Unwanted Reveal

The begining

It been two days ever since Varka and everyone else is back from the expedition. The people of Mondstadt cheered as drinks were up in the sky as they celebrate their return.

A small little bard, Venti, was laying in the warm green grass below the shady trees. "ahh~ what a nice little nap. I sure hope that i won't sleep for another hundreds of year!" The little bard exclaim as he grab a apple from the tree and started eating it. "It truly been a great year this year....Ah! a drink from Diluc would cheer me up!"

The small little bard rush to Angel's Share hoping he would able to get a bottle or two. Once the little bard stepped in Mondstadt, it was full of bright, colourful decoration with petty flower decorated on people's houses. "Uhh..." the small little bard asked one of the gurad, Lawrence, "what is going on here exactly?"

"Oh! you're back Venti" Lawrence replied, "It just that Varka and his expedition team are back. I'm just so happy that we had one or many of our best knight back with us"

"Oh..I see.." the little bard said slowly..as his thought came to his mind -"Varka...The grandmaster of the knight of favonius..and the others as well are here...wonder what type of people they are...I should meet up with Jean first and asked about this."

"Ah venti! You must not had heard about them. They left on their expedition way before you arrived at Mondstadt." Lawrence replied again.

"Well I gotta go now! SEE YOU SOON!" as the little bard soon ran off on his own.

"Wait-t, ah..nevermind" Lawrence sigh.

"JEAN JEAN!" The little bard shouted as he run into her direction.

"eh? Venti?" Jean said as she watch him leaping and hugging her. "Venti...What do you want, you know we are in public.."

"Soo sorry Jean, I need to talk with you for a while pleaseeee"

"Alright alright let's go somewhere first" Jean drag the little bard to the corner to a building and slowly asked, "If this is about the return of Varka and the others, I will gladly answer everything to you as you are our archon anyway."

"Yea yea so anyways, how long have they been on the expedition for?"

"Around 9 months"

"What the expedition for?"

"Mostly on the Abyss Order and some other stuff"

"Rightt... Your mom and dad were on the expedition too right? You must have miss them"

"Yea..:" Jean said slowly with a happy feeling inside of her.

"Soo..about my identity being Barbatos..... Are you gonna tell them?"

Jean stop for a moment looking at the little bard wondering what to answer to him. "O-oh about that...I'm not sure yet.."

"Well...I'm not sure about that either...So lets just keep it a secret for now okay?"

Jean looked at the little bard wondering is it the best idea to keep it a secret or not. She stared at him thinking about it over and over again until she finally make up her mind . "Alright...BUT if there is an emergency I will tell them."

"Okie Dokie!" The little bard run off as he waved his hand to Jean, running toward Angel's Share to finally get a drink at last.

"Soo..Was everything you said was true?" A mysterious voice came behind her.

"W-who are you?!" Jean quickly look behind her to only find the Grandmaster of the knight of favonius looking down on her. "G-grandmaster Varka?" Jean said in the shocking voice knowing that he heard everything between her and the little bard.

"I'm taking that as yes.....now come with me to my office."

"Alright.."

The little bard rushed to Angel's Share to only find a lot people inside. It was very crowded for the little bard as he was being squeeze between people all around him. The littler bard finally got to the counter where he saw Diluc right infront of him. "Ah! Diluc right on time! Is this about the return of-"

"Yes is it and if you're asking if you could get more wine, I'm afraid to say that we are out of dandelion wine for today." Diluc said in a straight tone of voice while collecting the glasses around him.

"Aww..I guess I'm a bit too late.......Well can i get one reserved for me tomorrow? I could play a song or two"

"No. That does not work like that."

"Please-"

"No."

"But I'm your arc-"

"Shush!" Diluc slap his hand over the little bard mouth while saying, "Do you want everyone to know who you're really are or not" in a quiet tone.

"O-oh, sorry...I was thinking on my own again." The little bard apologize.

"Yea. That what I been thinking." Rubbing his glasses with a piece of cloth. "Anyways you might want to leave, more people would be coming in anytime sooner."

"Alright Alright grumpy face, I will take leave" Playing a few notes on his lyre. "Bye bye!" Walking towards the door waving at him.

"When will he learn?" Diluc sigh.

The little bard soon found himself walking along the building with flowers all over the place. He was seeing new face very time he walked pass. Eventually he decided to stop by the symbol of Mondstadt hero at Windrise. He stared at his statue and wondering was Venti and Barbatos different or the same. Nahh that was a stupid question he thought to himself, at the same time he wanted to know the answer too. Looking at how Barbatos and how he had a childish face with wings behind his back wearing a lose clothing that is long enough to cover his feet, at the same time looking very elegant in it. While Venti was just a cheerful, carefree boy who loves singing and hanging around without doing anything much. "Huh...Maybe there is a different between me and you.." He started to walked away from the statue mumbling something..

" I wish I was stronger..."