“Miss Ganyu?” Sandrone narrowed her eyes halfway, feigning total indifference as she asked.
“The secretary of the Liyue Qixing—most likely here to discuss matters of future cooperation.
Something like this still requires the one of highest rank to negotiate.
Lady Marionette, why don’t you go?” “Forget it.
These things are the most troublesome.
I can’t be bothered with them anyway.
I’ll have someone set aside a portion of breakfast for you—remember to eat it.” With that, Sandrone turned, hopped onto Pronia’s hand, and left the room.
“Little Piers, you’ve been naughty.” “Sister Guizhong, it’s rare for you to be up at this hour.” Guizhong covered her mouth with her sleeve and yawned, a few tears squeezing out at the corners of her eyes.
“Aiya, if I hadn’t gotten up, how could I have witnessed such a wonderful scene~?
Little Piers, two-timing is wrong, you know.” She leaned in and gave Piers’s head a pat.
“Come now, Sister Guizhong, can’t you be a bit more serious?
Senior Sister Ganyu and I have only met once.
Shipping everything in sight will only end up hurting you.” “Hehe, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
I’m firmly standing on our little Ganyu’s side.” Piers paid no more mind to Guizhong’s teasing and walked straight out of the room, then met Ganyu in the lobby of the Northland Bank.
“Senior Sister Ganyu, did you need me for something?” “The medicine I mentioned yesterday, the one I’d help prepare for you—after I’d written out the prescription, I even went specially to ask Liuyun, the Adeptus, about it.
These are the medicinal herbs I gathered this morning at the Bubu Pharmacy.” As she spoke, Ganyu stuffed a large bundle of herbs into Piers’s arms.
“Many thanks, Senior Sister Ganyu.” “It’s nothing.
The Adeptus instructed me to take good care of you.
Oh, right—Miss Ningguang, the Tianquan Star, asked me to pass along a message.
She says you still owe her a meal, and wants to know when you’ll have time.
She’s fine with treating you to it herself.” Crap, I forgot all about Ningguang.
Wait, no—she’s treating me to a meal?
Is it an actual, proper meal?
“Ahem, Senior Sister Ganyu, just decline Miss Ningguang’s invitation for me.
As for the meal I promised her—we’ll discuss that later.
Later.” Piers waved his hand dismissively, suddenly seized by an urge to hurry back to Snezhnaya.
“Understood.
I’ll inform Miss Ningguang.” As her words fell, the atmosphere between the two of them suddenly grew unusually awkward.
For a moment, neither knew what to say.
Piers actually wanted to go back and eat his breakfast, but Ganyu showed no sign of leaving—she kept her head lowered, looking as though she had something to say but couldn’t quite bring herself to say it.
“Um…
the Adeptus often says strange things.
You don’t need to take them to heart.” “What did Liuyun the Adeptus say?” “It’s nothing…” Ganyu’s expression looked rather forced.
“If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going now.
There’s still a great deal of work at the Yuehai Pavilion.
If Junior Brother Piers has any questions about cultivation, you can come find me at the Yuehai Pavilion anytime.” Leaving those words behind, she departed.
Piers waved his hand, and the whole pile of herbs was instantly stored away.
He had already learned the technique of creating cavern realms from Liyue’s adeptal arts, and had long since fashioned a small cavern realm within his sleeve.
Once he’d put everything away, he went back to eat breakfast.
At the table, Sandrone was elegantly eating…
a baozi with a fork.
The baozi had probably never imagined that one day it would be speared and eaten with a fork.
“Oh?
You’re back.
I thought you weren’t going to eat, and was about to have it all cleared away.
Hurry up and eat—when you’re done, come wander around with me.” “Huh?
Wander where?” “Liyue, of course.
Don’t tell me you still want to go back to Snezhnaya?” Wait, isn’t that the whole point?
Didn’t you come specifically to take me back to Snezhnaya?
“Lady Marionette…
may I ask—you came all the way from Snezhnaya specially…” “When did you take an adeptus of Liyue as your master?
Could it have been during these few days you’ve spent in Liyue?” “Lady Marionette, so you were eavesdropping after all?” “Who eavesdropped on you?
What do you take the Adventurers’ Guild’s informants for?
Useless?” “Actually, I happened to obtain the adeptal arts inheritance of the Archon of Dust by chance…” “I couldn’t care less about that, but Dottore somehow caught wind of the news.
Knowing his temperament, you’d probably be dragged onto the operating table the moment you returned to Snezhnaya.” Holy crap, I forgot about that inhuman thing.
This really is troublesome.
As I am now, I definitely couldn’t beat this guy.
After all, to rise to the Second Seat—setting aside his character, his strength is certainly up to par.
“So…
Lady Marionette, you came to Liyue…” “Hmph.
You’re my subordinate, after all.
Back in Snezhnaya, I probably couldn’t have reined in Dottore with that shameless temperament of his.
So I requested some leave from Her Majesty the Tsaritsa, and put in for your leave while I was at it.
Her Majesty the Tsaritsa approved—and the Rooster wouldn’t dare disagree.” I’m so touched, Kitty.
To think I once wanted to unscrew your bolts while you slept—boo hoo hoo.
“Since you’ve obtained the adeptal arts inheritance, then train properly.
I can’t protect you every moment.
At the very least, you need to be able to escape when you come face to face with that guy.” “Lady Marionette…” Sandrone glanced at Piers, then suddenly crossed her arms and turned to the other side.
“Don’t go making that sappy face.
Informing you was just incidental to my coming to Liyue.
My main reason for coming was the mechanism arts manuscripts left behind by that Archon of Dust.” Sister Guizhong, this concerns you too.
“Heh heh, just as I thought.
I covet her mechanical manuscripts, and she covets my mechanism arts.
Little Piers, hurry and take her to my Cloud Sea Cavern Realm—the manuscripts are all inside.
I’ll lead the way for you.” Sister Guizhong, do you really have to be this eager?
Besides, couldn’t you just write out another copy of your own manuscripts yourself?
“When you were in school and finished your homework but left it at home, would you rewrite it from scratch or go home to fetch it?” Ahem.
That suddenly seemed to make a great deal of sense.
“Besides, there’s also an ownerless adeptal artifact in my cavern realm.
Back in the day I forged it intending to give it to Morax, but sadly I never got around to it.
Oh well, never mind—he probably doesn’t need it now, and besides, he already has the Vortex Vanquisher.” At that moment, Sandrone suddenly raised her hand, signaling the Fatui standing by the door and beside the dining table to leave.
Once they had closed the door, Sandrone took a small device out of a hidden compartment on Pronia, placed it on the table, and pressed a button on top of it.
In an instant, an invisible barrier spread outward from the small device at its center, enveloping both Piers and Sandrone within it.
“There.
Now no one can eavesdrop.
As for the Archon of Dust’s Cloud Sea Cavern Realm—the Fatui searched for it a long time but never found it.
Since you’ve obtained that Archon of Dust’s adeptal arts, you must surely know where the cavern realm is.” “I do indeed know.” “When we go out later, come shopping with me.
After that, we’ll find a way to shake off those informants, and then we’ll head over.
This matter absolutely cannot reach Dottore’s informants, or that Archon’s relics will likely be plundered and ruined yet again.” ____ 👻🔥Walnut-chan in “P” for more!🔥👻 🔥 New history: Homelander: