Seele

Both Zhu Yufeng himself and Lilith, who once resided in Zhu Yufeng's mind as a consciousness, have stated that before the Seventh Herrscher Incident, he had never paid any attention to or had any interest in other women.

Speaking of the Sixth Herrscher, besides the first thing that comes to mind is Zhu Yufeng's confession to her after the Sixth Herrscher incident, if you think back carefully to what happened around that time, Elysia remembers that Zhu Yufeng also took on a mission to investigate the Sixth Great Honkai. Because no Herrscher appeared during the Sixth Great Honkai Great Honkai, and there were also many Resurrected, the higher-ups immediately suspected that the Sixth Herrscher had infiltrated the Resurrected population. Therefore, they began to monitor and investigate the Resurrected. He carried out the mission alone that time, and the process was not written in his mission report afterward.

If I remember correctly, the Sixth Herrscher was among the people he was responsible for investigating.

This guy even spent a few days with the Sixth Herrscher afterward. After the Sixth Herrscher incident, this became a hot topic within the Fire Moth, leading to several interrogations from higher-ups. Because he had maintained regular communication with Fire Moth throughout the mission, by the time he investigated and approached Seele, Fire Moth had already figured it out. But no one expected that the seemingly arrogant girl would ultimately turn out to be the Sixth Herrscher herself...

Elysia remembered that during Zhu Yufeng's mission, she had teased him when they contacted each other, "Hey, Feng, I heard that you have a very blunt girl by your side the Present. I heard that boys these the Present seem to like girls like that. Do you have any thoughts about it?"

Zhu Yufeng remained silent for a long time before finally replying, "... No."

"Oh dear, you're not a very honest kid either~"

I really want to go back to that time and tell my past self to stop trying to create more romantic rivals for myself!

"By the way, you approached the Sixth Herrscher because you already knew she was the Sixth Herrscher, didn't you?" Elysia asked.

"Yes." Zhu Yufeng nodded. "Besides, in the story of the 'Come Girl,' there was a girl who looked exactly like her, so... I thought I'd go and take a look..."

Rather than White Seele, the Sixth Herrscher she encountered was more like Veliona.

Elysia nodded thoughtfully. She thought to herself, "That explains why Zhu Yufeng had such an unusual level of interest in SEELE back then. While investigating the other survivors of the Sixth Great Honkai, he would still occasionally contact SEELE, leading to a lot of rumors circulating within the Fire Moth, with everyone thinking that he was about to start a relationship."

However, judging from his the Present expression, he was most likely trying to confirm the difference between the Sixth Herrscher and a normal human, without directly saying, "This is the Sixth Herrscher, go and defeat her," so he resorted to excessive contact with her...

Yes, Zhu Yufeng's earliest rumored romantic interest was the Sixth Herrscher...

This rumor has actually been circulating for quite a while. For example, Sixth Herrscher became a normal girl for a few days because of him. After all, for the Fire Moth at that time, Zhu Yufeng was the first person who could have so much interaction with Herrscher. Although Mei later proposed the concept of the Herrscher body, believing that the Sixth Herrscher Herrscher was born and awakened during the Sixth Honkai Eruption.

Because when the Sixth Herrscher, Herrscher 1, fought against the Fire Moth, she didn't show much humanity, and in the end, she even tricked Kevin.

When Zhu Yufeng returned from the European branch with Lilith during the Seventh Herrscher Incident, the scandal had basically disappeared.

Only after Zhu Yufeng took over the Black Abyss White Flower, which Elysia disliked for not being cute enough, did the rumor resurface somewhat. By then, not many people knew about what had happened.

The most prominent rumors still revolve around Zhu Yufeng and Lilith...

It's important to know that although Zhu Yufeng confessed his feelings to Elysia, no one else knew about it at the time except for the two of Elysia. Therefore, some people speculated that Zhu Yufeng's decision to leave headquarters was because he harbored resentment towards Kevin for killing the Sixth Herrscher ...

At the time, this guy and Kevin did have a good relationship, although it was one-sided jealousy on his part.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Yufeng was mentioned the Present, Elysia would have almost forgotten that Zhu Yufeng had such a scandal. This super blockhead has never been interested in any rumors or gossip within the Fire Moth, and he probably doesn't even know that he had such a scandal.

Another reason is that after using the Black Abyss White Flower for a few days, Elysia found it not cute enough and gave up the right to use it. Not being cute enough was an important reason, and another reason was... she did remember the scandal between Zhu Yufeng and the Sixth Herrscher, so she transferred the right to use the Black Abyss White Flower to Zhu Yufeng...

"So you really didn't notice anything unusual about her as Herrscher back then?" Elysia looked at Zhu Yufeng. During the Tenth Herrscher Incident, her doubts about her own identity grew stronger. She had also thought about the Sixth and Seventh Herrscher. After the Tenth Herrscher incident, she accepted Mei's point of view: Herrscher bodies still possess normal human thinking before awakening, but after awakening, human consciousness will disappear or nearly disappear and be replaced by the Honkai Consciousness that contains their memories.

This perspective explains why the Sixth Herrscher and Seventh Herrscher experienced brief periods of human consciousness at the end, and also explains why the Tenth Herrscher was able to remain dormant as Herrscher for so long.

Because the Tenth Herrscher's power is domination, although their memories still belong to humans, their way of thinking has been replaced by the Honkai Consciousness.

Aside from themselves, no Herrscher chose to stand with humanity. Among the Tenth Herrscher were many stalwarts in the fight against Honkai, and some of them were so determined to fight the Honkai that no one could question them. Even after becoming Herrscher, they still remained enemies of humanity.

Just like Raphael, the deputy of the Qianjie the Present, or Immer, the deputy of the Thousand Calamities, or Klein... there is absolutely no reason for them to choose to join the Honkai and become enemies of humanity while retaining their human thoughts. Apart from the speculation that their bodies were controlled by the "Honkai" that possessed their own consciousness, there is no other reasonable explanation.

Therefore, she remains alone.

She possesses Herrscher abilities and was born during a Honkai, yet she has a human heart. No one told her what her powers were, nor did any voice tell her what to do.

Elysia had long given up hope of finding a Herrscher other than herself who possessed human memories and thoughts, and the Present she had two by her side: Lilith and Zhu Yufeng.

However, she remembered Lilith mentioning that the Fifth Herrscher had already awakened Herrscher consciousness. If the Fifth Herrscher had also waited until it was fully developed before awakening and triggering the Fifth Great Honkai, then when the Sixth Herrscher was with Maple, was it Herrscher consciousness or human consciousness?

Therefore, she asked Zhu Yufeng, who had the most contact with the Sixth Herrscher, this question, hoping to get some clues from him, even though... in the end, she probably wouldn't get the information she wanted. Mei's analysis was still quite reasonable...

Anyway, it won't hurt to ask about Feng's past experiences; she's always been curious.

Zhu Yufeng thought about it for a moment, and then thought about what happened during that time...

He recalled Seele's information. Although he couldn't remember most people's information, he could remember information about Seele, a special individual.

It was purely accidental that he didn't remember his first encounter with Vill-V; he genuinely didn't recall it at all... That meeting was more of a chance encounter, and he had no intention of getting to know Vill-V, so he didn't take it to heart, which is why he didn't remember it. However, he had actively investigated Seele, so it was impossible for him to have no memory of it.

I don't know why, but suddenly I felt like I had let Vill-V down...

"From my perspective, I didn't find anything unusual..." Zhu Yufeng said, "You know, I was investigating her because she's Herrscher, so I was observing her from the perspective of a Herrscher... But I didn't find anything unusual... She acted like a girl who likes to throw tantrums, and I had to accommodate her, afraid that she would turn into Herrscher if she got angry. At that time, you even teased me about whether I liked her or had feelings for her..."

Would he dare? Knowing full well that the one before him was the Herrscher of Death, but not knowing whether he had awakened or how he would awaken, would he dare to risk his life?

Since I don't dare to do anything reckless, I can only stroke the seele's fur in the right direction...

Elysia was really something. Back when he was cautiously getting along with SEELE, she even teased him about whether he had any intention of dating SEELE... Haha... Putting aside the fact that he only had Elysia in his eyes at the time, from a generally rational point of view, who would dare to flirt with the Herrscher of Death from the Previous Civilization?

He did not commit suicide.

There's still some hope for Seele in the current civilization. At least Bronya is reasonable. Even if she tries to reason with you while holding Project Bunny, she won't take a fatal blow, right? As for Veliona, although Veliona is unreasonable, we've already dealt with White Seele, so what's there to be afraid of with Veliona?

The problem is, this is Previous Civilization. Who else besides Elysia can we trust among the Herrscher?

Elysia: "..."

Indeed...

"So what did you all do during those few days together?" Elysia asked casually.

"I wasn't just with her during that time," Zhu Yufeng said, squinting. "I also had to investigate and get close to other people, like the teacher at the school Seele was in back then. He was also a survivor of the Sixth Great Honkai ... I didn't spend that much time with Seele, so there was no reason for us to do anything together."

"That makes sense..." Elysia almost agreed, but she reacted quickly, "Wait a minute, I remember you helped her teach a few thugs a lesson."

Otherwise, how did the rumors about Zhu Yufeng and the Sixth Herrscher come about?

Even if Zhu Yufeng had frequent contact with the Sixth Herrscher, it wouldn't warrant such rumors, would it? Even if the warriors of the Fire Moth were bored and would open a betting pool on ship pairings, they wouldn't randomly ship pairings.

"Does this count as a collaboration? Wasn't it something I did unilaterally?" Zhu Yufeng tilted her head.

Elysia covered her face. "Did you know that there were rumors circulating within the Fire Moth that you liked SEELE?"

Zhu Yufeng slowly typed a question mark. Really? He didn't remember.

"I recall this," Kevin said, finally snapping out of his daze. "This rumor does exist within the Fire Moth."

He was just thinking about his feelings for the Sixth Herrscher they started talking about it, and he could even chime in on it.

Zhu Yufeng and Elysia both saw Kevin. At that time, Zhu Yufeng and Kevin's relationship wasn't exactly good, so how could Kevin understand that kind of feeling? Wasn't he only interested in Mei?

Kevin continued, "When you left headquarters and went to Europe, everyone in the Fire Moth was saying that you went to Europe because of your feelings for the Sixth Herrscher. We also heard that after you went to the European branch, you didn't fight on the front lines against the Honkai as a warrior, but instead joined a rescue team."

"Is it possible that the European branch is quite xenophobic? Although I was transferred from headquarters, I wasn't assigned to any combat team and could only join the rescue team," Zhu Yufeng said somewhat speechlessly.

Then he met Lilith, and started building his own team...

This brings us to Abaddon. In Zhu Yufeng's eyes, Abaddon was the leader of the European branch's combat squad. Although he was excellent in action and had outstanding talent, due to his background, he was just an ordinary European branch soldier. All his achievements were taken by his superiors, and he himself didn't care. He would complete whatever mission he was given. To put it bluntly, Abaddon's squad was able to rank among the top in the Fire Moth entirely because Abaddon led them.

Not long after, the entire squad was wiped out in a mission, and Abaddon refused to help them, prioritizing completing the mission.

So it was only natural that he brought Abaddon into his team.

"The problems with the European branch... aren't known to everyone," Elysia said. "It's understandable that those who are unaware would think that way, isn't it?"

She knew that the European branch had a problem with xenophobia, so when Zhu Yufeng applied to transfer to the European branch, Elysia asked him about it, but Zhu Yufeng insisted on leaving. Moreover, when she contacted Zhu Yufeng later, he did not say that he had any problems adapting.

Strictly speaking, Zhu Yufeng only participated in one rescue mission. That was when he met Lilith, and then he encountered Abaddon's team being wiped out. So he didn't actually sit on the sidelines for long, and quickly became the leader of the European branch. During the Seventh Herrscher incident, he was forcibly transferred to headquarters.