“Heavens, two Lady Furinas!”
“What on earth is going on?”
“Ah, there are actually two of such a perfect deity!
Am I in heaven?”
The journey back could be described as quite eventful.
It was mainly because everyone had seen Furina and Neuvillette hurriedly leaving the city with a group of patrol members, leading many to speculate if something major had happened.
The result…
well.
Eris kept a stiff face the entire way.
This was the first time she had ever experienced being the center of everyone’s attention.
*How awkward…*
It wasn’t until they returned to the Palais Mermonia that she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Neuvillette, I’ll leave those criminals to you,” Furina instructed impatiently.
“We have things to attend to, so we’ll be off first!”
She then grabbed Eris’s hand and ran upstairs toward her room.
Leaving Neuvillette standing there dazed, his hand outstretched to stop them, but they were already out of sight before he could even speak.
“Lady Furina, we need her help to compile the case details…” Only after the two had left did he finally speak.
Then he sighed and resignedly turned back to continue his work.
Upstairs, Fufu held Eris’s hands, looking at her with eyes full of anticipation.
Eris knew what the other party wanted to say, but she couldn’t utter a single word about it.
Focalors’ plan could not be revealed to anyone before it succeeded.
Once it failed, the consequences would be unimaginable, and Fontaine would completely lose all hope.
“Don’t look at me like that, Furina,” Eris sighed, looking into her eyes.
“I know what you’re hoping for, but I’m not the one you’re waiting for.”
“Ah?
But…
but…” Hearing this, Furina panicked.
“But you can control water…”
“It’s just the effect of a Vision,” Eris took off the Vision from behind her and showed it to her.
“It’s already exhausting enough just to fight thirty or so Clockwork Meka.”
“I’m not Focalors.
I’m sorry to have gotten your hopes up for nothing.”
Eris’s tone grew downcast as she spoke.
“I’m just…
someone who appeared here due to an unknown accident, and I have nothing to do with her.”
“But you look exactly like me…” Fufu still refused to give up.
“Don’t ask me, I don’t understand either,” Eris said helplessly.
She truly didn’t know what was going on.
“As for this appearance, well, that’s also an accident.”
“Is that so…” Hearing this, Furina lowered her head.
“I thought…
I thought this five hundred years of suffering was finally coming to an end…
but…”
“…” Eris fell silent, not knowing how to comfort her.
According to her experience from reading novels and watching movies, at a time like this, she should reach out, pull the girl into her arms, and pat her back to comfort her.
It was just that they weren’t very close yet, so she didn’t have the nerve to do so.
She only squeezed Fufu’s hands, which were holding hers.
“Wait, you know about the promise between her and me?” Suddenly, Furina realized and looked up at Eris.
“This should be something only she and I know about!”
“I told you, I came here because of an accident,” Eris explained.
“This accident also let me know many things.
The deity of the Nation of Wind is a drunkard who usually seems unreliable, but is surprisingly dependable when things happen.”
“Liyue’s Geo Archon wants to retire and is pondering how to test his people.”
“Inazuma’s Electro Archon is still isolating herself, completely unaware of what her people will face under her obstinate policies.”
“Sumeru’s Dendro Archon…
the little Archon is very pitiful.
She is still imprisoned in the Akademiya, waiting for someone to become her first sage and rescue her from her cage.”
“As for Lady Mavuika of Natlan, well, I admire her very much.”
“As for the Tsaritsa of Snezhnaya, she will be at the center of all the coming storms.”
“So you see, I know so many secrets,” Eris smiled at her.
“It’s only natural that I also know about your promise with Focalors, right?”
“I even know exactly what Focalors wants to do, and I know the truth behind Fontaine’s prophecy,” she shook her head.
“But I cannot say it, Furina.
I can’t tell anyone.”
“In Teyvat, not everything can be expressed through words.
I cannot let her five hundred years of preparation go to waste.”
“Promise me, don’t ask me, okay?
Just like you promised Focalors five hundred years ago.”
“…I understand,” Furina wiped her eyes.
“I won’t ask anymore.
Uh…”
Speaking of this, she felt a bit embarrassed.
“Can you tell me your name?”
She had held her hand and brought her home, yet she didn’t even know her name.
“…Just call me Eris,” Eris felt very conflicted, but she still gave her name.
“Eris?
A Liyue name?” Furina was a bit puzzled.
“You can think of it that way,” Eris sighed.
“It’s just…
sigh, never mind.”
“Then what do you plan to do next?” Furina blinked and asked, looking at her.
“I don’t know,” Eris shrugged.
“I’m still very unfamiliar with Fontaine…”
“Then what did you do before?” Furina pressed.
“Before?
Um…
drafting?” Eris answered, stroking her chin.
“Drafting?
Oh, a painter!” Furina’s eyes lit up.
“If you’re a painter, you’ll definitely be very popular in Fontaine!”
Eris hesitated.
She didn’t know how to explain to Fufu that drawing design blueprints on a computer was completely different from picking up a paintbrush with one’s own hands…
She had barely touched a drawing board or a paintbrush since graduation…
and her glasses’ prescription was only getting stronger…
“But arranging a regular job for you definitely won’t work,” Furina was already thinking.
“You look exactly like me, so you’ll definitely be the focus of attention out there.”
“Hmm, what other positions are there in the Palais Mermonia…”
“…No, I don’t think that’s necessary,” seeing Fufu’s eagerness to stuff her into the Fontaine government, Eris found it somewhat amusing.
A government job, which so many people in her past life envied, was just being handed to her like this…
“I’ve never managed anything before, so it wouldn’t be good to stuff me into any department.
How about this: there must be a reward for cracking the young girls’ disappearance case, right?”
Eris mused, “Just give me the reward money.
It should be enough to support me for a while.
Let me get familiar with Fontaine first before we decide?”
Actually, she also knew that with her current appearance, it would be very difficult to do anything outside the Fontaine government.
Fufu, after all, was someone who had governed this country for five hundred years; she hadn’t even considered placing her outside the government from the very start.
After all, someone who looked exactly like her and could control water through a Vision could cause trouble way too easily.
If she were in her shoes, she would also have to keep such a person under her watch to feel at ease.
In fact, if it were someone more sinister, they might have already started arranging executioners.
It was only because Fufu was kind-hearted.