"Phew, what a relief!" Yu Jin wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead and said, looking at the Lady slumped on the ground.
"Did you learn? What I just hit were the most vulnerable parts of the human body. Don't use them normally," Yu Jin said to Ellin beside him.
"Yes, I understand!" Ellin nodded like a pecking chick. What Yu Jin had just shown her was truly impressive.
The human body is truly amazing! Although, strictly speaking, the Lady couldn't be considered human anymore.
Garura and Collei also looked like they wanted more; they hadn't expected to kick a Fatui Harbinger today.
"Who exactly are you? And who am I? Tell me!" The Lady was still slumped on the ground. Her joints and acupoints had been hit all over by Yu Jin, and she couldn't exert any strength now.
However, her aura hadn't diminished at all.
"Tsk!" Yu Jin clicked his tongue, looking at the giant club in his hand. Was the effect not good enough? Where was the promised personality correction stick?
He squatted down and said to the Lady, "Who are you? Why should I help you?"
The Lady was momentarily speechless. She wanted to say that she was the Lady, a Fatui Harbinger, but she knew that wasn't the answer Yu Jin wanted.
"Tch~, useless!" Yu Jin sneered when he saw the Lady's reaction. Then he stood up and said,
"The title of Harbinger has given you too many conveniences. You seem to have forgotten how to communicate normally with people."
"You've been twisted too much by the Fatui. Think carefully, who are you besides the Lady?"
"My words are done. We'll meet again."
With that, Yu Jin disappeared into the dense forest with the three little ones.
"Besides the Lady, who am I?" The Lady thought about it and despairingly realized that besides being the Lady, she was nothing.
No friends, no family, only the facade of "the Lady" supporting her forward… "Wow! Master, how are you so amazing!" Ellin finally relaxed. At this moment, her eyes seemed to sparkle with little stars as she looked at Yu Jin.
"Hahaha! Of course! A mere Lady, I can suppress her with one hand!" Yu Jin put his hands on his hips and started boasting again.
"Right, right, I told you Brother Yu Jin is amazing," Garura, too, had transformed into a fangirl, circling Yu Jin.
"Are you all children?" Collei wasn't as childish as the other two, but from her raised face and twitching eyebrows, it was clear she was also very happy.
Joking and playing along the way, the four finally rushed back to Mondstadt before sunset.
In the following days, Yu Jin repeated the routine of teaching during the day and idly picking his feet at night, resting for several days straight.
Speaking of which, the Lady hadn't come to find him these past few days, which surprised him greatly. But it was good that she didn't; he enjoyed the rare peace.
One afternoon, Yu Jin was strolling around. Ellin, under his careful guidance, had barely gotten started, and his time had become somewhat free.
"Hmm?" Yu Jin felt something. He looked inside himself and found that a tiny speck of flame had extinguished—someone had endured the forging of the furnace.
Yu Jin stroked his chin and quickly ran to the outskirts of Mondstadt. Magically transforming people on the street wasn't fun.
This was his first Sinner to be released from punishment, so he had to do a good job of ideological work and couldn't let her go astray again.
Looking around and confirming that no one was present, Yu Jin pulled out the faint soul from within him.
Then he looked again, casually broke off a branch, and stuffed the soul into the branch.
Then the branch began to grow continuously. It changed its form according to the appearance of the soul it carried, generating a physical body.
This was the power of the First Flame. In the primeval chaotic era, the world only had trees and dragons. The emergence of fire caused all things to differentiate, and trees transformed into everything.
And dragons also withdrew from the stage of history under the subjugation of the Lord of Cinder. The Age of Fire thus began.
"Ugh…" Tina rubbed her eyes, then saw a person in full armor clapping beside her.
"Congratulations, congratulations. You endured thirty years of forging. It seems you still have some redeeming qualities."
"I declare you innocent!" Yu Jin shouted loudly at Tina.
"Innocent? Rebirth?" Tina looked at the Sky, then at the earth. She remembered, she remembered everything!
Her name was Tina, she had a younger sister named Jess, they grew up in the House of the Hearth, and became members of the Fatui… But none of that mattered anymore; it was all in the past. Now her soul was reborn of fire, and her body was nurtured by heaven and earth. Everything was new. She had an endless future, endless hope.
"Thank you, thank you…" Tina knelt on the ground, speaking incoherently.
"Get up. From now on, it's a new beginning. Don't do any more bad things. The second time won't be as simple as thirty years." Yu Jin casually threw her a set of clothes.
"I won't, I won't. From now on, I will find my sister and we will live together." Tina immediately began to dress in front of Yu Jin.
She was now almost on the verge of worshipping Yu Jin. The clearance of a god was nothing more than this.
Naturally, she wouldn't avoid Yu Jin. How could a god harbor such thoughts towards a human?
But Yu Jin would, because he was the man even the Greater Will couldn't fathom!
Yu Jin silently turned his back and said, "Have you thought about where you want to live now?"
"Mondstadt, perhaps. My encountering Lord here might be destiny," Tina decided after only a moment's thought.
"Good that you've decided. Take this money. You're an adult, you should be able to settle down in Mondstadt." Yu Jin turned around and handed her a pouch of Mora.
"Also, when you prosper in the future, look around and see those who died because of you." Yu Jin's next words made Tina's face turn painful.
She remembered the things she had done while in the Fatui, and her face grew pale. No matter what, killing people was killing people, and being wrong was being wrong. This would not change.
Yu Jin looked at Tina's pained expression and smiled. After all, someone who could endure the forging process must have some conscience in their heart.
"Do you know what right I have to declare you innocent?" Yu Jin suddenly asked.
"What?" Tina suddenly looked up, somewhat puzzled; she didn't understand.
"Because during the forging process, your sins were transferred to me. I will atone for you."
"Those who lost loved ones because of you will meet new loved ones."
"Their past will also continue in their dreams, and their dreams will henceforth transform into new worlds."
"And those you killed, they too have new lives."
"In short, I will arrange everything. And you, it would be best for you to go and see, to atone for yourself and lighten the burden in your heart."
Yu Jin spoke slowly. A god's power is not just strength.
Moreover, his authority was hope.
"Why?" Tina asked, crying. She had never imagined she could receive salvation; dying in obscurity was her rightful end.
"Because God loves the world," Yu Jin said.
"I have inherited the light and heat of the sun. I will shine upon all of you like the sun! The sun's radiance is boundless!"
Yu Jin raised both hands, praising the Sun!
"So, do you understand?" Yu Jin ranted at the sun for a while, then returned to normal.
"I understand." Tina was somewhat half-understanding, but this did not affect her reverence for Yu Jin.
She was already a follower of Yu Jin.
"That's good. Goodbye, I'm going home. Mondstadt is not far. I live at 34 Windmill Street in Mondstadt. You can find me if you have any problems."
Yu Jin, seeing Tina's good attitude in admitting her mistakes, felt there were no major issues and wanted to go home.
This, in turn, made Tina somewhat at a loss. God and human, she couldn't quite distinguish them.
However, seeing Yu Jin's retreating figure, she immediately followed him.
"Lord…"
"My name is Yu Jin."
"Lord Yu Jin."
"…"
"Lord Yu Jin, what kind of god are you?"
"It's a secret."
"Then what about your kingdom?"
"Something that doesn't exist."
...The reborn person unreservedly questioned the god who created her.
Just like the beginning of an epic in mythology.
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