"What are you thinking? Scylla meant her former master—the guy called the Extreme Evil Rider."
"Hmm." Scylla nodded along cooperatively.
"Oh..." Sparkle clutched her head, looking conflicted, seemingly disappointed that she had not gotten to witness an Asura Field.
"Do you need him?" Scylla looked at Chen Li again.
"Not right now. Let him keep squatting in the instance," Chen Li said, shaking his head.
Scylla nodded again and said nothing more.
"Scylla, you had other masters besides my dad?" Sparkle's damn curiosity flared up again as she leaned in inquisitively.
"Hmm." After hesitating for a moment, Scylla nodded.
"Where is he?" Sparkle pressed on, her eyes gleaming.
"In a Weekly Instance," Scylla answered curtly, her tone entirely flat.
Sparkle's eyes widened as she sucked in a sharp breath.
"He's actually in a Weekly Instance?! Did you acknowledge Chen Li as your master and betray your old one just so he could pull your former master out of the Weekly Instance? What a tearjerking forbidden romance between master and disciple! Is this the local custom in Teyvat?!"
Sparkle's imagination had already broken past the speed of light. She had even come up with a title for the script.
"Don't talk nonsense. My feelings toward my master... Chen Li, are sincere." Scylla glanced at Sparkle, a trace of helplessness flashing through her eyes.
"How sincere?" Sparkle refused to let it go.
"I'm very grateful to my previous master. Though his teaching philosophy was somewhat ahead of its time, it was precisely because of that that I met my current master." Scylla's voice was calm and earnest.
Because only after leaving the Extreme Evil Rider did Scylla discover that there was no rain outside at all!
As she said this, Scylla's gaze shifted slightly, landing on Chen Li, who was squatting nearby