Stories = wine! Wine = joy! Thank you, Lumine!
Venti's mindset is actually the same as most readers—they're all happy to watch the growth process of a 'character.'
The difference is that readers get angry or annoyed facing imperfect people before their growth.
But Venti has a good mindset; he can accept a character's imperfections before growth and has enough interest to slowly wait for her to mature.
Look, didn't she grow from being unable to defeat Signora to defeating her? How interesting!
This time is the same; after experiencing these stories, everyone has grown, and Venti plans to record it all properly, compile it into poetry, and sing it far and wide.
The wind brings the seeds of stories, time makes them sprout—Venti is willing to give all things time.
If one had to say, Venti seems to do more 'proper work' than even Zhongli.
Venti plans to turn the Traveler's stories into poetry; if it were Zhongli, he'd just praise the Traveler a bit—he's too lazy for things like poetry.
These two old gods treat the Traveler as a 'idea generator' and a 'USB drive,' respectively.
Of course, they both also treat the Traveler as a friend—and now, the friend is about to hang up the phone.
Right after hanging up, another god who wanted to be friends with the Traveler arrived.
Including Ei, all the gods Lumine has met so far are old fogeys; now, she's finally about to meet her first young god— and in the future, she'll meet an even smaller young god (Wanderer).
[A sweet, gentle voice came: "You who resolved this incident—do you feel satisfied and happy?"]
["Don't worry, I won't harm you. Rather, I'm just a little bird that occasionally flies over this sea domain, watching you from a distant place."]
This sudden interjection let the readers understand just how powerful this one is.
She can observe such a remote uninhabited island from very, very far away—truly terrifying.
By the way, since she could contact the Traveler without communication, why did she cut off the communication before? Bullying the Anemo Archon?
Everyone was chatting on the island—who do you think didn't get an invitation? You~☞!
At this moment, everyone was still marveling at Nahida's power; they'd realize later.
Nahida isn't someone who enjoys watching from afar across vast distances—she simply cannot leave.
[Nahida continued: "It was just a coincidence that there was power related to me here. Out of curiosity, I descended to the beach and quietly observed everything on the island."]
Now everyone knew: this person who suddenly inserted herself was a god!
Because the power on this island was stolen divine authority, and she called it her power—so she must be a god.
A goddess—first, rule out Ei.
With this gentle way of speaking, it's more believable if you said it was Venti than Ei.
I'd rather believe Ei would transplant rice seedlings than believe she'd speak so gently.
Impossible, because Beelzebul no longer has her 'Bel,' and Bel was the one who was so gentle.
Having ruled out the only goddess known so far, it seems this one is the god who hasn't appeared yet.
The crowd was expectant: Does a new god appearing mean they're about to write about a new nation's story?
Readers were extremely eager: Finally, will we see our own nation? Whose will it be?
Snezhnayans were indifferent, as they knew full well this clearly wasn't the Cryo Archon.
Fontainians were expectant, but they felt this probably wasn't the Hydro Archon either—after all, the Hydro Archon's way of speaking is so flamboyant.
If it were the Hydro Archon, she would probably say: 'I have come here to appreciate your performance, so please strive to entertain me~.'
'If it's amusing, I shall grant you applause.'
Ruling out two more Archons, on Sumeru's side, not many could see the prophecy book anyway, and they didn't understand their own god.
The Lesser Lord Kusanali was like a god who didn't exist.
Only Dunyarzad believed firmly; she dared to affirm, to swear, that this was absolutely the Dendro god!
This gentle speech, the ability to enter dreams—no mistake, it must be!
You have always been here, my divine one!
But why do you only appear in my dreams? Why have you never shown yourself?
Sumeruans don't dream once they grow up—Dunyarzad really, really wants to see Nahida.
The Nahida in the story happened to answer this very doubt of hers.
["I cannot travel far; I envy you who are so free, so I helped with some little designs too, hoping you like them."]
At this point, everyone hadn't paid much attention to the god's words about not being able to travel far, assuming it just meant not leaving the country.
What everyone cared more about was the 'little designs' mentioned by the god!
Now they understood why the hallucinations Fischl and the others encountered turned into a dream affecting an entire island—it was you who did it.
You call this a little design? Which dream borders on 'little'? Is this what gods are like?
["I have no purpose; I'm just a little bird. Staying here is to appreciate your joys, angers, sorrows, and pleasures."]
A crystal little bird, born of wisdom, trapped by ignorance.
She couldn't do much, only watch others' joys, angers, sorrows, and pleasures like this.
Nahida was very concerned about the Traveler because she couldn't peer into the Traveler's dreams—this piqued Nahida's curiosity.
The source of knowledge is 'curiosity.'
[Nahida said: "No need to mind my name. Perhaps one day in the future, we will meet elsewhere."]
The mysterious voice disappeared; this voice could only be heard by the Traveler—in Paimon's eyes, the Traveler was just spacing out.
The story hadn't ended yet; while playing with everyone, the Traveler also asked some questions.
For example, she asked Fischl about the Abyssal Paradise—what were her feelings upon leaving?
To this, Fischl naturally wanted to act tsundere and say she had no particular feelings, just a mere parting.
[Oz exposed: "When saying goodbye to everyone, Miss cried quite sadly."]
Imagine little Amy bidding farewell to her little night raven statues.
Saying chuunibyou lines, and then starting to cry mid-sentence—perhaps even hugging a night raven statue while crying.
That scene... truly adorable.
This is also why little Amy is so easy to bully and good-tempered; if it were someone with a bad temper, they'd want to eat crow meat.
She and Mona caught Yae Miko's attention precisely because they're too cute in this way.
These two little girls are the type who easily bristle when teased, and their bristling reactions are exceptionally cute—truly irresistible to savor.
Yae Miko couldn't help licking her lips.
Right on cue, let's talk about the other one who caught Yae Miko's attention: Mona.
On her dream island, Mona was complaining about the hydro hydromancy plate's issues—from the start of the island adventure, the hydromancy plate hadn't worked, as if someone was deliberately sabotaging it.
One can only say Nahida knows how to play—starting off by knifing the prophet.
She just hadn't expected that there was a DM (game master) off-field! Isn't this just cheating!?
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Character Voice Lines · Fischl: About Crying During Farewell
Oz: "With Lucian's help, Miss got to see her subjects, and she cried very sadly during the farewell."
Fischl: "Oz! You've been dismantling my image more and more lately!!!"
"I didn't cry!! I didn't!!! The one who cried was another Fischl!"