Menma and Hashirama, what happened in Teyvat

(Mondstadt, headquarters of the Knights of Favonius)

“…That’s pretty much what happened.”

After hearing those people's stories, and after Menma and Hashirama added some information, the Knights of Favonius, Porto and Atto, who were guarding the entrance of the Knights' headquarters, finally understood the purpose of this large group of people coming here.

"In that case, then this matter must not be neglected. Everyone, I will take you in to see the acting leader. Please follow me."

After instructing Atuo to continue guarding the gate, Porto opened the gate as a guide and led everyone into the headquarters building of the Knights. Miles, Hoffman, and Bruce, who had completed their leading and escorting tasks, turned around and left, some patrolling, some fishing, and continued to do their own things.

"Acting Captain, there is an important situation." After pushing open the door of the captain's office, Porto reported solemnly.

At this moment in the office, Jean, the current acting leader of the Knights of Favonius, was sitting behind her desk reviewing documents. In the entire huge office, Jean was the only one guarding the office alone.

"What's wrong, Porto? What happened?" Seeing that Porto looked serious and spoke quickly, Qin couldn't help but ask seriously.

"There are more than 20 people who came here to report the crime. It is said that they were kidnapped by a winter merchant before, and that the winter merchant wanted to sell them to the Fatui as commodities." Porto recounted what he heard. "If it weren't for the two kind gentlemen who intervened, they don't know what would have happened to them right now."

"More than 20 people?!" Qin frowned when she heard this number. "Let them in."

Hearing this, Porto walked out of the room and called everyone in, while he stood guard outside the door. The "grand scene" of more than 20 people rushing in together not only frightened the two Favonius Knights, Virag and Wood, in the hall, but even Captain Qin himself was a little stunned after seeing it with his own eyes.

"Captain Qin, nice to meet you." Menma, who was walking in the front, said, and woke Qin from her daze. "These people are villagers living in the village near Qingquan Town. In addition, there were a small number of Liyue civilians among them. It is true that they were kidnapped and sold by the Fatui. Both of us can serve as witnesses to this."

"Oh...oh." Qin quickly adjusted her state and immediately put on an attitude of being ready to handle official business. "Excuse me, are you the ones who saved them?"

"Yes, it was us." Menma nodded. "We just happened to pass by that place and saw a group of Fatui with strange behavior. We followed them all the way and discovered this, and finally rescued them."

"That's right!" The villagers agreed and echoed, "It was these two heroes who saved us. If it weren't for them, we might be dead now."

"On behalf of the Knights Templar, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to both of you for your kindness and help." Upon hearing everyone's recognition, Qin thanked the two of them in a very sincere tone.

At this time, she had actually recognized Menma, because Kaeya had previously reported to her about Menma, including the fact that Menma had slashed Rosaria on the first night he arrived in Mondstadt. Moreover, Menma's outfit was too conspicuous and recognizable, and it was exactly the same as the appearance described in the information Kaeya gave her.

Jean was very surprised at this at the time. After all, as the acting leader, she knew the strength and concealment ability of Rosalia, the executioner nun of the Church of Favonius. There were not many people in the entire Mondstadt who could be her rival in terms of strength.

But it was not until later when Jean met her sister Barbara by chance that she told Jean that she was asked by Rosalia to treat her injuries in the middle of the night and that Rosalia had a permanent scar on her left shoulder. Only then did she finally understand what kind of ruthless character Menma was.

According to Kaeya's comment on Menma, "He... no, they are both new storms, and they are the kind of terrifying giant storms that can overturn the Wind Dragon", she had already prepared various countermeasures related to the two to prevent the two from having a bad relationship with Mond due to some potential reasons. But what she didn't expect was that today, her first official meeting with Menma and Hashirama, would turn out to be such a scene.

The two of them were now regarded as saviors of the Mond people and heroes who thwarted the Fatui conspiracy. This immediately disrupted Jean's original plan.

However, Menma was not aware of all these things, and he just treated Qin with a very normal attitude. Although he could feel that Qin looked at him with a strange look, he just regarded it as the influence of the Rosalia incident.

After all, he had fought with Rosaria on a quiet street that night. Even if he had not been discovered by ordinary Mondstadt residents or the Knights of Favonius, he still had not escaped the sight of two people: one was Diluk, who happened to be a so-called "Hero of the Night" in Mondstadt at the time, and the other was Kaeya, who was looking for intelligence and potential threats everywhere.

After the battle, I looked in both directions, and they were where Diluk and Kaeya were hiding. After all, their hiding abilities were comparable to Rosaria's. I could easily spot Rosaria, let alone the two of them.

That's why Qin got this information about Menma from Kaeya, as well as his comment.

Because of this, when they were at the Dawn Winery, Diluk said to Menma, "After all, in my eyes, what you have done to the people of Mond is harm."

After calming down her thoughts, Qin asked again based on the situation: "You just said that in addition to them, some Liyue people were also kidnapped at the time. What is their current situation?"

"Don't worry, Captain Qin. They are all fine. We have both sent out clones to escort them to Liyue. Judging from their speed, they should be able to reach the territory of Shimen tomorrow."

"Doppelganger?" Qin was puzzled for a moment, but since this kind of thing is not difficult to understand, and it may involve the other party's privacy regarding personal abilities, Qin did not ask any more questions and chose to change the subject, "So, what about the Fatui who were the masterminds and the businessman who kidnapped them?"

"As for the merchant, we locked him up in that cave. We originally wanted to let him starve to death in there. After all, human traffickers don't deserve sympathy at all." Menma's tone instantly turned cold when he mentioned these people. "As for the Fatui... we killed them all."

"Killed them all?" Qin was a little surprised to hear this answer. They could easily kill a small Fatui fighting team, and they also locked up the kidnapped Winter Merchant in a cave and tried to starve him to death. Are these two people so fierce?

It wasn't as if Qin had any intention of protecting those Fatui. After all, the Fatui outside Mondstadt were not diplomats or Winter Solstice troops, and were not protected by the agreement between the two countries. If they died, they died, and Winter Solstice did not dare to pursue the responsibility. Moreover, if this matter was brought up, the only one who would suffer would be Winter Solstice.

But such a large group of fools just kill...

It feels like it's too fierce.

At least we can make a fuss about this incident, give an explanation to the kidnapped people and their families, and then use these people as bargaining chips to extort compensation from Winter Solstice, and also vent Mondstadt's anger...

What a waste (bushi).

Putting these doomed plans in the bottom of her heart, Qin continued, "Then about that businessman, maybe he has..."

"Information about the Fatui conspiracy, right?" Menma interrupted Qin before she could finish her words. "We took this into consideration, so we used a little trick to get all of this out before we left."

As he said that, Menma took out a stack of papers covered with words and handed them to Qin. Written on these papers were all the possible useful information that Menma had extracted from Chayevich using the Sharingan.

There was no use for him to keep these things, so giving them to Qin could just be considered as doing her a favor.

Looking at the information in a daze, Qin was somewhat surprised at how thoroughly Menma had considered the matter. As for Chayevich's life or death, it became completely unimportant after Menma took out the information.

"Please wait in the hall next to you. I will handle their registration first, and then I will talk to you two individually."

She felt that it would be a bad idea to delay the matter of these people any further, so even though Qin wanted to know more from Menma, she decided to deal with this matter first.

"No problem. Captain Qin is very busy and we understand."

After that, the two of them temporarily left the captain's office and said hello to Porto who was standing outside the door. Porto, who had heard that the two of them had wiped out an entire group of Fatui, wanted to learn more about the deeds of these two warriors, so he acted as a guide to show the two of them around the area open to the public at the Knights' headquarters while listening to them describe the battle scene.

In the office, Qin started to register everyone's information. This would also make it easier to comfort and compensate these people and their families afterwards.