[Signed] Wear this mask and keep moving forward. It’s a promise you made to the great Lord of the Primordial One, after all~
“Your Highness... I’ll be counting on you from now on.”
The road to restoring a fallen nation and rebuilding it is often paved with blood.
He once protected me. Now that he’s gone, it’s my turn to...
Khaenri'ah’s seventh prince, Lais, and Zhao Shuai, a weapons designer for a secret organization on Earth
The journey to restore the nation begins in Teyvat: become a worthy Traveler and an excellent prince
A broken-winged bird: the last gift or the final shackle from the person it loves most
“Traveler, thank you for adding another line to my poem. Please enjoy the journey ahead, too.”
“Farewell, Traveler.”
The boy stumbled forward, looking back with every step, as if bidding farewell to Liyue behind him.
“Let me... be the great hero who protects Liyue, just this once.”
Blood kept flowing down and falling into my hands. I stared at it as if entranced. Countless ghosts wailed within it, and the taint of the corrupted ley lines seeped out.
“That is... the people of Khaenri'ah. So... am I the only one left?”
The din of voices enveloped me. At last, a gentle, mature child’s voice reached my ears.
“As if waking from a dream, as if a lifetime has passed. Traveler, are you awake? Then tell me, what do you still remember this time?”
The boy’s hands were already stained with blood. What he wanted to protect had never existed in the first place.
“I never planned to clean up after your wishful thinking.” The boy’s memories slowly returned. Behind him, the bodies of Lumine and Aether lay among the sea of Inteyvat flowers. Dressed in the clothes of Khaenri'ah’s royal family, the boy looked down upon the person who had once devoted everything to him.
“How foolish and... selfish you are.”
(The main story is complete; bonus chapters are still being updated...)
/New settings will be added/The timeline matches the current game version, but the protagonist only remembers the game up to the Inazuma chapter
/Both Aether and Lumine will appear
/The protagonist will gradually meet them
/The author is obsessed with worldbuilding and will add some special elements to the existing setting
/The protagonist has many sides, shaped by what happened to him as a child. Never trust what he says: he can’t even trust himself (this will come up in later chapters)
OOC warning (possibly)
