"..."
Theresa looked at the newcomer. This was someone she was fairly familiar with: fair skin, striking long crimson hair with a slight curl tied into a ponytail behind him, and red eyes glinting with flecks of gold.
He wore a black-and-gold formal coat over a white shirt, with a red Vision hanging from his belt. He wore leather gloves that were black on the outside and red on the inside. Below, he wore black trousers, a white ringed leg strap around his right thigh, and black boots with numerous buckles.
It was Ruben... ahem... Master Diluc!
If it was Diluc, then running into him here did not seem strange at all.
As the city of poetry and wine, Mondstadt's wine industry was renowned far and wide. And Master Diluc, owner of Dawn Winery, controlled half of Mondstadt's wine trade. This meant he controlled the flow of money and the idle gossip of taverns. In a sense, he could be called Mondstadt's uncrowned king.
Yet this uncrowned king of Mondstadt preferred to protect the city from the shadows, earning him the title of the "Darknight Hero." And it was all because of his father.
His father was Diluc's sore spot. Whenever he was mentioned, Diluc became emotionally unstable. His father's death had left Diluc longing for power. Master Diluc had once been a member of the Knights of Favonius, but their bureaucratic ways had disappointed him. So he had chosen the path of protecting Mondstadt in secret, giving silently without asking for anything in return.
Diluc's past also showed that Mondstadt was not as beautiful as it seemed. The Fatui were slowly eating away at Mondstadt...
But none of that had much to do with her. Whether it was the Knights of Favonius or the Fatui, to Theresa... they were