Genshin Impact Simulation: Starting with Melsin's Friend

A crimson moon hung across the dark sky, and blood-red flames burned amidst wails.

Peruvelle sat up abruptly in bed, her red cross-shaped eyes looking blankly at the white bedding and the bright room.

This is... a fireplace house?

"Oh, Peipei, you're awake!"

Clementine's delighted face loomed large before her eyes. Peruvier rubbed her eyes, her tone remaining impassive:

"What's wrong with me?"

Clementine rested her index finger on her chin and recalled, saying:

"Well... in short, Pepe, you awakened the power in your bloodline during the mission, but accidentally lost control."

"Mu Feng stopped you, Pei Pei. After Pei Pei was exhausted, we brought her back."

Peruvéli listened in silence, then raised her hand to look at the darkness that had spread from her fingertips to her fingers, and asked:

"Where's the mission?"

"It's done."

Clementine waved her little fist and replied with a proud smile:

"We brought back that hypocrite's property, and Mother praised us highly!"

"Oh, speaking of Mother,"

Clementine seemed to remember something, and solemnly instructed Peruvieri:

“Mother said that Pepe’s power has just awakened, and for the time being, Pepe, you can’t overuse your power.”

"understood."

Peruvieri leaned against the headboard, her tone revealing no trace of joy at awakening her powerful abilities.

"Hehe... Pepepepepe."

Seeing that Peruvieri had returned to normal, Clementine squeezed to Peruvieri's side in an instant, and with a curious look on her face, began a barrage of questions:

How did you acquire such great power?

"To be honest, I don't know."

Peruvieri shook her head, frankly telling Clementi without any attempt to hide her thoughts that she was unaware of the matter.

"That's it..."

Clementine, who had just imagined a grand epic of an ancient goddess princess lost to the world, immediately showed a disappointed expression, but quickly approached Peruvier with a mysterious smile.

"Pepe, I'll tell you a secret,"

"You were really amazing back then,"

"Even Brother Mufeng, who has the Divine Eye, was beaten quite badly by you."

Clementine was enthusiastically recounting Mu Feng's dark history, completely unaware of Mu Feng, who had just entered the room with a dark expression, and Elodie, who was trying hard to suppress her laughter.

"So it seems that Sister Peipei is quite amazing."

"Yes, yes, you think so too, right?"

Clementine, caught up in the moment, didn't notice anything amiss and instead chimed in as if she'd found a kindred spirit.

But this voice seems a little familiar?

Finally realizing the situation was dire, Clementine turned around inch by inch, and gave Mu Feng, whose face had turned as black as the bottom of a pot, an embarrassed smile.

"Um... Brother Mufeng..."

"I just remembered I haven't tidied my room yet, so I won't bother you any longer. Goodbye!"

Clementine, caught red-handed talking behind someone's back, quickly decided to make the best of a bad situation and run away. Unfortunately, Mu Feng, who was well-prepared, was not about to let her have her way.

"Waaah! I was wrong, I was wrong..."

……

Three minutes later, Clementine gently rubbed her slightly reddened cheeks, revealing a slightly resentful expression.

You scoundrel Mu Feng! All you did was state the facts with a tiny bit of artistic exaggeration. Is it really necessary to hold such a grudge?

Hmph, Clementine has a temper too. This matter won't be over without a small cake today!

Ignoring Clementine's resentful expression, Mu Feng sat down beside Peruvieri's bed and inquired about her condition:

"Are you feeling better, Pepe?"

"It's still relatively normal for now."

"And thank you."

Peruvieri's usual expressionless face softened slightly, and her tone became unusually gentle.

"That's good."

Mu Feng breathed a slight sigh of relief, then earnestly instructed again:

"Get some rest and avoid strenuous elemental energy circulation recently."

"it is good."

"Then let's take our leave now."

Mu Feng pushed the reluctant Clementine and Elodie out of the ward quietly, gently closing the door behind them.

"Click."

The door closed gently, and the ward returned to silence.

Peruvieri sat up, her bright red cross-shaped eyes silently watching the direction Mu Feng and the other two had left, seemingly lost in thought.

……

Nighttime, Bufati Mansion.

Mu Feng lay on his bed with his eyes open, his mind a jumble of thoughts, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

It's been ten years...

Mu Feng held the turquoise Eye of the Wind God in his hand and sighed inwardly.

Today, his hands were stained with blood for the first time.

But he had no regrets whatsoever.

Because this will definitely not be the last one.

Mu Feng opened a bottle of wine he had stolen from the kitchen and skillfully poured half of it out the window towards Zhi Dong.

"No hot water available, Valencia, you'll have to make do with this."

Mu Feng murmured to himself, then tilted his head back and gulped down the remaining half-bottle of wine.

The spicy sensation stimulated his esophagus, but it was far less intense than the fiery water of winter.

Can children drink alcohol?

A sudden sound came from outside the window. Mu Feng turned his head and saw Peruvé's bright red cross-shaped eyes calmly watching him from outside the window.

"Pepe, people can scare each other to death."

Mu Feng gave a wry smile as he watched Peruvier effortlessly climb over the windowsill into his room.

"You seem to be quite good at drinking?"

Peruvieri looked at the scattered bottles on the ground, her tone still so calm that it betrayed no emotion.

"It wasn't like that before."

Mu Feng paused for a moment, then answered in a low, melancholy tone.

"Until someone taught me how to drink."

……

"And since then, I have never had a home."

Mu Feng clutched the wine bottle, his loose hair concealing his downcast expression.

Home...

Such a distant, yet so close noun.

Peruvier listened to Mu Feng's story in silence, and for the first time, a hint of wavering appeared on her unchanging expression.

"Isn't this your home?"

After a long silence, Peruvieri spoke softly, her tone enigmatic as she asked.

"Ah."

Mu Feng tilted his head back and gulped down a mouthful of wine, letting out a low, mocking laugh.

He raised his head, looking directly into Peruvier's bright red cross-shaped pupils, and answered in an unbelievably calm tone:

"Pepe, you should know very well."

"Here, at least here for now,"

"It's not home."

Peruvée smiled. This was the first time Mu Feng had ever seen such genuine emotion on Peruvée's usually expressionless face.

She picked up an unopened bottle of wine from the ground, sat on the windowsill, gazed at the bright moon outside the window, and, imitating Mu Feng, uncorked the bottle and took a sip.

Peruvée, drinking for the first time, coughed lightly from the pungent liquor, but she resolutely swallowed the fiery drink in one gulp.

"Yes...you're right."

"here,"

"It's not home."