Chapter 504: Lumine preparing to go to Enkanomiya! Words for Kokomi!
"Since we last met, I didn't expect you to leave me such a big surprise."
Facing Luo Li's words, Lumine turned her head away with a guilty conscience.
Just in time to see Paimon playing dead to reduce her presence, a flash of inspiration struck her.
"It's not my fault! It's Paimon's fault, she said it all!"
"Eh! Traveler, what are you saying, I don't understand!"
Paimon jumped and hurriedly defended herself: "I'm still just a child, I don't know anything!"
Lumine couldn't help but roll her eyes; Paimon was truly shameless to be able to say such things.
Seeing the two shifting responsibility to each other, Luo Li laughed and said: "Alright, I've forgiven you; I know you were acting under duress at the time."
Hearing this, the two were shocked, looking him up and down with eyes as if they were meeting him for the first time.
"Is this still the Mr. Luo Li I know?"
Paimon added: "Could it be that he's been replaced by someone else?"
"The price you should have paid has already been paid by someone else; don't think that just because I'm easy to talk to, you can mutter to my face."
Luo Li interrupted the two, his eyes flashing with a look of still wanting to find a handle to retaliate.
The two immediately fell silent.
At the same time, they blessed the kind person who paid the price for them, hoping there would be more such good people.
Kamisato Ayaka, who was on the side, covered her face with a fan and showed a shallow smile.
The relationship between His Highness Luo and the traveler seemed much better than she imagined; she couldn't help but wonder what the previous matter was all about.
"We were wrong, Mr. Luo Li, please don't mind."
Truly being here and seeing him sitting in the place where the Raiden Shogun used to be, Lumine and Paimon felt the reality of his noble status.
Perhaps because when they first met in Mondstadt, he and Makoto were approachable, enjoying themselves in a manor.
Now, it was difficult to feel the respect of looking up at a high mountain, just like Zhongli, who had been traveling with them for a long time.
He was called the Geo Archon, but the two couldn't treat that guy as a god at all; calling him a friend was about right.
"Cough, cough, Mr. Luo Li, since you've forgiven us, I don't know if there's anything else you want us to do?" Lumine asked cautiously.
Although she didn't particularly refuse to be a tool, she had just finished a big task and didn't want to have anything to do with Luo Li for the time being; in case (cbbh) she was pitted again, she wouldn't even have a place to reason.
Not caring about the two's offensive actions, Luo Li laughed: "It's not an order, just something I want to inform you about in passing."
Just as Lumine breathed a sigh of relief, she heard his next sentence.
"It's about your brother."
Brother?
Lumine was stunned for a moment, immediately staring at him tightly, looking forward to what he would say next.
Who knew Luo Li would whet her appetite and deliberately stop talking.
Clearly, although he said he had forgiven her, his actual actions were still somewhat insincere.
Just kidding, although he took a big advantage from the result.
But that was because the main palace's Raiden Makoto was quite capable, otherwise he would definitely have been chopped for nothing.
It was only natural that Lumine and Paimon, who were primarily responsible for this, were targeted by him appropriately.
Lumine scratched her cheek, showing a difficult expression: "Mr. Luo Li, for the sake of the help I've given you, please don't keep me in suspense."
Seeming to recall the time they parted, the blonde girl's emotions sank.
Seeing her low spirits, Luo Li stopped while he was ahead.
After poking at her shortcomings, his mood became much more comfortable, and he immediately said.
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore; when I was in Enkanomiya on Watatsumi Island, I once saw your brother himself, leading the Abyss Order and wanting to do some small tricks on the Three Realms of Enkanomiya."
"I stopped him in the process, but it's inevitable that he might leave some traces and clues; maybe you can go and look for them, maybe you can discover something from them."
Enkanomiya?
Lumine's expression became serious; this was the closest she had been to her brother again, and at the same time, she couldn't hold back her curiosity.
"You saw my brother with your own eyes?"
"Aether, right? A calm blonde boy."
Knowing Luo Li wouldn't lie to her, but hearing her brother's name from his mouth, Lumine still couldn't help but feel excited.
Back in Mondstadt, she had personally seen her brother with Dainsleif at the upside-down Statue of the Seven and had a conversation.
It was just that she never expected her brother to turn into a riddle-maker, telling her that he had experienced the journey and then made his own choice.
Lumine was incredibly depressed.
"Understood, I will go to Enkanomiya."
Lumine would never give up pursuing anything related to Aether.
Luo Li nodded: "It shouldn't be that easy for you to enter the current Enkanomiya; before you go, go see Kokomi first, and bring a message for me by the way."
He hadn't forgotten that cheap daughter; who doesn't like a well-behaved little cotton-padded jacket that is always thinking of herself, it's just that she always thinks about letting him sow seeds for her, which is a bit of a headache.
"What message?"
"The Yashiro Commission is currently holding a ritual for my return; tell her to lead her confidants to attend the ceremony, and by the way, I will announce a piece of news."
The grievances between Watatsumi Island and Narukami Island should have been settled long ago; if he hadn't fallen into the Abyss, perhaps the two places would have been as close as one family.
It's a pity that after five hundred years of wasting time, Ei didn't even think about actively promoting the integration of the two sides.
Luo Li certainly couldn't blame Ei, so he could only push the blame onto the Fatui and the Abyss Order.
How could my Ei-bao be wrong?
Lumine was quite surprised; she had experienced the war between the two sides, wouldn't this cause trouble?
Looking at the expression in Luo Li's eyes, she already had a premonition of what this guy intended to announce; it was mostly a high-intensity integration of the people from both places, right?
Are you gods all so willful?
First there was Zhongli issuing exams to measure scores, then there was Raiden Ei blackening and locking the country because of a family ethics drama.
Immediately after, I ran into you wanting to do something big, regardless of whether the people of Inazuma can accept it.
You guys are truly Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick.
Luo Li naturally wouldn't care about the views of ordinary people, because resistance is an inevitable fact, and this point will never change.
The importance lies in grinding and running-in; if even the first step hasn't been taken, the so-called integration is just a mirror image, a joke that is just talk.
Only by truly putting it into practice, and waiting for many contradictions to break out and then solving them, as time slowly passes, these estrangements will eventually disappear.
The only difficulty is that you need to gather people with fewer contradictions together first.
For example, Yashiori Island, which has a sparse population, is just missing immigrants...
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