Alex was quite pleased to see that both of them agreed to the name he had casually blurted out.
"Ying ying ying" - Ah, it was his favorite phrase.
Yae Sakura: Ying ying ying.
That's right! It had to be this Yae Sakura, only with "ying ying ying" would it feel right.
And here, he really wanted to hear Yae Miko go "ying ying ying."
That being said, when he saw Lumine about to hand in the form, Alex worried she might write it incorrectly and couldn't help but prompt her: "It's the character for 'mouth' plus the character for 'baby' - 'ying' - not any other character."
Paimon gave him a questioning look. What was he saying now?
Lumine, however, understood what Alex meant.
After all, the world she had once lived in used this very language.
It was the Blue Star language! Everyone in the world spoke this language and wrote this script.
The moment Lumine saw Alex's phone, she knew.
Alex also came from Blue Star. He was born in the same place as her and her brother, but it didn't seem to be the same world as hers, so it was most likely a parallel Blue Star.
"This is Teyvat, but I understand what you mean. I wrote the three characters 'ying ying ying,' corresponding to the Blue Star characters: 'mouth,' 'baby,'" Lumine said to Alex.
"Oh!" Alex was startled, then realized and scratched his head: "I almost forgot about that."
After forming the Adventurers' Guild, Lumine casually accepted four recently posted commissions.
A certain cat was playing and hadn't returned, help catch him; collect five Windwheel Mushrooms and three Dandelion Seeds to deliver to someone in the city; a high-combat Adventurer was needed to test the impact resistance of an item; someone in the city had gone missing, someone was needed to help find him.
Alex was a little speechless to see Lumine decisively take on these four seemingly troublesome commissions.
As expected of the warm-hearted Traveler, he would take on any strange, insignificant little commission, do them, and help out.
Lumine was indeed more suited to be an Adventurer than him.
He was just an Adventurer who feared trouble, only knew how to grind monsters, and lacked the spirit of adventure.
Alex didn't want to touch any of the side quests scattered across the world, especially the long and tedious ones; he didn't want to experience them a second time, so he left them all to Lumine.
"So, can I still take on four more bounty commissions?" Alex asked, trying to find out if taking commissions as part of the same Adventurers' Guild could break the four-commission limit.
Katheryne shook her head: "I'm afraid that for commissions taken under an Adventurers' Guild's name, we only allow a maximum of four at a time. New commissions can only be taken after completing the current ones. However..."
At this, Katheryne looked at Alex and smiled: "If it's you, our Guild can break this rule for you. We can grant you additional commission task authority, and the experience gained from completing tasks will also be credited to your 'Ying Ying Ying' Adventurers' Guild. Are you sure you need it?"
"Oh!" Alex's eyes lit up.
Even Lumine beside him, her eyes also lit up, which meant their Adventurers' Guild would accumulate experience faster than others, increasing their Adventurer Rank in the Adventurers' Guild!
Good, good, good, Lumine looked at Alex, hoping he would agree. This meant they could take on even more commissions at once.
If not for the commission limit, Lumine would have wanted to take all the commissions and then choose which ones to complete based on her mood.
"Of course, my dear Miss Katheryne," Alex's tone of voice became respectful.
After all, she was truly good to him, with Katheryne's relaxation of authority.
Plus, the experience gained from the Ying Ying Ying Adventurers' Guild.
This would definitely allow him to ascend his World Level faster!
Katheryne was truly amazing!
"Hmm, let me take a look," Katheryne flipped through Alex's Adventurer's License: "How much extra should I add..."
Seeing Katheryne hesitate, Alex called out from outside the counter: "Four, four! Double, double!"
"Alright, then we'll give your Adventurers' Guild double the number of commissions you can take. Considering Adventurer Alex's average completion time for dozens of commissions is within half an hour, far exceeding ninety-nine percent of Adventurers in all of Teyvat," Katheryne said.
Then she took out her special stamp from her chest, wrote a few strokes on his Adventurer's License, and stamped it with the special seal.
"Alright ~ From now on, your 'Ying Ying Ying' Adventurers' Guild, as long as Adventurer Alex is still a part of it and hasn't left, can enjoy the privilege of taking an additional four commissions. If Mr. Alex leaves to join another Adventurers' Guild, you will need to reapply, okay?" Katheryne finally said to the two of them.
"Hooray!" Alex and Lumine cheered simultaneously.
Only Paimon stood by, hands spread and head tilted, looking even more helpless.
Well, time was already short, and taking four at once was already a huge time sink. Now, thanks to Alex's move, the time that would be delayed had directly doubled.
Paimon wished he could control time!
To make time incredibly abundant.
Seeing Lumine and Alex start chatting about the development of the Adventurers' Guild, Paimon directly interrupted: "I'm so hungry, so hungry. Weren't we going to have a big meal?"
Then Paimon saw both of them look at him, pointing at the sky which had already turned dim and yellow.
Paimon urged: "It's already almost night!"
"Alright, alright, let's eat, let's eat!" Lumine stopped chatting and led Paimon towards the "Good Hunter" restaurant ahead.
Alex also followed; he was their payment machine.
He was treating them, so he couldn't just teleport away.
Over dinner, Lumine and Paimon noticed that Alex's ahoge was faintly glowing blue, which was quite pretty.
Then Lumine actually brought up Alex's profession.
"Were you summoned by Akasha, or did you catch him directly on the continent?" Lumine asked curiously.
"He was caught directly, captured," Alex explained.
"Wow, it's monster catching! I also love playing monster catching games," Lumine said.
Alex raised an eyebrow: "Oh? Pika Pika?"
"Pika... chu ~" It had been too long, Lumine couldn't remember.
Alex reached out his hand, and Lumine also extended a hand when she saw him.
"Slap ~" The two of them high-fived. The meaning was self-evident.
They had hit on the secret code!
"I didn't expect there to be another Pikachu," Alex sighed, shaking his head slightly.
Paimon, on the side, couldn't follow their conversation at all, but luckily, his plate was full of delicious food, so he just kept stuffing it into his mouth.
Then Lumine and Alex talked a lot about Summoners, including a lot of game content.
Until Lumine finally asked him if being a Summoner was very comfortable and brainless.
Lumine herself had never been a Summoner, nor had she experienced it.
She always fought with a Sword, or in a mech.
Alex finally summarized the Summoner's experience and expertise for Lumine.
"We Summoners are like this: our summoned creatures just need to fight at the front, while the Summoner themselves, at the back, have many things to consider... You can't just stand still like in a game, because you might be ambushed by enemies. So you also need to pay attention to your positioning and protect yourself."
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