Liu Ge Wants to Cuddle Up to Niwa Today Too

After waking up one day, the Wanderer had returned to the beginning. The puppet leisurely came to in the Pavilion of Glazed Light, and the moment he opened his eyes, a flood of comments appeared before him:

[White Scara is so good, sob sob sob]

[Scara-baby www, our Scara-baby, as white as a blank sheet of paper]

[Damn, Scara-baby is so cute. Touching him without permission is a crime!]

The Wanderer: ?

Seeing these bizarre comments call him White Scara, the Wanderer was puzzled, but deliberately acted like his blank-slate self from that time in front of them, trying to get information out of the commenters.

Just as he remembered, one day later, a human named Katsuragi wandered into the Pavilion of Glazed Light and held out a hand to the puppet. "Want to come with me?"

The Wanderer agreed. And so, just like before, the puppet followed Katsuragi to Tatarasuna, where he soon became friends with everyone.

Tatarasuna had a young and capable Inspector of the Forging Bureau named Niwa Hisahide, someone the Wanderer had never been able to stop thinking about.

When the comments asked why he looked so sad, the Wanderer curled his lips into a secret smile and pretended to fret. "Lord Niwa is very good to me. I want to give him a present to show my gratitude, but I don't know what to get him."

So the comments offered suggestions:

[Scara-baby can make Lord Niwa some food himself!]

[Scara-baby! I'll teach you how to make milk tea!!!]

[And chocolate and little cakes!! Scara-baby will learn in no time!]

The Wanderer had heard about these foods from another world when he traveled with the Traveler. He didn't turn them down, and learned every one of these skills down to the last detail.

After that, with the Wanderer's deliberate prompting, the comments revealed more and more things from another world. The Wanderer successfully built Teyvat's very own Kendechi, Bi-somek, and Xide Tea shops in Tatarasuna. Faced with all the modern food and shops, the new commenters were baffled:

[Isn't this supposed to be Teyvat?]

[Just wondering, has Lord Scaramouche decided to become a food blogger?]

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Niwa fell in love with the boy Katsuragi had brought back. After agonizing over it for a long time, Niwa finally decided to confess his feelings.

Faced with a confession from the person he had loved in his previous life, the Wanderer was somewhat flustered. In the end, he answered in the most White Scara way possible: "Lord Niwa is very good to me, and I like Lord Niwa very much too."

Comments: [I'm so shipping them! Scara-baby and Niwa have to be happy together!]

He thought life would go on quietly like that, until a Fontaine man named "Escher" came to Tatarasuna.

The comments went wild:

[Escher?? Don't you fucking dare go near Scara-baby!!!]

[Scara-baby, stay away from him! Don't let that thing find out about you!!!]

But the puppet was eerily calm. He barely even bothered to act as he coldly smiled and spoke Escher's real name: "Do-tore."

Only then did the comments realize something was off: [???]

Wait, something seemed wrong with this Scara-baby??

That tone, that hatred... Was this Wind Scara???

Niwa/Scara pairing. This should be a mostly slice-of-life story.

Original blurb dated: March 16, 2023

Blurb revised: March 22, 2023

Theme: Someone can finally change the past that still haunts you