"Hey, hey, hey, are you alright?" Kaeya quickly pushed through the crowd and came to Yu Jin's side, helping him up.
"I'm fine, just a fall." Yu Jin squinted his eyes, patting away non-existent dust from his body.
Although Kaeya couldn't see Yu Jin squinting, he still felt that Yu Jin's tone was a bit off.
It was as if he had seen something interesting.
Kaeya immediately shivered. He quickly leaned close to Yu Jin's ear and whispered to him:
"Brother, endure it. At this critical juncture, if a Harbinger dies, it'll be big trouble. The Harbinger isn't like the Doctor; she can't withstand what you'll do."
"Who said I was going to kill her? Kaeya, how are you a Knights of Favonius? Always thinking about fighting and killing."
Yu Jin started rambling after hearing Kaeya's words, leaving Kaeya stunned.
"You're not going to kill her?" Kaeya asked, somewhat disbelievingly.
"Consider this the first cut, I'll take it as her greeting." Yu Jin waved his hand indifferently.
"You should have said so earlier. Alright, I'm busy, see you." Kaeya's mood immediately lightened when he heard that Yu Jin had no intention of killing the Harbinger.
Kaeya couldn't control how Yu Jin wanted to trouble the Harbinger; all he had to ensure was that the Harbinger remained alive in Mondstadt.
Watching Kaeya rush in and then rush out, Yu Jin couldn't help but scratch his head. This guy was truly impetuous.
Yu Jin stroked his chin. Not killing the Harbinger was one thing, but some small "punishments" were unavoidable.
After all, there's a big difference between an intentional cut and an accidental one.
Just as Yu Jin was stroking his chin, thinking about how to make the Harbinger understand the rules, Kaeya had already run back to Acting Grand Master Jean's side.
After a brief report, he stepped back.
Acting Grand Master Jean breathed a sigh of relief when she heard there were no casualties. She didn't want anyone to become a casualty of the Harbinger's show of force.
She turned to look at the somewhat smug Harbinger, then thought about the Harbinger's excuse for causing trouble, and made a decision.
Acting Grand Master Jean gave Eula a look over her shoulder. Eula understood, stepped forward, and said in a cool voice:
"Mondstadt is a city of freedom. Excessive formalities are unnecessary in our view, but this does not mean Mondstadt's etiquette is not complex."
"For example, Your Excellency the Harbinger, you just displayed many behaviors that do not conform to Mondstadt's etiquette."
"Guests arriving at noon should step out with their left foot first, and your greeting should be 'I greet you with the scorching breeze, my friend,' not a simple 'Good day.'"
"Of course, there are many such courtesies, but we in Mondstadt do not care about these, so Your Excellency the Harbinger need not be constrained."
Eula stepped back after speaking a few sentences, leaving the Harbinger standing there with a twisted expression.
Yu Jin, listening from a distance, almost clapped, but considering the seriousness of the occasion, he gave up his mischievous thoughts.
Even though he had specifically run far away, the Harbinger still dragged him down and implicitly criticized his lack of manners.
He was a person who had received a full set of etiquette training from the King Consort of Caria and the Elden Lord. If he were to talk about these rules and regulations, he really… he really couldn't say anything.
Because Yu Jin had long forgotten all those things.
"Ranni, Melina, I'm sorry!" Yu Jin silently complained, then continued watching. He liked watching women fight.
Acting Grand Master Jean saw the Harbinger's somewhat indignant expression and knew she couldn't continue. She said to the Harbinger:
"Your Excellency the Harbinger, please come to the Goth Grand Hotel. The Knights of Favonius has prepared a welcoming banquet for the Snezhnaya delegation."
"Alright, thank you, Acting Grand Master Jean." The Harbinger didn't press the issue further and followed the guiding Knights of Favonius to the Goth Grand Hotel.
"That's it?" Yu Jin blinked. He had hoped for a fight.
If it's over, it's over. He also had to get busy, because delicious food always takes more time to prepare… On a secluded lawn outside Mondstadt City, wisps of smoke were rising.
It seemed someone was making a fire there, but upon closer inspection, the color of the bonfire seemed a bit strange.
It was an orange-yellow flame, and surprisingly, it was suspended in the air.
Blazing flames poured out from the black hole at its center, as if it would never extinguish—this was the Frenzied Flame.
If an ordinary person saw this scene, then Yu Jin's pocket would probably gain two more Shabriri Grapes.
"Hehehe…" Under the influence of the Frenzied Flame, Yu Jin also became strange.
Looking at the boiling clear water in the pot, Yu Jin felt it was time to add some main ingredients.
"A few skewers of Yero eyeballs." Saying this, Yu Jin took out several skewers of rotting, oozing luo ya fruit, which from a distance looked like reddened eyeballs.
"Fingerprint Stone Shield fragments cannot be omitted either." Yu Jin took out a stone slab as tall as a person, densely covered with fingerprints—the fingerprints of the Three Fingers of the Frenzied Flame.
"Crunch, crunch." A teeth-grinding scraping sound rang out as Yu Jin continuously scraped the Fingerprint Stone Shield with a dagger.
Fragments kept falling from the Fingerprint Stone Shield, dropping into the Yero eyeball soup, which had already turned orange-red.
Looking at the bubbling Frenzied Flame soup in front of him, Yu Jin felt it was a bit too potent. He didn't want anyone to die from eating it.
So he took out a flask of holy water and poured some red tear into it.
Yu Jin stirred the Frenzied Flame soup in front of him and nodded with satisfaction. He truly was amazing; even the products of the Frenzied Flame, which everyone avoided, he could turn into food!
After preparing the Frenzied Flame soup, he just had to wait for nightfall. Then, the Harbinger would taste the deliciousness from another world.
Under Yu Jin's eager anticipation, the sun finally set.
Yu Jin concealed his figure, leaping from rooftop to rooftop, heading towards the Goth Grand Hotel.
He had inquired during the day and learned that the Harbinger was quite satisfied with the Goth Grand Hotel, so she decided to book the entire hotel as a base for the Fatui.
It must be said, the Fatui were truly generous. The Goth Grand Hotel was a renowned hotel in Mondstadt City, and booking it long-term would cost a considerable amount of Mora.
Yu Jin stood on the roof of the Goth Grand Hotel. It was already past midnight. Even the Fatui needed to rest, so only a few rooms were lit.
"Clang, clang!" Yu Jin, like a child, took out a bundle of Hypnosis Pots. These were specially modified by him.
Not only did they make little noise when thrown, but the range of the hypnotic smoke was also much larger.
Then Yu Jin turned into an afterimage, throwing Hypnosis Pots into every opening he could find.
Soon, the entire Goth Grand Hotel was filled with light purple smoke, and the whole building quieted down.
However, no one noticed this in the dead of night.
"Hehehe… Harbinger, Harbinger, let me see where you are?" Yu Jin slowly opened one room after another, in no hurry at all.
Because he was very confident in the effectiveness of the Hypnosis Pots. Once affected, even if there was a raging inferno outside, it would make you sleep like a dead pig.
"?" Yu Jin opened a room and looked at the clothes hanging on the wall, immediately understanding. It seemed to be an Electro Cicin Mage.
But he glanced at the soldier's tag with the number "241" and realized she was the "untainted" sister mentioned by the one numbered 145.
Yu Jin tapped his head. He saw that among the three, only the Electro Cicin Mage had persevered; the other two had perished, becoming slag.
Looking at the Electro Cicin Mage, who was no longer recognizable, Yu Jin calculated the time. According to his set time difference, she should have been burning for thirty years.
It seemed she could be released to see her performance. If she performed well, she could be released after serving her sentence.
But not now, of course. He still had to find the Harbinger.
Opening door after door, Yu Jin finally found the soundly sleeping Harbinger in an exceptionally luxurious master bedroom.
At this moment, the Harbinger had removed her mask, her face serene, as if dead.
Yes, that was Yu Jin's first impression of the Harbinger. She must not have slept this well in a long time, so she was sleeping very deeply.
However, Yu Jin had no time to admire the Harbinger's graceful and elegant sleeping posture. He pinched the Harbinger's cheek and inserted a funnel into her mouth.
"Hehehe… taste my cooking." Yu Jin said, holding a large bucket.