Fallin'

The Aftermath Pt 2

Childe dashed over to his brother, perfectly healthy and on top of his game.

Taucer yelled "Onii-chan! Where were you hiding? Taucer couldn't find you.."

The big brother interjected " Don't worry, as ojou-chan is part of your team. You won the hide & seek since she found me. I'm sure you can find me next time" as he brushed his lil' brother's head along with his carefree laugh.

Lumine tried her best not to show that she was quite drained after healing him. Standing normally as her strength still allowed her to.

Paimon couldn’t help but notice her sweat a bit, “Are you okay? You don’t look so good.”

The blonde nodded softly, “I’m fine, seeing them together kind of fills my heart with nostalgia of my missing brother, and how I wish he was here with me. Thank you for worrying about me, Paimon.” as she avert Paimon's concerning question.

Paimon agreed “Yeah! Don't worry. I'm sure we'll find your brother soon!” and hovered towards the siblings. Lumine followed, all the while worrying... (I hope i can hold on long enough without anyone noticing)

As she did not want to ruin the sibling's time left together from Taucer's visit.

Once gathered, Taucer was very happy, exhausted and satisfied with the time he spent with his brother.

After exiting the ruin guard's lair. They teleported and went back to the harbor to bid farewell to Taucer, but before doing so, the child gave the golden eyed girl a pleasing gift that made all the trouble he has caused disappear into thin air, as he whispered a secret in the traveler's ear before he boarded the ship.

Blue eyes was quite curious but he chose to let it go and come back to it another day and continued to bid farewell to his youngest brother.

Now riding a boat back to Snezhnaya along with a Fatui subordinate of Childe to accompany his brother back.

They waited for a bit until they saw the ship head out to open sea, showing only the figure of it.

It was a beautiful sunset that despite being exhausted, was very relaxing to watch.

That was soon ruined by Paimon's yet not so surprising comment who smelled Xianglings cooking from the nearby Wanmin Restaurant. – “Hmmmmmm!! Xiangling must be cooking! Let’s go eat!!”

The blue eyed boy chuckled, "As always, Paimon has a knack for detecting food from miles away." He gave a pouch full of mora to Paimon, here you go! – as thanks for accompanying my brother today.

Paimon shrieked in excitement and took it without hesitation, “Let’s go, Lumine!!”

Lumine, being at her limit – “You go on ahead Paimon, I’ll catch up.”

“Alright!” hurridley flying over to Wanmin Restaurant.

Childe noticing her, not moving an inch, “Are you okay, ojou-chan?”

“Y-yeah” with a soft nod, " healing me back there.” said the ginger head boy.

“Let me escort you back then! It’s the least I could do after healing me back there." said the ginger head boy. The cheerfulness in his voice was too obvious that his day was quite rewarding even after the tiresome lies he has created all day to protect his brother's dream and innocense.

The girl noticed this and was hit with a wave of relief while hearing his voice but knew she would collapse soon and she did not want anyone to see her in her weak state still, especially Childe since she cannot let her guard down with him after the Golden house fight.

“N-no! It’s okay. I can walk back myself. You must have a lot to do, I won’t keep you.” as she started walking forward to the direction of her inn, she was stopped by the boy’s grip on her arm towards him.

“Nonsense! I can def-“ but before he could finish the sentence, Lumine’s body slowly flopped and was easily turned to lean on his chest as she panted steamingly heavy, having difficult to breathe.

Seeing her in this state, his heart ached and he panickly caught her in his arms. Repeatedly calling out her name “Ojou-chan!? Ojou-chan!”, while she passed out at the site of the boy’s deep blue eyes and frantic face.