The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"Thank you, Brother Yu Jin." Ke Lai was much quieter. She silently put on the bracelet, without doubting Yu Jin's words at all.

"Alright, I told you, with me here, you can rest assured!" Seeing the pain of parting disappear, Yu Jin happily put his hands on his hips.

"Mmm, Ember is amazing!" As Ember's number one fan, Galura immediately flattered him.

"Hahaha!" When Cole saw that everything had returned to the way she knew it, she laughed happily.

All the pain she had endured was now dissolved by joy.

……

It was another morning, and as usual, Ember spied on Eileen before wandering around Mondstadt.

Now, Cole and Galura are very busy every day. In addition to learning the miracles and prayers that the embers taught them, they also have to prepare for their upcoming journey to Mount Sumeru.

"Hey, don't you need to sleep?" Yu Jin suddenly heard a familiar voice.

He turned his head and was immediately startled. "Holy crap, Lisa, what were you doing last night?!"

It's no wonder that Ember asked that question, because Lisa's hair was messy, her eyes were dull, and she had two prominent dark circles under her eyes.

No wonder Lisa didn't call him an idiot just now.

"Come here, I have a lot of questions to ask you!" It turned out that Lisa had come specifically to find him.

"Oh." Yu Jin didn't refuse, since he had nothing else to do anyway, so he let Lisa pull him toward the library.

Despite the surprised looks from the crowd, Yu Jin didn't care, because he was thinking about what questions Lisa would ask him.

As for the Golden Law, he only knew how to use it; to truly explain its principles, one had to look to Godwin and his colleagues.

"Bang!" Lisa pulled Yu Jin into her office and slammed the door shut.

Lisa's office was a complete mess, just like her hair, with books lying open and carelessly scattered on the floor.

The culprit that caused all this lies quietly on the desk.

As soon as she entered, Lisa couldn't wait to ask, "What is this 'gravity in the sense of meaning' that regressiveness is talking about?"

"..."

"And this, how does causality apply the abstract concept of causality to a specific individual?"

"..."

“And these too.” Lisa pushed a slip of paper to Ember, which was covered with all sorts of questions.

Ember looked at the note for a while, then put it down. He looked at Lisa, whose face was full of curiosity, and said with a smile:

"So? Knowledge from beyond this world?"

Lisa's face stiffened upon hearing this. Although she had expected it, hearing Yu Jin admit it directly was a completely different feeling.

"Another world? It really is fascinating." Lisa exhaled a breath of stale air. She never expected that despite her efforts to escape knowledge, she would ultimately succumb to its allure and become immersed in it.

"Hehe, don't worry, my world is farther away from here than you can imagine," Yu Jin explained, seeing Lisa's puzzled look.

"So far removed from this knowledge that even the taboos you speak of are unknown to them."

“This…this…” Lisa looked at the books on the table, somewhat incoherently.

"This means that the punishment for pursuing knowledge in your world doesn't apply to these books, so you can study them to your heart's content." Ember smiled and filled in what Lisa wanted to say.

Lisa, after all, was a genius that only appears once every two hundred years, and she quickly recovered from her shock.

She looked at the arrogant Ember and said teasingly, "But you still haven't answered my question."

Yu Jin's smug body stiffened instantly. "Don't expose my suffering, Lisa."

"Hehehe, I told you you were an idiot." Lisa found Yu Jin's embarrassed look quite amusing.

"Alright, alright, you silly boy~, I need to do my research now, could you please leave first?" Lisa pushed Yu Jin and saw him out the door.

"Phew! What an interesting experience. It's been a long time since I've been this focused." Lisa stretched and prepared to continue studying the new book that Ember had given her.

Under the sunlight, Lisa suddenly noticed a flash of golden light on her desk.

She looked at it curiously, and saw a golden ball the size of a fist lying quietly on the desk.

Lisa suddenly remembered something, and she flipped through the Borderland Guide with lightning speed. On one page, there was a picture of something that looked just like the golden ball in her hand.

It reads: Golden Seeds—seeds scattered by the Golden Tree when the Dharma Ring shattered. If nourished by the Law, they may grow into new Golden Trees.

……

Two days passed in a flash. Mondstadt remained as tranquil as ever, like the calm before a storm.

Today is the day the lady arrived in Mondstadt.

In order to include Mondstadt under the Winter's Protection Agreement, the Fatui people attached great importance to this meeting.

Similarly, Mondstadt was not particularly strong among the Seven Kingdoms, especially with Grand Master Falgar leading four-fifths of the Knights of Favonius on an expedition.

The current Mondstadt doesn't want to leave any room for the Fools to argue about.

However, Ember was unaware of all this. At this moment, he was standing on the roof of a house, gazing at the convoy slowly approaching in the distance.

As the Fools' caravan appeared before the people, the crowd stirred, and the Knights of Favonius, who were already prepared, began to guide them.

The commotion gradually subsided, making way for the convoy's arrival.

The Fools, who used to operate in the shadows, are now able to witness the strongest organization on the Teyvat continent in the sunlight, and the people of Mondstadt are very enthusiastic.

The caravan slowly entered Mondstadt, and the lady in the central carriage lifted the curtain and glanced outside.

Looking at the buildings outside, she couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity. Even though it was her first time in Mondstadt, why did she have this feeling of familiarity?

Upon inadvertently catching sight of the enormous wind god statue in the distance, the woman was suddenly overcome with a nameless rage.

"A bunch of ignorant fools who have never seen the world!" The woman also grew disgusted with the Mondstadt people who were curiously watching the convoy.

The carriage slowly came to a stop. The lady composed herself, stepped out of the carriage, and looked at Qin, who was coming to greet her, with a smile.

"May the wind protect you, guest from afar," Qin said, bowing slightly to the lady.

However, these words were undoubtedly extremely harsh to the lady, who loathed Barbatos the wind god the most, though she couldn't explain why.

However, due to her status, she did not reveal it, and simply replied, "Greetings, Commander Qin."

At this point, the lady was already thinking about how to embarrass Mondstadt.

Soon, a smile appeared on her face.

The woman, sensing the embers leaping across rooftops in the distance, smiled at Jean and said, "Don't the Mondstadt people know how annoying it is to jump around on rooftops like monkeys?!"

After the woman finished speaking, a heavy thud was heard in the distance, followed by comments such as "Someone fell down!", "This person is strange", and "I know him, he's the brother of those two little girls".

Lisa and Kayah, who were standing behind Jean, heard the commotion in the distance and their expressions changed drastically. Jean also noticed their unusual behavior.

"Kaiya, go and help the wounded, and be quick!" Jean immediately ordered.

"Yes!" Kaiya quickly bowed, then rushed anxiously towards the direction where the embers had fallen, fearing that the embers might have also injured the lady's kidneys.

At this moment, Ember lay on the ground, his outstretched hand clenched into a fist.

“Madam? Very good!” Ember said calmly, facing the earth.

Now he wants to cook, and he wants to cook for a lady.

Chapter 19 Mad Fire Soup, Created from Embers

2023-08-28

"Hey, hey, are you alright?" Kaeya quickly pushed through the crowd, came to Ember's side, and helped him up.

"It's alright, I just tripped and fell." Yu Jin squinted and patted off non-existent dust from his body.

Although Kaeya couldn't tell that Ember was squinting, he could still sense that something was off about Ember's tone.

It seems like they've seen something interesting.

Kaeya immediately shivered, and he quickly leaned close to Ember's ear and whispered:

"Brother, bear with it. At this critical juncture, if an executive officer dies, it will be a huge problem. A lady is not like a doctor; she can't withstand your abuse."

"Who said I was going to kill her? Kaya, what kind of knight are you? You're always thinking about fighting and killing."

Upon hearing Kaeya's words, Ember began to ramble on and on, leaving Kaeya completely bewildered.

"You're not planning to kill her?" Kaiya asked, somewhat incredulously.

"This counts as the first cut; I'll take it as her greeting," Yu Jin waved his hand dismissively.

"You should have said so earlier. Okay, I'm busy now, see you later." Kaeya felt relieved when he heard that Ember had no intention of killing the lady.

Kaeya doesn't care how Embers wants to cause trouble for the lady; all he cares about is that the lady stays alive in Mondstadt.

Watching Kaiya come and go in such a hurry, Yu Jin couldn't help but scratch his head. This guy really is a whirlwind.

Ember stroked his chin. Not killing the lady was one thing, but some minor "punishment" was inevitable.

After all, there's a big difference between a deliberate stab and an unintentional one.

Just as Ember was stroking his chin, thinking about how to teach the lady some manners, Kaeya ran back to Jean's side.

After giving a brief report, he withdrew.

Qin breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing that there were no casualties; she didn't want anyone to become a victim of the lady's show of force.

She turned to look at the somewhat smug woman, then considered the woman's excuse for making trouble, and made a decision.

Qin gave Yura a wink behind her, and Yura understood immediately. She stepped forward and said in a cool voice:

“Mondstadt is a free city, and excessive formalities seem unnecessary to us, but that doesn’t mean Mondstadt’s etiquette is uncomplicated.”

"For example, Your Excellency, you just did many things that were not in accordance with Mondstadt etiquette."

"Guests getting off the bus at noon should step out with their left foot first, and your greeting should be 'I extend my greetings to you with the gentle breeze of the scorching sun, my friend,' rather than a simple 'Good day.'"

"Of course, there are many other such etiquettes, but we Mondstadt do not care about them, so please do not be so formal, madam."

After saying a few words, Yura stepped back, leaving the lady standing there with a contorted expression.

Yu Jin, who was listening from a distance, wanted to applaud, but considering the seriousness of the occasion, he gave up his prank.

Even though he had run a long way, the lady still pulled him down and subtly mocked him for being impolite.