Genshin Impact On Crack & Oneshots

He Lies And Lies Until He Falls Part 1

Notes:

paimon does not exist in this AU

"Lumine." Childe called out to her.

She turned around, an angelic smile on her face.

"Yes?"

"My family has traveled to Sumeru for a vacation, would you like to come with us?" He asked.

"I'll see if I can. I still have important commissions that need to be dealt with, I still need to look at the Ministry of Civil Affairs bounties and requests, so after that, I should be good!" Lumine grinned.

"Take your time, Lumi."

At the end of the day, after she had finished, she ran to Northland Bank, which was empty, much to her surprise. She didn't put much thought into it, burst into Childe's office and proudly told him that she could go.

Truth be told, his family didn't go to Surmeru for a vacation. His family was gone, the Tsaritsa commanded that the Fatui be disbanded, the Harbingers disappeared, for he was the only one.

He needed Lumine to go with him to Sumeru, so she and him could be safe, for Sumeru had the seeds.

He couldn't tell her this, for this would make her worry too much. So he lied. He lied to protect her from the burden of wondering if the world would be destroyed.

"—Oh! And I have a question, Childe!" Lumine's voice cut into his thoughts.

"Yes, ojou-chan?"

"Why is the bank empty? Where's Ekaterina?" Lumine cocked her head.

'shit,' Childe thought. What was he going to tell her?

"She's also on vacation with the other agents in Snezhnaya."

That was a really horrible lie. Snezhnaya didn't exist anymore, for the entire nation's people had been transformed into the hilichurls of the world.

Thank the Archons that Lumine was oblivious.

"Oh! Okay . . . " Lumine's smile had disappeared.

Childe felt guilty.

"Well, I suppose we must leave now, ojou-chan. My family is waiting," he said, picking up a bag full of supplies.

"Yeah, you're right." Lumine picked up a bag of her own, and walked out the door of his office.

The streets of Liyue weren't bustling with chatter anymore, it was strangely silent. They had all left their homes, in search of the haven. The Tsaritsa had the liberty of telling him the haven located in Snezhnaya, but the information was useless to him.

The Liyue Qixing, disbanded. Keqing, Ningguang, and Ganyu had traveled to the haven in Liyue.

That 'goddess' that Lumine spoke of with such spite was the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles, the Tsaritsa spoke, her tone dripping in venom.

From the way his former queen spoke of the goddess, the Sustainer resided in Celestia, she was the one who commanded the gods to destroy Khaenri'ah for being too advanced, for the nation had no Archon, only mortals.

Cruel, indeed was the Sustainer. Lumine had shared with Childe the exact wording that cruel goddess used against her and her dear twin.

"The arrogation of mankind ends now!" Lumine imitated, trying to copy the god's voice.

Childe was not an idiot and pieced the puzzle together.

The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles, along with other gods had destroyed Khaenri'ah with a pathetic excuse of that the nation was the pride of humanity, and so to show the mortals of the nation who was really in charge by destroying their home. After, Khaenri'ah's people disappeared. No one knew what happened to them, but after the citizens of Khaenri'ah disappeared, the Abyss Order and the hilichurls of the world had appeared.