Genshin Impact: Awakening in the Darkness

After spending a few days in Mondstadt, Xuanqing and Xuanyue returned home. Here, "returning home" refers to Jueyun Academy.

"Xuan Yue, you're up?" Liu Yun saw Xuan Yue yawning sleepily early in the morning and sat up from the tree.

"Hmm...yeah, after sleeping underground for so long, I'm always incredibly sleepy when I wake up at this time." Xuan Yue rubbed her eyes to try and wake herself up a little. "I really miss the days when I could sleep soundly underground."

Liu Yun: "Hmm? Are you not sleeping well here?"

Xuan Yue scratched his head awkwardly and said, "That's not it. It's just that I'm in the form of a Golden Crow now, so I can understand the languages ​​of some birds and beasts. At night, their chatter is a bit loud and noisy. It kept me from sleeping well..."

At this moment, Xuanqing came over with a fruit platter: "I told you to go back to the cave to sleep, but you insisted on staying in the tree. Now that you can't sleep well, who can you blame?"

Xuan Yue jumped down from the tree, picked up an apple, and said, "It's not all bad. For example, I learned some things from those birds and beasts... Little Gan Yu is back, and she's in Mount Aozang now."

"I'll go check right away!" Upon hearing this, Liu Yun immediately flew back to Mount Aozang. Her precious disciple must have suffered some injustice to have returned.

Xuanqing looked at Xuanyue and continued to ask, "What else did you hear?"

"Hmm... Kong and Paimon have already run back. Also... when they passed by Wangshu Inn, they encountered a fake immortal who was trying to scam Mora there."

"I bet Xiao helped them and got that person to turn over a new leaf."

Xuan Yue nodded: "Yes, but Xiao Gan Yu doesn't seem to be in very good condition... Should we go and check on her too?"

Xuan Qing: "Let's go, they're all our own kids."

"go!"

--at the same time--

Bai Xiao: "This workload is truly astonishing, even though there are three of us..."

Bai Shi: "How has she always managed... The secretary of 'Seven Stars' is truly extraordinary; this sense of defeat..."

Baiwen: "Eh, you are...?"

"Aren't you Ningguang's three henchmen? What are you doing here?" Paimon and Kong happened to be passing by and saw the three of them sighing on the Jade Capital Platform.

Bai Xiao: "Ahem... She's Miss Ningguang's personal secretary, not her follower."

Baiwen: "Have you ever seen Miss Ganyu? Traveler?"

Baiwen: "She hasn't returned for many days since she went to Jueyun Karst. She's the secretary assisting the 'Liyue Septim,' and we're managing her work..."

Sora: "What happened?"

Bai Xiao: "Well, when the immortals came to Liyue to demand an explanation, although things have been resolved, the Seven Stars still hope to show respect to the immortals..."

"So we sent Miss Gan Yu as an envoy to Jueyun to report on the handling of the recent Liyue incident to the immortals." At this point, Bai Xiao sighed again: "But... in theory, Miss Gan Yu should have returned to her work by now, but we haven't seen her at all."

Paimon: "I see... Maybe Miss Gan Yu just went on a trip along the way? You need to relax after working for so long."

"I'm afraid that's not the case... Since we've known Miss Ganyu, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she's the most hardworking person in all of Liyue..." Baiwen immediately refuted Paimon's guess: "Even during her annual vacation, Miss Ganyu always stays at Moonsea Pavilion, citing 'I still have a lot to do' as an excuse."

Bai Wen: "It's hard to imagine that someone like her would use a business trip as an opportunity to slack off..."

Paimon: "Oh, I see... But she's half celestial, so she shouldn't be in any danger, right? And why do you all look so anxious..."

Bai Shi: "Well... of course, it's because of her 'unreasonable' workload!"

Bai Shi: "Sigh... When I first heard that I would be filling in for Miss Gan Yu, and with three of us working together, I thought it would just be a change of work environment..."

Bai Xiao: "Hmm, I never imagined that Miss Gan Yu's daily work alone would far exceed what the three of us could handle..."

Seeing the dark circles under their eyes and their perpetually bitter expressions, one couldn't help but sigh, "The bloodline of immortals is indeed extraordinary..."

"Speaking of which, I heard that you, a traveler, can also freely enter and exit Jueyun Pass?" Baiwen realized that the person in front of him seemed to have also met an immortal.

Paimon: "Of course, we've been there many times."

Bai Xiao: "That's great! ...Could you please go to Jueyun Pass and look for Miss Gan Yu before we collapse at our posts..."

Seeing their hopeful expressions, Soraka reluctantly agreed, "It seems that only I can do it..."

Bai Xiao: "Phew, I'm saved. I remember Miss Gan Yu said she was going to visit True Lord Liu Yun Jie Feng first. Why don't you go and look there first?"

Baiwen: "It's almost time. If we don't go back to work soon..."

Bai Shi: "No, or perhaps, shouldn't we first bring up the overtime pay issue with Lady Ningguang again..."

The three secretaries quickly said goodbye to Kong and Paimon, then returned to their workstations, where files were piled everywhere, leaving no room to even step...

Paimon: "Wow...that's terrifying. Looks like we need to find Gan Yu quickly. I remember that Lord Liuyun Jiefeng was on Mount Aozang, right?"

Kong: "Then let's hurry up and leave. Otherwise, the affairs of Yujingtai will be severely overloaded."

Mount Ouzang——

Xuan Yue was crouching in the corner, feeling utterly dejected…

Xuanqing comforted him from the side: "Ayue, maybe Xiao Ganyu just hasn't figured it out yet."

Xuan Yue:......

“Ah Yue…”

Xuan Yue: "I need some peace and quiet..."

Xuanqing (sighing and rubbing his forehead): ...

When Kong and Paimon arrived at Mount Aozang, this was the scene before them. Gan Yu stood on a rock gazing into the distance, Xuan Qing comforted Xuan Yue, and Liu Yun watched the scene unfold from a nearby tree…

"What's going on here?" Kong's voice attracted Xuan Qing's attention, and they came to Xuan Qing to ask what was going on.

Xuanqing sighed and briefly recounted, "An hour ago, Xuanyue and I flew to Mount Aozang to inquire about Ganyu's situation. The child looked troubled. After a brief inquiry, she revealed that she intended to renounce the mortal realm and return to the ranks of the 'immortals.' But Xuanyue could tell that wasn't the real reason. Then, little Ganyu said, 'Clouds roll and unroll, tides rise and fall, it's just the choice of history...' which completely thwarted Xuanyue... and that's how it turned out, as you see it now..."

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Paimon: "Just that simple sentence?!"

Xuan Qing shrugged: "There's no way to refute that... From our perspective, Gan Yu is not wrong. We can transform into 'mortals' and walk in the world, but it is unacceptable and impossible for us to integrate into the mortal world as 'immortals'..."

Xuan Qing looked at Xuan Yue, who was still withdrawn, and then at Gan Yu over there. Finally, he said, "I'm leaving Gan Yu to you. Liu Yun and we can't do anything about it."

Paimon: "Alright then, let's go..."

Sora: "I suddenly feel immense pressure..."