Menma and Hashirama, what happened in Teyvat

"Hey, you guys are awake?"

Seeing the two open their eyes, Wendy was the first to come over and said to them with a smile, "Mr. Uzumaki, you see, I have been doing my best to stay by your side during this period of time. I even brought Brize along with me."

Although Wendy was trying to show off and win credit, Menma and Hashirama had no objection to this. After all, they could see that what Wendy said was true.

What's more, this was something I asked Wendy to do. Now that he has accomplished it perfectly, it is normal for him to take credit for it.

"Thanks, Wendy." Menma nodded as a reply to Wendy. "Tell me a time. We'll treat you to a drink then."

"Hey, if that's the case, why don't we go now?" Wendy rubbed her hands excitedly, "I don't have anything to do right now anyway, so let's just go to Angel's Gift and have a drink.

I've made it clear in advance that you guys shouldn't mind me drinking too much."

"Haha, don't worry, we are not that petty." Hashirama, who quickly understood what happened through the conversation between Menma and Wendy, laughed and said, "Besides, since Menma has promised you, and you have done what he asked you to do, then we will naturally not break our promise."

"Hey, then I feel relieved..."

"Master, I'm glad you're okay." At this time, Jue also came over and bowed respectfully to the two of them.

"Thank you for your hard work, Zetsu." Menma praised, "Now your mission is complete, go and take a rest."

"Yes." Zetsu nodded, then used the Mayfly Technique to dive into the ground and disappeared. It knew that Menma's "rest" meant that it could move freely as long as it didn't scare anyone outside.

And the measure in this regard is absolutely clear.

"Then... shall we go?" Wendy said to Ma and Hashirama while holding Blaze's shoulders, and it was obvious that she wanted to take him along. To this, the two agreed very readily. After all, even if they didn't consider that Blaze wouldn't incur extra expenses because he couldn't drink, they didn't need the money and wouldn't refuse to save face.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Uzumaki!" Paimon suddenly shouted when he saw the group of people about to leave, which stunned Menma for a moment.

"What's wrong, Paimon?"

"Uh... Traveler has a question for you." Paimon still remembered that Kong had said he wanted to find Menma to ask about the mask, so she immediately helped Kong call out to Menma who was about to leave.

Seeing that Paimon had already explained his purpose, Sora simply took out the mask and asked his own question directly: "Mr. Uzumaki, I have never really understood why you left this mask to me in the cave where the Fatui hid the "Lyre of the Sky"?"

"Oh, that's what you're talking about." Menma glanced at the mask in Sora's hand, which had accompanied him into this world, and then smiled and said, "It's nothing, I just want to give you something similar to my... um... "token" or something like that."

"Token?"

"Although we will accompany you on the journey, we will definitely be separated from time to time for various reasons." Menma continued, "If you have my token with you, then it may provide you with some convenience at some point.

In addition, although it is my first... no, it should be said that it is the "zeroth" mask, it is just an ordinary mask in my hand. But I believe that if it falls into your hands, it may bloom with a different brilliance.

So keep this mask. I look forward to the day when you will need it in the future.”

After saying these confusing words, Menma took Hashirama, Wendy and the others out of the room, leaving only Sora and Paimon standing there in a daze.

"Mr. Uzumaki...what did you just say?" Paimon said in a tone full of disbelief, "The rest of the journey...will they accompany us?!

Oh my god... I don't know why, but with these two powerful people accompanying us, maybe the rest of the journey will be smooth sailing!

Traveler, maybe even finding your lost sister will be an easy task for you."

"That's true..." Sora was still immersed in the information Menma had just revealed, so he nodded to Paimon in agreement. But soon, he returned his gaze to the mask in his hand.

[The "zeroth" mask... shines with a different brilliance on me? ]

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(A few hours later, late at night)

At this time, Blaze had already walked out of "Angel's Gift" carrying the drunken Wendy on his back, and waved goodbye to Menma and Hashirama who had treated him to a drink.

Meanwhile, Sora and Paimon quietly approached the side gate of Mondstadt. After all, they couldn't just abandon the matter of the "Dark Night Hero" that they had been investigating.

The reason they came here was because they were wandering around when they suddenly heard a loud noise. And based on their experience, it was definitely the sound of someone fighting.

At this point in time, Mondstadt was already in the dead of night, so these sounds were particularly obvious in this quiet environment, and easily attracted the two people who were tracking down information about the "Dark Night Hero".

When they arrived, they found two figures near the side gate of the city wall, manipulating the elements of ice and fire respectively. The one man who used the staff to manipulate the ice element was an ice abyss mage, and the man who wielded a greatsword full of fire elements was wearing a half-face mask, but they could still recognize him at a glance. It was Diluk.

The Ice Abyss Mage waved his staff and large pieces of ice spikes emerged from the ground and attacked Diluk, but Diluk dodged them by turning sideways.

Seeing this, the Ice Abyss Mage then summoned a large number of ice cones and fired them at Diluc. Diluc kept dodging among these dense ice cones, and his agility prevented any of them from touching the corners of his clothes.

In order to get as close to the Ice Abyss Mage as possible, Diluk kicked his feet hard, then jumped onto the wall next to him. He walked on the wall like a flying wall, continuing to avoid the ice cones while quickly approaching the Ice Abyss Mage.

The Ice Abyss Mage's eyes became fierce. After launching the icicles, he gathered the power of several icicles on his staff, then aimed at Diluk's running path and threw him out fiercely.

Seeing that the roads in front and behind were blocked by large and small ice cones, Diluk had no time to dodge and was hit by the ice ball that gathered the power of several ice cones. Instantly, his whole body turned into a large piece of ice and froze on the wall of the city wall.

"!!!"

Kong and Paimon were startled by the scene and hurried forward to help, but soon a blazing fire appeared inside the ice. Then, the ice was suddenly blown to pieces from the inside.

With sparks and broken ice flying everywhere, Diluk reappeared from the sky. He raised the flaming Zephyr Greatsword in his hand and leaped towards the Ice Abyss Mage with the impact of the explosion. In front of the Mage's surprised and horrified eyes, he chopped its body in half with one sword, and quickly turned it into ashes in a burst of flames.

"Sure enough, the 'Hero of the Dark Night' is... Master Diluk." At this time, seeing that Diluk was fine and killed his opponent at such a fast speed, Paimon immediately dispelled the worried thoughts in his heart.

After noticing the movement here, Diluk also put away the Zephyr Greatsword in his hand, turned around and looked at them:

"Even though we avoided the guards' patrol route... I didn't expect to run into you here."

Although Sora actually had the identity of an "honorary knight", Diluk did not regard him as a member of the Knights. After all, having fought alongside Sora, he knew very well that this traveler who only had a title in the Knights was not the same as the knights of the Knights.

"I guessed it a long time ago, you are indeed the "Hero of the Dark Night"!" Kong said.

"'Night Hero'?" Diluk was stunned for a moment after hearing what Sora said, then frowned, "... Could it be that you came up with such a clichéd name?"

"Eh? You haven't heard of it yourself?" Paimon was very surprised by Diluk's reaction, "The whole of Mondstadt is talking about the "Night Hero"!"

"Boring rumors..." Diluk curled his lips helplessly at this, "Well, it's a proof of peace."

"Hehe~" Paimon rubbed his hands, "Although I had guessed it before, but now... the mystery of the "Dark Night Hero" is completely solved!

So, Mr. Dark Night Hero..."

“…Okay, don’t call me that name anymore. It makes me uncomfortable.” Diluk waved his hand. He really didn’t want to hear this cliché and useless name anymore.

"That's right. 'Dark Night Hero' is too tacky!" Unexpectedly, Paimon nodded immediately and said, "We should change it to a more romantic title."

I don't know where Paimon learned the transliteration of "Romantic" from...

"Hmm... Hmm..." Then, Paimon really started racking his brains to think, "Yes..."

"Yes?" x2

Not only Diluk, but even Sora was stunned for a moment, wondering what Paimon was thinking.

"Justice!" Paimon quickly said out his new nickname word by word, without realizing how shocking this nickname was in the eyes of others. "Mr. Justice, what on earth happened just now?"

"...It's the Cult of the Abyss." After roasting Paimon on the fire in his heart at least ten thousand times, Diluk finally forced down his rising anger, and then persuaded himself again and again not to compete with a little fool who spoke without thinking.

"It's them again?"

"I wonder what they're up to lately. They seem to be doing early reconnaissance," Diluk said. "I've seen through their tricks so many times, yet they still won't give up."

"...Have you been dealing with them alone all this time?" At this time, Kong asked with some concern.

"I guess so, if there wasn't another 'Night Hero'." Diluk nodded, "Although I once saw Mr. Uzumaki hunting them, but they didn't seem to be the same group I was targeting, so I didn't act with him at that time."

"Why don't you ask the Knights for help? There are..."

“Humph, in that case, I don’t know who is helping whom.” Before Sora could finish his words, Diluk replied with a very disdainful tone, “After all, most of the Knights are useless. How can we trust them with our backs?”

Even though the second half of Sora's sentence actually wanted to say "With Captain Jean here, I think she can help relieve a lot of the pressure on you", after seeing Diluk's expression, Sora didn't say the rest of the sentence.