As the sun slowly began to sink toward the west, another easy and pleasant day had arrived.
By the time Lumine, Paimon, and the others had set off with their dragon-slaying party for Stormterror's Lair, reached the halfway point, and prepared to fulfill the noble quest of rescuing the evil dragon, a certain troublesome little girl was getting ready to hang out with her new friend, who loved tinkering with explosive devices.
Well?
"Hehehe~??"
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Annie was clutching something in her hand, humming a cheerful tune as she bounced merrily along a secluded stretch of beach in the northern part of Falcon Coast.
That was because she hadn't stayed with Klee in that big capsule house at Falcon Coast yesterday.
For one thing, she couldn't stand the clanging and banging Klee made all day while working away and tinkering with things in her workshop.
And for another, she had absolutely no desire to sleep right next door to a nuclear bomb factory!
Even though she was already powerful enough to do whatever she wanted and wasn't the least bit afraid of getting caught in an accidental explosion at any moment, that didn't change anything.
So, of course, she'd teleported straight back to the little inn in Mondstadt to sleep last night. Then she'd waited until morning, until she woke up naturally, until the sun was practically in the sky and her stomach started getting a little hungry. Only then had she gotten up to find something to eat. After lunch, she'd teleported back here and wandered over to see how Klee's deuterium device production and installation was going.
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To her surprise, as Annie drew closer to Klee's capsule house, which was tucked inside a large cave in the seaside cliffs, she saw that Klee wasn't working today. Instead