Shogun Scaramouche Au

Chapter 3: A.. New friend?

It was an early day in Inazuma, it was nearly 4 am when the Raiden wakes up to start his day.

"Your Highness," Sara speaks up, walking in on his room just as he was brushing his hair to get prepared for his duties of the day.

"A fatuus, named Shkrivena, has a scheduled meeting with you at around 7am. Another get together with the Anemo Archon at 11pm to 2pm. Just after that, you have paperwork to sign and the Tenryou Commission seeks advice for an unsolved mystery they need to finish. That's your schedule today." She stops speaking and hands him a written copy of his schedule for the day. Not much did he need to do since he had built a Tri-Commission with knowledgable and trustful people whom he has known for decades in his life.

"Thank you Sara, you can leave now." Scaramouche says, looking at the mirror, thinking deeply about how much he looks like his own mother, the way their hair color matches almost perfectly.. The eye color, the electro mark behind their neck..

"Scaramouche, my dear son, will you promise me something?"

"Of course mother, what do you want me to promise?"

"I had a dream.. That I die.. When I do die... Will you promise to forget me? And I do not want to assert control by haunting you with words that mean harm. I just want you to do what you think is for the better... Most likely that you will be the Ruler of this nation one day when I pass on.. But you don't have to, you can always find an heir, a true king or queen.. If that's what you desire, my dear.."

"Die..? I- uhm.. Okay mother.. I will keep that promise.. But, I want to rule this nation, to be a great king for them.."

"That's my boy.."

Scaramouche POV:

It hurts. It's hurting badly.. What is this? Human emotion..? I forgot that mother had installed emotions in me.. I'm still a puppet.. But I look human after all.. Sighh.. I need to get ready for the day.. I hope this one won't be hectic..

Soon later, I finished up my red eyeliner and makeup, I fixed my outfit and went to meet up with the Snezhnayan fatui. After that, I had a small conversation with Venti for around 3 hours until I had to sign paperwork for an hour or so and had a meeting with the Tenryou Committee around the afternoon.

Whilst I preferred some alone time by walking around the fields of Inazuma, a tall blonde male bumped into me, almost causing me to fall over but he caught me.

He held me with a hand on my waist and the other wrapped around my back, "I'm so sorry sir!" He said before quickly letting me up to my feet, "You need to be more careful with your path, what's your name? I haven't seen anyone that looks like you." I say as I looked at him head to toe, "My name is Aether, I'm currently traveling Teyvat to publish my books, currently this is my last Nation to visit and I plan on staying here for a long while before continuing to publish more books." Aether says with a smile as he reaches for his bag and shows me a fresh copy of one of his best selling books, "wait, you wrote the Legend of the Shikohukina? That series was my favorite.." My face spoke one of disbelief.

After a while, I treated him to dinner back in Inazuma city. He was a nice guy.. He had an Anemo vision too.

"So what are you mostly known for? Only being a writer and book collector?" I ask as I ate some dango, "No, not just books, Im known for defeating a god too.." I almost choked on dango, "Wait what?! are you serious?" I said, completely flabbergasted.

As the night went on, I grew a fondness over him. I let him stay at a hotel free of charges.

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