The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Hey, guess?"

Unexpectedly, but it seemed like the answer that Alicia would definitely give.

Mei's face darkened.

Two completely opposite emotions, relief and sadness, brewed in her heart, and mixed together unconsciously, making her unable to tell what kind of state of mind she should face this answer at this moment.

If she is really Alicia, and has all the memories of her time with her, then this is certainly a good thing for Ai Li and herself. But for Mikael, is it too cruel?

However, Alicia may really intend to change her way of speaking, and she didn't continue to keep it a secret:

"Maybe I will disappoint you... Oh, or I should say, maybe I can satisfy you, Mei, I am not the real her."

"Hey--"

Mei sighed lightly, and the emotions in her heart reversed, but it seemed that there was not much change.

"Alas, if only Mikael could explain all this. It's not cute enough for a beautiful girl like me to give these rigid explanations--"

Having said that, she didn't pause for long.

"Mei, if I remember correctly, you should have known the truth about the [Herrser Core], right?"

"The truth about the Herrser Core... is that there is only one real core, and the rest are just projections of it in different dimensions?"

"Yes, the Herrser Core connects all Herrsers, so Meiyi, you can see me-not the real Alicia, but the memory of the Alicia you know. As for why I have this memory that I can't know as a memory... That's naturally because those are what happened here 50,000 years ago. As an existence that is [both Alicia and not Alicia], the moment I entered here, these memories were synchronized to me."

Mei was a little confused, but she was as fast as ever in grasping the key points--"Wait, Ai Li, if this is the Herrser Core, Deep inside, then you appear here..."

"That's right, the one who became the twelfth Herrscher was actually me."

"This... is your plan?"

Mei looked at Ai Li absentmindedly, and then realized another point:

"So, you knew from the beginning that things would develop like this, and you said you would tell me the ending of the story, and you never lied to me..."

"Oh! It was Mei Yi who kept pestering me and said you wanted to know the ending. I said that, but you suspected that I was lying to you. It's really sad."

"Uh... I didn't mean that... And when I came here, the battle between the heroes and Mikael should have started, so..."

"Do you want me to fight Mikael with this power of the Herrscher?"

Aili was still smiling, but her smile was less warm.

Mei was speechless for a moment, and she realized later that she seemed to have said the wrong thing in a hurry.

At least for Alicia, she should not like to hear such words.

But she didn't like it, and she didn't seem to be angry about it.

She just avoided the topic, and with a faint smile, she stretched out her hand to Meiyi:

"Meiyi, remember I said that I was very happy the day you came to the paradise of the past?"

"Ah... yeah."

Meiyi responded softly, recalling what Alicia said at that time.

It's just a few days, so her memory is not so bad. The difference is that a few days ago, she understood this sentence as Alicia's teasing, but at this moment, after witnessing her end, Meiyi finally understood.

That sentence was sincere.

"I am very happy. Although Aponia told me that the thread of fate was cut off a long time ago, and Mobius also told me that the first Herrscher of the new generation chose to fight for mankind by his own will, I couldn't witness all this with my own eyes. Until he sent you here, I saw you with my own eyes and saw the result of my efforts-a Herrscher who is no longer bound by fate and fights for mankind."

"Alisa, I..."

Meiyi bit her lips tightly.

Although she had a lot to say and more questions to ask, and knew that she should be urged to help Ying Jie at this moment, Ai Lishiya's smile seemed to have some kind of magic. Meiyi was stared at by her, and her thinking became dull. Suddenly, she had the idea that "maybe everything should be left to Ai Lishiya to judge." Ai Li held her hand slightly, and Meiyi's heart was in a mess. Somehow, she was pulled into Ai Li's arms and gently hugged. "Besides, there is one thing you don't realize-in a sense, you are also his and my child... Although you seem to prefer to call Mobius mom." "I..." As if a switch in her heart was touched, Meiyi's tears burst out, and she hugged Ai Lishiya with both arms. "But...but...he was the one who killed my father...I don't know how I should face him anymore. No...I'm afraid he wants me to kill him like I did the murderer of my father...otherwise I can't understand why he would do such a thing..."

Aili gently patted Mei's back and said with a hint of inappropriate playfulness:

"Oh Mei, you actually said you wanted to kill him in front of me, you are too cruel."

"It was obviously him who started..."

"Do you really believe what that guy says?"

Ai Li left a series of laughter in Mei Yi's ears.

"In the beginning, he was someone who would feel uncomfortable for a few seconds even if he stepped on a piece of grass. I don't believe that he could become a guy who cares about human life. He would never be able to get through the barrier in his heart."

"You - you obviously trust him too much. Fifty thousand years, coupled with the excitement of that kind of thing..."

"You are right about Mei. I trust him too much, but I not only trust him personally, but also his feelings for me. He will not let [Alicia] see what he is doing now. So, he must have a way to reverse and repair all of this. If you think about it carefully, did that guy say something similar? "

Meiyi was stunned, because it really existed.

It's not what the group of cultists who worshiped Honkai said, but what the Tenth Herrscher said earlier, they kept saying that the new world can heal all pain and there will be no bad things.

She originally thought it was something Mikael said casually when he was bewitching the Tenth Herrscher, just like he had also coaxed the Second Herrscher. But if according to Alicia...could that kind of thing be true?

Reason tells Mei Yi that there is no way to resurrect people from the dead in this world. If there is, it must be an illusion.

But her understanding of Mikael made her more inclined to believe Alicia's words.

And...she also hopes that the truth is like that.

"So Mei, trust me one more time, for the last time, and wait and see for now, okay?"

"I……"

Mei Yi didn't know what to say at all.

This is bound to be a difficult choice to make.

Yes, she does believe what Alicia said, and she does hope that the facts will develop in that direction, but...

It is almost impossible for a person to let go of the hatred of killing his father.

After all, if you are injured, you are injured. Even if you recover in the future, scars will remain. Fortunately, the scars will not be obvious or conspicuous, and they will also leave hidden wounds under the skin.

If you want to make the wound non-existent, you can only go back in time to the past. This can indeed be done in the end, but what is the point of just going back in time and returning everything to a point where nothing happened?

Whether it was [good] or [bad], Mei Yi did not give her own answer in the end.

She just diverted Ellie's attention with another question:

"Alicia, is he that important to you?"

"Hmm? Then...Mei, is Kiana that important to you?"

"It's important, but... I want to know... Why do you like Mikael so much? The memories that can be seen in the paradise are missing the six years before you and him joined the Fire Chaser Moth..."

"Oh? Mei, you are so greedy! You obviously said you wanted to know our ending at first, but now you want to know what happened at the beginning?"

"I just……"

"It's okay to tell you, but if I say that that time was not the main reason why I fell in love with him, do you still want to listen?"

Ai Li took the initiative to let go of Mei Yi, as if to allow her to see the faint smile on her face.

"Then I...no, I obviously just want to know you, you..."

"Okay! Listen to me slowly!"

Ai Li stretched out her finger and gently poked Mei Yi's cheek. This familiar action made Mei Yi feel distracted, but more importantly, she soon heard Ai Li's words:

"Actually, my initial feelings for him were not love or liking."

"That is……"

Unconsciously, the smile disappeared from Alicia's face.

She just pursed her lips slightly and said the answer.

"It's dependence..."

"Dependence? How do I feel that he is relying on you? After all, according to his own words, even the reason for saving the world is because [that is what Alicia wants to see]."

"Because we depend on each other. In other words, I actually depend on him more."

Ai Li's tone became soft and slow again. Although she didn't move, it felt like she was holding an easily broken treasure with both hands.

Mei knew that she was indeed holding something.

It was a feeling left over from 50,000 years ago that could no longer be pinned down.

"Mei Yi, you said...if you were the only Herrscher with self-awareness in this world, the only Herrscher who fought for mankind, what would you do?"

Before Mei could reply, Aili had already continued:

"You must feel very lonely, but more importantly... you must be very scared, right? After all, you are so different, and you can't admit your differences to others. You must disguise this biggest secret all the time, even if you don't even The people closest to him can't resort to it, after all, no one would believe that [a Herrscher chooses to fight for humanity]."

"..."

Mei wanted to say something to comfort her, but found that this was not a [guess] at all, but the reality that Mikael and Alicia had experienced.

It is not an easy task for a Herrscher to hide his existence among humans.

Especially if you want to use that power to save humanity.

Just the second collapse completely exposed Mikael's identity. Later, Luluye's combat power was even forced to limit all forces that would cause too much noise.

And Alicia was not completely spared under the protection of Mikael. Although the top leaders of the Fire Chasing Moth did not define her as a Herrscher due to intelligence limitations, they gave the following information [Aleshia is the first The Honkaiju, the Companion of the Uniform, is a conclusion that seems quite funny now, but is actually quite dangerous.

Fortunately, the two of them escaped from the Fire Chasing Moth soon after that.

But in fact, even at the end, before the birth of the Twelfth Herrscher of the pre-civilization, not to mention the entire world, even within the Fire Chaser Moth, there were still people who regarded Mikael as a scourge. Of course, in the eyes of that group of people, The fusion warriors here are just as unreliable.

Even Mei will give a backup plan [in case Mikael loses control] in every public combat plan and deployment.

This is the result that Mikael has proven himself through countless hard fights to the death.

But if it's one person, if it's Alicia alone...

"As you can see, I can't imagine how I would have spent those short and long twenty years alone. Although Mei later told me that even without Mikael, I could still be a [human] I will persist in my identity until the end, and do what I did fifty thousand years ago as [both a human and a Herrscher]. But I think... if that's the case, even if I really persist. In the end, your mood will probably be very different. By then, you may know another Alicia!"

"..."

Mei responded indifferently. She had seen Ellie and Mikael being rejected and doubted by humans, but she could empathize with them even more, because even if the Herrschers of this era had the possibility to fight for humans, humans would still instinctively reject them. Alien.

No... To put it this way, there is no need to go back to the day she became a Herrscher, because she was a person who was rejected by everyone around her much earlier.

Amplifying that kind of malice countless times is the situation Alicia has to face.

And just like Mei hugged Kiana tightly in Senba Academy, what Alicia did was just hugging the life-saving straw named Mikael 50,000 years ago.

In this way, she gradually understood the feelings between the two.

"But that's not all."

Ellie took two steps back, gently sat on the ray, and floated up.

“I was born with humanity, which made me even more curious about what kind of creature human beings are, and in Mikael, I saw the answer.

"He is probably the most ordinary kind of human being. Sometimes he is decisive, sometimes hesitant, sometimes he is brave, sometimes he escapes wishfully, sometimes he is kind, but occasionally he is impulsive. To the point where I don't care, but if I do something wrong, I will be so sad that I can't help myself. Sometimes I will give up on a period of effort as if I am angry, but sometimes I will hold on to a little bit of hope like I am obsessed and refuse to let go. ...I don't know how to describe it, but...he is indeed an ordinary person in the true sense. He doesn't even have outstanding fighting talent like Kevin. Even if he keeps exercising and studying, he still messes up himself every time he fights. I will be scarred, but I will continue to fight every time...

"Mei Yi, you know. He is really ordinary. So ordinary that if he changes his name and body, he can be included in countless similar people. If he throws away the trivial habits, he should be called The incarnation of most humans.

"Why, because the good and bad sides of human beings are perfectly integrated and perfectly displayed in him. Human beings are such complex creatures. They tend to define kindness as beauty, but kindness will also give birth to Out of weakness. Isn't this what humans often do by using good intentions to do evil? And the opposite is also true. Good things can come out of selfish thoughts, and maybe the whole world can be saved...

"Later, unknowingly, I seemed to fall hopelessly in love with him... It was with him as an introduction that I began to be able to get in touch with human beings bit by bit. In the end, I also Falling in love with humans and choosing to become humans - this is what Mikael means to me. How about Mei, are you satisfied?"

Mei Yi's gloomy eyebrows gradually relaxed. She was still biting her lower lip, but looking at Ai Li's quiet smile, she nodded slowly.

She did understand, and she was sure that what Alicia said was true, but why were these true feelings revealed so inexplicably...

Did it make her cry again?

She shed tears for a man who killed her father, for a man who trampled on countless lives and ideals.

But think about it carefully, do the latter really care? Is it true that I want to save the world, or is it just because Kiana wants to save the world?

Could it be that she and Mikael are actually the same?

The thoughts in my heart are getting more and more mixed, and the only common denominator may be the inextricable sadness.

When she suddenly came back to her senses, Mei suddenly found that Alicia had floated in front of her.

She put her palm against her chest, but the same movement was no longer charming.

"Mei Yi, the time is almost up. Next, I will send you out of the Paradise of the Past, and then I will meet him again in this space. Don't stay and disturb our world!"

"What? You have to face him by yourself... Alicia, he is now, even if it were you..."

"I understand, of course I understand."

The pink girl smiles like a flower.

"He is not the first boy who can be so infatuated that he can't even touch Alicia in the world bubble. However, I still want to see her one last time, whether it is as Alicia in the world bubble, Or as Alicia’s memory, or as the twelfth Herrscher.”

Meiyi opened her mouth in despair, and then realized the other identity of [Alicia's memory].

But it's too late to say this now, and it doesn't matter.

However, Alicia did not take away her hand from Mei's heart.

At first, Mei didn't realize anything because her thoughts were racing.

When she discovered it, she felt that unspeakable power was pouring out of the Herrscher's core out of thin air.

"Alicia, this is-"

A bright and holy light flickered in Mei Yi's eyes, and her playful smile became holy and gentle.

"Okay, successors who have arrived here. Let me give you the last gift."

In Mei Yi's eyes of astonishment and surprise, the figures of the heroes appeared one by one behind Ai Li.

"Accept our last gift, and then go to cross the end that we have not been able to cross, and witness the future that we have not been able to witness - its name is the power of the origin.

"Next, I'm going to reminisce with him. After that, Mei, that will be your story." (End of Chapter)