The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Why hasn't it started yet? She's been on stage for several minutes! If I had known this, I might as well go to the next door to watch Velvet's magic, or the exhibition of the talented young painter Gracie..."

Mikael turned his eyes away from the banner of "Alicea's Debut Concert" and glanced at it with his head tilted. He found that it was the white-haired young man on his right wearing a mask and a cap who was complaining.

"Be patient, Kevin! This girl is also on stage for the first time. Although she is a newcomer strongly recommended by Eden, you should at least give her some time to prepare mentally!"

Sitting on the right side of the white-haired young man, a seat away from Mikael, was a woman who also wore a mask and a cap.

"Uh...uh...forget it, you are right anyway, Mei..."

Although the two spoke in low voices, Mikael was born with good hearing and caught every word of their words.

"Kevin... Mei... Could it be..."

Mikael's eyes gradually became hot. He couldn't be wrong. He would never recognize the wrong person - this is Kevin, an internationally popular all-around athlete in recent years, and Dr. Mei, a wonderful woman who has won the Alfred Prize in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry for three consecutive years!

There have been rumors that the two of them are in love, but I didn't expect it to be true!

Mikael instinctively raised the camera in his hand, but his hand was pressed down just before he raised it to his chest.

"Brother, please help me..."

Kevin glanced at the press card on his chest, half begging and half tough in his words.

Mikael shook his head in disappointment and put away the camera.

Kevin saw that he understood, and stopped talking.

"What's wrong, a little depressed?"

Himiko whispered in his ear.

"A little bit, team leader..."

"Well, even if you filmed it, this kind of news can't be released under the pressure of the Kaslana family. What's there to be depressed about? Let's focus on our mission this time."

"Understood."

Mikael took a deep breath and turned his eyes back to the stage.

The neon lights on the stage background were very bright, and all other lights were off, so everyone could only vaguely see the outlines of the people on the stage.

Because Mikael was a reporter, he was lucky enough to sit in the front. He could clearly see that in the darkness and blur, two bright gems were shining-for some reason, Mikael had an illusion that the two people's eyes met at this moment.

This made him hold his breath, and even the muscles of his whole body tensed up inexplicably.

He suddenly had a sense of anticipation for the next performance... No, not for that performance, but a strong premonition in his mind, as if what would happen next-perhaps a story that he would remember for a lifetime.

She had been standing there holding the microphone for several minutes. Some people had already started to complain. The venue that could accommodate more than 30,000 people suddenly became noisy.

But suddenly, a soft singing voice was heard, instantly suppressing all the noise.

Unlike Eden's loud and full voice, the voice was like a spring in the mountains, with a moderate temperature and flow rate, slowly wrapping people in it, warm, soft and light.

In Mikael's eyes, the light and shadow around him began to change and stretched sharply. The distance of nearly 100 meters seemed to disappear into thin air, and at this moment, Alicia was leaning on his shoulder and humming softly.

"When the flowers and leaves whisper, please call my name."

"From this, the story that drifted in time begins."

"Such is the origin, such is the end."

The extreme feeling of suffocation pulled Mikael back from the illusion. He gasped, and the light and shadow around him shrank again. The distance between him and Ali began to become farther and farther.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Himiko asked with concern.

"No... I'm fine..." He slowly closed his glasses, as if he was back in the stream, constantly rising and falling in the warm water. "Alicea...Alicea..." In fact, he had never forgotten that name. The girl who was different from others in the orphanage, the girl he had not had the courage to say a word to for so many years. Why? Their names were so compatible, but in the crowd, she was so dazzling, like a gem, and Mikael was so ordinary that he would never find him again if he mixed into the crowd. So, this is self-deprecation. I didn't expect that after ten years, the people who were once separated would meet again one day. A tear slipped from the corner of his eye, silently, but it came so coincidentally, just because the person on the stage happened to sing that line:

"Save the tears for a distant day."

"Let it moisten the wilderness that is still sleeping."

"In the world that longs for torches."

"Let it flow through the dry and silent riverbed."

"Thus, the stranded boat can set sail."

A wave of sadness entangled Mikael for no reason.

Where did the sadness come from? He didn't understand.

He couldn't explain the reason for the sadness.

The girl on the stage was certainly cute, and she had an intersection with him in childhood, but what did this mean?

Why did he feel a deep sadness--

The sadness was like an arrow shot by a person from a far distance, carrying the breath of crossing the sea of ​​stars and the musty smell of soaking in the water of time, and it pierced his heart at this moment.

The sadness suffocated him, made him crazy, made him sink... In the end, he finally understood -

I have fallen hopelessly in love with this girl.

For reasons that are inexplicable, such a ridiculous result was achieved.

"Flying flowers linger,"

"Waiting for the long farewell dance."

"Shake off all the dust of the past life."

"A new chapter is about to begin."

In a daze, Mikael felt someone shaking his shoulders.

"Hey, what's wrong? I'm just listening to a song. You, a little reporter, can't be like this, right? Hey, the song just hit your sad point, right?"

When Mikael opened his eyes, he realized that everyone in the room was gone, and even his immediate boss, Himiko, was no longer there.

Kevin patted his shoulder, "Are you okay? Your team leader said that she is in a hurry to interview Miss Alicia. Since you are not feeling well, you should go back first. She will attach your information to the manuscript. Don’t worry about your name!”

"Thank you." Mikael replied numbly.

"Oh! Then let's go if it's okay. Bye!"

Kevin waved his hand and left with Mei in his arms.

So he was left sitting alone in the seat, and the cleaning lady who came and went looked at him with strange eyes, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

He actually wanted to run backstage, so that he might be able to catch up with the interview and meet Alicia.

But so what?

After tonight, Ellie will be as popular a star as Eden.

So what if we meet?

Going away with a positive attitude, wouldn't it be sad if she didn't recognize herself?

Going with a pessimistic attitude, wouldn't it be embarrassing if she recognized him instead?

So why bother going?

Mikael got up and left the concert, found his beloved motorcycle, drove on the elevated highway and drove around absentmindedly, but ultimately did not choose to go home.

He went to the monastery in Dusk Street on the outskirts of the city.

Even late at night, the monastery church is brightly lit.

Hearing the sound of the motorcycle, a small door in the monastery dormitory opened quietly, and Pado's little head popped up. She waved to Mikael. Before she could say hello, Mikael saw Aponya coming from behind. Lifting her up, the window closed.

He was not considered an outsider in this monastery, so no one stopped him - in fact, it was because the guard, Qianjie, had missed work. He was sitting at the door of the church, carving the wood carving in his hand by the candlelight.

Seeing that an acquaintance was here, he moved his butt to make way for Mikael.

Entering the church, Mikael found a bench and lay down at random. The colorful glass reflected the colorful light, but Mikael stared straight at a candle. The flames were like beans, and the wax condensed into tears. In a blink of an eye, It's dawn.

This time he didn't disturb anyone anymore. He just quietly left through the back door, sent a text message to Himiko asking for leave on his cell phone with 3% battery left, and then walked along the dense forest along the river bank.

The morning sun casts warm rays, and through the cascades of forest leaves, small floating spots fall.

But a little pink suddenly appeared in the green in front of him. Mikael felt incredible at first, and then took two steps forward. This time he would not be wrong again——

Isn't it Alicia who is lying on the knee-high grass among the flowers, sleeping soundly in the bright sunshine?

The fateful encounter came so wonderfully, but Mikael just wanted to turn around and leave.

Just at this moment, a blue butterfly flapped its small wings and landed on the tip of the girl's nose.

Mikael saw her slightly frowning her slender eyebrows, wrinkled her nose, and finally couldn't help but sneeze.

The little blue butterfly fled in a hurry, and only then did Mikael realize that he was so absorbed in watching it that he actually forgot to escape.

It was already too late at this point. Alicia rubbed her glasses, sat up, and yawned exaggeratedly.

As if she felt that the sunlight was blocked, she turned to look at the young man who had been standing there.

"Huh?" She raised her eyebrows, seeming to be surprised.

But the next moment, a flawless smile bloomed on her face:

"Long time no see, Mikael!"

"..."

Su gently pinched the leaves, and all the scenes in front of him disappeared like dust and smoke.

Mikael has been watching all this quietly. He looked at his other self in that world, looked at the familiar and strange people in that world, and looked at them living an ordinary and ordinary life...

So, when the world dissipated and turned into nothing, he smiled with satisfaction.

"In other words, we do have the possibility of becoming like that, right, Su?"

"..." Su was silent for a moment, and then replied: "I didn't expect you to think so, Mikael. You should know very well that the span between that world and ours may be farther than time itself, so... and There is no comparison."

"The possibility is enough for me."

Mikael's words were calm but also contained excitement.

He left quickly, with an air of satisfaction.

"..."

It wasn't until she was sure that he was really leaving that Su let go of her clenched hand.

He knew what Mikael was satisfied with, but he really couldn't let him look at it anymore.

The Qianjie Yiyuan continued to rotate, and the interrupted leaf veins began to continue again.

Then, the collapse came.

"I'm sorry, Mikael, I really can't guarantee how you will feel when you see this ending..."

"So far, you have secretly observed 48,907 worlds with Alicia using the Senkyoku Ichijo. However, the previous 48,906 worlds have not been able to escape the clutches of Honkai. , only this... until now..."

"Does this make you feel desperate? Are you... really strong enough to face this cruel reality?"

Su hesitated, he hadn't decided when to tell Mikael the truth.

But at this moment, a familiar voice sounded from behind, which made his hair stand on end.

"I see."

"That is to say, so far, all the evidence points to - if Honkai did not exist, or it existed later than our era, then Alicia would not exist, right?"

Lyrics come to my aid - TruE's medium translation.

The release date is changed at 12 noon, so the first chapter will be released at 12 o'clock tomorrow.

I probably won’t have time to give spoilers in the future... Oh no, I’m writing a side story. In fact, due to the space limit, many things have not been written, but the spoilers have been written, so it’s barely qualified...