A Quiet Day

In the days after Vacher's incident, Wu Wanghai had rarely been this free.

Every day, he wandered around the Court of Fontaine with nothing to do. He just did not know what Furina had been busy with these past two days.

She was nowhere to be found in her little palace when he woke up in the morning, and she returned very late at night. Even when she saw him, she did not speak to him and simply locked herself in her room.

He had revealed the Primordial Sea Water ahead of time. Who knew what effects that would cause?

"Neuvillette, do you have any idea why Furina suddenly started ignoring me these past two days?" Wu Wanghai spotted Neuvillette passing by.

Neuvillette's eyes shifted as he looked at Wu Wanghai. "That is a matter between the two of you. Why ask me? I still need to go to the Opera Epiclese for a trial, so I will not disturb you any longer."

"Oh, then go ahead." Wu Wanghai nodded, then suddenly noticed that Neuvillette seemed to be heading for a boat.

"Wait!" Wu Wanghai reached out with his right hand and placed it on Neuvillette's shoulder, which was even higher than his own.

The next instant, Wu Wanghai brought Neuvillette to a Teleport Waypoint several hundred meters away from the Opera Epiclese.

"You're welcome." With that, Wu Wanghai tapped his phone again and returned to the Court of Fontaine.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~" The sky suddenly darkened again, and a light rain began to fall.

Wu Wanghai took out a dark blue umbrella with a speechless expression and opened it.

"The weather changes way too fast!" Wu Wanghai complained.

He had completely forgotten that it would rain whenever the Hydro Dragon King was in a bad mood.

The rain did not last long before it stopped.

After putting away his umbrella and continuing his stroll, Wu Wanghai reached a bookstall and unexpectedly saw a familiar figure.

He hurried over to greet her. "Yo! Chevreuse~ Reading a novel???"

Chevreuse jumped, and the book in her hands nearly fell.

Seeing that it was Wu Wanghai, Chevreuse merely replied flatly, "Mm, it is a newly released detective novel."

"Oh, so you like detective stories." Wu Wanghai replied.

"I only read them in my spare time." Chevreuse actually went back to reading the novel in her hands.

After a long silence, Wu Wanghai watched her turn several pages.

Unable to contain his curiosity, he asked, "Is it good? What is it about?"

Chevreuse slowly replied, "Mm, it is alright. It is the story of a young detective growing up."

"How far has the story gotten?" Wu Wanghai pressed.

"It has just begun. The protagonist's father is at the murder scene of an illegal smuggling case he solved." As Chevreuse spoke, she turned another page.

"And then?"

Chevreuse slightly turned her head to look at Wu Wanghai before continuing to flip through the book. "I bet his father is about to be killed by the mastermind."

"..."

"..."

The two fell silent again for a long while, until Chevreuse closed the book and placed it back on the shelf.

"???" Wu Wanghai looked at Chevreuse in confusion.

"It ended on a cliffhanger. If you want to know what happens next, you can only wait for the author to update it." Chevreuse shook her head.

Then Chevreuse looked at Wu Wanghai. This guy had waited beside her for so long. Did he need her help with something?

"So, what did you need from me?"

"Ah, nothing, nothing! I just saw someone I knew and came over to chat." Wu Wanghai awkwardly scratched his head.

"Are you that free? I need to get back to work!" Chevreuse said as she prepared to leave.

Wu Wanghai suddenly remembered something. "Oh, right. How was Vacher's corpse handled a few days ago? Was it fed to the fish?"

Chevreuse was speechless. Why was this person so fixated on feeding corpses to fish?

"That person? Over the past few days, everyone in the Special Security and Surveillance Patrol has been saying that his soul was taken away. But today, the coroner determined that he simply died from excessive fright." Chevreuse said, "As for the body of a major criminal, I believe the relevant authorities will handle it. If you really want to know, perhaps you should ask Mr. Wriothesley, the warden of the Fortress of Meropide."

"Ah, forget it, forget it!" Wu Wanghai waved his hand.

Chevreuse did not say anything more and left.

Watching Chevreuse disappear into the distance, Wu Wanghai turned to the bookstall owner. "Does Chevreuse usually mooch off your novels for free?"

Chevreuse had just finished an entire book here.

"Ah~ She is an officer. What objection could I possibly have if she reads without buying?" The bookstall owner helplessly spread his hands, then asked, "You seem to care a lot about that officer. I know a few things about her."

"What do you know?" Wu Wanghai asked casually.

"Whenever Officer Chevreuse has free time, she likes staying at bookstalls to read novels, so..."

"Oh." Wu Wanghai rolled his eyes flatly.

Seeing that this person had no interest, the bookstall owner lost his enthusiasm as well. "Want to buy some books? Let me make this clear first: do not read if you are not buying. If you read it, you buy it."

"Novels?" Wu Wanghai thought that reading novels might be nice when he had nothing to do.

At the mention of novels, Wu Wanghai's eyes lit up. "Do you have <Reincarnated as the Raiden Shogun, Then Became Invincible Throughout the World>. And also~ <Reincarnated as a Hilichurl, Growing Stronger Just by Eating Sunsettias>?"

Wu Wanghai became excited after saying that. He could finally read these two novels in full in the world of Teyvat.

The bookstall owner's face suddenly darkened instead, and he disdainfully shooed Wu Wanghai away. "Go, go, go. We do not have those here. If you want to read them, go buy them in Inazuma yourself."

Come on, could Inazuma's light novels compare to Fontaine novels' satisfying mechanical ascension?

This bookstore owner had a very poor opinion of Inazuma-style light novels that liked using first-person narration.

"Tch." Seeing the bookstall owner contemptuously drive him away, Wu Wanghai did not feel like being polite to him either.

The guy did not even understand that customers came first, and he was actually chasing people away.

Inazuma... It was probably still enforcing the Vision Hunt Decree and its national isolation policy, right?

Perhaps it had not begun yet at this point. But going there would still be truly dangerous. He should wait for the blond guy to deal with it.

He could not withstand that fragrant sword slash.

Wu Wanghai suddenly jolted as he thought of improving his strength.

Why had he spent the past two days just having fun and forgotten to grind monsters?

And most importantly, there were Primogems for increasing his strength!

Several days had already passed, right? It was about time to look for Lyney and his siblings.

Right, there was also the little treasury Furina mentioned, along with another whole box.

Wu Wanghai suddenly realized that he was about to get busy again.

After thinking about it, Wu Wanghai decided he should probably look for Lyney first. Furina's matter was not urgent.

Just as Wu Wanghai was about to use his phone to teleport to the Opera Epiclese and look around for him, he was unexpectedly stopped by a spirited young woman's voice from the distance.

"Hey~~"

Wu Wanghai turned to look. The young woman wore a dark golden formal dress, and the blue teardrop gem on her top hat hung beside her beautiful golden hair.

That was right. It was none other than, "Good morning, Bean Sister."

"Good morning, little brother Wu Wanghai!"

Navia was speechless. Thinking of the drawing he had made of her before, she could not help feeling like a sweating bean herself.

She had gotten used to him calling her that whenever he saw her.

After all, he called her sister, so she could not be too petty. She would let this little brother call her whatever he wanted.