"Is something wrong, Cale?" Traveler asked.
"Uh, Paimon doesn't see anything over there." She shrugged.
Cale was staring into the nearby bushes and trees. He shook his head. "I thought I heard something." Cale turned back, eyes on the trail.
Rustle.. rustle....
"Uh.. I think Cale did heard something!" Paimon panicked, scared by the sound. "What is it?! What is it?!" She hid behind Traveler.
Traveler drew their dull blade, ready to attack a hostile foe.
A person came out from the bushes. They looked like a bard in green attire.
"Venti!" Paimon shouted.
"Hehehe. Did I scare you?" The guy chuckled like a jokester. "Sorry, I didn't mean to." He shrugged.
"Thank god it was you." Paimon took a deep breath to calm her racing heart. "If it had been a boar, Paimon would've turned it into Paimon's dinner!"
"Who's this?" Cale asked.
"Oh, right." Traveler could never seem to remember to introduce Cale to newcomers. "This is Venti, he's a bard from Mondstadt."
'Mondstadt? Then what's he doing out in the wilderness?' Cale found it a bit suspicious.
"Hello, beautiful." Venti greeted Cale cheekily. "You remind me of someone." His face closed up into Cale's, examining his features.
"Maybe it's one of those people from the poems you sing." Paimon suggested. "You always played love songs, yuck." Paimon stuck her tongue out in disgust.
"Are you saying this is like a love story, Paimon?" Traveler asked, laughing.
"What? No! Paimon is just saying that because in every love story, there's always a beautiful lady just like Cale!" Paimon quickly pointed at Cale as she said that.
Venti's gaze turned cold for a moment.
'...something's different.' Cale thought, not caring about being called a "lady". "Shouldn't we get going now?" Cale interrupted. He didn't want to be near his guy no more, Venti.. just gave him a bad feeling.
"Ow~ Does mr. Cale not want to be near me?~" Venti acted as if he was hurt, like a drama queen.
'You're exactly on point. So, if you know, please leave me alone.' Of course Cale wanted to say it out loud, but there was no way he could.
Traveler nodded. "We'll be even more late if we delay our journey anymore." They stood with Cale.
"Yeahhh." Paimon agreed. "We promised Keqing to help with the Lantern-Rite festival."
"Oh, is that so?" Venti smiled.
'Lantern-Rite festival?' Cale pondered. 'Is it like Chinese New Year?'
"Then I shouldn't stop you any further.' Venti went on with his way, waving goodbye.
"Bye, Venti!"
Paimon and Traveler waved back.
"..." Venti watched them from his back silently as he made his way out. 'I'll see you later, mr. Red-haired hero.'
"What's your name?" The slaves asked.
They were gathering around a campfire, in a campsite that could barely even be called "a place to sleep in the wilderness".
They on their way to become sacrifices, for the peace treaty between the Aristocrats and the Drake.
"...How come you're so energetic when we're being used as sacrifices?"
"Huh?" They were caught off guard.
"We're about to die, without even struggling." His beautiful red hair fluttered against the wind. "Don't you value your lives?" He glared into their eyes, his brownish-red pupils, so full with life and determination.
"..." They looked away.
"We don't have any choice." One spoke up. "What can we do? Against a mythical being?"
"Yeah.." Another joined in. "We're helpless."
"No, you're not." The man refuted.
"..What do you mean...?"
"There's tens of us, but only a few guards."
They gulped.
"Let's take their weapons, and fight. Fight for freedom."
"Freedom..."
"RROOOOAAAARRR"
The final cry, of the drake that terrorized the lives of the people.
"Hero.. what's.. your name...?"
"...is that really important...?" He asked, watching the people slowly dying in front of him.
There was a wind spirit amongst the dead bodies, weeping in front of a bard.
The man approached the spirit. "He's gone. You should let him go, I know it's hard to, but if you don't, it'll haunt you forever."
"..."
"He's in a better place now."
"..."
"Do you think he died, for you to weep in sorrow? He didn't fight for himself, but for the lives of the future."
"..."
"He knew he would die, yet he fought."
"...Red.. haired.. hero..." The wind spirit spoke in a low tone. It seemed it couldn't speak well. "Thank you..." It didn't seem happy.
A bright light emerged from the spirit, lighting the area with its brilliant shine.
"Ugh..." The man covered his eyes desperately.
Tap.
The bard, stood, in front of him, alive? How? No, it wasn't the bard, but someone new...
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A New Star in the Starry Sky
Fanfiction[Trash of the Count's Family x Genshin Impact] [TCF x GI] Cale enters the world of Teyvet. However, unbeknownst to him, a cult, no, rather, a religion worshipping him from the starting days of Teyvet had been planted and secured before he knew, and...
