Genshin Impact: Please don’t bully me, fellow stragglers

Experiencing the darkness of space twisting again, the overwhelming purple turned into a solemn space that I had never set foot in before, yet seemed familiar to me for no reason.

This is the Opéra Aubique, the tribunal of Fontaine.

They appeared in the corner of the stands on the second floor of the opera house. Thousands of people were seated in the red velvet auditorium below. No one had yet noticed the changes in the distance. They all had enthusiastic eyes and stared closely at the play being performed on the stage.

Under bright light, in the center of the stage, on a temporary wooden table, an overturned water glass was dripping with light red liquid.

The girl with silver-blue curly hair was standing in front of the table. It was Funina. She was surrounded by two Law Enforcement Court soldiers and was forced to raise her right hand.

A petite Meluxin nurse held Funina's wrist carefully, as if she was diagnosing something.

"...What are they doing?" Kong couldn't help but take a step forward and stared at the stage in astonishment.

"What else can we do? Judge the gods."

An audience member lying on the guardrail of the stands turned his head when he heard the sound, glanced at him, and then looked back at the stage.

"Lady Funina has been in office for more than five hundred years, and they actually said that she is not a water god? Really... after the trial is over and Lady Funina is cleared, these people will have to squat in Merlot Petersburg for ten years."

"You can't say that," another onlooker said enthusiastically, "As a performance, conflict and drama must be sufficient to be enjoyable. What if there is a big twist, and Funina is really not the water goddess?"

"you……!"

"I'm not talking nonsense. Lady Funina herself loves this kind of plot the most..."

The two bickered quietly.

Regardless of the audience's speculations, the trial on the stage was proceeding in an orderly manner.

After a moment, Mei Luxin let go of Fu Nina's hand, and Fu Nina was taken back to the dock on the left side of the stage by the soldiers.

Funina's face was very pale, pale and tight, and her cheek muscles were clenched so tightly that she almost trembled slightly. When she moved, her blue eyes were deeply obscured by her eyelashes, and there was a slight glimmer of water in the shadows.

The person on the stage had no place to hide, and the blazing white stage lights chased Funina's footsteps until she sat stiffly in the dock like a puppet with its strings cut off.

Nanke saw the straggler standing behind Funina behind the chair in the dock, his face as heavy as water.

At the same time, the other two stage lights suddenly came on.

One was opposite Funina, on the right side of the stage, on the plaintiff's seat blocked by a red ribbon, where Ying sat.

Nanke grabbed Sora's arm and suddenly felt the wrist bones in his palm bulge with force. The owner of the arm couldn't control it and clenched his fingers reflexively.

There was also a bunch of stage lights shining high up inside the curtain.

There were piles of paperwork, and the judge's bench was chaired by the unsmiling Navilette: "Please Miss Higgin announce the results of the examination."

Sigwen nodded and faced the audience and said: "As you can see, Miss Funina's skin condition and rapid breathing show that she was affected by the original fetal seawater, and the extent...is not related to the contact. Ordinary humans with the same concentration of seawater are the same."

"What's going on? What did she just say?!" Fu Nina suddenly raised her head in the dock and said in a voiceless voice, "I didn't dissolve in the fetal sea water. Doesn't that still prove that I am the water god?!"

In the witness box next to the stage, a girl with light brown hair stood up and turned around to explain to everyone: "Initially, we were indeed planning to use the seawater near Baisong Town directly, because we believed that you would definitely choose to escape as always. But In the end, after everyone’s discussion, it was changed to seawater with a low concentration that will not dissolve humans.”

When she said "everyone", the girl looked to her side.

Also sitting in the witness box, in addition to Xigwen just now, there are also Steambird reporter Charlotte, whom Nanke had met once, brother and sister Linny and Linnette, and Nanke who visited Mo at the invitation of Funina. On the day of the Mang Palace, she was one of the agents of the Shadow-Chasing Court Duel who was ordered to escort her and the skirmishers back to the hotel.

"After all, just in case, even if it's just in case," said the duel agent as the strongest combat power of the Shadow Chasing Court, "if there is an unexpected situation, no one wants to see anyone dissolve in the fetal sea water."

"But what is going on?" The audience became commotion.

"It's impossible that Lady Funina doesn't know the consequences of contacting fetal seawater. Does she risk being melted to maintain the false identity of the Water God?"

"To sum it up, Funina is indeed not the water goddess. Is that what you mean?"

"What? Funina has been lying to us?!"

The heated discussion that quickly amplified reached Nanke's ears.

"Fontaine people...are they crazy?" Nanke heard the unstable voice next to him and couldn't believe it, "You actually said that Fukalos is not the water god? This is simply..."

"It's different from the Fontaine you know, isn't it?" Nanke stared at Funina from a distance.

The always high-spirited girl god opened her eyes in fear, and her bloodless lips opened and closed in vain, but her voice was drowned in endless condemnation.

As helpless as a small boat being beaten by waves.

Kong suddenly pulled Nanke tightly with his backhand: "What exactly are you planning to do?"

Nanke looked sideways, Kong's eyes widened, as if he had the same premonition as her, and the golden pupils couldn't help but waver.

Nanke was silent for a while and replied: "I don't know."

"But you clearly said that the water god will save..."

"Funina didn't tell anyone her plan," Nanke pursed her lower lip slightly. "Whether this is part of her plan, I don't know either."

"Listen to me! Listen to me!!!"

Facing the wave of criticism, Funina finally couldn't bear it any longer. She stood up suddenly from the dock like an explosion, leaned forward and shouted at the top of her lungs,

"Stop looking at me with cold eyes! The one just now doesn't count!"

"Because look! You can't prove that the gods will not be affected by the original womb sea, right?!"

Funina tried her best to find a fulcrum in the boat that was about to capsize.

"And, and..."

"If I were really a human being, how dare I put my hand into that kind of sea water?!"

The panicked and illogical excuses, coupled with the increasingly thick crying tone in his voice, were like an injured child making unreasonable noises, which made those who heard it sigh.

"...Listen to me!!! Please! Listen to me, I am really a god..."

Someone whispered helplessly: "Oh, no one will listen to me if I continue to argue. There is already so much evidence..."

The moment tears actually poured out of Funina's eyes, the judge at the top of the court closed his eyes slightly and let out a long sigh.

"Quiet!" Villette stood up with a scepter in hand and ordered majestically.

There was a moment of calm in the opera house.

Only Funina's cries echoed.

"I think the trial has concluded at this point," Navilette looked down at everyone and said word by word, "If there are no objections, now we will enter the sentencing phase."

Funina stopped sobbing: "That Villette...!"

Funina turned her head and failed to meet Villette's eyes. The plea she could not speak out was choked in her throat, and she suffocated to death in an instant.

The family members who have lived with her for five hundred years.

Claiming to support her people from generation to generation.

There are also ministers and friends who have laughed with me.

Everyone's figures were covered with a layer of bright red, and only the noisy words penetrated the cochlea, tearing every tight and broken nerve in the mind.

"In the name of the Supreme Judge, I confirm that Funina disguised herself as a human being and deceived the people..."

Villette announced in a deep voice.

"……guilty."