Chapter 424: Ch 424 : An unexpected gain
The "Diona" radiated a powerful aura of eerie energy as she lunged straight toward Su Yuan, aiming to rip him open and tear into his stomach to see just how much wine he had inside...
But facing the charging "Diona," Su Yuan remained calm.
He turned to Aether and said:
"Aether, I told you—I will definitely save Paimon!"
"And what I’ve said, I will make happen!!!"
However, what Su Yuan hadn’t expected was that in the next instant, Aether suddenly flashed forward, stepping in front of him and blocking Diona’s eerie claw strike in his stead!
Aether’s torso was instantly torn open—flesh and blood splattering, his intestines spilling out through the gaping wound...
"Su Yuan!!! Even after Paimon died, I never once thought of dying—I wanted to keep on living! What right do you have to just make such decisions on your own!!!"
Blood poured endlessly from Aether’s mouth as he shouted at Su Yuan, his voice filled with pain and fury.
Su Yuan didn’t know what to say.
Aether truly was someone who valued loyalty and bonds above all else...
Yet before Aether could finish speaking, "Diona’s" displeased voice rang out:
"You meddlesome fool! I’m punishing a drunkard—what business do you have interfering?!"
"Since that’s the case, you can die first!!!"
As she spoke, "Diona" thrust her eerie energy–infused hand straight through Aether’s chest!
"Traveler!!!" Eula, seeing this scene, raised her greatsword, preparing to rush forward and fight "Diona."
But "Diona" only roared furiously:
"Stay where you are! Don’t come over here and get in my way!!!"
And with that, Eula’s entire body was bound and suppressed by Diona’s eerie power, leaving her unable to move.
Eula then recalled her earlier conversation with Aether—about how she could make use of her own rules of eerie state.
Gritting her teeth, she shouted:
"Diona—you dare to harm the Traveler?! This grudge, I’ll remember it!!!"
Su Yuan was left stunned.
Why did it feel like the situation was only growing more and more chaotic?
Fortunately, Eula’s process of entering eerie state required a short delay; she wouldn’t transform instantly...
Otherwise, considering that Eula’s strength already far surpassed Diona’s, the gap would remain the same after eerification.
If an Eerie "Eula" defeated the Eerie "Diona," then all of Su Yuan’s previous efforts would be wasted, and he’d have to figure out some new way to trigger the death rewind again...
"Now that there’s no one left to get in my way, let me see just how much alcohol you’ve guzzled down, you detestable drunkard!!!"
As "Diona" spoke, she stepped in front of Su Yuan, slashing open the skin and muscles of his body with her sharp claws, before yanking his stomach straight out!!!
Su Yuan felt the searing pain coursing through his body, his blood and life slipping away bit by bit.
He collapsed to the ground, his consciousness growing fainter and fainter...
In his final moments, his eyes happened to fall on Paimon in the distance, who had been cleaved in half at the waist.
Strangely enough, her two severed halves seemed to move on their own...
"Ah... what’s going on..."
"Am I hallucinating because I’m about to die?"
"Could it be that even after being cut in half, Paimon still hasn’t completely died?"
In his last breath, Su Yuan murmured to himself...
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With a jolt, Su Yuan’s eyes snapped open.
Once again, that all-too-familiar, heart-palpitating sensation washed over him...
It was a feeling both familiar and yet strange at the same time...
Feeling the sting in the center of his left palm, Su Yuan knew—he had died once more...
He lifted his left hand and looked toward his palm:
[Unfortunately, this is your first death today...]
[Current available rewind count: 2.2 times]
The moment he read the first line, Su Yuan immediately felt something was wrong...
What was going on?
Shouldn’t his death rewind have already been triggered?
Why hadn’t the number of available rewinds decreased, still showing 2.2???
And most importantly, wasn’t that first line of description exactly how it used to be, back when he had at least five rewind chances each day?
Su Yuan thought about it for a long time, but still couldn’t figure it out.
Hadn’t the rules of his death rewind already changed?
Why had they suddenly reverted back again?
Since he couldn’t make sense of it, he decided not to dwell on it further—better to save himself the mental strain and wasted time...
Taking a deep breath, Su Yuan continued reading:
[The condition for Diona’s eerie state is witnessing someone drink alcohol, and once transformed, she will kill that person who drank...]
[If you encounter Diona’s father, Mr. Draff, outside Mondstadt, make sure not to let him drink alcohol, because Diona will worry about her father and secretly leave the city to look for him...]
[Also, be sure to explain the seriousness of the matter to Eula in advance. Once she habitually starts holding grudges against others, it could cause unbearable consequences...]
[In addition, regarding the "Freedom" eerie in Mondstadt, it is very likely referring to a certain delay that exists between entering the Eerie state and exiting it...]
[From the currently known information, Diona experiences a delay when exiting the Eerie state, whereas Eula experiences a delay when entering it...]
[Lastly, the identity of ████ will ████, ██████. Please proceed with caution...]
Looking at the information prompts that appeared on his left palm, Su Yuan didn’t know how to even describe the overwhelming shock he was feeling...
It appeared again—the smeared-out words!!!
Someone had interfered with the process of his death rewind yet again!!!
Just what exactly were those blacked-out words trying to convey?
Su Yuan turned his head to scan his surroundings.
The current rewind point should be when he, Aether, and Paimon had just witnessed Hopkins’s suicide, and were leaving Springvale, heading toward Mondstadt...
But very soon, Su Yuan noticed something was wrong.
He saw Aether, right beside him, suddenly show a pained expression, clutching his chest and abdomen, squatting down on the ground, panting heavily, with sweat pouring uncontrollably...
"Traveler, are you alright?" Paimon asked with concern.
"Why are you sweating so much? And your breathing is so rapid? Your stamina and endurance shouldn’t be that bad!"
But Aether raised his head to look at Paimon, tears streaming uncontrollably down his face, as he said: "Paimon, it’s so good... that you’re still alive..."
"Eh? Traveler, did you do something that would’ve made me not survive?" Paimon asked in confusion.
"And why are you suddenly crying???"
"It feels like we’ve just gone through a life-and-death separation, only to be reunited again?"
"You’re acting way too strange, you know?"
"Traveler, don’t you feel ashamed and embarrassed? You’re already grown up, yet crying like a little kid?"
But as Paimon kept speaking, she seemed to be infected by the Traveler’s emotions as well, and suddenly started wailing and crying too...
"Waaaah... Traveler, why is it that seeing you cry makes me want to cry as well..."
Watching Paimon and Aether hugging each other tightly and crying together, Su Yuan didn’t know what on earth he should say...
These two... what kind of weird spell did they suddenly fall under?
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