"What do you want?! Let me go!!!"
In a desolate wilderness area of Mondstadt, Yu Jin was carrying a man and running wildly.
"Don't be so agitated. Look at you, with your golden hair and an eye patch, you can totally pretend to be Lumine's older brother."
"Please, help me out!"
Feeling the terrifying strength of Dainsleif on his shoulder, Yu Jin used even more force.
"Hiss—, let me go, I agree!" After hearing the faint cracking of his own bones, Dainsleif gasped and gave up struggling.
He realized now that this guy in front of him was a monster of strength, and trying to compete with him in terms of power was just asking for trouble.
"That's better. Carrying a big man like you has exhausted me." Yu Jin loosened his grip on Dainsleif's hand, and the latter fell to the ground.
Rubbing his waist with his hand, Dainsleif felt a burning pain. This was the first time he had experienced pain other than the curse since five hundred years ago.
It felt... not bad?
"What's the name of the person you just mentioned?" Dainsleif rubbed his waist expressionlessly, making Yu Jin feel an inexplicable urge to complain.
"Her name is Lumine. She seems to have been separated from her brother and is traveling everywhere to find him." Yu Jin felt that this statement was a bit inaccurate.
From Lumine's leisurely demeanor, she didn't seem to have the urgency one would expect from someone searching for a loved one.
Perhaps she had some kind of guess in her heart? Yu Jin couldn't help but speculate, but since Lumine always said the purpose of her travels was to find her brother, he provisionally believed her.
"Lumine? Destiny..." Dainsleif's voice was as faint as a mosquito, barely audible.
"What? What did you say?" Yu Jin's big face moved closer, pressing against Dainsleif as he asked.
"Nothing." Dainsleif took a few steps back, then said, "I agree. Let's go, let's meet that girl named 'Lumine'."
After speaking, Dainsleif looked at Yu Jin expressionlessly again, quietly waiting for his next move.
"Can you change your expression and follow me?" Yu Jin complained about Dainsleif's expression while leading him back to the small hill from before.
"No."
Dainsleif's answer was very straightforward... "Ah..."
On an unknown small hill in Mondstadt, Paimon yawned. She rubbed her eyes and mumbled, "Let's go back. Yu Jin probably flew into the sky with the meteorite."
"This..."
Everyone was about to refute something, but then they thought about it, and it seemed that this possibility was actually quite high.
"Why are you all looking at me?" Mona felt everyone's gaze and looked very surprised.
"Why don't you do a divination?" Lumine looked at Mona and chuckled.
"I already said, I can't divine anything about Yu Jin." Mona shook her head helplessly. Although she said that, she still took out her Hydro Astrolabe.
If I secretly divine, Yu Jin shouldn't find out, right?
With that thought, Mona moved the pointer on the Hydro Astrolabe. The water in the basin rippled, and this time it was no longer a chaotic blur, but a clear image.
"Don't worry, I'll be there soon."
Yu Jin's figure appeared on the Hydro Astrolabe. After he spoke, the Hydro Astrolabe rippled again, returning to its blurry state from when she divined him before.
"..."
"I told you, it could definitely be divined." Lumine spread her hands, looking as if she had "expected this all along."
Just as everyone was silent, a very familiar voice came from a distance.
"Lumine, I found your older brother!!!"
"???!!!"
Lumine and Paimon's originally drowsy eyes immediately widened. All their sleepiness was completely dispelled by Yu Jin's words.
"What?! Where?!" In her excitement, Lumine didn't even greet Paimon and directly ran at full speed towards the source of the sound.
Yu Jin wasn't far from here. Lumine only ran wildly for a short while before she saw two figures appear in the distance.
One of them was Yu Jin, and the other was a stranger she didn't know.
"Senior, can you please not make such jokes? It's really depleting your credibility score with me." Lumine's excited eyes instantly turned into calm, dead fish eyes. The speed was so fast that Yu Jin was a bit caught off guard.
"Hmm? There's such a thing? Why didn't you tell me before?" Yu Jin scratched his head. Credibility score? He hadn't heard of it.
"I just added it." Lumine yawned, and as she spoke, she prepared to go back to sleep with Paimon.
"What kind of nonsense is this!" Yu Jin waved his hand, no longer caring about what Lumine said.
He looked at Dainsleif, who was staring intently at Lumine, and waved his hand in front of the latter's eyes.
"Hey! What's wrong? So engrossed, could it be that you really are Lumine's older brother?"
Now that Lumine and Dainsleif were both in front of Yu Jin, he compared the two and thought it might actually be possible.
That golden hair, it looked too similar.
"No, I told you, I have no family." Dainsleif grabbed Yu Jin's hand and pressed it down.
Indeed, Aether's sister, she resembles him greatly.
Meanwhile, Lumine, hearing Dainsleif's voice, also looked up and examined the stranger in front of her.
Upon seeing his golden hair, which was quite similar to her own, Lumine was visibly stunned for a moment. However, she quickly shook her head.
Although this person in front of her had a familiar aura, that was all it was.
Neither his physique nor his speaking voice, nor even the style of his actions just now, were anything like the Aether in Lumine's heart.
This was just a somewhat strange stranger.
"How about it, do you feel a sense of familiarity?" Yu Jin saw the two of them examine each other and eagerly asked.
"Not familiar. Senior, where did you find such a..." Lumine looked up at Dainsleif's clothing, which was very different from Mondstadt's style, and then caught a glimpse of the blue, star-studded cape behind him... "...such a person like you." Lumine nodded and said seriously.
Then she extended her hand to Dainsleif and said, "Lumine. Senior is a very good person, as long as you ignore his eccentric behaviors."
"Dainsleif, I've already experienced it." Dainsleif also reached out and shook Lumine's hand, nodding as he spoke.
Since Lumine said so, he would tentatively put Yu Jin in the "trustworthy" category.
"Hmph hahaha, I never expected such a miraculous person to be in this place, the Twilight Sword, I, the Prinzessin der Verurteilung, have seen you!"
A familiar tone, a familiar voice; it seemed Fischl and the others had run over.
Sure enough, no sooner had Fischl's overly dramatic words fallen than the others, whom Lumine had left behind, all arrived.
Fischl began to ramble on, adding to Dainsleif's character setting, while Paimon angrily tugged at Lumine's hair, clinging to her face.
As for Mona, she was already silently crying in a corner, clutching her Hydro Astrolabe—she had discovered that she still couldn't divine any information about Dainsleif.
"Twilight... Sword..."
Dainsleif took a deep breath, inexplicably feeling that the title spoken by Fischl was so fitting.
But he looked at Fischl, who was entertaining herself and speaking words he couldn't understand at all, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"A coincidence?" Dainsleif muttered a few words, then became a silent statue again, quietly watching Yu Jin and the others chat.
Yu Jin and the others talked about everything, from explaining the movement of the stars to Mona, to discussing some urban legends, covering a wide range of topics.
However, as it was getting late, they hadn't chatted for long before someone started to doze off.
Dainsleif saw this and knew it was a good opportunity, a good opportunity to talk to Lumine alone.
"Lumine, would you be able to meet at the Angel's Share tomorrow?" Dainsleif said it so directly.
Feeling everyone's surprised gazes, Dainsleif replayed his words. No problem, it was just a normal invitation, so it seemed the problem was with them.
Reaching out to cover Paimon's glowing eyes, Lumine yawned, "Sorry, I have something to do tomorrow, so I probably can't make it."
Dainsleif frowned, seemingly not expecting Lumine to refuse his request so decisively.
He looked around. There were too many people; it wasn't suitable for talking.
"Aether." Dainsleif's voice echoed in Lumine's mind, making her perk up again.
"Ah! My eyes!"
Lumine was so excited that she forgot she was still covering Paimon's eyes.
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