"I can’t afford to feed her at all. I’ve been desperately taking every commission I can these past few days, and every last Mora I’ve saved has ended up being spent on food."
"I’m starting to wonder if I should fatten her up a little more, then slaughter her and turn her into emergency rations."
The amount Paimon ate in a single meal was practically equal to everything Lumine ate in an entire day, and that was with Paimon deliberately restraining herself.
Kamisato Ayaka nodded sympathetically from the side.
She had accompanied Lumine through the wilderness before, so she had firsthand experience with Paimon’s terrifying ability to devour food.
"Hmph! I’m the best guide in the whole world, okay? It’s not like I’m freeloading! I help you find your way!"
Hearing the disdain in Lumine’s voice, Paimon immediately protested.
"You’ve got the nerve to bring up your directions?"
"Today, you led Ayaka and me straight into a monster camp filled with Hilichurls!"
"If Eula hadn’t happened to pass by and save us, the two of us would’ve definitely gotten hurt."
"Hey... that was just one tiny accident!"
Paimon guiltily pressed her fingers together and muttered under her breath.
"Klee, that commotion over at Cape Oath today was your handiwork, wasn’t it?"
Eula turned her head and fixed her gaze on little Klee.
"Klee wasn’t there! Klee doesn’t know anything! It had nothing to do with Klee!"
The little girl immediately unleashed three denials in a row, shaking her head furiously.
She was terrified that if Acting Grand Master Jean found out, she’d be sent back to solitary confinement.
If that happened, she wouldn’t be able to follow Kamisato Satoru around and go fish blasting anymore.
"Eula, are you saying that little earthquake today was caused by this kid?"
Lumine stared at Klee in disbelief.
This harmless-looking little girl with a tiny backpack actually had that level of destructive power hidden inside her body?
"Don’t let that adorable appearance fool you. She’s widely recognized as one of Mondstadt’s top combatants."
"You know the terrain around Stormbearer Mountains? Klee permanently altered it with her bombs."
Several people audibly swallowed.
Aside from Kamisato Satoru and Eula, who already knew about it, everyone else felt a chill run down their backs.
In their minds, power capable of permanently altering the terrain should belong to a god at the very least.
Could this little girl actually be the descendant of some ancient god?
"Ahem, that’s enough. Stop staring at her like that. You’re going to scare the poor kid."
"Klee’s mother, Alice, is the truly terrifying one. The reason Stormterror’s Lair looks the way it does today is all thanks to her."
Klee grew nervous under everyone’s stares and quickly darted behind Kamisato Satoru.
The same old saying simultaneously surfaced in everyone’s minds.
Like mother, like daughter.
"It’s really not that exaggerated. Today, I just took Klee out to dismantle an Electro Hypostasis and let her burn off some excess energy while we were at it."
Kamisato Satoru briefly explained what had happened.
"Mm-hmm! Klee was very good! Klee really didn’t go fish blasting!"
Klee tightly gripped the hem of his clothes and added her own solemn clarification.
"All right, you clever little rascal. I won’t tell Jean."
Eula deliberately put on a fierce expression and reached out to pinch Klee’s cheek.
"Hmph! Dodoco’s Great Demon King said that the bigger a bad woman’s chest is, the worse her heart is!"
Klee made a face at Eula before quickly ducking back into hiding.
Kamisato Satoru’s gaze naturally drifted across Eula’s impressive chest, and he secretly nodded in wholehearted agreement.
They certainly were enormous.
One hand probably wouldn’t be enough to get a proper grip.
"You! Have you been secretly teaching Klee these awful things?"
Noticing the slightly predatory direction of Kamisato Satoru’s gaze, Eula hurriedly covered her chest with her hands, her face turning bright red from embarrassment.
Kamisato Satoru spread his hands and smiled helplessly.
"Don’t pin this one on me. I couldn’t teach her something like that even if I tried."
As far as he remembered, perhaps only someone as eccentric as Hu Tao would qualify as a normal person in Klee’s eyes.
"Little... Klee..."
Eula narrowed her eyes, a dangerous note entering her voice as though she were teasing a small animal.
"Daddy, Klee suddenly feels really sleepy! I want to hear that story! Let’s hurry and go!"
Klee shuddered from head to toe, grabbed Kamisato Satoru’s hand, and immediately dragged him toward the upstairs bedroom.
"Wait... What did she just call you?"
Eula stared blankly at Kamisato Ayaka.
Ayaka merely gave a helpless smile before pulling her aside to explain the strange form of address.
Early the next morning, the ladies took Klee out shopping around the city, while Kamisato Satoru leisurely wandered over to the shop by himself.
"’Turtle Cool Drinks’... You know, that name might actually become famous throughout Teyvat."
He muttered to himself, a mischievous smile tugging at his lips.
If Kamisato Ayaka really lost her temper over that name, she’d probably draw the Mistsplitter Reforged on the spot and hit him with a "Kamisato Art: Soumetsu."
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