"You mean if I lie right now, the thing I value most will shrink?" Mona looked at Orion with a "you're an idiot" expression.
Orion raised an eyebrow: "You don't believe me?"
Mona shook her head: "I don't believe it."
Orion turned to the flustered Sucrose: "Bring out the gadget."
Sucrose glanced at Mona and silently pushed the [You Lied 2525 Type II] forward: "This is the lie detector."
Mona nodded: "Then what should I do?"
Yunli shifted her long white leg, which was resting on Orion's lap: "Just say any lie."
Mona thought for a moment and said: "I ate until I was very full today."
"Ding ding ding!"
"Wow! It really rang!" Mona picked up the alarm clock with great interest and fiddled with it curiously.
Orion was speechless. Don't go grazing at the gates of Mondstadt one day, right? Since you're in the blue color scheme, a support-type character like you would probably be the bassist if you formed a band.
After fiddling with [You Lied], Mona immediately checked her body, but it didn't seem to have changed.
She waved her hand, took out her hydro astrolabe, and measured it with her hand.
"Doesn't seem to have changed." She put the hydro astrolabe away, thought for a moment, and then took out her purse and shook it.
"No change there either."
Since the hydro astrolabe and her purse were fine, Mona figured the potion was more likely to affect the human body, so she touched her chest—still B-cup.
"No change here either, and the back... no change there either?"
Mona was truly confused. She had always been satisfied with her figure; compared to a small frame with two huge 'thunders', she preferred a balanced figure.
If even her figure hadn't changed, what could have changed?
Mona simply spoke to [You Lied] again: "I was full yesterday, I was full the day before yesterday, I was full three days ago..."
"Ding ding ding ding ding..." The lie detector rang non-stop.
Orion covered his face. Just how long has it been since you ate properly?
Mona stopped shouting and looked at Sucrose: "Your potion doesn't seem to work? Is it because I have strong immunity and high drug resistance?"
Sucrose didn't dare to be certain because he didn't know what had changed about Orion.
Subconsciously, he looked at Orion and suddenly made a sound of confusion: "Eh? Senior Orion, have you... have you shrunk?"
"Huh?" Orion pointed at himself in confusion. Mona and Yunli also looked over, then were shocked: "He shrunk! He really shrunk a bit! It's not a local change; your whole person has shrunk!"
Orion was dumbfounded. And you said what you developed wasn't a magic potion?
He measured himself, then suddenly realized his line of sight was indeed lower.
"No, why do I shrink when you lie?"
After pondering for a moment, Mona seemed to have an answer. She whispered to herself: "Ah, so that's it. If you become a child, not only do you change, but the birth time of my five children will also be delayed. In other words, it actually changed for six people at once!"
"What are you muttering about?" Orion patted her back: "Hurry up and say some truths to change me back! Otherwise, I'll have to revert to my original form to refresh my status!"
Mona didn't understand the logic of reverting to the original form to refresh the curse, nor did she know that no matter how powerful the potion was, it only affected Orion in his mimetic state.
Seeing that Orion seemed quite anxious, Mona tried saying a few truths: "I, when I was starving in Mondstadt, I ate some small lamp grass picked in the wild. As a result, my mouth glowed when I walked down the street at night, looking like a will-o'-the-wisp from afar."
Everyone:...
Orion clapped for her: "As expected of you, daring to eat lamps by mistake."
"What are you talking about..."
Just as everyone was testing if Orion had grown back, a figure flashed in the square. A figure in a purple princess dress with white stockings and a flying bird appeared before them.
"Eh? So many people." Fischl muttered softly, then suddenly remembered her persona and coughed: "Ahem! This Princess was wondering why my knight and my imperial advisor were not in the Pure Land, and it turns out you are all here drinking tea and having fun. Why didn't you notify this Princess?"
The Princess lifted her skirt and walked up the steps with an elegant gait. The Demonized Sanzang Beast actually stood up, acting very much in character, and put his hands together in a salute: "Your Highness."
"No need for formalities." Fischl waved her hand, then looked at Mona: "Oh? My court astrologer, you are here too?"
Mona smiled, took a cup, and poured a liquid that looked like orange juice: "The Princess must be thirsty, right? Have a cup of truth serum to moisten your throat."
Everyone:...
Fischl took the teacup with some confusion, sniffed it suspiciously, and it seemed very sweet.
She didn't pay much attention and gulped it down.
Then Mona pressed her onto the chair: "Hahahaha! You fell for it! Let me tell you..."
Another explanation followed, and Fischl felt more and more numb the more she listened. Did you let me drink that on purpose just now?
Fischl turned to look at [You Lied]: "This Princess is all alone, it was so in the past, it is so now, and it will be so in the future!" (I have someone I like, but I was single before, I am single now, and I won't date in the future!)
"Ding ding ding!"
The Princess's words were immediately interrupted, and the alarm actually rang.
The Princess first looked at the ring on her hand that Orion had personally prepared for her, but thankfully, there was no change.
Then she began to check the clothes on her body; still no change.
Fischl's heart sank. Neither of the two things Orion gave her had changed. Could it be at home...
Just then, Yunli suddenly said again: "Eh? Why did you shrink again?"
Fischl looked back and saw that the annoying little girl who had been resting her legs on her knight had stood up and was measuring Orion's height with her hand.
Orion seemed even more infantile than before.
Fischl was shocked. No, can it affect others too?
Orion was also numb, but he wasn't anxious. After checking himself earlier and finding that reverting to his original form could refresh his status, he wasn't worried. Instead, he decided to take this opportunity to listen to the secrets of this group of little girls. Ignoring the situation, he pretended to be anxious and said to the two: "You two, hurry up and tell your secrets! Otherwise, I don't know what I'll shrink into!"
Fischl panicked for a rare moment and blurted out: "This Princess has been studying Joyful Zen recently!"
Demonized Sanzang Beast:...
She felt Orion's gaze. Oh no, Master won't beat me up, will he?
Just as she was about to explain herself, light flashed in the square again. Lumine, Paimon, and Noelle returned.
"Eh? So many people."
Noelle came to the side to serve, while Lumine and Paimon walked over to greet Mona and the others.
But Lumine soon noticed something was wrong.
Why is this guy Orion 12.365% percentage points more infantile than usual today?
After some questioning by Lumine, he was informed of the effects of the potion developed by Sucrose.
Lumine's eyes widened instantly.
"Which one is the medicine?" He asked.
Orion pointed to the potion bottle remaining on the table.
Lumine didn't say a word, picked up the bottle, unleashed a small tornado, and downed it in one go. Then, before everyone could react, his little mouth started firing off lies like a machine gun: "I'm not a Shota-con, I don't miss my brother, I don't like my master, I..."
Orion immediately felt his body starting to become infantile: "Oh oh oh oh! Stop! You jerk, stop quickly! Yamete!!!!!!"
By the time everyone came to their senses, Lumine's mouth had spun three thousand times a second and was dry. Looking at Orion, he had turned into the appearance of a little Shota.
Lumine put his hands on his hips and laughed: "Hahahaha! Master, now even if you are in a mimetic state, you are a Shota! Just submit to your disciple!"
"Get lost, you rebellious disciple who attacks his master!"
"Wait! Lumine! What are you going to do to this cute... what are you going to do to my knight?!"
"No, don't keep chanting! Doesn't this mean the birth time of Hofnar and the others will be delayed indefinitely?!"
"Is my medicine that effective?! I have to record all of this down!"
"Ah! Senior, Senior is so cute! Is this nursing impulse of mine also a continuation of the maid spirit?!"
"Holy crap, get off me! What is this?! Why does the Giant Spider have a skill like [Beauty of the Red Face EX]?! Help me!!!"
"Wow! Sister Clara! Look, Brother has become the same size as me!"
"He's still a bit bigger than you, little Klee..."
The entire scene was in total chaos.
Skirk covered his face in a headache, but out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the Demonized Sanzang Beast wearing a strange smile.
Skirk was stunned: "What are you going to do?"
The Demonized Sanzang Beast pinched a mudra, and lotuses grew under his feet: "Propagating our sect—Joyful Zen!"
Skirk rushed out instantly, his body almost accelerating to the speed of sound. He grabbed little Klee and stuffed him into Sucrose's arms: "Quick! Take the child out!"
Then he grabbed Paimon and looked back. The Demonized Sanzang Beast's mudra was already cast. He clicked his tongue: "Only enough to save Paimon, huh."
Then he disappeared from the square.
With Orion as the center, pink mist filled the air, and the Sanzomon's kasaya fell to the ground.
"Namo Ratna Trayaya Namo Arya Avalokitesvara... Life is short, happiness is long, my Buddha—Mercy."
Then, stepping on lotus flowers, he stepped into the mist.
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