"Alright, Lisa, I'm all done here. Do you want to go back now or after dinner?"
"I'll head back now. I remember entrusting the Adventurers' Guild to find some magic research materials for me in Dragonspine Mountain. By my calculations, they should have completed the mission by now."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jack suddenly had a bad premonition.
This feeling of consecutive quests!
He couldn't help but ask, "May I ask who you entrusted to find the materials?"
Lisa glanced at Keqing with a meaningful look and said, "Miss Fischl, who has rich adventurer experience, Noelle, the Knights of Favonius's probationary Knight, and Mona, the Water Seer who is living in poverty after buying expensive equipment."
"Who are they? What are their favorability levels?"
Keqing's green hat radar blared, and she asked directly.
Lisa, who had already joined the harem, was an exception.
As for the girls outside who hadn't yet stepped into this abyss, she would stop as many as she could. She couldn't let this man commit more sins!
Jack bit the bullet and said, "All… all level 10…"
Keqing sighed inwardly, confirming her suspicions, then said, "I'll go with you this time. I'll negotiate with them face-to-face. You don't need to repeat your harem declaration that even I find embarrassing."
"Okay! Everything as my main wife arranges!"
"Hmph, you smooth talker!"
...
Soon, using the Serenitea Pot as a springboard, the group returned to Mondstadt, the city of freedom and wind.
Feeling the familiar elemental energy lingering in the air, Keqing's eyes were filled with emotion.
"It's only been less than two months, but it feels like years, even decades."
"Your identity is different, and your power is different. Keqing, even if you wanted to go back and be a Liyue Qixing now, I would storm into Yujing Terrace and snatch you away."
"Oh, is that so? Although Rock King Emperor, that old man, has retired, if a Liyue Qixing were to be snatched away on the spot, even the Hall of Wangsheng coffin shop might not rest easy."
"Don't worry, from what I know of Zhongli, he would at most ask me a couple of questions as a mortal. I'd just reply that I'm here to pick up my wife, and he might even directly send you a dream and bestow a marriage on the spot."
"Uh, that does sound like something he would do."
Keqing's mind conjured the image of that social recluse with a strong aura of daily life. Even when Ningguang was forced to discard the Qunyu Pavillion by Osial, he didn't appear. There's no reason for him to break his deceased status for a Qixing who has already been "tainted" by otherworldly aura.
On the way from the hotel to the Adventurers' Guild.
It was all Keqing and Jack talking.
Lisa smiled as she watched them.
She felt a little emotional that Keqing could converse with this man so calmly.
Perhaps this was the composure of the first lady.
Lisa mused inwardly.
"To the stars—"
"Katheryne, we're here to check on a commission's status."
This familiar feeling of being interrupted.
Miss Katheryne, the Snezhnaya android, frowned, looking helplessly at the mischievous Jack.
"Hello Traveler, what commission would you like to inquire about?"
"It's a commission I posted two weeks ago, to find magic research materials in Dragonspine Mountain. The recipient was Fischl's team."
Lisa took out the client's task list.
Katheryne checked it and quickly retrieved the information from the database.
"Miss Lisa, this commission was submitted for completion yesterday. As we were unable to reach you in time, according to the commission's terms, it has been signed for by Miss Noelle, the Knights of Favonius's probationary Knight."
"Hmm, I wasn't here these past two days. Since Noelle has confirmed the task is complete, I'll go find her directly."
Lisa signed the commission settlement form, then looked at Jack and the others.
"Let's go find Noelle first. At this time, she should be at the Knights of Favonius's training grounds. We can just cut through the South District to get there."
"Noelle, huh, Sister Lisa, what kind of person is she?"
Keqing held Lisa's arm, and the two walked ahead like close sisters, whispering.
Jack clasped his hands behind his head, leisurely following them.
From the moment Keqing took on the task of communicating with those girls with 10 favorability.
Half of his psychological burden was lifted.
No wonder behind most outstanding emperors of ancient times, there was often a virtuous and benevolent empress.
Having the main empress in charge was truly reassuring.
...
Led by Lisa, Jack and the others walked through the central avenue of the Knights of Favonius, passed the alchemy workshop opened by Timmaeus, Albedo's apprentice, then turned left at the local landmark fountain, and after walking a bit further, they entered the area of the West Wind Knight in the central district of Mondstadt City.
Along the way, they spoke of Noelle, the probationary Knight of the Knights of Favonius.
Her story was simple.
She was just a young girl who yearned to be a Knight and was working hard to become a full-fledged Knight.
She was so pure that one instinctively didn't want to defile such pure emotions.
So Keqing warned Jack, "Noelle is a good child. If she is willing to accept you, you must not let her down."
Jack asked in confusion, "Keqing, aren't you here to help reject those girls? Why are you just assuming Noelle will agree?"
"This… mainly because I feel that for such a large group of us to go talk to her, to discourage a young girl from expressing her true feelings, it seems like something only villains in plays would do?"
"If you put it that way, then it really is like that." Jack complained, "And then what comes next is a pure young girl, resisting a difficult and unreasonable main wife, diligently pursuing her love, and ultimately sacrificing her life for love, becoming a tragic and moving story, right?"
"Hey, exactly! That's it… No! Who's the difficult and unreasonable main wife?!"
Keqing playfully pinched Jack's ear.
"Hiss!"
Jack covered his ear and gasped, "Keqing, you've even learned to pinch ears! Where did my beautiful, elegant, generous, noble… Keqing go?"
Keqing was overwhelmed by Jack's long string of compliments, and with a blush, she said, "I'm not as good as you say…"
"You two, the time for flirting is over. We've arrived at the Knights of Favonius's training grounds."
Lisa had a very good mindset; she viewed the intertwined emotions of the group from the perspective of a romantic comedy.
Thus, even when these two showed affection in front of her, she could enjoy the taste of love as a spectator and diner.
"Hah! Hah!"
"Hey ya!"
They hadn't even walked in yet.
The spirited voice of a young girl came from afar.
The group passed the dozing guard in front of the training ground gate and walked towards the silver-haired girl who was wielding a wooden sword and striking a wooden dummy.
"Little Noelle, guess who big sister brought over?"
Lisa called out Noelle's nickname, intentionally or unintentionally revealing Jack behind her, with an expression of enjoying the show.
Noelle wiped the fragrant sweat from her forehead.
She turned to look behind her, following the sound.
Although three people were walking towards her, her vision was completely filled by just one person.
"Honorary Knight! You… you're back?!"
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