Festival Approaches

(Brain Storage)

"What?" Hearing the young man's words, Furina sat up in bed and looked at Lin Yiyi in confusion.

"...It's nothing." Realizing he had lost his composure a little, he regained his usual calm.

As the Traveler, he felt that he truly owed Furina an apology.

"It's really nothing. Those things are already in the past. Let those memories vanish into the river of time and go where they will."

"Hey, Traveler, why did you post pictures of me and that adeptus?"

"Uploading other people's photos without permission—if I were still at the Palais Mermonia, I'd have sent you straight to court."

Furina did not seem particularly bothered by the fact that he had betrayed her before. Standing by the window and listening to her nagging, Lin Yiyi smiled helplessly. "I just wanted more people to understand you."

"Fine, then I shall pardon your insolence." Furina lay back down on the bed and played with Lin Yiyi's phone.

This thing was really interesting!

Lin Yiyi slipped under the covers and lay beside Furina—this was a double bed, but the lady did not seem to mind someone sleeping beside her.

Probably because she trusted him.

Drowsiness washed over him. The young man turned off the lights and gradually fell asleep, leaving Furina alone to fiddle with the phone, chuckling softly from time to time.

Until she closed her eyes as well.

"Have you figured out why those monsters appeared?"

"Yeah. There was a loophole in the program. They caught an opening and maliciously altered the data, but we still don't have a solution."

"I hope he can handle it in time."

"He learned from that old man. Nothing will go wrong."

"Are you serious? You can really go to Teyvat?"

"Of course. I went into Fontaine to catch you last time, didn't I? Why wouldn't I be able to go there?"

"Why bring that up now?! Then send me back already. I want to go home."

"Sure thing. Take care, no need to see you off."

A few days later, Lin Yiyi counted a thick wad of red banknotes in his hand—eight thousand yuan he had earned from taking on two jobs recently. He opened a dimensional rift and sent Furina back to Fontaine Court, right downstairs from her home.

However, quite a few people nearby found it strange when they saw Furina emerge from an odd rift.

After sending Furina back, Lin Yiyi began sorting through his things and preparing to visit Teyvat.

Suddenly, he felt a faint warmth flow through his body. Only then did he remember that when he first invited Kamisato Ayaka, he had given her a talisman. Whenever she wanted to come over, she only needed to use it.

So he walked back into the deserted alley from before. After making sure no one was around, he took out his phone.

"Invite this character?"

"Confirm!"

Inside Kamisato Estate, Lin Yiyi found quite a few people gathered there.

"Hello, Ayato, Ayaka."

"The Shogun and Yae Miko are here too. Oh wow, that red-haired blonde girl—it's Yoimiya!"

"What a lively gathering. What are you all doing here?"

One takes on the qualities of one's company. After spending time with these gentle and driven companions, Lin Yiyi had gradually opened his heart.

Standing at the very edge of the group, Kamisato Ayaka smiled. "Just as I thought, you didn't lie to me."

"Burn this talisman, and you'll appear again."

Lin Yiyi smiled, then asked, "Are you planning to visit my world, or what?"

Kamisato Ayaka stepped forward a few paces before saying, "No. Inazuma's festival is about to begin, and we were discussing how to celebrate it this year."

"We haven't come up with any better ideas, but I think you, from another world, may have some different ideas."

"Lady Yae Miko told us that you can already travel to our world."

"We would also like to invite you to visit our world and see it for yourself. What do you think?"

Lin Yiyi smiled and agreed. "Sure. I'll bring some specialties from this world over to your place. I don't have much going on lately, so I can stay in Inazuma for a while."

"Then I'll go make preparations first. I'll come find you tonight!"

With that, Lin Yiyi forcibly closed the app. The spatial rift shut along with it, and he hurried off to prepare snacks and treats.

"Hey, hey, hey, you're leaving already? Is he really the Traveler? Does he really know everything? I don't even know him, yet he called out my name right away!"

In the other world, Yoimiya grabbed Kamisato Ayaka. The former seemed utterly astonished. "Ayaka, hurry and tell me more about what he's done!"

"The new clothes you, the Shogun, and Lady Yae Miko wore last time—were those bought from over there too?"

They said Yoimiya was warm, cheerful, and outgoing, and the rumors were true. She was exceptionally talkative.

"Yes, the Traveler helped us purchase all of our clothes," Kamisato Ayaka said with a smile. "The Traveler has told me many things. I believe that as you spend more time with him, you'll slowly come to understand him too."

"This, this, and this too."

Lin Yiyi bought a large bag of snacks at the supermarket. After hurriedly checking out, he headed to a cake shop.

Then he bought milk tea, fruit, seafood, meat, vegetables, and every other thing he could think of. Some could be eaten or drunk right away, while others he planned to cook himself.

After that, he made a special trip to order a banner with several large words printed on it.

By the time he was done, it was already four in the afternoon. Dragging several huge bags of things along, he randomly found an apartment building. Then, feeling it would be impolite to bring so much stuff to someone else's home, he remembered that the updated version said he could store his belongings in his inventory, so he opened the Teyvat app.

The app's interface was simple, with only a few buttons. The first was Characters, the second was Inventory, the third was the Teyvat map, and the fourth was Settings. However, Lin Yiyi guessed more features would be added later.

After opening the Inventory, it began loading the items in his bag. Weapons, artifacts, materials, enhancement items, precious items, even the Serenitea Pot—it had everything.

He opened the Materials tab and scrolled to the very bottom, where there was a plus sign. Tapping it allowed him to scan items.

So Lin Yiyi used the rear camera to scan several things. To his surprise, the items flashed with golden light and vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

When he opened the Inventory again, he found several plastic bags had appeared under Materials. Opening them revealed the following words in the description.

"User's Package 1/2/3/4/5"

"Items seemingly brought from one world to another. They appear to be edible?"

The banner, meanwhile, had been categorized separately, since it had not been packed away and was being held directly in his hand.

"User's Banner"

"An item seemingly used to celebrate or promote a certain event."

Below that were two buttons: Retrieve and Destroy.

"This thing is pretty smart, huh?" Lin Yiyi clicked his tongue. After confirming that nothing had been left behind, he opened Characters, brought up Kamisato Ayaka's panel, pressed Confirm, and stepped into Kamisato Estate.