Disclaimer before you read: If you didn't fully read the introduction, this is not my work nor is the cover either. All credits go to the authors; please give them your support, I put the credits at the end in the introduction. I am only solely responsible for making this easier for you guys to read.
PS: This is Yuri and SLOW-BURN; if you don't enjoy selfcest either then I'll suggest you leave. There is also No Harem and Romance is not the main priority, to be more specific; it will not be focused on too much or at all until the end of the fic.
PSS:EVERYTHING IS AN AU, it will delve off canon and completely separate. The original author is not well-versed with the lore, so things will not align with what you think. OOC and plot-holes will happen, if you like to nick-pick and want things to be as lore accurate, then I'll ask for you to please leave.
PSSS: This is my second time doing a translation. So if you happen to notice any mistakes, PLEASE point it out as it makes my life easier. I like for these to be as high quality as possible and easy to read as a show of support to the original author because I like their works.
PSSSS: Also, if you're reading before I finished my first book. Sorry to say but I won't post more chapters until my first is finished. SO STAY EDGE LOLL, but I will continue afterwards.
If you're fine with all of this then please enjoy and continue to read!!!
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Fontaine, Some time after the Khaenri'ah cataclysm
A barefoot girl in a star-and-sea-colored dress and anklets chimes, closed her eyes tightly as she racked her brain.
She has no idea how much time has passed until a gurgle pops from the slumbering clam beside her. She opened her eyes as she let out a little cheer. "Ah-hah! I've got it! I'm such a genius…"
"Only by deceiving them can Fontaine truly be saved..."
The girl's name is Focalors, the second Hydro Archon of Fontaine.
Focalors re-thinks her plan over and over until she was able to form a well polished scheme in her mind.
"Then— Let's begin step one, shall we?"
She chooses her spot and takes into every preparation needed.
"Mm... let's begin..." Focalors murmurs, closing her eyes as she calls upon her Hydro authority.
There was a flash of Hydro light as her divinity was peeled away from her now former body, leaving only a sleeping girl.
The girl was wearing a deep-blue noble's morning coat with a train, pale-cyan ringlets framing a crown of blue.
She drooped her head as she shut her eyes to pounder.
"Mmhh… I should trim all of the memories and keep only what relates to the Prophecy." Focalors flicks a wrist as Hydro surges from the girl.
"There! Now we're split… Hah, brilliant as always! I'll name her Furina…. Furina de Fontaine." Focalors smiled warmly.
She took a closer look at Furina's sleeping face and clicked her tongue in admiration. "Stunning—my newborn self is truly perfect."
As Focalors continued to stare with happiness, she happened to notice something went slightly wrong.
"Oh? Why is a thread of my divinity still in her…" Her eyebrows furrowed as Hydro wrapped around the Archon's hand, checking to see if anything was wrong with her other self.
She was able to find out that a minor slip happened during the split. "This divinity will fade in days—no harm will be done." Relief washes over her, the entirety of Fontaine is at stake.
Focalors raise a hand again as she injects something.
A curse— the curse of immortality.
Until the Prophecy ends, to be more specific…until her death, the cure shall forever be there.
She pats the sleeping Furina and sighs. "It's the best bet I have…. So, hold on, my dear Furina..."
Fontaine's future rests on you... Focalors ache— She never wanted to force such a fate on her ideal self.
Yet against the Heavenly Principles she has no choice.
Focalors see no need to wake her yet.
"May this be the best sleep you shall have for centuries to come. Rest well… Dear Furina."
Focalors then depart as more preparations still await.
Some time after she had left; a mysterious powerful void energy drew in two unknown forces towards Furina and slowly seeped inside her.
One is more chaotic, powerful and older than Focalors own divinity. Hinting at chaos, joy, and amusement.
[T/L: I'm not familiar with HSR and its lore. So forgive me if I got anything incorrect. I'm taking Aha to be like a jester?]
The other is a pure gold color, as if woven from countless thin rays born from a distant cosmos.
The two both mingle with the lingering divinity. Then within Furina's consciousness, a soul alike and alien was slowly being shaped.
It shaped itself to a form similar to its host, faintly mirroring Furina.
Hope? Duty? Love?
It doesn't know what that is.
The newly soul remains hazy, chaotic, undefined.
The unknown two energies then slowly began to fuse with the divinity.
Her awareness slowly starts to stir. "Furina..." The newly born soul murmurs before it has even finished forming.
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Elsewhere
Focalors dips her pen as she starts writing to the newly born Hydro Dragon.
The plan is already laid in her mind.
Mr. Neuvillette,
Hello. I am the current Hydro Archon of Fontaine, Focalors. I write to formally invite you to Fontaine to serve as the Iudex.
After the Khaenri'ah disaster, the nation lies in ruin and a strong leader is needed. None is better than you, the Hydro Dragon.
As a newborn god I have zero experience governing and need your help. Besides, you can also use this to be able to observe and learn from humanity while gradually joining their world."
From The Hydro Archon, Focalors. (˶˃𐃷˂˶)
She even adds a playful coquettish emoji—perhaps a whim of hers.
[T/L: Do they even have a concept of emoji's?]
Setting down the pen, she uses Hydro on the letter as it sprouts wings and flies towards the newborn Hydro Dragon.
She watches as it flies off, slightly lowering her head as she mutters something and soars up into the sky. From high above, she was able to spot the almost completely Opera Epiclese and then took on the outfit of Furina. She visits the ludexs Court and informs them of her imminent public debut and her arrangements for the Iudex.
[T/L: She goes in there dressed as Furina instead of her divine outfit; hair is also included as well. I never even noticed that they had slightly different hair…]
She exhales in relief. "Now then…I only need to wait for Furina to wake up."
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