Chapter 546: Get the Intel Right? Forget Your Life!

Jean thought carefully about it. She knew almost nothing about Liu Bai's intentions—after all, Furina could not make decisions for Liu Bai.

Furina had only made a few minor empty promises, such as allowing the Knights' organization to remain intact.

—After all, whether a Knights order with only a handful of superhuman fighters remained or not was hardly an important issue.

"Eh... isn't this terrible? Sister, what exactly happened to Mondstadt?" Barbara was very curious why Jean was asking such pointed questions.

Jean pondered for a moment before deciding to tell Barbara about what had happened today.

"Forming a coalition army... was actually being taken under someone stronger's command?"

Barbara played with a lock of her hair.

"But shouldn't we know something about Mr. Liu Bai, the one who warned us before?"

"...We do know a little."

Jean nodded. After all, although these "neutral forces" each leaned in different directions, they still had ties going back generations.

"Liyue, Inazuma, and Fontaine have all joined that man's faction."

"Then Mr. Liu Bai isn't a bad person, right?"

Barbara's thinking was very simple.

"Hard to say... I heard that Ningguang of Liyue gave herself to Liu Bai along with several adepti and her subordinates. Over in Inazuma, Lord Raiden also became one of his wives or concubines along with her subordinates."

"Eh? Ehh? Th-that's way, way, way... way too unfaithful!"

Jean's words dealt Barbara a tremendous blow.

"What about Fontaine? What about Lord Furina?"

"...I was too embarrassed to ask." Jean had deliberately gone to ask the two people from those nations with whom she had some connection. "But... it feels like there was no need to ask."

"Uh... th-this..." Barbara fell into troubled shock. "Sister, you aren't planning to..."

"Mm..."

Jean clenched her teeth, neither nodding nor shaking her head.

"Sometimes...