Genshin Impact: Return of the Water Queen

"Oh! It seems that this Mr. Stanley "stole" his partner's name?" Paimon suddenly realized.

Wendy nodded slightly.

"Stanley... I have been afraid for so many years. I was afraid that everyone in Mondstadt would forget you. I told your story everywhere... I, I want everyone in Mondstadt to remember you! Stanley has reached the center of the Sea of ​​Silence. He is the greatest adventurer, and he is still alive!! Stanley will not die, because I am... I am Stanley..."

Stanley became more and more excited as he spoke, but at the end, he suddenly became depressed, "I'm sorry, Stanley, I'm old too, I'm old too..."

Wendy and Luo Chaya were both silent. Neither of them said anything, and no one knew what they were thinking.

"Stanley" discovered several people eavesdropping behind him, and they came to "Stanley" as well.

"Let's go! Don't ask anything, let me be alone for a while..." "Stanley" looked at Luo Chaya and her group and shook his head.

"But..." Paimon hesitated.

Stanley suddenly became a little excited, "Let's go! Don't make me say it a second time!"

"Mr. Stanley, you tell the story very well. Whether it is Jinjihai or Stanley." Luo Chaya looked at Stanley and suddenly said to him.

"Did I speak well?" "Stanley" was stunned for a moment after hearing Luo Chaya's words.

Luo Chaya nodded solemnly, "Yes."

"Stanley" looked into Luo Chaya's eyes. He stared at this pair of infinitely gentle eyes that were as all-embracing as the sea. In the end, he could only sigh, "But now, my memory of the adventure... and Stanley, has become blurred. This is my biggest secret, my biggest fear..."

"Over the years, I have lived for his stories, but I can no longer remember his personality or his life, hahahaha..."

Stanley smiled bitterly.

"The only thing I can't forget is that he died in the windless Ember Sea. The wind can't take away his soul!"

His life has been overwhelmed by guilt, even though he shouldn't have to bear it. Cleansing the soul is not Luo Chaya's job. She stood aside in silence and didn't say anything else.

"In his memory, Stanley is no longer the vivid friend he once was. He has been frozen into the image of a scarred soldier, which restricts his own life." Wendy looked at "Stanley" and sighed.

Luo Chaya also sighed slightly when she heard Wendy say this. "Stanley" was like this, so why not him?

"I'm old... I can't remember too many things! But a great adventurer can't die in that way, no!" "Stanley" shouted, expressing his unwillingness.

Ying was silent, Paimon was silent too. Luo Chaya took a step back, giving space to Wendy.

Wendy gave Luo Chaya a look of gratitude, and then looked at "Stanley". No... he was not Stanley. He was "Hans Archibald."

Hans raised his head and looked at Wendy in surprise, "How do you know my real name?"

Wendy smiled and looked at Hans tenderly, while the azure wind blew from behind him.

"Wind! This is the sound of wind that we always seek in the Sea of ​​Silence!" Hans raised his hands and felt the wind blowing.

Wendy opened his domain, and at this moment, he once again became the God of Thousand Winds who brought hope and opportunity. He was gentle, kind, and full of sacred energy.

"I have always believed...in your existence!" Hans stood up and looked at the god in front of him excitedly.

Wendy extended her hand to Hans, just like a god extending his hand to his devout believer, "Can you give me the soul of my old friend?"

Hans looked into the eyes of the god, and with a trembling hand, he placed it in Wendy's hand. Stanley's image appeared on Wendy's body, replaced him, and looked at Hans. Stanley's soul smiled, and then flew high into the sky in countless winds.

"Thank you, and thank you... Lord Barbatos! I feel much better now, and it's time for me to go back and have a good rest! I will continue to tell others about Stanley's legendary story, and this time, I won't be depressed again!" Hans cheered up again.

"He is drunk, Ying, Paimeng, can you send him back?" Luo Chaya said to Ying.

After the others left, she looked at Wendy again and asked, "Can you still hold on, your emotions?"

Wendy looked at Luo Chaya and laughed, "Oh, I made you see my embarrassing scene."

"You can still laugh...it seems you can still hold on to your emotions." Luo Chaya looked at Wendy and gently patted her shoulder. The two were silent for a while before she continued, "Hans Archibald is no longer bound by his old friend, so...what about you?"

"Thousands of years ago, you ascended the throne of God with this body, Xu Mengde was free. But the least free one is you, the God of Freedom. Wendy, you have imprisoned yourself in the windless land that belongs to you."

Wendy was silent. He didn't rush to say anything, but his eyes were full of memories. "I can't remember many of the things he said to me, but I always remember the poem he gave me at the end. 'Fly, fly, like a bird. See the world for me, fly to the sky for me.'"

"...So, that's why you always look at the world in this way?" Luo Chaya was silent for a while, she raised her head and looked at Wendy with some pity.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with this!" Wendy shook her head and said, "Among the Seven Rulers of the Earth, I'm not the only one who is bound by the fetters. The immovable rock is trapped in the self-contract, the flashing lightning is obsessed with the eternal thought, the lamenting ice seals the love in the heart, the kind and loving plants give birth to the foolish behavior of the believers, and the blazing and brilliant fire burns out the vitality of the earth. Even you, aren't you trapped in the "original sin" of the Fontaine people and can't extricate yourself?"

"Everyone has his own windless place, and God also has his own cage." Wendy sighed, "My cage is not this body, but this world! In this world, I am free, but I will not jump out of it because I don't have the courage."

Luo Chaya sat down. She looked up at the God of Wind and Freedom and said, "No, your courage is dazzling."

"Really?" Wendy was stunned for a moment and looked at Luo Chaya with some surprise.

"Would you like a drink? I'll treat you." Luo Chaya looked at Wendy and suggested.

When Wendy heard that Luo Chaya was treating him, he immediately laughed. He sat opposite Luo Chaya and said, "Then I'll let you pay for it!"