I'm Not a Flame-Chaser

At first, Lin never thought he would live to see the end of it all. Later, he didn't dare to think he could fall in love or even get married. Still later, he hoped his interpersonal relationships could become a little more stable.

Now, he hopes he can have fewer relationships with two girls.

It's estimated that rumors are spreading throughout the Anti-Entropy Salt Lake Base that the new masked man slept with the Herrscher of the Void, and didn't even spare the Judgment-class Honkai Beast. He even did it in front of Seele with the successor of the Anti-Entropy Leader [beep—], and it was three of them [beep—].

The most outrageous thing is that most of it is actually true.

"... What exactly is going on?"

Kiana wasn't really angry at all. She had thought she would be so angry that she would beat up the scumbag who had put on a romantic show during the day and then slept with her best friend that night. But she found herself very calm, so calm that she could sit motionless in front of the two of them and ask them questions in a flat tone.

"It's exactly what you see," Bronya said in the same tone. "It's not his fault. I tricked him into doing it."

"Wait a moment..."

"Lin, you can go out first."

Just as Lin was about to say something, Kiana sighed and spoke to him first.

Lin frowned, but couldn't say anything, so he gave up and left the room.

And waiting for him outside was Theresa.

She stared at Lin, who had just come out, with murderous intent, hands on her hips, tapping her small feet impatiently on the ground.

"Scumbag."

"..."

Lin had no reply.

Ultimately, the complete collapse of interpersonal relationships still occurred.

They waited anxiously for the conversation inside to end, but after a while there was no sound from inside, not even the sound of arguing. After a while, Seele walked over to Lin and Theresa with puzzled looks.

Seele smiled and placed her hand on the doorknob. After thinking for a moment, she said to the two of them, "Kiana and Sister Bronya asked me to come."

After saying that, she went inside.

Lin and Theresa exchanged a glance. At this moment, Theresa realized that something seemed wrong. Logically speaking, the person who should be criticized the most should be inside being scolded mercilessly. But why was Kiana talking calmly with Bronya, and why was Seele with them?

Of course, she didn't know that in the eyes of the three people in the room, they could only be considered "newcomers." Under a shared sense of unease, they discussed some things with Lin.

Lin probably never imagined that Seele's strategy of "it's better for everyone to be hurt than for one person to be hurt" would become the best way to solve his interpersonal relationship problems.

"Don't you have any questions?"

Lin sat down next to Bronya, who was hugging her knees and looking at the stars, and handed her a bottle of hot milk. As Bronya took it, she looked into his calm, dark eyes under the night sky.

For example, why would I do this?

Lin opened the soda in his hand without saying a word and took a sip. He rarely drinks carbonated beverages, so today was an exception.

Bronya also opened the milk, took a sip, and then muttered softly, "So bitter."

"... Doesn't it taste good?"

I was talking about yours.

"..."

Upon seeing Lin Wuyu's expression, the gray-haired girl gave a faint smile, her lips resting on the edge of the soda can, sinking softly into it. "When I was little, Mother Cocolia took me in. At that time, there were many children like me who were trained to become killing machines for the military. She established the orphanage to save us."

"At that time, I met Seele, Rozaliya, Lilia, Annie... To me, everyone in the orphanage was my whole world."

"Later, under Mother Cocolia's arrangement, I infiltrated Kiana and Mei's side. It was they and everyone in St. Freya who gradually accepted me. It was then that I discovered that the world was not so small, and that there were many more people who would like me."

A person's world expands gradually. For many people, their world is their home when they are young. As they grow up, their world gradually expands. Bronya, whose childhood was different from that of ordinary people, grew up with the guilt of being a killing machine.

"Therefore, Bronya knows how difficult it is for someone who has closed themselves off to be gentle to others. Before accepting others, it is very difficult for them to even accept themselves."

"I know Lin must be wondering if Prometheus's memories are influencing me."

Bronya shifted her gaze, a sly smile spreading across her serene face, "Actually, there is a little bit, but it's just that Bronya saw all of Prometheus's memories, and most of those memories were about you, so Bronya knew what kind of person Lin was in the past."

Lin was stunned for a moment, not expecting it to be like this.

Like Seele, he initially thought the main reason was that their relationship was affected by memories, but the memories were actually just a driving force, and Bronya was just pretending to be affected to mislead him.

"At first, Bronya just thought that Lin wasn't as bad as he seemed at the amusement park, but later she found out what you went through to do that."

When Bronya said he wouldn't let anything happen to them after Lin finished his battle with the Herrscher of Binding on Coral Island, she suddenly understood why Kiana liked him.

He will definitely not let anything happen to anyone else.

Before he died.

In my memory, Mr. Lin was always covered in injuries, and even now, the bandages on his body are still in place.

"However... it's still Lin's fault." Bronya's tone shifted, staring intently at Lin. "If Lin could be devoted to a girl, neither Seele nor Bronya would have any other thoughts, so it's your own problem."

"... They are already reflecting on their actions."

"Are they still reflecting after 50,000 years?"

The drink in his hand was empty, and a drop of cold rain fell on Lin's nose. He looked up and quietly gazed at the moonless night.

The first rain before winter arrives, whether gentle or icy, falls upon the entire world.

"It's getting cold, let's go back." Lin stood up and extended his hand to Bronya. "You're different from me. You've always cared about the people around you from the beginning. Someone once told me that it's better to cherish yourself before caring about others. So, consider this time at the amusement park as me taking care of you on your behalf."

The girl's pale gray eyes shone like jewels even in the darkness. On the roof beam where the rain was gradually falling, she looked up at the man's face as the rainwater slid down his cheeks, and took his outstretched hand.

Then pull hard.

A torrential downpour, so cold it felt like the whole world was engulfed in a cold snap, began.

I had already tasted the softness on my lips once on Coral Island, but this time, it had a different flavor.

There is no desire whatsoever.

But the girl's breath was moist and warm.

Elysian Realm of "Flying Flowers": Chapter Nine - Individual Thoughts

"Lin's heartbeat and body temperature have been detected."

In the pouring rain, the tender, fragrant tongue left a sweet scent in her mouth before escaping. The light gray in the girl's eyes turned crimson. She took a small step back with her hands behind her back, and her emotionless words revealed Lin's current physical state.

The gray-haired girl's original curly hair was wet by the rain and lay softly against her back. Her still immature but already curvaceous body was highlighted by the heavy rain. Her thin white undershirt could not cover her snow-white skin, which was as firm and soft as jelly when the transparent water droplets slid across it.

"... Let's go back." Lin looked away, turned around and wanted to go down, but before she could take a step, her hand was grabbed.

Immediately afterwards, a small, cool body pressed against her.

Lin struggled for a moment. "Let's go back to the room first."

"No, do it here, finish what you didn't finish before." A cool little hand pressed on her shoulder, sucking on her earlobe, "Use the back."

"Why?"

"Because Bronya knows that Lin and Kiana also used the back when they first did it." The thin straps of the gray-haired girl's white undershirt slipped off her shoulders, revealing her soft, half-concealed skin. "Let's try it and see who does it better."

Is this a little trick of a young girl?

In the cold rain, the only thing you can use to keep warm is the other person's body heat.

Seele sat in her room, listening to the heavy rain and the sounds of crashing against her ceiling, along with the occasional soft "good" mixed with pain and pleasure, as she casually flipped through a book.

At this moment, "Seele" complained in Seele's mind, "Reading again? Don't you think reading is boring? Your beloved Sister Bronya and Brother Lin are having so much fun on the rooftop, why don't you go join them?"

Seele closed the book and shook her head. "No, it's Sister Bronya's time now."

"Ugh~ How boring. You were clearly about to lose control, but you had to make this promise. If you ask me, you should just steal him and make Lin [beep] so much that he can't live without you."

However, Seele did not answer. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and went into the bathroom.

It is indeed a bit noisy.

Lin sat in the bathtub, tilting her head back to count the droplets of mist on the ceiling.

Bronya sat on the toilet, playing on her phone.

"Ugh... such a large amount..." The girl let out a long sigh, expelling the "toxins" from her body.

"What exactly did you two discuss?" Hearing Lin's voice, Bronya turned her head to look at him. His hands were resting on either side of the bathtub. "After you came out, you told me that the problem had been solved, but you didn't want to tell me the process."

"Lin doesn't need to know."

After wiping herself clean with paper, Bronya walked to the bathtub, stepped into the warm water, and sat down in front of Lin, leaning against his chest.

She tilted her head back, stretched out her jade-like arm, and gently stroked Lin's cheek.

"Lin only needs to know what each part of my body smells like, um... ha..."

After their tongues parted, her flushed face was hazy in the warm bathroom light. She slowly turned her body, swaying her hips in the bathtub, and said to Lin Jiaomei, "Tell me what it tastes like with your mouth in a moment..."

Theresa couldn't quite understand it.

Kiana and Lin had sensed something was off about their relationship, but she hadn't paid much attention to it until the matchmaking event, when she discovered that this 50,000-year-old man had kidnapped her niece.

It was Kiana's choice, so Theresa didn't say anything. She had opposed Cecilia and Siegfried back then, but in the end, she could only bid farewell to her friends and enter the bridal chamber with tears in her eyes at the wedding.

But what's going on between him and Bronya? Something must have happened when they went out together before, right? And what about him and Seele?

Theresa had a very bad feeling of crisis. She had a good impression of Lin before, after all, the Oath of Judas was closely related to him. But after this incident, she became extremely wary of Lin.

Why is this guy so attractive to girls?

She had to be careful lest she suffer the same fate, but... she should be fine, right? She had absolutely no feelings for that man, not even in other worlds.

After comforting herself with this thought, Theresa calmly began reading the comic book.

Other issues... let young people handle their relationship problems.

"Hey, are you okay?"

The Herrscher of Reason asked Fu Hua, who was training meticulously, with suspicion.

"How come you're not surprised at all? At least give some feedback. Lin's been seducing girls all the time, you know. You're practically his girlfriend, aren't you?"

"..." Fu Hua gently pushed his palm forward, then inhaled and exhaled, completing a full set of movements before calmly saying, "What Lin does is his business."

"... Could it be that too much time has passed and your brain has gone stale and corrupted, so you no longer have feelings for him?"

"..."

Fu Hua completely ignored the Herrscher of Reason and continued to hone her martial arts skills.

After thinking for a long time, the Herrscher of Reason suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Oh, I remember now, you're actually just like them, sneaking around, so you have no right to criticize them."

"..."

Fu Hua suddenly staggered, and her punch went astray, but she quickly recovered and continued punching with her eyes closed.

"At the time, it was publicly acknowledged that Mobius, Elysia, and Vill-V were close to Lin, and then on that island you..."

"Stop talking."

Fu Hua opened her eyes and glanced at the Herrscher of Reason.

"A more challenging design will be more fun to play."

"Fun is not strongly correlated with difficulty. A good game is one that can be enjoyed by more people. Whether your game is designed to satisfy yourself or the players is the key to whether you are a good game developer."

"It's not good to just cater to players all the time."

"But it's not good to completely disregard the players either."

Kiana arrived at Lin's room early in the morning and found two people wearing only a single layer of clothing sitting around a computer screen, discussing with serious expressions how to make a good game.

"Hmm? Kiana, you're here." Bronya was explaining her philosophy on game development when she looked up at Kiana. "Perfect timing, Kiana also loves playing games, and she's quite representative of gamers."

"No." Lin shook his head. "Kiana's gaming skills are very strong. Most games are too difficult for her, so we have to focus on making them more fun."