Genshin Impact: From the Start, I Help Hu Tao Carry a Coffin

[No Genshin Impact character skins or plot, original characters and story, with a touch of angst]

Jiang Qing was at a loss.

He'd only just crawled out of the dirt, and Hu Tao already wanted to drag him off to help carry a coffin?

"You're just a little Slime, but you've sure got a big mouth!"

Jiang Qing protested.

The next second, he was shoved right back into the ground.

Under the moonlight, Hu Tao said in a sinister voice,

"Brother Jiang, if you don't want to, I might just have to bury you first, okay?"

After going from a "dead man" to a guest consultant at the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, Jiang Qing discovered that Teyvat was not quite what he expected.

There were Sumeru intellectuals from the nation of Dendro who spent every day scheming to crossbreed Hilichurls and Abyss Mages.

And there were hotheaded bros from the nation of Pyro, Natlan, who rolled up their sleeves and got ready to fight at the slightest provocation.

Luckily, Jiang Qing had a Gnosis from the start, and could freely activate his Elemental Sight.

He was the only one who could trigger all the chests and floating Seelies!

More importantly,

he made a group of precious friends on his journey.

Though each of them had their own story...

In the Chasm, Zhongli knelt on one knee, cradling a soul in his hands, though it had already dissipated beyond his grasp. "Even you have broken... your oath?"

At Starsnatch Cliff, the drunken bard gazed at the endless sea of dandelions stretching into the distance and murmured, "You said people shouldn't make life too hard for themselves. Just have a drink every day, and that's enough."

"But why did you have to shoulder everything alone?"

On the bleak, chilly slopes of Wuwang Hill, a girl in red desperately clawed at the earth with both hands. Even as they bled, she didn't stop. "Jiang Qing... I don't want you to die! Come back... please?"