The original god of the Jyota Jinchūriki

Chapter 41 Bennett's sudden visit
"Brother Ruojin, Brother Ruojin, are you home?"

Ruojin, who was telling Klee about the various fireworks of the Lantern Festival, suddenly heard a shout coming from outside the house. The voice sounded familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before, but the hoarseness in the voice destroyed the original tone, and Ruojin couldn't tell who it was for a moment.

However, Keli, who was sitting on a stool listening to Ruojin's story, heard the noise outside the house. She quickly ran to the windowsill and looked out with her little head out.

"Hey, Brother Ruojin, that's Brother Bennett outside."

Bennett? Last time, I told him the location of my home because I was worried that he would get into trouble. But Bennett got into trouble again just a few days later? Or is it that the people of the Lawrence family are starting to get restless again? Ruo Jin frowned and immediately ran downstairs to open the door for Bennett.

Seeing that the door of Ruojin's house was open, Bennett immediately ran into Ruojin's house. Without waiting for Ruojin to ask what happened, Bennett looked around, dived into the water tank in the corner, and started drinking water.

Klee, who was running down from upstairs, saw two legs flapping outside the water tank. She immediately thought of the story in the Liyue story that Ruo Jin told her about the little boy who broke the tank to save someone. Now, doesn't Brother Bennett need her to save him?

In order to prevent her brother Bennett, who used to take her out to play, from being eaten by the water tank, Klee took out a bouncing bomb made of pure solid stone, which was specially designed to fool Captain Jean, and threw it down at the water tank from the stairs.

"Brother Bennett, Kelly is here to save you."

Ruo Jin didn't notice Kelly's little movement. Seeing Bennett so panicked, he thought there was some danger behind, so he focused all his attention outside the house.

"Huhu, finally, finally alive."

"Well, what is that?"

Just when Bennett pulled his head out of the water tank and was thankful that he was alive, a solid bouncing bomb drew a perfect arc in the air and hit Bennett with a duang bang. Bennett, who had just drunk enough water, lost his balance and fell back into the water tank with a plop.

“Help, help.”

Hearing Bennett's cry for help, Ruo Jin looked back and found Bennett struggling in the water tank. At this time, Ruo Jin didn't care whether there were enemies outside. He hurried over and fished Bennett out of the water tank.

"Ha, ha, alive, alive, thank you, thank you, Brother Ruojin."

Breathing in deep gulps of fresh air, Bennett wiped the water off his face and did not forget to thank Ruojin. Ruojin waved his hand and saw the bouncing bomb rolling to the side. Ruojin's face changed and he kicked the bouncing bomb away with the rock element attached to his foot.

Looking at the bouncing bomb flying out of the window, Ruo Jin breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it did not explode. He knew the power of this bouncing bomb. If it exploded here, Bennett would probably have to come in vertically and go out horizontally.

"Brother Bennett, I'm sorry. Klee thought you were eaten by the water tank. Klee wanted to save you but the bouncing bomb accidentally hit you."

"But don't worry, brother Bennett. Klee is using the stone bomb that brother Kaeya taught her to fool Captain Jean. It won't explode. You won't get hurt."

Realizing that she was in trouble, Klee lowered her head and admitted her mistake. Worried that Bennett would not play with her in the future, Klee also told him the secret between herself and Kaia.

Maybe he had long been accustomed to his bad luck. In addition, after hearing Klee's explanation, Bennett knew that Klee was trying to save him, a friend who was eaten by the water tank. So Bennett was not angry. Instead, he thanked Klee for saving him in the first place.

"So, Bennett, why are you running so fast? There are no enemies around."

Through the perception of the earth veins, Ruo Jin did not sense anyone around who could threaten Bennett. The most dangerous ones were probably the Fatui who were hiding in the dark and plotting something. With Bennett's strength, he should not be in such a mess. "Danger? Brother Ruo Jin, I am not in any danger."

Bennett scratched his head, not understanding why Ruojin said that. Ruojin was stunned, and his expression was a little out of control. Ha, no danger? If there is no danger, why are you running so fast? He thought there was an enemy chasing you and you ran to him for help.

Ruo Jin dispersed the rock elements condensed around him. Without waiting for clarification, Bennett suddenly became a little excited. He took out a half-eaten apple pie that had just been soaked in water and held it up.

"Brother Ruojin, I was lucky this morning. When I passed by the Deer Hunter Restaurant today, the Deer Hunter Restaurant offered a free tasting event."

"I just happened to have skipped breakfast this morning so I wanted to try my luck at the Deer Hunter Restaurant. I didn't expect that I would get the last apple pie."

Bennett held half a piece of apple pie, his face full of joy. He was so lucky when he woke up in the morning. It seemed that today must be a lucky day.

"It's just that this apple pie seems to have too much honey and sugar in it. I took a bite and the honey was too sticky and stuck in my throat. Then I thought of your family and asked for some water. This free apple pie is the second best thing that happened to me today."

"By the way, Brother Ruojin, the water in your jar tastes so strange. It not only smells like various vegetables, but also like apples."

Bennett optimistically put away the remaining half of the apple pie, and filled the water bag later. Combined with the water in the water tank, this would be his lunch. Ruo Jin rubbed his brows. Well, now he finally understood why Bennett went straight to the water tank after arriving at his house.

As for the smell of vegetables and apples in the water, this made Ruo Jin a little strange. He didn't remember Xiangling making fruit and vegetable juice.

Wait, the location of this water tank.

Hiss~ If he remembered correctly, the water in this water tank seemed to be the water Xiangling used to wash vegetables. Xiangling left in a hurry this morning and seemed to have forgotten to change the water in the water tank. So Bennett just drank it?
Recalling that Xiangling didn't seem to use the water in the water tank to wash any dirt, Ruo Jin opened his mouth but did not tell the truth. The main reason was that Bennett had already drunk it, and he couldn't let Bennett spit it out again.

"Well, Bennett, what other lucky things happened to you today?"

Ruo Jin began to change the subject somewhat awkwardly, and the simple-minded Bennett did not notice anything unusual and happily talked about the first lucky thing that happened to him this morning.

In the city of Mondstadt, Xiangling looked at the empty basket and then at Guoba who was chewing something beside her. She had deliberately placed an apple pie that failed to be made where Guoba couldn't reach it. How come the apple pie was gone now? That was a super sweet apple pie that she had accidentally put ten times the amount of sugar and honey in.

"Cooker, bad!"

“Lululu?”

Outside Mondstadt, Diluk was clearing out the Abyss Mages and monsters around Mondstadt according to the intelligence he had obtained. Perhaps because of his large movements, a Fire-attributed Abyss Mage came up behind him and attacked him.

Diluk, who was successfully ambushed, stared at the Abyss Mage in front of him with a stern face and expressionless. The Abyss Mage's fire shield made him a little tricky, and he also suffered some minor injuries. This battle might take some time.

Seeing that Diluk had stopped moving, the Abyss Mage who was protected by the shield was about to laugh at him, but a stone fell from the sky and hit his shield directly. In just two seconds, the Abyss Mage who was so arrogant just now let out a wail.

Diluk, who didn't understand what was happening, walked cautiously to the stone that fell from the sky. When the ashes of the Abyss Mage returned to the earth, a bouncing bomb made of stone suddenly appeared at the place where the Abyss Mage turned into ashes.

(End of this chapter)