(TL/N: I apologize for the inconvenience. I did not realize i duplicated the chapter 🥲)
"Would you like a bouquet of flowers?"
"No. If she sees it later, she might start overthinking. Thank you."
Their conversation drifted over with the wind.
In the darkness.
A trace of blood slid down from red lips.
A place that should have belonged to her had now been taken by someone else.
That feeling was truly hard to describe.
"My Lady, he has already left."
Hearing the subordinate's report, Rosalyne finally withdrew her gaze. Although she did not speak, those who understood her knew one thing clearly.
This lady was in a bad mood.
The subordinate hidden in the darkness softly asked, "My Lady, should we go meet him?"
"No. The mission comes first. Don't forget, that bastard Tartaglia has already caused us quite a bit of trouble."
Rosalyne's voice was full of exhaustion.
The subordinate beside her wanted to say something, but ultimately remained silent.
As a woman herself, she naturally understood why her lady was feeling sad.
Unfortunately, the Tsaritsa's mission was above everything else.
Su Han walked a short distance before turning back in confusion.
Seeing him stop, Lumine asked, "What's wrong?"
"It felt like someone was watching us just now, but now the presence has disappeared."
"A foreign spy?"
"Maybe someone from the Northland Bank."
Su Han did not bother thinking too much about it. After Ningguang's heavy crackdown, they no longer had much influence anyway.
Whatever they wanted to do was up to them.
While the two were chatting.
Paimon's voice came from ahead.
"Hey! Why are you two walking so slowly? Don't tell me you secretly ate something delicious behind my back!"
"You were the one running too fast."
The three of them quickly fell into cheerful laughter together.
Night fell.
Su Han once again entered the dream.
This time he did not see that kind woman. Instead, he heard his own voice.
"Hurry… find her…"
"No matter what happens… you must find her first…"
"Do not… forget the promise…"
The voice was broken and intermittent.
Even though Su Han tried hard to listen, he still could not understand what that other version of himself was trying to say.
Until he saw a cherry blossom fall from the sky.
"Wait, this is Inazuma?"
Su Han suddenly discovered a clue, and excitement filled him.
Could this dream actually be related to Inazuma?
Or perhaps he had once traveled there?
Although the country was currently under a national isolation policy, if someone truly wanted to go there, there were still ways.
The dream had not yet shattered.
Countless fragments flashed before his eyes.
Su Han tried to record everything, but many of the fragments were only fleeting glimpses.
The first fragment showed a tree.
For some reason, although cherry blossoms were in full bloom, it did not resemble a fox.
Nor did it resemble the Sacred Sakura Tree from the game.
Where exactly was this place?
Before Su Han could think further, the second fragment appeared.
He was holding a katana, fighting enemies. Terrifying sword energy tore through the sky.
Wherever the sword energy passed.
Even mountains could not block it.
"When did I become this powerful?"
Su Han's confusion deepened.
The fragment flashed past.
Then more images followed.
He was injured.
Wearing samurai armor, his body swayed on the verge of collapse.
The sword in his hand had also shattered.
But there were no reinforcements nearby.
Because they had all become corpses.
Was this the scene before death?
Or perhaps during the era of the Archon War.
The more Su Han watched, the stranger it felt. Whose memories were these, or what exactly had he done in his previous life?
Fragments of the dream continued to fall one after another.
Until he could no longer support his body and left his final words.
"I have never regretted it."
"And I never hoped for you to respond."
"I only did what I wanted to do."
"Even if no one was there."
"Even if my life has completely burned out."
At this point, the scene shattered.
Su Han opened his eyes and discovered it was already the next day.
"This time I obtained quite a lot of information."
He sat up and began recording everything from the dream.
Soon his notebook filled with large amounts of writing.
After recording everything from the dream, Su Han began making deductions.
"Known fact: the location is Inazuma. However, I never saw anything related to the Electro Archon. My guess… this might be before the Archon War, or before the sisters Makoto and Ei arrived."
"Suspicion: who was the woman who saved me?"
This was extremely important.
It might even be connected to Su Han's identity.
"Question: what kind of war caused my death?"
The dream contained no detailed explanation of the war, as if certain memories had been cut off for some reason.
Only the most profound memories remained.
But Su Han was certain of one thing.
He was not the Shadowy Heaven Tengu.
Nor did he see Orobashi.
From this, it could be concluded that this was not that era.
Su Han stared at the notebook for quite a while but still had no clues.
"So I really have to go to Inazuma?"
He did not want to go too early.
His current plans were progressing smoothly. Even if he went, it should be at least a month later.
Otherwise, going now would only mean staying indoors every day. If he ran into that sly fox, he might even get exploited.
It was far better to stay in Liyue.
Su Han's plan sounded great, but a phone call disrupted everything.
Looking at the Den Den Mushi phone snail, Su Han knew the call came from Hu Tao in Inazuma. What surprised him was that after answering, a different voice came through.
"Hello. Is this Shop Owner Su?"
"Who are you? Where is Hu Tao?"
Hearing his questioning tone.
The other party laughed.
Her voice was pleasant, like silver bells.
"Hehe, don't be so anxious."
"As for that little girl, I've already locked her up."
"As for the reason, it's very simple. Pretending to be a shrine maiden from the Grand Narukami Shrine right in front of me and making a lot of money from it. Tell me, shouldn't she be punished?"
Su Han's face darkened.
A voice this sly.
It had to be that shameless fox.
This was truly a case of a fake running into the real one.
"So what do you plan to do?"
Su Han tossed the question back.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Yae Miko laughed even more happily.
"Let me think… how about you send me one hundred tons of pork, one hundred tons of rice and flour, and thirty thousand comic books."
Click.
The phone snail was hung up immediately.
This fox was far too black-hearted. There was no way to negotiate with her.
One hundred tons of pork.
One hundred tons of rice and flour.
He could tolerate those.
But thirty thousand comic books?
Do you know how much that costs?
A full sixty million Mora.
What kind of ridiculous extortion was that?
As for the Director's safety, Su Han was not worried.
Although the fox was sly, she would not hurt someone over this.
At most she would just tease Hu Tao for entertainment.
Mount Yougou.
Yae Miko looked at the hung-up phone snail and froze.
She never expected that the first phone call of her life would be hung up on so mercilessly.
What was going on?
Who did she think she was?
Someone actually dared to give no face to the Guuji of the Grand Narukami Shrine.
This was simply outrageous.
Hu Tao, who was standing nearby, finally could not hold back her laughter when she saw this.
"Hahahaha! I told you that you couldn't trick Su Han. He's way too clever."
"You two talked before? Or do you have some grudge?"
Yae Miko felt something was strange.
If a friend was captured, shouldn't he be extremely nervous?
Hanging up the phone like that made it seem as if he was afraid she would not carry out the threat.
Hu Tao shook her head and said, "Neither. If you understood Su Han, you would know. He's extremely shrewd. And if something really happened to me, I would definitely contact him beforehand. Calling him like this out of nowhere, he's not stupid. Of course he wouldn't fall for it."
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