Genshin Impact: Please don’t bully me, fellow stragglers

Originally expected to set off at dawn the day after tomorrow, due to Nanke's request, Asase Hibiki directly mentioned the schedule to tomorrow.

Asase Hibiki packed up his weapons and went to Yae Shenzi to explain the situation. Awang took Nanke and went to the hilltop next to the shrine to watch the stars.

It was very cold at high places, and Nanke's hands were cold. Awang wrapped them in his sleeves and kept them warm by tossing and turning.

"Nanke, your hands are so soft!" Awang exclaimed.

Nanke pinched her hand with his backhand. It was obviously a similar size palm, but due to day after day of hard work, it had developed several rows of hard calluses, which were rough to the touch.

"Awang," Nanke asked her, "Is it hard to be a witch?"

"It's 10,000 times better than working among the prisoners," Awang answered without hesitation, holding down Nanke's fingertips that were stroking the calluses of her hands, "Thanks to you, I was able to come here. Thank you, Nanke. "

It was as if the child who was still crying in his arms yesterday suddenly grew up overnight. Warmth mixed with a little bitterness surged into his throat. Nanke sighed and said, "This is your own destiny."

"Why do you want to imitate Master Bazhong?" Ah Wang was dissatisfied, "Even if it is fate, it is definitely because of you that I am what I am now."

Nanke was quiet for a while and asked, "Do I have to go with Miss Asase?"

"It is the responsibility of the witch to solve the disasters that cannot be solved in the ordinary world." Awang looked up at the night sky. "If master asked me, I would answer her like this, but now you ask, I will tell the truth. Go to Qing Dynasty Laidao, you will pass by Tatasha."

"..."

"You just think I've become famous and want to go home?"

"Awang," Nanke squeezed her fingers, "you have really grown up."

"You are much weaker than I thought, Nanke," Awang smiled, "Don't worry, the capable and reliable witch Awang will definitely protect you!"

Nanke couldn't help but laugh: "You are only thirteen years old."

It's the same as ever in the Guarded Forest.

Fragmented sunlight leaks from the dense leaves high up, making it look extremely dim even during the day. Unknown weeds emit a faint light motionless and dot the gentle slopes of the waterside.

Asase Hibiki and Awang carried bows on their backs and walked in front of Nanke.

Not long after they came down the mountain, they encountered bandits. They seemed to recognize their identities through the witch uniforms. The bandits only stood up and ran away in despair.

The inhuman beasts were also driven away with bows and arrows.

Nanke felt that it was still too quiet.

Something is missing.

What's missing?

She understood when she saw a group of stone statues in front of a certain rock wall.

"This is a statue that seals the demon raccoons. There are many demon raccoons living in the forest! Many of them are very arrogant, and they especially like to tease passers-by." Awang grinned at Nanke with his teeth and claws. "Ah wu", "In the past few years, their clan leader They also appeared, leading the demon raccoon clan to make more and more noise, and Master's senior brother just happened to pass by and sealed them all."

"It's okay to play around. The guarded forest is a place where humans and monsters coexist. The monsters are restless all day long and affect the order of the world, so they do this," Asase Hibiki reminded, "Miss Nanke, just in case Just in case, it’s best not to touch it.”

Nan Ke's hand stopped just as it was about to land on the top of the stone statue.

Don't panic.

It was only a matter of time before the demon raccoons were sealed.

She had known this day would come.

Don't panic.

Until we came to the depths of the uninhabited forest and saw the ancient torii gate illuminated by the dim light of the forest.

The demon gate leading to the secret realm has lost its luster, the neat stone stones around it are also in pieces, and weeds have grown wildly beside a slender broken monument behind the torii gate.

"Mitsuyo!" Nanke passed Hibiki Asase and passed through the torii, "Mitsuyo!"

No one answered her call.

The wood of the torii gate resting on the palm of my hand was damp and rotten, covered with thick cold green moss.

As it looks, it has been abandoned for a long time.

"Is it really Mitsuyo?" Asase Hibiki followed up and looked up at the torii gate. "Tengu are free-spirited and yearn for the woods. There are only a handful of people who are willing to make friends with others. I guess she is the one you are looking for."

"Miss Asase, do you know where Mitsuyo went?" Nanke turned around anxiously.

Asase Hibiki shook his head regretfully: "My friendship with Mitsuyo only lasted longer than the time when we studied under the master. We haven't seen each other for more than 20 years."

"It turns out that the friend Nanke is looking for and the daughter of my master and mentor are the same tengu. I told you earlier." Awang circled around the torii gate and dug out the stone tablet broken into two pieces on the ground. "Eh? This is Tombstone?”

"Monsters probably don't have the custom of erecting monuments." Asase Hibiki took half of the monument and brushed away the moss on it.

There is half a word clearly engraved on the stele.

"South".

It stops abruptly when it reaches the fifth stroke, but it is still enough to make people think.

Asase Hibiki looked at Nanke in surprise.

"Come and look, there are a lot of words written on this half!" Awang squatted on the ground and waved to them.

A few lines of small words are secretly engraved on the stone tablet standing among the grass:

"The birth and death are unknown.

In April, he died in the teeth of a black beast.

In the seventh month, our division built a monument and fought with □….

Before the monument was completed, the teacher was extremely sad and defeated.

In August,... also left.

Life is like a dream for many years,

The snow in the shadow valley is dancing in the smoke,

I don't care about you anymore.

Yanzang Daoyin. 』

"The poetry is really bad," Awang pinched his chin and asked in confusion, "Who is this Yanzang Daoyin?"

"Is this the person Miss Nanke is looking for?" Asase Hibiki asked.

Nanke stared intently at the two words that were deliberately erased on the tombstone without making a sound.

There was only one thought in my mind.

...She really lost the skirmishers.

"Nanke?" Awang poked her in a daze.

Nanke suddenly covered his mouth.

The scene in front of him was soaked in tears and instantly deformed and broken.

I couldn't hold back my sobs anymore.

Awang stood up in a panic, hugged her and comforted her urgently: "What's wrong? What's wrong..."

Nanke never cried loudly.

Even when he was watching Niwa die.

Even when he killed Gui Mu with his own hands.

Never had.

Now she heard her cry loud and clear, echoing in the empty forest.

She's so out of character that she doesn't look like herself.

Why do bad things always happen to her?

Why does the thing she wants to protect always...

"Have you lost someone important?" Awang, who was holding her, let go. A pair of cold hands lifted Nanke's face and touched the corner of her eyes. "Birth, old age, illness, death, parting from love, long-lasting resentment, and begging for help." Is not being able to let go, the most irreversible loss among them?"

Nanke let out a "woo" and looked into Asase Hibiki's indifferent dark eyes behind the tears.

"If there is still a chance of saving, don't feel sorry for yourself. If there is no chance of saving, just look at the people around you," Hibiki Asase said word by word, "This is how people survive. Crying is the most useless response."

"Master!" Ah Wang shouted softly, "Stop talking..."

Of course Nanke knew.

Crying is useless.

She bit her lower lip so hard that it smelled like blood: "I... don't know..."

I don’t know why I am so controlled by my emotions again and again.

She was clearly not like this before.

But one thing is clear.

Nanke took a breath and took a half step back: "Thank you, Miss Asase."

No matter how long it takes, unless it is confirmed that the skirmishers have been deleted from the world——

Otherwise, she would never give up.

Asase Hibiki looked slightly surprised and lowered his hands: "If you can one day abandon the mundane world and try to be a real shrine maiden, it will be a blessing in the world."