. I'm jealous that Xi'er didn't do anything, just cast a A good fetus has the power of the stigmata and can survive better in this cruel world. I am also jealous of Bronya. She is obviously like me, she was born with nothing, and Honkai can adapt. He is not outstanding, but he accidentally obtained the inheritance of the Herrscher of Reason.

"It's just me, and I still have nothing in the end. No matter how hard I work as an ordinary person, all I can get in the end is to be dragged by the trend of the times and live an unsatisfactory and unwilling life. Look, in You have such a dark psychological person lurking around you without even knowing it. Now you can feel something about what I mean by "unintentional evil"."

Kiana sighed, remained silent for a while, and finally replied dully:

"Everyone has evil thoughts in their heart, but I believe you have never acted on them."

"Yeah, I haven't taken any action, but that's because I'm too weak. If I had your strength, do you think I would do nothing?"

After that, Guinevere waved her hand and did not give Kiana a chance to refute.

"Okay, let's stop chatting here. In fact, I lied to Wendy. I didn't tell her, and the gods didn't tell me, how to awaken Sirin's consciousness without injecting a lot of Houkai energy. My target has always been you. I just want you to see - Kiana, even if you are separated from the Second Herrscher, you still committed a lot of sins and were tainted with a lot of darkness. I just hope you understand this."

The timing was calculated just right, not a second off. When the last word fell, several puppets controlled by silk threads also slowly walked in front of Kiana.

One of the puppets greeted Kiana enthusiastically after seeing her:

"Hey! Isn't this Sister Kiana? Long time no see!"

"You... know me?"

"Of course! You are the hero who saved our Sky City!"

"You are..."

"Ah? Sister Kiana, can't you recognize my voice?"

It does seem to be familiar, but in the current situation, Kiana's muddled brain can't spare the energy to search for the corresponding information one by one in the complicated memory.

The puppet sighed in disappointment, and the joints of the whole body twisted "clicking", and the movement was like a happy dance after being electrocuted.

Unfortunately, it couldn't adjust the atmosphere on the scene.

"Sister Kiana really forgot me. I have to repeat my self-introduction again - my last name is Bai, and my name is Jianyun. Sister Kiana can call me Jianyun, or call me Xiaobai like my mother."

"Oh...wait! You were at the station at that time..."

"Yes, Sister Kiana finally remembered. I am the Xiaobai you rescued at the station!"

Kiana opened her mouth silently, and couldn't speak for a long time.

"Xiao...Xiaobai, where is your mother? No...why do you talk like that?"

Facts have proved that her memory is pretty good. The reason why she didn't recognize the girl by her voice at the first time was mainly because this girl who should have just turned fourteen this year spoke in a sickly tone of "I'm broken", which made her feel chilled even when she greeted her in a seemingly lively manner.

"Is there anything wrong with Xiaobai's way of speaking? Hehehe!"

The doll cracked its head and laughed heartlessly.

"As for mom... mom... oh, that's right, my mom died a long time ago. This is the Domination Theater, not the afterlife, so of course you can't see her."

"Sister Su, no... why would you..."

"If you want to talk about it, it's all hard to say. Do you really want to listen, Kiana? It's okay if you don't want to listen, right?"

The individual, which is much smaller than the other puppets, grinned with a cold smile, and turned his head to an angle, facing Guinevere sideways.

Guinevere's brows relaxed, touched the puppet's head, and then imitated her tone and said to Kiana:

"Yes, yes, sister Kiana doesn't want to listen, it's okay!"

Is it possible?

I mean, is it possible for Kiana to choose the second option?

Of course it's impossible. Although she knows that the next words may not be pleasant to hear, they may also stimulate her in some way, and even affect the suppression of the Second Herrscher - Guinevere denied this, but Kiana is not stupid enough to believe the enemy's words.

Even knowing this, Kiana still nodded heavily:

"Tell me, I must know."

She didn't want to escape, whether it was escaping from the enemy's verbal/mental attacks, or escaping from the consequences of her unconscious behavior at some point in the past.

If the old ancestor who had trained her for half a year knew what she was thinking at this moment, he would probably be disappointed and think she was childish.

Of course, it is also possible that he could empathize with her and think that she was worthy of being a Kaslana - at least Kiana admired herself very much, even in this situation, her brain still had the energy to think about these things.

"Okay, you want to know, and you should know, Sister Kiana."

The small doll squatted in front of Kiana.

"My mother is really a good person. Unfortunately, my father is a scumbag. We used to live in the city, but he lost all his money and the house in gambling, so he could only find an empty house in that place. He always likes to beat me and my mother. His favorite thing is to burn me with cigarette butts, and tie me to a stool to watch him and my mother mate on the dining table. The most important thing is that after changing to a worse environment, his gambling addiction seems to be even worse. People come to collect debts every day. Although there is no money at all, as long as my father locks them and my mother in a room, they will leave by themselves after an afternoon. "Such a family is very desperate. So that night, the reason why my mother and I appeared at the station was to steal the remaining cash from home, thinking that going anywhere, even begging all the way is better than staying in that house... But what a coincidence, the station is obviously in the city, but there was a battle. If it weren't for Sister Kiana who saved us, my mother and I would have been crushed to death by the collapsed station hall.

"It seems that the city government didn't expect this to happen. That night, my mother actually didn't fall asleep until five in the morning. She had been waiting for the ticket refund to arrive so she could take me to another station in the north of the city to buy a ticket. Leave. But there was no result in the morning, and my mother didn’t want to trouble Sister Kiana anymore, so she took me home first, at least to get some food - after all, according to past experience, my father was not awake at this time. Woolen cloth.

"Sister Kiana, you know. While on the road, my mother turned on her phone and found your wanted poster. Even the reward for providing a simple clue is enough for our mother and daughter to start a new life. But after all, Sister Kiana saved us. Although we don’t know why she was wanted, Sister Kiana who saved us must not be a bad person, right? Mom probably thinks so too, so we really didn’t betray you. , Sister Kiana.

"Of course, this is all because Sister Kiana has done good things. My mother has said since childhood that good people will always be rewarded, so Sister Kiana also thinks that what my mother and I do is natural, right? But, just because What my mother and I did was just a matter of course, not a good thing, so there would be no good results. In other words, it was because my mother and I wanted to betray Kia at that moment. Sister Na’s bad thoughts, that’s why retribution comes back so quickly.

"When we got home and opened the door, we happened to encounter the group of people who were looking for dad to collect debts. Even the last money was stolen by my mother and I. Of course, dad had nothing to use to pay off the debt. Oh, actually there are still Yes, but my mother has been used to pay off debts too many times, so according to those uncles, it has devalued, so..."

"No! Don't say any more!"

Kiana suddenly shouted. His head also lowered unconsciously.

"Huh? Why?"

The small doll twisted its body one by one, leaning forward, but its face was raised upwards in an extremely awkward posture, facing Kiana's face.

"Sister Kiana, why are you still crying? No, sister Kiana. Xiaobai has given you a choice a long time ago, but what you chose at that time was to hear Xiaobai's story to the end. Don't give up halfway. , you can’t escape it—aren’t these the creed that Sister Kiana has set for herself in her heart?”

Completely seeing through Kiana's thoughts, the small doll's words drove Kiana away like a sharp sword, directly inserted in the way of Kiana's retreat, leaving her with no choice.

"No!"

Kiana's reaction was quite intense. She struggled again, seemingly forgetting the fact that she was restrained for a moment, and simply wanted to raise her hands to cover her ears.

The flesh on the wrist was blurred in the blink of an eye, and the handcuffs and chains were covered with scraps of flesh sticking to the skin, and through them, the pale pink wrist bones painted with blood could be seen. But the chain seemed to have some extremely special power. Even though Kiana's physical strength was enough to punch through the multi-layered armored wall of the Salt Lake City base with one punch, she was still helpless with the chain.

"no, do not want……"

When she realized this, her voice couldn't help but grow low again. Rather than saying it was a fierce resistance, it was more like showing a "pleading" look in front of the [enemy] for the first time.

However, the small doll just grinned, as if showing off its well-defined and neatly arranged teeth.

"So, it's normal for Sister Qiana to think that Xiaobai is strange and that Xiaobai is 'broken'. Because Xiaobai is already broken, those uncles seem to be very fond of Xiaobai. Satisfied, he gave his father an extra sum of money. I don’t know where he went after that, but it had nothing to do with Xiaobai. Xiaobai and his mother were locked in a small room with no windows, and they didn’t know each other. My uncle raped us, raped us over and over again.

"Then suddenly one day, my mother died while being raped, and all those uncles ran away before they even had time to put on their pants, and they didn't forget to lock the door. Then no one came to see Xiaobai anymore. Xiaobai didn't He knew where to go, and there was nothing to eat at home, but Xiaobai was very smart! He used the lighters dropped by his uncles to light the fragments of the bed and stool, and threw his mother's body on the fire to bake. After eating the meat from an arm, God finally appeared and rescued Xiaobai. When he opened his eyes again, Xiaobai arrived at the Domination Theater. Although people here would quarrel, they would not fight again. Xiaobai, I won’t rape Xiaobai anymore. We are all good people, not the bad people that Sister Qiana imagined.”

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Kiana just screamed meaninglessly, while Guinevere looked at her quietly, and after a while, she silently covered her mouth.

"No! No! That's not the case! You all have the personality of the Herrscher, just pretending to be novices! Don't think you can deceive me like this!"

In an empty theater, Kiana's yelling could always be heard far away, but after the space extended the time, the sound was too thin.

"That's not true! That's not true!"

The small doll twists its hips and twitches its arms, while its head turns in a classic click.

"No, Kiana, she is not, and none of us have the personality of a Herrscher."

Guinevere swallowed hard and squatted in front of Kiana again.

"We all chose this path out of our own will, and you will soon understand why. Of course, I know you don't want to believe it, so I'll trouble Xiaobai to prove it."

After the words fell, the small doll held his head with a smile, and then pulled it up——

Kiana's breathing suddenly stopped, but what appeared in front of her next was not a bloody scene. Under the puppet's head, there was a familiar girl's face.

The girl flipped up her long hair, and Kiana caught a glimpse of the scars burned by cigarette butts on her neck.

For a moment, there were no words left in his mouth, but his lips kept trembling and shaking, and then he tasted the salty taste.

why?

Why do you feel uncomfortable and why do you regret it?

It was obviously something that had nothing to do with him, and it was obviously not his fault at all.

"But Sister Kiana. Xiaobai has also thought about it - everyone told Xiaobai that if Sister Kiana had not come to Tianqiong City, there would have been no fighting at the station, and Xiaobai and his mother could have escaped. That's it. ?"

"Yes, it is."

Kiana choked out an affirmative answer.

Of course she knew this, but there was another voice in her mind that kept reminding her that this was not her fault at all.

But maybe she was still wrong in this matter, and the fault lay in her existence.

Yes, her presence there was the mistake itself.

But if you assign a percentage to the error, Kiana clearly understands that her proportion is only a very, very small part.

These sufferings were not caused by her, but her existence made the whole thing go to the worst point like an absurd drama.

Without her, Xiaobai and her mother might have suffered less, and might have successfully left the Demon Cave in Tianqiong City, but they might have died of illness, starvation, or been killed by Honkai Beasts on the way to begging. .

The cause of all this is ultimately the evil of mankind and has nothing to do with Kiana.

She understands, she understands this.

But she still regretted it and blamed herself.

Obviously they had a few hours of time together, maybe as long as she was more careful and observed more, she would be able to see clearly the scars on Xiaobai's body, and then she could take the initiative to help them.

But why wasn’t it discovered at that time? ! !

"Don't cry or think too much, Kiana."

Guinevere seemed to be saying some unintelligible things, just like now.

"Xiaobai doesn't hate you. She greeted you just now, didn't she?"

Kiana closed her eyes tightly and squeezed all the tears out of her eyes, then raised her blurred vision and met Guinevere's dark eyes.

"She knows very well, and I know very well that the fault in this matter does not lie with you. The reason why such things happen is all because of the ugliness in the human form. And Kiana, you are looking forward to beauty too much. , so when I hear this kind of thing, I will put more burden on myself.”

"So, what exactly do you want to say?"

"Actually, it's not an interesting thing to say. If I insist on saying it, it's not the first time you've heard it. Kiana, senior Wendy should have told you about it. The reason why we are gathered here is because we want to Burn this old world full of ugliness and darkness, and welcome the new world promised to us by God, which can heal all pain and resentment. So, Kiana, if you really yearn for a beautiful world, join us— —Not as the Second Herrscher, Siren, but as Kiana Kaslana, let us fight for a beautiful new world!"

Under Guinevere's expectant gaze, Kiana shook her head firmly once again.

"Why? Why? You have clearly seen how ugly human beings are, how dark the world is now, and you clearly yearn for beauty in your heart. Why are you not willing to fight with us? Do you still want to fight for us? To preserve this old world and to fight to preserve this kind of humanity?”

Guinevere kept asking questions.

Kiana looked away, "No, I just want to remind you that the [Lord God] in your mouth also told Sirin the same thing, but when he was at the Destiny Headquarters, he betrayed her without hesitation. He betrayed Xilin, me, Mei, Bronya, Xier, and everyone. I don’t know if what he said is true or false, but even if it is true, you will most likely be arrested in the next moment. He abandoned it and never saw the so-called new world.”

"Oh! As expected of Kiana, are you turning against the guest and starting to sow discord?"

Guinevere stretched out her fingers and scratched Kiana's chin quickly, as if she were dealing with a pet.

"You...what did you do..."

"Nothing, I'm just punishing you."

Before Kiana lowered her head and bit someone, Guinevere retracted her hand.

"Unfortunately, your provocation is of no use - at least for me, I don't care whether God will abandon me or betray me. As long as I follow him, even if I can't see that future, I just want to be the one heading towards that future. A foundation that no one knows is enough for me. If I don’t even have this awareness, how can I say "Fight for a Beautiful New World"?

Kiana was completely speechless.

Anger, sadness, despair...all mixed into extremely weird emotions in his heart, and then spread.

If Guinevere is allowed to continue like this and fermented for a certain period of time, what will these emotions evolve into?

Unfortunately, this was a false proposition after all, because at the next moment, with an almost unnoticeable vibration in the space, Kiana and Guinevere both raised their heads, and then inadvertently looked at each other.

"Tsk!"

Guinevere raised her eyebrows and smacked her lips helplessly.

"The person who saved you came so quickly." (End of Chapter)