RE: Elemental Hero's Journey In Teyvat

Prologue Act 2-2: For a Tomorrow Without Tears

*BEEP!* *BEEP!* *BEEP!*

Boboiboy heard his alarm clock ringing, to which he pressed the button and got up. He stretches his arms as he gets himself up. "Another day in this place." He went to the bathroom and took a shower, which he really needed to freshen up. As he's in the shower, his personalities are playing Uno as they get bored with what to do.

'AAAARRRGGHH!!! WHAT'S WITH THESE CARDS!!!' Fire roared in fury, looking at his hands where he kept drawing more cards and he was not getting the one he wanted. 'COME ON!!!'

'Ahahahaha!' Wind and Leaf howled in amusement, watching Fire keep drawing more cards in misery.

Light smiles seeing him in misfortune, 'You noob.' 

Fire had enough and threw away the cards.'THAT'S IT!! COME HERE!!' Immediately, an all-out brawl was happening with Fire's anger. Boboiboy could hear the commotion from outside and sighed at this.

He opened the door and went to the kitchen to prepare some breakfast. He arrives in the kitchen and finds Razor along with Thoma and Bennett, which surprises him. "Hey, guys. I didn't think you four would wake up this early."

They turned around and found Boboiboy there, "Oh, Boboiboy! Hard-working I see." He chuckles as he enters the kitchen. "Glad you're here, we were just having a conversation on what should be our breakfast."

"Really? What do you guys have in mind?" He asked as he was interested in this conversation.

"We were thinking of having meat as breakfast, but we realize that Razor has eaten a lot of meat and we're unsure if that's safe for him." He turns to Razor, who has no idea about it.

"I eat meat all of the time. I don't get sick very often."

"But do you eat anything else? Anything other than meat?" Light took over Boboiboy as he needed to know what Razor was always eating in the wild.

"Other than meat, I've eaten some plants and vegetables that are in the wild. Though, I don't know how to cook them." That alarmed everyone, so they immediately devised a plan.

"We better give him something other than meat. He will get himself sick." Thoma and Bennett nod, to which they immediately went into the kitchen. Razor was left behind as he was confused about what they were doing.

After an hour, the people from Mondstadt were already waking up and were heading to the kitchen for breakfast. They saw some food prepared on the table, to which they saw seven Boboiboys and Thoma working in the kitchen with Bennett moving the plates, with Lightning and Wind's help.

Mona was impressed that they were working hard for breakfast, "Not bad, you seem to be working hard on the food."

Wind chuckles on that, "Well, you better thank Thoma and Bennett. They were a great help on what we should be eating."

They all sat on the chairs, and they began eating their breakfast. Lumine turns to Boboiboy and sees he is eating what appears to be fried rice with some vegetables and eggs mixed in. She also noticed that Razor was eating soup with Bennett's help since he didn't know how to use a spoon. She was impressed and continued eating as time went on for them.

As she was eating, she soon noticed that she ended up next to Boboiboy. She took this chance and told him something, "I heard from the alchemist that you defeated an alien that's able to absorb and use 7 elements. And for that, I'd have my gratitude to stop that monster."

He smiles, to which he gives a nod to her. "Thanks, I couldn't do it if Tok Kasa was there to train me."

Oz appears and joins in on the conversation, "Speaking of which, whatever happens to your teacher? I'd assume that he joins the fight."

Boboiboy's face became a traumatic expression as he remembered the last time he saw Tok Kasa. Fischl and Oz notice his reaction, which they immediately regret. "F-Forgive me, I didn't think-"

"No! It's fine." Boboiboy interrupts her as he doesn't think that it was her fault, "I'm sure he's still around at my home and helping everyone there. I just need to believe that he's still there." Hearing his response, Oz and Fischl were glad to hear that Boboiboy didn't lose hope that Tok Kasa was gone.

Zhongli heard it and also hoped that he survived the attack as he didn't want to see his friend go yet.

An Hour Later...

After some preparation, everyone went into the recording room where they will be preparing to watch the next video. As they sit down, Makoto makes some announcements he needs to address. 'I guess you've all still remembered that... 'incident'.'

"How can we even forget it? It literally scarred me." Fischl said as she couldn't forget one moment that Lumine shouldn't be doing... that.

'Great, but I did try to see if I could keep any parts like that hidden, but I think I made some mistakes while in the process.' They didn't like how that sounded, 'You might encounter some glitches in the video, so it might ruin some experiences for some of you. So I would like to apologize.'

They were confused as they hadn't heard of this phrase before, "What are these glitches?" Albedo asked as this was confusing to almost everyone from Liyue.

Boboiboy switches to Light and gives everyone the answer, "Glitches are something that's broken inside. Like a gramophone record where the record is used, but you don't hear anything because there's something broken on the machine or the record."

Some people begin to understand where Light's explanation is coming from, and they prepare themselves as they hope their experience of watching it isn't too bad.

Prologue: Act 2

For a Tomorrow Without Tears

The video picks up at the Adventurers' Guild Mondstadt branch where Lumine and Paimon are still sleeping in their beds. Paimon was drooling as she couldn't help but dream of something while in her sleep.

The audience chuckled at this sight, which embarrassed Paimon once again. "Hey! Don't tell Paimon this one of the mistakes?!"

'Actually, this is one of the parts where it wasn't a mistake. You just thought this too early.' Paimon heard it and sulked that it was actually part of the video.

As for Boboiboy, he has already woken up and is jogging around the town. He's been doing it for an hour, to which he exercises himself by push-ups and sit-ups 10 times each.

They were impressed by his exercise, which embarrassed Boboiboy (and the rest of the personalities) as he didn't want people to see it.

Noelle started to jolt down some notes when they returned home if she could participate in Boboiboy's morning exercise.

"Strengthening one's body is very important." Gorou nods in approval.

After some training, he notices that the receptionist is calling him. "I assume you're friends with Lumine, correct?" He turns to her, and he gives her the nod.

"Yes, I'm her friend. Is there something you need?"

"My name's Katheryn and I heard that you haven't joined the Adventurers' Guild yet despite having been skillful. May I suggest you join to earn some Mora along the way?" He heard her suggestion, to which it put him into some thought on this.

The camera switches to the inside mind of Boboiboy, where the rest of the personalities are talking. "Any idea on what we should do?" Earth asked.

The audience (along with the rest of the personalities) gave it to them. 'I didn't think it would show us our conversation in our minds.' Light said as he didn't think the record would show it.

The brothers nod as this was unexpected to them.

"Well, we could use some money as we are in a different world." Wind said as they were now currently in a different world.

"But what if something happens while we're in the guild and we're not allowed to go there?" Lightning asked.

"Even if something happened, we would just go anyway." Fire said, to which Water agreed with him as he slept on his Water Bubble.

Leaf begins to tell them something on the plus side, "We should just join, I mean... We could help some people with requests." They found Leaf to be on point as everyone agrees on this.

"I guess we could accept it. What do you think, Light?" He turns to Light, to which he notices that he doesn't respond to him, "Light! We're in the middle of something!"

"Quiet! I need to concentrate on this." They turn to where Light is working and see it is a conspiracy board that details the strange things happening around Venti.

The audience was surprised by this, and Light got embarrassed that his conspiracy board theory was being shown. "Hey!! I'm not some kind of... thing that could destroy the world!" Venti found it to be insulting that this is how Light keeps his thoughts in his mind.

'S-Shut up!! I bet your home is as messy as ours!'

'LLLIIIGGHHTT!!!!' Boboiboy shouts at him, which alarmed Light and he immediately went into hiding. Venti didn't expect the shout and began to stay quiet as he didn't want to anger Earth.

They sighed at his behavior, "I'm guessing you'll join in?" Lightning asked him, to which Light gave a thumbs-up and continued with his work. "I guess we'll do it anyway."

Seeing that everyone has decided, Earth decides to make the choice back in the real world.

The camera switches back to the real world, where Boboiboy has made his decision. "I accept it." She was happy to hear that, which she began to explain to him about being a part of the Adventurers' Guild.

Makoto paused the video and asked everyone, 'I'm sure everyone heard of this, right?' Everyone nods, while Boboiboy tilts his head.

"I think I heard of this before."

'We have heard it before. I could hear everything from my board.' Light tells him that he hasn't forgotten this memory. Lightning and Wind nod as he backs it up, which Boboiboy gives one option to answer.

"Yeah, I heard it before."

'Great, then I'll skip ahead.' Makoto press play, which cuts to Boboiboy finishing learning the rules.

After giving an explanation, Boboiboy was given an Adventurer Handbook, which he puts in his inventory. He noticed Lumine and Paimon had just woken up as they got out of their rooms, "Oh, you already awake?" Paimon was surprised.

"Yeah! I always wake up early." Boboiboy said, "Should we go and see him?" He points to the high ground, which they agree and continue on what they will be doing.

-Mini Timeskip-

As they're on their way to the cathedral, Lumine notices Boboiboy slows down as he is unsure of something. "Hm? Is something wrong?" Paimon notices it and tilts her head.

"I... I unfortunately cannot enter the cathedral." That got them (and the audience) confused on this matter.

"Why? Is there some rule that was given to you?" He sighs and nods.

"My family has a religious rule when entering the church. I only can enter it when you have permission from my family. So... sorry!" He quickly apologized for not telling them earlier.

The audience understood why he was nervous when entering a church. Bennett and Barbara could feel the pressure that Boboiboy's under. He really wants to help, but his religious rule is holding him back from entering.

"Man... I didn't think your parents would have that rule." He sweat dropped when Bennett said that.

"Well, my family doesn't want anyone to change their religion by force, so they created the rule to stop anyone entering a church. The only way I can enter is to have permission from my family, so that's why." Barbara understands where he's coming from as following religious rules proves to be difficult when you have something important to do.

"I-It's fine. I'm sure Venti would understand where you're coming from." He nods, hoping that it would be the case.

'Don't worry, I'm not mad you couldn't join. I didn't want to pressure anyone to join anyway.' Venti thought as he was not upset that Boboiboy could join him as one of his religious rules was preventing him from coming in.

They saw Venti was there, to which he waved his hand. "Hey! Gotten enough rest?" They nod, which Venti appreciates. "So I notice you're sweating, could you explain why?"

Boboiboy notices that he is sweating, and he begins to explain to him about his religious rule. Venti nods and understands where Boboiboy is coming from.

"I see. Well, you don't need to go in." Venti told him.

Lumine then said, "Maybe you can stay outside while we're getting the Holy Lyre. I hope it won't be too long."

"Me too, so good luck there," Boboiboy said as the three of them walked inside with determination.

Inside Boboiboy's mind, Fire grabs a deck of cards. 'You guys wanna play Uno?'

The audience was surprised that one of his personalities would play a game while the three were in the cathedral. Fire got serious Deja Vu as they just played Uno and it wasn't a great time for him.

"I'm interested in what kind of card game this is," Kaeya said he's interested in playing it.

"Yeah! Can I play it as well?" Klee asked Boboiboy with Sayu and Diona also joined in, he sweat dropped as he was unsure of what to do.

'Could they handle a card game that can break their friendship?' The Guardian dramatically thought with JoJo's face.

-Inside the cathedral-

Once they're in, they notice a nun nearby. "Let me handle this..." Venti told them as he walked up to the nun. "Hello there, Sister."

"May the Anemo God bless you, young bard. How can I help you?" Nun asked.

"Actually, I know a secret that can save Mondstadt from its current predicament," Venti told her.

"Oh, what a blessing from the God of Anemo!" Nun sighed in relief, "But you should report that to the Knights of Favonius. Why have you come to me?"

"Hahaha, because you, dear sister, are able to help! I'd like to borrow... the Holy Lyre. With it, I'll be able to help Stormterror-" He got interrupted by her before he could finish.

"Please see yourselves out."

Barbara was surprised by this, "E-Eh?! But they need it..."

"The nuns aren't trusting when it comes to words from the bard, sister. You know how they interact with visitors." Rosaria tells her, which Barabara found to be true as she forgot about that.

"What?" Venti was surprised.

"It's a vicious dragon indeed, but once the Acting Grand Master makes up her mind, nothing can stand in the Knights' way." He wasn't expecting the nun to say it.

Jean frowned. "Do I really seem that stubborn? If a better solution were presented, I'd be open to the idea."

"You do have that reputation," Lisa admitted, which made Jean wince. "Though it's not all bad," the librarian added as an afterthought. "Especially with troublesome individuals when we're on patrol."

Jean leveled a flat look at her. "I feel like that's less my attitude, and more your tendency to shock anyone who causes problems."

"That's simply not acceptable. Wouldn't Stormterror end up getting killed that way?" Venti asked in worry.

"That foolish beast betrayed the winds. Not even the God of Anemo themselves would forgive it!"

The audience was lost for words by Nun's words. They couldn't believe that she had the audacity to say that Barbatos wouldn't forgive Dvalin for what he had done.

"Forgive me, fellow bard. I-I-I didn't think one of our sisters would say this." Barbara immediately apologized to Venti, seeing this was disrespectful to him.

Jean didn't like how this Nun treated Dvalin as some sort of thrash, "I wish I knew what happened so that you don't have to hear this from her."

He immediately stepped in, "It's all right, Grand Master. I'm sure our time watching this will make sure that we're doing something right."

"Ugh... Please, I beg of you!" Venti begged her.

"I'm afraid not, little bard."

'Strange... Somehow I feel so bad rejecting this sweet child...' Sister felt bad for rejecting his request.

"THAT'S BECAUSE HE NEEDS IT, FELLOW SISTER!!" They were surprised that Barbara would shout once she saw this. Jean steps in and calms her down.

"Calm down, I'm sure they will achieve the Holy Lyre another way." Lumine and Paimon didn't like how it played out, and they were hoping it didn't lead to some other route.

"Then... I guess I'm left with no choice. I cannot hide anymore! My disciples, rejoice! Behold, the God of Anemo, Barbatos has descended! Shocked, aren't you? Don't you just want to cry out and rejoice? How does it feel to finally meet the god you've been serving?" Venti revealed himself as Sister, she didn't feel surprised, she didn't believe it because she thought that he was joking.

The audience was surprised that Venti would say that in the cathedral.

"Wow..." Venti deadpanned. "What amazes me most is that she had, like, zero reaction whatsoever."

'Wait a minute...' Light immediately switches out Earth, which surprises him.

'W-What are you doing?!'

'There's something I need to do.' Boboiboy switches to Light, which surprises Lumine.

"O-Oh! Didn't expect you to see here." She said, "What's wrong?"

"There's something that I need to confirm." He turned to Venti and asked him a question, "Venti the bard! Is your real identity, Barbatos aka Anemo Archon?" He points to him like some sort of defense attorney. They quieted themselves as they waited for his answer.

He took a deep breath and answered, "Yes, my real identity is Barbatos the Anemo Archon." They were surprised that he answered it with a straight face, which got them confused.

Albedo turns to Mona and asks her, "Does your magic-"

"No, he wasn't lying." She answers, which surprises everyone even more. "He really is the Anemo Archon."

Hearing the news, Barbara immediately went to bow to her knees in front of Venti, who was surprised by her acting that way. "Oh, Lord Barbatos! Forgive my fellow sister for acting this way!"

"I-It's fine!! I wasn't sure that I would get the Holy Lyre as well." He assures her, which doesn't give Barbara a lot of hope.

Rosaria sighs and goes to get Barbara, "Come on, he isn't mad at the cathedral. You don't need to bow to him."

"B-But...!" Venti sighs as he wonders what he should do.

Out of the blue, Cyclone appears from behind and hugs him. "H-Hey! Calm down!!"

"Haha! It's really you, Barbatos! Can we fly together? I really want to fly!!" Barbara was shocked that Cyclone didn't care about Venti being an Archon but only hugged him so that he could fly with him.

"N-Next time! Right now, we're in the middle of something!!" As chaos appeared around the Mondstadt side, the people of Liyue and Inazuma couldn't imagine if this chaos had happened like this.

"We... don't have a record of Rex Lapis being among us, right?" Keqing asked, which Ningguang answered with a... confusing answer.

"I don't know, Keqing. I don't know." That got her alarmed as she hoped that she was wrong.

Oh boy, she didn't know that he was listening to this huh?!

"I'm glad we dodged the chaos there, huh?" Miko said, which the people of Inazuma can agree to.

"I can't imagine myself in her position when I found out the Raiden Shogun is sitting beside me," Sara said as she didn't want to imagine where she found out that the Raiden Shogun was sitting right beside her all this time.

Ei doesn't want to imagine as well and she doesn't want to see her general be like... her.

It took nearly... an hour for everyone to go back to their seats. Lumine and Paimon notice that Cyclone is still in charge, which confuses them. "You're not going to...?"

"Nah, mama bear say that I could stay here!"

"Oh, that's cool..." Paimon trailed off before realizing something, "Wait, who's mama bear?"

'Moving on!!' Makoto interrupts them as he doesn't want to prolong their conversation.

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going back to handle the Cathedral's paperwork now." Nun started walking away.

"Wait-!" Venti sighed and looked down, seeing that there was no way to convince her. Venti walked back to the group.

"So, I guess she won't give you the Holy Lyre," Lumine said.

"Of course. She didn't even bat an eyelid. But, I have at least learned what I wanted to know." That got them (and everyone) curious.

"What is it?" Paimon asked.

"She didn't deny that the Cathedral is enshrining the Holy Lyre. Now, Lumine, since you're the hotshot of the Knights of Favonius... Maybe you can give it a shot."

'I'm not sure if that's a good idea...' Barbara thought as she didn't think this plan would go through.

She sighed, seeing that they had few options, "Fine. I'll give it a try." Lumine groaned in annoyance as she walked towards Nun.

She noticed Lumine and immediately greeted her, "Barbatos, bless you."

"Hello. I'm the Honorary Knight of Favonius, Lumine" Lumine introduced as Nun remembered her.

"I know you. You and the boy with the strange hat saved Mondstadt that day." Lumine nods as she remembers that Kaeya told them that many people witnessed it, "So what brings you here? Tasks from the Acting Grand Master?" Nun asked her as she answered, "Yes, actually. The Knights of Favonius would like to borrow the Holy Lyre..."

"Is that so?"

"Yes, is something wrong with it?" Lumine asked, which hopefully means she can get the Holy Lyre.

"Not that I don't trust you. It's just that a suspicious bard came looking to borrow the Holy Lyre as well. He's full of nonsense and even called himself Barbatos. He must be up to something." Nun told her, which Lumine sweats on.

'Huh? Venti called himself Barbatos?' Lumine thought as she looked at him from behind then she looked back at Nun.

"There are regulations in place for the use of the Holy Lyre. Currently, it's only used in Ludi Harpastum. Signed documents from the Grand Master, Seneschal, and the Community Representative are all required." Nun told her and asked, "So, may I see the document from the Knights of Favonius?"

"Urgh! This is a really bad time." Amber said as Lumine herself doesn't have the documents now.

"This is a pain. Why don't they just... steal it and return it when it's done?" Kuki smacks Itto's head for thinking that, "Ow!"

"You seriously need a better plan!"

"I agree with him." Kuki was surprised that Shenhe would agree with him.

Ganyu pressed a hand to her temple. She loved her job, really, she did, but there were so many documents to sort through all the time, for all sorts of things. Even if she completely understood the need for such documentation, sometimes she wondered if getting rid of some here and there would be such a bad thing. Or, at least consolidating them. It didn't help that Lady Ningguang's constant revisions to the legal codices meant additional documents for citizens to file.

Lumine started feeling nervous and said "W-Well, I'm sorry. I forgot to bring it here."

"A signed document is required. Without it, there's not much I can do. Now, if you're excuse me. I really am quite busy as of late." Nun said and walked away, which Lumine sighed.

Lumine walked back to the group as Venti said "It didn't work... I knew it." Lumine and Paimon were confused as to why he would behave this way.

"You "knew it"?" Paimon asked

"I just wanted to know how influential Lumine- the part of the Knights of the Favonius - is." Venti told them as Lumine sighed in annoyance "You see, the best warrior should always be presented with the best sword, and yet here we are... Does that story not make for a fitting ballad?" Venti asked.

"So what are you trying to say? That we're not good enough?" Paimon was confused.

"No, that's not it. More of a commentary regarding Mondstadt's inability to see the warrior standing right before its very eyes." Venti answered. "Very well, looks like borrowing it is not going to be possible. We're simply going to have to steal it." Venti told them, which surprised both (and the audience).

"Lord Barbatos!" Barbara's voice was almost shrill. Jean groaned.

"My apologies, Barbara, but this is a bit of an emergency." Venti spoke with an apologetic tone

Jean sighed. "Unfortunately, he's right, and this hasn't happened yet, so there isn't much we can do about it, other than discussing other courses of action that are... uh, more legal."

Her statement was accompanied by a pointed look towards Lumine and Venti, who both suddenly found the room details very interesting.

"Hahahaha! I didn't think that they would come up with that plan!" Itto laughs as he didn't think Venti would think of this. Kuki shakes her head as she doesn't think that the Anemo Archon would've plan this.

Shenhe just smiles as she thinks this plan will work.

"Today we stand for free will! Any suggestions on just how we steal it?"

"..." Lumine doesn't know what to say about this.

"Come now, speak up. That's what free will is for."

"I don't want to steal anything!" Lumine said in annoyance

"Hahaha, look at you. Sidetracked from the start. But seriously, you're more suitable for the job than I. Aside from singing, I don't really have any other talents. Besides, if I was caught. I'd have no one to right the grave injustice of my arrest."

"How can it be a "grave injustice" if you got caught stealing red-handed?" Paimon said incredulously.

"Unbelievable..." Jean patted Barbara on the back, shaking her head in exasperation.

But things are different for Lumine. You are the superstar of the Knights of Favonius. You have made contributions to Mondstadt." Venti told her

"Should you get caught, you would easily be able to talk your way out of it. The guards here, it seems they're off duty throughout the night. If we manage to seize this opportunity, it should be smooth sailing from here." Venti continued

"Stop mentioning us getting caught!" Paimon said angrily (which Paimon in the record room agrees with her).

"Lumine... What do you say?" Venti asked her

"I'm sorry- Wait... The moment before, did you say you're Barbatos?" Lumine just realized something from what Nun said to her earlier.

"Ah, yes. Seems I did mention that..." Venti nervously then changed the subject, "Your point being?"

"If you really are a god, then we can't simply abandon you" Lumine answered and suspected him.

"Why does your decision hinge upon whether or not I am god?" Venti asked her

"Paimon'll fill you in on Lumine's background story when we get the time..." Paimon said, to which Lumine answered him.

"And if you're not god, then we'll help Dvalin anyway"

"Huh?"

"Woah! Lumine, what are you saying?!" Amber and Eula were surprised that she would say that.

Lumine didn't respond as she continued watching the record.

"I will bring you the Holy Lyre der Himmel," Lumine said in determination

Lumine groaned. "Can't believe I'm doing this. Not even a week in Mondstadt, and already I'm doing a stealth mission."

"Thank you. We should wait until night. You guys can do something to waste the time." Venti told as they nodded and walked out of the cathedral

-Outside the cathedral-

Boboiboy is looking at the view from outside the cathedral while waiting for them. He starts to feel a headache, which he shakes off as if it was nothing.

Inside his mind where four elemental brothers are playing Uno, Fire draws the ninth blue card while gritting his teeth in fury. "Come on! Please don't have another plus card!!" He begs as he has 10 cards on his hands.

The audience notices how many cards he has, which causes them to hold their laughter back as they can't handle Fire's emotion of losing the game.

He looks at Light, who is smiling as he only has 2 cards on his hands. "Uno!" He puts down +2 card blue, which the turn switches to Wind. He smiles and puts down a +2 red card. It was Leaf's turn, who put down a +4 card.

Fire saw how many cards he needed to draw, which Leaf and Wind were heavily laughing at because of his bad luck in playing Uno. Light smirks and just burns him for playing this, "You should've played on the swing set, Flamy."

He heard the insult and immediately threw his cards away, "THAT'S IT!! COME HERE!!" It immediately went into an all-out brawl, with Water and Wind standing on the sidelines recording this fight.

A howling laughter sprung up as they watched the elemental brothers duking out each other. They couldn't hold it back anymore as they watched the greatest reaction to losing they'd ever seen.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I C-C-CAN'T HOLD IT ANYMORE!!!" Itto laughs so hard that he falls and continues laughing.

"Ahahahahaha!!! Is this what you brothers play?!" Venti could feel his stomach hurting from seeing Fire's reaction to this.

Xiangling holds Guoba tightly as she's laughing so hard that his face starts to turn blue again.

"Ahahaha! Wh-What's the matter, flamy? Are ya afraid of losing~?" Hu Tao teases him, which Cyclone laughs at as he finds it to be funny.

Out of the blue, he switched with Blaze and his eyes were literally flaming. "What did you say about me?!" Hu Tao realizes this and immediately jumps away.

Lumine blocked him so as to not escalate the situation further, "Calm down, Blaze! It's only a game!!"

He didn't say anything, but quickly grabbed her shoulder and threw her back into her seat. "Lumine!" Paimon was shocked that Blaze would do that.

Seeing that Blaze is angry, Hu Tao pulls out her polearm and prepares herself. "Bring it!" She smiled as she was hoping to fight one of them.

He smiles as he sets his right hand on fire and prepares himself, "Bring it on, you-!"

"*Sniff*" They stop themselves as they hear someone sniffing. They turned and saw the person that was sniffing was none other than Klee. They immediately felt guilty about this as they saw her hugging Albedo for comfort.

Albedo stared at them, which they found to be terrifying. Blaze could feel someone from behind, he slowly turned around and found Quake having a pent-up fury for doing this. 'Blaze...'

'Um... I- Urgh...'

'Ice, switch!' He didn't need to hear it as he just rushed in and switched places with Blaze. Ice took a breath and walked up towards Klee.

She looks up and Ice looks at her, "Hey, sorry about Blaze. He can... be scary, but sometimes he has the attitude of a kid."

"R-Really? But aren't all of you 16?" He shrugs as he doesn't care about his own age.

"Here, I have something for you." He pulls out Tok Aba's Special Hot Chocolate, ice (not a pun!) version. Klee saw it was another of his hot chocolates, which she immediately swiped and began to drink.

'Is he one of my people?' Ayato began to drink his boba tea from out of nowhere.

She felt the taste and was comforted by it, "It's cold... but sweet."

He smiles at the taste, "Just the way I like it. Now, let's go back to watching. We have a lot to unpack." She nods, too and she heads back to her seat with the Ice Chocolate.

As heads back to his seat, Zhongli is scolding Hu Tao for teasing Blaze when she should know that's a bad idea. Everything went back to the way it was, and Ice sat back on his chair.

He turns to Lumine, who's just recovered from the push. "Next time, give him a hot chocolate and he will leave."

"S-Sounds good." He nods, before switching back to Cyclone.

"S-S-Sorry about that." Lumine quickly tells him that it was okay since no one was hurt in the end.

He's shaking his head as he could hear they're starting to fight again. 'I should've known buying those cards was a bad idea.' He heard the door open and reveal Lumine, Paimon, and Venti.

"Did you guys get the Holy Lyre?" Boboiboy asked them, hoping that they would succeed.

"Nah. We didn't get it. Sister won't let us have it for some reason." Venti told him, which alarmed him.

"So, how are we going to get it? We need that to save Dvalin." Boboiboy asked.

"I'm going to steal it," Lumine answered honestly and Boboiboy (along with the rest of his elements) was surprised.

"Eh?! You're going to steal it?! But you are getting arrested for that!" He told them the consequences if they got caught stealing it.

"It's the only way. Without it, Dvalin will feel more pain inside and cause more destruction for Mondstadt." Venti told him, which worries him.

"Don't worry. I'm going to be fine. No need to worry about me." Lumine calmed him down, which he appreciated.

He sighs and trusts her for this, "Okay. But don't get caught, alright? I'll stay here in case you need help." Boboiboy said in worry as she nodded

"Alright. That's settled. You guys can do anything until almost night. We'll sneak in." Venti said as they walked down and did something to waste time. As they walk down, Lumine starts to have a conversation about Boboiboy's religion.

"So what are the other rules that your religion prevents you?" She asked, which got them (and everyone) interested.

"Aside from entering the cathedral, I cannot eat meat from a pig, can't drink any alcohol, marry someone with different religions, and some other rules that are harder to remember." They were surprised by how many rules his religion has, to which Lumine asked him something.

"Wait, what did you eat for breakfast?"

"Oh, some meat from a cow and eggs. I wanted rice, but they told me that they ran out last week."

"I see..." Albedo and Sucrose were writing down everything that Boboiboy says about his religion, which sounds like restrictions are preventing him from doing anything that is the same as everyone else.

"Hold on! What kinds of meat did you put in the curry?" Yoimiya asked as she was still confused about what was in the curry back when they were having dinner.

"I think it was some chicken, curry seasoning, and some veggies that were on the curry. Did I get that right?" Cyclone asked Thoma, which he gave out a thumbs-up.

"So not every meat isn't allowed to be eaten by Boboiboy, huh? This religion sounds complicated." Albedo mutters as he continues writing down.

The camera cuts to them at night time as they're preparing to steal the Holy Lyre. As they're in front of the cathedral, Boboiboy gives Lumine some tips. "If many people are guarding it, try throwing something to get their attention. They would likely be attracted by it as they don't want any intruders."

"Sounds good and all, but what happens if I were spotted?" She asked.

"Just hide somewhere where they couldn't see. They would likely give up if they can't see an intruder anywhere, and don't run all the time." He said, "You'll make too much noise if you keep running."

"Sounds good advice, you can't make too much noise while sneaking in," Diluc said as he has experienced stealth missions before.

Boboiboy appreciates the compliment, which he continues back watching.

She nods, understanding what they should do. Venti smiles as Lumine and Paimon prepare heading in, "Let's get started!" They nod and head into the cathedral.

Inside Boboiboy's mind, Blaze came out with another game in hand. "Anyone wanna play Jenga?"

"You're on!" Challenging eyes addressed to his brother as Ice sips his iced chocolate casually.

The audience was interested in this particular game, "What kind of game is this?" Lumine asked as he scratched his head.

"Jenga is a game where you remove the blocks and continue to put another block on the top. You can't remove one of the tops as you have to remove some of the bottom without causing the blocks themselves to fall." Cyclone said, "Let me tell you, Ice was a pro playing that game."

"Is that so? I would like to challenge this game when we're done." Chongyun said as Xingqiu and Xinyan nodded, wanting to join the game as well.

'Hm, I'll accept the challenge.' Ice said he wants to challenge other players as well.

As the camera switches to them entering the cathedral, the feed starts to gl!Tch3s out as it 1sn't (le4r what's h4pPen!n9 in tHis s(en9.

The audience was surprised by these sudden glitches and errors on the screen, "I suppose this is what glitches are?" Albedo asked.

'Yup, these are glitches. This isn't too damaging, so I could fix it a little bit.' Makoto thought, 'Honestly, this is one of those times where I should've left the footage alone and not done too much editing on them.'

'If only I hadn't said that name...' Lumine began to regret when she named that combo in the last video.

'I... might not be able to pause this, so be warned of any flashing screens and disrupt audio.' He warns them as the video continues.

tH9 c4MEra cuts to them entering the basement, where lUM1n9 crouches down a..d 5n4K around. SH4 QuItELy t!pt09ing as she watches the kN!gHt5 patrolling the area. !t (0Nt1nu9 glitching as Lumine quietly sneaks p4s5 them.

As 5He continued sneaking in, 4 knight was ne@r, which she h!d behind a table. "Why *blah, blah* many kn!Ght5 hEr9?" LuM!ne took a peek and noticed that R0OM with the H0lY lYr3 n34Rby. There were two gu4Rd5 that were blocking the path in front of her.

"Dis*bzzt* I need one," Lumine remembers what bOb0!BOY tells him, and she tries to find something that could be useful. 5H3 ... a book, which she grabs it 4nd thr0w5 it.

The audience was getting confused as to what was going on there, and Solar sighed at this glitching effect. "You need some help?"

'No need! I got it all under control.' He didn't like how that sounded as the glitches themselves weren't gone yet.

The guards hear a loud ThuD N43rby, "Someone's *bzzt* here, stand guard!" He nods, to which they CH3cK the sound.

She quickly ruNN!nG 1n as the screen immediately cuts to black and only visible words are displayed here.

REBOOTING SEQUENCE INITIATED

Please wait patiently.

The audience was more confused as to what just happened, "Um... Cyclone, is that supposed to happen?" Paimon asked as her brain could not process the information.

"Honestly, I don't know much about the system." Cyclone said, "But it might need a restart as it needed some fresh slate before the video can continue again."

'Y-Yeah! I just began the rebooting process.' Makoto thought as he came out fixing everything he could, 'After this, I might need more than a day to fix up this machine. The reboot alone won't be enough to fix it.'

They understood as they could tell the screen was going to need fixing for a while.

REBOOTING SEQUENCE COMPLETED

Enjoy your time!

Lumine and Paimon finally made it to the room and saw the Holy Lyre in front of them. Before they grabbed it, someone showed up and took it. "W-What?!"

Any amusement at the situation, or incredulity at Lumine going through with this, evaporated with the appearance of the Cicin Mage.

"The Fatui?!" A few of the viewers exclaimed.

At the looks he was getting, Childe put his hands up. "Hey, don't look at me! I had nothing to do with this!"

"Oh?! Who are you?!" Paimon asked.

The Cicin Mage didn't answer, she just put her finger up to her lips to say be quiet.

"Tch, of course, they would get involved in this," Diluc said that there was no way that the Fatui would get involved with this. Childe crossed his arms as he began to understand her plans of taking the Holy Lyre.

"Give me that!" Lumine sprinted to her but it was too late, the girl just disappeared to escape from her grasp.

They looked around in confusion, "She... disappeared?!" Paimon said in confusion.

"That, uh...complicates things," Venti said, a slight frown on his face.

"But why would Fatui want the Holy Lyre anyway," Sucrose wondered.

And oh boy, if Venti didn't have more than a few thoughts about that.

They heard a guard coming to which they said, "Freeze! What are you doing here?!"

"Darn! Run!" Lumine told Paimon as they started running.

-Meanwhile outside the cathedral-

Boboiboy and Venti are having a conversation while waiting for Lumine and Paimon. Venti notices that Boboiboy has a little headache, "You okay?"

"Yeah, just a little headache." He tells him.

The audience notices the pattern and knows the personalities are having some fighting after a game.

Inside Boboiboy's mind, Blaze was shaken heavily by the blocks as there weren't many safe routes to remove them. Ice didn't bother as he managed to keep his cool in the game, "Y-Your turn..."

The audience chuckles, which embarrasses Blaze heavily. Ice smiles as he continues sleeping with a blanket on top of him.

Ice slowly taps one of the blocks with his finger, which causes the block to fall but not the rest of it. He put it on the top and waited for Blaze to choose, "Come on..."

Blaze's hands were shaken as he didn't know which block was safe to remove. He removed one block, which caused the structure to fall. His jaw dropped to the floor as Ice smiled at this loss.

"I won."

"Grgh!! Well, I won too, that means we're equal in our winning." He shrugs as he doesn't care which either has the most wins.

"Hm, he doesn't care about the winnings huh? I like this one." Xiao said as he was impressed that Ice didn't talk back against Blaze.

"I agree. Despite being lazy, he seems to be one of the most calm personalities Boboiboy has." Ganyu agrees with him as she is impressed by how calm Ice is.

He mentally sighed as he knew that would happen eventually, "Boboiboy! Venti! Run! We got caught!" Lumine told them, which caught their attention.

"What?! Follow me!" Venti said and jumped out off the edge. They follow him as the wind starts flowing. They start using the Wind Glider to follow the wind path.

"Where are we going?" Paimon asked as they needed to find a place to hide.

"To Angel's Share! It's a local tavern nearby." Boboiboy began to wonder if that's where Kaeya invited him and Lumine over.

"You got it right, kid." Cyclone was surprised by the answer and was so happy they got it right.

'It seems this is where I come in,' Diluc noted.

They continued gliding until they found Angel's Share. They dropped down and entered through the front door.

The camera switches to the inside of the tavern where there is a bartender and Diluc, "Master Diluc, this is this week's accounts.'' The Bartender handed Diluc the paper, to which he saw the effect.

"Hmm... The disaster has greatly affected business." Diluc said with arms crossed.

"Well, let's hope it all ends soon." The bartender said in worry

"Well, considering the information we're getting, this Stormterror issue should be able to be solved much more quickly," Ningguang pointed out.

"Indeed," Jean agreed. "And that should apply to any scenarios beyond that, assuming we'll be seeing that."

'Indeed you will,' Makoto confirmed. 'I intended to have you all watch through to the end of Travelers journey.'

As the door opened and revealed four figures, "Hi, we'd like a seat at your ahhh... least conspicuous table." Venti said nervously, which Boboiboy mentally facepalmed on.

'Is that all you can come up with?' Blaze asked as he was still recovering from Quake's blows.

'Hey, cut me some slack! We were running from the guards.' Venti tells him as he'd argued that he didn't have enough time to make a better excuse.

Thunderstorm sighs exasperated while pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Umm... The second floor has fewer customers, you'd be less conspicuous up there..." Diluc told them. "But aren't you a bard? Why not sit front and center?" He was confused by his behavior.

"Hahaha, let's save the paid performance for next time. We'll be heading up now, see you in a bit!" Venti answered, and the four of them went up to the second floor and hid up there.

"Hey, keep an eye on them. There's something strange about that bard. I'll go ask around." Diluc suspected and told the Bartender about keeping an eye on them.

"Ask who exactly?"

"The "protectors" of Mondstadt..."

Jean and Kaeya sighed with varying emotions.

Before Diluc continued, two guards came inside Angel's Share and spoke up to Diluc.

"Ah, Master Diluc. Have you seen two thieves around?"

"What happened? Why have you mobilized so many guards?" Diluc asked as the second guard answered.

"Haven't you heard, Master Diluc? Two thieves were trying to steal the Holy Lyre!"

"Oh? How odd." Diluc said with no reaction.

"Isn't it? The Holy Lyre is a treasure that was played by the God of Anemo themselves. Such a precious piece of cultural heritage-" The second guard got cut off

"Why would one want to steal something they can't sell off? Would it be better to steal from my cellars..." Diluc said with arms crossed.

Jean sighed on seeing this, "What? I have to keep acting like I haven't heard of the theft before." Diluc said to her, which Jean found to be on point.

"Huh?" Two guards got confused as to what he meant.

"Sorry, off-topic. Believe they headed that way." Diluc pointed at the door from behind.

"Understood. Thank you, Master Diluc!" The guard saluted and started walking there, thinking they escaped through the back.

He saw the guards were gone as they thought they had escaped, "Phew. Let's go down." Venti told them as they walked down. And Venti started asking for a drink, "Today I think I'll have a glass of..."

"You can put down that bottle you stole from behind the counter," Diluc told him, while the three of them stared at how much he'd been stealing.

Venti turned and said "... something cold"

'Really?' Three of them sweat-dropped because Venti acted as if nothing happened.

"How much have you been stealing, Barbatos?" Cyclone was switched with Solar, which got him sweating. He knows that personality is the smartest, which really makes it hard to try to keep it together.

"I... stole some wine."

"Fellow bard, you have stolen 5 bottles almost a week and you haven't returned 3 of them," Diluc said, which got him to be in another situation.

Barbara was lost for words that Venti would steal something like that, "I-Is he really the same Lord Barbatos more than 100 years ago?"

"Many people develop their personalities, sister. Don't underestimate what he has been doing for years to come." Rosaria said this wasn't surprising considering his personality is an equal of a normal human.

The knights couldn't believe that Venti would steal some wine from Angel's Tavern.

"Right. I want answers." Diluc suspected him.

"Lemme finish my drink first. I'll pay you - well, with a performance" Venti told him, which really annoyed him.

'Seriously? Are you not telling him? And you'll pay by performance? Do you even have Mora?' Lumine is sweat-dropped more about this, as she wonders if he ever got Mora from his performance.

"Hey! That's rude." Venti said, found it to be insulting.

"But how much did you save?" Xinyan asked, and Venti was silent about answering that. "I thought so."

'Well I'm not like that blockhead over there...' Venti grumbled while discreetly looking at the Geo Archon.

"It's not about money. You seem too young to be drinking." Diluc commented.

"No need to worry. When I started drinking, you were still-" Venti got cut off by Lumine.

"Actually... yeah."

"He is Master Diluc, the boss of... ah, the owner of this tavern," Venti introduced. "He's very famous. By the way, his dandelion wine is one of my favorites. Though most of the time I can only afford a bottle or two..."

Those who'd had it had to agree.

"It is truly a Mondstadt drink," Kaeya said with a smile. "Actually, what are the chances we might find some here?"

"Kaeya, not everyone here is of age," Jean said, glancing mostly at Barbara, but also at some of the other people in the room she wasn't quite sure were of age.

Kazuha hummed. "I wonder if some sake might also be found as well."

Diluc looked at Kazuha curiously, perhaps trying to discern an approximate age. "If I'm not mistaken, sake is a rice wine, yes?"

"Yup," Beidou confirmed. "Quite good too."

'Alright, alright, that's enough talk about the kinds of alcohol I may or may not provide. But, as a note, drink responsibility, or I'll have to revoke your alcohol privileges here.' The Guardian said as a precaution.

"It's nice to meet you, sir." Boboiboy offered him a handshake but the only response he gave him was just a stare. "Okay..." Boboiboy lowered his hands as he had some thoughts on his personality. 'He and Thunderstorm can be great friends together.'

"Put him with Thunderstorm face-to-face and you'll have the most intense staring contest in the world." Solar snorts and then smirks as he points his finger at the Liyue section which is Xiao. "Especially that guy." Cyclone switches back, to which he nods and wants to watch this.

They couldn't lie and wanted to see that happening, "I want to see if the wine master can handle it." Mona said.

"I admit, that does sound fun to watch," Fischl said, to which Oz was surprised that she would agree to watch it.

"When we reach the break, let us have a contest," Kaeya suggested, flicking his coin with a small grin. "Side bets are accepted."

"Really, Kaeya?" Diluc looked at him with a blank face and his eyes were very stern. How could he sell him out over a stupid thing?

"What is your comment about this contest, Yaksha Xiao?" Xingqiu asked him like a reporter.

"..." Xiao rolled his eyes uninterested.

"Are you Boboiboy, who's wielded 7 elements?" Diluc mentioned as Boboiboy mentioned, was surprised that he knew of him.

"Eh?! Who told you that?!"

"Kaeya had told me about you and your elements. I hope he isn't making up after what he told me." Diluc told him, which gives everyone a sweatdrop considering how much they saw he isn't trusting with Kaeya. "Anyway, I just heard about some thieves from the guard. For the record, I like your guts for trying to steal the Holy Lyre der Himmel. Even if you are fools... but we don't often get to see people like you." Diluc told them.

"Master Diluc, please tell me you aren't condoning theft from the church!" Barbara accused.

"Of course not, miss Barbara," Diluc placated the Deaconess.

"It wasn't us that stole it! The real thief is still out there!" Paimon said angrily as she didn't like how another thief stole it at the last second.

"These guys are the hotshots of the Knights of Favonious. Why would someone so aspiring to steal Mondstadt's sacred treasure?" Venti defended them.

"Hotshots...? Oh, so it's you. So, you two and the bard are close friends?" Dliuc turned to Lumine and Boboiboy, and they shook their heads.

"We're not close, actually" Lumine answered honestly as Boboiboy answered with her, "We've only heard him play once"

"Well... Despite only being a passing traveler, you two still offered your help to Mondstadt in its time of need. A shame you joined the Knights. The Knights of Favonious... Inefficient right from beginning to end. And towards Fatui? Weak and conservative. Forget it. I don't feel like talking about it." Diluc said, which caused Boboiboy some confusion.

'I wonder what made him dislike the knights in the first place?' Boboioby questions this thought as he seems to want to be left alone.

"Diluc..." Jean sighed heavily, her weariness obvious. "There are regulations for a reason, you know this. Otherwise it becomes chaos. And you know why we can't be harsher with the Fatui delegation."

Ningguang hummed. "I can only imagine how you'd feel about Liyue's governmental system. Documents and regulations everywhere you look."

"Seems you don't really like the Knights of Favonious," Venti said.

"Just differences in approach is all. I have my own hopes for this city. Now, answers. Why did you steal the Holy Lyre?" Diluc asked as this was the topic of the conversation he wanted to know.

"You sure you want to know? It could implicate you in the affairs of the Knights of Favonious." Venti answered.

"That's fine. I somewhat always end up implicated in their affairs,"

'Isn't that is the truth,' Diluc thought flatly.

"If I tell you the story with performance, will you believe me?" Venti said.

"It depends. I'll make my own judgment." Diluc told him.

"Then will I get paid?"

"Your reward will range from anywhere between five Mora and the Holy Lyre. It all depends on your story." The three Travelers watched it from the table as they heard the tense conversation nearby.

'Wait, did Venti ever pay his bills?... Never mind.' Boboiboy thought as Light found this to be the greatest mystery of how much Venti paid for the wine.

'H-Hey! Stop making notes of me!!'

'Nope.' Solar answers as he continues writing this as one of the greatest mysteries he has encountered.

"Very well. Let me put on a show..." Venti said with a smile.

(The story I want to tell starts at... the sky dragon heeding his grave calls... Brutal battle with the wicked dragon... ingested venomous blood and fell into a slumber... only to awake to be expelled in abhor...)

They were surprised by this information from Venti. Hearing that Dvalin was in a brutal battle, makes them wonder what happened 500 years ago that leads them to where they are.

"What did I just witness... This is confidential information. Why did you let me know?" Diluc asked as he was surprised by this.

"Why? Hmm...Perhaps the winds are changing. What say you, Master Diluc?" Venti is waiting for the answers.

"Interesting. Give me some time. I'll organize some contacts. Outlander, as one of the Knights it seems you're not a suspect. Blonde is the only description on the wanted poster. You should be safe. That includes you too since you weren't involved." Boboiboy and Lumine were glad there wasn't much information about them on the wanted posters, "As for the bard, however, it'd be better if you stayed in the tavern." Diluc told them

"Did-did they completely miss Lumine wearing a white dress? Or Paimon?" Thoma said in disbelief.

"Well, I suppose that's a good thing for them," Gorou said. "Given that they actually didn't steal anything. Not that the Knight's know that, though."

"Haha. No problem! I like taverns." Venti laughed, which caused Boboiboy to have a bad feeling about this.

'Why did I think a drunken Venti would be more dangerous than a dragon wrecking in Mondstadt?'

Venti got embarrassed about that, as he had been drunk before but only embarrassed things that he remembered.

"...Okay. Let's meet here tonight after the tavern closes." Venti suggests, and they nod and wait for the time to meet up.

-Timeskip To Night-Time-

Sometime later, Boboiboy, Lumine, and Paimon were heading to Angel's Share to meet up with Diluc and Venti. They noticed someone else there and they weren't expecting to see her.

"Ah, you're here," Venti said

"Wait, you guys are...?" Jean said as she was surprised to see her here.

"... Jean?" Lumine is confused.

"I see... So you called me?" Jean asked, to which Diluc gave her a nod.

"Makes sense, she's the only person that he would trust," Kaeya said as he remembered that Diluc only trusted her for something this big.

"Hi, Master Jean. What are you doing here?" Boboiboy asked

"Well, first of all, I contacted more than one person. Secondly, she came here as "Jean" herself, not as the Acting Grand Master. A Jean you would never see, even as an Honorary Knight." Diluc explained, which gives some confusion to some of his personality.

"What a surprise. I heard about the Holy Lyre, but I never suspected it was Lumine. So, the sound of the Holy Lyre can purify Stormterror and return it to normal... Is that true?" Jean asked, to which Boboiboy answered.

"Yeah. That's what Venti said." Boboiboy answered honestly

"Yup! Boboiboy and Lumine are putting themselves on the front line to try and resolve this Stormteror issue. Now that's the hotshot of the Knights of Favonious I'm talking about." Venti told Diluc and Jean.

"Feels like we're breaking the law though..." Paimon said with a blank look.

Some people agree with this as there wasn't any other way for them to get the Holy Lyre.

'Honestly... Who cares about the law?' Itto thought as he doesn't care about any laws that were around his home.

"I understand this kind of absurd explanation is hard to believe. But, we can ask the bard to play the song again to try and persuade-" Diluc got cut off by Jean.

"I believe you," Jean said.

"To persuade our stubborn command- Wait, what?" Diluc was confused about what she said

"I can't think of any reason for Dvalin's betrayal, given it was once one of The Four Winds. However, if it was poisoned in the battle over Mondstadt all those years ago... and then corrupted by the Abyss Mage after it woke up - we can't really blame it. But as Acting Grand Master I obviously cannot make such a statement publicly. Diplomatic pressure from Fatui makes it hard for us to seek a peaceful resolution to the Stormterror issue. People would think I've lost grip on the gravity of the situation. That's why I can only do this in private." Jean explained, which gave them an understanding of why she was doing this alone.

"Hmph. That's one of the reasons I don't like the Knights of Favonius. What surprises me is that you would believe an outlander so easily..." Diluc said a little bit angrily

"My cautious and meticulous superior, even you trust him. Don't you, sir?" Jean argued.

"I already told you not to call me sir... Never mind. We don't often get to work together after all."

'Sir?' Boboiboy is confused about what their relationship is (which doesn't sit well for Jean and Diluc in the room).

'I pretend to not have heard anything.' Lumine keeps her mouth shut as she doesn't want to say anything awkward in the room.

*Krik... Krik... Krik...*

The room has become awkward silence, which really is too much for them to handle.

"Does... Master Jean and Master Diluc had a relationship before?" Cyclone's questions made Jean and Diluc lose their composure hearing him.

"N-NO!! WE DON'T HAVE ANY RELATIONSHIPS!! WE'RE ONLY KNIGHTS IN COMRADES." Their answers made everyone suspicious whether their answer was true or not.

'Are they though?' All of the knights thought this as this was strange for them to say this at the same time. Lisa chuckles as she would this conversation as a way to make an interesting story for her books.

"Wow! Um... This is really awkward..." Paimon decided to break the silence.

"(You don't say,)" Amber whispered, bonking Paimon slightly on the head.

Those from outside Mondstadt couldn't help but feel they were intruding on something very personal.

"I have a rough idea of where the Holy Lyre der Himmel is," Jean told them that they were glad that she was changing the subject.

'Nice recovery! She's really talented at changing the subject...' Venti thought.

"But how?" Boboiboy asked

"The conflict between Mondstadt and Snezhnaya stems from the conflict between the seven nations and their respective gods. The Cryo God's Fatui seems to be after the Anemo God's power." Jean answered

'What's with the Cryo Archon? Why do they after Anemo Archon? I have a bad feeling about this.' Boboiboy suspects them while Light takes a note in his notebook.

Childe knows what they're up to, but doesn't answer as his loyalty belongs to the Fatui and he doesn't want any information leaking to them.

"..." Venti held his chin to think, as this was strange.

"So are they going to take over the defense of Mondstadt?" Lumine said.

"Agreed. If the Knights of Favonious publicly prevented an attempt on Dvalin's head, then... The only other way to affect the Anemo God's power is to take the Holy Lyre.'' Jean replied.

"The number of Fatui that have come to Mondstadt is far from limited. I've already managed to... coerce a few reports out of them." Diluc added.

"Diluc has determined that the Holy Lyre is not being held in the Goth Grand Hotel. I imagine they don't want to leave something stolen in a place where it could be so easily found." Jean continued as she began to think where they would be hiding.

"Paimon gets it. If too much of a scene gets made then it becomes a big diplomatic issue." Paimon said.

"Hmph, such is the diplomacy between the seven nations," Diluc commented.

"Outlanders, ready to go?" Diluc asked Boboiboy and Lumine.

"We're ready!" Boboiboy said.

"Let's go!" Lumine added.

"I'll stay here in case something happens while I'm gone. I can't give Fatui a chance against this." Jean said to them, which they understood as they left the Tavern.

"Makes sense if one of them found out what Jean had up to, the diplomat might be in danger," Kaeya said as they didn't want to put the nations in danger.

-Time Skip-

Sometime later, everyone was heading to the Fatui hideout. As they're nearly there, Venti has some thoughts on hearing the Cryo Archon planning something.

"Jean just said the Fatui are trying to take Dvalin's power for the ... I fear this might fall short of their true intentions." Venti said, "I think they intend to use ' connection to the wind to draw him out. Just like traced the source of the storm to the temples."

Diluc and Boboiboy found it odd that Venti was thinking of the Fatui's plans, "The God of Anemo? ... Hasn't been seen for more than a thousand years. What makes you think that's their intention?"

"Oh... ah..." Venti sweats as he tries to find a way to move away from this question.

He got embarrassed that he forgot that everyone thought he left the nation. Zhongli and Ei sighed at this, but they did know that he had a point on the Fatui's attention.

"..." Dilcu sighed as Venti didn't answer him. "Forget it. I don't like having to pry. Travelers, here. Take this." He gives Lumine and Boboiboy something, which they find out to be a mask.

"What is it?" Paimon asked.

"A disguise, to protect your identity. Put it on before you run into any Fatui. Unfortunately, they are still one of Mondstadt's allies. At least that's the facade we're maintaining..." Diluc said, "Our actions are going to get them stirred up. Better to not implicate yourself on a personal level."

They nod as they know actions against the Fatui can cause some... trouble, even if their method of stopping the job is wrong.

As they get closer to the hideout, Boboiboy and Lumine put on the masks. He looked at Lumine and sighed at this, 'This better work.' He thought as they entered the hideout.

They arrive at a trap, where there are spinning flamethrowers and lava at the bottom. He noticed the Gate of Resurrection, which he gladly was activated before.

"This might take a while to get across." Boboiboy got a lightbulb idea as there was another way to cross this platform.

"We could just... fly across." Lumine felt alarmed and immediately rejected the idea.

Amber chuckled as she was glad that she wasn't flying with Lumine.

"No! Bad idea." Venti and Diluc found it odd that this was her reaction.

"Come on, I'm sure it ain't bad," Venti said.

"I agree. If he said that we could fly across, I'll take it." Diluc agrees with this plan, which manages to cause Lumine to be sweating heavily.

Venti and Diluc started to feel regret to agree that it was more for Diluc as he had seen the sickness that just happened to knights before.

Boboiboy switches to Cyclone, which he uses his winds to help others to cross. After crossing the trap for just 30 seconds, Lumine started to feel dizzy, Venti was throwing up on the lava, and Diluc tried to hold back his sickness.

'Urgh... I should've put off the wine first.' Venti thought as he continued puking out.

The audience was chuckling at this, which embarrassed Diluc, Venti, and Lumine themselves. "I regret saying that..." Diluc said as he regrets what he did to himself. Jean went over to him and gave him a pat on the back, which he appreciated.

'I swear they have feelings for each other...' The knights thought as they saw how Jean was close to Diluc.

After some freshening up, they continue moving forward and a Fatui Guard nearby. Cyclone smiles as he knows the guy for the job, "Elemental Power! Boboiboy Thorn!" He switches to Thorn, which surprises everyone. His mask got a green color scheme as to the effects of switching.

'He has Dendro as well? Then he really does have 7 elements of Teyvat.' Diluc thought as he remembered what Kaeya said to him.

'That's an interesting way to switch.'

He smiles and begins his plan, "Ensnaring Thorn!" He summons thorny vines around the guard and traps him in it.

"Urgh! What is this?!" He tried to break free, but his weapon was thrown off and the vines clutched to him, and he could feel the thorns.

"Oh..." Some people could feel the pain as they didn't like touching the thorns from the vines.

"No, NO! Don't eat me! Ah? You're... You're human? The entire floor's defenses... have been broken. I thought it was the attacking..."

"We have come for the Holy Lyre der Himmel," Lumine told him, which alarmed him.

"H-How did you guys know the lyre's here? The place it's being kept is locked up tight. If you're after the key, keep going further into the ruins, but d-don't come after me!" The guard begs as he's very afraid, "I don't know which one of the guards has it, but I'm sure you can find the guards and find out for yourselves."

"This guy looks like he's about to wet himself..." Paimon said, which caused Thorn to chuckle.

The little trio chuckles, hearing the Fatui Guard just got himself wet.

"Y-You just worry about yourselves! One of the Harbingers is already in Mondstadt. Signora. When she gets her hands on you she's going to string you up and torture you. When that time comes, don't you dare say a word about me."

Thorn didn't like him and immediately knocked him out with a punch. He noticed that everyone stared at him, which confused him. "What? I don't like the guy."

"Yeah, I would've punched that guy anyway," Itto said.

"I hate it when I agree with you on that," Kuki said as she ironically agreed with Itto.

They continue, as Paimon is confused about a name that came up. "Did he say Signora? What a strange name..."

"Is it someone important?" Thorn asked.

"No. 8 of The Eleven Harbingers. Goes by the name Signora. The fact that Fatui can run amok across the seven nations like they do is entirely because of The Eleven Harbingers." They didn't like the news of that, "We need to act quickly before she gets wind of what's going on."

"I agree with that," Childe said, which surprised everyone.

"I thought you're-" He interrupts Bennett before he can say anything.

"I may be a Fatui, but I'm not the biggest fan of that woman. She can be annoying." He states the reason, which is that they understand where he's coming from.

They walked into the next room and saw it was big, "Guess I better split with you guys." They were confused by what he meant.

"What do you mean?" He smiles, to which he activates his split again.

He summons a circle in front of him, which he jumps forward. "Boboiboy Penta Split!!" Thorn jumps into the circle, which he splits into five personalities. He splits into Thorn, Thunderstorm, Cyclone, Blaze, and Quake.

"All right, everyone split up! Check every room for a key and meet up back here before someone shows up!" They nod on Quake's commands.

"Then I'll go with him," Diluc said as he picked Blaze to go along with.

"Guess we'll go with him then." Lumine points to Thunderstorm, to which he nods as he agrees.

Venti walks over to Cyclone and gives him a handshake, "Let's do our best!" He smiles and accepts the shake.

Cyclone was gleefully happy that he got a handshake from him, which embarrassed Venti to see that happened.

"Thorn, you're with me!" He does the TAPOPS salute, as he agrees with his decision.

"Roger!" All of them split up, and the camera focuses on Thorn and Quake.

They enter a room that's filled with mess. They look around every corner, hoping to find something. Quake noticed a Pyro Slime, which he defeated with his Earth Gloves in one punch.

Zhongli was impressed by the punch, "Not a bad punch."

Thorn checked under the table and found nothing, "Nothing's here!"

"Then let's head back." He nodded and went back to the front.

The camera switches to Thunderstorm's group, where there is a room in what appears to be a bar. He sighed looking at the dust, "Wonder how much they clean the place?"

"Not a lot, that's for sure." Paimon answers.

They notice a chest and walk up to it. Before Lumine could open it, they saw flying Electros appearing. "A trap?" Lumine asks as she summons her sword and attacks them.

"Probably." He answers as he slashes them with his Thunderstorm sword.

As they get rid of them, Lumine opens the chest and only finds some Mora along with other stuff inside. "No key here."

'Not even that room? They really prepare by hiding the keys.' Cyclone thought this was a surprise for him.

"Guess we'll head back then," Thunderstorm said as they headed back to the center.

"Hopefully they're luckier than us," Paimon said as she hoped they got a key.

The camera switches to Blaze's group, where he and Diluc find a Fatui Guard nearby. The guard noticed them and he demanded some answer, "W-Who are you?! How'd you find this place?!"

"We are goodwill ambassadors from the Snezhno-Mondstadtian Association," Blaze said, which got Diluc to facepalm.

"Never heard of that association before... What are you doing here?"

"We wish to borrow the Holy Lyre der Himmel."

The guard laughs at that, "That lie's way too obvious. You really haven't got anything better?" That got Blaze angry and he immediately went in.

"Listen up! I don't care who you are or who you are with, give us the key or I won't break your bones!!" He sets his hands on fire, which gets the guard into thinking.

He thought and answered him, "Ha... Like hell! Hmm... The will of Snezhnaya is as solid as the permafrost! I will not yield!" Before the Fatui could attack, Blaze delivers the first punch and immediately knocks him out by sending him to a wall.

They were surprised by how short-sighted Blaze could be, and they were more surprised by the fact that he punched Fatui into a wall without holding back. "I have to admit, I didn't expect him to be calm."

Diluc turns to Blaze, who is surprised by his punch. He turned back and saw Diluc looking at him with a surprised expression, "What?"

"Nothing. Let's check on the others if they find it." Diluc said.

"But what about-" He interrupts Blaze before he can finish.

"He might have got the key, but you accidentally broke it from the punch." He realized that and immediately scratched his hair.

"Sorry..."

Most of the audience sighs at how Blaze easily forgets something important. Blaze was mentally embarrassed that he might've broken the key from his punches.

The camera switches to Cylone's group, where he and Venti notice a timid Fatui Guard. "Greetings." He was shocked to see them here.

"Wh—Who are you? Wh—What are you doing here? Argh!" He steps away as he's nervous about them.

"Give up. We've got you surrounded." Cyclone said as Venti prepared himself for a fight.

"Did you already beat all the other guards?" He asked as he was worried for himself.

"I kicked their Snezhnayan butts." Venti chuckles at that, as he found it to be funny.

"What!? I—I'm not scared of you. An Agent will come to my aid!" He prepares himself as he isn't scared of him yet.

"Oh, I already dealt with him already," Cyclone tells him, which surprises him again.

"Wow... Ah..." He tried thinking of something and saw he had no choice. "Fine. Not like I have a choice anyway. Alright. You're free to go." He hands over the key, which relieves them. "I have the key here. You can head in from the hall outside, but don't tell anyone that it was me who gave you the key."

Beidou snorted. "Seems he knows what's good for him."

"I can't imagine his boss will be happy with him, though," Ningguang said.

"Assuming they knew he had the key, that is," Ganyu added. "But yes."

He nods, "Promise!" They immediately headed back as they got the key from the guard. "Come on, let's get this to others." Venti nods as they continue running back to where they came in.

"What a wimp..." Childe may need to straighten those rookies when he gets back.

The feed switches to them gathering in the center of the room, "Did anyone find the key?" Quake asked.

"Got it!" Cyclone showed him, which made him happy.

"Great. Then we better hurry." They nod and head to the gate, with all of the personalities forming back as they head there. They were surprised for a second but shook it off as they got a job to do.

As they're heading to the top and find Holy Lyre, they see a Fatui Agent in front of them, "Where did you rats scurry out from? Signora is not going to tolerate this kind of interference in our affairs. So I'll be the one to take care of you - save her the trouble of having to deal with you herself." The Agent started into a fighting stance and pulled out three blades, which were covered with fire

"We've got an Agent to deal with. Come on, let's go and get rid of him," Diluc told them as he pulled the huge sword and Lumine pulled out the sword.

Boboiboy started using his element as he ran in, "Elemental Power! Boboiboy Lightning!" Lighting pulled out two lighting swords for the battle.

"Take this!" The Agent threw three blades at them but they dodged aside. Diluc sprinted and slammed his claymore at him but he dodged. Lumine attacked him from behind, he noticed and blocked it with blades. The Agent pushed her away and was ready to slash her.

"Lumine!" The audience was afraid of what was happening to her.

Lumine closed her eyes and nothing happened to her. She opened her and saw Lighting blocking his attack with his swords.

They sigh as a relief, happy to see that Lightning saves her from the attack.

"Don't even dare to try to hurt her, even others." Lightning glared at him as he pushed him back and looked at Lumine from behind. Venti fires his Anemo arrows, which blow him away. "Get up. No time to rest." She nods, to which she gets herself back up and prepares her sword.

Lightning sprinted and was ready to slash him. But the Agent saw this and blocked his attacks. Lightning sprinted to different spots and slashed him many times from different sides. Lumine joins in by firing Anemo from her palm, which creates more lightning and shocks him greatly.

'Is Kaeya really telling me the truth that he has those kinds of power?' Diluc thought and looked at the fight.

The Agent started going invisible and walked away from the spot. Lightning stopped what he was doing and looked around.

"What a coward," Itto said that he doesn't like that guy to be going invisible instead of fighting back with pride.

"Be careful. He's going to slash you. Be on guard!" Diluc warned them as they started into a defensive stance and looked around.

The Agent started slashing a few of them. He kept slashing them and switching around the places, "I can't see him. I don't know where he is now" Lumine blocked the attacks as she got confused by these attacks. Venti tries firing arrows nearby, but they don't get a hit on him.

"This is annoying" Diluc felt annoyed while blocking the attacks.

"Enngghh!" Lightning's eyes started firing up, switching him. "Boboiboy Blaze!" His power started bursting. That knocks Agent over and reveals himself. The Agent looked up and felt fear. Blaze slowly approached him and looked at him with anger.

The audience could feel the anger from him and it was intense, "Oh~!" Albedo noticed that Klee wasn't afraid of him, so he was glad that it didn't happen.

"Since you can use fire! Then I'll play fire! Fire Chakrams!" Blaze summoned two fire chakrams. The Agent stood up and was ready to fight, even if he was scared of him now.

"Fire Chakrams Throw!" Blaze threw the fiery chakrams towards him. The Agent quickly dodged the chakrams. Well, barely managed to dodge it as the fiery chakrams nearly hit him and gave him some damage.

*Boom*

"These things are hot!" The Agent's eyes widened in shock. "W-who the heck a-are you?!"

"I'm Blaze! The most dangerous of all elements!" Blaze smiled darkly while his fist was covered with fire. The Agent noticed and started going invisible.

Lumine joins as she prepares to attack the Agent, "Hit him!" He nods and jumps high in the air.

"No running! Blazing Fire Punch!" Blaze released his fire fist towards him. The fire fist has got The Agent and knocked him over to the wall.

She goes in and immediately does an attack, "Combo Attack: Blazing Surge!!"

*Woosh!*

She calls out as she summons a tornado and moves the Fatui Agent forward, mixing in with the Blaze's attack.

*Boom!*

The tornado explodes, sending the Fatui Agent into a wall and knocking him out. She stretches out, feeling happy to name that Combo Attack. "How's that?" She turns around and finds them either expressing boring expressions, laughing, or trying to hold their sickness back.

"It's lame." They all said at the same time, which hurt her greatly.

Lumine found everyone was having the same thing as last time, "Why? Why, Lumine?! WHY?!?!?!" Cyclone begs her to answer, which she chuckles at.

"Aw, come on. It can't be more lame than last time."

"No, it is," Childe responds with a straight face as he's unimpressed by the name of her attack. The audience wasn't fans of Lumine's naming choice, as they managed to handle it better than last time.

"T-Then what would you name it then?" Lumine questions Cyclone.

"I don't know, Firenado?" Cyclone shrugs when he answers.

'I APPROVE!!!' Blaze gave him a double thumbs-up. Anything that could replace Lumine's horrible combo attack name.

They refocused themselves as they saw the Holy Lyre there. Diluc turns to Boboiboy, now seeing that Kaeya was right, 'I guess Kaeya wasn't kidding at all. Hmm... How interesting. But why do I feel like he's hiding something?' Diluc thought and put his claymore away.

Quake chuckles as there are... few more secrets he's still hiding from them.

Boboiboy reversed back to the original. As the gate opened, Lumine took it and put in her inventory, "Finally, the lyre is back in safe hands!" Paimon clapped happily.

Barbara sighed in relief. Though she was far from pleased that the lyre was stolen in the first place, she was glad it was back in safe hands.

"Hmph. Kaeya wasn't kidding at all. You really possessed 7 elements." Diluc commented.

"Hehehe." Boboiboy laughed nervously as he scratched his head.

"We should get back. The others are waiting for us." Lumine told them as they started walking through the gate, heading back to the tavern.

-Mini Time Skip-

They are walking back to the Monstadt and entering the Angel's Share, with Jean being there. "Ah, this is the Holy Lyre! Glad we managed to retrieve it!" Venti sighed in relief.

Lumine handed Venti the lyre as he held it, "The pattern of flowing wind-carved on the rosewood... and the strings still feel cool to the touch too. Oh, the memories..." Venti replied

"What do you think, Venti? Can you summon Davlin?" Jean asked.

"Although this lyre is the real thing, I doubt that it's going to work. As you can see, the lyre has been through a thousand years of history. Its Anemo power has run dry. In this condition, you couldn't play music fit for even Diluc's tavern with it..." Venti told her

"Bards fight to get on the stage of my tavern. Don't make assumptions!" Diluc is really suspicious of him.

"Is that really important right now, Master Diluc!?" Paimon asked and then turned to Venti, "And you -did you just borrow the Holy Lyre to play music for drunkards to hear?"

"Hehe," Venti just laughed.

""えへ"てなんだよ？！(What do you mean "Hehe"!?)" Paimon said angrily while the video glitched again as she was now speaking in a different language.

Cyclone didn't expect that and laughed heavily, "Ahahaha! I-I didn't expect that." Some of the audience found it funny that Paimon's voice got cuter, which they now found to be adorable.

Paimon got angry that Cyclone was laughing at her voice, "Paimon is not that cute!! Stop thinking that Paimon will speak like that!!"

'Sorry, Paimon. He might've already had it before you had a chance.' Solar thought as he figured that Makoto might have access to this footage of everyone speaking in Japanese.

The video glitches again, with everyone speaking normally again. "Paimon, calm down." Boboiboy calmed Paimon with a massage, which she appreciated.

"Anyway, we won't be able to call Dvalin with it. The lyre itself is fine, but the strings..." Venti said and turned to Lumine, "You're up, Outlander!"

"I don't know how to fix instruments." Lumine looked at Venti with a blank look.

"Relax! It's not broken. It's just the intensity of its Anemo power has greatly diminished. Traveler, do you still have Dvalin's Teardrop Crystal with you?" Venti asked.

"Oh, of course, that makes perfect sense," Jean said. "Those crystals came from one of the four winds, and should thus be high in Anemo energy."

"Of course. I still have it" Lumine said as she pulled it out from her inventory.

"Great! Try to use it on the Holy Lyre." Venti told her. "Let me give it a try." She used the teardrop on the lyre. As the lyre changed into a different one.

They were surprised that it worked, "I guess being Archon does have its advantages." Venti chuckles as he already knows how to fix it.

"It worked, as expected." Venti smiled.

"This youthful glow..." Jean looked at the lyre and thought.

"Praising yourself? Really?" Paimon answered.

Lisa and Amber turn to her, which she immediately defends. "Paimon is not thinking of that, promise!!"

"... I was talking about the Holy Lyre," Jean told Paimon, which got her embarrassed.

"Thanks to Lumine having purified the crystal, the Holy Lyre won't continue to lose power. That said, its power is far from replenished. It'd be great if we would get more tears." Venti said.

"We'll help," Lumine offered.

"Me too. We're ready to help." Boboiboy said in determination

"I can surmise that Davlin will already be crying... Suffering alone in some deserted place..." Venti said sadly and looked down.

"Dvalin..." Jean felt bad for him that he suffered.

"Poor baby..." Paimon felt bad too.

"This is not something that an Honorary Knight can accomplish alone. I will mobilize the rest of the knights to assist. When you get the Teardrop Crystal, please let Lumine perform the purification process." Jean said.

"Leave it to me!" Lumine replied.

"Heroes supporting each other and setting out on a journey together...How exciting! Lemme come up with a song for you..." Venti felt happy

"Is that all you're going to do? Just sing?" Paimon was confused.

"Wouldn't be much of a bard if I didn't know, now would I?"

"Hmph. You're so cheeky... You deserve an ugly nickname. Oh, Paimon knows! From now on, you'll be known as "Tone-Deaf Bard"!" Paimon said, annoyed, which Boboiboy found to be funny.

"Ohhhh, Paimon likes that! It's official, Tone-deaf Bard!"

Venti laughed lightly. "Hmm...not bad for an ugly nickname."

"Not bad?! Really?! Hmph, Paimon will have you know she's great at coming up with ugly nicknames, Tone-deaf Bard!"

Paimon sniffed and looked the other way, to Lumine and Amber's amusement.

"Hehehe. Awesome (Terbaik)." Boboiboy gave them a thumb-up.

"This search reminds me of a feud I once had with the Fatui. Six months ago, a thief stole treasure from the East Temple of the Four Winds." Diluc said

"Whoa. What was it? A cup used by Barbatos?" Paimon asked, and Venti rolled his eyes over having that.

"No. Although if such a thing existed, it would be very valuable. Among all the relics they managed to dig up, one particular object was very rare... It was a vial that contained Anemo God's breath."

"Did that relic have a purpose?" Noelle asked curiously. "Or was it more of a novel item?"

"It did, actually," Venti confirmed. "If opened, it would release a gust of wind in the direction the mouth of the vial is pointing. It was originally meant for use at sea, but I can't imagine it would be all that useful as anything other than decoration now. Its power's likely to run dry, like the lyre."

"Huh, that's useful," Beidou said in interest. "We just use Kazuha."

Said person just leveled an unimpressed look at his captain, which made her laugh, throwing an arm around his shoulder.

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding."

"Relics come in every shape and form, huh..."

"Anyone with an eye for fine art would like to add this relic to their collection. Once word got out, the Fatui started trying to seek it out as well. They've made tons of counterfeits that can be found everywhere. In response, I just bought everyone I could find, irrespective of its authenticity. We're still at it now. I've brought more than two thousand fakes to date, and the Fatui are yet to find the real one."

"Over two thousand?! You guys are actually insane. How'd you even find that many?"

Diluc snorted in amusement at Yoimiya. "Let's just say I'm very well connected."

"Whoa, you guys are insane... So, it means that the real one must be out there somewhere on the black market, right? Hmmm... Paimon'll give you a discount on them if she finds any cause Paimon's just great like that!"

"Sure, you can try to find the real one. I'll take what you find, even if they're fake. Once you're done, find me at the winery. I'll trade you a beer for every twenty you find." Jean shakes her head in the back.

"Diluc..."

"What? She said it." He points to Paimon, which irritates her.

Boboiboy, Lumine, Paimon, Jean, and Diluc ran off to collect the remaining tears, leaving Venti in the tavern.

-Mini Timeskip-

With Jean finding out where the 3 Tears are, they form two teams to retrieve them. Boboiboy and Jean will go to the Thousand Winds Temples, with Lumine and Diluc heading to a Hilichurl Base in Dadaupa George.

The camera cuts to Lumine, Diluc, and Paimon and sees the base nearby. "On my mark, ready?" Diluc asked as he pulled out his Claymore. Lumine nods as she summons her sword. "Go!"

They run into the camp and attack the Hilichurls. They didn't expect, to which some of them got blown away by Lumine's Palm Vortex. Diluc slashes them with his Claymore, pushing them away and getting them in critical damage. He'd notice a Mitachurl, which blocks the attack by using the Claymore.

Lumine attacks it from behind, getting damages on him. He pushes to a nearby Exploding Barrels, which gives Diluc an opportunity. "Take this!!" Diluc attacks him with a Pyro slash, which causes the barrels to explode and gets the shield on fire.

Lumine finishes it off with an Anemo slash, which causes a big explosion in the Mitachurl's area. Seeing that all of the Hilichurls were knocked out, they went to a chest and found the Tear.

"Found one."

"Then we should head to the Temple," Lumine said.

"Agree, the last remaining Tear is inside there. So let's go." They left the camp as they headed to the Temple.

The camera switches to Jean and Boboiboy, who arrive at the Thousands Wind Temple. They saw a Ruin Guard, guarding the chest. "Looks like we're going to destroy that before we get to it."

He nods as he prepares to switch, "Elemental Power!" They run in as Boboiboy switches to his element, "Boboiboy Light!" The Ruin Guard activates as it detects Jean and Boboiboy nearby.

He fires Light Beams at the Ruin Guard, pushing it back from the blows. Jean focuses the Anemo around her blade, which she released at the Ruin Guard's eye. It got paralyzed, with Light rapidly firing his beams at the Ruin Guard.

Seeing that the Ruin Guard was about to get up, he dashed to its back and charged up his beam. He saw the weak spot glowing, which he fired at. "Maximum Optical Light Blast!!" He fires it at the back, which clears it and hits the Ruin Guard critically.

The body couldn't handle it anymore as the beam pierced through the back and came out at the eye. The Ruin Guard took a step back and immediately fell down then exploded in pieces.

"Great work," Jean said as she put her blade away.

Light gives out a nod, before heading to the chest. He opened it and saw the Tear Crystal here. "Found it, let's head to that temple." He turned to Jean and saw her expressing some... concerns. "What's wrong? You look to be out of focus." He said as he put the crystal in his inventory.

She realized this and immediately hid it, "W-What are you talking about? I'm fine. There's nothing wrong with me now."

He sighed at her terrible way of hiding it, "I've seen some people hiding their feelings and you aren't doing it well." Jean(s) seeing that Light wasn't taking her answer seriously, decided to answer it as they headed to the temple.

"In my experience, the secret to finding what you are looking for is to never look for it in the first place. Don't think too much about it and don't search too hard... and before you know it, what you are looking for will appear right before your eyes."

"Oh... I get it." Light began to understand what she meant.

"Don't worry about it too much. The more flustered you become, the less likely you are to find it. Pay attention to what you see in your peripheral vision, and you might just stumble upon what you're looking for."

"I know, I remember one time when Wind was looking for Goat Milk and only could find a liquid that's... dangerous."

"Paimon doesn't," Paimon said as she was confused about what they meant.

"Don't think about it too hard. It's just a normal conversation." Cyclone said, which gave Paimon more confusion.

"Wait, what kind of liquid did he find instead?" Jean asked, wondering what it was (along with the audience).

"Oh, some experiment liquid that our enemy is using to make everyone very emotional." That got Jean alarmed as to what happened to him.

Albedo found it interesting that there was such liquid, "Do you still have a sample? I would like to try it."

Cyclone chuckles, "Sorry, all of it was already used up for making cookies. As it was a trap for everyone." That got everyone surprised by what he did with the liquid in question. He noticed that everyone was staring at him, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." They said since they don't want to know more about it.

The camera cuts to them arriving at the ruins, where everyone has gathered. "Got the crystal?" Boboiboy asked, to which Lumine showed him from the Hilichurl Camp. "Great."

"Then all that's left is this crystal." They turned to the big gate, which was where the last remaining crystal lay hidden.

Jean, and some of the other knights, as well as Diluc, alongside note of the teardrops locations, marked what enemies were there.

Jean's hope was that, with this information, they could be more efficient in their efforts to save Dvalin.

"Let's go." They headed into the temple as the gate opened for them.

The camera switches them to the inside of the temple, which is massive. They walk forward, and Boboiboy notices a Hilichurl across. He switches to Ice and fires an ice arrow at the hilichurl, which causes him to be knocked out by a few shots.

"Nice aim." Fischl compliments, which causes Ice to smile as he's sleeping.

Ganyu wanted to know about Ice's training on how to improve her accuracy in firing a bow.

They glide across, and they land on another part of the ruin where they see Hilichurls at the top with some Hilichurls near the water. Lumine, Jean, and Diluc focused on them, with Ice focusing on the bow Hilichurls. "Elemental Power! Boboiboy Blaze!" He switches to Blaze, to which he sends out a fiery punch at it. The punch caused a massive explosion that knocked them both out of their firing positions.

They were finishing this part of the ruins, and continuing moving forward with Hilichurls, Slimes, and Abyss Mage around them. They eventually arrived at the edge, where they saw air flying upwards. They used their Wind Gliders to glide, to which they arrived at the other side and found a chest.

Lumine opens it and finds the last Tear Crystal they need. Paimon sighed as she was happy with getting the last one, "We're done gathering! That was hard..."

"It's too early to relax. We're still not done with Stormterror. Besides, the could also be planning something..." He brings up a good point since other factors might get in their way.

"Hey Diluc, I heard that the Fatui have recently proclaimed you "persona non grata."" She said as they walked out of the temple.

"Hmph, what an honor. Nobody was ever proclaimed "persona grata" by the Fatui anyway."

"The Fatui? The diplomatic delegation from ? What have they got against Master Diluc?" Paimon wonders, as Boboiboy and Lumine listen in as well.

"The Fatui are a problem not only for the Knights — they also present a real threat to the whole of Mondstadt. And when it comes to threats against Mondstadt, Diluc is— "

"That's enough, Jean. You knights are subject to too many restrictions. You can't directly confront this so-called "diplomatic" scum. Personally... I despise them." He said, "If I were to choose between "eating a alive" or "joining the Fatui..." ... I'd prefer to be crushed to death by a meteorite." They sweat if they ever saw Diluc attempt that.

"Geez, your wording is so very dramatic..." Boboiboy nodded as he was very dramatic.

"Dramatic much?" Childe said with a snort. "We're not all bad." Diluc simply scoffed.

The camera switches it to everyone gathered at the Dawn Winery, with all 3 Tear Crystals. "Woohoo! Dvalin Protection Squad! Assemble!" Paimon said excitedly

"Let's put our crystals together. Oh..." Venti was surprised by three red crystals and felt sad. "The color of these crystals looks...muddy. Dvalin...You're going through so much pain..."

Boboiboy noticed and put his hand on Venti's shoulder, Venti turned to him "It's going to be alright. We're here. Once we help Dvalin, he will be fine." He assures him, which Venti is glad to hear.

"... Thank you..." He nods as he moves his hand away. As he does so, he hears something on his Power Watch. He looked at it and saw it was glitching for some reason.

"Wait, what?" Lumine turns to Cyclone and sees his Power Watch is glitching as well.

"How did that happen?" Paimon asked as everyone was confused by this.

"I... don't know. Something is clearly wrong." Cyclone said as Solar analyzed the Power Watch with his eyes.

'Something is truly happening with them. Normally, the glitching would indicate that we unlocked a new element. But we have all 7, so something is clearly wrong here.' He deduced the rest of the personalities and Venti was hoping that it wasn't bad.

The glitching stops, which causes Boboiboy to worry. "Let's start purifying these crystals first." He turns back to them as Venti prepares the Holy Lyre, "Please, Lumine" Venti gives her and she starts purifying with her power. The crystals have turned light blue, purified from the corruption.

Jean was surprised at Lumine's abilities, "It is hard to believe such a thing is possible until you've seen it with your own eyes."

"Interesting. It's like filtering wine. The process is... refreshing." Diluc reacted a little but still kept his blank expression.

"I think we should have enough tears now. So next we... Use the crystal on the Holy Lyre like last time." Venti said.

"Let me give it a try..." Lumine told him as Venti gave her the Holy Lyre. Lumine dropped the tears inside the Holy Lyre and the strings started to brighten up to light blue.

"It's so beautiful." Barbara looked marveled at the divine object.

"It is, isn't it," Venti agreed, smiling

"It worked!" Paimon started clapping happily (while Leaf clapped happily as well).

"It seems completely different from before..." Jean commented.

"The lyre's Anemo power seems fully restored. We should be able to use it now. It's all thanks to you, Lumine." Venti thanked her.

"Good job, Lumine. Awesome (Terbaik)." Boboiboy gave her thumb-up and a warm smile as she blushed a little.

"I-It was nothing..."

Seeing this, she slapped herself to snap out of it. 'Stop thinking that I will be with him!! He's too young for me!' Lumine thought to herself as this was an embarrassing moment for her.

'Ohohoho~ I won't let this chance go away~' Amber looked at her seatmate with a mischievous glint in her eyes. Oh, this teasing will be unforgettable.

"Now, where should we summon Stormterror? It must be away from the city, or else there will be casualties should we fail. Perhaps here at the winery?" Jean held her chin to think.

"If the winery was destroyed, it's not something I couldn't eventually fix, but... I'd still rather not go through the hassle." Diluc declined the idea, which caused rethink her plan.

'Really?' Kaeya thought this was childish for Diluc to think like that.

'That's weird, why do I feel like a bad omen will happen in the future?' Ningguang didn't like the feeling of crawling into her skin, she shook off those thoughts like nothing important.

"..." Jean had run out of the idea as there weren't a lot of places she could think of.

"The wind that blows at sea or in high places should be able to carry a bard's words far away. It's never going to work if the air is too dry or suffocating." Venti told them.

"Paimon understands. Sea or high places, right? The best location to play the lyre would be..." Paimon thinks, and Boboiboy gives out his answer.

"I think the cliff should be the spot. It's probably high enough to reach Dvalin."

"If you go east from Starfell Lake, there are mountains south of the Beach," Diluc told them.

"...Oh! You mean that beach we were on when you told Paimon about your brother?" Paimon asked Lumine, to which she nodded as that place should be enough.

"If you head to where the cliff juts out - that place is known as Starsnatch Cliff." Diluc suggested and asked Venti, "What do you think, bard? Meets the requirements, no?"

"Lemme think... Starsnatch Cliff..." Venti held his chin to think and started smiling, "...Alright, let's do it there."

"Very well. Then let's meet at Starsnatch Cliff when we are ready. Please don't be late." Jean told them.

"Hee-hee! Yes, Ma'am!/ Yes, Ma'am!/ Roger!" Paimon mimicked Boboiboy's TAPOPS salute while giggling.

The audience found it cute that Paimon mimicked his salute, which she was embarrassed to see. "Aw... that's cute," Cyclone said, which Razor and Bennett agreed with him.

-Time Skip-

Later on, everyone was at the Starsnatch Cliff, where they saw a big view of the ocean.

"Everyone is finally here," Diluc said, arm-crossed.

"What a view..." Paimon looked around at the view from Starsnatch Cliff.

"Yeah, it looks nice up here..." Boboiboy agreed with Paimon.

"Lovely for a fated reunion, isn't it?" Venti said to Paimon.

"Well, we must be prepared for a fight"

"Regardless of the outcome, things finally seem to be taking a turn for the better. Mondstadt has really been going through so much recently..." Jean told him.

"Huh! In the end, the solution to our problem was as simple as a traveler and a song. I suppose the Knights of Favonious may have played a part in it too..." Diluc added.

"Oh, we get it, Master Diluc... Everyone, please step aside! I, the best wandering bard of the mortal world, shall begin my performance with the Holy Lyre." Venti said confidently. Venti walks closer to the edge of the cliff, staring deep into the sky, and starts playing the Holy Lyre.

As the ground shakes. The dragon flew in front of them and slowly flew down to meet Venti, "You have come... What has been done cannot be undone..."

"He really did appear..." Rosaria mutters as she hopes it won't lead to a terrible outcome as they can hear Dvalin's voice in the room.

"What an impressive technology," Venti said as he was impressed that it could tell what Dvalin's saying.

"If so, then why do I see the sadness in your eyes? Sadness that speaks for your yearning for this song..." Venti starts to communicate with the dragon. Stormterror growled while the others are focusing on their conversation

"They are... communicating... Huh?" Jean stopped her sentence when all of a sudden a light moved quickly and hit Venti.

"Venti!" Boboiboy yelled and managed to catch Venti, while the Holy Lyre hit a rock near it and lay on the ground, broken because of the attack.

The audience was surprised by this sudden attack, "N-No! The Holy Lyre!" Barbara exclaimed that the Holy Lyre was broken by the attack. The rest of the knights didn't like this one bit.

"This won't be good..." Razor mutters as he can't imagine it would end well.

Venti winced, glancing over at the Deaconess. 'Hopefully she won't be too mad...'

"No! Tone-Deaf Bard!" Paimon yelled, the others immediately ran to Venti and helped him get up.

Suddenly the voice came in "Do not be fooled by him, dear dragon..." The voice revealed itself, it was a Cryo Abyss Mage.

'Tch! That mage again?!' Blaze exclaimed as his anger was bubbling inside of him.

"He left you to-" Before the Cryo Abyss could finish what he said, he was attacked by incoming fire. They turned to the attacker and saw it was Blaze, who was really angry with the interruption.

"You interrupted a beautiful moment...!" He gritted his teeth as Cryo Abyss spit on his claim.

"Please! What do you-?!" Before he can finish speaking, Ice interrupts him by firing Iceberg Eruption with his Arctic Cannon. He didn't say anything other than continue firing at the mage until he finished it off with a big ice attack.

"STOP. INTERRUPTING. THIS!!" He fires a big one and it hits the mage, which sends him flying away into the ocean.

The audience were clapping for Blaze and Ice's effort to shut him up, which they were really glad for. "Finally someone is shutting that guy up," Fischl said as she was glad someone took the chance and attacked that Abyss Mage.

"Couldn't say anything better," Kuki said, agreeing with her as she would've shut that mage as well. Ice smiles as he hugs his whale plushie, while Blaze laughs as he is happy to shut him up.

Dvalin turned to Ice and growled at him, "You shot him... Why?"

Hearing his question, he decides to answer it. "He was getting annoying! And besides, he was ruining this reunion!!" Ice shouts at him, stating his reasoning in front of Dvalin with his loud voice.

...

...

...

"D-Did he just...?" Before Jean could finish her question, Venti answered her.

"I think he did." The others (and the audience) were surprised that Ice could understand what he was saying, even if they couldn't tell what Dvalin was saying.

He stared at Ice and could feel his soul, "Who are you? And why is a part of your soul similar to Kuputeri's power?"

"Kuputeri?" Cyclone tilts his head.

"A friend of mine from 500, or rather 100 years ago." Venti answers, "She was the first user of the Tempest Element, basically a stronger version of Anemo." The audience nodded, understanding what Dvalin meant. "We got along and we haven't seen each other since..." He trails off as everyone realizes the culprit behind this.

"Maybe we'll tell that story another time. For now, let's just continue what's in front of us." Venti nods, as he's in the present and they need to finish this off first.

Inside Boboiboy's mind, they were confused as to who is Kuputeri. "Anyone got an idea whose Kuputeri?" Quake asked.

Solar looks around, to which he stares at Cyclone and gets the idea. "Of course, so that's what he meant." They heard that Solar got a bright idea on what's going on.

"Got an idea?" He nods, to which Solar begins everything to them.

The camera switches back to the real world, where Ice switches himself with Cyclone. Dvalin stares at him and sees that his power is similar to her, "You're not the one who killed her, are you?"

He shook his head, "Retak'ka was the one who did it! He was already defeated by the time we got here!" Hearing his explanation, Dvalin growls at that claim.

"If you are the one who defeated her killer, prove it to me!" He roars out an Anemo burst attack from his mouth, making Cyclone react.

*ROAR!!*

He raised his hands and protected himself with his arms. The attack pushed him back, which alarmed everyone (and the audience). "Boboiboy!!"

Cyclone gritted his teeth, as he tried holding back the attack. "Argh!!!! Not giving up!!" He shouts so loud, to which his eyes were glowing light blue and a new wind formed around him.

*WOOSH!!*

Venti looks at the wind and notices something is different from the inside. From the silhouette alone, he could make out that he was wearing a different outfit. He doesn't wear his cap anymore and he has a scarf now. He could feel a different kind of Anemo is forming inside of him as it now feels like more powerful than he first encounter Kuputeri.

The audience were surprised by the sight of a new evolved version of Cyclone, as far as they knew, he only evolved his elements at the second tier. They could feel the new power that this new Cyclone has, which was dangerous and devastated if left unchecked.

"Boboiboy!" Lumine turns to Boboiboy and sees Cyclone was trying to hold back whatever is happening on the screen. Those that were near Cyclone noticed that he was acting strange as his eyes were glowing blue and his body was moving rapidly in place, "Something is wrong with him!"

'Don't worry, I managed to contain it before it got out of hand.' Makoto thought to them, 'But I'm not sure if it's going to last!'

Quake saw it and immediately spring into action, 'Take care of Cyclone, I'm going to switch with him!!' They nod as Quake runs towards the Cyclone and switches places with him. Lumine saw the original Boboiboy came back and she was relieved.

"How's Cyclone?" Razor asked as he was still worried for him.

He doesn't know how to answer this, but tells Razor one thing. "Don't worry, my brothers will be there. Hopefully, that problem won't be too long." He nods, as he thinks the same thing.

The brothers gathered around Cyclone, which he appreciates as the power inside of him surging everywhere in his body.

Cyclone gritted his teeth and blocks the attack by countering with his own, "Gragh!!"

*WOOSH!!*

His wind attack counters Dvalin's Anemo roar, which causes a big blow between the two of them. Dvalin got pushed back a little bit, with Cyclone nearly falling over by the blow of the two attacks.

Seeing that his attack was blocked by Cyclone, he flies away. "We will meet again, boy. Prepare yourself."

"Dvalin, wait!" Before Venti could reach him, Dvalin flies away from the meeting point.

Cyclone was breathing heavily after blocking the attack, which Lumine immediately rushed over and grabbed him by the shoulder. "Are you okay?"

He nodded slowly as he was running out of breath to speak, "Don't worry. I'm fine." Lumine helps him get over to the others, which he appreciates.

"Dvalin..." Venti looked down with a very sad tone. Cyclone patted his back to cheer him up as he reverted back to his original form.

"Barbat— Venti, please, be careful..." Jean almost spoke Venti's true identity, the Anemo Archon, Barbatos.

'Knew it.' Boboiboy just heard what Jean just called Venti. Light smiles as his predictions were true.

"Hehe... You've known my true identity for some time now, haven't you Jean? Though, I thank you for continuing to use the name, Venti." Venti said, as he appreciates Jean keeping it a secret.

"Guess Light was right about you." Boboiboy said, which alarmed Venti. "Relax, we didn't tell anyone other than Lumine and Paimon."

"Hehe... Looks like you have found out about me and yes, I am Barbatos." Venti answered honestly as Wind just heard, got excited. He would try to hug him, but he was heavily tired from blocking the attack from Dvalin. "Oh, and what was his name again, Cyclone? Make sure to tell him thank you for giving Dvalin some answers of what happened to Kuputeri."

He nods, as he hoped to tell Cyclone about it.

"Seriously?! I didn't think that you would get right about that." Paimon puts her hands on her waist as she didn't think Boboiboy got it all figured out beforehand.

"Hehe!" His eyes turn silver, which Solar mimicking Paimon's laugh.

The video got glitch again, which changes Paimon's language like before. ""えへ"てなんだよ？！(What do you mean "Hehe"!?)"

The audience spit take at that coincidence as they did not think that had happened a second time. Paimon was grumbling heavily. That just happened again the second time and it made her very upset.

The video glitches again, turning the language back to the way it was. "Paimon, deal with that later. Right now, we have some unfinished business to deal with" Lumine calmed her down.

Solar gives back the control to Boboiboy and starts to apologize, "Sorry about that. I couldn't control myself there."

"Hehe... No need to apologize." Venti said

The camera switches to the inside of Boboiboy's mind, where Quake is teaching Solar a lesson for making fun of Paimon.

Quake is yelling at Solar while holding the frying pan. Solar is kneeling down, and got a big bump on his head.

"Oof..." They could tell the bump on his head is very painful.

"Ouch, I never thought a simple frying pan could be very hurtful." Kokomi thought as Gorou agreed with her.

Though, he had some ideas when he saw that frying pan. 'I wonder if I could use that if I saw some soldiers slacking off?' He wondered as he thought that would be a pretty effective weapon.

'Now this is inspirational. I could use this idea on those guys.' Childe thought of a plan when he got back and trained up some of the rookies in the Fatui.

Just like the Fatui Harbinger, Kujo Sara thought the same idea if her army had started to do some... unwanted actions behind the scenes.

'I wonder if I could use that against Kaeya?' Diluc secretly glanced at Cavalry Captain. Kaeya felt a little shivered and wondered if someone was talking behind his back.

"Now I like this idea." Amber and Jean were alarmed that she would like that idea to be used.

"L-L-Lisa! That's too far!!" Amber was hiding behind Lumine hearing that as she doesn't want a bump on her head like Solar.

"Xiangling, can I borrow your frying pan when the time comes?" Keqing asked, from her tone it sounded jesting. Xiangling and Guoba tilted their heads as they were confused by her reasoning.

Ningguang was surprised that Keqing would want that after seeing this scene alone. Ganyu was alarmed by this and prayed to the Geo Archon that it wasn't for her... which Zhongli looks away as she knows Keqing's reasoning.

The brothers watch this in entertainment, to which some of them take pictures and keep it hidden in that place.

'Uh...' Solar sighed heavily as he needed to find those pictures after this, which can be a hassle.

The camera switches back to the real world, where everyone is thinking of a new plan now that the Holy Lyre is broken by the attack. "How's the Holy Lyre? Can it still be played? Or does it need to be repaired?" Diluc quickly changed the subject, Boboiboy then answered his question with Solar looking at the damages.

"I don't think Holy Lyre can't be repaired. This Lyre existed hundreds or thousands of years ago, it can't be repaired by ordinary people." Boboiboy gave the Holy Lyre to Lumine.

Something in Barbara withered, but she forced herself to remain composed. The lyre wasn't actually broken for them, not yet anyway. And besides, it was the Abyss's fault.

Still... It was rather upsetting to see something so historically important be irreparably damaged.

"Dvalin is in a lot of danger..." Lumine started worrying.

"No, we should make that Abyss Mage pay for it first! If we don't fight the evil at its source, then we can't save Dvalin at all." Diluc states his opinion.

"From my perspective, the Abyss Mage seems to control or brainwash Dvalin's mind. In short, we cut the source of the controlling, then we can save the victim." Boboiboy said as he thought of a plan to save Dvalin from them.

"That's true. That Abyss Mage seems to be tempting Stormterror into thinking that the Anemo Archon is only calling him in order to be slain by everyone." Albedo said this was a likely explanation as to the reasoning of Dvalin's rampage.

"Good thing that Blaze and Ice stepped in, otherwise they might have to deal with the attack from him." Sucrose said as she was glad that both personalities stepped in and shut that mage before he could do anything.

Fischl crossed her arms at this, "But it won't be enough. Even if they stop the Abyss Order from commanding the dragon, they would likely put him in so much anger that he won't listen to any reasoning anymore. We don't even know how long they've been tempting him into this anger." Oz nods as she got a good point on this.

"Hopefully they figured out a plan." Bennett said, hoping that Dvalin got a happy ending after this incident.

Jean rested her hand on her chest as she thought of finding them, "In which case I shall call upon Outrider Amber to track it down..."

"No need..." Diluc replied, which made Jean curious.

"Why is that?"

"I eradicated one not long ago, in one of the Four Winds' Temples." Diluc replied.

Paimon is shocked and asks him, "What!? When...?"

"If you want to track those monsters down, then I'll seek answers from my contacts. I've got other means for getting the job done." Diluc answered.

"Diluc... Though he dislikes the Knights of Favonius, he protects Mondstadt in his own way." Paimon compliment.

Jean smiles, seeing that Diluc does care about Mondstadt and protects in his way. He notices her smile and looks away as he doesn't want to get embarrassed on seeing that.

Klee saw this and smiled seeing it for herself, "It's beautiful, huh?" Diona asked her, to which she nodded as an answer.

"Ooh? Why does our little Paimon sound so doting all of a sudden?" Venti teased her, Diluc sighed on his teasing.

"Wait for my word. I'll be sure to let the Abyss Order know that their blatant disregard for Mondstadt... will not go unpunished." They nod, as they hope for the information to come later.

The camera switches to a feed, which is starting to be gl!t(h1nG as there wA5 one part where iT was coV9rinG uP.

'Oh, boy...' Makoto thought as he didn't expect the glitches to be this bad in this scene. He was hoping that this footage wasn't very broken as he wanted to show it to Lumine, but I guess it didn't matter anymore.

The footage shows a red Abyss Mage bowing to someone, as the figure itself is covered by the glitches and the voice itself got distorted, making his identity a secret. "fOuNd wh9Re he !5?" They asked the Cryo Mage as that person saw the Stormterror flying back into his temple.

"He's near the beach, our best Pyro Mages will do everything he can to melt the ice." He answered, which the person sighed on hearing what happened.

"I thought 1 t0Ld him oNLy to be active when that B0Y !sn't there. He's lucky that he didn't ... to 1nAzUm@."

Sara couldn't make out what was that person saying, but she could understand that they were talking about Inazuma on the last word. 'If they meant drifting to Inazuma, yeah, I agree.' She agrees that Abyss Mage is lucky that he didn't drift off and ended up in Inazuma.

"Your highness, what should we do of that boy? He's a dangerous factor." The Abyss Mage asked him as Boboiboy himself is a dangerous enemy.

"Leave h!m bE. leT u5 s9E 1f He h4S what it t4kEs to take down the Stormterror." The leader said to him as he watched the Stormterror from where he was.

Prologue: Act 2

For a Tomorrow Without Tears (End)

"I'd assumed that's the leader of the Abyss Order, am I correct?" Kaeya asked, which Makoto reluctantly answered.

'Yes, it is.' They were surprised that the leader of the Abyss Order was nearby when the Stormterror incident occurred.

"Their identity was supposed to be shown on screen, yes?" Ei asked as seeing this footage got a clear idea of what was Makoto's original idea in the first place.

'Correct, but due to the glitches and audio disruption, the footage itself became impossible to restore.' His news hits them hard as seeing that it couldn't be restored hurts them greatly, 'Don't worry, there's another scene of the leader's identity, but it might take a while before we get there.'

"It's fine. We might as well take this chance of seeing their identity later." Xiao said as the rest of the audience weren't mad the reveal itself might come later.

'Great, since it's still some time before we get another video ready. Why not take this opportunity to play some games that have been shown?' That got Boboiboy alarmed as some of those games might ruin their relationships.

He turned around and saw everyone was interested in playing, "Oh, boy..." He mutters as he'd hope it doesn't lead them to another chaos.