Genshin Impact, I Picked Up the Shade of Death by the Road
Chapter 36

Extra: A Witch's Experiment Log: Observations of an Otherworldly Creature

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Designation: MC-514 (the 514th visitor from another world) Codename: Miniature One-Eyed Tyrant Recorder: Alice (Witch A, Klee's mom, and holder of many other titles, but I can't be bothered to write them down) [Capture date] Some day, some month, some year. It wasn't a weekend, anyway. I take Klee fish-blasting on weekends. [Weather] Sunny. The wind by the sea was so strong it almost blew Klee's hat away. Good thing I had my magic broom.

I. Discovery and capture

Today, Klee and I were walking along the beach (actually, we were testing my newly invented "automatic fish-blasting machine," but the bombs all got waterlogged) when I suddenly spotted a tiny green speck on the sand. It was moving at an astonishing speed and shouting something in a high-pitched voice.

At first I thought it was a little frog, but when I got closer- it was a walking little monster no bigger than a fingernail, shaped like a flattened pea, with only one eye!

He was shouting at a hermit crab: "Out of my way! This shell will be my first base for conquering the world!"

...So cute! Ten thousand times cuter than a Hilichurl!

I decided to catch him and bring him back. He ran fast, but he couldn't escape my grasp. After I caught him, he struggled wildly and even tried to bite my finger-it tickled! Like a little ant bite.

I shut him in a glass jar, spread some sand across the bottom, and added a small piece of coral as his "new home." He stood inside with his single eye wide and shouted at me:

"You foolish woman! Do you know who I am? Let me out! I have to get back and steal- ahem, I have to get back and rule the world!"

I gave him the codename "Miniature One-Eyed Tyrant." He protested that his real name was something like "King of Plankton," but I didn't catch it. The codename was cooler anyway! He hopped up and down in the jar in a rage.

II. Observation log

1. Size and appearance

Height: Approximately 2 centimeters (smaller than my thumbnail). Color: Emerald green, like a lawn just sprouting in spring, but his temper was the complete opposite. Eye: One, enormous, taking up almost half his body. His gaze was extremely fierce, as if I owed him a million Mora. Limbs: Thin as hairs, but surprisingly strong. He could lift a pebble three times his own weight (I put a grain of rice in, and he tried to carry it away).

2. Intelligence

Extremely high! Far beyond most creatures in Teyvat (except me, of course).

He tried to pick the latch with a strand of hair I'd pulled from my head. He failed, but he had the right idea.

I gave him some scrap metal and a small gear, and he actually assembled a miniature mechanical arm inside the jar! It self-destructed in the end because he couldn't reach the switch, but it was impressive.

He shouted at my magic crystal ball, "Karen! Activate plan B!" The crystal ball replied, "Unknown energy detected. Launching Genshin Impact Cloud." He fell silent for ten whole minutes.

3. Personality analysis

Extremely bad-tempered: He insulted someone once every three minutes on average. His vocabulary of insults was astounding, ranging from "foolish" to "unreasonable" to otherworldly swear words I couldn't understand.

Extremely arrogant: Even though he was locked in a glass jar, he wore an expression that said, "I'll rule this world sooner or later."

Extremely persistent: He kept going on about some "secret formula," saying he could rule the ocean as soon as he got it. I thought it was some kind of forbidden magic scroll, but later I found out he was talking about the recipe for a food called a "Krabby Patty"?? That's it?? A hamburger recipe??

4. Dietary preferences

He demanded "Chum." I searched through every recipe in Teyvat, but found nothing.

I tried making a substitute with fish, bread, and Jueyun Chili. He took one bite, spat for five minutes, and said, "This tastes worse than Sandy's burnt seaweed!"

In the end, I gave him a piece of candy. He reluctantly ate it, muttering, "At least it's better than that."

Conclusion: He was obsessed with a certain otherworldly food, which might have been his core driving force.

5. Special abilities

Metal manipulation: He could control miniature machinery and even tried to hack into my witch's notebook. (All the words in the notebook turned into "I want to go back to Bikini Bottom," and it took me half an hour to erase them.)

Mental contamination (passive): His voice was quiet, but extremely shrill and grating. Listening to him for more than an hour caused headaches and made me want to throw him into the sea. Strangely, though, after listening long enough, I actually got a little used to it and even found it a bit like background music.

III. Experimental interactions

Experiment 1: Magic vs. technology

I taught him to cast the simplest Flame Spell. He scoffed and said, "Science is the truth," then pulled out a miniature laser gun. I used Hydro to short-circuit his gun. He fell silent for five minutes, then said, "...That's not fair. You didn't use technology."

Experiment 2: Klee's toy house

I put the jar in Klee's toy house. He tried to take over its kitchen, only to be startled by Klee's mini Jumpy Dumpty (which had no gunpowder in it). He was actually afraid of the sound of explosions! Haha, what a paper tiger of a tyrant!

Experiment 3: Escape attempts

He had already tried to escape seven times:

First attempt: Picked the lock with a strand of hair (failed).

Second attempt: Tried to corrode the glass with saliva (failed; the glass just got cloudy).

Third attempt: Tried to control Little Black (Little Black sneezed and flung him into an ink bottle).

Fourth through seventh attempts: I don't remember, but they all failed anyway.

IV. Conclusion

"Miniature One-Eyed Tyrant" was an otherworldly creature of tiny stature, extremely high intelligence, and an enormous temper. His level of technology was completely different from Teyvat's civilization and had extremely high research value. However, his noise pollution and constant escape attempts needed to be strictly controlled.

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