Eula bent down, picked up the delicate little box from the pile of food residue, wiped the stomach acid off with a tissue, and asked Dvalin:
"Dvalin, this thing clearly isn’t food. How did you end up swallowing it?"
"I... I don’t know..." After seeing Barbatos’ corpse and confirming his death, the now-calm Dvalin seed to have fallen into a state of utter despair.
Seeing that nothing could be learned from Dvalin, Eula simply opened the box.
Inside, what t everyone’s eyes was a large, elongated grape-cluster-shaped gland, resembling a human organ.
Beside it lay a small slip of paper.
"As I thought—it’s Aji again. That was my first guess the mont I saw this box!" Su Yuan said.
"How in the world did Aji manage to hide sothing like this inside Dvalin’s stomach?" Eula exclaid in shock.
Everyone then turned their eyes to the slip of paper, which read:
[Ah, I didn’t expect you to find yet another part of the Darknight Hero’s body!]
[You people really do keep surprising !]
[In Dvalin’s stomach, you’ve discovered the Darknight Hero’s pancreas...]
[Don’t you think having soone eat your pancreas is such a romantic thing?]
[Keep it up—I look forward to the day you find all of Mondstadt’s scattered Darknight Hero parts, and then co et !]
"This Aji is definitely a pervert. How could having soone eat your organs possibly be romantic?" Paimon frowned and muttered.
"But now we’ve already found three of the Darknight Hero’s body parts—that’s half of them..." Aether murmured thoughtfully.
"Though... all of this seems to be going more smoothly than I imagined."
While others didn’t seem to notice anything strange, Su Yuan’s heart was far from calm after reading Aji’s note...
Because it reminded him of a work from his original world called "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas"—itself a tragic and romantic love story...
It was still unclear whether Aji’s words were rely the ramblings of a twisted pervert, or if they carried so deeper aning...
After so ti, Albedo finished giving Dvalin ergency treatnt and said:
"Dvalin, I’ve taken care of your wounds for now. Don’t move around too much—if you rest properly, you should be fine..."
"And, do you have any idea about the cause of your corruption?"
"I don’t know... my mind is completely blank. I don’t know anything..." Dvalin replied, his voice low and dejected.
Everyone could see that Barbatos’ death had dealt him a crushing blow.
"Everyone, let’s leave Stormterror’s Lair for now. Give Dvalin so peace and quiet so he can rest," Albedo suggested, and the others all nodded in agreent.
After leaving the ruins, the group headed back toward Mondstadt to regroup.
On the way, none of them could bring themselves to feel any joy...
"I can’t believe that Venti... just died like that..." Paimon said sadly.
"When the Traveler and I first ca to Mondstadt, the first people we t were him and Dvalin..."
"And now, only Dvalin remains... grieving all alone, while Venti has left us forever..."
"In our fight against the Eerie, I always knew sacrifices were inevitable. But to think that Lord Barbatos, who protected Mondstadt for thousands of years, has fallen... it still feels unreal," Eula sighed.
"If Acting Grand Master Jean and the sisters at the Cathedral learn of Lord Barbatos’ death, I wonder what they’ll think... would they still be able to hold onto their faith?" Albedo murmured.
By afternoon, the group arrived back in Mondstadt and prepared to split up.
Albedo, Klee, and Eula returned to the Knights of Favonius to report everything to Jean, while Su Yuan and Aether planned to visit Mona, hoping she could provide another divination.
Maybe, just maybe, she could reveal the locations of the remaining three pieces of the Darknight Hero’s body...
And so, Su Yuan, Aether, and Paimon arrived at Mona’s doorstep—only to find her already at ho.
But when Su Yuan and Aether told Mona about Venti’s death, she spoke with so confusion:
"Although you did indeed see Venti’s corpse, as far as I know, the true form of the Anemo Archon Barbatos is a wind spirit, isn’t it?"
"This body called Venti is just an avatar—sothing he uses to conveniently walk among mortals."
Hearing Mona’s explanation, Su Yuan and Aether felt that it actually made a lot of sense!
If Venti’s true form was a wind spirit, composed of wind and Anemo elental power, how could the loss of a vessel an true death?
"Aiya, if you really want to confirm whether Lord Barbatos lives or not, it’s not that troubleso. I can try a scrying divination with my hydromancy..." Mona said with a smile.
"Of course, when it cos to an existence on the level of one of the Seven Archons, I can’t claim that my astrology is absolutely accurate. But at the very least, I should be able to glean so useful information as reference."
She then summoned Hydro energy, forming a scrying disc of water before her.
After a series of intricate motions that Su Yuan and Aether couldn’t make sense of, she arrived at a result.
"Eh? This result..." Mona frowned.
"The hydromancy is quite clear—Lord Barbatos is already dead."
"To ensure accuracy, I’ll divine again a few more tis, to see whether this is just a fluke."
She then perford the divination two more tis, but the result was still the sa—Barbatos was dead.
"Three tis in a row, with the sa clear outco... it seems Lord Barbatos truly has passed away..."
Hearing Mona’s words, Su Yuan and Aether both looked dejected.
Just monts ago, Mona’s analysis had made them believe there was still a chance Venti lived.
But now, her water scrying had cruelly shattered that hope.
"Sigh, Traveler, don’t be too discouraged..." Mona tried to comfort them.
"Perhaps my astrology is simply lacking? Maybe I got it wrong all three tis in a row?"
"If that old hag of a master of mine were here, I’m sure she’d get the most precise and accurate result in a single try..."
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