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[Both Amber and Aether head to the entrance of the city with Paimon following them.
“So, traveller, how did your trip go in Sumeru?” Amber asked Aether curiously.
Aether smiled and said, “It was interesting, we met many new friends there.”
"Yes, even though there are so many dangers there but Paimon stillthinks Sumeru is a wonderful place, Paimon can't deny the appeal of the food there."
Paimon said happily as she remembered the delicious food there
Amber laughed at Paimon's excessive enthusiasm.]
"Hmm, it seems the traveler has visited Sumeru then."
Zhongli said, looking at the screen intently.
Nahida had excited eyes as she looked at the screen.
'I wonder if there was a specific reason for his travel.'
Alhaithem , Venti, Ayato, and Diluc thought deeply.
[The two arrived in front of the gate and the two greeted the guards, who returned the salute respectfully.]
"Hmm?" Jean looked at the screen in confusion.
"What's wrong jean ?" Lisa asked her confused friend.
“No, I just find it strange that the two guards are greeting the two of them with this much respect.”
Keqin looked at Jean with confusion and asked, “Isn’t it normal for them to greet merchants and travelers like this?”
“Usually you would be right, but the problem is that the greeting they gave is a greeting that knights give to people of the highest rank or to important figures.”
Jean calmly explained to the others why she was surprised.
Everyone nodded in understanding, and indeed this was strange.
They decided to pay attention to the screen to find out why.
["Welcome to Mondstadt once again, traveler."
Amber greeted aether with a wide smile.
Aether chuckled and said: “This brings back memories of the first time I came here.”
“Ahaha, that day was…full of unexpected events.”
Amber laughed nervously.]
Kaeya’s eyes narrowed with interest at Amber’s use of words and thought:
'Looks like some interesting things are going to happen in the future.'
["Traveller, let us move." Paimon insisted for them to come forward.
Aether and Amber nodded and continued their way towards katheryne.
“Are you going to collect your mission reward?” Amber asked him curiously.
Aether nodded affirmatively.
The two arrived at katheryne, who was talking to another adventurer, and they decided to wait.
When their turn arrived, Aether welcomed katheryne and paimon said: “katheryne, we have come to collect the reward for the mission.”
katheryne smiled brightly and said, "Ad astra abyssosque . It's good to see you, traveler, and Paimon as well. I see that Amber is accompanying you."
“Yes, we met her upon our return, here are the mission completion handbook .” Aether handed her the handbook .
“It’s indeed received , thank you for your hard work as usual, traveler. Please here your reward .
katheryne handed him a bag full of mora and other materials.
Aether nodded, but before he could express his thanks, someone called him.
"Oya, if it wasn't this traveler and Paimon, it's been a long time."
Their gaze turned towards the person who called them, and it turned out to be Venti.]
"its me ." Venti laughed as he saw himself on the screen.
The Archons looked at Venti suspiciously and decided to pay attention to see what he might be planning.
[“Venti...” Aether greeted the bard with a smile.
"If it wasn't that the tone deaf-bard , it's been a while."
Paimon looked at him with a smug smile.]
A few people laughed at the name Paimon gave to Venti.
Venti had strange twitches in his eyes as he looked at the screen.
["Haha, your words are still as sharp as a sword as ever Paimon."
Venti laughed nonchalantly at Paimon's nickname, then turned to Amber and Aether and nodded contentedly.
Aether and Amber looked at him strangely, and Aether asked him: “Is something wrong?”
“Haha, no, I saw you from afar and decided to say hello to you, but since you’re together, I’ll go so as not to disturb your date.”
Venti had a meaningful smile as he looked at them and walked away.
Amber had a blush as she looked away from Aether shyly.
Aether had an embarrassed smile as he looked away.
In return, Paimon had an angry frown and just sighed in acceptance .]
“Ara ara, looks like our Amber has her own secrets? Fufu~~”
Lisa said with a teasing tone to Amber.
Amber blushed from embarrassment and thought : 'What are you thinking, my future self ?? This is embarrassing !’
(I hope you don't misunderstand, Amber is just embarrassed. No matter how stupid a person is, he wouldn't fall in love with someone just by seeing her future with that person, right? Feelings develop with time, (apart from love at first sight) if you want the characters to fall in love with him just after seeing themselves with him in future? Nope , perhaps after knowing his personality and getting to know him, but now? This will not happen. I have plans, so I hope you look forward to them.)
In the invisible area
Lumine had a cold look as if she wanted to murder someone.
Dainsleif looked at her and sighed thoughtfully: ‘She still overprotective as ever.’
["welp… that Was that something…?" Aether said embarrassedly.
"Don't pay attention to him, you know how he is!" Amber replied embarrassed.
Aether chuckled amused at her cute reaction.
"Okay, Amber, since we're done, let's take a walk through the city ."
Aether smiled and Amber returned his smile with one of her own.
"Well let's go !!"
"Okay let's go!!"
Paimon quickly guided them to their destination with enthusiasm.
Then the screen cut off here.]
" is this it ?" Amber asked suspiciously.
“Indeed, that’s it it appears .” Zhongli confirmed calmly
“Well, how about we collect all the information that the screen showed us ?” Nahida suggested calmly, expressing her opinion.
“I agree with lesser lord Kusanali. It might help us to organize our information about current events.” Alhaithem expressed his approval.
(For those wondering why people know that Nahida is the Archon, this is because she does not hide her divinity like Venti and Zhongli, so people recognize her easily)
"Hmm...then let's analyze what we saw."
“From what we have gathered so far, the screen is showing events that have never happened before, which means…‘the future’”
Most people frowned thoughtfully upon hearing what the Goddess of Wisdom said.
“Please excuse me, but is this even possible?”
Noelle decided to ask hesitantly.
“If we talking about Regarding future predictions as a whole, it is possible, there are many prophecies in Teyvat that came true after all but...”
Mona hesitated, looking at the screen in confusion.
“But this is not a prediction, but a complete scene...”
Alhaithem completed what Mona was trying to say.
Mona nodded in agreement.
“We can only guess that there is a reason for showing us this ..”
Faruzan frowned in confusion
“The reason seems to be connected on this traveler named aether .”
Kaya guessed quietly.
“From what we have seen, this traveler appears to be traveling across all nations in teyvat.”
Zhongli gave his opinion on the matter.
“But why does he travel to every nation...?”
Ninguang frowned thoughtfully.
Noelle raised her hand shyly and said: “Maybe he likes to travel and just wants to visit other countries...?”
Tighnari nodded in agreement with noelle and said:
“Yes, as Miss said…?”
Tighnari looked at her questioningly for a moment.
Noelle understood his meaning and bowed her head modestly and said:
"Sorry! I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Noelle, a knight in training in mondstalt.”
Tighnari smiled embarrassedly and said:
"No need to apologise. We didn't introduce ourselves anyway. I'm Tighnari , one of the forest ranger in Sumeru."
"This is not good ! How can we forget to introduce ourselves? Why don't we get to know each other's names before getting into the serious topic again?"
Venti suggested with a playful smile.
Everyone agreed to the proposal, it would be embarrassing if you did not know the name of the person you would like to talk to.
Venti's smile widened, then he clapped and said:
"Okay let's start with the nation’s in order, Mondstalt, Liyue, inzuma and then Sumeru, what do you think?"
Everyone agreed without a problem.
"Let me begin then! I am Venti the bard, the best bard in teyvat in your presence, tehe~."
Venti greeted energetically, making everyone look at him in confusion at his energetic presentation.
"So I'm next, I'm Jean Gunnhilder, the acting grand master of the knight of favonius in Mondstalt. It’s Pleasure to meet you."
Jean welcomed others in a noble and elegant manner.
“Fufu, let me introduce myself. I am Lisa Menese, the head of the library in Mondstalt. Pleased to meet you.”
Lisa greeted softly, and the people from Sumeru looked at her in surprise, recognizing one of the strongest magicians and the most brilliant talent in the academy.
“Hello, I am kaeya Alberich , The cavalry Captain in the knights of Favonius . Pleased to meet you.”
Kaeya gave them a calm, welcoming smile.
Zhongli tensed for a moment when he heard kaeya’s lineage and looked at Venti deeply.
Venti gave him a silent nod and zhongli decided to save his questions.
Nahida looked at them with confusion.
No one noticed the silent conversation the two had except Hu tao, who looked at zhongli with an interested look.
On the hidden side.
Lumine frowned as she looked at kaeya in annoyance and muttered:
"Alberich…"
Dainsleif looked at her carefully and said:
“The fact that he uses this name publicly suggests that he does not realize its importance.”
Lumine looked at Dainsleif with a frown and said:
“I realize that….but I did not expect that there would be any descendants left of that man.”
Dainsleif looked at her sadly and muttered:
“Yes, sometimes fate likes to play cruel jokes .”
Lumine didn't say anything.
on the other side .
"As you saw on the screen, I am Amber! Outrider Amber from knights of favonius is at your service."
Amber greeted enthusiastically.
“I am Eula Laurence, Captain of the Reconnaisance Company in the knight of Favonius. Pleased to meet you.”
Eula said softly.
“I'm Mika Schmidt, scout and cartographer for the Knights of Favonius, n-nice to meet everyone.”
Mika said embarrassedly.
"I'm Albedo, the alchemist chef of Mondstalt. It's nice to meet you."
Albedo introduced himself politely.
Zhongli looked at him for a moment and thought: 'A doll...? Not an artificial human, huh.'
Zhongli looked at Venti deeply and thought: 'You like to gather some dangerous people to your place, old friend.'
Venti felt zhongli’s gaze but did not turn around this time.
On the hidden side.
"Homunculus…"
Lumine frowned as she looked at Albedo, then looked at Venti suspiciously.
She thought in confusion: 'Does anemo archon like bringing potential enemies into his nation or what?'
'...gold’s invention, how ironic.'
Dainsleif sighed, looking at Albedo warily.
On the other side .
"I-I'm the assistant of Mr. Albedo, Sucrose."
Sucrose bowed sheepishly.
“I am klee the sparkle knight of the Knights of Favonius, at the service of all. Hello, brothers and sisters!”
Klee greeted with childish enthusiasm, making everyone smile.
But some of them were worried about such a cute, little girl being a knight at this age.
The hidden side.
"Alice's daughter..?"
Lumine looked at klee in surprise and muttered, “Maybe I should warn the Abyss mage to not to approach her. It would be annoying if Alice came to me.”
The witch Alice was the last person Lumine wanted to meet, after all.
Dainsleif looked at klee carefully, remembering Alice for a moment, and sighed silently.
'Mondstadt has really dangerous people.'
On the other side
“I'm Bennett the Adventurer, nice to meet you.”
Bennett gave everyone an enthusiastic thumbs up.
Some people looked at him with concern because of his facial injuries.
“Ahem…its pleasure to meet you since, I, Fischl, Prinzessin der Verurteilung is who you shall call me..hohoho.”
Everyone sweated as they looked at Fishel with confusion.
“She said, “I’m Fishel, it’s nice to meet you,” and I’m Oz , a companion for little Amy here.”
It was the purple crow on fishl shoulder that said that.
Some looked at the crow intently for a moment, after all it is not every day that you meet a talking crow.
Fishel frowned as she looked over her shoulder at Oz.
“I am Diluc Ragnvindr, owner of the Dawn Winery in Mondstadt.”
Diluc said quietly.
“I'm Diona, waitress at Cattail Bar, hello I guess.”
Diona said embarrassed.
(Okay I gave up, just consider that everyone introduced themselves that way.)
(There are Fatui like Childe, scara, signora and the Doctor, when they introduced themselves everyone looked at them with unfriendly eyes and you know what I mean by that.)
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"Okay, after introducing ourselves, let's continue our topic."
Alhaithem decided to direct the conversation after this long introduction.
“As Miss Noelle said before, we cannot rush to find out why a traveler wants to travel around nations.”
He said reminded everyone of what Tighnari said before.
“…I agree, the reason for his travel may be simple, we can’t just judge by the minority of what we’ve seen so far.”
Ayaka easily agreed with what he said.
"Well it looks like the screen will show something else."
Everyone turned their attention to the screen after Venti's words and looked at the new title displayed.
"the eternity and the unknown."