Noelle slowly opened her eyes within a snowy mountain. A massive white crane stood before her.
Noelle quickly grabbed her greatsword, her face filled with caution as she stared at Cloud Retainer.
It seemed she already considered Cloud Retainer a monster unique to Snezhnaya.
Cloud Retainer coughed awkwardly.
"I am Cloud Retainer, Jing Chen's master. You should remember what just happened, yes?"
This crane could talk?! It didn't seem to be a monster after all. Most monsters would have attacked her directly.
But it hadn't.
Noelle recalled the terrifying barrier Dottore had unleashed, and the moment of crisis.
Cloud Retainer suddenly appeared and rescued her.
"You, are you really Cloud Retainer?"
Cloud Retainer frowned. Jing Chen had said that Mondstadt's Noelle was easily trusting of others.
Or perhaps, Noelle was easily trusting in general, but not easily trusting of adepti.
She had just saved her, so why didn't she seem to believe her?
Maybe she should turn into her human form first.
With a wave of her hand, Cloud Retainer transformed into her human form, and then summoned a talisman.
Noelle was slightly taken aback. Back in Mondstadt, Jing Chen had also summoned this kind of talisman in front of her.
Cloud Retainer continued, speaking to herself.
"Jing Chen once helped me refine pills in Mount Aozang, and as a result..."
Noelle looked up at Cloud Retainer with a face full of disbelief.
How could Jing Chen-gege be so unreliable?!
"You, you're lying!!"
"Huh?! This old one speaks the truth, every word."
"Why are you always talking about Jing Chen-gege's black history?!"
"This... ahem, this old one simply feels that these memories can make this old one have a very deep impression of this little disciple."
"I…"
"Every word of this old one is true."
"Then why did you instantly come from Liyue to Snezhnaya?!"
This question instantly struck a chord with Cloud Retainer.
She coughed awkwardly. If Noelle knew that she had followed Jing Chen and Columbina from afar just to see her grand-disciple in the world...
Where would she even put her old face then?!
"Ahem, Noelle, is it?"
"Hmm."
"No one is perfect. Even someone like Jing Chen, who seems to be flawless, has flaws.
He casts a wide net, and his casual kindness even affected my other two disciples…
Sigh, never mind, never mind, I won't talk about it. I'll tell my grand-disciples about these things later."
When the words "grand-disciples" were mentioned, Cloud Retainer's eyes shone with a different light.
A rare smile appeared on her cold, handsome face.
"Cloud Retainer, where has Jing Chen gone?!"
"All of Teyvat, except perhaps the Abyss, has felt his presence."
Noelle lowered her head, no longer asking Cloud Retainer any other questions.
On the other side.
Lumine became the captain of the Swordfish II on Watatsumi Island, because most of the Fatui had already withdrawn from Inazuma.
Scaramouche, Jing Chen, and Columbina had already left.
The Delusion factory had long since ceased production, without the Fatui's Delusions and Liyue's support.
There was also no clear victor between Watatsumi Island and Narukami Island.
(Note: Because the last time Lumine bumped into Jing Chen's boat, Ningguang and Keqing, though outwardly supporting Beidou.
But secretly, they still had some reservations about her.
For instance, Keqing and Ningguang deliberately opposed supporting Watatsumi Island.
Yae Miko personally went to Tatarasuna, and Kujou Sara saluted her.
"Your Excellency Yae Miko, how have you been resting these past few days?!"
Yae Miko glanced coldly at Kujou Sara and said to her icily.
"Kujou Sara, that's not a question you should be asking."
Kujou Sara hastily retreated.
Yae Miko stood on the mountaintop, watching the soldiers of Watatsumi Island and Narukami Island slaughter each other below.
In the heart of the battlefield, Lumine held the Dull Blade, her movements swift, painting with blood.
Yae Miko saw her at a glance, a sly smile playing on her lips.
"Kujou Sara, that clever little fox, has ambushed reinforcements on the small island to the east.
They'll likely strike soon."
"Yae Miko, I will arrange for the reinforcements to coordinate their attack."
Dusk, crows, tattered flags, and armor.
Lumine gently wiped the blood from her face. She hadn't expected the war between Narukami Island and Watatsumi Island to be so brutal.
The moment she turned around, Lumine saw Teppei lying amidst the rubble, covered in blood.
Lumine rushed to lift him, but found that he had already breathed his last.
Sangonomiya Kokomi slowly walked up behind Lumine.
"Traveler. This is the brutality of Narukami Island. We, the people of Watatsumi Island, are fighting against Narukami Island, against this Vision Hunt Decree.
For freedom, for the late Orobashi-sama, our soldiers of Watatsumi Island are fighting a bloody battle, we—"
Lumine's face was grim, and she hissed coldly,
"Enough!! Sangonomiya Kokomi, I want to be alone for a while."
Sangonomiya Kokomi said nothing, watching Lumine disappear into the setting sun with Teppei.
Perhaps she wanted to personally see Teppei off.
Just as Kokomi turned around, she saw Yae Miko looking at her with a playful expression.
"Yae Miko of the Grand Narukami Shrine, what are you doing here?!"
"Oh my, the head priestess was feeling a bit under the weather recently, what with Jing Chen and Columbina causing such a ruckus.
So I came out for a stroll, and to take a look at a certain deep-sea flatfish who doesn't know her place."
"Oh?! I thought the fox-loving tofu would have completely cooled down because of Jing Chen."
Yae Miko gave a cold smile.
"Sangonomiya Kokomi, as if you weren't weeping alone in the night wind because of Jing Chen?!"
Sangonomiya Kokomi was taken aback. Why did Yae Miko know so much?
But Sangonomiya Kokomi's expression didn't change.
"You're still fond of guessing, Lady Yae."
"Oh?! I'm not guessing. It seems you didn't touch up your makeup this morning to erase those tear stains!!"
Sangonomiya Kokomi hurriedly took out a mirror. She vaguely remembered that she had removed the tear stains this morning!!
There were no tear stains in the mirror.
It was obvious that Yae Miko was deliberately trying to trick her.
"Yae Miko, you!!"
Seeing Sangonomiya Kokomi's indignant expression, Yae Miko covered her face and chuckled.
"Oh dear, it seems I was right after all! It wasn't just this shrine maiden who was hurt at that wedding."
Sangonomiya Kokomi fell silent for a moment before directly retorting, "Heh, yes! This present-day divine priestess thought that a certain fox would be the bride at that wedding.
Unexpectedly, she was just dressing up for someone else!
And, I've heard through the grapevine that even the Electro Gnosis in her possession was given to someone else."
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