Rex Lapis: Mo Fan, Do You Want a Wife and a Little Sister, Free of Charge?

The Yakshas' former home.

"I... I..."

In the end, Ganyu still did not dare tell the Yaksha girl before her the truth, much less show her the contents of that video.

She hesitated for a long while before finally speaking, her face full of bitterness. "I would like to visit Asura's grave. May I ask where it is?"

"You want to visit Brother Asura's grave?"

Hearing Ganyu's words, Bonanus could not understand.

After all, in her eyes, Ganyu was entirely to blame for her brother's death and for his complete erasure from Liyue after he died.

For over a thousand years, Ganyu had never wanted so much as to look at her brother's grave. Why was she suddenly putting on such a hypocritical act now?

Still, though she could not understand, Bonanus would not make things difficult for Ganyu. She silently pointed to a clearing behind the hut, indicating that Asura Yaksha's grave was there.

"Thank you."

Ganyu expressed her gratitude from the bottom of her heart.

Then, as though unable to face her old acquaintance's sister, she fled the scene in a panic and came to Asura Yaksha's gravestone.

Though thousands of years had passed, Asura Yaksha's gravestone was still clean and tidy, as if it were tended to often. A freshly picked bunch of Glaze Lilies had even been placed on it, along with a bowl of sake...

This was clearly the work of Bonanus and the other Yakshas.

No matter how much time passed, the Yakshas had never forgotten their brother Asura, always believing firmly that he was their upright and righteous elder brother.

By contrast, Ganyu had forgotten Asura Yaksha's existence long ago.

No, rather than forgetting, she had deliberately made herself forget, keeping herself from thinking further about the truth of the past.

Now that she knew all the facts, the whole truth, she had finally come to her senses and understood just how despicable and cowardly her actions back then had been.

Compared with Asura's Yaksha brothers and sisters, who had believed in him from beginning to end, she was utterly unworthy of his trust...

"I'm sorry, Master Asura. I'm truly sorry..."

"If you were still alive, I might try every possible way to make it up to you. As long as you could forgive me, I would do anything you asked..."

"But you're already gone..."

"Since you've already entered death's embrace, all I can do is follow you and apologize to you in the world beyond..."

Ganyu murmured to herself, then abruptly used Cryo energy to create a sword of solid ice and held it to her neck.

She intended to end her life with the frost sword to express her remorse, offering her life as an apology to the Yaksha who had saved Liyue.

Smack!

But just as Ganyu's frost sword was about to pierce her skin, a pair of steady, powerful hands suddenly seized the ice blade.

Startled, Ganyu hurriedly opened her eyes. Before her stood a man in a gray cloak, his bearing as firm and composed as rock.

"L-Lord Rex Lapis?!"

"Ganyu, why put yourself through this?"

Liyue's Geo Archon looked at the qilin girl who intended to repay her debt with her life, a trace of helplessness appearing on his face.

Had he not arrived in time, she would probably have been a cold corpse by now.

"Lord Rex Lapis... please don't stop me."

Though surprised by Rex Lapis's arrival, Ganyu's expression grew resolute once more. "Not only did I cause Asura Yaksha's death, I also damaged his reputation and erased his name from Liyue's history... I did something so outrageous to him that there is no way I can make up for my mistakes. Now, only death can put an end to my sins and repay me for the wrongs I committed!"

"You're wrong." Seeing that Ganyu could think of nothing but ending it all with death, the Geo Archon showed his displeasure. "Seeking death is the most foolish and arrogant thing you could do. You would end it all, yes, but in the end, that would change nothing and make up for none of your mistakes."

"But what else can I do? Asura is dead. I killed him. He made a noble sacrifice for Liyue and all its people, yet I saw none of it. Instead, I smugly thought I had accomplished some heroic deed and spent two thousand years in self-righteousness!"

Ganyu's face showed her breakdown and despair. "I have no face to go on living. If I don't die right now, my mind will surely collapse completely from Erosion, and I'll become something even worse!"

"This..."

Seeing that Ganyu could barely endure her pain and had lost the resolve and courage to live on, the Geo Archon sighed.

He realized that words alone could no longer bring her to her senses, much less make her let go of her guilt toward Asura Yaksha.

At this point, there was only one way to change the girl's mind and stop her from embracing death.

Though it was not what he had intended, and he did not even want to do it and interfere with that man's happy, fulfilling life, he realized that for Ganyu's sake, he had no choice but to make that decision.

"Ganyu, you want to end everything through death because of what happened to Asura, because you feel you cannot make up for the wrongs you committed against him, don't you?"

"Yes. Since Asura is dead, all I can do is find him in the world beyond, apologize to him, and try everything I can to beg his forgiveness."

Ganyu's eyes were full of resolve, as though nothing could stop her from pursuing death.

Seeing her like this, the Geo Archon hesitated for a second before finally speaking quietly. "Then what would you do if I told you that Asura did not actually die, that he is still alive in this world?"

"What!?"

Rex Lapis's words took Ganyu completely by surprise.

She looked at the god of Liyue before her in disbelief and spoke with utmost skepticism. "Please don't lie to me, my lord! Even if you use a lie to persuade me to live, it won't mean anything!"

"I am not lying."

The Geo Archon shook his head, his expression so firm that Ganyu could not help believing him.

"H-he's really still alive?"

"You probably don't know much about that video, do you, Ganyu?" The Geo Archon looked at the qilin girl before him. "In truth, that video showed only one of that man's lives on his long journey. For certain reasons, he has continually reincarnated through endless space and time, living different lives. Even now, his soul still remains here on Teyvat."

"You mean Master Asura is still alive... He reincarnated?"

"That is correct."

At the Geo Archon's words, a glimmer of hope finally returned to Ganyu's eyes, which had been filled with deathly despair.

But before she could do anything, the aqua-blue Yaksha girl outside the hut rushed out and cried, "Lord Rex Lapis, please tell me where Brother Asura is now!"

"???"

The Geo Archon's expression froze as he looked at the water Yaksha who had suddenly appeared.

He had evidently not intended to tell anyone else that Asura was still alive.

The situation was entirely beyond his expectations, and it also made him feel deeply sorry toward Asura Yaksha.

In the end, all he could do was silently reflect:

Well, Mo Fan, there's a wife and a little sister here, free of charge. Do you want them...?