Albedo opened the door to his room only to find Xiao sitting on a sofa reading a book about Chinese history. Albedo's eyes widened before he sighed, giving Xiao a small smile.
"You're here again," Albedo commented while he put down his bag filled with forensic equipment, Xiao glanced at Albedo for a bit.
Xiao noticed Albedo's troubled behavior, he kept putting some of the items in the wrong place. He raised one of his eyebrows, closing his book. Xiao examines Albedo's behavior closely, Albedo massages his forehead, trying to relieve some of the stress in his head.
"Traces of the past can change through time... What do they mean?" Albedo mumbled to himself as he looked through the pieces of evidence on the table, flipping them one by one.
"What did I miss..." He added trying to solve it.
Xiao rose from his seat, putting his hand on Albedo's shoulder. Albedo flinches before turning around, Xiao had a stoic face yet there was a tint of worry behind it. Albedo blinked before chuckling to himself as he realized why Xiao was here in the first place.
"Ah, your medicine right let me-" Before Albedo could walk to the drawer to grab the medicine, Xiao took Albedo's wrist, shaking his head.
"I'm here not because I'm running out of medicine," Xiao stated.
"Then?"
Xiao stayed silent as he thought through his answer, his body slightly shivering from his thoughts yet acting like it was normal. Albedo's eyes softened as he gazed at Xiao's eyes.
"Hey it's okay if you don't-"
"The changeling killed someone again." He whispered, Albedo eyes widened, Xiao just saw a noble being murdered?
Albedo shook his head, he couldn't think of getting information from Xiao, he needed to calm down Xiao first.
"You go sit on the sofa, I'll prepare some tea to soothe your mind," Albedo ordered as he rushed to the kitchen to make some tea.
Xiao sat on the sofa like he was ordered, he tried to calm himself down, but the imagery of the scene is still clear to him.
***
A few hours before.
Xiao was finishing his job as an agent, he took off his mask revealing his true identity. He throws the mask to the trash can alongside his gloves. He walks outside the alleyway. His eyes widened once a little girl with crystal blue eyes passed by him with a nobleman beside her.
Xiao turned to the father and daughter figure, was that... the changeling? He immediately ran towards them.
"Excuse me, sir!" Xiao shouted, the man turned his attention to Xiao, tilting his head slightly while holding the girl's hand. The little girl squinted her eyes, showing her annoyance.
"Yes?" The man asked Xiao gave the little girl a death glare as an ominous aura surrounded him.
"May I borrow the little girl for a bit?"
"What for?"
"The police have been searching for her." The man looks at the little girl.
The little girl walks backward and hides behind the man, acting like a scared child, the man's eyes softened once he saw the little girl being scared, and he bent down.
"Something wrong?" The man asked with a concerned tone as he patted the little girl's hair, the little girl pointed at Xiao.
"That man was making me uncomfortable!" The little girl shouted.
"What the actual-"
Xiao sighed, he should've known that the Changeling had some tricks up their sleeve when they were in a child form. The man glared at Xiao, putting on a protective gesture. Ah, now Xiao himself looks like the bad guy, I guess he'll have to watch them from afar.
He gritted his teeth before leaving them alone, knowing what would happen next.
***
Yellow tapes were being plastered across the scene of the murder. The kind man earlier was covered in blood and flower petals, Xiao, behind the tapes, only frozen in place. His mind became hazy, he had seen many murders yet, this one made him sick.
The man's organs were almost coming out of his body, his pale body was then carried away from the crime scene to gather evidence.
"Why did that man have to die as well? Isn't he a good person?" He thought to himself as he covered his mouth and his breath became heavy.
"I can't... tell what the Changeling motive is anymore..." He mumbled trying to stay calm as he was confused about everything. This is too much, even for him.
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Crystalized Changeling (A HSR x Genshin Impact Crossover)
FanficA changeling, living amongst mortals, is now the target of Alhaitham, a spy from the Akademiya that was tasked to kill them, this changeling has been killing people left and right, leaving purple crystal lavenders behind the crime scene as a signatu...
