The original god of the Jyota Jinchūriki

Chapter 206 Fantasy Friends
Walnut stretched her limbs with a dangerous smile on her face. She had wanted to wait until she was done with her work before looking for the bard in Mondstadt. Unexpectedly, Wendy actually came to her door on his own initiative. It was really God's will.

From the time she, Hu Tao, was born until now, she has always been the one fooling other people. Now, she, the smart and clever 77th head of the Wangsheng Hall, has been fooled by a bard who looks young. This is simply a great shame!
If her bad friends knew about this, they would definitely laugh at her. It was so embarrassing just thinking about it. And the culprit of all this was right in front of her. The smile on Hu Tao's face became even colder.

Seeing Walnut approaching gradually, Wendy couldn't help but sweat a drop on his forehead. Because he had been busy watching plays everywhere recently, he had completely forgotten about what he had promised Walnut to promote the Hall of the Rebirth in Mondstadt. Now that Walnut had tied him up, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape the beating.

I can only say that this child is worthy of being brought up by the old man. His temper is just like the old man's. As a god that symbolizes freedom, Venti's thoughts were quite divergent before he was about to be beaten. He was beaten before for teasing the old man, and now Hu Tao is going to beat him too. Is this the inheritance often mentioned in the Liyue story?
However, this inheritance is too unfriendly to him, Wendy said with a bitter face, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. No, he had to think of a way. If he was really beaten up by Walnut, the little girl raised by an old man, there was no guarantee that the old man would laugh at him when he went to drink with him in the future.

How could he let the little girl Hu Tao let him go? According to Hu Tao's personality, there should be nothing that can attract her except the things that interest her. Should he use the wind to blow Rujin, who is chatting with Diluk, over?
No, no, with the intelligence of Hu Tao, the head of the Hu Hall, if he really did that, then his identity as the God of Wind would most likely be guessed. And based on his previous relationship with the old man, the old man's identity would most likely be exposed as well.

Wendy's brain was working frantically, and suddenly, his eyes lit up. Just when Walnut's fist was 0.01 millimeter away from his face, Wendy shouted.

"Master Hu, I'm here to give you something!"

A gust of wind blew on Wendy's face, and Walnut's fist stopped in front of Wendy. Looking at the fist so close to her, Wendy breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his brain, which had not been used for a long time, thought of a reason for him at the last moment.

"Wendy, are you really sending something to this hall master?"

After looking Wendy up and down, Hu Tao began to doubt the truthfulness of what Wendy said. It was not that Hu Tao did not believe Wendy, but Wendy did not look like anyone good in her current state.

"Master Hu, I am right in front of you now, how could I possibly lie to you? Is this rope of yours..."

Wendy twisted her body and felt that what she said made some sense. A red light flashed in Walnut's hand, and the Staff of Homa cut the rope on Wendy's body with a single stroke.

Feeling his body free from restraints, Wendy picked up the bottle and took a sip of cider. This was something he learned in Liyue. The people of Liyue generally called this behavior "drinking a glass of wine to calm one's nerves."

After taking a big gulp of cider and feeling the dangerous light flashing in Walnut's plum-shaped pupils, Wendy knew that he couldn't continue to be naughty. If he continued, he would really get a beating today.

Just when Walnut couldn't help but prepare to hit Wendy directly, Wendy immediately took out a monocle from his pocket and handed it to Walnut. After studying the monocle in his hand for a while, Walnut, who didn't find any mystery, turned his gaze to Wendy again.

"Wendy, you'd better convince me what this monocle is for. Otherwise, I will let you experience what the premium package service at the Wangsheng Hall is all about."

"Ahem, Master Hu, listen to me, this monocle is not an ordinary thing. It is one of the interesting things that Lisa made recently." Lisa? Hearing this familiar name, Hu Tao looked at the monocle in her hand with some worry. These days, from Ruo Jin and Ke Li's mouths, Hu Tao has roughly guessed what kind of person Lisa is. Now this thing made by Lisa appears on Wendy, is Wendy afraid that she has stolen it?
If Lisa finds her here, she won't be able to explain it to him. Otherwise, why not send Wendy to the Knights of Favonius now? An idea came to Kurumi's mind.

Having lived for thousands of years, Wendy could tell what Hu Tao was thinking at a glance. In order not to add extra work to his followers, Wendy thought it would be better to explain it.
"Ahem, don't worry, Master Hu. This thing was lent to me by Miss Lisa. I didn't steal it."

"Okay, okay, since you can be Zhongli's friend, you must not be a bad person. Tell me what this thing does."

Now that Wendy has explained the origin of this thing, Walnut is no longer worried. On the contrary, she has begun to be curious about what this thing does. Little Klee has mentioned to her before that Aunt Lisa seems to be a very knowledgeable alchemist.

"Hey, although this thing looks like a monocle, it is actually a detector."

"Detector?"

"Yes, a detector that can detect imaginary friends. Since Lisa can't use it, I borrowed it to play with it and help her collect experimental data."

Imaginary friends! Hu Tao looked at the monocle in her hand with shining eyes. When she was little, she often imagined some things to be her friends. But after she met Ruo Jin, she played with Ruo Jin every day, and over time her imaginary friends disappeared.

I didn't expect that this thing could actually see other people's imaginary friends. It's really magical, but considering that Wendy fooled her before, Walnut asked.

"Wendy, you didn't just pick up a monocle to fool me, did you?"

"Master Hu, I swear to God, in order to make these interesting things, I even helped Lisa get a batch of dangerous materials from Xumi."

Wendy patted her chest and assured that this must be true. After hesitating for a while while holding the monocle, Hu Tao still chose to believe Wendy. She said hello to the construction team who were building the Mondstadt branch of the Hall of the Rebirth, and then Hu Tao left directly. She wanted to go to Angel's Gift to play with Ruo Jin with such an interesting thing.

Looking at Hu Tao's departing back, Wendy breathed a sigh of relief. He had finally gotten over the matter. He believed that because of this thing, Master Hu would not bother him again.

(End of this chapter)