Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

“I think you’re really a bit love-struck…” Möbius muttered.

Just then, the phone on the table rang. It was a private line from the solitary confinement cell. Mei, staring at the screen, grabbed the phone. "Sakura? It's me... Is that right? The doll is showing resistance? Interesting, this is the first time... Last time, the Herrscher of Fire, Himiko, showed absolutely no mercy. Could it be that the girl's body shape doesn't suit Eve's taste... I understand, then..."

Before she could finish speaking, Mebius snatched the phone, her eyes glued to the screen, a smile spreading across her face. "Sakura, let him continue, force him to 'feed.' Let me see why his humanity can be triggered by Herrschers, yet he shows no humanity towards ordinary humans, but instead begins to pity Herrschers? This isn't the heart of an 'Eve.'"

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a5 Biochemical Category Storage Room.

Shen Liang stared intently at the Herrscher girl curled up in a ball, his gaze sweeping over her fair arms and slender thighs beneath her skirt, swallowing hard.

—I want to eat it.

But for some reason, Shen Liang hesitated.

He stepped forward, lifted the girl's chin, forcing the Herrscher to look at him, and then paused slightly.

The Herrscher girl stared at Shen Liang, trembling. She was beautiful, with shoulder-length dark blue hair and a figure of about seventeen or eighteen years old. She was wearing a high school uniform from the outside world: a plaid skirt, leather shoes, and cotton knee-high socks.

This is the Lawgiver of Death.

"What's your name?" Shen Liang never asked a Herrscher's name before "feeding." Every Herrscher he had ever met was insane and tyrannical, even when imprisoned in solitary confinement and stripped of all power, they would still relentlessly mock humanity. Mei told him that "feeding" didn't require listening to what those Herrschers said; they were no longer human, and their words were meaningless except for shaking people's hearts.

Eve had always been obedient and never disobeyed May, but today he wanted to ask the girl's name.

“Seele, her name is Seele. In Asian parlance, you can call her ‘Seele’.” Sakura picked up the conversation, hung up the phone, and looked at Shen Liang with some hesitation. She knew Eve very well, almost like a sibling, so she was very sensitive to Eve’s unusual behavior. The instructions she received from Möbius were to force Eve to “eat”… As the older sister, she hesitated.

"Your name is Xi'er?" Shen Liang felt a strange stirring in his heart.

Xier...

He couldn't remember where he had heard the name before. It was like a diary being opened from a bookshelf in a very deep room—distant and familiar, with a childhood feeling of sunlight shining on a wall, making him hesitate.

"Are you here to kill me, little brother?" Seele looked at the delicate and petite boy in front of her, who was not even as tall as her but was stroking her face. Despite her fear, Shen Liang looked so harmless that her fear gradually subsided, and she even dared to ask softly.

Both of them actually knew each other's identities.

Seele is an ordinary high school student from Europe who has been detained here for a full year after it was discovered that he possesses the power of the Herrscher of Death.

She knew that the fusion warrior who had captured her a year ago was named Kevin, and she also knew that this was a research base for Honkai, the most mysterious "Fire Moth" in the outside world's legends. She didn't know why she had become the chosen Herrscher, but she cooperated with all the research at the Fire Moth base. The reason she wasn't executed was because she retained her humanity. The Fire Moth wanted to study why she was so special, but they made no progress.

She had once fantasized that if there was no progress, the Fire Chasing Base might keep her captive indefinitely. Because she was innocent; she hadn't even done anything wrong. But today she saw Shen Liang.

Seele actually knew Shen Liang. Although she was imprisoned, the researchers often chatted with her through terminals and showed her photos. She knew that there was a young, handsome boy with black hair and red eyes at the Fire Chaser Base, who was even prettier than a girl and was the darling of the entire base.

But she always hoped that she would never see this boy again.

Because she had overheard the researchers' conversation that the seemingly gentle and pretty boy, nicknamed "Doll," also had the alias "Bird of Paradise."

This nickname comes from the fact that his appearance implies the gentle killing of a Herrscher. When the researchers told her this, they sighed softly, and in the end, they could only tell her that dying at the hands of Eve was the best way for a Herrscher captured by the Fire Chaser Base to die; at least there was no pain in the final moments of life, and she could ascend to bliss with a smile.

Eve was given the most beautiful way to die, which is why they called her "Elysium".

Seele knew her time had come the moment they met. She huddled in a corner of the room, trying to avoid Shen Liang as much as possible, as if that would save her from death. But Shen Liang arrived anyway, his small face—which she couldn't quite describe as perfect or terrifying—pressed right in front of her.

The Herrscher of Death finally gave a bitter laugh.

Shen Liang scratched the back of his head. He didn't quite understand why he wanted to kill this seemingly harmless Herrscher. Even when he messed up an ordinary person, Moth of Flame was very nervous. Why would he be asked to kill a girl who looked like just a high school girl?

"Why did they want to kill you?" Shen Liang stroked Seele's soft, long hair. He was never distant, and now he was straddling Seele's lap, pinning her against the wall. Actually, he was just asking casually to buy time. He was buying time to avoid killing the girl; he didn't know why, he just didn't want to.

“That fusion warrior named Kevin said I’m a Herrscher. The Fire Chaser Base thinks that since I’m a Herrscher, I’ll become a menace sooner or later and kill many, many people. So they’d rather get rid of me now, in case I don’t know when I might mutate into a Herrscher and cause unexpected destruction.” After looking at Shen Liang for a while, Seele slowly realized he wasn’t so scary anymore. Facing Shen Liang riding on her without any hesitation, she even felt a little shy. “And if you kill me, you can obtain the Herrscher of Death’s core.”

“That’s one of the necessary conditions for the Divine Key, Doll.” Sakura interjected at the right moment, “Last time… the Herrscher of Flame ‘himeko’ that you killed last time was Himiko. You extracted the Herrscher of Flame’s core and have already begun preparing to create the Divine Key.”

These words made the Herrscher of Death tremble with fear. To be killed and turned into a Divine Key was too terrifying for a high school girl.

Shen Liang also remembered this incident. Himiko, the Herrscher of Flame, was the sixth Herrscher he had "fed," and she was also said to have caused the most destruction. Her strength was astonishing, far surpassing that of the previous Herrschers. Within a week of her birth, she turned the entire Australia into a sea of ​​fire. It was because of her that Mei and Möbius proposed the Fusion Warrior Project and built the Firemoth Base.

The Fusion Warrior Project turned Kevin into a powerful warrior who manipulated low temperatures, allowing him to defeat the Herrscher of Flame with great difficulty. The price was that his body temperature would remain at minus thirty degrees Celsius, and he would never be able to get close to any ordinary person again.

Shen Liang had executed the Herrscher who had slaughtered millions in the solitary confinement room. She was a tall, beautiful, mature woman with red hair, and was said to have once been a soldier protecting humanity. But under the influence of the Herrscher's mindset, she had become insane and perverse, even daring to mock Shen Liang, who came to execute her. All of humanity's aversion to killing, fear of death, and hatred of sin had vanished from her.

Shen Liang unconsciously licked his lips.

He didn't notice the smile on his face; only Sakura saw it. She realized Shen Liang was thinking about the Herrscher of Flame, but could only remain silent. On the day Shen Liang executed Himiko, she had watched from the sidelines just as she was now.

Shen Liang kept swallowing her saliva, her mouth watering.

—But the taste of a Herrscher is very good, much better than that of an ordinary person. Perhaps it is because even if they are tortured to death, they will not feel anger or pain, but will only be trapped in excitement and happiness with him.

—The moment he grabbed Himiko's red hair from behind, using his body to experience and merge with her genetic module, making her feel so happy and blissful that she cried tears of joy while holding the Herrscher core in her heart, was the happiest and most fulfilling moment he had ever experienced since birth.

So Shen Liang has been looking forward to the next Herrscher ever since then.

—Now it's here.

Seele noticed the boy's eyes suddenly turn violent and cruel. The gentle demeanor of the beautiful young man vanished in an instant. She realized that he was there to kill her; all his beauty and gentleness were meant to kill her! Killing her was Shen Liang's real business, and now he was about to make his move; he was about to begin his slaughter!

Seele was so frightened that she cried out, "Brother!"

She was calling for her brother; she had an older brother outside the home, and when she was terrified, she would instinctively call out for him.

Then she saw the boy with a gluttonous look on his face freeze in shock.

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"elder brother."

When Seele called out "brother," he seemed to hear someone softly calling out behind him.

Who could it be? Shen Liang didn't need to turn around to know there couldn't be anyone behind her. Sakura, a powerful fusion warrior of the Flame Chaser, stared at the Herrscher; there couldn't be anyone else in this room.

Or am I being influenced by the Herrscher? Is the Herrscher's ability to use psychological suggestion on me?

But Shen Liang silently gazed at the Herrscher of Death girl, staring at her sea-blue pupils that looked so familiar.

Those beautiful, ocean-like eyes were now filled with tears and fear. She was terrified, trembling with fear of him. It was strange; what Herrscher would be afraid of a human? He had executed so many Herrschers and had never seen one who feared him. Most of them even knew they were going to die but still tried to extract pleasure from him. Only Seele was so weak and easily bullied.

"I don't want to die, please, please don't kill me, please don't kill Seele..." The girl braced herself against the wall behind her, curling back as far as she could, her teeth chattering. "Brother... save me, save Seele..."

Sakura couldn't bear to watch any longer. She didn't feel that way when Eve executed other Herrschers because those Herrschers were beyond redemption. But SEELE was different. Even Kevin couldn't bring himself to harm her. Being imprisoned here for so long was already an exception among the Moths of Flame. But exceptions couldn't last forever. No one could guarantee when SEELE would awaken. For humanity, only a dead Herrscher brought peace of mind.

Shen Liang gently embraced the Herrscher of Death girl, his physique resembling that of a younger brother trying to be affectionate with an older sister four or five years his senior. Seele resisted, but Shen Liang wrapped his arms around her shoulders; her strength was far inferior to that of the superhuman created by the "Children of Man" project.

Sakura knew very well that it was a sign that Eve was "feeding". He was not as gentle as he seemed. He was not embracing the Herrscher because he wanted to give her some end-of-life care, but because it would make it easier for him to control her.

Eve's height has always been a disadvantage, but he has a strong personality and usually takes the initiative when he's intimate with anyone. Even with a tall, mature woman like Sakura, whose head only reaches her chest, he would bite the back of her neck and force her to lie down obediently with the ferocity of a cub.

But Sakura felt something was off.

Because Shen Liang only gently put her arm around Seele's shoulder in front of him, the fluorescent light from outside shone into the dark bedroom, casting a bright, moon-like glow on the two embracing figures. The Herrscher of Death girl looked up, her eyes flashing with panic and helplessness, while the boy did not begin to "feed" her, but simply held her shoulder quietly.

"No...eat me?" Seele nervously held onto the boy's waist, trying to back away as much as possible, but there was nowhere to hide. The handsome boy in front of her closed his eyes for some reason, as if he was breathing in her scent.

The way she pre-meal... doesn't seem like it either. Seele has heard that Eve's feeding is always cruel and efficient. Although she doesn't feel pain, on the contrary, being possessed by such a handsome boy is even a kind of ecstasy. But Eve doesn't tease or comfort her prey before feeding. She only takes out your heart at the moment when you are happiest.

Eat...you?

Although you look clean, fair, and delicate, which is exactly my type, I don't know why I always feel guilty. I always feel that if I eat you, I'll regret it.

Naturally, Shen Liang said softly, "Are you looking forward to it?"

Damn it, why did I say such a thing? Shen Liang was inwardly annoyed with himself. Didn't that make me seem a bit cruel, like "treating humans as prey"? The Fire-Chasing Moth already harbored prejudice against me, and saying that would make them think I lacked even more humanity!

"No! I'm not looking forward to it! Not at all!" Seele quickly refused, her face slightly flushed. However, seeing the boy's slightly frozen expression, she realized she had said the wrong thing, and tears welled up in her eyes again. She sobbed, clutching her head, "I'm sorry! It's not that I'm not looking forward to it, I'm... I'm really looking forward to it! Seele is really looking forward to Eve eating her, because Eve is so cute! But, but if I have to die, then I won't look forward to it... Waaah... I don't want to die. If I can stay alive, I'll let Eve eat me however he wants!"

Although Sakura knew she shouldn't be laughing at that moment, she still couldn't help but laugh.

Looking at the girl whose will to survive was at its peak, Shen Liang naturally patted her head and said, "Don't be afraid."

“I’m not afraid… I’m not afraid if my brother Eve doesn’t eat me…” Seele said through gritted teeth, her voice trembling.

“It’s my older brother,” Shen Liang corrected.

“Brother?” Seele stared at the black-haired boy who was less than 1.5 meters tall. She hesitated for a long time. She vaguely felt that this “bird of paradise” who was in charge of executions might be a little confused, but she did not want to offend the person who could control her life and death at any time, so she said softly, “Brother Liang.”

“You won’t die, although you are indeed very delicious… but that would be too cruel to me. How could an older brother see his younger sister as food?” Shen Liang said again, uttering words that even he himself did not understand.

What the hell? Why won't I eat it? I came here to kill Herrschers. My value in the Fire Moth lies in my ability to easily extract Divine Keys and preserve Herrscher genetic modules. If I disobey the Fire Moth, I'll die!

"Brother Liang, do you want to rescue me?" Seele looked at him, her azure eyes filled with reassurance... and a strange, unsettling feeling.

Shen Liang wanted to frown and say how could that be? A Herrscher should just die here obediently. But he nodded instead, and his clear, cold voice, somewhere between a boy and a girl, uttered an undeniable arrogant statement.

"Of course, I'm your brother." Shen Liang lifted Seele's chin and kissed him without hesitation, biting his lip forcefully.

The sight of the Herrscher kissing the boy made Sakura slightly turn her head. Although it wasn't the first time she'd seen Eve devour these Herrschers up close, she still felt a touch of girlish shyness. But just a second after turning her head away, she felt a sharp pain in her lower abdomen!

A white knight's lance pierced through Sakura! Shen Liang held a weapon that exuded a gloomy, deathly power, and starting from Sakura's waist, the weapon gradually disintegrated her into blood and gore!

"Baby!" Sakura looked at Shen Liang, who was wielding the Divine Key and attacking her, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.

That was the child she regarded as her younger brother, whom she had raised by her side since he was a child. In some ways, he was not only her younger brother but also her boyfriend whom she had already tacitly accepted.

She never doubted Eve, even though many researchers felt that Eve lacked humanity and was uncontrollable. She never thought that Eve would betray humanity, or rather, betray her.

but……

"I'm sorry, Sakura, I just suddenly realized that she is more important to me than any of you are." Shen Liang said calmly, then twisted the Black Abyss White Flower, and the burst of decomposition power instantly reached its first rated power, shattering Sakura's armor in an instant, and the decomposition power directly seeped into her heart.