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Chapter 35: Hu Tao Searches for Her Grandfather
[ Genshin - Scaramouche: I don't need Buer's charity! ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Sushang: Someone like you who is… wicked to the core, instead of choosing to atone, you choose to rewrite history, intending to erase yourself—you're nothing but a coward. ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Guinaifen: Shangshang, the word is 'wicked to the core'! ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Seele: Even if we don't kill a guy like this, we should lock him up to keep him from continuing to harm the world! ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Bronya: Seele, you're… ]
Knowing Seele as Bronya did, she would absolutely never speak like that.
[ Genshin - Arataki Itto: Hmph, this Fatui Harbinger isn't all that, choosing to run away! ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Xuanyong: Forget it, forget it, don't waste your breath on him; he won't listen no matter what you say. Someone with such a fragile heart will never choose to face their own past! ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Xipe: If even an old fossil like you says so, then let's just ignore him. He's just an inconsequential little nobody anyway. ]
…
"Next, let us play a positive and wholesome video!"
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Xuanyong: Wholesome? Happy? Do you really think I believe that? ]
Before transmigrating, there was a bespectacled man who also loved to say that phrase. Under his "stroke of genius," countless netizens spent one sleepless night after another huddled under their blankets.
[ Genshin - Kaedehara Kazuha: Wholesome... happy… looks like another one of those humorous fan-made videos. ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Aha: You old geezer, you're just being too sensitive! ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Xuanyong: I hope you can still keep that smile on your face in a moment! ]
"Coming up next:"
"Hu Tao's Search for Grandpa"
[ Genshin - Hu Tao: This title… ]
[ Genshin - Zhongli: Director… ]
Within the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, Hu Tao, who had been skipping about just a moment before, went completely still upon seeing the video's title. Her eyes were fixed unblinkingly on the streaming broadcast.
Zhongli, who had been sitting to the side sipping tea, set down his cup. He rose slowly, walked over to Hu Tao, and gathered her into a gentle embrace.
[ Genshin - Xiangling: … ]
[ Genshin - Xingqiu: Are we sure this is positive and wholesome? ]
Those who knew Hu Tao, friends familiar with her past, could not help but fall silent.
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The screen slowly faded into view, and a sorrowful melody drifted to the ears of everyone watching the stream.
A chibi-style Hu Tao lay within a small Treasure Hoarder camp. Because of the torrential rain, she was shivering with cold, curled into a tight ball. Not far from her sat a small cart laden with various toys, but resting atop them all was a photograph of an elderly man.
"Grandpa, Hu Tao misses you!" Hu Tao clutched the photograph of the old man to her chest, her expression filled with grief.
"Grieving" and "Missing" — a few small captions appeared around Hu Tao.
The scene shifted. A disheveled, dirt-streaked Hu Tao stood before a dilapidated temple, gazing up at it.
"The rain is too heavy; I have to take shelter here for now!" Hu Tao held her grandfather's photo in one hand and pushed her little cart with the other, eyeing the temple before her.
Once Hu Tao stepped inside, she saw the imposing statue of the Geo Archon sitting cross-legged in the center of the temple, with an array of offerings laid out before it.
"Hmm??? What's that?" Hu Tao's gaze was drawn to a plate of steamed buns on the far right. She ran over, gripping the edge of the table with both hands, her eyes locked hungrily on the buns.
"Wow! So much good food!" Watching the food, saliva couldn't help but trickle from the corner of Hu Tao's mouth. Her intense craving for the food and her starving state, combined with her disheveled appearance, stirred a deep sense of pity in anyone watching.
"No, no, Grandpa said you shouldn't steal food from the dead, especially not from the Geo Archon!" Though famished, Hu Tao hesitated, recalling her grandfather's stern warnings.
"Geo Archon, please don't blame me, I'm just so hungry. Don't worry, once I find Grandpa, I'll bring him here to make you lots of delicious food!" Finally unable to resist the fragrant offerings, Hu Tao sat on the table and began to wolf down the food.
"So delicious, it tastes exactly like what Grandpa makes!" Hu Tao stuffed her face, holding a steamed bun in one hand and a Sunsettia in the other.
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[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Kiana: Something's wrong, something's twelve times more wrong than usual. ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Theresa: Are you sure this is positive and wholesome? ]
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Bronya: I, too, have known the feeling of losing a loved one. It is agonizing. ]
At that moment, Bronya thought of Cocolia, who had been taken away by Xuanyong and vanished. A single tear escaped the corner of her eye, falling onto the desk.
[ Honkai: Star Rail - Seele: Bronya… ]
[ Genshin - Furina: The feeling of loneliness… it is truly unbearable. ]
As a mortal occupying the Hydro Archon's seat for five hundred years, Furina had endured endless solitude. Had her will not been so ironclad, she would have long since descended into madness.
[ Genshin - Neuvillette: Lady Furina, what is the matter? ]
…
After finishing the food, Hu Tao took out the toy her grandfather had made for her and began to play happily.
"Hehe, the toy Grandpa made is so much fun!" The grimy Hu Tao played on, a smile on her face as she toyed with the gift.
"Happy" and "Joyful" — more captions appeared around Hu Tao.
Just as Hu Tao was tossing the toy about, the string suddenly snapped. Hu Tao stared at the broken toy, falling into a sudden, heavy silence.
"Grandpa! Grandpa, the toy broke!" Seeing the toy ruined, Hu Tao instinctively cried out for her grandfather, just as she always had.
But after calling out several times with no answer, she remembered that her grandfather had already passed away—that she herself had presided over his funeral. Her spirits plummeted.
"Grandpa, you always fix Tao-Tao's toys… Grandpa, I miss you." Hu Tao sat in the corner, staring blankly at the broken toy, her voice heavy with grief.
"Missing Grandpa…" and "Grieving…" — more captions appeared around Hu Tao.
Lost in her thoughts, the grieving Hu Tao drifted off to sleep. Not long after, a pair of broad hands draped a blanket over her.
The scene shifted. Hu Tao arrived by a riverbank, and just as she leaned down to drink some water, her foot slipped and she tumbled in.
"Grandpa… help me!" Struggling in the water, Hu Tao still called out for her grandfather, though no matter how she cried, she would not see him.
Just as Hu Tao, in the depths of despair, thought she was going to die, a hand instantly plucked her from the river.
"Grand… Grandpa?" Pulled from the water, Hu Tao, thinking it was her grandfather who had saved her, looked up in surprise and joy.
But she was met with bitter disappointment. The one who had saved her was none other than the Conqueror of Demons, one of the Adepti, Xiao.
"I thought…" Seeing that it wasn't her grandfather who had saved her, Hu Tao's spirits sank once more.
"Eat. Be more careful in the future." Xiao had grilled two fish; he handed one to Hu Tao and began to eat the other slowly.
"Thank you, Adeptus! Once I find Grandpa, I'll bring him to thank you in person!" Even though it wasn't her grandfather, Hu Tao still expressed her gratitude to Xiao, took the grilled fish, and began to eat heartily.
"That will not be necessary." Looking at the disheveled Hu Tao, Xiao sighed softly and shook his head.
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