Inside a tidy room.
A clean-cut boy opened his eyes.
"Where am I..."
The boy looked around. The room's furnishings were familiar.
"Is this... my room?"
He looked at the computer screen before him. Genshin Impact was still running.
The character he controlled, Ganyu, was standing beside the Future Knight, Ellin.
A Frostflake Arrow fired from the Skyfrost Nail bloomed, shattering several training dummies at once with perfect accuracy.
"So that's how you do it? That's amazing!"
With Ellin's exclamation in the game, the daily commission was complete.
After countless tedious attempts, he had finally shattered the training dummies with a single arrow from Ganyu, fired from the Skyfrost Nail on the snowy mountain.
By all rights, that was something to be proud of, yet he couldn't feel happy at all.
He slumped weakly against his chair and let out a long sigh, as though he had lost so many things precious to him.
His encounters with his friends, those memories, still kept surfacing before his eyes.
"So it was all just a dream..."
Ailin stared blankly at the ceiling. He didn't know why, but his heart ached, leaving him feeling hollow.
"Ah!!"
Atop a pillar-shaped peak somewhere on Mt. Yougou in Inazuma.
The white-haired girl sleeping on the grass jolted awake and sat up.
She clutched her forehead, panting anxiously.
"That dream again!"
Ellin sighed, then sat cross-legged on the grass.
This was her fifth day since leaving Mondstadt. After leaving, she had come to Inazuma.
Her heart was in turmoil, and she just wanted some time alone.
She had been having that dream often over the past few days.
She wasn't superstitious, so naturally, she didn't believe the dream was some kind of omen.
She had learned a little about interpreting dreams before.
Dreams reflected the emotions