In a valley stream outside Mondstadt City.
Eula listened to everything on the light screen, her head drooping listlessly.
Tears dripped onto the ground, one by one.
Su Xuan's words pierced her heart, each sentence filled with reason.
Eula knew exactly what her position was in the hearts of the people of Mondstadt.
Before joining the Knights of Favonius, she was the hope of the Lawrence family, and the various family investments made her miserable, but she still had no problems with her life.
She thought that after joining the Knights of Favonius, the citizens of Mondstadt would change their attitude towards the Lawrences because of her efforts.
But the results were quite different.
The family saw her as a traitor, and the citizens of Mondstadt still pointed fingers at her. Because of the reason she joined the Knights of Favonius, she was pointed at and ostracized more than ever before.
No one in Mondstadt was willing to sell her anything. When she was really hungry, she had to go outside the city to pick fruit to eat.
The reason she joined the Outrider Squad was precisely because the Outrider Squad spent a long time outside Mondstadt City.
Even though it was hard and tiring, and she sometimes felt exhausted, Eula never regretted it.
The Knights of Favonius Headquarters.
“Ah...” Jean Gunnhildr sighed in frustration, collapsing onto the sofa in despair, staring blankly at the ceiling of her office.
As the successor to the Grand Master.
Jean knew how the citizens of Mondstadt felt about Eula.
Eula was able to join the Knights of Favonius because of Jean's arrangement. She was met with strong opposition from the citizens at the time. It was Jean who found the Grand Master, Varka, and pressured him to allow it.
She hoped that the citizens of Mondstadt would see Eula's dedication to Mondstadt and change their discriminatory treatment of her.
But things were far more complicated than she imagined.
The problem of human nature is not simply a matter of wishful thinking.
She thought that the citizens of Mondstadt would praise and accept Eula because of her merits.
However, the reality was that the citizens of Mondstadt felt that the Knights of Favonius were no worse off without her and that her presence was a stain on the Knights of Favonius.
Jean didn't agree with Su Xuan's statement that the citizens of Mondstadt always stood on a moral high ground to criticize others and shirk responsibility.
However, Jean had to agree with Su Xuan's other point.
If Eula really killed Su Xuan, there would be a high probability that the citizens of Mondstadt would not react at all. Once she failed to kill him, when Su Xuan attacked Mondstadt, Eula would be the one to take the blame.
Even Jean herself wouldn't be able to stop the enraged citizens of Mondstadt.
Even if Eula didn't die at the hands of Su Xuan, she might die at the hands of the citizens of Mondstadt.
“What can I do?” Jean's eyes were red with worry.
It just so happened that Eula encountered Su Xuan, who evoked Su Xuan's memories of her past.
The image of the citizens of Mondstadt in his eyes dropped several notches.
It felt like there was no way out.
【“Hiss...”】
【A tearing pain came from my lower legs.】
【Eula opened her eyes groggily, only to find herself lying on a stone slab in some ruins.】
【“This is...”】
【Eula looked around in confusion. Not far away, there was a door that looked like it led to another area.】
【“Am I dead?”】
【After a moment.】
【Eula fell into a daze again.】
【She recalled that she had been easily defeated by Su Xuan.】
【After listening to Su Xuan's long and heart-wrenching speech, she had lost her subsequent memories.】
【It must have been a shot to the head that blew her brains out, so there was no memory after that.】
【“He even has to be so mean when killing people. This Su Xuan is really a jerk.”】
【Eula twitched her lips in dissatisfaction.】
【She sighed.】
【“Whatever, I'm dead, who can I blame?”】
【“I just feel sorry for Amber. I promised her that I would return to Mondstadt safely to see her.”】
【She sat alone on the stone slab for a long time.】
【Eula looked at the door in the distance.】
【“That must be the door to the world of the dead.”】
【She carefully looked around again and found no other way out.】
【No matter how much she cared, the moment death came, everything would become meaningless.】
【Eula was not a sentimental person, and she quickly accepted it all.】
【Her body twisted, and her legs fell to the ground from the stone slab.】
【However, as soon as Eula landed and got up, the stabbing pain in her lower legs made her grimace.】
【“Pain?”】
【She looked down at her lower legs and remembered that Su Xuan had shot through both of her legs.】
【“How can I still feel pain after I'm dead?”】
【Eula stared at her lower legs in astonishment.】
【The wounds had healed, except for the pain when walking.】
【“It's so strange.”】
【The cold and aloof elder sister smiled foolishly for the first time.】
【“No one ever said that you can't feel pain after death.”】
【“After all, everyone's death is their first, right?”】
【Eula laughed at herself, remembering her past life, and walked towards the door.】
【Maybe after stepping through that door, she wouldn't remember those people's faces anymore.】
【Amber, Jean...】
【At the age of nearly twenty, Eula had not smiled happily a few times in her life.】
【As a child, she was forced by her family to learn all sorts of aristocratic etiquette and swordsmanship.】
【She never had a single day to experience the time a child should have.】
【When she grew up, she took over the Lawrence family's insignia, the Frostbearing Tree, and took on the responsibility of revitalizing the Lawrence family.】
【Unfortunately, she chose to join the Knights of Favonius. She believed that only by contributing to Mondstadt could she change people's prejudice against the Lawrences.】
【But the result was not satisfactory.】
【However, although she would be pointed at even if she wanted to have a drink, Eula still had friends in Mondstadt City.】
【Amber would walk with her regardless of other people's opinions and often tell others about her contributions to Mondstadt.】
【Jean was the one who recommended her to Grand Master Varka to join the Knights of Favonius.】
【Jean was busier than anyone else, but with her around, no one in the Knights of Favonius could tamper with Eula's credit.】
【All she had to do was work hard, and Jean would unconditionally trust and support her in her efforts to change the citizens of Mondstadt's prejudice against the Lawrences.】
【“Amber, Jean...”】
【Eula stopped at the door.】
【“I'm sorry for wasting all your efforts. I couldn't hold on until the citizens of Mondstadt changed their minds.”】
【She looked back, as if saying goodbye to the past.】
【“I hope you can all get through this disaster safely. Don't end up in a place like this.”】
【She waved her hand.】
【Eula turned her head and without hesitation stepped through the door in front of her.】
【After going down a long flight of stairs, Eula arrived underground.】
【As she stepped through the door again, the scene before her immediately made her eyes widen.】
【“Hilichurls... Hilichurl army?”】
【In the empty room, there were rows of mutated Hilichurls.】
【They stood motionless like statues.】
【Mutated Hilichurls, Mutated Hilichurl Berserkers, Mutated Hilichurl Archers...】
【There was also a row of Mutated Hilichurl Kings, each five meters tall.】
【“This... this...”】
【Eula was completely flustered.】
【She looked at everything before her in terror.】
【Wasn't she dead?】
【How could there be so many mutated Hilichurls here?】
【Like a frightened bird, Eula trembled as she walked forward.】
【Soon, a door emitting a faint glow appeared in front of her.】
【The moment she stepped through the door, Eula was terrified and almost fainted on the spot.】
【A large white dragon was lying on the floor, as if asleep.】