Chapter 462

"This place… this place is Mondstadt—!"

Realizing this, the Young Master quickly glanced at the scenery outside.

Definitely not the Liyue side.

"I never noticed this last time!"

A flicker of regret crossed the Young Master's eyes.

As an Enforcer of the Fatui, he hadn't even noticed this.

It was a complete failure.

But after realizing this, the Young Master began to think again.

"If the manga shop is in Mondstadt, does the Lady know something about it?"

After returning from the seaside yesterday, he had told the Qianyan Army about the fake Peace Star.

The first thing he did upon returning was to mobilize the Northland Bank's resources to investigate the manga shop.

But he found nothing at all.

As if the manga shop had simply appeared out of thin air.

At the time, the Young Master refused to accept this result.

How could a manga shop offering such miraculous rewards have no trace at all?

He had even suspected whether the Fatui's intelligence had weakened.

Yet from the current outcome,

the manga shop truly had appeared out of thin air.

Its headquarters is in Mondstadt.

Liyue is merely a newly opened branch.

"Lady, I want to know everything about the manga shop—details as thorough as possible."

The Young Master said gravely.

The Lady slightly furrowed her brow but did not refuse.

After all, the Brain-Dead Doctor was enough.

She didn't want another such person to appear.

One incident might be coincidence,

but two? That's suspicious.

If this caused Mr. Han to develop a bad impression of her, or of Natlan,

it would be troublesome.

So the Lady briefly recounted what had happened to her and the Doctor.

"What? The Doctor is already dead?!"

Upon hearing the Lady's full account, the Young Master's face twisted in shock.

His heart was thrown into turmoil.

Though both were Fatui Enforcers, he knew full well how terrifying the Doctor was.

His power was far beyond his own!

And yet such a person had died, silently and mysteriously, inside the shop…

"Thank goodness I didn't act yesterday!"

A thread of dread arose in the Young Master's heart.

If he had used his power back then, he might not exist now.

"So don't you dare be as foolish as the Doctor and dare to lay hands on Mr. Han's manga shop.

We must hold Mr. Han in reverence!"

The Lady warned him again.

Seeing the Young Master nod solemnly, she asked curiously.

"By the way, what reward did you get yesterday?"

Hearing the Lady's question, the Young Master's mouth twitched.

The reward was gone,

and now he was even being blamed,

how was he supposed to answer?

But as a fellow Fatui Enforcer, the Young Master didn't hide it.

"Yesterday I received a fake Peace Star—it enhances attached objects—and then…"

(⊙_⊙)

"You awakened the Vortex God?!?!"

Upon hearing the rest, the Lady was utterly stunned!

Holy hell!

You're insane!

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You don't even respect the Rock Lord, do you?

"Why are all the brave fools around me?"

The Lady felt exhausted.

The last one was the Doctor, who actually tried to steal Mr. Han's manga.

The grave mound is already three feet high now.

It's Young Master again.

"Why can't you have the same reverence for Mr. Han and people like him as I do?"

The lady sighed.

In fact, her attitude stemmed from being lectured by Mr. Han when she first visited the manga shop.

Otherwise, according to the game's plot,

after obtaining the Divine Hearts of the Anemoi and the Geo Archon, she too had become utterly arrogant.

She even dared to speak insolently to General Raiden.

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As for the outcome,

she was, of course, sliced in half by General Raiden…

"Just a friendly reminder—it wasn't me who awakened it; the fake Peace Star flew off on its own."

Young Master felt it necessary to explain.

If even you, one of the Fatui's Executives, thinks this way, how can I possibly shake off this blame?

The lady: (⊙_⊙)

You might as well not have explained at all…

If you released the Vortex Demon God to fulfill the Empress's mission, to obtain the Geo Archon's Divine Heart,

then the lady would still consider you a true hero!

The kind without quotation marks.

But now you can't even hold onto your own reward—it slipped away on its own.

What is the lady supposed to say to that?

She had lived five hundred years and had never seen anything so baffling.

She gained not a single benefit,

yet the blame is all hers.

"Cough, cough, let's go look at some manga instead."

Young Master cleared his throat and said.

The lady's look of disbelief made him feel deeply uncomfortable.

Though he was annoyed inside, he found no valid counterargument.

Though displeased in heart, he found no grounds to refute it.