A figure clad in fiery red bounced and skipped directly into Si Xuan’s arms.
Diluc and Venti were used to this, but Lumine and Paimon were dumbfounded.
They recognized the scorching red-haired girl, and the Si Xuan in front of them as well.
But when the two were combined, they were a little unsure.
“Did I wake up on the wrong side of the bed? What did I hear, Klee calling Si Xuan ‘Dad’?”
Lumine’s mouth hung slightly open, the events unfolding before her were just as fantastical for her.
Gently embracing Klee, Si Xuan stroked her little head.
His usually cheerful face softened with tenderness.
“Why didn’t you go play at Starfall Lake today?”
Klee, wearing her red hat, rubbed her head against Si Xuan’s chest.
Then she looked up, her large eyes, unique to the realm of anime, gazing at Si Xuan.
“Klee got put in time out a while ago, and the Windblume Festival is almost here, so Klee was let out.”
“On the way, Klee heard the Knights’ brothers and sisters say that Dad came,”
“So Klee came to find Dad.”
Si Xuan and Klee began their oblivious father-daughter conversation.
Mostly Klee spoke, while Si Xuan responded.
Whenever Klee mentioned accidentally blowing up something, Si Xuan would say, “My daughter is so amazing.”
Lumine and Paimon looked at each other.
“So, the Dad that Klee kept mentioning, it’s Si Xuan?”
Paimon swallowed with difficulty.
They had only heard that Klee’s dad was very powerful.
But they couldn’t connect that to Si Xuan.
After all, Si Xuan was a Fontainean, and they hadn’t seen him in the two years they’d been visiting Klee.
Diluc and Venti knew their relationship.
So they weren’t surprised.
However, Diluc asked Si Xuan to pay him for a door.
“That door from earlier, 300,000 Mora.”
As soon as he said that, everyone’s attention was focused on Diluc.
“300,000 Mora? I’ll have to eat for a month.”
Paimon rubbed her little tummy, causing Lumine to roll her eyes.
God knows how much effort she would need to both save for their journey and feed this emergency food.
“Go, go rob someone! What kind of door costs 300,000 Mora? Even the doors of our Moma Palace are only 200,000 Mora.”
“Mondstadt isn’t like Fontaine, prices are high here.”
“No, this stuff doesn’t have a market price? You just say 300,000 and it’s 300,000?”
“And the repair costs, you don’t know, Klee blew up that thing a while back.”
Si Xuan, who was about to have a good talk with Diluc, stopped.
He looked down at his giggling daughter with a puzzled expression.
“Hehe, sorry Dad, Klee was blowing up fish, and the Boom Boom Bangs accidentally… ”
Si Xuan sighed, what else could he say, the daughter’s sins were for the father to bear.
Si Xuan pinched Klee’s little nose.
“Okay, but next time Klee blows up fish, she has to stay far away from those things, alright?”
“Shouldn’t you be reminding Klee not to go blow up fish?”
Paimon turned her clear and somewhat foolish eyes towards Lumine.
Lumine shook her head slightly, indicating she didn’t know.
At this moment, Diluc, surprisingly, opened his mouth to explain.
“It’s because he bought Starfall Lake, Mondstadt people can still use it as usual,”
“But the ownership of the lake is in his hands.”
Paimon’s head felt even more dazed.
“So he bought Starfall Lake, just so Klee could blow up fish there?”
“Is this what the rich world is like?”
Lumine was also a little dazed at this point. While she was a gold-ranked adventurer of the Adventurers’ Guild,
She received several times the number of commissions than ordinary adventurers and high-ranking adventurers.
But with a glutton who ate 300,000 Mora a month, she hadn’t experienced the life of the rich.
“Honor Knight sister, Paimon, are you Dad’s friends?”
Klee, finished talking with Si Xuan, was unable to stay idle, and ran to Lumine to chat.
As Lumine’s god-of-mouth, Paimon naturally took on the responsibility of chatting with Klee.
“Yes, Little Klee, we are very good friends with your Dad.”
“That’s great, you can go blow up fish at Starfall Lake with Klee and Dad, okay?”
Paimon glanced at Lumine and Si Xuan with some difficulty.
How do you respond to that?
Si Xuan just happened to have something to say to Lumine and the others.
So he generously paid Diluc for the wine.
“Come along, I’m going to check out that thing too.”
Actually, Lumine and Paimon were very curious about the “thing” they mentioned earlier.
But with others present, they didn’t dare ask.
Lumine, as if she had discovered something, asked:
“I remember Starfall Lake has a statue of the Seven, is ‘that’ referring to…?”
Si Xuan didn’t answer, but nodded, signaling that Lumine had guessed correctly.
The group got up and prepared to leave. Lumine wanted to ask Venti if he was going too.
But when she turned her head, she realized Venti had left sometime ago.
The group made their way to Starfall Lake.
When they arrived, it was already afternoon, from morning to afternoon.
Klee and Paimon were blowing up fish at Starfall Lake, while Lumine and Si Xuan sat together chatting.
“About the Great Tree King… ”
Although she had already guessed that Si Xuan might remember something about the Great Tree King,
Lumine still wanted to confirm.
“You’re right, I still remember the Great Tree King, as a Descender, I wouldn’t have my memories altered by the World Tree.”
Si Xuan watched Klee and Paimon happily playing.
Then he asked:
“What do you think of the Seven Nations and Teyvat?”
Lumine didn’t know why Si Xuan suddenly asked this.
She thought for a moment, then said:
“It’s great, both the scenery and the people.”
Hearing Lumine’s answer, Si Xuan seemed to relax, and then said:
“Actually, I’ve met your brother.”
The hand Lumine used to support herself suddenly clenched, and because of the force, several blades of grass were uprooted.
“You’ve met my brother?”
Si Xuan nodded slightly, a look of reminiscence flashing in his eyes.
“At that time, I had just been appointed as a diplomat, and Navilette hadn’t yet become the Grand Judge,”
“One day, two blond travelers came to Fontaine, one was your brother, the other was Dainsleif.”
Lumine’s heart was a little surprised, but this surprise soon vanished.
Si Xuan’s voice continued:
“He hadn’t been here for a few days, and I locked him up in the Melopetta Palace because he couldn’t dye his hair.”
Lumine: ？？？？？