Clapping a hand over the little floating thing that was still chattering away nonstop, Su Yu lost all trace of drowsiness and got up to check the system panel.
[Life Winner System]
[System Elf: Paimon]
[Host: Su Yu]
[System Points: 100](Fixed reward of 50 per task, 160 per gacha pull; don’t ask why it’s not enough for one pull.
Just know that single pulls produce miracles~)
[Abilities: Cooking Expert, Experienced Driver]
[Achievement: Enemy of the Brother-in-law]
[Assets: 114514 Mora](Mora’s purchasing power is the same as in reality)
[Today’s Task: Impossible Task]
[Task Content: Teach and eat Raiden Ei’s cooking, then praise her cooking as better than Yae Miko’s]
[Reward: Raiden Ei’s black stockings + Sanguosha board game card deck]
[Timed Task: Pulling Teeth from a Tiger’s Mouth]
[Task Content: Make Zhongli treat you to a meal within three days]
[Reward: Issued upon completion]
Seeing today’s tasks, Su Yu was surprised: a rarely-seen timed task had actually popped up.
But…
why couldn’t he feel happy about it at all?
Bastard!
Ever since transmigrating into this world, he still hadn’t seen Zhongli even once.
He’d only heard that Zhongli was also a member of their Teyvat High Academy, knowing the heavens above and the earth below, yet like a divine dragon whose tail never shows.
Wanting to find him?
That really wasn’t easy at all.
After all, he’d never heard of any Wangsheng Funeral Parlor around here.
And as for places for listening to storytelling, the whole Academy City was so big.
How was he supposed to find one?
Searching for a needle in a haystack?
And even if he did find him, making that old geezer who played dumb while knowing full well treat him to a meal would be even harder!
Though he really wanted to just give up on this time-and-energy-wasting task, this unknown reward messed with his mindset somewhat.
If he gave up, what if the reward was something like Northland Bank shares?
Then he’d stride to the peak of life, skipping straight past the stage of saving up a treasury and entering the stage of lying flat and slacking off.
Eh, forget it, let’s look at the daily task instead.
Uh, this task is difficult, but the reward is just as appealing.
Black…
no, the Sanguosha board game card deck.
This world doesn’t have that at all.
If he could get this circulating, wouldn’t he rake it in hand over fist?
After all, in his previous life this card board game had become the board game initiation work for countless people.
Of course he had absolutely zero interest in the first reward.
Mm, yes, that’s exactly how it is!
“Hey, hey!
Traveler, are you satisfied with today’s tasks?”
The moment he opened his eyes, little Paimon was blinking her big dewy eyes at him, her gaze brimming with anticipation.
“Today’s tasks are still worth doing, but…
speaking of which, why do you keep calling me Traveler, Paimon?
Isn’t it written as ‘Host’ on the system panel?”
“Ehh, Traveler, don’t just fixate on one form of address, don’t you like being called this?”
Su Yu, who had originally wanted to fob her off with a casual line, changed his tune upon seeing Paimon’s slightly nervous little eyes: “Call me whatever you like, if that’s what you want.”
“Yay!
Yay!
Traveler!
Traveler!
I can keep calling you Traveler from now on, hehe.”
But before the excited Paimon could enjoy herself for even a few seconds, flying all over the room, Su Yu already had a new idea.
How could it be proper for Paimon alone to be happy?
He had to be delighted as well: “Since you call me Traveler, then I’ll give you a new form of address, one that’s uniquely yours.”
Not the slightest abnormality could be seen in Su Yu’s expression, but Paimon had already gone onto high alert.
Clearly, Su Yu had already teased her more than once.
“What form of address?
Let me say this first: if it’s too over the top, I’ll get angry.”
“Relax, little Paimon.
Teyvatians don’t deceive Teyvatians.
Just trust me.”
“Hey!
Is either of us even a Teyvatian?!”
Hearing Su Yu’s words, Paimon felt even less sure in her heart.
“In short, the address will absolutely fit your identity and appearance perfectly.
If I tease you again this time, I’ll compensate you with a roast chicken.”
“Slurp!
Yay!
Traveler really does dote on Paimon, huh…
Wait a minute!
Why am I already looking forward to roast chicken?!”
After a complex inner struggle, Paimon finally nodded.
After all, it was a win-win situation.
If it was a good address, then everyone would be happy, and if it was still something like the white Yordle, she’d at least have the roast chicken as compensation, right!
“Alright, Emergency Food.”
After speaking these words, Su Yu felt a wave of comfort.
Back in his previous life, when he’d just started playing the game and gone through the story, he’d felt they weren’t close enough back then.
Calling her Emergency Food was a bit rude, and as a result he’d missed out on Paimon’s amusing foot-stomping reaction.
Now, happily, he’d made up for it, and face to face and out loud to boot.
Huge profit!
“Pfft!
I knew it!
Traveler!
You’ll lose Paimon like this!”
“Two roast chickens.”
Facing Paimon’s challenge, Su Yu calmly held up two fingers.
Hmph, handling Paimon was easy as flipping his palm.
“Th-this, don’t, don’t think that just two roast…”
“Three.”
“I would never…”
“Four.”
“Huh?
Ahem, that, I would never…”
“Three.”
Su Yu wouldn’t play by the rules; he cut straight through Paimon’s little schemes.
“Ah!
Why did it go down again?
Three it is then!
I won’t quibble over you calling me Emergency Food.
How could a form of address matter more than food!”
Seeing Paimon’s funny scene of being unhappy yet nodding, Su Yu couldn’t help but smile with relief.
Sure enough, Paimon was truly Paimon.
Her foodie attribute was maxed out, so to speak.
After the two sides reached a friendly agreement, Su Yu played around with Paimon for a while.
After all, Paimon couldn’t appear before others during the day and could only chat with him in secret, so Su Yu had to take good care of her feelings.
Of course, ordinarily spending just an hour or so on it wasn’t a problem, but today things had happened suddenly, so after playing around he only took a light nap.
Su Yu had already made up his mind.
Sleeping at home couldn’t compare to the comfort of sleeping in the classroom during the day, where there were even professional hypnotists!
…
The next morning, in the apartment directly above Su Yu and Furina’s apartment, two blondies were staring at each other.
“Lumine?
Why are you looking at me like that?
We should get going to school.
Don’t forget today’s first class is Teacher Ping’s.
She’s always strict, and if we’re late she’ll definitely punish us by doubling our homework.”
“Aether…
um, that, uh…”
The youth with a head of blond hair, a braid at the back, decent looks and build but just not very tall was Aether.
Compared to his confusion, the girl named Lumine seemed rather reserved.
There was no helping it.
She normally wouldn’t have been caught by Aether at the door, but she was just a little off on timing.
She knew her own brother always treated Su Yu “with special regard,” though she didn’t know why, but in order to prevent the relationship between the two people who were both so important to her from worsening further, she’d chosen to act stealthily.
Like, for instance…
“What’s this?
Which is it?
Weren’t you already at the door getting ready to leave?
How come the moment I show up, you’re suddenly not planning to leave?”
“That, that…
eh, actually I’d already agreed yesterday to go to school together with Su Yu and Furina and the others.
So…
bro, how about you go to school by yourself today?”
Bang!
A bolt out of the blue—the sky had fallen!
Aether’s eyes went dead.
If this were back on the original Teyvat continent, wouldn’t he have instantly transformed into the Prince of the Abyss and made Su Yu feel his grace!
Thank you for reading!