Ethereal = Venti x Reader

Liyue Harbor Pt3

"Would you like me to escort you to the restaurant? Maybe I could carry you there, hm~?" Venti smiled, the girl shook her head.

"No," she added, "and never—"

"Ah? Sorry, didn't hear ya," Venti gave her a piggy back ride, "Whoop! Hold on, and don't fall! Hehe. I'm gonna do this more often, so you better enjoy it!"

"You never listen, do you bard?" She groaned, "Guess I could keep this up for awhile." She mumbled and buried her face into his shoulder. He could feel her hot breaths which made him blush.

"Resting dear friend? Alright! Sad though, you only get 10 seconds of rest.~" he cooed.

"I'm not resting, just getting comfortable dummy." She scoffed. Pulled away from the nuzzle and looked at his hat, "Mine now, thank you very much." She grabbed the beret and put it on her head. Venti chuckled.

"Y'know, this reminds  me of that one time you carried me to your home. Well, carrying me while being drunk and in bridal style of course!" He laughed, Y/N remembered and whispered, "yeah.. don't know how you still remember that after being unconscious..."

He carried Y/N into the restaurant, took about 5 seconds. She was impressed how fast he is, considering the height.. ah nevermind.

"She's here! Didn't drink all of my wine, did you?" Venti raised an eyebrow, Paimon groans.

"No, but Paimon ate all of the crabs!" Paimon did a proud pose, Y/N giggled, Paimon tilt her head, "Why are you carrying Y/N? Is she hurt!?"

"No! And if she was hurt then I would've brought her to the nearest healer. Besides, I wouldn't let a friend get injured after all!" Venti exclaimed, Paimon nods her tiny head, "ohh okay!"

"Can I get off now?" Y/N asked. Venti dropped her to the ground. Y/N sighed in satisfaction, "thanks."

Venti and Y/N sat on the table with Aether and Paimon. The girl looked at the beverages. Huh? A bottle of wine? Y/N specifically said a glass of wine, not a bottle of wine. She was about to take it but a someone did it before her.

"This waiter must really love me! Bottle of dandelion wine.. yyyeaahh!!—" He was going to  cheer but Y/N snatched it, poured the wine into an extra glass and gave it to him, "only a glass, not a bottle."

Venti whined, "Aww.. okay." He drank the wine in one gulp, "Oh no! Looks like the wine evaporated. Will you give me the bottle? I can promise you that I can pour it in myself!"

"No." Y/N shook her head, "If you're going to give me piggy back rides then at least drink a little."

"What... so unfair! Ugh... okay. Now I feel like Y/N's my baby sitter instead of a friend," He huffed. He grabbed a plate of the Fullmoon Egg and started eating, he looked mad but it was cute. Y/N also grabbed a plate of the Fullmoon Egg and started eating.

"Paimon's gonna admit, Aether and Paimon ate without you two! We were so hungry.." The pixie admitted. The girl swallowed her food, drank her water and spoke,

"Oh that's alright, I would've done that too to be honest." She said and continued to eat. The silence was ticking off Paimon, so she decided to talk to Aether while the two ate. Chatter, chatter, chatter. Y/N hated the noise, but she promised herself to not snap again, after what happened..

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Cling, clank, clunk.

"Thank you, please come again." The waiteress said. The group exit the restaurant and explored Liyue again.

"Paimon's so full..." she cried, "Paimon shouldn't have ate all of the crabs, crabs hate Paimon's stomach!"

"Psst, come here Venti." Aether whispered, Venti tilt his head.