Genshin Impact: Teyvat Travel Guide

Huaiyue almost didn't realize what he meant, and Ayato Kamisato regained his composure in the next moment.

...Is it a casual question?

The young man looked at her and said nothing for a while.

Three full seasons have passed since Huaiyue became smaller and recovered now.

It started to snow again in Daoji.

The window was not closed tightly, and in the rustling wind, a few snowflakes were carried and hit indoors. They quickly melted due to the strong fire and turned into a pool of water stains.

Over time, the water stain has slowly grown larger, like a mirror lying on the ground. In the reflection of the mirror, the young head of the house looked intently, while the immortal in front of him lowered his eyelashes and fell into a state of silence.

She seemed to be thinking, or perhaps remembering someone.

"For me..." She finally spoke, her gentle voice still tinged with hoarseness. It sounded a bit scratchy, and it seemed as if she had experienced some great sadness. She raised her eyes and looked at Kamisato Ayato who was waiting for the answer. , just said: "If you don't want to be my friend..."

Kamisato Ayato suddenly raised his mind.

Huaiyue shook her head: "Then let's stop here."

"...What?" The meaning of these words made him stuck for a moment. He couldn't believe it, with a panic that he didn't even realize. "What do you mean...'this is the end'?"

The immortal's eyes returned to their former calmness, and she only said: "I have already remembered what the second contract is."

"The chun flower I gave you back then...if I thought it was right, it should still be there, right?"

This statement is straightforward enough.

Kamisato Ayato couldn't even pretend not to understand.

Yes, he knew, he should have guessed.

Apart from the contract handed down from their ancestors, the only connection between Huaiyue and him was the branch of chunhua.

"You said you could promise me a wish." Kamisato Ayato heard herself say, "Does this... still count?"

"Of course it counts." The immortal replied to him, "You make a wish, and I will fulfill your wish, and the second contract will be completed."

...This actually turned out to be the second contract.

But why?

Just because you heard his lies, do you want to cut off all contact?

With that in mind, he also asked.

Huai Yue glanced at him doubtfully and asked, "You don't want to break the contract?"

Although Huaiyue is no longer the same as she was hundreds of years ago, she still thought of her former friend Kazuya Kamisato the moment Ayato Kamisato said those words.

She had ruined this short-lived friendship early because of her arrogant prejudice against mortals, so she thought that maybe Kamisato Ayato just didn't say anything, and because he was good at pretending, Huaiyue never noticed his disgust. .

Thinking about it carefully, no matter what, it would be hard to accept for anyone who thought they were finally going to send away someone who was difficult to get along with and couldn't offend, but suddenly learned that there was another contract.

But when she said "that's it", Kamisato Ayato's reaction... didn't seem so happy?

She doesn't understand mortals.

This is true for Kamisato Kazuya, and so is Kamisato Ayato.

Seeing her doubts, Kamisato Ayato surprisingly understood what she meant.

So in an instant, all the negative emotions in my heart melted away.

He suddenly felt that he was really stupid. Yes, this was her. It seemed not easy to expect Huaiyue to understand such feelings?

Even though he had said this, Huaiyue still didn't seem to realize what he really meant.

This is not okay.

If she didn't realize it, wouldn't she become another Kamisato Kazuya?

Although Kamisato Ayato has been trained by his family since childhood, and he is familiar with all the rules and regulations of Duanfang Junzi, but... to be fair, he is not a generous person at all.

After getting a little, we crave more. Humans are such unsatisfied creatures.

"I don't want to," he emphasized, "I don't want to break the contract."

Huaiyue thought for a moment and finally asked: "Why?"

Kamisato Ayato looked at her deeply.

He suddenly asked: "You know, mortal emotions are very complicated. A moment to you is enough for us to experience life, old age, illness and death, and experience various emotions. Huaiyue, do you understand that feeling?"

Huaiyue looked at him with a hint of doubt in her expression.

How does it feel?

Are mortals’ birth, old age, illness, and death caused by greed, anger, and ignorance?

She wanted to say she didn't understand.

She is an immortal, how could she understand.

but……

But a small piece of my heart seemed to collapse.

Huaiyue couldn't describe that feeling. It didn't seem to be joy, and there was even a bit of panic that came from nowhere.

……Just a little bit.

But this little bit of emotion made her shift her gaze uncontrollably.

The immortal looked at the fine snow outside the window.

For no reason, she suddenly thought of the words she saw Kazuya hiding in a lantern hundreds of years ago——

[Huaiyue, I saw the tea set we used to drink tea today, and suddenly I felt that winter was too long. 】

In the past, she didn't understand that the passage of time was the fairest thing. Whether it was winter or summer, it was obviously the same time, so how could it be faster or slower?

But after hundreds of years, she suddenly had some understanding.

She thought: Yes, winter does seem too long.

Kamisato Kazuya had to wait a long winter before he could drink tea with the superior plant fairy in the coming year, and Huaiyue also waited countless winters to pay the price for himself.

As luck would have it, it's winter again.

Kamisato Ayato is still waiting for her reply.

The fire was burning brightly, and Huaiyue listened to the wind chimes hung on the window sill by Linghua as a child. It made a slight crisp sound due to the wind, and suddenly fell into a trance for a moment.

At this moment, every breath was like the years that passed between her waking up and closing her eyes, and the cycle went back and forth.

In the past, ten years and a hundred years were like one day, but now it is longer than the past ten years and a hundred years.

Huaiyue was silent.

"Maybe," she said.

"You can understand... maybe?" Kamisato Ayato was halfway through his words, but a word stuck in his throat. He thought with some surprise——

……perhaps?

Isn't it a direct negative answer?

The young man was greatly shocked.

He stood there, like a statue suddenly silent.

"I probably understand a little bit." Huaiyue raised her face, shifted her gaze from the soft snow outside the window, suddenly looked into his eyes, and said in a determined tone: "Kazuya may not have the same feelings for a friend as for me. And You are like Kazuya, right?"

...She knows.

After hundreds of years, she finally knew that feeling.

Kamisato Ayato smiled bitterly: As expected.

If the Immortal could understand love... with just a little specious understanding, someone as smart as her would be able to catch a glimpse of Kamisato Kazuya's emotions that were different from others.

So just a little bit...he would have no chance.

Kamisato Ayato closed his eyes and said softly: "...Yes, he is indeed Huaiyue."

He, like Kamisato Kazuya, had delusions about Sage, but Sage was stingy enough to look at him.

He asked: "If I break the toon flower, will the contract be invalidated?"

"Yes." Huaiyue asked, "Do you want to give up this wish?"

"Yes, I want to give up this wish."

"why?"

"Because this wish is destined to fail."

"Say it." Huai Yue frowned in a rare way, and suddenly felt why Ayato Kamisari was as stubborn as when they first met a few years ago, "Except for the whims, it's just a mortal wish, so what's the difficulty in realizing it?"

As soon as these words came out, Kamisato Ayato felt an inexplicable impulse suddenly arise in his heart. He did not rehearse the words in his heart, so his emotions were faster than his rationality, and he spoke first: "Then I want you to let go of the long-dead things in your heart." Ancestor, then...look at me."

Huaiyue was stunned.

Looking at her stunned expression, Kamisato Ayato already knew in his heart that she would definitely refuse.

She already understood that they were not just friends.

The weight of Kamisato Kazuya in her heart will definitely change even more.

He saw Huaiyue open her mouth, and his heart became increasingly silent, waiting for the moment of rejection to truly come.

However, he heard the immortal's slightly hesitant voice: "Did you misunderstand something?"

"I said before, Kazuya is just a friend to me."

Even though she understood that this "friend" might not have pure feelings for her, to her, Kazuya had been dead for hundreds of years. How could she have any feelings towards the deceased Kazuya because of her sudden discovery of this incident? Emotions higher than "friends"?

Immortals have gone through a long period of time and have a thorough understanding of life and death.

Kamisato Ayato suddenly looked at her.

Facing Huaiyue's strange expression, he suddenly realized how wrong he had just been.

Ayato Kamisato, the young head of the Kamisato family, the young head of the Kamisato family, the leader of society who keeps a straight face and a heartbeat when trying to deceive others in the vanity fair, curled up his fingers slightly at this moment, recalling what he just said...

He suddenly felt panic and embarrassment that made him want to hide his face and run away.