Feeling the power flowing through her body, Ellin smiled.
"With this power, the same as yours, I should be able to live a little longer, and stay by your side a little longer, too."
Seeing the gentleness on Ellin's face, Venti pressed his lips together slightly and lowered his eyes.
Having lived through so much, he naturally wouldn't cry at a moment like this, but the warmth and emotion welling up inside him were enough to soothe a heart left battered and scarred by twenty-six hundred years of wind.
From the first time he taught her to use the power of wind.
To the first time she offered him fine wine.
To joining forces with her to cut through the storm and drive back the Dragon.
To going with her to the tower, saving the Dragon, ending the Dragon Disaster, and saving Mondstadt.
To her crushing a roof beam as she struggled to contain her fury after his Gnosis was stolen.
To him donning his crown once more and summoning the Healing Wind, all to save her from the brink of death.
And now, atop the Statue of The Seven, she had made him a promise.
Before they knew it, everything they had lived through together had come to rival the deeds of heroes celebrated in song.
"My friend."
Atop the Statue of The Seven, she stood up and held out her hand to him.
"Today, right here, I make you this promise."
"I'll work hard to grow stronger and live a little longer."
"Of course, no matter how long I live, I'll always be your good friend."
"Thank you for holding on through twenty-six hundred years of loneliness."
"I promise I won't let you... spend your whole life alone!"
"Ellin..."
Venti stared at Ellin in a daze, his