To Defeat Evil in This World

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When Venti, Aether, Paimon, Siegfried, and Jean exit the Cathedral, Venti was ambushed by two Fatui Pyro Agents.

Siegfried and Aether quickly move in the protect Venti and push the agents back. Aether chase after them, but the disappear into the shadows. Siegfried quickly react by pushing Venti away as a burst of Cryo energy freeze him and Aether in place. Jean came in to help, but her entire body frozen before she could even utter a word. Paimon was turn into a block of ice and fly into a bush.

???: At last, Mondstadt's rodent ruler in the flesh.

La Signora, the Fair Lady. The Eighth of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers.

Behind her are two Electro Cicin Mage and a man wearing a well dress suit and wearing a mask that cover his face.

Venti: The Fatui Harbinger and...!

La Signora: Scurrying through the streets, looking for leftovers... Mondstadt call this a god?

Before La Signora can mock Venti more, the masked man behind her silence her.

???: Enough of your mockery, Signora. You shouldn't mock a god who is doing his divine origin. And don't let me remind you that you failed to secure the Holy Lyre as a bargaining chip with Snezhnaya and Mondstadt. 

Grigori Rasputin, the Royal Guard.

La Signora: Tsk.

Siegfried: Damn it... I didn't think that you would show up. I thought you only appear under the Tsaritsa's orders.

Grigori Rasputin: That is why I am here. Due to the Eighth Harbinger mistake, I am here under Her Majesty's order to acquire what we are here for.

Venti: And what are you here for?

Grigori Rasputin: You...

With a blink of an eye, Grigori unsheathe his sword and freeze Venti in place and sheathe his sword back to its scabbard.

Siegfried quickly break through Signora's ice and charge at him with his sword raise ready to strike. But Grigori Rasputin quickly counter sending a kick to his treasure part, forcing Siegfried to protect his buddy, but it was a fake and Rasputin slam his fist on Siegfried's face toward the ground, breaking the pavement.

Paimon: Oh god...

Aether: I think I felt his skull cracked...

Rasputin then put him in a block of ice, immobilizing him.

Venti quickly break the ice restricting him, but La Signora stop that by shoving her hand into his chest and grabbing a chest piece. Holding the chess piece in the air to show it to the world.

La Signora: So. This is a Gnosis? What a thing to wear in public.

Venti: Beauty is a waste... when the beholder has no taste...

Before La Signora can kick him out of spite and disgust, Grigori Rasputin give her the look and that stops Signora from what she was doing.

Grigori Rasputin: That's why no one respects you. You lack etiquette and elegance like Her Majesty.

La Signora: Shut up...

Venti was on ground weak as the Gnosis was forcibly taken from him. La Signora give the Gnosis to Grigori Rasputin who put it in his pocket.

Venti: Do you understand what are you doing... If you take the Gnosis, then...

Grigori Rasputin: All according to Her Majesty's will. We known what we are doing.

Venti: Are you crazy...!? Do you want to repeat that calamity 500 years ago!?

Grigori Rasputin: What Her Majesty is doing is for all. Unlike you Archons, she has the will to rebel the Heavens will will and determination.

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