Chapter 41

Six wings of light unfurled behind her.

For Lumine, whose strength had already recovered, there was no need to rely on a Wind Glider to soar freely through the sky.

"Lumine, what are you doing?"

Paimon was dumbfounded.

"I'm going to chase that floating island. Su Bai must be on it."

Saying this, Lumine pouted in dissatisfaction.

He had promised to give her the address, but after claiming the reward, the man had gone completely silent.

Don't want to tell, huh?

Heh, you really think I can't catch up on my own?

"So dumb, Lumine."

Seeing Lumine about to take off, Paimon immediately stopped her: "He definitely won't be on the floating island."

"The floating island right now is just a bare, barren island. What's the point of him running up there?"

"Lying on the ground sunbathing?"

Hmm?

Paimon's words did serve as a reminder to Lumine.

She looked at Paimon suspiciously: "Paimon, you..."

"It feels like you seem to know what's going on with the floating island."

"Eh!?" Paimon's body stiffened, so startled she leaned back on reflex.

Soon, Paimon awkwardly scratched her head.

She laughed and said: "Hehe, after all, I've been your guide this whole journey."

"This little thing can't stump me at all."

"What the floating island reward produced should be something new. When it flew away, you could clearly see there were no buildings on it."

"I guess Su Bai's real address is in that residential house directly below where the floating island just appeared."

At this very moment.

Inside Su Bai's home.

Furina sat upright, waiting for Lumine's arrival, her mind constantly turning over what to say and do when she met Lumine.

Su Bai, meanwhile, studied his reward for a while.

"So that's how it is."

"This is a reward specifically tailored for my retirement."

Without Su Bai's permission, no one could step onto the floating island on their own.

In a sense, the floating island could be regarded as Su Bai's home.

The key to stepping onto the floating island was certain skills centered on spatial teleportation.

This teleportation skill had to be bestowed by Su Bai.

Although the island's area wasn't that large right now, and it was still empty on top.

Presumably, in future rewards, it should be improved upon.

The reason there was no reward item for strength enhancement.

It should be because the system judged that Su Bai's strength had already reached a level that needed no further enhancement.

Tianquan Ningguang: "Sigh, what a headache. Mr. Su Bai's name clearly sounds like it belongs with us in Liyue, so why did he run off to Fontaine?"

Keqing: "It's a real loss losing a reincarnator. But if Mr. Su Bai's island needs construction, our Liyue Qixing can offer help."

Tianquan Ningguang: "Yes, don't be shy about it. We can front the Mora."

Su Bai: "Thanks for the kind offer, for now..."

Su Bai: "Hold on a moment, I have some things to attend to."

A knock at the door interrupted the chat between Su Bai and Tianquan Ningguang and Keqing.

Furina immediately gulped, her expression involuntarily tensing up.

Su Bai, however, didn't pay it much mind and opened the door quite naturally.

What came into view was Lumine, panting for breath, and Paimon poking her head out from behind her.

"Yo! Finally meeting you, Su Bai..."

Paimon flew in a circle around Su Bai: "Even more handsome and sunny than in the video."

"But even so, I can't deny that because of you, I couldn't appear on screen to travel with you and Lumine. As a result, even Barbatos got a reward, but I got nothing."

"I thought about it for a long time on the way here, and decided that from now on I'll..."

"Um... eat three hundred thousand Mora from you a month..."

"That's not too much, right?"

Not too much, right? I even brought your wife to you, it'd be too stingy to call it excessive.

"Paimon..." Lumine hurriedly stopped Paimon: "What are you saying?"

Su Bai replied with a smile: "It's fine, I can still afford that much."

"Whatever you have to say, let's go inside first."

Su Bai very naturally took Lumine's hand and walked toward the room.

This practiced, intimate gesture made Lumine's pretty face flush red.

In the previous life, there was no third-wheel Paimon, but now she still felt a bit shy.

The moment she stepped into the room.

Lumine's nose scrunched up without thinking.

The fragrance in the air made her suddenly grow wary.

Sure enough, the unexpected happened.

"Hey, Traveler..."

Furina, wearing an awkward grin, waved at Lumine.

Crap! What should I say?

Every rehearsed line in her head had been forgotten.

Lumine: "..."

Paimon froze: "Furina?"

Upon seeing Furina, Paimon leaned forward in shock, called out to her, then ruefully pressed a hand to her forehead.

"Su Bai, what's going on here?"

Lumine stayed silent.

Seeing the situation, Paimon skillfully took on the role of spokesperson.

"You know, I've been living in Fontaine all this time."

"Before being chosen as a Reincarnator, I was a fan of the Hydro Archon."

"I just didn't expect to end up as my lord Furina's neighbor, so when the Reincarnation Story began, I invited her to come watch together."

Su Bai narrated everything naturally.

"So that's how it is."

Paimon suddenly understood.

She hurriedly tried to persuade: "Lumine, don't overthink it."

"I think Su Bai has a point — before the Reincarnation Story began, he had no memories of his past."

Holy crap!

Su Bai couldn't help but give Paimon a mental thumbs-up.

This feat was absolutely not that of an ordinary Divine Mouth — Paimon was definitely an extremely reliable Divine Wingman.

Overthink?

Overthink what? As if I'm some petty little thing.

Lumine rolled her eyes.

Her gaze drifted once more to the visibly awkward Furina.

In an instant, her memories returned to the trial from before.