The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"squeak--"

The friction sound when the door is opened always makes people's teeth ache. Before anyone can step out of the house, the little teddy on the chain has already slipped out from the crack of the door. The next moment, the annoying dog barks very quickly. Bury all movement in the corridor.

"Stop shouting Marcel!"

A not-too-severe voice came from behind the door. There was no hint of sadness or joy in it, but it made the little Teddy who was so aggressive a moment ago tremble and immediately became quiet.

It seemed that starting from this moment, there were other sounds in the corridor.

To be precise, it was the gentle laughter of a girl:

The door closed and she left.

When he saw that she had no martial arts skills but was injured due to lack of experience, it was undeniable that there was anger and sadness in his heart.

Otto actually knew very well that with the temperament of a girl who must keep her word, she must be the former.

Smelling the faint musty smell emanating from the wooden door of the apartment, Su Chang's lips twitched, then she raised her hand, clenched it into a fist, and smashed the door gently.

Otto stood alone in front of the chopping board for a long time.

The space in the house is a bit small, and the so-called living room is only slightly larger than Otto's former desk, but everything is tidied up in an orderly manner. A few pots of flowers at the connection between the living room and the balcony also add a fragrant fragrance to this small space.

"It's just a joke. What's that expression on your face? If I were here, you would never be able to do some things, right? For example, if I were here, you would never let go of the coalition government you built in the past few years. Prejudice cooperates with destiny, even if Taixu and World Snake intervene, it is useless. Only Theresa can serve as a [link] to integrate the interests of many parties. If anyone disagrees, then ask her students first. Opinion."

And he only had to look straight to see the white-haired girl in front of him holding the wall with one hand and lifting the heel of his shoe with the other.

Su Shang pouted and shook her head.

"This girl, uh..."

She took a deep breath, as if she had taken in enough courage:

He just stopped where he was.

Because I don't understand, I can't respond.

Because she knew very well in her heart what Otto's "only wish" was.

The tea was freshly brewed. The originally dried and dehydrated tea leaves quickly expanded in the scalding boiling water and swirled around in the cup. When they finally returned to the water, the entire cup of hot water was dyed with the color of the tea leaves.

"I'm sorry, Rakshasa, I just ate steamed buns before I came here...and now I can't eat any more...so you don't have to worry about me, just do your own thing!"

"Well, I already knew it. I could see it from the oil at the corner of your mouth from the beginning."

Karen dazedly stretched her hand towards Otto's back, but with a "bang", Otto's door closed, leaving her alone in the corridor.

They will never see each other again in this life.

This shouldn't be Marcel's first experience with the feeling of flying, but he still screamed "woof" excitedly, but before it could fly very far, it was pulled down heavily by the force majeure coming from the iron chain. to the ground.

"Well... that's my regret. If I had known you were coming, I would have asked you to bring a few for me."

This is not the first time Su Shang has had this idea in her mind.

"I won't bother you again, Rakshasa."

The eye socket muscles twitched slightly, and the green eyes instinctively turned to the side, but they were restrained by the strong psychological quality, and they only seemed to tremble twice.

"What about you? Walking the dog...are you out walking Marcel?"

Otto answered without hesitation.

So, what kind of feelings do I have towards Miss Su Shang?

But five hundred years is too short, and her and his faces have not changed much, just like when they first met.

do——

"You...do you have any plans to go out today?"

Su Chang subconsciously reached out to touch the glass, but the hot temperature burned her fingertips through the wall of the cup, and she could only retract her hand angrily.

Karen quickly ran over and hugged Marcel in her arms. She just turned around to ask Otto something, but what she saw was the chain and key falling at her feet.

"What can I do? If I were to be the Archbishop of Destiny for a few more days, I'm afraid they would have to take me to court - I'm sorry, Otto Apocalis's life was too long, and some of the For most of his life, he was not a good person. Now that he can retreat and enjoy a peaceful life, it is not bad. Although this also has the effect of restraining power, if he did not have this power... he would have gone against the entropy. You’re going to file a lawsuit against me.”

Su Shang lowered her head feebly and stood up from the sofa again.

Then, he moved his stiff body and walked to the sofa to sit down.

The girl also lowered her head, making no movement or speaking.

Of course Otto knew that in the past eight years, Su Chang would wander downstairs whenever he had the chance, but she never bothered him.

After a while, Su Chang let out a few slightly embarrassed laughs, then seemed to find the topic abruptly, and said in a semi-complaining tone:

"I'm talking about Rakshasa, after the Great Collapse, you resigned too quickly. In the first one or two years, Theresa had enough trouble just dealing with your Destiny old men, plus a lot of deaths. The population has returned, including many pre-civilized people, and we are very busy, not to mention that the 'Sao' incident happened later. It's better for you to live a small life here alone..."

After a while, the sound of footsteps and the turning of the door lock sounded one after another, and at the same time, there was the slightly hoarse voice of the man:

It's just like the temperature and fragrance left by the plain clothes on the sofa.

"Ah...ah?"

"Although Teresa is a little too kind, and sometimes seems a little naive, she is my granddaughter after all, not to mention, Kiana, Bronya, and Mei are all her students, and those old guys are also It’s just a small advantage in front of her, the trend is unstoppable. What’s more... isn’t this our girl in plain clothes? "

"boom--"

"Yes. This beast is too active by nature. If it doesn't be walked more often to exhaust its energy, I don't know what kind of trouble it will cause."

She apologized hurriedly, and when she thought about how long she had made Eleanor wait, she ran as fast as she could.

But with just one sound, Otto kicked him and silenced him again.

Yes, five hundred years is indeed too short. It is so short that it can express my clear feelings in just a few words, but it has not been said out loud until now.

What he doesn't understand is his own heart.

For a long time, the only sound in the room was the crisp sound of "do, do, do" when the kitchen knife touched the chopping board.

It was hard for Su Shang not to regret her previous eating behavior.

"Hahaha! What kind of weird idea do you have..."

"Marcel... he was a cute child at first, but he has been dead for more than five hundred years in the blink of an eye. I heard your later stories... Otto, do you still hate him?"

Otto stared silently at the girl one step away, his mouth wide open, but no words came out for a long time.

But she didn't want Rakshasa to be in trouble, and she didn't want to be unable to eat the food when it came to the table. Instead, she mistakenly thought that she didn't like it... So Su Chang could only explain honestly:

"So, I'm really happy that before this ending comes, at least we have completed the promise of 'saving the world' together."

"Who knows? Maybe it's because I really want to raise Marcel?"

"Then...then if you don't like it, why do you keep it?"

As Otto spoke, he also laughed out loud.

But the good news is that he doesn't have to wait another five hundred years.

"I'm just kidding, for you Chinese people, this is probably the more acceptable drink."

He just said in a deathly calm tone:

"When Kallen dies, my last soul steel body will also stop functioning. At that time, the core of the Herrscher of Restraint will be received by Theresa, whether it is to seal this power or It has nothing to do with me whether she inherits or finds a successor. Miss Sushang, I have fulfilled our agreement. Now, I just want to live an ordinary life from scratch, and then be like an ordinary person. Die. In this process, spend your life with her, even if she can never accept me."

She took Marcel back to her house, closed the door, and hurried to the supermarket downstairs to buy a few bags of dog food and a food bowl. In such a short time, when she returned home, she saw a dog in her mouth. Marcel was running around the house, knocking things on the coffee table all over the floor.

"She..."

"..."

However, this was indeed the first time she had walked into this room.

"By the way, Rakshasa, Kiana will be coming back from the moon in two days, will you go with me to greet her? Hollander will also go."

"Girl in plain clothes..."

"I'm sorry, Rakshasa, I like you."

As for Su Shang, when she thought of the twenty meat buns in her belly, she turned away with a guilty conscience.

"You sit down in the living room for a while, and I'll pour you some water...or do you want some wine? But now I don't have those red wines worth tens or hundreds of thousands, but after I get used to drinking those, Occasionally, it seems good to try hundreds of bottles, or even 13 bottles of wine with free shipping.”

"Pfft! How did you come up with the idea of ​​giving it this name?"

Her eyelids trembled slightly. After Karen took a deep breath, she used the key to unlock the collar around Marcel's neck. Then she held it in one hand, took out her phone with the other, and sent Eleanor a text message in a slightly unfamiliar tone. Voice:

Su Shang was silent for a moment and quickly turned the topic elsewhere:

"Rakshasa, I liked you before, I like you now, and I will probably like you for a long time in the future."

Otto responded calmly.

Thinking of this, my mood inevitably becomes depressed.

"It's Miss Su Shang. She's such a rare visitor... It's not easy to find me here. Come in and sit down."

"Then... aren't you also a Herrscher? You can also be Theresa's backing."

Su Chang had already walked to the entrance hall behind the door and looked at him in the kitchen through the shoe cabinet.

Then, a smile quickly appeared on his face.

There was still tea brewed for Su Shang on the coffee table. The tea leaves had sunk to the bottom of the cup, but the tea still retained a trace of warmth.

"Forget it. I was the one who caused Kiana's tragedy. I can't appear in front of her again."

Su Shang looked at the girl's retreating back, and an indescribable emotion suddenly surged in her heart.

Su Shang smiled awkwardly, turned her head stiffly and glanced at the name posted under the door plate of the opposite door, and then mechanically walked into the door of Otto's house.

"Uh sorry! That's not what I meant."

The sound of cutting vegetables stopped suddenly, and the sharp kitchen knife cut his index finger. Otto watched the blood-red liquid flow into the chopping board and mix with the tomatoes, making it difficult to distinguish.

It took Karen a lot of effort to calm Marcel down, and it took even longer time for him to accept the new food bowl and dog food. When she finally couldn't bear it, she put Marcel back on the leash and left home. When I left for my appointment, it was almost lunch time.

Su Shang quietly looked at the figure in front of her, wearing an apron and busying skillfully in the kitchen, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

so what?

Marcel didn't know what caused the convulsion, but he was still keenly aware of the stiff atmosphere between the two, and suddenly started shouting again.

So much so that...she didn't notice at all that she actually knew the girl eating the buns.

She hurried downstairs to the apartment, but almost bumped into the girl who was eating steamed buns and waiting for something at the entrance of the corridor.

She didn't want to deny her life for the past five hundred years. However, in the fifteenth year of her life, she met the wrong person at the wrong time, and developed a feeling that was impossible to be reciprocated. This feeling was like a heavy burden for the next five hundred years. The shackles of the world weighed on her, making it impossible for her to become the dashing heroine she had dreamed of as a child, a woman who roamed the world and hated evil as much as she wanted.

"Uh... uh... um, thank you Rakshasa, but I think... it's better not to drink, right?"

Otto laughed at himself while cutting tomatoes with a kitchen knife.

"I won't bother you again, Rakshasa."

"Woof——"

Otto held his forehead with his hands, as if trying to find a topic.

"Then... Rakshasa, did you have a fight with Miss Karen earlier today?"

These three simple words made Su Shang silent.

It would have been nice if she had not met him in that long yellow sand, even if he died at the age of fifteen.

"Who stipulates that pet owners must like their pets? Besides, people can't always predict the future. I think I liked it quite a lot when I bought it, but I don't like it now."

Only these words and the girl's last free and easy smile will remain in his mind forever and cannot be forgotten.

"Miss Sushang, wait a moment, I'm preparing lunch for myself. Do you want to eat together? I can prepare your portion too."

Is it time to end this?

"Of course, I escaped in time. In addition to protecting myself, didn't I also have the factor of trusting you?"

"But...don't Rakshasa people come out to walk their dogs every day? Why haven't they come out today?"

"..."

Five hundred years was really too long, so long that she could no longer recognize the ever-changing world, so long that she was overwhelmed by the emotions that had accumulated over the years in her heart...

Su Shang pursed her lips, showed a chic smile, and then firmly opened the door.

In the end, Su Shang had no idea what she was talking about. It wasn't until the words blurted out that she realized what she had said and what she shouldn't have said.

Otto shook his head and laughed, but the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.

Su Shang swallowed the last bun, folded the oil paper bag and threw it into the trash can nearby, and then ran up the stairs of the apartment with a bang.

Otto turned his face sideways and smiled softly:

"so what?"

"Something happened, I might be late."

Otto knelt down, gently rubbed Marcel's head, and pinched his furry ears, but this action seemed to stimulate this special breed of puppy, which immediately jumped up and straddled him. Otto's arm was twitching.

That wasn't blood, it was just that red pigment was added to the supporting nutrient solution out of bad taste when the soul steel body was developed. Even the pain can actually be blocked, but he didn't do that.

So actually... Otto has always understood the girl's thoughts.

It wasn't until the third sentence of the conversation between the two that the tall blond man walked out of the house with a dog leash in one hand and a key in the other.

"No...I...uh, Eleanor and I made an appointment to go shopping and watch a movie together today."

"Karen Kaslana..."

"I won't bother you again, Rakshasa."

But Otto did not pursue it, nor was he angry.

"I'm sorry, I was in a bad mood this morning. I said so many things that I shouldn't have said. Marcel was very noisy and probably made your house... uh... girl in plain clothes..."

In the end, he, who always likes to manipulate people's hearts, can never see through his own heart.

"Well, a new movie was released recently. The director is the Herrscher of Knowledge. I'm looking forward to it."

When he and the girl were running wildly on a carriage made of only two bad horses and a few wooden boards, looking at the vast desert, he also laughed loudly with the girl, and the happiness in it was not false at all.

"Since you like it, I'll give it to you. Change its name. I don't want to hear the name Marcel anymore."

"Then why do you keep it?"

Otto lifted the dog leash in his hand, and the collar strangled Marcel's neck and pulled him backwards, causing him to let out a few wails.

The girl pulled up her heels and tapped her heels on the ground twice, then turned around briskly and covered her mouth with a smile.

"It doesn't really matter what its name is, but the way it barks makes me hard not to think of Marcel."

Suddenly, the girl's words echoed in his mind over and over again, along with that last smile.

Probably goosebumps have spread uncontrollably throughout the body. Although it is a true expression of emotion, if you just read this sentence, it is somewhat numb.

"I...I understand."

Even if the smile faded away over time, just like Kallen in the past, only the rough outline and the slightly raised corners of her mouth remained.

"Wait a minute! It's coming!"

"Otto!"

"Do you think I'm angry at this dog because of Marcel? No, no, Karen, I want to tell you, I don't hate it because its name is Marcel, but the dog itself is very annoying. That’s why I named him Marcel, do you understand?”

Otto smacked his lips impatiently, then flicked his arm and threw Marcel flying.

Although she had always known that Rakshasa lived here, she had made a detour to Vienna on her way back from a business trip to Tianming Headquarters more than once, and came to this seemingly ordinary apartment building to spend half a day alone.

But Kallen still lowered her head and remained silent.

"Don't hate."

After turning her eyes around like this, she sat down on the edge of the sofa, and Otto also held a cup of hot tea and placed it on the coffee table in front of her.

She couldn't convince herself to defend Rakshasa against her will, because she knew that all the crimes he had committed were real crimes, but...

"When I came here, I happened to see Miss Karen running out of the apartment building, and then I heard you say those things... I didn't mean to inquire about your privacy."

"Movie?"

So, does this so-called "won't disturb him again" mean that he won't come near this place again, or will he never see him again?

"Otto... Marcel is dead. He is just a dog. Even if you vent your anger on him, it will not make any sense..."

"The 'Dahua Steamed Bun Shop' invested by the Lawyer of Knowledge and me has already opened seven branches in Vienna. You can open Vienna's food list and take a look. If Dahua Steamed Bun Shop is not in the first three books, the girl will show you how to eat it raw on the spot. Xuanyuan Sword."

"Otto..."

Karen glanced at it with some compassion, and finally couldn't help but persuaded:

"Rakshasa..."

"sorry Sorry!"

Su Shang stood in the middle of the living room and looked around at the environment in the room.

"I know."

"Tsk!"

"..."

Excuse me or something...

"Karen, I can see you when I open the door every morning... this feeling... is... good."

"Eh--"

"Rakshasa, how long has it been since you went out..."

A familiar voice came immediately from behind the door.

Su Shang knew she had made a mistake, but after a short silence, she finally couldn't bear to talk about the topic that she knew she couldn't bring up.

"..."

Effortlessly - without even thinking or silently reciting the house number, Su Chang stood at the door of the apartment where the former Archbishop of Destiny now lived, as if driven by the body's instinct.

Su Shang quickly wiped her lips, and sure enough, what remained on her fingertips was not lipstick that didn't exist at all, but oil that ordinary girls would never hang on their lips.

"Ah...ah hahaha...yes, yes, this girl...uh, hehehe..."

But Otto seemed completely unaware of this and was still asking about trivial details:

"Speaking of which, where did you buy your steamed buns? This is Vienna. They couldn't have been brought from the cafeteria of Tianming Headquarters, right?"

Even if there was a dispute between them, what would it have to do with her?

"Then...that...the lifespan of a Herrscher is infinite, but Miss Kallen is just an ordinary person now..."

There is both helplessness and subtle sadness in the smile.

"But Rakshasa, I..."

"No matter what happened in the past, it doesn't matter to me because my only wish has been achieved."

"Me? I don't need it."

"I won't bother you again, Rakshasa."

The words still echo in my mind.

Let me put my armor first. I am Aoshang Dang.