Looking at her three old friends appearing before her, Raiden Makoto suddenly felt her vision blur, tears obscuring her sight.
Raiden Makoto whispered softly, "Am I dreaming?"
Fox Saiguu looked at her and said with a smile, "You'd know if it's a dream or not by pinching yourself, silly Makoto."
The phrase'silly Makoto' made Raiden Makoto's expression dazed.
Only the mischievous Fox Saiguu dared to address her that way.
Raiden Makoto felt that Fox Saiguu made sense, so she reached out and pinched.
"Hey, hey, I told you to pinch yourself, not me!"
"That hateful, silly Makoto only knows how to bully me!"
Fox Saiguu protested indignantly.
Miko Chiyo and Sasayuri laughed non-stop beside them.
Time seemed to rewind to hundreds of years ago under the cherry blossom tree.
"What exactly is going on?" Raiden Makoto asked Fox Saiguu and the others with great curiosity.
"Aren't you already..."
"Already dead, right?" Fox Saiguu, not shying away from matters of life and death, said nonchalantly,
"To be honest, I don't know what happened either."
"At the time, I felt like I was done for, but at the critical moment, someone saved me, and then I fell into a deep sleep, only recently waking up."
Besides Fox Saiguu, Miko Chiyo and Sasayuri were in similar situations.
They were all saved by someone, fell into a deep sleep, and only woke up today.
"Who was the person who saved you?" Raiden Makoto was a little curious.
After all, when the calamity struck, even Fox Saiguu, Miko Chiyo, and Sasayuri couldn't resist it.
The one who could save all three of them must have extraordinary strength.
Facing Raiden Makoto's question, the three fell into contemplation.
It wasn't that they were unwilling to answer, but that they couldn't.
That part of their memory had become very blurry.
So blurry that they couldn't recall any details.
But when the three saw Makoto, those sealed memories seemed to reawaken.
"This gentleman saved me!"
"I was also saved by this gentleman!"
"His one strike blocked the calamity for me!"
Fox Saiguu, Miko Chiyo, and Sasayuri spoke almost simultaneously.
At once, a ripple stirred in Raiden Makoto's heart.
She hadn't expected that the one who saved her three friends was none other than Mr. Faxun beside her.
Mr. Faxun had never mentioned this matter, it was as if it had never happened.
Raiden Makoto looked at Makoto, then said solemnly, "Thank you, Mr. Faxun."
Not just Raiden Makoto,
Fox Saiguu, Miko Chiyo, and Sasayuri were all filled with gratitude towards Makoto.
Makoto was utterly confused.
He did save these three people, but the method he used was the Book of History.
Earlier, Makoto had consumed one intertwined fate to activate the Book of History.
The Book of History clearly stated that Fox Saiguu sacrificed herself during the calamity to protect the people of Inazuma.
Makoto crossed out the last sentence and wrote, 'Fox Saiguu triumphed over the calamity and survived.'
Immediately after, Makoto found content related to 'Sasayuri' and 'Miko Chiyo' in the Book of History.
He used the same method to change their tragic endings.
Only then did Fox Saiguu and the others return to the cherry blossom tree and reunite with Raiden Makoto.
However, the current version seemed a bit different from what he had imagined.
This left Makoto puzzled.
Before Makoto could ponder further, Yae Miko pulled him aside.
She said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Let them catch up properly, after all, it's a long-awaited reunion, they must have a lot to say."
Yae Miko paused, then continued, "Also... I have something I want to tell Mr. Faxun."
"My Gan Yu, who likes to bottle everything up and is like a closed gourd, is about to arrive in Inazuma."
Makoto's heart stirred, and his gaze instinctively turned towards the Inazuma Port.
"Is Ganyu coming?"
Yae Miko nodded lightly and hummed in affirmation.
"My silly sister worked day and night overtime just so she could rush to Inazuma by tonight."
"I think she really wants to see Mr. Faxun, otherwise why would she work so hard?"
Before Yae Miko could finish speaking, Makoto was already in motion.
Upon learning that Ganyu was about to arrive in Inazuma, Makoto's thoughts had already flown to the Port.
"I need to go to the Port, Miko, I'll leave things here in your care."
Yae Miko crossed her arms over her chest and nodded gently.
"Of course, the reason I came here was to help Mr. Faxun."
"They say you can't have your cake and eat it too... But with the beautiful and wise Lady Yae here, the impossible can become possible."
After Makoto left, Yae Miko looked at the Little Cuties beside her.
The Little Ones looked at Makoto's departing back, showing confused and worried little expressions.
They clearly didn't know why Makoto left without taking them.
Little Ayaka looked up at Yae Miko and said in a childish voice, "Sister Miko, where did Brother Makoto go?"
"When will Brother Makoto be back? Linghua misses Brother Makoto."
Previously, when they were on vacation in Liyue, Kamisato Ayaka and Yae Miko had spent a short time together.
So Ayaka was quite familiar with Yae Miko.
Sara, beside her, also blinked her big eyes, very concerned about Makoto.
Looking at these innocent Little Ones, a mischievous glint flashed in Yae Miko's eyes.
"Little Ones, your Brother Makoto thinks you're too noisy and doesn't want you anymore."
As soon as she said this, the Little Ones cried sadly with a 'wah'.
Watching the Little Ones cry loudly, Yae Miko immediately changed her tune: "I'm just kidding, Brother Makoto didn't abandon you."
"Instead... he sold you to me."
This made the Little Ones cry even more miserably.
Yae Miko, beside them, laughed uncontrollably.
For her, making children cry was also an interesting thing.
"Alright, alright, your Brother Makoto went to pick up Gan Yu, and he'll be back soon."
"Really, I'm not lying to you."
"I really wanted to take all you Little Ones home, but your Brother Makoto wouldn't let me."
When it came to this matter, Yae Miko got angry.
Makoto treated these Little Ones like treasures, protecting them excessively, and wouldn't allow her to bully the Little Cuties.
Hmph, if he won't let me, then so be it. At most, I'll just have my own Little One then.
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