Mr. Pantalone has no crazy plans today.

To his surprise, Kaiya, his sworn brother, did not show the excitement and shock he expected after hearing what he said.

Instead, she looked at him with a puzzled expression and asked him a question.

"The father you're talking about? Who is he?"

Kaeya's answer left Diluc completely bewildered. He couldn't understand why Kaeya, his sworn brother, would ask such a question.

He thought his sworn brother was playing a joke on him again, so he hurriedly called out to his sworn brother in a panic.

“I don’t have time for jokes right now. I’m talking about our common father, the owner of Dawn Winery, Cripps Legenfender!”

"What are you talking about? Diluc, have you forgotten? Our father died more than a decade ago, and you are the current owner of Dawn Winery."

This answer immediately widened Diluc's eyes. He grabbed his sworn brother's shoulders with almost uncontrollable emotion and stared intently into Kaeya's eyes.

"What did you say?! Say it again right now!"

"...What I mean is, as far back as I can remember when I was adopted, our father died more than a decade ago, and since then you've taken over as the head of Dawn Winery at a very young age. Everyone in Mondstadt knows that."

Startled by Diluc's actions, Kaeya didn't understand what Diluc was doing, but he still answered his sworn brother's question truthfully.

Such an answer was undoubtedly unacceptable to Diluc, but after seeing the expression on Kaeya's face...

He understood that his sworn brother would never joke about something like this, so since he had said it, then at least in his opinion, that was undoubtedly the case.

But how is that possible?

A bewildered Diluc staggered two steps, lost in deep shock and confusion.

Seeing Diluc's appearance, Kaeya quickly asked.

"What on earth happened?"

Lost in confusion and bewilderment, Diluc did not answer Kaeya's question. He simply turned back to look at the place where he had once escaped, and what came into view was the Mondstadt Bridge, which looked no different from before.

It felt as if everything I had experienced in that 'nightmare' world was just a dream.

But he clearly remembered everything that happened in that 'nightmare,' and he was absolutely certain that everything that happened in that 'nightmare' world could not possibly be fake.

Just as Diluc was immersed in this confusion and bewilderment, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, making him realize what that empty feeling, as if something was missing, he had sensed earlier was.

A sense of panic filled his heart. He wanted to rush back to that place as if to prove that something existed, but no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer touch that place.

Watching Diluc's seemingly possessed figure constantly crashing into the bridge, Kaeya couldn't understand what was wrong with him.

"Diluc..."

Diluc ignored his sworn brother's words and stood blankly in the heavy rain.

Looking at the burning Eye of God in his hand, he seemed to feel that the burning ideals and beliefs in his heart had been extinguished by something.

Under the heavy rain, the two brothers stood on the bridge.

At that moment, Kaiya felt that there seemed to be a barrier between him and his sworn brother that he was unaware of.

Chapter 135 Pantalone's Reaction and Preparation (4k)

The sky was overcast, and the rain was pouring down.

The raindrops pattered against the glass, leaving streaks of water in front of the window.

A misty fog obscured the view, making it impossible to see anything outside the window.

In the dim light, a dull, low rumble of thunder occasionally echoed.

The torrential rain has been falling for days and nights, as if it were mourning someone.

For Mondstadt, a city that is usually sunny, such a prolonged period of torrential rain lasting several days and nights is undoubtedly an extremely rare occurrence. This continuous downpour has even affected the lives of Mondstadt residents to some extent.

The damp weather makes most people feel uncomfortable.

Rainy days are definitely not good weather.

At least that's the case for Pantalone.

Since receiving information about the situation in Liyue from her other self, Pantarone, who is in Mondstadt, has also been carrying out her own plans.

Although the plan was progressing very smoothly, it encountered a small setback.

Just as he was still trying to smooth things over with the Knights, something unexpected caught his attention, forcing him to temporarily stop what he was doing and turn his attention to something else.

Pantalone, holding a secret letter in his hand, opened it and read its contents.

That was the intelligence delivered by Ilrock, an inspector of the Knights of Favonius, who was a traitor planted within the Knights of Favonius.

The reason why the Fools were able to obtain so much information was precisely because of these ubiquitous spies.

These ubiquitous eyes are the spies of the Fools distributed throughout the seven kingdoms. These ubiquitous eyes are an important part of the intelligence network that allows the Fools to grasp countless intelligence sources in the seven kingdoms.

Iroq, the inspector who served as the Fools' liaison and a mole within the Knights of Fathom, was one of them.

After receiving the information from Ilrok, ​​Pantalone analyzed the current situation of the Knights of Favonius through his own intelligence and learned about the recent developments of the Order of Favonius.

After the Knights of Favonius' Grand Master Falgar learned of Cripps's situation following their diplomatic dealings with the Fatui, he assigned Cripps's son, Diluc, to investigate and handle the matter.

However, some time had passed since Diluc returned after investigating the Fatui, but the return of the nobleman from Dawn Winery did not cause any ripples.