"You know what? I'm not as happy as I seem. Living in the castle tower, living among humans, I only feel that endless loneliness is swallowing me up. The emptiness and loneliness corrode my heart bit by bit."

"I am an outlier in human society. Humans have a short lifespan, but mine is long. I watched as the humans I was familiar with gradually developed wrinkles. The vitality in their bodies faded away with the passage of time, and their bodies were no longer healthy and strong. Finally, they left with a decaying vitality..."

The moment the wine went down his throat, his previous heroic words seemed to turn to dust and drift away with the tipsy breeze. His tail swayed weakly, his ears drooped against his face, and the attendant Yingzhai lay on the table and said sadly and vaguely:

"This is the fate that the long-lived species must face. They have to witness the death of their own short-lived species. If..."

"You will encounter more beautiful things in the future." In addition to mixing cocktails, a qualified bartender must also listen quietly to the customers' stories. Diluk, who grew up in this environment, is proficient in this.

However, he didn't know much about the theory of longevity and had never come into contact with it, so he couldn't give any thoughtful comfort and could only give some dry comfort.

The attendant god Sakurasai raised his head with red eyes: "I wish I could worry about the theory of life span!"

What is the theory of longevity?

He is not yet at the age where he would be sad about this.

"What really bothers me is that I don't fit in with human society!"

The attendant god Yingzhai cried and said: "Anyone who has lived in a group, whether a monster or a half-immortal, will become obsessed with group life. The premise is that just because you are in a group, you will not be accepted into it."

"Kaia, do you have this feeling?" the white-haired fox suddenly turned around and asked.

"How do you feel?" Kaia held the wine glass firmly and steadily, and seemed very surprised by the sudden question, and asked with a slight smile.

The god of servitude Yingsai described it in detail: "Of course it is the kind of loneliness that looks at others having fun, but you have something hidden in your heart and feel that you are out of tune with them. This kind of loneliness may originate from identity, bloodline, race, language, or country."

"I knew you were my kind the first time I saw you. There was a distinct loneliness in you, and there was a fragile yet solid layer of ice in your eyes, which seemed to be about to break at any moment, but remained firm."

"I'm very familiar with this. Why do you feel that you are different from the people around you?"

Blinking thoughtfully, Kaeya said casually, "It should be the language. At that time, I had just been adopted, and I was not proficient in Mondstadt's language, let alone the common language of Teyvat. I always felt a sense of distance from others."

"Oh~ I thought it would be the kingdom."

"…Of course this is part of the reason."

Kaia took a sip of wine and smiled again: "Maybe it was because I was too young at that time, so I have a vague memory of the places where I used to live. Until now, I don't know which country I am from or where my hometown is."

Diluk joked, “Just remember to go home when it’s time to eat. Do you want me to draw you a map?”

Kaiya sincerely thanked him, "Thank you, my brother, but I am still a little bit away from Alzheimer's disease and I haven't forgotten where home is."

"Language and country are common reasons for loneliness. I am a rare example. I often feel out of place because of my ancestry."

Lying on the bar, staring at the shaking liquid in the glass, the endless emptiness and loneliness made his eyes, which were originally bright and lively, become hollow and lifeless. The attendant god Yingzhai said softly: "The blood flowing in my body is different from that of ordinary people. I am a mixed-blood."

The Water Gun Heavy Guard who had been listening nearby asked in confusion, "Are you a hybrid of an Inazuma fox and a fox from another country? Do foxes care about this?"

The samurai Sakurasai shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "It's worse than this. I am a hybrid of a male fox and a female fox."

"No one can decide where they are born. What we should do is to break the bloodline..."

Diluk, who was about to comfort him, leaned back slightly, frowned, and asked in confusion: "Are you sure you didn't say the wrong thing?"

The attendant god Yingsai asked back, "Don't you think this is terrible?"

"..."

"Another bottle of fire water!"

"Diluk, I'll help him to the side to rest first."

"Ah."

The samurai Sakusai is drunk.

There is no doubt about this, because even Ms. Alice, who has a clear logic, would not say such confusing words.

Kaia stood up and reached out to pull the samurai Sakurasai's shoulder.

“There is a lounge on the second floor where you can take a good rest.”

Hiding slightly to the side, the attendant god Yingzhai suddenly laughed:

“Kaia…”

"what happened?"

"It suddenly occurred to me that I seemed to have seen a similar situation as yours..."

Perhaps he was really drunk, the attendant god Yingzhai looked a little dazed.

"An orphan from a foreign land who didn't know how to behave was adopted by a nobleman. They spent a happy time together and formed a deep family bond. They said good morning, good afternoon, and good night to each other every day. How enviable it was."

Diluk raised an eyebrow: "I know what you are talking about."

"But it was all fake. The orphan in a foreign land was a spy for the Fatui. He was ordered to gather intelligence, but in the process of carrying out his mission, he fell in love with the family he was supposed to deceive, and then he made me hesitate between my family and him."

His hands and feet were cold, and waves of chills spread upward from his spine. The sound of his heartbeat beat against his eardrums. The increasingly rapid heartbeat seemed to stop the breathing in his throat, and the lack of oxygen made Kaia a little dazed.

"Haha~ What a touching plot! If I had arranged a little bit of tragic death of relatives, I could have made this spy complete a perfect transformation. But this thing ended badly."

The attendant Yingzhai was filled with righteous indignation and said, "At that time, I had decided to invest more in him, print a few more novels and sell them, and use the plots in them to severely condemn the Fatui and ruin their reputation. In the end, he actually stopped writing?!"

"..."

"Novel?" His hands and feet were under control again. Kaiya lowered his head to drink his wine to hide his complicated expression, and took the time to ask, "What novel are you talking about?"

"It was the novel I bought back then, the one you weren't interested in after just reading the synopsis."

"Oh."

Kaia remembered.

The content of the novel cannot be said to be exactly the same as his experience, but it can also be said that there is no difference at all.

So he had no interest in watching more.

Kaiya secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that the author's bad ending really pissed you off."

"That's right, that guy failed me! Why did he have such a bad ending? Just because he was a spy hidden in Inazuma by the Fatui, and he wrote this novel to whitewash the Fatui, but he accidentally exposed his identity halfway through, and was captured by me and my men and imprisoned in the town magistrate?"

"Damn it! In order to avoid affecting his writing, I even avoided his hands when I tortured him. He should have continued to write according to what I wanted! But he was so stubborn that he refused to give in."

Diluk suddenly realized: "No wonder I couldn't buy the fifth volume. It turned out that something unexpected happened. How did you find out that the author was a spy?"

"When I was contacting foreign newspapers to increase investment in him, I found that someone had already invested in him. The amount of money was huge, and newspapers of all sizes received this money. His public identity was just a small stall owner who wrote novels because he was bored."

"Hasn't the Fatui ever considered that the investment of funds might lead to his identity being exposed?" Diluk was curious.

The samurai Yingsai shrugged: "Of course the Fatui thought about it. Their original plan was to make the novel famous first, and then attract investment, so as to avoid capital consumption. So the investment was a misunderstanding."

"Yae Shenzi... She is the elder of my family. She had the same idea as me and used her own secret channel to make an investment. Who would have thought that I had the same idea? A wonderful misunderstanding was formed just like that."

"But it's a blessing in disguise..."

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