Wait, did this system fail to notice Kazuha's answer too?
As the belated system notification appeared on the screen, this thought crossed quite a few people's minds.
How interesting.
Quite a few crafty old foxes revealed meaningful smiles.
Making mistakes meant this screen was not completely reliable or correct. Even Katheryne could have bugs, let alone a system like this that was operated manually.
It seemed they could probe it a little more.
But this reward...
The earlier rewards were one thing. Whether they were items from gods or specialties from another world, they all matched the caliber of the video questions. But this one before them, unless they were mistaken, was a Teyvat Fried Egg?
The most basic dish sold in restaurants throughout all Seven Nations of Teyvat?
[Bennett: Teyvat Fried Egg? Ah, isn't that the dish I'm best at making? Teyvat Fried Eggs are the only thing I fail at cooking the fewest times!]
[Lisa: A Teyvat Fried Egg from the system should have special properties like the milk from earlier, right?]
[Sangonomiya Kokomi: Indeed. After all, it's a fried egg from the world of [Genshin Impact].]
[Alhaitham: Hmm, in that case, a simple deduction would suggest that all dishes in that game should have special effects.]
[Mona: Fried eggs, oh, fried eggs. I want some. I don't want to eat wild vegetables anymore!]
[Xiangling: Huh? The customer above, are you hungry? Would you like to come to our Wanmin Restaurant?]
[Mona: Ah, um (embarrassed), well, the thing is, my Mora...]
[Xiangling: It's fine! I've been practicing some new dishes lately anyway. Having you come taste them would be great too, Miss Mona.]
[Mona: Thank you so much (palms pressed together)!]
Watching quietly, Ningguang nodded. Whatever else they might be, users who could speak in the discussion area were, at the very least, talented individuals. If a few meals could win them over, or at worst improve their impression a little, it was certainly a very profitable deal.
That little girl Xiangling knew what she was doing.
Should she pretend to run into them by chance at Wanmin Restaurant and meet the other party in person, to see what the talented people in the discussion area were like?
No, that would be a little too deliberate. Judging by the earlier conversation between this Mona and the others, she should be an astrologist. In that case, there was no need to do anything unnecessary.
Perhaps noticing everyone's doubts, the system continued with an explanation.
[System: Teyvat Fried Egg. Revives the character who consumes this fried egg and restores 100 HP.]
???
!!!
What the hell did you just say?
Holy shit, it even had something like that?!
Wait, were Teyvat Fried Eggs actually such heaven-defying food?
Never mind ordinary people-even the gods froze for a moment upon seeing the system's additional explanation.
Raiden Ei immediately took control of the body. But as she watched Kazuha swiftly stuff the fried egg into his friend's mouth, although she actually had an opportunity to stop him, she ultimately did nothing.
She looked at the swordsman whom she had indeed just cut down, whose soul had already begun returning to the ley lines, but who had now revived, even if he was terribly weak, so weak that he looked as though he might die the very next moment.
The Raiden Shogun stood still for a moment, then turned and walked back into Tenshukaku without a backward glance.
"Your Excellency?!"
Hearing the request for instructions in Kujou Sara's voice, Raiden Ei stopped without turning around. "I already carried out the execution of the defeated party in the Duel Before the Throne. Whether he has now revived has nothing to do with what happened before."
"...Understood."
Kujou Sara bowed her head in obedience and waved for the surrounding Shogunate Army troops to withdraw.
As for whether they should enforce the Vision Hunt Decree, since both of those two below had Visions...
Hadn't they seen the big boss leave without saying anything?
How could they be so clueless?
Confiscating Visions had never been a particularly urgent task. Whose to confiscate, how to confiscate it, and when to do so-there was plenty to consider.
Now that their superior, the Raiden Shogun, had said absolutely nothing about Kazuha's and his friend's Visions, what were her subordinates in such a hurry for?
What if the Shogun had taken an interest in his abilities and wanted to fight that boy named Kazuha in the future? Wouldn't jumping out to confiscate his Vision now be entirely unnecessary?
A farce-though, of course, to the Shogunate's people, as long as something was the Raiden Shogun's command and will, it was no farce, however absurd it might be.
But Kazuha had moved too quickly earlier. Upon seeing the system's additional explanation, he had claimed the reward and stuffed it straight into his friend's mouth without another word. Afraid even that would not be enough, he had used his sword hilt to shove it down into his stomach.
He had moved so quickly that, before the live footage the screen specifically displayed to show the reward being received had even ended, audiences across Teyvat had seen it.
Or perhaps the screen had done this deliberately as well, specifically having Kazuha demonstrate the effects of its reward to all of Teyvat.
Naturally, everyone across Teyvat witnessed the effects of the system-brand "Genshin Impact" Teyvat Fried Egg.
The results really were instantaneous.
The guy had practically been cut in half, all life in his body extinguished by an enormous amount of Electro power. The amount of blood on the ground was staggering. A person who could not possibly have been any deader had actually come back to life before their eyes.
Although he looked a little weak, all the wounds on his body had healed. Although the blood on the ground had not returned to his body and the bodily tissue that had flown out remained on the ground, he was alive, and looked quite healthy at that.
[Baizhu: Unbelievable. Does this effect instantly generate the blood and internal organs missing from his body?]
[Lumine: Calm down, calm down. For an RPG, revival medicine is the most basic of items. From what we've seen, this game, "Genshin Impact," probably uses food instead of medicine. If my guess is right, it has at least two types: revival and healing. As for effects like attack buffs, defense buffs, and special attack buffs, I don't know what the situation is.]
[Alice: Games are games. The issue is that this screen actually brought out items from a game with their effects fully intact. Tsk, tsk, I'm so curious. Just how did it do that?]
[Paimon: Lumine, Lumine (stomping her feet)!]
[Lumine: Hmm? Come to think of it, Paimon, you're right beside me, aren't you? Can't you just ask me in person?]
[Paimon: Ehehe (embarrassed), isn't there more of an atmosphere here? Before I knew it, I just... Ah, never mind that. Lumine, what effect does Sweet Madame have, anyway?]
[Lumine: I don't know. I'm not the game's developer, and I've never played it. If you want to know what Sweet Madame does in the game, we'll have to wait until someone answers a question correctly later and this suspicious screen rewards you with Sweet Madame too.]
[Paimon: Oh, oh, it's decided! Paimon's answering questions too!]
[Lumine: Aren't you afraid of the punishments?]
[Paimon: Paimon has three exemptions too. Paimon's not afraid!]
Thanks to what Arataki Itto had said earlier, everyone had noticed the explanation about punishment exemptions in their accounts.
At first, they had been skeptical about everything to do with this screen and had paid little attention to these so-called privileges. Later, most viewers had been drawn in by the information-packed videos and the quiz rewards. Only Arataki Itto, who had actually been punished, had paid attention to these so-called punishment exemption privileges in his moment of crisis.
The users who could speak in the discussion area compared notes and discovered that five-star users had three chances each month, four-star users had two, and three-star users had one.
Below that, it jumped straight to the largest group in all of Teyvat: the ordinary viewers who could only watch and could not speak. Apart from bonus questions, they had no opportunities to answer, so naturally, they had no exemption privileges either.
For the ordinary users who made up the largest group, this was not good news. It meant that even when they encountered a so-called bonus question, they would have to agonize over whether to answer far more than the star-rated users in the discussion area.
Having punishment exemptions greatly increased the star-rated users' enthusiasm for participating in the video quizzes to come.
Although, in the beginning, everyone had been extremely wary of this suspicious screen that had suddenly appeared, with barely anyone even speaking in the discussion area.
Now, however, after four videos in a row and the rewards for answering their questions, although their doubts and basic caution remained, they had to admit that the rewards really were irresistible.
In particular, the sight of Kazuha feeding his Teyvat Fried Egg to his thoroughly dead friend and successfully reviving him had brought the atmosphere of this grand feast to its peak.
On Teyvat, a continent full of domains and monsters, who did not have some friends or relatives who had died innocent, tragic deaths?
Especially among the people in the discussion area, apart from a lucky few, who-including all the gods-did not have friends or relatives who had passed away for various reasons?
Although, from what they could currently see, there were some restrictions on using this Teyvat Fried Egg. At the very least, there had to be a body left that could swallow food.
Still, everyone had seen a glimmer of light, a hope of making up for their regrets through this strange screen.
Thinking of it that way, to hell with probing it or being on guard. Get the benefits first!
They had all been pulled into this system anyway. Since they could not resist, they might as well enjoy it.
That was more or less what the star-rated users were thinking now.
As for the far larger number of ordinary users, they were not entirely without hope either. After all, their system panels also contained a notice saying they could raise their user privileges through effort and other factors.
As for exactly how they could raise those privileges, nobody was very clear.
But one relatively plausible approach at present was to obtain a Vision.
After all, four videos had already played, and roughly two or three hours had passed.
Through the conversations between prominent figures and famous people from various nations in the discussion area during the gaps between videos, everyone had discovered something they shared.
They all had Visions-or, at the very least, the power to wield the elements.
Whatever else might be involved, surely becoming a Vision holder was the minimum requirement for raising their privileges?
Amid this fervent atmosphere, already stoked to its peak, the screen finally reacted again.
This so-called Genshin Impact Observation Station began playing today's final video.
[System: Now playing the fifth video-"Genshin Impact" story teaser: "The Final Feast."]
[Tighnari: Judging by the format of this title, this should be one of those official videos, right?]
[Lumine: That's right. Video titles in this format come from the work's official creators. The information in them is generally fairly credible. Well, under normal circumstances.]
[Navia: Here in Fontaine, we generally exercise caution when accepting official information. If you believe everything the authorities say, you might not even know how you died.]
[Furina: Hey!]
[Navia: Whose fault do you think that is?!]
[Sigewinne: Don't fight, don't fight. You're all so adorable. You have to take responsibility for your own cuteness. How about I make you some milkshakes~!]
[Navia: Ahem, this opportunity, um, I'll graciously leave it to Lady Furina.]
[Furina: No, thank you. You should drink it instead, Navia.]
[Sigewinne: Good girls, good girls. There's no need to yield to each other. I have lots and lots prepared here. It's all because His Grace didn't drink any~.]
[Wriothesley: ...]
[Xiangling: Strange, weren't we discussing the video? Though I'm also very curious about this drink called a milkshake.]
[Xingqiu: Judging by the reactions of the Hydro Archon and Miss Navia, these milkshakes should be rather like Xiangling's experimental dishes.]
[Mona: Ack (frightened).]
[Chongyun: Aaaah, the painful memories are attacking me.]
[Lisa: Ahem, what our little cutie means is that information revealed in official videos is the most credible, but we still can't believe all of it. There might be information in them intended to mislead us?]
[Lumine: Little cutie... Um, that's more or less it.]
Having traveled through the sea of stars, Lumine felt that it really was difficult to explain this kind of modern promotional method to a world where even the concept of idols had only recently been introduced from outside.
Still, Teyvat's entertainment industry had developed to some extent, and there happened to be people in that field in the discussion area.
[Yae Miko: The little one probably means a promotional method that, before a work is released, deliberately uses tactics that cause a public stir and misleads people with partial information to conceal the actual plot.]
[Paimon: Wow, this person really knows her stuff.]
[Yae Miko: Mm-hmm~. That's because my Yae Publishing House often uses this method to promote new books too.]
[Yun Jin: Hmm, in that case, could new operas be promoted this way too?]
[Nilou: As for my dancing...]
[Lyney: What a good idea.]
Yae Miko's words gave the artists from other nations a great deal of inspiration.
Although they wanted to discuss this new promotional method further, with even Ningguang taking considerable interest, in that brief interval, the video's opening logos had already flashed past and the main content had begun. Everyone tacitly stopped their unrelated discussion.
As the final miHoYo logo faded, a tiny flame lit up within the pitch-black screen, burning on a simple, common fire starter that could be called an essential for Liyue households, both at home and on the road.