3RDPOV
It has been a total of... well, no one knows how long the three-- four if you count in guoba, was walking. Yushiro was still in good condition. Chin up, and walking as if he was a royal. Guoba was also walking beside yushiro. Y/n was slowly getting tired-- but nonetheless can still continue. Xiangling.. let's say she was exhausted as hell.
A ton of things happened in the span of when they left. Guoba stuck in a tree, yushiro falling in a suspicious hole, xiangling almost eating a poisonous fruit (yushiro got in time when poor xiangling was about to put the strangely shaped violet fruit in her mouth).
The strangest one was, when y/n started crying. When yushiro and xiangling looked back at her, guoba was staring at the demon worryingly as the demon's skin was... turning into ash. They immediately killed a group of hilichurls and let the demon under the shade of their tent.
That was very strange, yushiro thought. Somehow he was reincarnated-- or incarnation, in this strange world of teyvat. 1000 years-- possibly. He lived in a cage full of unreadable letters and grew up there. Little yushiro often wondered what was happening in the outside world as he heard screams of agony.
In his 1000 years, after getting out of that damned cage, he didn't burn-- which startled him the most. He was a demon; how was he not perishing in the warmth of the sun and turn into little pieces of ash?
He learned how to plant, sell and make money and business. He'd live like that alone for years. Being in a family brought strange emotions to him-- in a good way.
The feeling brought him back some familiar.. oddly familiar. When he saw y/n for the first time, it reminded him of a strange girl that appeared in his dreams after he finally got to know the demon.
N..nokezu?? The name was on the tip of his tongue, trying to remember the name but failed. Seeing xiangling was also oddly familiar, especially when she ranted about how precious y/n was and how she was not an eyesore.
Yushiro knows he's a demon. Feeling his hunger when seeing human blood-- it didn't take a lot to put the pieces together. Seeing y/n and xiangling cuddling together, he finally set a goal for him.
Protect them.
Xiangling was surely odd, but seeing her kind gestures to him, made his heart beat with respect for her. Y/n was surely strong. Seeing her defeat groups of hilichurls with just a kick, he was amazed of course. And everytime he sees her doing that, it motivates him more.
He'd gone soft. He'd tell himself. In a good way. He convinces himself too. He knows y/n was strong, but in times, he also wants to save her from danger. Or just put her away from danger atleast. She was the youngest, dense-st, and the reckless after all.
Seeing her skin burn brought panic into the two, even guoba panicked.
What was happening? Yushiro was also a demon, why can't they suffer together? He asked himself. Why has y/n have to endure it alone?
Y/n was still happy and cheerful nonetheless of what just happened.
"Are you okay? Does anything else hurt? Are you dizzy? Feeling hot? Hungry?"
Xiangling asked in a panicked tone. The demon girl giggled and shook her head a no while xiangling sighed in relief.
What the hell was happening? She thinks.
Y/n slowly reached out to the sunlight, xiangling furrowing her eyebrows and gripped her arm, not wanting the girl's skin turn into more ashes. Though the burnt part was already healed, xiangling can't imagine what kind of pain would give her that. She doesn't like seeing her siblings hurt.
The smaller girl sent out a smile and a thumbs up, while xiangling couldn't resist as she sighs. She closed her eyes, waiting for some burning sound-- yet nothing was heard.
"A time limit?"
Yushiro furrowed his brows as xiangling looked at him.
"Maybe, she cannot stay out in the sun for long?"
She let out a frustrated sigh
"Y/n wasn't like that before. She even used to play with the kids all day long. We've been walking for archons know who, but we left in the early morning and it's just noon or in the afternoon"
Okay, this was definitely worrying the two.
Seeing the demon asleep, they smiled and laid down beside her, guoba going onto y/n's stomach as he also laid down.
Maybe, they should just continue their journey on the night.
