Genshin Impact: Teyvat High School

Chapter 48 Successful Rebirth

The old man threw the light bulb aside. The girl was still puzzled and asked with her head tilted:

"So Grandpa, why did we come to this place?"

The old man didn't say anything, he just stood quietly under the tree, holding his cane in one hand, looking up at something he didn't know was the sky or the branches.

"grandfather?"

The girl still didn't understand why her grandfather suddenly became serious after arriving here.

It’s really strange, my grandfather is always smiling, but he seems different when he comes here!

The girl looked at the old man and became quiet along with him...

Suddenly... a gust of wind blew... the wind was so strong that the branches kept shaking. The old man stood in the wind, and his clothes swayed in the direction of the wind...

However, it seemed that the wind only blew near the tree, and the girl could not feel any wind while standing aside.

"You are here..."

Suddenly, a woman appeared under the tree. Her clothes were a little worn out. She had a braided pigtail. One of her eyes was hidden in her bangs. Her lips were light pink and there was a mole at the corner of her mouth. Her eyes were beautiful and her figure was great... but her figure... was translucent... and her legs were no longer visible...

The girl was shocked when she saw this strange woman.

"Wow! Ghost!"

The woman noticed the girl and looked at her with a smile.

"You must be the granddaughter of Hall Master Hu! She's very cute!"

The girl was startled again.

"Don't catch me!! I may be a little naughty, but I haven't done anything bad!"

The woman stretched out her hand and gently touched her lips, squinting her eyes and smiling, saying: "Hehe, don't worry, child, I'm not the kind of person you think. Don't be afraid, I'm here to find your grandfather..."

"Looking for... my grandpa?! No way! Is he going to die? Are you the female Yama, Yama?! You are not going to take him away!"

"Uh……"

"You are such a filial child! I am standing here fine!"

The old man stood under the tree and turned back to the girl and continued

"She... came to find me to pass away..."

"Rebirth? What is that for? Can I eat it?"

The girl asked in confusion.

"Hall Master Hu..."

The woman walked towards the old man...

The girl next to him was frightened and shouted:

"Wow, you, you, don't come near my grandpa! You must be Yan Mo!"

The woman turned and looked at the girl with a smile.

"Haha, then I'll come to your place?"

The woman turned around and seemed to be walking towards the girl. The girl waved her hands and shouted again:

"Don't come over here! Grandpa, help me!!"

The old man turned around and smiled at the girl and said:

"Xiao Tao, she is just an ordinary woman!"

"Eh?"

Seeing that the girl didn't say anything and just stood there blankly, the old man turned to the woman next to him and said:

"It's been so many years, you should let it go..."

The woman shook her head and said:

"I believe he will come back. He said he would come back to find me! I will always wait for him!"

"Hey~" The old man smiled and shook his head and sighed, "You, you~"

"So, Master Hu, I can still..."

"You are still so stubborn. You are just too deeply in love."

"But...I believe he will come back to find me!"

The girl beside him expressed doubts, waved her hands, and said helplessly:

"Adults are so complicated. I really can't understand them."

……

"Master Hu, he will come back, right..."

The woman looked at the old man, and her eyes suddenly became moist.

"I believe him, he never breaks his promise..."

"Yes, he would never lie to anyone, but he had to break his promise this time."

"How could it be! He! He won't not come back!"

The old man looked up at the crooked tree again.

“Remember this tree?”

"This tree?"

The woman also raised her head to look at the old tree that seemed to be dying.

"I remember, he made an appointment with me here that day, asking me to wait for him under this tree, but..."

"But he didn't come, did he?"

"Um……"

The woman's voice was choked with sobs as she nodded in response.

"He...why..."

"Actually, he has been back for a long time, but you just didn't see him before."

"Ah?!" The woman was shocked. She looked around but found that there was no one around her. "But I didn't see him..."

"Because he broke his promise, he doesn't dare to appear in front of you."

"I just want to see him now. It doesn't matter if I break the appointment or not. I just pray to him..."

A crystal teardrop fell from the corner of the woman's eye, and she cried and shouted:

"I just pray for him to come back! After all these years, I just want to see him and spend those good times with him again (Nori)."

"Then look who is that behind you?"

The old man suddenly spoke.

The woman was startled and immediately looked back, and saw a man behind her.

The man's clothes seemed to have been burned by flames, with burn marks everywhere. The man's hair was very long and fluttering in the wind. He was also very handsome, with sharp eyes and a tall figure, but like the woman, his body was translucent... and his feet could not be seen...

"Lan, I'm back..."

The man spoke gently to the woman.

The woman burst into tears instantly and rushed forward to hug the man.

"Feng, wuwu...you...wuwu...are finally back..."

The man also hugged the woman and gently patted her back with his hand.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long..."

"It's okay, I'm glad you're back..."

The woman reached out and stroked the man's face.

"Do you know how much I miss you..."

"Sorry……"

"Woooooooo..."

"This should be our longest agreement. It must be very hard for you to wait for me for so long."

"Don't make me wait so long next time! Wuwu..."

The man was a head taller than the woman, and he reached out and stroked the woman's head again.

"There won't be a next time... If I leave you again, there won't be any promises waiting for me..."

"Well...let's make a pinky promise! Don't regret it!"

The woman stretched out her little finger in front of the man, and the man also stretched out his little finger and hooked it around the woman's finger.

They both said:

"Let's make a promise. Don't change it for a hundred years!"

The old man looked at the two people and his eyes became moist. The girl next to him was already in tears just like the woman.

The woman suddenly turned to the old man and said:

"Master... Thank you, I have no regrets..."

"That's good, that's good. My hard work is worth it."

The old man said with a smile.

"Then... Master Hu, let's go..."

The woman laughed, and the crooked neck beside her came to life. Green leaves soon grew on the branches, and red plum blossoms bloomed on the branches.

"goodbye……"

The woman held the man's arm and they looked into the distance under the tree. Their figures gradually disappeared and turned into starlight...

"Lan, I will never leave you again..."

"Well... Feng... I won't leave you again..."

The two figures disappeared completely, leaving only their echoes in the wind.

"oops……"

The old man sat against the tree, his head propped up on his hands.

The girl had not yet come to terms with what had just happened. She wiped the tears from her eyes and asked the old man leaning against the tree:

"Grandpa, are they...gone?"

"Yes...they are together forever..."

The girl walked over and sat down next to the old man.

"Grandpa... who are they..."

"..."

The old man did not answer the girl. He just kept his eyes open and looked at the tree full of flowers. The girl also looked at the tree with the old man.

After a moment the old man spoke:

"They were originally a couple. The man was the woman's fiancé. The man was a forest firefighter and the woman was an ordinary office worker. They were living happily together and had a very happy life."

"So...Grandpa, why did they disperse?"

"One day, the man suddenly received a mission during his vacation, so he agreed with the woman to wait for him here, because this road is closest to the mission location..."

"And then?"

"The man's mission was to put out a sudden forest fire, but when the mission was almost completed, the flames suddenly surged, and he and his comrades were left there forever..."

"how so?!!"

"From that day on, the woman had been waiting here for the man to return, but as fate would have it, something happened to the woman and she passed away. However, her wishes for the man never diminished, and gradually turned into her last wish, which was stored in this tree."

"So...so amazing!"

"Because their souls are concerned about each other, they cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. If they continue to live in the human world for a long time, they will eventually lose consciousness and become evil spirits. So we do the business of rebirth to prevent this from happening. Then I went back to the place where the man died, found his soul, let them meet again, cleared their remaining wishes, and let them enter the cycle of reincarnation... This is rebirth."

"Is this the job of the Hall of Rebirth... so cool!"

"So the Wangsheng Hall can be desolate, but it cannot disappear! Your father is young and arrogant, and he is unwilling to take over this job. Your mother also went out with your father, so Xiaotao, you are the only hope now."

"So... Grandpa wants me to inherit the Wangsheng Hall?"

"Well, Xiaotao, are you willing?"

"Grandpa, I have always been willing to do this! I will inherit the Wangsheng Hall and work hard to do a good job in the matter of Wangsheng!"

The old man smiled with relief.

"Hahaha...that's good! That's good!"

The old man suddenly took out a folded Qiankun hat and put it on the girl's head. The hat was obviously too big for the girl's head and it covered her eyes.

The old man casually picked a flower from a branch nearby and put it on the brim of his hat.

"Well, it looks much better!"

The girl took off her hat and looked at the flowers on it.

"Grandpa, what kind of flower is this? It's so beautiful!"

"Hehehe... This is the scent of blood plum, a flower that only blooms when one is dead..."

The old man's words were obviously a little weak and he spoke in pauses.

"Oh, it's so pretty! The red color suits me very well! Don't worry, Grandpa, since you let me, Kurumi, wear this hat, I, Kurumi, will certainly perform my duties well!"

"Okay... okay... then you are the 77th generation head of the Wangsheng Hall... Although I am the 75th generation, the generations cannot be messed up... Although your father was only the head for half a day, he also counts as a title!"

"Okay, then I am the 77th head of the Wangsheng Hall!"

The old man suddenly laughed...

"Oh... I'm a little tired... Let me lie down and rest..."

The old man suddenly lay down, closed his eyes, and chanted: "The sun is coming out..."

"I'm basking in the sun!"

"The moon is out..."

"Sunbathe the moon!"

"Hmm... you remember it very well... Then let me read you another limerick..."

"it is good!"

"Big Qiuqiu is sick... Look at the second Qiuqiu..."

The old man's voice gradually became weaker...

"Gather herbs at the third hill... boil them at the fourth hill..."