So then, did Cloud Retainer intentionally feign weakness just now, deliberately exposing a flaw to lure Zhongli into attacking—only to coordinate with Mada Ping and land a fatal blow on him?
But the most critical question now was—when did Mada Ping beco an accomplice of Cloud Retainer and Dottore?
He hadn’t noticed a single sign...
So then, did Cloud Retainer intentionally feign weakness just now, deliberately exposing a flaw to lure Zhongli into attacking—only to coordinate with Mada Ping and land a fatal blow on him?
But the most critical question now was—when did Mada Ping beco an accomplice of Cloud Retainer and Dottore?
He hadn’t noticed a single sign...
And more than that—wasn’t it Mada Ping who had saved him when he was wounded by the Eerie Ganyu?
If she were truly an enemy, then why save him back then?
If she’d simply left him alone, he would’ve died on the spot...
But soon, Su Yuan recalled the ssage from his right palm:
There may be more than one Adeptus under the control of Eerie force...
At the ti, he’d thought it was just another misleading rule hint from his right hand, sowing confusion.
But now, could it be that the one he trusted most—Mada Ping—had already long been corrupted by the Eerie?
Su Yuan also rembered how, after a previous death and rewind, the ssage from his left palm had warned him:
Be wary of Mada Ping...
Back then, he found the ssage rather baffling.
Plus, since the hints from his left hand weren’t always accurate—and Mada Ping had even saved him—he hadn’t given it much thought...
But looking back now... could the signs of Mada Ping’s condition have already started to show even then?
Zhongli, whose chest had just been pierced by Mada Ping, struggled to turn his head and looked in Su Yuan’s direction, as if wanting to say sothing...
But Mada Ping didn’t give him the chance.
With a single sweep of her hand, she cleanly severed Zhongli’s head...
Then, she turned her gaze toward Su Yuan, smiling cheerfully as she said:
"Su Yuan, so you’re the one bullying my disciple, huh?"
"As her master, I can’t just stand by and watch my disciple get pushed around..."
In the next instant, a surge of Eerie power suddenly erupted from Mada Ping’s body—confirming without a doubt that she, too, had been corrupted and taken over by the Eerie!
"Disciple...?"
Hearing her words, Su Yuan’s head began to ache violently, as though so buried mory was trying to resurface...
Fragnts of vague mories flashed through Su Yuan’s mind...
It seed to be a distant mory...
Xiangling—she had been corrupted and controlled by the Eerie...
Then... who was it that killed Xiangling?
After Xiangling’s death, an Eerie-possessed Mada Ping, overwheld with grief and rage, had arrived at the scene, seeking revenge for her...
But she failed—and was killed by that person...
That person—who was it???
And then—there were fragnts that seed to belong to recent days...
Xiangling had been killed by an Eerie-possessed Shenhe...
But after Xiangling’s death, Mada Ping had never shown up at the scene...
Yes—that was the mont...
One of the conditions for Mada Ping’s descent into Eerie corruption should have been the loss of soone deeply dear to her...
And yet, Xiangling’s death didn’t trigger her to appear or fall into Eerie corruption on the spot...
Which could only an—by that ti, Mada Ping had already long been corrupted and taken over by the Eerie...
Piecing together those fragnted mories, Su Yuan seed to finally understand why the ssage on his left palm had warned him to be careful of Mada Ping...
"Su Yuan! What on earth are you doing???"
Tartaglia’s anxious voice snapped Su Yuan back to his senses:
"What just happened? Your body suddenly beca unstable—I can’t control it anymore!"
In battles between top-tier fighters, a single mont of distraction—a tiny opening—could decide everything...
Just that brief mont when Su Yuan froze from the splitting headache caused Tartaglia to lose control of Su Yuan’s body—and made it impossible to continue the fight against Xiangling...
As a result, Su Yuan was kicked to the ground by Xiangling.
She pressed the tip of her spear against his forehead, leaving him completely immobilized...
Lying on the ground, Su Yuan looked up at the smile on Dottore’s face and realized—this ti, he had lost.
And he had lost completely.
Too many unforeseen events had occurred, pulling the situation far beyond his control...
"Streetward Rambler, would you mind taking Su Yuan, Furina, and myself sowhere... quieter?" Dottore said to "Mada Ping" with a smile.
Mada Ping nodded, then pulled out the Serenitea Pot—a realm unto itself—and absorbed Dottore, Su Yuan, and Furina into it...
Inside the Serenitea Pot, Dottore looked at Su Yuan and Furina with delight and spoke with visible joy:
"I don’t know why Furina showed up here, but for , this is a blessing beyond asure..."
"The two people I most desire to obtain have appeared before at the sa ti..."
"And—there’s no Neuvillette to get in my way this ti..."
Su Yuan stepped protectively in front of Furina, staring warily at Dottore as he couldn’t help but speak:
"Dottore... was it because of you that Cloud Retainer and Mada Ping fell into Eerie corruption?"
"And what about Azhdaha and those Geovishaps? Do you realize how many Liyue citizens and Millelith soldiers were killed because of them?"
"Aren’t you afraid of retribution for doing all of this?"
"D-Don’t get so full of yourself, Dottore!"
Furina also mustered her courage and spoke up at Dottore:
"I may not be in Fontaine now, but Neuvillette is definitely searching for —and on his way here with everything he’s got!"
"Once Neuvillette gets here and teams up with Su Yuan again, you’re finished!"
"It doesn’t matter, hehe..."
Dottore chuckled dismissively, completely unfazed:
"Even assuming Neuvillette does know where you are—which is unlikely—do you really think Su Yuan is still capable of working in sync with him like before?"
"Su Yuan, if I’m not mistaken, in order to help Neuvillette beco a complete dragon, you already returned all the ancient dragon blood to him, didn’t you?"
"True, what happened in Inazuma proved that your body is... unique. Even after losing your source of power, you were still able to hold on for a short while..."
"But you’ve been away from Fontaine for quite so ti now. You probably can’t even control Hydro anymore—let alone part the clouds and bring clear skies..."
"Besides—even if you could still work with Neuvillette and sohow defeat , all you’d be destroying is one of my segnts."
"I have many segnts. I can afford to lose again and again. But you—you only get to lose once..."
"And this ti... it’s my victory."
Listening to Dottore’s words, Su Yuan thought to himself—he didn’t only have one chance!
The real key now was—if he could sohow trigger a death rewind, he could reset everything from the beginning!
Su Yuan felt a pang of regret.
If only he could still use Kokomi’s ergency talisman...
Why did he have to find out what was inside that pouch?
Now, he and Furina were trapped alone in the space inside the Serenitea Pot—facing Dottore directly...
And everyone else outside was probably already killed by Cloud Retainer and Mada Ping...
If Dottore refused to kill him, and instead chose to subject him and Furina to endless experints and torture...
Then things would truly beco difficult...
So where was the key to breaking the deadlock?
What exactly could trigger a death rewind now?
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