There Aren't Many Adepti Left to Wreak Havoc During the Lantern Rite

At that, Lumine found herself unable to understand.

You were all already in the city. If you wanted to find someone, just go find them.

Wasn't she near Chihu Rock?

Once you found Xianyun, it was only a few steps to Three Bowls No Pass Harbor.

Wouldn't Shenhe make sure all you masters ate and drank your fill by then?

What were you doing staying at the docks and sneaking glances at Keqing...

Moon Carver sighed.

The fact that she asked that meant Lumine did not understand Cloud Retainer well enough.

"Just now, I heard all of you talking about some... mechanized kite. We have already guessed the situation."

"We were just about to head back home."

Paimon was still confused. "Didn't you come to find Cloud Retainer? What does that have to do with kites?"

Mountain Shaper said, "Paimon, there are things you do not know."

"Given Cloud Retainer's temperament, she must be in a fit of anger right now."

The two old friends filled in the details for each other.

Completing their "stereotypical impression" of Cloud Retainer.

Cloud Retainer was proud and arrogant, believing her mastery of mechanisms inferior to none.

She would never readily acknowledge these imported mechanical novelties.

"She must have shut her doors to visitors and devoted herself to studying her own splendid creations..."

"If we went looking for her now, would we not simply be making fools of ourselves?"

Such was the stereotype of an adeptal bird.

Those who got it, got it.

She let out a tsundere little "hmph."

Lumine thought it over carefully.

If Cloud Retainer found out, she probably really would do that.

But things had been perfectly fine just a couple of days ago, and they only wanted to catch up.

It would not take much time.

She urged the