The Fire Chaser of the Collapsing World

Chapter 7 Ellie, Drunk Talk

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The high-pitched and loud calls of the seagulls have rang out in the middle of the night tirelessly, and Mikael also slumped on the roof of the villa he found at random, listening indifferently for the middle of the night.

Listen to the thin wings cutting the airflow, listen to the night wind encouraging the waves to beat against the breakwater, and listen to the light and chaotic footsteps getting closer and closer until behind you.

"Was drunk?"

"Hehe... Didn't I just find two bottles of red wine in the room... I wanted to take them back to Yin Dian, but I couldn't hold back..."

Ellie knocked her chin on Mikael's shoulder, scratched the fluffy hair, and his earlobe turned red instantly.

"Xil fell asleep?"

"Oh... probably because I was stimulated during the day, I told her more than a dozen stories before falling asleep!"

The corner of Mikael's mouth twitched, he snorted twice at first, and finally couldn't help it, shrugged his shoulders twice quickly, and then laughed uncontrollably:

"Ai Li, is there a possibility that Xi'er is almost 14 years old, past the age of falling asleep listening to bedtime stories..."

"Hmm... didn't I learn this from Alponia..."

Ellie scratched her head in embarrassment.

"Not exactly." Mikael denied her statement from a certain angle, "Perhaps compared to Alponia, the idea that children need to be told bedtime stories in order to fall asleep at that moment in your subconscious mind is more important. Most of it comes from... our childhood memories."

"Ah—it seems to be. I still remember that you were responsible for borrowing books from the bookstore in the town. Sometimes Mama Selia's throat was uncomfortable, and you, who could read the most, came to read stories to us... Although you Sometimes when I am thinking about it, we haven’t fallen asleep yet, you fell asleep first, hahaha!”

"You still remember this kind of thing so clearly..."

"Of course! I remember everyone I've ever met! How about you, Mikael?"

"I?"

Mikael held on to the railing, hesitated for a moment, and finally opened his heart in an incomplete state:

"My words... I feel that my heart is actually not big, no, maybe I should say it is small. I can only accommodate a small number of people in my heart... The rest of the people don't care so much... I would rather say it is strength I have not caught them. Since I am doomed to have no strength to save them, it is better not to give them a place in my heart from the beginning."

"yes……"

Alicia smiled lightly, otherwise, how could it be said that the one who knows a person best is never himself?

【Stupid Mikael, what you said is completely different from what I saw! 】

【ah!Wouldn't it be the same for me in his eyes? 】

and so……

"Mikael..."

"Alicia..."

The two spoke at the same time, and were stunned at the same time. After all, Mikael squirmed his lips and opened his mouth first.

"Alicia...but...but your weight, your weight in my heart will always exceed 50.00%——you will always be more important than everyone else, more than the whole world combined."

"Uh huh~ hey! Wait! I'm 50.00%-... what about the others?"

Under the moonlight, Alicia's playful smile was getting closer and closer to Mikael, so close that her bangs gently scratched Mikael's cheek under the night wind, so close that Mikael Even though Kyle held his breath completely, he could still feel the fragrance of alcohol on her body.

She boldly stretched out her hand, first with five fingers, and then with her entire palm against Mikael's heart, carefully feeling the sudden acceleration of the latter's heartbeat.

"How much is Phyllis? How much is Hua? How much is Mebius? How much is Sakura? How much is Captain? How much is Seele? Be honest, Mikael!"

Mikael shook his head slightly.

"I don't know, I don't know, Alicia."

Mikael held Ellie's hand instead, and the two sat side by side on the roof ridge. In silence and wordlessness, the thick mist slowly pulled away.

Everything around gradually became invisible, and the sound of deep breathing intertwined with each other, and the unstoppable crowing of seagulls seemed to cut through the space like lightning, passing by the ears from a very far away.

Mikael tightly held the hands of the people around him, as if as long as he was still holding this hand, as long as he could feel the temperature of the other person in his palm, then there was still hope for everything.

Despite, despite her figure, those many figures have gradually faded into the lake in the mist...

So he raised his hand, trying to disperse the smoke that prevented him from seeing everything, but Keli seemed to know what he was going to do, and raised her hand to stop her invisibly.

"There's no need to disperse the fog. If I don't consider other things, I still like such a hazy weather. But...it's the middle of the night, so there shouldn't be any serious evil happening, right?"

In other words, with the protective color of night, even if there is no fog, evil things that should happen will never happen because of this.

"Hey! Mikael, how long has it been since we had such a good talk?"

"Probably……"

Mikael pouted his chin and thought hard, and finally reported a mock answer after more than ten seconds:

"It's been about two years?"

The last time was when it collapsed for the third time.

"By the way, Alicia, why do you like this kind of hazy... No, no, hazy means that you can still see the scenery of the lake, but this is completely gone."

"But... isn't that what we humans are like?"

Ellie scratched his palm lightly.

"No one can exist without the rest of the people, so there is no spatial isolation between us and others, as long as we walk firmly, we will definitely meet somewhere in the world.

"But... there is a separation between people, like this fog. I mean, what if this fog is not in the physical sense, but in the psychological sense?"

Mikael turned his head abruptly, the pink outline had gradually been submerged in gray, but he could feel that Ellie must have also turned her head to look at him.

"Mikael, I can't see your face clearly anymore. Although I still hold your hand, I can still feel your body temperature and hear your breathing, but I can't see your outline clearly anymore Let alone the facial features... Mikael, what are you thinking? Why haven't you told me for so long..."

The outline of Ellie gradually became clear in the mist. At first Mikael thought it was his own eyesight, but suddenly realized that it was Ellie approaching him.

"Bang thump", "thump thump", "thump thump"...

The beating of the heart was rapid and clear, and Mikael also approached the outline of the lake in a mysterious way, so the dim pink appeared in front of his eyes again.

The next moment, the two closed their eyes tacitly...

"boom!"

An extreme light flashed just at this moment, dividing the sky and the earth into two halves, and the entire mist trembled, and then the thunder rolled like a tidal wave.

So the rain also fell.

One drop, two drops hit Mikael's nose, and then it was like someone opened a floodgate, and the rain poured down.

It is not difficult to construct an umbrella, and even if the power of the Fourth Herrscher is simulated, it is not impossible to stop the rain quickly, but Ellie stopped him again in her own way.

"Well!"

It was a kiss that came in a hurry and broke at the touch of a touch. Mikael even felt that it was an unrealistic fantasy. When he pulled his thoughts back, Ellie had already held his arm and stretched her whole body. Snuggling over, her words sounded in Mikael's ears again:

"Remember when we first started traveling? There was a time when we only had one umbrella, and when it rained, you threw it to me and told me you couldn't construct an umbrella... Hee hee! Actually, you just wanted to be with me I hold the same umbrella, but I'm too embarrassed to speak?"

The corners of Mikael's mouth curled up unconsciously.

In fact, these memories have gradually faded in his mind. If Alicia hadn't mentioned them, they might have been gradually forgotten in a short time.

But in Alicia's flat narration, those memories gradually came back. Although there were many bitter pasts in them, when she pursed her lips, her lips and teeth were full of sweet aftertaste.

The rain cuts through the mist, and the white mist and dark mist that rise from the drops of water merge with each other, so the mist becomes heavy, turbid, and sticky. Taking a breath, it is full of earthy smell.

He suddenly understood why Ellie wanted to tell him this.

Yes, heavy and cloudy, isn't this what Mikael's heart is now?

He was no longer the desperate and excited teenager who became a Herrscher, and he was no longer just fighting for Alicia alone.

She fell into the world and walked in the world, so the world left her footprints, and she also left traces of the world.

He walked with her in the world, thinking that he could avoid all ties, live only for her, die for her alone, and fight for her alone.

But that was far in the past.

The world has left irreversible marks on him. He and the world, he and the people in the world have long been entangled with each other and are inseparable. Even he himself has to admit that the part of his heart that belongs to Ellie has been replaced One hundred percent down to 50.00% one, no?

But she wasn't sad about it.

On the contrary, I am gratified, gratified that he has grown up, that he has more and more fetters, that he has more and more people worth caring about, and that he has more and more people who care about him.

I am gratified that this world is gradually becoming real in his eyes, and that he gradually and truly belongs to this world.

"So, Mikael, since everyone is someone you trust, someone you love, someone who loves you, and someone you want to save...why run away? Why not with me, How about explaining all the difficulties to everyone? Like the case of Seele, why don’t you tell us everything, and let everyone brainstorm to come up with a solution instead of trying to find a way to break the situation by yourself?”

"Did Mebius tell you? Is her mouth not as hard as I thought?"

"It's all you need to know, Mikael...you don't have to bear all the burdens alone, because since what you want to save is the whole world, the world naturally has the responsibility to respond to you.

"I once said that Alicia wants to be with Mikael forever. Now, Alicia wants to be with Mikael forever, and live in this world forever until the end."

Mikael closed his eyes, and the blue wind blew away the rain and the mist.

To be honest, she said a lot that night, there were many contradictions and logical confusion, after all, it was just drunk talk.

But it was precisely this that made Mikael even more speechless.

She stumbled past Mikael's heart, detoured a long way, bumped into a wall, and finally groped to the cancerous tumor in his heart, and punched it hard.

The force was gentle, but it just hit the softest and hardest place.

Mikael put his arms around Ellie lightly, but she was snoring lightly and had already fallen asleep—this made him suddenly realize that he had been sitting there for a long time.

He borrowed the gentle wind to try to dry the rain on Ellie's body, but...

But his eyes began to wander unconsciously, and a shallow voice began to whisper in his ear.

His left hand opened slightly, then lightly clenched his fist, opened it again, clenched it again... Finally he lifted it tremblingly, pushed it forward bit by bit, and finally gently covered her chest.

"Guru..."

Mikael swallowed frantically.

There is no slightest change in the world, but he does feel some kind of change in himself.

Also, after all...

"what!"

Ellie woke up instantly, and she didn't even notice Mikael's left hand hastily withdrawn—because she didn't make the cry.

"Ciel!"

The figures of the two appeared next to Xi'er's bed in an instant, and Xi'er was curled up all over, but the panic gradually dissipated.

Follow her gaze to the floor next to the bed, where there is a white calf writhing its butt funny.

Chapter 8 Divide, Merge

"This is... Honkai Beast?"

Mikael asked uncertainly.

But Ellie obviously doesn't struggle so much, and finally sees a creature cuter than Mikael, even if it is a Honkai beast, she has to hold it in her hand and rub it well.

"Wow! So cute!"

Holding the white calf by the neck, she pouted and flicked its buttocks three times.

"uh-huh!"

She glanced at Mikael proudly, but the latter's brows were furrowed, and there was no relaxed atmosphere.

Xier couldn't help but reach out and touch it. The white skin of ordinary Honkai beasts is actually a skeleton-like shell, and only a few mayflies or crawling Honkai beasts are soft shells.

But the white skin of this Honkai Beast is more like a human skin-like "membrane" than a hard or soft "shell".It is very soft to the touch, can be broken by blowing bombs, and in addition to its lifelike shape, if it is not for the reaction of the Houkai emanating from the body, Mikael would really regard him as a newborn calf.

"Hey! He seems to have three eyes!"

"Ah, is it!"

Mikael leaned over and saw that there was a vertical line between the brows of the Honkai Beast, which looked like a Sichuan pattern, but this line appeared a bit abrupt on the Honkai Beast's immature face.

But if you look at it sideways, you can clearly see that it is a pair of tightly closed eyelids.

Xier tentatively reached out her hand to touch the eyelid, and the whole body of the Honkai beast twitched and struggled in an instant. With its small body and great strength, Ellie suddenly failed to hold it, and it still fell on the bedside. on the floor.

The next moment, a purple thunder flashed, and the Honkai Beast was split in half.