——Reality
Huohuo's livestream room.
"H-Hello everyone, this is Huohuo."
Huohuo timidly greeted the chat friends in the livestream.
She had been streaming for a year already, but Huohuo's shyness problem still hadn't changed at all.
This made her super chat moderator, Tail Grandpa, angry at her lack of progress.
"Today, Huohuo will continue taking everyone through the new plot of Genshin Impact version 2.0~"
"Inazuma's prototype is a small country... a country where people live quite well in Japan, so is it okay if Huohuo switches to Japanese?"
"Thank you, thank you for everyone's understanding. Then Huohuo will switch the voice to Japanese."
Huohuo switched the voice to the Japanese version, then continued progressing through the plot. She had already reached the part about heading to Inazuma.
Soon, the plot arrived at the player controlling the character to go to Kanjou Commission to ask about methods to leave Ritou.
[This old man is definitely deliberately making things difficult. Three hundred Qingxin and six hundred letters — by the time you finish, the flowers will have already wilted!]
[Actually, this result could only be said to have been expected long ago. Second Brother already said Kanjou Commission won't let people leave.]
Huohuo pondered: "I remember there was an option to slip money earlier. Could it be because we didn't bribe them?"
Then someone in the livestream said that if you slipped money, you'd just lose fifty thousand Mora for no reason and still get made things difficult.
"Second Brother can tolerate this?"
As soon as Huohuo finished speaking, she saw Jun Mo Li draw his sword and cut the Kanjou Commission building in front of him in half.
No casualties, but the building was completely destroyed.
[Huohuo-jie speaks and it becomes reality!]
[Hot-tempered Second Brother, chopping people online!]
[Awesome! Second Brother also knows how to control his strength. Look, the Commission building was split in half but didn't collapse. My Second Brother still held back~]
Jun Mo Li: "Traveler, let's go. There will always be other ways to reach Narukami Island."
Aether: "Mm. Then let's first meet up with Paimon and Yiya before making other plans."
(Huohuo chose Aether. She mentioned it when the server opened.)
[After meeting up with Paimon and Yiya...]
Paimon: "This is really too difficult for people! I think that old man from Kanjou Commission just doesn't want us to leave!"
Jun Mo Li: "Paimon, watch your words. You'll teach the child bad things."
Yiya: "Mido?" (Child?)
Paimon: "Sorry, I'll pay attention next time."
Paimon: "So do we really have to use unofficial methods to go to Narukami Island now?"
Aether: "There's only this method left."
At this point, Huohuo suddenly stopped, then started counting on her fingers: "Yiya and Paimon can both fly, Second Brother knows qinggong. Does that mean I have to swim over?"
[Huohuo, you found the key point.]
[Thinking about it, it really seems that way!]
[Swimming over... just thinking about it feels pretty lame.]
[That's not right. We don't only have this one path. Do you still remember the Waverider anchors on the island?]
"But there are no Waverider anchors on Ritou, right?"
Huohuo subconsciously complained. Tail Grandpa facepalmed.
Matcha Little Cake also realized she had said the wrong thing, so she quickly tried to fix it: "Maybe there will be one later?"
Huohuo clicked the screen and entered the next dialogue.
Paimon: "From the map, if we go around from Ritou's port we can reach Narukami Island."
Aether: "But we don't have a ship. Do we have to swim over?"
[Speaks and it becomes reality ×2, but in reverse.]
[I feel like the direction I'm about to take, Huohuo has already said it in advance.]
Paimon: "It's fine, I can fly."
Yiya: "Yiyaduo~" (I have big brother's wings)
Jun Mo Li: "I know a bit of qinggong. If I move fast enough, I can take the next step before falling into the water."
Aether: "So I'm the only one who has to swim?"
[I knew it!]
[Speaks and it becomes reality ×3]
[Second Brother's qinggong is really useful. That 50% movement speed boost is practically a blessing for F2P players. It's just a pity it's already discontinued and can't be obtained again.]
Paimon: "For you, it does seem a bit difficult."
Jun Mo Li: "Don't you have a Serenitea Pot?"
Jun Mo Li: "How about we all enter the Serenitea Pot together, then let Paimon carry the Serenitea Pot to Narukami Island?"
Paimon: "Eh? Me?"
Aether: "I agree!"
Yiya: "Mido, yiyaduo, yiya..." (How about letting Yiya do it instead? Little Paimon doesn't have the ability to handle emergencies alone.)
Paimon: "Thank you, Yiya!"
[Imagined Yiya hugging the Serenitea Pot and flapping her little wings flying all the way.]
[Very vivid. This scene feels cute just thinking about it! Although it feels like Paimon hugging it wouldn't be much different, but who told Yiya has wings!]
[If the wings were white, who could still tell the difference between Yiya and a little angel!]
Jun Mo Li: "Then it's decided."
Jun Mo Li: "Traveler, please take out the Serenitea Pot. Yiya, after all of us enter the Serenitea Pot, I'll leave it to you."
Yiya: "Yiya!" (Leave it to me!)
Huohuo tilted her head and said: "So it was solved this way?"
"But Huohuo still feels like there will be a reversal next."
As soon as she finished speaking, the cutscene animation began.
[Speaks and it becomes reality ×4]
[The person above who said 'speaks and it becomes reality' — you already confirmed it's a reversal before the animation even played?]
[If it's not a reversal, wouldn't it just show the usual prompt text like when entering the Serenitea Pot normally? Have you ever seen a cutscene animation when entering the Serenitea Pot?]
In the scene, Aether was about to take out the Serenitea Pot when rhythmic drum sounds suddenly rang out around them.
Everyone's gazes turned toward where the drum sounds came from.
They saw black-clad figures wearing black veils suddenly appear — one holding a drum, one beating the drum.
Then several black-clad figures suddenly appeared and unfurled a two-meter-tall flag embroidered with a family crest in front of everyone.
(Reference the appearance of true sword wielders)
A gentle female voice came from behind the flag:
"Please, everyone, stay your steps."
[Mm? This voice sounds so familiar.]
[Asuna! Is that you?]
[When I went to check the voice actor list, I saw that Amamiya Kotoya's Japanese VA is Tomatsu Haruka — that's Asuna's CV.]
The flag was pulled open to both sides, revealing the three people hidden behind it.
On the left was a woman with black satin wrapped around her eyes. Her figure was slender, and her black hair cascaded like a waterfall to her waist. She wore a water-blue fitted kimono that outlined beautiful curves.
The woman supported an umbrella stand with one hand, shielding the youth in the center from the sunlight. On her wrist was a Hydro Vision.
The youth wore an ink-black daoist robe decorated with lightning patterns. His posture was tall and straight, and a water-drop-shaped hair ornament was pinned in his dark purple hair.
An Electro Vision was pinned to his chest.
A pair of purple eyes glowed with a deep light, profound and impossible to see through clearly. Three tomoe flowed within them.
Standing on the right was a tall and large man wearing simple black daoist robes and a dark golden mask that only exposed his mouth.
His light pink long hair was tied into a high ponytail. He kept his lips tightly pressed with no expression.