In The Making | 5WIRL x Bodyguard! Reader : Genshin Impact IDOL AU

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Chapter Seven: Bodyguard

"WAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

A piercing laughter irritated your ears. You grew irked and sent a glare towards the ginger that choked on his chocolate milk. The day after that fiasco, you had called to meet with Tartaglia during your morning break. The two of you were able to slip away and go outside to the side of the school's building, avoiding any crowds. You told him about what had happened and he went off bursting into laughter and pointing at you.

"HAHAHA— AH, AH, OKAYOKAY." Tartaglia quickly backed off and quit this laughing upon noticing your hand lift up to slap him.

Once he had caught his breath, he begun to speak once more. "Haha.. For real though. You? A bodyguard?"

"Are you deaf? I'm not repeating myself, stupid." You scoffed, folding your arms and leaning against the school build's wall.

Tartaglia's sighed, shaking his head. "Ahh, you still show some resemblance of him. Honestly.."

You sent a glare towards his way and he flinched away. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding." Tartaglia waved off, "Anyways, you've seem to have quite the exciting events. You should take it on! After all, you said yourself, you're a free bird."

A caged one actually, you wanted to say. A free bird is what you wanted to describe yourself, but you were forced into a cage and had to agree to the bodyguard job in a way of saying 'sorry' to Alice. In the end, you were originally a free bird but then was snatched away upon being seen like some kind of gem and was forced to play an act for a magician's act. This magician's act being Alice's— her magic of mystery of whatever's-up-her-sleeve was a foolery.

Tartaglia seemed to notice your conflicted look on your face and patted your shoulder. "Don't worry too much. It's Alice who brought you into it, huh? Been there before..."

Your brow raised, confusingly turning to Tartaglia. "What do you mean?"

Tartaglia's eyes widened slightly as if he had just said something he wasn't supposed to. "Ah, well, I guess you can also say that I owe a debt to her. Um, how do I explain this?" Tartaglia placed a finger to his chin. "Oh! Do you know about that Gege I always talk about?"

You pondered for a bit. This "Gege" (Older brother in Chinese) Tartaglia spoke of was familiar to you. What was his name? Tartaglia seemed to have a close relationship with his person and always rambled on and on about how cool and majestic he was. This 'Gege' made you always question Tartaglia's sexuality due to how obsessed he kind of was about this male.

It started with a Z. It was something like.. Zho...Zhong..

"Zhongli?" You asked.

Tartaglia snapped his fingers with a grin. "Yes! Yes! I've worked with him lots! I actually see him every day on a daily basis now thanks to the mission assigned here. I've told him about you! Oh, did I tell you that he knows that I'm a harbing—"

"Get straight to the point." You grunted, cutting off Tartaglia.

With a smile he shook his head. "Alright, alright."

His hand lifted up to his chest and clenched his fingers as his thumb raised up to the sky.

"I'm an idol." He thumbed up.

"..." Your face scrunched up into a look of disgust and Tartaglia gaped his mouth feeling offended.

"Don't look at me like that!!"

"I'm sorry." You frowned, placing a hand on his shoulder in comfort. "You have it worse than me. I shouldn't have said anything."

"You—!!" Tartaglia's brows furrowed and his arms waved up as if he was a school girl getting angry after being teased by her crush.