It seemed that for beings whose strength had reached such absurd levels, their fates simply weren’t something a mortal divination art could casually peer into.
"I... I didn’t see any omen at all. There was nothing. Just a complete blank."
Mona’s shoulders slumped dejectedly.
This inexplicable sense of failure was a first in her entire career.
"Well, that’s pretty much what I expected."
"From the way you’re talking, you already knew this would happen? Do you understand astrology?"
Mona stared suspiciously at Kamisato Satoru.
No matter how she looked at him, he didn’t seem like the type who would study profound academic subjects.
"My circumstances are a little unusual, so don’t worry about it. Why don’t you try doing a reading for Eula instead?"
Kamisato Satoru smiled and smoothly changed the subject.
Eula froze for a moment before nodding.
There was no harm in hearing what it had to say.
"Fine! I refuse to believe I can’t get a single proper reading today!"
Mona regained her determination and once again conjured her hydromancy device.
Jingle...
"Huh? This reading is surprisingly smooth..."
Mona gradually dismissed the formation.
Her eyes moved back and forth between Kamisato Satoru and Eula.
Her expression became extremely strange, yet she stubbornly refused to say a word.
"Well? Say something. What exactly did you see?"
Her hesitant expression was making both of them increasingly uneasy.
"That cannot be revealed. If I say it aloud, this delicate connection might stop coming true."
A mysterious smile appeared on Mona’s lips.
Through the stars, she had just seen that these two would develop an extraordinarily deep bond in the future.
If she exposed it now, who knew what variables might arise?
More importantly, she had vaguely sensed that Kamisato Satoru seemed to have more than one thread of romance tied to him.
The realization instantly added a trace of contempt to Mona’s gaze.
Sure enough, handsome guys are usually a bunch of shameless womanizers.
What frightened her even more was that the divination suggested she would apparently continue working under Kamisato Satoru as his "elite employee" for a long time to come.
That was terrifying.
Could this be the curse of capitalism?!
"Mona... Mona! What are you thinking about?"
"Huh? What?"
Hearing Eula call her, Mona finally snapped out of her wild thoughts and stared blankly at the two of them.
"Nothing. You were standing there spacing out for so long that I thought you’d been possessed."
"By the way, Mona, why did you travel all the way to Mondstadt this time?"
Kamisato Satoru remembered that according to the original timeline, at this point just after the Stormterror crisis, Mona should still have been over at the Sumeru Akademiya.
"Oh, that. I’m actually here to retrieve a box for my master. She left it with an old friend more than fifty years ago. While I’m at it, I also want to test my skills against the box’s current custodian."
Mona lightly brushed aside her dark-purple hair, a competitive gleam flashing in her eyes.
"Your master’s old friend wouldn’t happen to be the famous Ms. Alice, would she?"
"How do you know about that?!"
This time, it was Mona’s turn to be utterly shocked.
Kamisato Satoru looked like he was only in his twenties. How could he possibly know so much about something that had happened more than fifty years ago?
"Uh... well..."
"We’ll probably get the chance to meet eventually anyway."
Kamisato Satoru awkwardly rubbed his nose.
After all, he genuinely hadn’t met Alice herself yet.
There was simply no good way to explain his foreknowledge.
Mona looked completely baffled.
Kamisato Satoru didn’t linger on the subject and dropped another bombshell.
"I may not know Alice, but I do know her biological daughter."
"You mean the direct inheritor of that great scholar’s knowledge?!"
Mona cried out in delighted surprise.
Kamisato Satoru silently thought about it.
When it came to that particular field of expertise, specifically Jumpy Dumpties, Klee had indeed inherited Alice’s legacy perfectly.
As for any other serious academic knowledge...
Alice didn’t seem to have properly taught the child much of anything.
"Ahem. I’d recommend preparing yourself mentally first. Reality might be just a tiny bit... different from what you’re imagining."
Kamisato Satoru coughed twice, his expression extremely subtle.
"Absolutely."
Beside him, Eula was struggling desperately not to laugh.
She knew Klee all too well.
Mona actually wanted to compete with that child?
What were they going to compete in?
Who could make the more powerful bomb?
Or who could spend longer in solitary confinement?
That child’s mines had already given Acting Grand Master Jean more than a few extra gray hairs.
"What exactly do you two mean by that?"
Mona’s heart skipped a beat.
An extremely ominous feeling arose within her as she warily stared at the two grinning troublemakers.
"Hehe. That child is living at my place right now. Once you meet her in person, everything will become clear."
Eula smiled mysteriously, deliberately keeping her in suspense.
"Oh. Fine, then. -.-"
Mona didn’t ask any further questions.
She’d be meeting the person herself soon enough anyway.
The three locked up the shop and walked side by side toward Eula’s apartment.
With the crisis finally resolved, Mondstadt’s once-deserted streets were gradually coming back to life, stalls reopening and pedestrians once again filling the roads.
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