"Is it a secret you can't tell? Then I can only reluctantly suppress my curiosity. This battle alone has already satisfied me."
Naturally, Tartaglia did not believe Lumine's words. Getting stronger was one thing, but becoming this strong all at once was suspicious. Still, he was not the sort to dig to the bottom of everything. Since Lumine did not want to say, he did not press the matter.
"Looks like that guy was deceiving me. Then I can only resort to my backup plan." Tartaglia sighed softly as he spoke.
"What are you planning to do?" Paimon immediately asked.
"I originally didn't want to use this plan, because it will affect the weak. In the end, the world belongs to those of us who pursue strength. I usually can't even be bothered with boring, uninteresting weaklings. But as a Fatui Harbinger, I can't be too picky about my methods. Just like children sometimes have to eat carrots they dislike, I'm preparing to awaken the Archon sleeping beneath Guyun Stone Forest. That should make the God of Contracts unable to sit still, shouldn't it?"
"You'll hurt a lot of ordinary people doing that," Lumine could not help saying.
"I know. Didn't I just say that I don't want to involve the weak either? But who told the God of Contracts to pull this stunt? Since that's the case, then I'll just have to apologize. Let's see how much this God of Contracts cares for his people." As Tartaglia spoke, he took out a large stack of Talismans of All-Banishing Evil.
"So many Talismans of All-Banishing Evil. So you really were researching them! You only gave us one—how stingy." Paimon seemed angry as she looked at the talismans in Tartaglia's hand, but her words left both Lumine and Tartaglia silent.
"Mm,