The white-haired young man before her looked no more than seventeen or eighteen. He wore a sleek black trench coat over a white shirt with its collar unbuttoned, no tie in sight. He stood tall, his back straight as a pine. He had neither the flamboyant restlessness of boys his age eager to prove themselves nor the greasy greed of grown men steeped in alcohol and schemes.
He gave off a very casual impression.
Casual like the bassist who always stood in the shadows during a band performance. If you did not deliberately look for him, it felt as though he would silently vanish into the background music the next second.
But when Furina's gaze met those eyes, her breath caught.
They were pupils brilliant as molten gold, marked with strange concentric rings, like magma hidden beneath flames, radiating a sharpness that made her heart tremble.
Looking at Qianyi, who stood so close before her and unreservedly offered her that precious power, Furina's heart began pounding harder than ever, thudding heavily and powerfully against her chest. Like fervent drumbeats, it echoed madly within her, deafeningly loud.
H-Heavens.
This was clearly such an important moment, one that decided the fate of Teyvat Continent. Why did it feel like Qianyi was proposing to me?
And so, possessed by some inexplicable impulse, she blurted out...
"I-I do!"
Chapter 424: March 7th: What Do You Mean You Two Are Sleeping Together and Dragging Me Into It?
"I do—!!!"
Furina shouted at the top of her lungs.
Her cry was thunderous, its echoes reverberating through the Palace of Dreams for a long time.
Qianyi had only crouched halfway down to meet her at eye level and offered her the Earth Light, but in Furina's eyes, the scene had been heavily processed through a filter called