idolpro | Zhongli's Ideal World Session 2

[ Childe just smiles a smile that does not reach his eyes. ]

I think I'll just head back to the restaurant now.

Wouldn't want to keep Mr. Zhongli waiting.

W-wait!!! Uhm—

[ looking to alisaie and alphinaud like !?!?!?! ]

I think you could stand to keep him waiting a bit longer, don't you?

[ELM: 2. Okay maybe it's not the best attack but it does keep him from leaving????

Sorry, sister.]

I'm a very busy man, comrade.

[ And that hydro attack does not even leave Alphinaud's fingertips before it recoils immediately and retaliates against him instead, the water forcing itself down his throat in an attempt to drown him.

SPD: 5 to not drown and die. Sorry, friend. ]

And I believe all of you have overstayed your welcome.

[ For the others present, a hydro arrow comes flying in your direction. SPD: 4 to dodge it. ]

[Well, that somehow went exactly the way he was expecting. It's a bit ironic since he is not the best swimmer. ~~Thanks for giving him more nightmare fuel, grandpa~~.]

—No! Mister Alphinaud!!

[ she's too slow to intervene—the arrow pierces her in the shoulder and she yelps, bracing against her staff. her panic coalesces into one thought—the will to use her vision.

"It's a sign of your ambition. Let your creativity guide you, and it will answer your call."

from her staff swirls erratic winds, spinning out in a spiral. sorry to the bookshop and also everyone around it. ELM nat 4 + 2 = 6 ]

[SPD: 2]

Alphinaud!!

[Alisaie sees him goes down, she sees how it happened--]

[she doesn't have time. Barely feels the arrow. It's an irrelevance, it's nothing: there's nothing worse it can do. He's choking, he's falling and in front of her is the one who did it, and her mind is wiped clean of everything but the white-hot fires of her fury and her grief.]

You bastard.

[No time to be subtle. No time for flash.

[She volleys a fireball straight at Childe. May it burn him to a cinder.]

[ELM: 8]

[ It hits - dead on. How could it miss fueled by the rage of a Pyro user who had just lost their brother.

But at the time, Childe was sweeping in for a second attack, two water knives merged to form a water spear.

Luckily, the after-effects of the whirlwind, blow the attack wide, just grazing Felicity but it doesn't look good for her sheep. It's probably not water proof.

Alisaie---

Alisaie, on the other hand, earns the full swipe of the hydro lance and the rare crit from Childe before he falls to the floor, hacking up blood and smoldering ash. It's hard to survive cooked insides. ]

No—

[ only watching in helplessness when alisaie's swiped by the lance, clinging onto her staff ]

[ pentium comes trotting over in time to see the twins fall over dead, followed by a sheep, and then finally zhongli's mate, childe, which... he can't exactly say he expected to... see... ]

[ this sure is. he's going over to felicity and assuming she doesn't freak at the sight of him, he's setting a claw gently on her head. ]

We should get you out of here.

[ oh ]

. . .Okay.

[ looking down to Albert . . . which is now no longer functional ]

. . . Albert?

[ oh no ]

[ nudges her with his snoot. ] I've got him. [ even if there's no point to bringing him he'll heft albert up and put him on his back. he stronk. and will also likely have back problems because of this, but no more trauma for the smol. ] Let's head back to the restaurant. I believe I saw Zhongli and Alexander having tea. It might calm your nerves. [ and some trauma. ]

W-wait—

It's more important to. . . to take Miss Alisaie and Mister Alphinaud back. I can repair Albert later, but they. . .

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...

I don't think there's anything to be done for either of them here. On the other side, perhaps, we can ease their pain, but... [ just going to nudge her again. gently. ]

. . .

Okay.

[ gonna go with him then ,_, ]

I am sorry. [ going to bring her back to wanmin. ] If nothing else we can be proud of their sacrifice. I'm sure they'll need a hand when we're back at the Tower. We'll help each other help them, yes?

[ nodding, just kinda lowkey nonverbal

she does remember though, that alisaie and alphinaud had been reading scrolls, so she's going to go fetch them first before they go ]

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[ his heart,
it breaks. ]

[ pentium isn't going to stop her, but he does tip his head like ??? ] What are those?

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[ sometimes sheep make people sad it's fucked up ]

Uhm. . .

They're stories . . . Mister Alphinaud and Miss Alisaie were reading them. I think they must be important to Mister Zhongli, since they're written in a different language from the other books, so . . . I thought I should bring them to him. . .

...ah. Let's take them with us then. I doubt this is the ending he anticipated, so perhaps we can soften the blow with... some things... [ distractions. ] I did want to get him his favorite soup... and the flowers from the square.

Mmm.

. . .

I should have. . . talked to him about it, instead of. . .

[ trailing off, clutching the scrolls a little tighter ]

[ going to scruff her and leave the bookstore, because the corpses are bad for her (mental) health. ] You could not haff known that thish ish how thingsh would turn out.

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