Side Story (2)-Pom-Pom: "This is bad! The Astral Express hit someone!"

Dan Lei promised to provide resurrection services for this Trailblaze expedition, so Sunday said no more.

The real decision-makers of the Express Crew had arrived. With Star tugging them along, Himeko and Pom-Pom hurried into the Party Car, while Welt silently followed behind.

As a familiar face to the Express Crew, Dan Lei was the third-highest-ranked Aeon aboard the Astral Express, so there was no need to be overly formal with him.

The top two went without saying: [Akhivili] and [Aha]. Pom-Pom had the kind of relationship with those two where he dared to swing a broom at them. They were Nameless Ones, after all.

Dan Lei still fell a little short in that regard. On the Astral Express, he was still technically a guest.

However, once the doors were closed, Dan Lei was barely any different from one of their own.

That much was clear from the fact that Star and March 7th weren't at all afraid of Dan Lei's status as an Aeon.

So, unless he asked for something utterly outrageous, the Astral Express wouldn't refuse a commission from Dan Lei.

What's more, this time the one asking for help was Lumine, with whom they'd once traveled together.

And since Teyvat was clearly a newly discovered planet untouched by the Trailblaze, the Express Crew would accept the commission, both out of principle and out of personal feeling.

As soon as Himeko arrived, there was no haggling at all. She simply asked Dan Lei for information about Teyvat.

Dan Lei didn't hide any of the basic information about Teyvat. He told them everything: that it had originally been created by the previous Permanence [Dragon], that it had been used as a testing ground for experiments on using the Immortal Power to resist the Void, and that it had later