The Tragedies of Life {A Genshin Impact OC Story}

Chapter 13: Breaking Rules

Kinoko left that night feeling so many emotions at once. The harbinger that was sent to find her was her friend? In her opinion, that would explain why  Tartaglia sounded hesitant to comply with The Doctor's orders in the dream, and why he didn't give Nahida too much trouble when confronting her.

"Don't die on me, comrade!"

Those words repeated in her memories again. Could that be something he said to her when they were friends?

More, he was looking for her for four years, despite Signora telling all the harbingers she was dead. She knew she was supposed to be dead. She was on the path to dying when she was found, and there was a scar at the back of her neck to prove it. This was why she always left her long hair down. There was some sort of plot hole in all this, something she was missing.

So, she was a monster. She watched her mother rot. She was turned into a human by Dottore. She was given a power. She got adopted by Signora. She was trained to be strong, but she wasn't. For some reason then, she got disowned by Signora. Something cold hit her head. She woke up. No memories. In the past 4 years, a harbinger was searching for her. Somehow The Balladeer knew she was alive, and tried to kidnap her to be his follower. He erased himself from Irminsul and went by a new identity. Dottore tasks Tartaglia to look for her-specifically, her power.

The power she wanted to awaken.

It was hard to sleep that night. She was too busy trying to find ways she could awaken said power. More, where was it? She had it, but where? For four years, she had always been weak, confused, dumb. But she didn't want to be that way anymore. It was boring to live life that way, not to mention she was a stronghold for something an archon wanted, and she would do anything to protect it. And to protect it, she needed to awaken it.

That morning, she started training against fungi in the forest. But they were too easy, since she had trained on them many times. She continued on her walk until she found some aggressive spinocrocodiles. Then, she made her moves, but it was so fast. It tried to bite at her hip, but she jabbed her scythe forward. She missed. It tried to bite at the scythe and tug it away from her, but she pulled back, and it ended up getting her hand bit. She winced, but jabbed forward again so it was wounded. She didn't want to kill it. She actually didn't know what she could kill legally.

Then, on her own in the corner, she tried to whisper things. "Unleash.", "Come out!", things like that to see if words would work, but nothing did. She needed to find her spark, the potential she once had. What sparked potential? Emotion? war?

Climbing back up Chinvat Ravine and making her way to the Akademiya, she decided to find the person that even saw that spark in her in the first place. What was he good at? Fighting. Rebelling. Giving her back her memories. Being such a goody-two-shoes was doing her no good.

She always found Wanderer in the library at this hour, though she didn't know why she remembered that, but it came in handy. She walked to the corner table where he always goes, and sure enough, he was there, calmly reading through some books.

"You're good at rebelling, right?" She started awkwardly, leaning against the table.

Wanderer looked up from his book, surprised and confused. "This should be good." He closed the book and leaned back in his chair. "Why?"

She sighed at the lack of answer, but elaborated. "Let's ditch today." She proposed. "I...want to have fun. The dangerous kind of fun."

"So you're saying I'm fun?" He replied with a smirk.

She huffed, knowing he probably wouldn't let it slide. "I'm saying you know how to have dangerous fun. C'mon, please?" She frowned, looking at him with a pleading expression.