The Black

Chapter 1 - Lumine

Warning: when the author forgets the main character's name. Also massive time skips

Wandering aimlessly around Liyue's market, I was hoping to find vegetables and meat to cook. The markets were located under the old port where the wooden floor boards creaked and groaned every step. It was a wonder how crowds could gather in such a delicate location without the floor beneath them falling into the deep harbor.

Suddenly, a person bumped into me. She quickly apologized before looking up. Then I realized, the small blond, with a smile warmer than the summer sun and softer than a dandelion breeze, she didn't look like anyone from Liyue and definitely didn't look like anyone from Teyvat that I read in about in books. And next to her was some sort of screeching whinny toddler.

My attention went back to the blond's for a moment longer before continuing off in search of food. There are  three things men want in life. The first is food, something that I had been lacking for a while. The second is silence, which the screeching toddler rudely stole from me. The third is a man's secret. It is the secret of all men. The one thing that we would never discuss to anyone.

After eating, I joined an adventurer's guild. I don't really know exactly what they do but I heard in a book that it was a very popular guild in Teyvat that commission members to help others. I'm not very interested in helping other people, but I am interested in learning knowledge. It's quite ironic that the administration sent their laziest agent to gather information on the development of other nations. At least nice food.

"Oh you found it." Said Madame Ping. "I thought that it would be lost forever." Madame Ping put her wooden box of jasmine tea into her desk. She then searched her pockets for and put forward mora. Respectfully I denied it as my travel was funded by the Administration. 

"Oh you really are a dear. Well please except this as a token of gratitude." She instead gave me what looked like a key. "You don't look like you are from around here and you will need your rest. The Wanshan inn used to let me stay there on my way to Mondstat and so they gave me my own room. I hope that it's still reserved."

As I was too lazy to say anything I silently thanked her and began running off to the Inn. According to my knowledge Wanshan Inn is located near Baishu.