Xiao was looking at the sky feeling something was missing, he couldn't know what it was. Xiao was sad, so he calmly went downstairs to ask Verr Goldet, the Wangshu Inn's boss.
-Hey, uh not feeling very well... can you make me some almond tofu?
He said that in a rude tone, but inside he was completely devastated, Xiao thinks:
- What am i missing in my life? Why can't i be happy again? What am i doing wrong?
He started crying and went upstairs on the Inn's balcony
"-Hey Xiao, i got your almond tofu! Xiao..? Are you okay?" Verr goldet asked.
-Oh? Yes...
Xiao grabbed the food while thinking about his life
Next day, while watching Liyue from the Inn's balcony, he starts to have a mental breakdown.
- WHY AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH? WHAT DID I DO WRONG? WHY DO I NEED TO PRETEND I DO NOT FEEL SAD?
He started crying uncontrollably.
While at Mondstat's tavern, Angel's share, A man wearing green clothes and a beautiful lyre was singing his songs, the beautiful melodies went trough peoples ear, one hour later after his performance was over, and he had already left the tavern, people came over to the unknown bard.
"-Hey! What's your name bard?" Said a drunkard.
- Ehe! I'm Barba- my names Venti!
Another day passes, and Xiao still misses that "special" thing.
Venti, incredibly drunk at Angel's Share starts to remember that guy who wore a demon mask, who was he? Why did he wear that mask? That is something Venti still has to find out.
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Date?
Months and months passed and Xiao couldn't figure out what was missing, then he remembers about his old friend Barbatos, the god of wind.
Xiao goes to visit Mondstat and sees a bard wearing green clothes, for him that seemed very familiar, he decided to ignore it, but couldn't stop thinking about why that innocent bard looked somehow like someone he had already met.
Venti, the bard wearing green clothes had felt the same feeling as Xiao.
The Yaksha was completely lost around The city of freedom. Everyone kept staring at Xiao secretly judging him for his "weird" clothes.
While just walking, Xiao finds the Anemo Archon statue, in front of Mondstat's cathedral. He looks up and starts crying because of his old friend, he climbs the statue and sits on it's hands
- Oh, Barbatos, when will we meet again?
Venti walks around Mondstat just thinking about The unknown Yaksha who wore a demon mask.
He looks up and surprisingly finds someone who sat on "his" statue, using the Anemo powers given from his vision he goes up the statue.
-Hey, who are you?
-First of all, who are you.
- Uh, I'm Barba- Venti.
"- Wait, did you just say Barbatos?" Xiao looked back with a mask on his hands.
Venti's mind: "That mask seems oddly familiar..."
- Well yeah! But there's nooo way i am r-r-related to him! I am just a random bard.
Xiao stared at Venti's hair and all he could think about was his old friend Barbatos.
After endless conversations, they finally remembered each other, Venti found out that the Yaksha's name was Xiao, and Xiao found out Barbatos "new" name was Venti.
Xiao was embarrassed, thinking of how he treated Venti when he came on the statue.
- Hey im sorry Bar- Venti, i guess that's what you go by now.
- Oh, no problem!
The missing feeling Xiao had was entirely gone, he just didn't realize it.
They started to hang out around Mondstat while talking about what they had done on the past hundreds of years.
-So, Xiao, tell me how it is to be one of Liyue's "guardians"?
- It isn't that hard of a job to be honest, i did worst things fighting dark forces, my life completely changed after hearing the tune of that flute amid a sea of flowers.
Venti looked at Xiao with a flushed face.
Xiao smiled for the first time after hundreds and hundreds of years, The "rude" Adeptus was finally feeling happy again.
