"Eula, you've been thinking too much, and that's why you're trapped in this predicament. Calm your mind first. That's your top priority."
"You want to learn swordsmanship? Sure, but you'll have to offer something first... like cooking a good meal."
"Changing the world is hard, but changing yourself isn't. Once you change, the world will change along with you."
"Prejudice is a mountain. Once it appears, its weight can leave you struggling to breathe."
"An old friend once told me, 'There is no debt of gratitude that cannot be repaid in a thousand years, nor any hatred that cannot be resolved in a thousand years.' Time is only a measure. Choose a path of your own, then follow it without looking back."
"I'm just a forgotten man from Liyue, hardly worthy of being called a teacher. But if you insist, do as you please."
Over the past two weeks, the bond between Xiu Yuan and Eula had grown ever deeper.
Eula had also found many things she needed to learn from Xiu Yuan, and much of the confusion in her heart had faded.
Xiu Yuan knew that this young girl bore far more pressure than most people.
Her Lawrence Clan had once been one of Mondstadt's three great clans, as well as part of its nobility.
The nobles had been decent enough at first, with many great achievements to their names. But as time passed, more and more of them fell into depravity.
They treated the ordinary people of Mondstadt as playthings, abusing them at will and spending their days in drunken debauchery while preying on the populace.
All of Mondstadt was plunged into misery.
From then on, everyone in Mondstadt loathed the nobles, those monsters who devoured people without leaving so much as a bone.
Then Barbatos, the Anemo