Chapter 43

Lumine asked.

Su Bai spread his palms open, dead serious: "Truer than Mora, I'm an upright person."

"Hmph!" Lumine gave a cold snort, and her slender fingers poked Su Bai out of habit, just like before.

"We already know each other so well, and you can say 'upright' without blushing?"

"I do remember a certain someone saying they'd only stay at the doorway, not go inside."

Su Bai looked at Lumine's disdainful little look.

He sorted through his memories.

There really was such an incident.

It had happened that night, after he had stolen the Lyre of the Sky and spoken with Jean in her office.

It must have been because his attitude had moved Lumine.

When a handsome man and a beautiful woman are alone together for that long, it would be a lie to say there were no thoughts at all.

One could only say Su Bai was a normal man.

"Can't be helped, mainly because Lumine is too beautiful." Su Bai laughed.

*Slap! *

A gentle palm landed on Su Bai.

Lumine said in a slightly coquettish tone: "I think my past life is what made me love-struck, and your mouth accounts for eighty percent of it, with all that sweet talk."

The livestream room.

Venti: "Hasn't the new story started yet? Even the thousand-year wind is getting irritable, burp..."

Jean: "......"

Kaeya: "Lord Barbatos, how much did you drink, what kind of wine was it, how are you even burping?"

Barbara: "Lord Barbatos, please mind your image."

Venti: "Mondstadt is a free city-state..."

Paimon: "The thousand-year wind has brought a thick smell of alcohol."

Nahida: "Paimon, I recall you and Lumine are both in Fontaine, have you seen Mr. Su Bai?"

Paimon: "Mm, we did, he's right in the residential area of Fontaine's court, neighbors with Furina."

Furina: "Hey..."

Neuvillette: "Furina, you..."

Paimon: "We were eating and drinking our fill at Su Bai's place."

Neuvillette: "Just as I thought..."

Furina: "Please, before he was even chosen as a Reincarnator, he was the one who invited me over."

Jean: "It's been so long since we've heard from Mr. Su Bai and Lumine, they must be talking about things from the past."

Yae Miko: "That must be the case, once past-life memories are recovered there must be a lot of whispers to share, I'm really curious."

Jean: "I do recall a few memories about Mr. Su Bai myself, but only a little."

Lisa: "I think we're all the same, the Su Bai in our memories really was gentle and reliable."

Aether: "Why are those two so slow, I should make a trip to Fontaine too."

Dainsleif: "Aether, I think you should ask Lumine if she agrees first, otherwise she'll really get mad at you, just come travel with me instead."

Aether: "......"

Aether: "Paimon, it's already been three hours since the reward, is there really that much to talk about?"

Paimon: "But their past-life experiences, there must be a lot of wonderful memories to share."

Aether: "Go knock on the door."

Paimon: "I wouldn't dare, I'm still counting on Su Bai to support me in the future, he's already surpassed Grandfather Diluc and become number one on Paimon's list of people you absolutely cannot provoke."

Aether: "......"

【Ding!】

Just as everyone was chatting.

The system's voice descended once more from the high heavens.

【Reincarnation Story, Second Phase Begins】

【Reincarnator: Su Bai】

【Identity: Pope of the Fontaine Court Sect】

Neuvillette: "???"

Furina: "???"

..... Seeking flowers.....

..... Seeking tickets.....

..... Seeking data.....

Thank you thank you thank you, many thanks!!!.

Chapter 37: The Fortress of Meropide Dispute, the Domineering Pope

The Pope of Fontaine's court?

Su Bai was still serving as a Reincarnator.

The audience who knew about this didn't react too strongly.

They were simply quite interested in Su Bai's identity for his second reincarnation.

As everyone knew, in a place like Mondstadt.

Although the Knights Order holds the main authority over governance, the position of the Dantingde Sect cannot be ignored.

The Pope, at least on the surface, holds a status no lesser than the Grand Master of the Mondstadt Knights Order.

Navia: "But I don't recall our Fengdande Sect having such an institution as a Dantingde Sect."

Clopin: "Mr. Su Bai, as a Reincarnator, is a variable in Teyvat—perhaps it's because of him."

Navia: "Fengdande Sect did once have a Dantingde Sect, but that was hundreds of years ago."

Lynette: "So does that mean Mr. Su Bai's current reincarnation story will take place in Fengdande hundreds of years ago?"

Lin Ni: "Not necessarily. The fact that the current Fengdande Sect has no Dantingde Sect doesn't mean Mr. Su Bai couldn't have carried the Dantingde Sect forward from his past life."

Venti: "Hehe, this time Mr. Su Bai has become someone remarkable."

Yaoyao: "Oh my, if he's someone remarkable, he can't be treated like a liberal who knew nothing, as we did with Lumine."

Su Bai's home.

Paimon rubbed her round, bloated belly.

She said with a look of slight surprise: "Huh? Su Bai actually has ties to Fengdande?"

"Furina, this time you've got a role."

Could it really be making me look forward to it?

Furina stared fixedly at the luminous screen.

As for the Dantingde Sect

it did indeed exist in her memory.

Its main duty was to praise the greatness of the gods.

But after Furina took on the role of the god, not long afterward, all the clergy resigned.

Furina suffered greatly over this.

She understood in her heart that, in their eyes, her hysterical behavior was not what a god should do.

The decline of the Dantingde Sect was a silent rebellion against the god she portrayed.

Furina cried all night, but in the days that followed, she won public approval through exaggerated performances.

And she regarded the Dantingde Sect's people as rigid-minded, unable to keep up with the god's thoughts.

Ultimately, the Fengdande Dantingde Sect vanished completely from the memories of Fengdande's people over the following centuries.

"Oh no, oh no."

"Su Bai is so powerful—if he becomes Pope of the Fengdande Dantingde Sect, I, this fake god, won't escape his grasp."

"He'll definitely uncover me before five hundred years pass."