Genshin Impact: Funina's Official Pastry Chef

Under the shocked gazes of Charlotte and Ying, Paimon finished a small food cart in just fifteen minutes.

Charlotte looked at Ying with some pity, sighed softly and said:

"Thank you for your hard work..."

Ying nodded solemnly, then sighed helplessly.

"Normally, the monthly food expenses would be 300,000 Mora... Oh..."

"How much?! Three hundred thousand Mora?! For a month?!"

Seeing Paimon eating and drinking so much, Charlotte thought that Paimon's food expenses must be very high, but...isn't this a bit too high? !

"Ying...you do a commission for a month...how much Mora will be left at the end?"

"About 100,000..."

Ying answered while eating the "Orange Flavored Duck Breast".

"Well...it seems that adventurers do make a lot of money. When you get out of Melo Petersburg, would you mind letting me do an interview?"

"of course can."

In the next fifteen minutes, Ying and Charlotte chatted about future plans, and the food on the dining car was consumed bit by bit.

In the end, Ying and Paimon lived up to everyone's expectations and cleaned up all the ordered food, without adding any more crimes to their already bizarre "list of crimes".

As for the bill...Ying actually thought about whether it would be better not to put the bill on the Momang Palace account, but this idea was shattered by Paimeng in just an instant.

"If that's the case, wouldn't that be a waste of Chang Ming's kindness?"

In this regard, the two of them lived up to Chang Ming's trust, who was already waiting for them on Yiliye Island, and imitated the old man Zhong from Liyue and said:

"Boss! Put the bill on Mo Mang Palace's account!"

......

When Ying and Paimon arrived at Melo Petersburg as promised, Chang Ming and Navilette had been waiting there for a long time.

Looking at the two figures approaching from a distance, Chang Ming stretched his stiff neck slightly and said:

"Don't you have a trial this afternoon? I'll just take them in later."

"Well, thank you."

"You and I have worked together for nearly five hundred years. Why are you still so polite?"

“That’s how etiquette should be.”

"You guy..."

Chang Ming glanced at Villette speechlessly, then turned to the breathless Ying and Paimon and said:

"How are you two preparing?"

Perhaps because Chang Ming paid the bill for them, Paimeng nodded with a smile and said:

"Yeah! We're ready! She and I ate a lot of delicious food, ah! And the macarons you made were really delicious!"

"By the way...I remember Navia can also make macarons. Did you teach her that too?"

Hearing this, Chang Ming smiled and nodded, without denying it.

"It's good that you like it, but Navia's pastry skills were not taught by me. She figured it out on her own."

"That's it..."

After Paimon finished speaking, he began to look around, as if he was looking for the entrance to Mello Petersburg.

"Uh...? Chang Ming, Villette, is the entrance to Mello Petersburg really here? Why can't I see anything?"

That Vilet nodded, and just when he was about to say something... Paimon heard the loud sound of gears meshing.

Accompanied by a loud roar, the platform above the steps gradually separated, and a long spiral staircase and an underwater elevator appeared in front of the two.

"Wow... So Mello Petersburg is underwater?"

"Relying on water and people's instinctive fear of the deep sea, Mellow Petersburg is naturally suitable for housing and guarding criminals."

"Don't worry, it's not a scary place."

After saying this, Villette paused slightly, as if he was choosing his words.

"Words are not enough. Please go down and confirm it with your own eyes."

Hearing Villette's description, Paimon blinked slightly and muttered softly:

"Charlotte said so too. So...it really isn't a very gloomy or scary place."

At this moment, Villette set his sights on Chang Ming.

"Because Mr. Chang Ming and I are busy with official business, we will not accompany you into Melro Petersburg."

"I have arranged for the corresponding personnel to take you through the corresponding procedures. Of course, there will also be a little...surprise."

Chang Ming looked at the two people in front of him with a smile, as if he had already imagined the expressions on their faces when they learned of his crimes.

However, the simple-minded Paimon did not know that he had been clearly calculated, and instead asked excitedly:

"Wow! Is this the benefit of working for the Regent and Mo Mang Palace?! Is there any special privilege?"

"That's no joke. Although I have a good personal relationship with the Duke, it's not to the extent that I can give special privileges to the "criminals" related to me."

"Oh, by the way, although you are commissioned by Mo Mang Palace to investigate, I hope you two will not have any conflicts with the Duke's people, otherwise it will be very difficult for me to handle it."

Looking at Chang Ming, who had a very serious expression, Ying and Paimeng nodded continuously like chicks pecking at rice, as if to express their understanding to Chang Ming.

Chang Ming nodded in satisfaction, and then he said:

"Madeleine."

As soon as the words fell, a woman in the Fontaine Guard uniform ran out from the underwater elevator.

She saluted Chang Ming and Navilette first, then looked at Ying and Paimon in front of her and said:

"I'm here. Lord Villette and Lord Chang Ming, the new prisoners are these two, right? Don't worry, I will never let them escape."

It seemed that because of Chang Ming’s instructions just now, Paimeng, who originally wanted to refute, just puffed his lips in dissatisfaction and finally did not say a word.

"Please follow me, both of you. I will guide you through the formalities for entering Melo Petersburg."

......

Under Madeline's guidance, Ying and Paimon soon came to the "Mello Petersburg receptionist" Maretti.

Seeing Madeline and two strangers coming over, Maretti, who was still drowsy on the metal table, slowly stood up and yawned.

"...It's Madeline. Why did I ask you to come down here today?"

"Lord Chang Ming and Lord Villette specifically asked me to escort these two prisoners. Maybe they are not very confident in handing them over to others?"

Hearing the names of these two people, Maretti raised her eyebrows in surprise, and then looked up and down at Ying and Paimon in front of her, as if she was a little surprised.

"Hiss... to be taken care of by these two adults... you didn't do anything to offend Lady Funina, did you?"

As Maretti spoke, she began to flip through the documents at hand, and then read:

"It's Ying and Paimon, right? Your crime is..."

Looking at the long string of sentences, Maretti fell silent, as if she was hesitating whether to say it out loud.

——She had been working as a receptionist in Mellow Petersburg for almost ten years, and this was the first time she had seen such a bizarre charge.

Madeline's curiosity was also aroused by her silence. The security guard leaned her head forward slightly, trying to read the sentences in the booklet in Maretti's hand.

As if she had noticed this, Maretti cleared her throat and began to speak:

"Ahem, your crime is..."

""Without the permission of God, he ate the cakes that the regent carefully prepared for God, and embezzled the regent's savings, causing the political core of Fontaine to fall into a long silence." The sentence is forty-two days...?"