The golden light, symbolizing warmth, hope, and life.
But bathed in the golden sword light, Rosaria felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, unable to feel the slightest trace of life.
Damn it!
This isn't what was promised!
Shouldn't the script be that this yellow-haired traveler would either flee after being exposed by me, or be thoroughly beaten by me before fleeing?
Rosaria, with tears in her eyes, stiffly turned her head to look at the traveler opposite her, forcing a smile that was more painful than crying.
“Trav…Traveler?”
“I think there might be a misunderstanding between us.”
“Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding?” Bai Yu, who had successfully logged in, endured the noise in her mind of Ying's 『Bai Yu is so cool! Go Bai Yu! Kill this woman!』, while glancing at the top tower of the Windblume Cathedral with the corner of her eye.
“Oh! I understand, you think this sword isn't big enough? Don't worry, I'll make it bigger—”
“No no no! It's big enough, big enough!” Rosaria was frightened, her face pale, she waved her hands repeatedly, while inwardly cursing those Fatui subordinates who had provided her with information.
If I can go back alive today, I'll hang all of you guys up and whip you a hundred times! A hundred times!
“That…Traveler, I'm a Fatui Executor, the Cryo Archon of Snezhnaya—”
Bai Yu wasn't interested in listening to Rosaria's self-introduction, she simply pinched her fingers together, aimed slightly downward, and instantly Rosaria felt the giant sword above her head had the sign of falling.
“Wait, this…Traveler!”
At the last moment, it was still Venti who spoke up.
Realizing that the Traveler in front of him had been replaced, he only called Ying by the name 'Traveler'. When Bai Yu looked over, he said with a complex expression: “Let her leave.”
“Are you sure?”
Bai Yu asked again.
Venti took a deep look at Rosaria, who had been scared out of her wits, and nodded slowly.
“Leave Mondstadt, don't come back, and tell your subordinates not to set foot in Mondstadt City again – at least until the Knights of Favonius allows it.”
Rosaria didn't make a move, but looked cautiously at Bai Yu.
It wasn't until Bai Yu nodded and dissipated the Great Void sword energy in the sky that Rosaria was relieved, she took the Geo Archon, gathered the Fatui who had already been trembling and dared not speak, and fled in disgrace.
After the matter was settled, Venti gave Bai Yu a "follow me" look, then vanished as a breeze.
“Ying, you…are you Ying? No, you're Bai Yu, right?”
Paimon's tiny voice rang out, Bai Yu looked at her who wanted to approach but dared not, and smiled and waved: “Paimon, long time no see.”
“It really is you!”
Paimon circled Bai Yu, her eyebrows dancing with joy.
“Bai Yu, Bai Yu, do you know that Ying has been talking about you these past few days? She even said—”
“AAAAAAAH! Paimon, shut up!!!!!!”
Ying suddenly rushed forward, tightly covering Paimon's mouth, then suddenly froze.
Bai Yu: “——?”
Ying: “——?”
After a moment, Ying, who had released her hand, looked at her own body in surprise, her eyebrows relaxed: “Bai Yu, I found that I can actually take back a little control of my body!”
『No, this discovery of yours is definitely redundant!』
Bai Yu herself didn't expect that Paimon's almost slip of the tongue just now caused Ying's mood to fluctuate greatly, and under the intense mental shock, she actually forcibly took control from her side?
“Humph, humph, humph! I told you! No matter what, this is still my body, shouldn't it be under my control?”
Ying put her hands on her hips, smiling triumphantly.
『Right, what was Paimon about to say?』
“——!!!”
『Alright, you don't have to explain, I heard it, mind voice.』
『It turns out that in the days I was gone, you, Ying, actually missed me so much?』
(Gulp…I, I didn't!)
Feeling her cheeks rapidly heat up, Ying quickly fanned the air with her small hand to change the topic: “Right, Venti seemed to ask us to follow him? Bai Yu, Paimon, where do you think Venti is going?”
“If it's him, he should be in that place, right?” Paimon pointed in the direction of Windrise, guessing.
“So far away…” Ying clicked her tongue, Venti could turn into a breeze, but she still had to huff and puff to get there.
Bai Yu suddenly spoke: “You don't have to be bothered, I learned some new things before, I can only take over part of the body's authority, so you can get there quickly.”
As soon as the words fell, Ying was surprised to find that although she could still control her body to a certain extent, but the Anemo power within her body was running under Bai Yu's guidance.
After a while —
“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!!!”
On Mondstadt's plaza, Amber looked up, putting her small hand on her brow, and then saw a scene she had never seen before.
“Ying…Ying is actually flying on a sword in the sky!??”
…Divider…
In the sky, Ying, who was flying on the sword, raised her hand subconsciously because the wind blew her bangs forward, and at the same time kept patting Paimon, who was clutching her waist sash.
“Paimon! Let go, let go! Your pulling on my sash is going to rip it!”
“But…but…it's too fast! —!”
Ying was helpless, suddenly she found her right arm instinctively stretched out, holding Paimon in her arms.
Knowing that it was Bai Yu's doing, the girl hugged Paimon, her eyebrows dancing with joy: “So amazing, how did you do it, to make the Anemo element wrap around the sword and make it fly with me? Teach me quickly! This way, I won't have to run in the future.”
“Just memorize the current flow of the Anemo element in your body, it's very simple. I remember you could fly originally, right? This kind of thing should be easy to learn.”
Paimon, who was held in her arms, looked up at Ying, who was first "talking to herself", then began to close her eyes and ponder, and also said: “Ying! Ying! Paimon wants to learn too!”
“Don't you fly, little guy?”
Great, this should be Bai Yu talking to me.
Paimon first confirmed who was talking to her, then answered: “But…but I can't fly that fast.”
“Then have Ying teach you after she learns.” Bai Yu rubbed Paimon's little head, making the little guy let out a silly giggling sound.
Soon, Bai Yu saw the big tree in Windrise.
She descended from the sky on her sword, and as she landed, a breeze swept by, and Venti also appeared simultaneously beside the Wind God Statue.