Menma and Hashirama, what happened in Teyvat

"Menma, why do I always feel like you haven't woken up yet this morning?" Early in the morning, while walking on the streets of Mondstadt, Hashirama suddenly said to Menma beside him.

"Ah? Is it that obvious?" Menma was a little surprised by what Hashirama said. He still had the mask on his face, and although he was a little sleepy, it didn't affect him much, so how did Hashirama see this?

"You were slower than usual this morning in getting up and washing up, and you would be in a daze from time to time," Hashirama said. "As far as I know, you are not the kind of person who would be in a daze easily, so in my opinion, the only explanation is that you didn't get enough sleep last night."

"Good boy, you are quite observant." Menma expressed his admiration for Hashirama's point. "Indeed, I went out last night and came back quite late, so I slept quite late as well."

"What did you do outside?"

"Wendy called him out, and helped him a lot."

"What are you busy with?"

"Here, look." Menma stretched out his hand and pointed forward.

Hashirama looked in the direction Menma pointed and soon found his target: Wendy was holding a bottle of dandelion wine in one hand and holding a boy's shoulder with the other hand. The two were walking and talking and laughing. The boy looked exactly like Wendy, except that he was not wearing a hat, his clothes were different, the sclera in his eyes were black, and there were some cracks on his skin.

"Immortal Reincarnation?" Seeing the boy's features that were so familiar to him, Hashirama's puzzled eyes shifted to Menma's face again, "Can't you explain all of this at once?"

"Can't you see that?" Just after saying this, Menma suddenly remembered that he had indeed not told Hashirama about the relevant knowledge, "...Okay, okay, my question. Actually, the thing is this..."

After Wendy and the boy, Blaze, who had been resurrected by the Impure World Reincarnation with the help of Menma, continued to wander around and finally disappeared around the corner, Menma finally told Hashirama everything that happened last night in a concise manner.

"Is that so..." To this, Hashirama just nodded slightly. After all, this was in line with Menma's personality and the promise he made to himself before, not to mention the factor of Wendy's "extremely sincere and rewarding request".

As they walked, they came to the Deer Hunter Restaurant. Since Menma was not in the mood to cook this morning, they did not eat anything before going out. Naturally, their appetite was aroused after they arrived at the restaurant.

"A meal?"

"necessary."

The two of them, who had the same idea, immediately found a seat and sat down, then picked up the menu and called Sarah over to order.

Due to the Mondstadt people's eating habits of "small breakfast, good lunch, and full dinner", the Deer Hunters didn't sell many types of food in the morning, so Menma and Hashirama decided to eat a little simpler:

"Six portions of fisherman's toast, with four portions of satisfying salad."

"Ten servings of Mond grilled fish and wild mushroom chicken skewers, and some grilled poultry and fish white meat. I don't want to eat anything too greasy or chewy early in the morning, so I'll skip the red meat."

"Okay, then add three servings of sweet flower stuffed chicken, that should be enough."

After the two of them discussed and ordered food, a "simple" breakfast was written on the receipt in Sarah's hand, and then sent to the kitchen to be turned into a real dish.

Although the portion was still a lot, it was not a problem at all considering the appetite and eating speed of two people.

Just as the two of them had eaten all the dishes served until only the bare bones and bamboo sticks were left, and they stood up and went to the counter to pay the bill and prepare to leave, Sarah suddenly called them: "Please wait a moment!"

"Huh? What's wrong?" asked Hashirama.

"If I remember correctly, you two... are also adventurers, right?"

"Uh...that's right." Since the two of them had indeed registered their identities with the Adventurer's Association before and also accepted a large number of commissions to make money, there was nothing wrong with admitting this.

"In that case, can I do a favor for you two?" Sarah picked up two lunch boxes and placed them on the counter. "Since many people have ordered takeout from us, but we are seriously short of delivery staff and the delivery of the food cannot be delayed for too long, this is the only method I can think of."

"Um...can you tell me who ordered the takeout?"

Although Menma was not very willing to accept such a small commission of running errands, he was more willing to accept combat-related commissions. However, he could see that Sarah was indeed very anxious, so Menma decided to listen to who the person who was collecting the meal was before making a decision.

"This one is the carrot and vegetable soup ordered by Miss Lisa, the librarian of the Knights of Favonius, and this one is the wild mushroom and chicken skewers ordered by Mr. Charles, the bartender in "Angel's Gift." When Sarah heard that there seemed to be something interesting, she hurriedly introduced what dishes were in the two lunch boxes and who ordered them.

"Lisa? Charles?"

When Menma heard these two names, an idea suddenly came to his mind. When Venti came to him to discuss Diluc and Jean last night, he wanted to bring someone to join his team. Now... isn't this a good opportunity?

"Hashirama, listen to me..." Menma quickly whispered something in Hashirama's ear. After hearing this, Hashirama's expression quickly turned into a combination of an auntie's smile and a conspiracy smile:

"Okay, I'll do as you say."

Then, while Sarah looked at him in confusion, Hashirama reached out and picked up the lunch box containing the wild mushroom chicken skewers and said, "Okay, we'll take this commission. This is Charles' wild mushroom chicken skewers, right? I'll go deliver it to him."

"Then let me deliver Miss Lisa's radish and vegetable soup." Menma came over and picked up another lunch box.

Seeing that the two big guys were actually willing to take on her small commission, Sarah was very happy and did not continue to dwell on Menma's whispers and Hashirama's strange smile. "Then I'll leave it to you two. After you get the meal money, just come back here and bring it to me. As for the commission fee, I'll settle it for you two separately."

"no problem."

Afterwards, the two of them left the Deer Hunter Restaurant, each carrying a lunch box. Soon, they split up into two groups, each heading in two different directions.

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(Sometime later, at the Knights' headquarters)

"Morning, Willag."

"Good morning, Mr. Uzumaki." Virag, who was standing guard at the entrance of the library, saluted Menma with a knight's salute. "Are you here to see Miss Lisa today?"

"Yes." Menma raised the lunch box in his hand, "Miss Lisa ordered takeout from Deer Hunter but couldn't spare anyone to deliver it, so I just happened to pass by and took the commission, so I brought it here directly.

Besides, I just happened to have something to discuss with Miss Lisa, so I'll take this opportunity to do it together."

"Oh, I see." Willag nodded and opened the door of the library. "Then please come in. Miss Lisa is inside."

"Okay, thank you."

After politely thanking Wirag, Menma walked into the library and closed the door behind him.

At this moment, Lisa was sitting on a chair behind the registration desk, writing something, and didn't seem to notice Menma's arrival.

He looked down at the lunch box in his hand, and suddenly a memory from his previous life came to his mind. Then, with the intention of playing around, Menma walked towards Lisa's position, imitating the appearance in his memory and said pretentiously:

"Hello takeout."

This line of dialogue that was almost engraved in my soul, combined with the deep voice hidden under the mask...

Mm, very uncle-like.

"Oh? Is it Mr. Menma?" Hearing the voice, Lisa raised her head and met Menma's gaze. "Why do you have time to come to my place today?"

Seeing Lisa's reaction, Menma knew that no one in this world could understand what he meant by this sentence.

Don’t you agree, everyone on the other side of the screen?

"I'm here to deliver the takeaway." Without further regret, Menma walked to the registration counter and placed the lunch box on the table. "Please check the radish and vegetable soup you ordered."

“Pfft…” Lisa couldn’t help laughing when she heard Menma’s words, which sounded like those of the courier workers. “I didn’t expect you to have such a humorous side.”

"If you keep being too serious, I'll get tired to death." To this, Menma just responded casually as a joke.

While chatting, Lisa still reached out for the lunch box and opened it, revealing the sealed carrot and vegetable soup inside.

"It looks good. The deer hunter's craftsmanship is still as good as ever." Lisa commented after opening the lid and smelling the aroma of the soup.

Then, she took out a small purse from her pocket and handed it to Menma: "This is the meal money. Next, I'll trouble you to pass it to Sarah for me."

Menma took the purse but didn't move. "It's not urgent. I came here for something else. Delivering food is just a side job."

"Oh? What's that?" Lisa was not surprised. After all, a mere takeaway could make a big shot like Mr. Menma come to the Knights' Library. No matter how she thought about it, she felt that this was unlikely. "Is it about the power in my body?"

"Well... although this is not my main purpose, I'd better check it out as well." Hearing Lisa's words, Menma suddenly remembered this matter, "To what extent can you use this power now?"

"Haha, I feel pretty good." Lisa winked playfully, and her emerald green pupils suddenly turned into scarlet fox pupils. "Thanks to you, I am in the best condition I have ever been in."

Instantly, some dark red chakra flowed out of Lisa's body, gradually covering her whole body and forming the simplest, translucent tailed beast coat. At the same time, a dark red chakra tail that was not completely condensed stretched out from Lisa's back and gently wrapped around her willow waist.

"Although I can only mobilize this power to this extent, but..." Lisa, who was stroking her tail, stretched out her other hand, which was shining with black lightning, "I found that when I integrate it into my moves, it will have a good effect."

After seeing Lisa's appearance, Menma felt very relieved. After all, before her problem was solved, Lisa would never be so playful. Now that her life-threatening problem had been solved, she was naturally the most relaxed, genuine, and happy.

However, after seeing the black lightning in Lisa's hand, many thoughts suddenly appeared in Menma's mind:

[Black thunder? ]

As far as Menma knows, black lightning has only appeared on four people: one is Sasuke who has activated the second state of the Curse Seal, one is Uchiha Madara who has entered the Six Paths Mode, and the other two are the former Third Raikage Ai of the Hidden Cloud Village and the future Fifth Raikage Darui.