West of Guili Plains, south of Wangshu Inn, at a crossroads, a troublesome little girl in a red dress was playing beside a small pool in a mountain stream, surrounded by lotus flowers and seedpods.
The reason she was here, of course, was that Liyue Harbor had become impossible to stay in.
After all, she had no desire to be watched by crowds of people gawking and shouting at her all day, or to be chased around. So with a single teleport, she had ended up in the wilderness near Luhua Pool and started wandering around at random.
Then, two days later, she had happened to arrive here. When she saw all the lotus flowers, she casually grabbed a seedpod and started munching on it, quickly digging out the lotus seeds, biting off their hard shells, and popping them into her mouth to chew.
"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm..."
(~)
"!!"
(ω‖)
"Ptooey!"
ε=(ˇεˇ))) Ptooey!!
"Lotus seeds are so bitter!"
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The next second, as expected, Annie spat out the chewed-up lotus seeds.
Annie knew that lotus seeds were definitely bitter if you ate them without splitting them open and removing the little sprout in the middle. But she had thought that perhaps the lotus pods in this world were different—maybe they didn't have those bitter sprouts?
But as it turned out, no matter what world you were in, lotus seeds were inedible unless you split them open and removed the little green sprout in the middle!
"Hmph!"
(へ╬)
"I'm not eating these!"
o(^｀)o
"Removing the sprouts is too much trouble!"
Splash!
Then, in a huff, Annie tossed the seedpod into the little pool in front of her. She couldn't be bothered to pick out the sprouts one by one.
(...)
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"Hmm..."
(ー`ー)
"There are lots of fish in the pool. Should