»»-----------► 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! ❝I'm going to kill your family when I find out who you are. ❞ ╰┈➤ in which the not so anonymous Scaramouche of Teyvat high finds himself being texted by an anonymous stalker! Or maybe just a hopeless romantic... ╰┈➤he says he despises her, and that he'll make her life miserable and perhaps he had planned to. Unfortunately when the two are only metres away it feels worlds apart. As Scaramouche attempts to heal his past and move on, he finds his forgotten memories resurfacing. Was this his karma? --------------------- ❝you never talked to me about this!❞ ❝would it have made a difference...?❞ ❝would you have stayed?❞ »»--𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐱 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 »»--𝐚𝐮-𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 »»--𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 »»--𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭!

Two worlds, in which morals and mystical beings once lived, split in two after the Archon War. Xiao stayed in his world, while Lumine, whose life was already decided to be on the other. The two once met in the Archon War, the Yaksha saving the 5 year old child from getting crushed to death. He grew fond of the child, but fate separated them, they now going their own ways. But that fate can be changed.

"I have... Been through a lot." Lumine frowned. "'A lot' seems to be a gross understatement. You're like a walking ball of trauma. Being enslaved and tortured for decades and then losing your whole family and then fighting this endless war, alone, seems to qualify as more than 'a lot.' Maybe more like 'constant suffering.'" "I have a contract, and it's my duty and my honor to fulfill that contract. Even now that you defeated Osial, it's still my job to defend Liyue from the demons that plague it." Xiao rubbed his Vision between two fingers. "I'm the last defender in this invisible war." "Hm." Lumine sighed and rested her chin on her palm, looking up at Xiao with big honey-yellow eyes. "Then who will defend you?" ◊ An interpretation of where the story of Adeptus Xiao begins, what he went through before our time, and where he will end up. Cover art by @tyabasirakk on Twitter