[Genshin Impact] A world where only travelers are alone

As soon as Idilia got home, she threw aside what she was holding and threw herself onto the sofa. Even though there was a big guy sitting there, it couldn't stop her determination to rest.

Being caught off guard by the attack, Elhaisen calmly adjusted his sitting posture, put the book in his hand on the coffee table next to him, and then said, "Go take a shower first."

"do not want!"

Idilia replied with great courage, rubbing against Elhaisen's muscular chest muscles unscrupulously, enjoying the long-lost pleasure.

Elhaysen:…

He decided to manually push the guy who was taking advantage away.

But even though she was forced to sit up, Idilia still fell on him like a boneless person, complaining as she fell: "Damn it, you are such a cruel person, don't you miss me? I've been busy outside for almost two months!"

Elhaisen responded perfunctorily, earning an unhappy headbutt from Idiliya.

She held someone's face in her hands, angrily saying, "If you keep disrespecting me like this, I'll quit. The guy named Akram in this project is pretty good-looking—"

"I know, that's your distant cousin." Elhaisen replied calmly.

"So you knew about it! I was wondering why you let me go with them so confidently. Clearly, a junior student came to invite me to study the Red King culture together, and you stopped him for me."

"I just told him that trying to destroy someone else's academic family is not the right thing to do." Elhaisen pulled her hand away and stuffed an apple into her hand instead.

Idilia took a bite and was very frustrated by his flawless performance. She muttered softly: "So you really don't miss me at all? This is the first time we've been apart for such a long time..."

Elhaisen said helplessly: "I guess you haven't read the notice board at the entrance of Lambad's Tavern yet, otherwise you wouldn't be still struggling with this matter now."

"Hmm? Has anything big happened in Xumi City recently?" Idilya was obviously interested in his words and looked at him curiously.

Elhaisen picked out a relatively important thing and said, "Yes, such as the Great Sage being imprisoned and the Little King of the Auspicious Grass coming back to power."

"Ah?" Idiliya dropped the apple in her hand to the ground in shock. "Didn't the great sage say that the little King of the Lucky Grass was ill and couldn't come out? But according to you, it's not inconvenient for her but she is not allowed to come out?"

"Yes." Elhaisen nodded. "The Great Sage took advantage of the god's weakness to imprison her, and he became the actual ruler of Xumi."

Idiliya felt terrified just thinking about it, and immediately asked, "Then how did you find out? How did the great sage end up in prison?"

Halfway through her words, she suddenly realized something: "No, no! Wait - tell me the truth, have you discovered this a long time ago, so you deliberately sent me away two months ago, waiting for me to leave before you got involved?"

Faced with his lover who was angry because of worrying about him, Elhaisen couldn't help feeling guilty. Although his expression remained calm, his unreasonable silence directly expressed his unfinished words.

Idiliya immediately understood the truth of the matter: "You! Don't you hate trouble the most? Why would you take the initiative to get involved in something like this!"

Elhaisen tried to calm her down and took the initiative to explain: "A peaceful life needs someone to maintain it. This is just the best choice I made after I judged that this peace would be disrupted."

Idilia glared at him several times in anger.

Elhaisen decided to give her another apple.

With food, Idiliya could no longer curse, so she could only bite the apple and mumble, "So what will happen to the position of the Great Sage after Azar abdicates? I remember that it takes a long time to select the Great Sage. Who will manage the House of the Decrees during this vacancy?"

"……I."

"Ok?"

"I."

Somehow, Idiliya heard a hint of grief in his tone, and asked in confusion, "Is that what I thought it meant? You're going to be the Great Sage?"

"It's an acting sage." Elhaisen emphasized, obviously not hoping to become a real great sage.

Idilya laughed until her stomach hurt a little, then she reluctantly stopped to wipe the tears from her eyes and said jokingly, "I think you should just compete for the position of the Great Sage directly, and then use the back door to approve some project funds for me."

"If you continue to gloat over other people's misfortune, I think I can really find a back door to deduct the funds for your next project." Elhaisen looked at her leisurely.

"You're so cruel!" Idilya instantly stopped smiling and spoke each word with gritted teeth.

"Thank you." Someone said with a fake smile, "I am just a weak scholar. I am not worthy of the position of a great sage. Let them fight for it."

Idilia wanted to laugh again.

She poked Elhaisen's muscular biceps and said, "Do you dare to tell them again that you are a weak academic?"

Elhaisen glanced at her and tried to withdraw his arm but was grabbed back.

"I don't care, just let me touch it."

*
Idilya didn't expect to meet the foreign traveler that Elhaisen mentioned so soon. At that time, she was following Elhaisen to visit the empty office of the great sage, and someone came up in the elevator.

Seeing the unfamiliar Idilia, Kong was obviously stunned: "Who is this?"

"My wife," El Haisen introduced.

"Hello!" Idilia greeted cheerfully.

Kong and Paimon had heard a lot about Elhaisen, and naturally knew that he had been married for a long time, so they were not surprised: "Hello, I'm Kong, this is Paimon, we came here to ask if Elhaisen is willing to explore a Red King ruins with us." "Red King ruins?" Seeing that it was a topic that interested her, Idilya's eyes lit up, "Which Red King ruins is it? Maybe I've heard of it before?"

"It's the Rhenium Hill. When we discovered it, it took us a long time to unlock the mechanism at the door. I think it should be a new relic that has not been explored by humans, so we plan to find a few reliable companions to explore it together." Paimon explained.

Whether in terms of intelligence or force, Elhaisen is obviously a very reliable person.

Idilia recalled: "Because this location is too remote, the House of Lords has not yet organized scholars to explore it."

The guy who had been deeply fascinated by the Red King culture recently immediately looked at Elhaisen expectantly.

The latter had already sat back in the seat that belonged to the Great Sage, with a document handed to him spread out in front of him: "The duties of the acting sage are heavy, I'm afraid I can't go with you."

Idilia chuckled. "Come on, I don't know you yet. You've probably dealt with the important documents long ago. The rest are just gibberish. You'll only leave them until the last day and type them all back. The rest of the time you'll be free."

El Haisen was speechless.

The corners of Kong and Paimon's mouths twitched, and they tried their best to restrain themselves from laughing.

"Besides, this time he's not a distant cousin. It would be safer if you go with us anyway, right?" Idilya smiled slyly.

Sora and Paimon blinked in confusion.

El Haisen had no choice but to compromise.

Although they didn't know why the exploration trip that was originally planned to be accompanied by only Elhaisen ended up with an unexpected addition of Idilya, both Sora and Paimon had heard of the name of this Rose of the Cause School, and thought that with her around, the journey might go more smoothly.

By the way, maybe Idilia's presence can make Elhaisen work harder? After all, it is the instinct of all living things to show their charm in front of their loved ones.

For the first time, I thought that maybe watching young couples dating wasn’t a big deal.

Paimeng said: "Well, the Buddhist attitude is just your protective color. Believe me, if you really saw the two of them being affectionate, you would definitely be the first one to jump up and down."

Kong drooped his eyelids and replied faintly: "Paimon, if we see through it but don't say it out loud, we can still be good friends."

"hey-hey."

"Ah, come here quickly! I think I know what this rune means!" On the other side, after exploring the entire room, Idyllia seemed to have made a new discovery.

"Did you find anything?" Kong and Paimon came over.

Idiliya pointed at the patterns on the wall and said, "I've seen this pattern before. It came from the Zhenling clan. Similar patterns also appear in other places in this ruins. Perhaps we have guessed wrong from the beginning. This ruins has nothing to do with the Red King. It was built by the vassal king Olmaz thousands of years ago to imitate the Red King's mausoleum."

Olmaz, the shepherd who fell in love with the legendary town spirit Lilupal and became a vassal king, was considered a betrayer by the town spirit because of his arrogance and debauchery, and was revenged threefold.

“Perhaps the runes on the door need to be interpreted in a different way,” Elhaisen pondered.

He walked to the stone door that had locked them tightly for several hours, carefully deciphered the meaning of the runes on it, and whispered a few words to Idyllia, and finally confirmed the new decryption steps.

"Traveler, could you please knock on the mechanisms in the northwest corner, northeast corner and middle of the room in turn?" he asked.

Kong did as he was told.

The stone door opened in response, and fresh air that had not been smelled for a long time rushed in, indicating that they had finally regained their freedom.

"Huh——" Paimon let out a long sigh, then looked at Idyllia with admiration.

However, the latter had already walked up to Elhaisen, his warm eyes shining brightly.

"Why are you looking at me?" The person she was staring at raised an eyebrow.

Idilia chuckled: "Don't you think I was amazing just now?"

"Pride makes people fall behind." Elhaisen said lightly.

"Really?" Idilia looked at him with a half-smile. "But I remember someone told me a long time ago that being overly modest does no good to a person, and that one should recognize one's own achievements, so I think I deserve a compliment."

Elhaisen apparently also remembered what they said when they met for the second time: "Just a compliment?"

"Can't you?"

"Okay, as you wish. You did a great job just now and helped all of us." Elhaisen gave her a light kiss on the forehead. "This is an additional bonus."

Idilia was caught off guard by the unexpected surprise and even started walking with a limp. Elhaisen, who couldn't stand it, picked her up and took her with him.

As for the other two people present, well, who cares?
"See, I told you, if you see them being affectionate, you will be the first one to turn pale."

"…Paimon, the dinner I originally planned to treat you to after we get out is cancelled."

"Eh!?"

(End of this chapter)