Menma and Hashirama, what happened in Teyvat

(Kaia's residence)

At this moment, since Kaeya was not at home and he had nothing to do, Cripps, who currently lived here, planned to take a walk on the street and go to the tavern to see what Diluk was doing.

Because he was afraid that the cracks on his face would scare others, Krips took out the half-face mask again and put it on. Although there was a possibility that he would be mistaken for a Fatui, just like when Kaeya first saw him that night, it would not be a big deal if they were just ordinary citizens or Knights of Favonius. However, those more important figures...just happened to know him.

After tidying himself up, Cripps went out.

But what he didn't know was that as soon as he stepped into the city, a figure flashed out from the darkness and followed him.

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Rosalia had been secretly watching Kaia's house for several days.

One day, she accidentally discovered that a stranger wearing a Fatui-style mask and a fire-attributed evil eye walked into Kaeya's house while he was away. And from the looks of him, he seemed to have the key to Kaeya's house.

Rosalia was puzzled at the time and was about to sneak over to observe the situation, but Kaia happened to come back at this time.

He originally thought that Kaiya's return would solve the problem. After all, this was his house. If a strange and suspicious Fatui suddenly broke in and got a key to his house from nowhere, and was caught by his master, Kaiya would definitely deal with him immediately.

So based on this idea, Rosalia turned around and left.

But later, she saw the figure of the "Fool" again. Not only was he intact, but he could still swagger in and out of Kaia's house, but Kaia didn't seem to react to it.

Rosalia could not help but doubt many things, including Kaia's current position. She even had to deliberately avoid Kaia when going to the Angel's Gift to drink, which made Kaia feel a little confused.

In fact, although Kaeya told Jean and others about the return of Cripps, he did not tell Rosaria. After all, it was too unbelievable for a dead person to reappear in this world in a way similar to resurrection. Therefore, in order to avoid various troubles that might arise, Kaeya did not intend to tell too many people about this matter, and these people did not include Rosaria, who was not a high-level member of Mond.

As for that time in the tavern, Houma and Diluk had already finished talking about Cripps before Rosaria entered the door, so she naturally didn't hear anything.

Moreover, Krips never took off the evil eye after he put it on, and he often wore a mask similar to the Fatui style mask when he went out to cover the cracks on his face. The above buffs added up, and eventually led to such a strange misunderstanding.

As for resolving the misunderstanding, that is a story for later.

And now, Rosalia, who still doubts everything and has already identified Krips as an enemy, is planning to take him down when no one is around.

Last time, I mistook Menma for the Fatui just because he was wearing a mask and was very powerful, which was my fault. But this time, the mask he wore was completely Fatui style, and he also had an evil eye that could only come from the Fatui, and it had the Fatui symbol clearly engraved on it. Could I make a mistake again?

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(On the streets of Mondstadt)

After hearing what the two Fatui said, Hashirama naturally turned his head to look at them, and then...

He turned back and continued eating his grilled fish.

Seeing that Hashirama seemed to have ignored them completely, the two Fatui couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. One of them continued in a more serious tone, "Mr. Senju, being personally selected by our Executive Officer is an honor that even we can't enjoy. Please don't waste the Executive Officer's time."

"Pah." A long bamboo stick was thrown at the man's feet, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Hashirama wiped his mouth, his eyes always looking elsewhere, not paying even a little attention to the two Fatui: "Strange, why do I attract buzzing flies even when I eat grilled fish?"

"You!" x2

The two Fatui were instantly enraged by Hashirama's insulting words. But in the end, they suppressed their anger and said again, "Please don't embarrass us, Mr. Senju. We are only here to deliver the message. The executive officer's time is precious. If you do this, it will waste too much time. Neither you nor we will be able to give the executive officer an explanation."

After hearing this, Hashirama looked at the two of them straight in the eye. Just when they thought Hashirama was finally going to agree, he slowly nibbled on the last piece of grilled fish in his hand, and then said word by word: "Explanation? Forget about you, but why should I give her an explanation?"

"Mr. Qianju, are you kidding us?"

The two could no longer suppress their anger. Since Hashirama had made it clear that he was not going to give them face, they were not afraid to tear their faces apart directly: "If you dare to treat the executive officer's invitation like this, then once her anger is unleashed, the consequences will definitely be something you cannot afford."

After saying this, the two ignored Hashirama's expression as if he was trying to hold back his laughter after hearing this, and turned around to leave, preparing to report everything that happened here to the executive officer.

"Wait a moment."

At this time, Hashirama suddenly spoke up. The two stopped walking and turned around with a joking look on their faces:

"Why, Mr. Senju, are you scared now? I'm sorry, but when you were playing tricks on us just now, it was already too late."

"No, no, no, you misunderstood what I meant." After removing the last piece of fish from the bamboo skewer, Hashirama said vaguely.

"Oh? What else do you want to say at this moment?"

"Gulp~ (swallowing sound) What I wanted to say just now is..."

Before he finished speaking, the bamboo stick with a little fish oil still on it suddenly disappeared from Hashirama's hand. Then, one of the two Fatui suddenly covered his left shoulder and screamed:

"what!!!"

I saw that most of the bamboo stick was stuck in his left shoulder, and even the tip of the bamboo stick with a hint of scarlet was slightly protruding from the flesh at the back.

In other words, his left shoulder was pierced by the bamboo stick that suddenly disappeared from Hashirama's hand and appeared on his body. What was even more terrifying was that the bamboo stick pierced almost his entire shoulder blade.

Human bones are much harder than a thin bamboo stick, but the bamboo stick that pierced through his entire left shoulder seemed to have no damage even to its tip...

At this moment, Hashirama, who had already swallowed the piece of fish, suddenly showed a huge change in his aura.

"...Do I allow you to leave?"

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"Phew...it's really tiring."

Inside the Temple of the West Wind Eagle, after the West Wind Knights successively wiped out a large number of monsters, and finally Yu Kong chopped the Wind Dragon Crystal deep in the temple into pieces with one sword, the mission here was completed. Seeing this scene, Amber couldn't help but relax and reached out to wipe the sweat from her forehead.

(As for the gloves that Amber had just wiped her sweat on...are there any Amber fans here who would like to try them?)

"However, this will help relieve Captain Jean of some of the hard work." Amber said to Sora and Paimon, "In the past, our defense force was able to at least keep the city safe. To put it simply, it was mainly because of Jean. But now the Wind Dragon has directly attacked Mondstadt...

"The wind has changed, and our strategy will change accordingly."

"That sentence sounds very philosophical." Sora savored Amber's last sentence carefully, "And it really sounds like something a Mond person would say."

"That's what Lisa likes to say." Amber explained immediately, "By the way, the topic of "Four Winds Guardian" we talked about before - if you want to know the history of the past, you can also ask Lisa."

At this point, Amber's tone suddenly became a little hurried: "... Let me make it clear first, it's not because I'm not good at history! The knowledge reserve of a librarian, anyway... is more complete than that of a scout knight, right?"

Seeing Amber's face slightly flushed due to embarrassment, Kong smiled and did not point it out. He just nodded at Amber to indicate his agreement.

At this time, a West Wind Knight came over and said to Amber, "Scout Knight, we have just checked the surroundings carefully. There is no living monster. Everything is safe."

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Amber replied, "Then I'll trouble you all to clean up the temple together. Just for the sake of the "Four Winds Guardian", we must not let this place continue to be abandoned."

"Understood."xN

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On the other side, in the temple of the North Wind Wolf.

Kaeya led a large army and pushed forward, constantly harvesting monsters in the temple. Although he was the only leader of this route, he brought the most Knights of Favonius among the three routes, and Kaeya himself had good strength, so they had no pressure to sweep the monsters here.

"It is a shame that the temple of the Wolf of the North Wind has been disturbed like this."

After swinging his sword to end the life of the last Hillichul, Kaeya shook his head and muttered to himself while looking at the ruined temple.

Then, he looked at the large army behind him that had just finished fighting, and said to them: "Although the "Four Wind Guardians" are no longer worshipped, the ancient wind will not dissipate... Everyone, let's go and help the "Four Wind Guardians" clean up the environment now."

"Yes!"xN

After all the knights went to other places to work, Kaeya walked alone to the deepest room in the temple. He soon saw the wind dragon crystal inside, and then broke it into pieces with one sword.

"Then it's time for me to clean up the mess." Kaia seemed to be talking to himself, then turned his head to look behind a pillar in the room, "I was wondering, with the intelligence of the Hillock people, how could they think of a premeditated ambush? It turns out that you are behind this."

As if in response to Kaeya's words, a strange laugh came from behind the pillar, and then a water abyss wizard slowly floated out from there.

"Gohus, Chiso Vonph!"

Soon, the Water Abyss Mage raised his staff and began to chant magic using his unique way of controlling elemental forces. Soon, a large number of water elements appeared beside him along with strange runes.

But Kaia just stood there motionless, with no intention of taking action at all.

Just when the Abyss Mage was about to attack, several fireballs with tails of flames suddenly flew in from outside the door and hit it one after another, interrupting its attack.

Immediately afterwards, a fiery red figure flashed in quickly, grabbed the Abyss Mage's face before he could react, and threw him to the ground with the force of turning around.

Just as the Abyss Mage, who was knocked unconscious, got up, the man rushed over again, dragging his flaming West Wind Greatsword, picked it up into the sky with one sword, then leaped into the air and slashed it down again.

The Abyss Mage raised his staff with all his strength to block the blow, but it was in vain. The huge force of the sword chopped it down from mid-air without any hindrance, and it fell under a pillar and died.

"The Knights, your efficiency is really low." After extinguishing the flames on the greatsword, the first thing Diluk said was a sarcastic remark about Kaeya and the entire Knights, "Instead of relying on you, Mondstadt should rely on the two outsiders, Mr. Uzumaki and Mr. Senju."

Kaia clapped his hands and said with a playful look in his eyes, "It doesn't matter. Now that you are involved, things will become more interesting. It's just that...

If you are here now, how can Mr. Uzumaki complete the task I asked him to do?"

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In the temple of the Lion of the South Wind, Jean, with the help of Lisa and several knights, had killed all the monsters in the temple, and pierced the wind dragon crystal with her sword in the deepest part of the temple.

"The dragon of the east wind, the lion of the south wind, the wolf of the north wind, the eagle of the west wind...

The guardian of the four winds of Mondstadt, and also a follower of the wind god "Barbatos", has now fallen into such a state..."

Looking at the ruined temple, Jean couldn't help but sigh, a feeling of powerlessness and helplessness welling up in her heart. As the acting leader of the Knights Templar and the current holder of the titles "Lionfang Knight" and "Dandelion Knight", she had not been able to make much useful contribution to Mondstadt, but instead made Mondstadt always in a situation of internal and external troubles.

Now even the temple of the "Four Winds Guardian" has become dilapidated due to the loss of people's reverence and worship, and has become a gathering place for monsters and the source of power for the Wind Dragon to seek revenge on Mondstadt. As an incompetent acting leader, what should I do...

Just when Qin was feeling frustrated because of these thoughts, Lisa came to her side and patted her on the shoulder, giving her a reassuring look:

"Don't worry too much about it. You've done well enough."

"But……"

"If it were anyone else, no one could do better than you." Lisa stretched out a finger and touched Qin's lips, stopping her from continuing. "Besides, even if you really feel that you may not have done enough, don't you have one... no, more than one opportunity to break through now?"

"An opportunity to break the deadlock...you mean?"

"Yes, that's what you think." Lisa nodded with a smile, "They are all our friends. Just like I and others have always advised you before, don't put all the pressure on yourself. Many times... you should rely more on those trustworthy friends.

Especially...when these friends are capable enough and really want to help us."

"…I see. Thank you, Lisa."