How Many?!

The video continued.

After a slick transition, Lumine, having calmed down, planned to ask Dreamseeker about her plans and offer some guidance as a senior. "Tell me, what are your plans now that you've arrived in a new world?"

Dreamseeker thought for a moment. "First, get along well with my companions... After all, they're all very cute."

Stelle suddenly thought of a certain quiet Little Dragon and a certain overly talkative teammate with a cursed mouth, and wholeheartedly agreed. "Indeed. Remember to watch out for the quiet ones and the overly talkative ones."

[March 7th: Wait, by overly talkative, you don't mean me, do you?]

[March 7th: A Xing, what do you mean?]

[Stelle: March, isn't that saying you're amazing?]

[March 7th: Really? You're not just fooling me, are you?]

[Stelle: We're sisters from different fathers and mothers on the same train! How could I possibly lie to you?]

[March 7th: So that's how it is? Sorry, I misunderstood you, A Xing.]

[Stelle: It's fine. I don't mind.]

[March 7th: Something still feels off.]

Lumine looked like she was watching her own unfortunate child and thought, Listening to you is like listening to you. Then she turned back to Dreamseeker and asked, "And then?"

Dreamseeker replied shyly, "Meet more girls and build good relationships with them... After all, they're all very cute."

Stelle then thought of a certain little fox and added, "Indeed. Remember to watch out for the ones who call you benefactor and the read-but-no-reply types."

Seeing the atmosphere suddenly grow awkward, Lumine stood up to ease the tension. "Uh... hehe... expanding your network is indeed useful. So what's the ultimate goal of this journey?"

Dreamseeker answered with the air of a villain, "Win over every cute girl and build good relationships with them, because..."

Lumine finally could not stop herself from complaining. "So it really is all for the girls!"

Dreamseeker replied indifferently, "What else would it be... Our banners only have girls."

Thinking of her own pulls, Lumine could not help asking, "Can your wallet handle that?"

Dreamseeker said unconcernedly, "My pulls don't lose the 50/50 anyway."

The two protagonists who always had to hit hard pity both felt stabbed in the heart. "That hurts, bro." (By the way, how should Yunli with E3 and her signature Flying sword, and red-haired Emilie with E4 and a claymore, be built?)

Thinking about how she ran commissions everywhere every day just to raise Paimon, how all her possessions amounted to a single teapot, and how she had saved several nations yet did not even have a weapon, Lumine asked, "What about saving the world? Solving mysteries? Breaking the terrifying schemes of dark organizations?" Lumine felt those were all mandatory tasks for a protagonist! As the protagonist, she could not possibly spend the whole time as a camera that only watched, right?

Dreamseeker said, "Of course, I'll leave that to the cute girls."

Dreamseeker said, was a protagonist supposed to bring along a mostly useless mascot, handle everything personally, fight monsters alone, raise an entire team alone, get ordered around every day for a few scraps, earn so little each day that she could not even save up half a pull, and become a tool who always hit hard pity?

Stelle beside her also said, "Mm! Nothing wrong with that."

[Lumine: Suddenly, I feel like someone is secretly insulting me behind my back.]

[Stelle: Me too.]

[Lumine: I guess that's the price of being a protagonist.]

[Stelle: Yeah. Protagonists always have to bear things others shouldn't have to bear.]

[Kiana: Huh? Then why don't I feel that way? Aren't I a protagonist too?]

[Stelle/Lumine: Lucky players, get out of the group chat.]

The video continued. At that moment, Lumine seemed to suddenly think of something terrible and hugged herself in horror. "Wait, d-don't tell me we're in your hunting range too?"

Stelle crossed her arms, looking troubled. "Don't be like that. I'm still young."

Dreamseeker suddenly popped out beside her and stared at the spot on Stelle that her own mother had flattened. "It's fine. I happen to like them small."

But Stelle looked at a certain place on Dreamseeker that was clearly bouncier than either of the two protagonists, and drool almost ran from the corner of her mouth. "What a coincidence. I like them big too."

Dreamseeker turned the tables, putting on an air of protection, and slowly whispered into Stelle's ear, "As long as you come to our place, you'll grow~ slowly~ bigger~ too."

Upon hearing Dreamseeker's words, Stelle instantly imagined something inappropriate. Her hands curled in the air, as though she were already kneading something bouncy and soft. "I-is this what they call late~ bloomer~?"

To keep the video from being banned by certain Crab Gods, our Lumine interrupted them again.

"Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!!"

"Cough, cough! The atmosphere is getting more and more wrong."

"Anyway, we're protagonists. We can't get lost in beauty; we still need to do proper work."

"I became famous across Teyvat through my solid achievements, didn't I?"

Stelle beside her refused to be outdone. "Indeed. I became famous throughout the universe without ever relying on my top-tier looks."

Dreamseeker looked utterly confident. She was the chosen one, with cute girls there to help her. "Don't worry, you two. I'll work hard to fulfill my mission."

Seeing their junior looking so confident, Lumine and Stelle felt that they had completed their duty as seniors.

"OKK, let's go."

Lumine had just stood up when Dreamseeker immediately called out to her. She thought that although the two seniors seemed a little unreliable, they had come all this way, so she could not let them return empty-handed.

So she took out two beautifully wrapped gifts. "Thank you both for coming specially. Take some souvenirs back with you."

Lumine and Stelle finally revealed their true purpose for coming.

"Great, great! Do the dears in my teapot get some too?"

"Right, the darlings in our train cars can't be left out either."

Looking at the two seniors before her, who had completely abandoned all shame, Dreamseeker, as a newcomer, could only awkwardly say, "Hehe, no problem, no problem. Then I'll add a few more."

The innocent Dreamseeker thought she might only need to add a few more people's worth, but she had clearly underestimated the shamelessness of her two seniors...

After another slick transition...

A courier with the character "Wei" on his face, dressed in a blue delivery uniform, held out a card reader. "Seventy-three gifts in total. Cash or card?"

Upon hearing Dawei—scratch that, the courier—report the number of gifts, Dreamseeker's hand froze the instant she opened her wallet. "How many??"

The screen faded to black on Dreamseeker's stunned expression and frozen wallet.

[Lumine: Oh ho ho, that's right! Though I possess beauty that could topple kingdoms, didn't I conquer Teyvat with my exceptional achievements?]

[Stelle: That's right! Didn't I, Galaxy Bat Man, become famous throughout the universe through my unparalleled strength?]

[Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail): Oh~ Then could our Galaxy Bat Man explain those seventy-three gifts and those darlings?]

[Stelle: Uh... Himeko~ I'm just a child, a child who was just born~ What bad intentions could a child possibly have? Lumine wanted all of that. At most, I only asked for the Trailblaze Crew's share.]

Upon hearing her guardian's question, Stelle unhesitatingly sold out Lumine, who had just been acting as her sister.