Chapter 366: Lessig Lawrence's Choice
Lumine sharply caught the word "treatment."
Can Idyia actually perform something like healing?
She was empty-handed with no tools at all—how did she manage it?
Just as Lumine was about to ask further, Eula spoke up and interrupted her train of thought.
"Lessig Lawrence!"
Unexpectedly, with Eula's shout, Lessig immediately became completely obedient.
And his current attitude was—
He had behaved himself and was begging to be spared.
He would obediently return to Mondstadt and stop thinking about reviving the Lawrence Clan through radical means.
Eula was somewhat puzzled. When had this guy become so easy to talk to?
Since that was the case, the things he needed to confess were even more than originally expected.
Lessig honestly admitted it.
At the beginning, he had indeed come here to revive the Lawrence Clan.
But along the way, he had spent a lot of time and had even gotten lost.
"I passed through Liyue and Sumeru… there was even a period when I lost my wallet and lived in the wild."
Living like that had instead allowed this "noble" to recognize himself clearly.
"You know? There, I discovered that no one knew me, and no one cared about [Lawrence]."
He looked at Eula, this unconventional Lawrence descendant.
"You and I, we are both glass chess pieces raised in shackles. We were taught to act like nobles. But outside, Mondstadt people look down on us because of it."
"Rejection, hatred, stubborn education… all of this combined makes us cling even more tightly to the old noble doctrines, trying to maintain our self-respect through them."
"This is like a long tug-of-war, but it has no meaning… You understand. It should be said that you understood it long ago, while I have only just learned this."
[Broadening your horizons is indeed quite important.]
[Travel more while you're young.]
[Eula: Got it. I'll send the entire Lawrence family to the rainforest for reformation.]
Eula crossed her arms. "…It's all true. It seems your family still doesn't know that you've already figured things out."
Lessig said it was indeed so.
He had only recently come to understand it.
After coming here, he realized that what he truly wanted was not a Mondstadt where everyone feared him.
He and many people from the Lawrence Clan actually only longed for an environment where they could peacefully coexist with ordinary people.
Eula patted this cousin's shoulder.
"Lessig, you and I have nothing to do with the so-called Lawrence glory."
"[Honor] belongs entirely to the past… You and I are just ordinary people."
After hearing Eula's words, Lessig apologized to her once again.
He had originally planned to return after handling matters here, but he hadn't expected to alert Eula.
Lumine recalled what Miss Maimon had said earlier inside the tent.
Was the current Lessig working hard to become [the person I want to be]?
Rather than becoming the person shaped by the Lawrence Clan's doctrinal training?
Perhaps Lessig still hadn't figured out how to speak to his family yet.
But the seed had already been planted, and one day it would surely bloom.
The Lawrences were like this stage—once brilliantly radiant, but the drama of the past had already ended.
It needed people like Eula and Lessig to redecorate it…
[Wow, webnovel is using a small plot to preach big principles again.]
[Personally, I think it's pretty good. At least the Lawrence family still has a few normal people.]
[It can also be considered supplementing Eula's storyline and pushing the Lawrence family plotline forward.]
[Got it, "Eula Legend Quest II."]
[If they can help the younger generation break free from stubborn ideas, the Lawrence family can also usher in a new life.]
Idyia listened to these people preaching big principles.
After they finished, they used metaphors and implications, nearly putting her to sleep.
So when everyone stopped, she quietly asked.
"Uh… have you finished chatting?"
"It looks like it. Then here, this is for you. I found it earlier near Mr. Ge's side."
Maimon handed over a core component.
Idyia's gaze sharpened, as if harshly questioning her.
But not quite that fierce.
"Ah! It's the part that dropped here! You—you found it back then but only gave it to me now?"
"You didn't ask earlier either."
Paimon looked at this core component and exclaimed that it looked familiar. "Isn't this the box for holding candy?"
Trash Lumine put her hands on her hips. She was all too familiar with this box.
It was precisely about that never-ending…
[Is it No. 4 again?]
[Floral Bloom Festival]
[A Swallow Returns as if Acquainted]
[Hurry up and release some merch ()]
"Stop. Don't boast about your heroic tales right now."
This was indeed a box commonly used to hold candy during the festival.
It was also one of the materials used to create the large tent at that time.
Now that the large tent had been restored, this box no longer held any special significance.
Maimon sighed somewhat sentimentally.
"Eating candy from the candy box after becoming an adult never tastes as good as it did when I was a child."
"But thinking about it carefully, there are also more things that adults can eat."
Paimon felt something in her heart. "Oh! So in the end, eating candy is just like life—nothing more than a choice!"
This was her foodie philosophy.
Now that three components had been gathered, they only needed the one from Mu Yang's side to complete the task.
Returning to the town, everyone thought Mu Yang had already returned.
But in reality, he had not…
At this time, Kokomi, who had rested well, came out to greet them.
"How was it? Was the forest adventure smooth?"
"Everything went very smoothly. What about you? Did you do anything today?"
After chatting briefly, Kokomi directly explained her purpose for coming to Lumine.
As the current Divine Priestess of Watatsumi Island, she should not have appeared here at this time.
She had come this time specifically to search for an ancient artifact lost from Watatsumi Island—the Mirage Jade Casket.
Following the guidance of the orb, she had come all the way to Sumeru.
The earlier talk about broadening horizons was not false either.
After all, one cannot always stay on Watatsumi Island reading military books and light novels.
When necessary, one should still go out more often.
[It must be the work of the Guuji. She got both Ei and Kokomi addicted to light novels so she can manipulate them.]
[Wow, that pink-haired fox's schemes are so ruthless!]
[Our reliable General Gorou still knows to let Kokomi go out for a walk.]
[Gorou? Sold out by the Guuji and still helping her count the money.]
After playing in the rainforest for a few days, Kokomi had then come to the Sumeru Desert.
The ritual vessel had ultimately fallen in the desert area.
Although Kokomi had some induction, she could never pinpoint the exact location.
Idyia had not deliberately hidden anything from them.
But this Mirage Realm definitely still concealed secrets.
Lumine told them about what she had encountered today.
Idyia would sometimes become very hurried.
Moreover, she could use that strange healing method.
Plus, she also had Alice, that mysterious and unfathomable woman…
There was probably some major secret buried in this Mirage Realm.
The more Lumine thought about it, the more wrong it felt, and she was almost sweating.
It couldn't be one of Alice's big bounce bombs left behind, right…