Isn't It Normal for the High-Cloud Quintet to Have Six Members?! [Honkai: Star Rail]

[Not opening this for now. What even is this? MiHoYo's writing is terrible.]

[Meow, you're seriously awful!]

On my eighteenth birthday, I found a rainbow-colored egg by the roadside.

Fueled by the strange fantasies about nonhuman pets I'd read in novels, I diligently watered it and slept with it in my arms day and night. I even told it stories, and tried everything from a blood pact to shedding its shell and transforming into human form.

Eventually, the egg hatched, and out crawled a long-tailed, horned...

person.

Are you kidding me? Who wants to raise a person?

Even after transmigrating, I'm a person from Teyvat, and I would never keep a human as a pet! I have an exceptionally high moral standard!

Just as I was getting ready to sneakily take the child to an orphanage, my master Jingliu showed up. She said that a disciple of the Sword Champion couldn't ruin her reputation, then grabbed my ear and told me to return the egg, I mean, the person who had hatched from a Vidyadhara egg.

Then my master looked at the little dragon person clinging to me and refusing to leave.

Silence.

The usually cold-faced master said, "Disciple, I think we're about to get rich."

"How did you bring back the Vidyadhara's High Elder?"

Me: ?

So it really was a dragon!

.

After accidentally drifting through space and crashing onto the Xianzhou Luofu, I upheld the spirit of the people of Teyvat and focused on making it on my own.

After waging battles across the universe, my friends and I gradually earned the title of the High-Cloud Quintet.

Though I couldn't understand why we were called the Quintet when there were six of us. I also couldn't understand why, when everyone seemed to be doing just fine, they kept chasing after me when I left the Xianzhou.

-- I'm talking about you, Imbibitor Lunae, Vidyadhara High Elder!

It's not like I nearly boiled you because I thought you needed to stay warm when you were an egg. Why are you holding such a grudge, my friend?

So when the little dragon person I'd found and spent my youth with cornered me on the Astral Express and asked, "A hundred years have passed. Why has the Emanator still not returned to the Xianzhou?"

I trembled, utterly terrified.

I've been caught.jpg

Master, junior brother, and my good buddies Brother Yingxing and Sister Fox, save me, save me!

.

Pairing: Imbibitor Lunae Dan Feng. Dan Heng probably won't appear.

The High Elder only became small due to an accident, not through reincarnation and molting.

Master is Jingliu, junior brother is Jing Yuan, and my buddies are Blade and Baiheng. The story begins about eight hundred years before the main plot and is mostly original. You don't need to have played the game to read it.

The personality before becoming Mara-Struck is my own interpretation. I'll revise it once the game releases the relevant text.

Theme: Though we buy osmanthus wine to share, it is not like the days of our youth.