Suddenly, a deep voice rang out around them. The expression of the Foxian who was crouching on the ground and checking whether Sushang was injured changed drastically.
"Shh! Shh!"
"Shh what? Huohuo, are you really that scared of this man? He only chopped down a moving tree. It's not like no one else can do that."
Levi followed the voice with his gaze and saw a short Foxian Judge.
Huohuo, a trainee judge of the Ten-Lords Commission. Her strength and knowledge were both decent, and she had even earned Fu Xuan's appreciation. She was just a little too timid.
Abnormally so.
Following the principle of looking at the legs when looking at a person, and the tail when looking at a Foxian first.
Levi's gaze shifted toward the talking tail behind her.
Noticing that he was looking at her, the girl named Huohuo stiffened. Memories of what Levi had done on the Ancient Sea flashed through her mind, and her two legs trembled slightly on their own.
Seeing this, Xueyi beside her showed a hint of helplessness in her eyes.
At this moment, Guinaifen covered her mouth and said in surprise, "Th-the tail can talk?"
"Hey! One of you calls someone a tail, and the other calls someone Grey Wolf. I've discovered that you Xianzhou people are all so rude."
Under her gaze, the tail behind Huohuo disappeared, replaced by a greenish mass.
A creature resembling ghost fire appeared before everyone.
"Get this straight, this great master is a Heliobus!"
"But you were my tail just now, so Miss Guinaifen wasn't wrong..."
"Oh? You've gotten bolder, huh? You actually dare to talk back to this great master!"
"Ah!"
'Grey Wolf' only had to turn his head and look at her for Huohuo to immediately cover her head and crouch down in fright.
At this moment, Levi looked at him and said, "Did I ever say Grey Wolf was you?"
"This great master can still remem..."
Seeing him suddenly freeze, Levi took the opportunity to look him up and down. 'He really does look like Grey Wolf...'
"Sushang!"
After glancing at Sushang lying on the ground, Levi called her name in a serious voice.
"Here!" Hearing him, Sushang quickly got up from the ground, holding her greatsword, her expression becoming serious once again.
There was no sign at all of the fear she had just shown.
"Hey, hey, hey. This great master is saying this in advance. I wasn't the one who scared her like this."
Huohuo knew Levi's strength, and Tail Master, who stayed beside Huohuo twenty-four hours a day, knew it as well.
Although he said "that's it?" with his mouth, deep down he was still very wary of Levi.
Now he was only worried that Levi would blame everything on him. It was not that he was afraid of being taught a lesson by him. He was mainly afraid that Huohuo would see an overly violent scene and that it would affect her physical and mental health.
"I can prove it."
Guinaifen, who had initially been startled by the fact that Huohuo's tail could actually talk and could even leave her body and move around on its own, raised her arm.
Tail Master looked at the speaking Guinaifen with satisfaction. "I told you..."
"The ghost fires we've seen aren't nearly this ugly."
"Hey, hey, hey, hey! What do you mean by that! Watch it, or I'll beat you up!"
"Calm down! Calm down, Tail Master!"
Grabbing Tail Master's tail, Huohuo used all her strength to stop him from charging at Guinaifen.
Guinaifen hid behind Levi and made a face at Tail Master, then raised her Jade Abacus and pointed it at him. "Say, 'cheese.'"
"I'll cheese your grandma's leg! Huohuo! Stop holding me back!"
"Um..."
Tail Master, who had rushed a short distance forward, turned around and looked behind him, only to see Huohuo lying on the ground. There was no one holding him anymore.
Seeing this, the anger on his face froze.
'Damn! You let go, you should've said so!'
This was awkward now.
After remaining silent for a moment, Tail Master could not think of how to ease the awkward situation, so he silently returned behind Huohuo and went back to being an ordinary tail.
Huohuo carefully glanced at Levi and quietly comforted her tail.
Seeing that the farce had ended, Xueyi stepped forward and first exchanged a polite nod with Levi.
Then she asked him about his purpose for coming to Fyxestroll Garden.
"I don't have any other purpose. I was simply invited here to have some fun."
"That's right! We're here to see ghosts."
"There are no ghosts on the Xianzhou."
"But we all saw them with our own eyes just now! Right, Sushang?"
As if she had remembered something, Sushang's face turned ugly again. Her legs were a little unsteady, as if she could collapse at any moment.
"..."
Speaking of how there were no ghosts on the Xianzhou, Levi suddenly remembered something else. He stroked his chin. "I take back what I said. My purpose for coming here isn't quite that simple either."
Xueyi looked at him.
"Your purpose isn't simple?!" Guinaifen stared with wide eyes. "One man and two women, late at night, in a place where no one lives..."
Under these circumstances, what else could you possibly be doing?
Sushang's face changed again. "Could it be that you want to tutor me?!"
'What the hell do you mean, tutor you?!'
Guinaifen gave her a thumbs-up. "Genius!"
"Hehehe." Although she did not know why Guinaifen had suddenly praised her, the word "genius" still made her a little embarrassed. She scratched her head and said shyly, "My ma also often praises me for being a genius."
While the two of them were talking, Levi extended his hand, and a greatsword appeared with a 'swish'. He put his other hand inside the greatsword and began rummaging around.
'Wait! You can put your hand inside this thing?'
Attracted by the greatsword, Xueyi frowned slightly and kept thinking about the principle behind it, but after thinking for a long time, she still could not figure it out.
She could only attribute it to Levi's power.
When he pulled his hand out of the sword, there was a flickering green flame in his palm.
Around the flame, there were also flames of a common color burning. They were like a cage, trapping the green flame inside.
"Ah!"
Just as Xueyi was investigating it, Huohuo suddenly let out a surprised cry. At first, Xueyi thought that she knew what the thing in Levi's hand was.
But when she turned around, she found that Tail Master was causing trouble again.
He had actually flown up without even fully leaving her body.
Huohuo, who had been lifted into midair, looked down at the ground in panic.
"Go!"
"Go, where?"
Huohuo, who was being kicked along by Tail Master, asked anxiously in midair.
"Anywhere. Just get away from that guy!"
Xueyi looked back at Levi and the flame in his hand. For a moment, she could not tell whether that Heliobus was referring to Levi, or the mass of green flame in his hand.
"But, but I still have a miss..."
"Tsk! Is the mission more important or your life?! That guy is confident he won't die, but you, that robot, the low-quality one, and the professional corpse actor can all be killed by a tiny aftershock!"
'Don't listen to Tail Master and you'll regret it right in front of you.'
'Just leave as quickly as possible!'
Sushang: "Low-quality?"
Guinaifen: "Professional corpse actor?"
The two looked at each other.
Xueyi: "..."
What he said was not wrong. She really was a robot.
However, that was merely an easy-to-understand way of putting it. The more professional term was actually "puppet."
Xueyi watched Huohuo being carried away by her tail, then turned her head and glanced at the flame in Levi's hand.
It could basically be confirmed now that the Heliobus possessing Huohuo was wary of the flame in Levi's hand.
Judging from the color of this flame, it was somewhat similar to the flames that had lit up Fyxestroll Garden.
"May I ask, what is this?"
If she did not understand, she asked. Xueyi spoke to Levi.
"..."
[T/N: New fanfic chat—"Genshin Impact: Just Another Guy who Transmigrated". Currently, it has a Powerstones Goal for 5 bonus chapters. It ends on Monday, so rain those Powerstones.]