"Oh dear! What's all this? Why are you two making the atmosphere so sad?" Yu Jin stroked Garura and Collei's heads, increasingly feeling that this was too similar to the scenes before a tragedy in a novel.
He pulled out two badges—Mohg's Pureblood Knight medals.
Yu Jin looked at the blood-stained medals, then at the two beautiful girls before him, and thought the badges were truly ugly beyond belief.
So, a ball of flame ignited in his hand, and the Pureblood Knight medals were refined by this flame. Finally, two orange-red bracelets appeared in his hand.
The bracelets were engraved with a sun; let's just call them Sun Knight Bracelets. Yu Jin, as always, was terrible at naming things.
"Here, consider these my gifts to you. With these bracelets, I can teleport to you anytime, and you can come see me anytime."
Yu Jin handed the bracelets to Garura and Collei, casually mentioning their function.
"Wow! That's amazing!" Garura took the bracelet, examining it from left to right, but couldn't figure out anything special about it.
"Thank you, Brother Yu Jin." Collei was much quieter; she silently put on the bracelet, not doubting Yu Jin's words in the slightest.
"Alright, I told you, with me around, you can rest assured!" Seeing the pain of separation dissipate, Yu Jin happily put his hands on his hips.
"Mhm mhm mhm, Brother Yu Jin is so amazing!" As Yu Jin's number one fan, Garura immediately started flattering him.
"Hahaha!" Collei, seeing everything return to its familiar state, also laughed happily.
All the suffering she had endured was now dissolved by joy… It was another morning, and after his usual peeking at Ellin, Yu Jin began to wander around Mondstadt City.
Now, Collei and Garura were very busy every day. Besides learning the miracles and Prayers Yu Jin taught them, they also had to prepare for their upcoming trip to Sumeru.
"Hey, don't you need to sleep?" Yu Jin suddenly heard a familiar voice.
He turned his head and was startled, "What the hell, Lisa, what did you do last night?!"
It was no wonder Yu Jin asked that, because at this moment, Lisa's hair was disheveled, her eyes dull, and she had two prominent dark circles under them.
No wonder Lisa hadn't called him silly just now.
"Reading. Come here, I have many questions to ask you!" It turned out Lisa had specifically come to find him.
"Oh." Yu Jin didn't refuse; he had nothing else to do anyway, so he let Lisa drag him towards the library.
Feeling the surprised gazes of the crowd, Yu Jin didn't pay attention, because he was thinking, thinking about what questions Lisa would ask him.
Because when it came to the Golden Order, he only knew how to use it; to truly explain the principles, he'd have to rely on Godwyn and the others.
"Bang!" Lisa dragged Yu Jin all the way into her office and slammed the door shut.
Lisa's office was incredibly messy at the moment, just like her hair, with various books opened and casually tossed on the floor.
And the culprit behind all this lay quietly on the desk.
As soon as she entered, Lisa impatiently asked, "This, what exactly is the 'gravitation of meaning' that regression speaks of?"
"..."
"And this, how does causality concretize the abstract concept of cause and effect onto a specific person?"
"..."
"And these." Lisa pushed a note to Yu Jin, densely filled with all sorts of questions.
Yu Jin looked at it for a while, then put the note down. He looked at the curious Lisa and said with a smile,
"How about it? Knowledge from beyond the world?"
Lisa's expression stiffened upon hearing this. Although she had anticipated it, hearing Yu Jin directly admit it was a different feeling altogether.
"Another world, huh? It truly is captivating." Lisa exhaled a turbid breath, surprised that despite trying to distance herself from knowledge, she ultimately couldn't resist the temptation and became engrossed in it.
"Heh heh, don't worry, my world is unimaginably far from yours," Yu Jin explained, seeing Lisa's puzzled look.
"So far that even the taboos you speak of don't know about this knowledge."
"This… this…" Lisa looked at the books on the table, somewhat incoherent.
"This means that your world's punishment for seeking knowledge doesn't apply to these books; you can research them to your heart's content," Yu Jin said with a smile, helping Lisa complete her thought.
Lisa, being a rare genius of two centuries, quickly recovered from her shock.
She looked at the smug Yu Jin and teased him, "But you still haven't answered my questions."
Yu Jin's proud posture immediately stiffened. "Don't expose my difficulties, Lisa."
"Heh heh heh, I told you you were silly." Lisa found Yu Jin's embarrassed expression quite amusing.
"Alright, alright, little silly~, big sis needs to do her research, could you please leave for now?" Lisa pushed Yu Jin, escorting him out the door.
"Phew! What an interesting experience. It's been a long time since I've been this serious." Lisa stretched, preparing to continue delving into the new books Yu Jin had given her.
Under the sunlight, Lisa suddenly noticed a golden glint on her desk.
She looked curiously, and a golden orb the size of a fist lay quietly on the desk.
Lisa suddenly remembered something. She quickly flipped through "The Lands Between Guide," and on one page, there was a drawing of something identical to the golden orb in her hand.
It read: Golden Seed — A seed scattered by the Golden Tree when the elden ring shattered. If nourished by a law, it might grow into a new Golden Tree… Two days passed in a flash. Mondstadt City was as tranquil as ever, like the calm before a storm.
Today was the day the Fatui arrived in Mondstadt.
To bring Mondstadt under Snezhnaya's protection protocol, the Fatui attached great importance to this meeting.
Similarly, the Mondstadt side felt the same. Mondstadt's strength was not particularly strong among The Seven Nations to begin with, and with the Grand Master Varka leading four-fifths of the Knights of Favonius on an expedition,
the current Mondstadt did not want to leave any room for the Fatui to cause trouble.
However, Yu Jin was unaware of all this. At this moment, he stood on the roof of a certain house, gazing at the convoy slowly approaching in the distance.
As the Fatui convoy appeared before the people, the crowd stirred. The Knights of Favonius, already prepared, began guiding them at the opportune moment.
The restless crowd gradually calmed down, making way for the convoy to pass.
In the past, the Fatui always operated in the shadows. Now, to witness this strongest organization on the continent of Teyvat in broad daylight, the enthusiasm of the Mondstadters was still very high.
The convoy slowly entered Mondstadt City. The Fatui, seated in the central carriage, lifted the curtain and glanced outside.
She looked at the buildings outside and couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity. Although it was her first time in Mondstadt, why did she feel so familiar?
Inadvertently seeing the huge Anemo God statue in the distance, a surge of Nameless anger suddenly welled up in the Fatui's heart.
"A bunch of ignorant commoners!" Consequently, the Fatui also grew disgusted with the Mondstadters curiously watching by the convoy.
The carriage slowly stopped. The Fatui composed herself, stepped out of the carriage, and greeted Acting Grand Master Jean with a smile.
"May the Anemo protect you, esteemed guest from afar." Acting Grand Master Jean bowed slightly to the Fatui, offering a greeting.
However, these words were undoubtedly extremely grating to the Fatui's ears. What she disliked most was the Anemo God Barbatos, though she couldn't quite say why.
But due to her status, she didn't show it, merely replying faintly, "Greetings, Acting Grand Master Jean."
At this moment, the Fatui was already thinking about how to make Mondstadt look bad.
Soon, a faint smile curled on her lips.
The Fatui sensed Yu Jin leaping around on a distant rooftop and said to Acting Grand Master Jean with a smile, "Don't Mondstadters know that jumping around on rooftops like monkeys is quite annoying?!"
As the Fatui finished speaking, a heavy thud suddenly came from the distance, followed by exclamations like "Someone fell down!", "That person is so strange," and "I know him, that's the older brother of those two little girls."
Lisa and Kaeya, standing behind Acting Grand Master Jean, heard the commotion in the distance, and their expressions changed dramatically. Acting Grand Master Jean also noticed their unusual behavior.
"Kaeya, go help the injured, and be quick!" Acting Grand Master Jean immediately ordered.
"Yes!" Kaeya quickly bowed, then ran anxiously in the direction where Yu Jin had fallen, fearing that Yu Jin might also take the Fatui's kidney.
Meanwhile, Yu Jin lay on the ground, his open palms clenched into fists.
"The Fatui? Excellent!" Yu Jin said faintly, facing the ground.
Now he wanted to cook, and he wanted to cook for the Fatui.