Just as Su Yuan was thinking about how, even if he triggered a death rewind, he wouldn't know how to carry over the information he'd just experienced without the help of the left-hand palm hints, Aether and Paimon appeared at the entrance of the Mondstadt Cathedral.
"Master Jean, Su Yuan, what exactly happened while I was away?" Aether said, shocked as he looked at the scene before him.
Su Yuan, surprised that Aether had returned so quickly, marveled at how convenient the teleport waypoints really were.
He then briefly explained to Aether what had occurred.
After finishing the explanation, Su Yuan asked, "Aether, how are things over in Liyue? Is Xiao alright?"
"We were still a step too late. Xiao was taken away by the Wanderer disguised as Venti…" Aether said with some frustration.
"Zhongli had actually planned to come to Mondstadt to relay the news to you, but I caught up with him halfway…"
"After that, I had him return to Liyue. Given the current special circumstances, someone needs to stay in Liyue to maintain order…"
Watching Aether, Su Yuan had a thought.
Yesterday, even though he didn't have the left-hand palm hints, Aether seemed to know everything in advance and had already made preparations.
Although Su Yuan didn't understand the exact mechanism, he realized that if they coordinated, it might partially compensate for the absence of the left-hand hints.
However, Su Yuan also knew that Aether didn't always display this kind of foresight, so the activation of this ability must have conditions.
What exactly were those conditions?
As Su Yuan was pondering what to do, sounds of combat and cries suddenly erupted outside from the Knights of Favonius:
"Enemy attack! There's an enemy attack!"
Everyone rushed outside to investigate and saw a figure in black wielding a greatsword, with fire elemental energy gathering along the blade, relentlessly attacking the Knights stationed outside.
Jean, observing the black-clad figure, was both confused and shocked, saying in disbelief:
"This sword technique… it looks just like Diluc's 'Searing Onslaught'?"
"Diluc's moves?" Su Yuan and Aether exclaimed in shock as well.
They took a closer look and realized, indeed, it really did seem to be the case!
"Could this mysterious figure in black really be the long-missing Master Diluc?" Paimon asked, puzzled.
"But if it is Diluc, why would he attack the Knights of Favonius for no reason?"
"And if Diluc really is here, then that Dark Knight who was dismembered by Aji… could it be that it really wasn't Diluc?"
At that moment, the mysterious black-clad figure, who looked like Diluc, noticed the group at the entrance of Mondstadt Cathedral.
He raised his greatsword behind him, channeling intense fire elemental energy, and shouted:
"Flame—Incinerate!!!"
With a dazzling burst of light, a massive firebird formed entirely from fire elemental energy surged toward the group in an unstoppable charge!
"No doubt about it—this black-clad figure is Diluc!!!" Paimon screamed.
"If ordinary techniques can be imitated, this one is definitely Diluc's ultimate move! I've seen Diluc use this before, and it feels completely identical!!!"
"Anemo Archon, please protect us!"
Grand Master Jean, without hesitation, unleashed her wind elemental power, creating a whirling dandelion field to shield everyone from the raging firebird, trying to protect all those present.
The wind and fire elemental energies continuously triggered a spread reaction, obscuring everyone's vision.
Once the firebird's elemental energy had been completely dissipated by Jean's wind power, she planted her sword in the ground and sank to one knee, sweat beading across her forehead and face, panting heavily.
When everyone looked up, the mysterious black-clad figure resembling Diluc had already vanished.
"This attack… the pressure it exerted on me is exactly like Diluc's back then…"
After a moment to catch her breath, Jean slowly said, "Could this person really be Diluc? Why would he do this?"
Su Yuan, carefully recalling the scene, felt something was off and said, "But… Diluc's build isn't supposed to be this small, right?"
"But just now, that person in black didn't look that tall…"
"So, Su Yuan, are you saying that the black-clad figure isn't really Diluc, but someone else in disguise?" Upon hearing Su Yuan's explanation, Aether said thoughtfully.
Su Yuan didn't know what to say either—this was like dealing with a real-and-fake Monkey King situation, constantly shifting disguises…
He took a deep breath, realizing he couldn't delay any longer. Now was not the time to overthink—it was time to act. So he said to Aether:
"Aether, can you come over for a moment? I have something I need to tell you…"
Su Yuan felt that Aether was relatively trustworthy, because he had shown no signs of Eerie corruption all this time.
It was finally time to confess everything.
Only by being honest and telling Aether about his Death Rewind ability could they work together to figure out how to save everything without the left-hand palm's hint prompts…
Su Yuan led Aether to a secluded corner.
After confirming that nothing unusual was around, he manipulated wind elemental power to form a relatively enclosed space and began his confession…
He also knew that this confession would only work this one time; once everything rewound, Aether would forget it all…
"Aether, to be honest, that special intelligence system I mentioned earlier… it ultimately exists because I have the ability to rewind death, combined with the text prompts on my left-hand palm that only I can see…"
Hearing this, Aether was both shocked and confirmed what he had suspected—Su Yuan really did possess this ability!
"My Death Rewind doesn't carry memory, so I can only rely on the left-hand palm prompts to know what happened the last time…"
"But now, my left-hand palm prompts have failed, so I hope you can help me think of a way…"
However, in the next moment, a sharp sword energy cut through Su Yuan's wind elemental barrier.
Both he and Aether immediately became extremely alert at this sudden situation…
Then, an even more unexpected event occurred…
Lumine suddenly appeared in front of Aether and Su Yuan!!!
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