Love or hatred? (Diluc x y/n) OLD VER

19:The Jade Chamber

Third person POV
(Y/N) was withdrawing some money from Northland Bank when Zhongli, Lumine and Paimon came to find her. "There you are, Zhongli is going to treat us to dinner. Let's go!" Said Paimon. They went to have dinner. Luckily and surprisingly, Zhongli actually brought mora. A member of the Qixing, Ganyu, came to deliver a message to Lumine and Paimon and (y/n). (Y/N) was surprised, why would lady Ningguang invite a Fatui Harbinger? Did she not know or does she wish for her to serve a different purpose?

"Shall we meet up after your meeting with Lady Ningguang? Our preparations are not yet done," Said Zhongli.

Lumine, (y/n) and Paimon left in search of a way up to the Jade Chamber.

An hour later...

They had a gift for Lady Ningguang and they found their way up to the Jade chamber.

(Y/N) POV
I should speak less, I don't wish to offend Ningguang more than I have in the way that I'm a Fatui Harbinger. Does she think that I'm different or does she wish to interrogate me or does she suspect that I could have killed Rex Lapis?

We were greeted by Lady Ningguang herself. I was just listening, not saying anything. We were invited inside so I just followed. "Well, you see. I invited you here as friends, and in case you were wondering why your Fatui friend was also invited, I would like to have a chat with her. You guys can go take anything you want on my 'legendary' wall while we speak," Said Ningguang. Ningguang Said a few other things to Lumine and Paimon before letting them off and facing me.

Ningguang brought me over to a corner. "So, I do not wish to bring this matter up too often but I must know. Why has the Fatui been unusually active lately? Doing suspicious things, poking around the ruins and gathering information about Liyue's adeptus. What is the meaning of this? Tell me, now. Don't lie," Said Ningguang.

I took a deep breath. I didn't know everything because Childe is the one behind most of the action in Liyue. "I do not wish to betray her majesty but I can tell you this. I do not know as much as you know, the operations in Liyue are directed by Tartaglia. And for the poking around part, I suppose it's just trying to find weak spots in Liyue. As I said, Tartaglia is the one to ask if you wish to find out more but I doubt he'll say anything," I Said quickly.

Ningguang seemed to relax a bit, she made a 'hmm' sound and stepped away from me. "Well, you are a lot less useful than I thought you were. One last question, who is Tartaglia exactly?"

"He is the 11th of the Fatui Harbingers, he has another codename, 'Childe'," I Said, leaving out the fact that we are siblings. That small piece of information seemed to be enough for Ningguang.She didn't say anything further and told me that I can go find Lumine and Paimon.

I looked around the Jade Chamber but I didn't see them. I sighed and asked one of the people around the Jade Chamber. "They left not too long ago," Said one maid.

I thanked the maid and left in the direction she said she saw them go towards.

Word count: 566

This chapter is shorter than the previous one because I didn't want to stick too many things in this chapter.