[Genshin Impact] A world where only travelers are alone

Not noticing her confusion, the boy was still excitedly discussing with the unknown creature on his shoulder: "Right, right, I think so too!"

The latter responded with a series of chirps.

Cecilia felt that the whole world had become mysterious. With such a huge language difference, how on earth were these two guys able to communicate?
She weakly raised her hand and asked, "Who is this..."

The boy finally noticed her being ignored, scratched his head sheepishly and introduced her: "This is my friend, a very powerful wind elf."

Very powerful?
Cecilia looked at the little guy doubtfully.

The twinkling round eyes, the slender and weak little hands, and the wings as thin as a cicada's wing... No matter from which angle you look at it, it doesn't look like it can be described as "very powerful", right?
But the little guy cooperated quite well and posed in response to the boy's praise, waving his little hands in an attempt to show off his reliable "muscles".

…Anyway, this is a business compliment, right?
Cecilia felt that given the boy's personality, it was very likely that he was just boasting casually, so she simply treated it as a joke and didn't dwell on it any further.

She bowed politely to the wind elf: "Nice to meet you."

Where she couldn't see, the transparent feathers on her earlobes with a fluorescent green color fell down softly as she lowered her head, immediately attracting the wind elf's attention.

The little guy tilted his head, as if he didn't understand.

The boy noticed this subtle movement, held the wind elf in his hand and held it in front of his eyes: "Well, friend, you seem to have seen something interesting? Do you mind telling me about it?"

The wind elf leaned close to his ear and whispered something for a while.

“Oh, so that’s it—I see—” the boy responded as he listened.

Cecilia couldn't help asking, "Do you really understand what he's saying?"

"Of course—" the boy said in a long voice, looking very confident, but the next second he changed the subject in response to Cecilia's respectful gaze, "I don't understand!"

Cecilia: “Huh?”

"But my dear friend and I are in tune with each other. Even if we don't understand, what we understand is correct, right?"

The wind elf nodded his little head in agreement.

But this thing is so mysterious that Cecilia, who is serious by nature, finds it difficult to convince herself to believe the boy's unfounded words, even the wind elf admits it.

The young man snorted and laughed: "Since you don't believe it, let me explain to you what my friend just said."

"He said he likes you very much~"

"Eh?!" Cecilia was stunned, her eyes swept from the boy to the wind elf.

The little guy she was looking at seemed confused as well. He stared at her with his round eyes for a while, then suddenly nodded vigorously.

The boy said excitedly: "Right, right, I have always had a good understanding ability!"

Cecilia suspected that they were setting a trap for her. Was it really true that the Wind Elf admitted it because he couldn't bear to expose his friend's tricks?

As it turns out, it really isn’t.

The situation was just the opposite. It seemed that the boy pointed out emotions that even the wind elf itself could not judge, because after being confused for a while, the little guy showed an obviously happy expression and flapped his wings and flew straight towards her.

Cecilia had never imagined that the touch of a wind elf would be like this, cool and soft.

She froze for a moment.

But the wind elf didn't seem to notice her stiffness, and continued to rub her cheek, then lay directly on her head.

Cecilia reached out to touch it, but when she was about to touch it, she hesitated and was a little afraid to touch it.

The result was that the wind elf took the initiative.

The little guy stretched out his little hand and immediately grabbed her index finger, then moved around and lay on her hand.

Cecilia looked at the boy for help.

The boy was enjoying the fun and was still making a fuss: "Not bad, my friend, you look like a cute little pendant, and you match Cecilia very well."

The wind elf's face had a mysterious blush and she chirped shyly.

Cecilia wanted to run away, but when she saw the little guy's smiling eyes when he turned his head to look at her again, she couldn't help but soften her heart.

She poked his cheek: "Want to follow me?"

The wind elf chirped twice, but unfortunately Cecilia didn't have the same talent as the boy and didn't understand what he was saying at all.

Looking at the confused eyes of the person in front of him, the wind elf lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly flew away.

Cecilia's golden eyes flashed with disappointment. She thought he was using his actions to show that he was not willing to follow her plan. But the next second, she saw the wind elf crawl into the boy's backpack and pull out a small quilt from it.

It’s called a small quilt, but that’s only relative to people like the boy and Cecilia. It’s really too big for the petite wind elf!
The little fellow grabbed the blanket that was several times bigger than himself and couldn't even fly high, so he flew towards Cecilia with difficulty.

Cecilia took it, confused.

The wind elf put his hands beside his head, indicating that it was time to go to bed. This quilt was specially brought by him to cover her.

Cecilia looked at the boy, who smiled and joked, "It's okay, go to sleep. I'm such a smart person, of course I've prepared a backup early in the morning!"

Cecilia finally felt relieved and found a place with straw to lie down.

The wind elf immediately got into bed. Cecilia asked, "So you want to follow me?"

The wind elf nodded happily.

"Hey, hey, why do I suddenly become redundant?" the boy complained in a low voice.

But he was just talking. He was very happy to see his two friends getting along well. He took out another quilt from his backpack, found a place to lie down and started to sleep.

*
Although she had left the Lawrence family, long-standing habits could not be changed in a short time, so Cecilia was not surprised that she woke up so early.

She tiptoed to help the wind elf who was still asleep to tuck in the corners of the quilt, and walked out of the cave alone.

It should have been dawn at this time, but perhaps due to the influence of the hurricane, the sky outside was still a little gloomy.

Cecilia stared at the wind wall around her and fell into deep thought unconsciously.

There were so many unexpected events yesterday that she didn't have much time to think carefully about the family trial. Now that she had some free time, she naturally had to think more about it.

The first thing that comes to mind is whether everything in front of you is true or false.

Cecilia found it hard to believe that she would actually arrive a thousand years ago. She also didn't think that the Lawrence family really had the power to reverse time, and that they were wasting it on family trials.

But so far, the boy and the wind elf she has come into contact with are too vivid and don't look fake at all.

She pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed.

After all, she had too little experience. Although Master Lawrence paid attention to all aspects of his children's education, he was not comprehensive enough to teach her even the knowledge about illusions.

Cecilia now understood why the family trial was so mysterious. It was to prevent them from having any chance to cheat in advance.

If you can't tell the real from the fake, you have to be more cautious in your actions, otherwise no one can predict how much of a stir the butterfly wings will cause.

The difficulty increased greatly, and Cecilia began to have a headache.

Convince myself... Do I really have to join the resistance and compile a picture book as the boy suggested?
From the moment the boy mentioned this matter, Cecilia had a prediction in her mind that he was related to those people who rebelled against the Lone King of the High Tower in Mond's history, and might even be the unknown boy himself.

She wasn't sure if her involvement would have any negative consequences.

But she had to find a way to go back as soon as possible, because the gatekeeper had not told her whether her time in the real world would continue during the trial.

Teacher Wendy is still there. If she suddenly faints, even if my father might have guessed the inside story of the family trial, he will definitely not put the previous things aside and wait for her to wake up. Instead, he will take advantage of her inability to stop it and get rid of Teacher Wendy as soon as possible...

Cecilia tightened her grip, not wanting to even think about it any further.

She had to take the risk, even though she was not sure whether the boy's suggestion was correct, but in this blind situation, she had no choice but to do so.

Everything became much easier after she made up her mind, at least Cecilia felt a lot more at ease.

She had just gotten enough fresh air outside and was about to go back, but as soon as she approached the cave entrance, she noticed something was wrong.

——There were two more sets of footprints outside the door.

Cecilia immediately became alert and rushed into the cave as fast as she could, just in time to run into two sneaky guys sneaking up on the wind elf.

"who are you?!"

The uninvited guest was stunned, as if he didn't expect someone to show up suddenly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cecilia took action directly, and quickly flashed behind the two men to try to subdue them. However, the two men were not simple either. The moment she approached, they reacted instantly and raised their hands to block.

In an instant, the three of them exchanged a few moves.

The noise was so loud that the boy and the wind elf were soon woken up.

Upon seeing this, the young man panicked and rushed in between the men to stop the fight: "Stop fighting! We are all on the same side!"

The wind elf also flew to Cecilia's head, hugged her and pulled her back.

The red-haired guy was obviously a little too excited. The boy tried to persuade him several times, and finally even his blond accomplice came up to stop him before he was finally stopped.

"Tsk." He stood aside unhappily.

Cecilia quickly calmed down and straightened her skirt: "Do you know each other?"

"Hey, hey." The young man introduced them to her one by one. "The one with red hair is Leggenfind. Should I have told you about her before? No, no, I think I mentioned Gunhild. It's the one over here."

He pointed at another guy, who responded by saying "hello".

"Hello." Cecilia replied.

Regenfind made another "tsk" sound and looked even more unhappy. It was not until Gunhild tugged at his sleeve that he also said hello. However, he still couldn't help muttering, "Damn it! If it weren't for her, we would definitely have met the wind elf this time!"

God knows, this little guy always thinks they are stupid and can't understand what he says. He usually doesn't let anyone hold him except the boy. This time they came so early on purpose just to take the opportunity to try to take action when it is still sleeping.

As a result, now——

He glanced at the wind elf lying on Cecilia's head, glaring at them with wide eyes because they were bullying Cecilia two on one, and he became even angrier.

(End of this chapter)