Normally, once a person is controlled by the Eerie force, their mind becomes completely filled with all kinds of maddening thoughts, leaving no room for emotions such as fear or dread…
But now, when faced with the Eerie "Paimon," "Klee" felt no urge to fight at all—only one instinct: to run away!
Thus, "Klee" no longer cared about cremating Su Yuan.
She simply turned and bolted!
Yet, in response to the fleeing "Klee," "Paimon" spoke slowly, without haste:
"You used bombs… to blow up the Traveler…"
"Since you love bombs so much, then let you yourself become a bomb…"
As "Paimon" spoke, she pointed a finger at the escaping "Klee," and from her fingertip shot a surge of rich golden-orange energy that struck "Klee" with pinpoint accuracy!
The instant that mysterious golden-orange power hit her, "Klee's" running figure froze in place.
Su Yuan could clearly see her body swelling at a speed visible to the naked eye, while black and crimson smoke poured continuously from every part of her…
The Eerie power within "Klee" was dissipating at a rate visible to the naked eye!
When the Eerie force had fully dispersed, Klee seemed to regain her sanity.
She turned her head toward Su Yuan and "Paimon" with great effort, as if she wanted to say something—but in the end, she never managed to utter a word…
Her body swelled like a balloon, quickly reaching its critical limit, before bursting apart like a bomb, scattering into a storm of flesh and blood…
Su Yuan stared at "Paimon's" mismatched eyes—one black and crimson, the other glowing with golden-orange light…
That golden-orange power carried an overwhelming restraining force against the Eerie energy…
Compared to the Abyssal power, which could stand on equal footing with the Eerie force, this golden-orange energy was clearly on the same level—or perhaps even higher.
Su Yuan fixed his gaze on the power radiating from "Paimon," trying to etch every detail into his memory, hoping that someday he might seek out and obtain such power himself…
But in the next instant, "Paimon" suddenly spoke to him:
"Su Yuan… it was you who got the Traveler killed…"
Hearing those inexplicable words, Su Yuan was left utterly dumbfounded…
Was "Paimon" blaming him—for dragging Aether along to deal with Eerie Klee's, and thereby getting him killed?
Looking at "Paimon's" state, Su Yuan knew he likely wouldn't escape death this time either…
And yet, he couldn't help but feel strange—if "Paimon" looked this familiar to him now, that must mean he had seen her like this before…
But why did it seem like he had never seen anything about this in any of the palm prompts?
Very quickly, Su Yuan suddenly thought of something…
Hadn't there already been several times before when the writing in the palm prompts was smudged and unreadable?
Could it be that all of this was Paimon's doing?
Not only did she possess overwhelming strength, but she could even interfere with his death-rewind rules?
Yet in the next moment, Su Yuan thought of something even more terrifying…
Whenever smudged or altered writing had appeared on his palm before, the number of rewinds consumed would increase…
If today's information on his left palm was accurate, then didn't that mean he only had one rewind left?
If Paimon could kill him in one strike and wipe out three lives at once, then with only one extra life remaining, wasn't he still indebted to her for two more?
By now, Su Yuan was drenched in sweat.
He had never felt this close to death before…
And yet, Paimon seemed to have no intention of sparing him.
Just like with Klee, her fingertip released a concentrated golden-orange beam of light, striking straight into Su Yuan's body!
The moment that golden-orange beam entered him, Su Yuan fully experienced the strangeness of this power…
It was warm, blazing, and mighty — completely different from the Eerie power…
But at the same time, this power was tyrannical, like cancer cells running rampant, endlessly dividing, reproducing, and filling his entire body…
Su Yuan felt the agony of his body swelling, his skin tearing apart with each passing moment…
"Haha… Before death, I could almost hear my body wailing and sobbing…"
He forced a bitter smile.
If all his earlier speculations were true, then what fate awaited him?
What meaning did his journey to Teyvat truly hold?
Was it destined to end here?
As these thoughts crossed his mind, his body exploded under the ever-expanding force of that golden-orange energy…
At the very instant Su Yuan's body burst apart and he died, in distant Liyue, at the border between life and death in Wuwang Hill, Youngtore suddenly revealed a look of utter shock, murmuring in disbelief:
"My soul fragment hidden inside Big Brother Su Yuan… has completely vanished?"
"Could it be that Big Brother Su Yuan encountered some accident?"
"That's impossible… Even if he died unexpectedly, my soul fragment shouldn't just dissipate like that…"
"Unimaginable… Incomprehensible…"
"What exactly happened to Big Brother Su Yuan?"
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Su Yuan suddenly snapped his eyes open — that same familiar, heart-palpitating sensation washed over him again…
He felt for the sting in his left palm…
Hm? Strange.
Why wasn't there any stinging pain in his palm this time?
Su Yuan was immediately surprised.
He quickly lifted his left hand and looked at it, only to find that no new words had appeared…
This unexpected situation left him dumbfounded.
What the heck was going on?
Had he triggered a death rewind or not?
If not, then what was that familiar, unsettling feeling?
But if he had, then why wasn't there any information written on his palm?
Su Yuan couldn't figure it out.
Could the death rewind system have glitched badly?
Or… maybe the last rewind hadn't contained anything worth noting, so no words were inscribed?
But wait — back in Fontaine, when he saved Melus and Silver, even if nothing happened, his palm still told him he had triggered a rewind, didn't it?
Just as Su Yuan was lost in confusion, Aether beside him spoke up anxiously:
"Su Yuan, we have to get to Klee right now!"
"If other kids come looking to play with her, we can't stop her — we have to let her go and play with them!"
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