Chapter 106

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He dated a few women before and he didn't share that many good experiences with them, so from then on he just decided on one night stands, but he couldn't really do that here, as he had known Hu Tao for a long time already and they were in the same party, so that thought was gone immediately.

(It would be hella awkward if we just had a one night stand and the next day we would eat together in my mansion and then do quests, acting as if nothing had happened...)

He was supposed to be conducting one night stands with people he didn't know and didn't have a high chance of meeting ever again in the future.

Not with someone who he enjoyed spending his every day, hour and minute with...

The last option would be to try dating, but...

If she said no, he felt like everything they built up would be burned down from scratch and their relationship would become quite awkward.

Maybe not as much for her, than for him.

He doubted she understood the concept of dating anyway.

(It's funny how I never really cared about relationships, but now that I may have a chance to get into a lasting one, I'm panicking almost like Kaeya...Still, I should calm down...this is an isekai where harems are a normal thing, concubines, mistresses, main wives, polygamy, etc, everything is real. Mondstadt is the city of Freedom. Harems, same sex marriages and so on are also allowed.)

Yomite's head hurt just by thinking of something like this.

Then there was the issue with Fischl, who also seemed to have shown a great interest in him which he would also have to resolve later.

(Haah...everything is so complicated. Almost no isekai character has to face what I have to face...Usually, the world they are reincarnated into has no enemies that are stronger than the main character, it's also where every girl would fall in love with the main character on first sight and he has the harem of more than nine girls...Yet, reality is often disappointing…)

(Here I am, in the world of Teyvat that has so many Archons that can whoop my ass in a few seconds and only Sia knows how many other hidden Gods I have yet to worry about...and despite being handso-...Relatively good looking, there hasn't been a single girl that would fall in love with me on first sight. How tragic.)

There was Fischl, but then again, she probably wasn't interested in him because of his looks, but because of something entirely different that only she knew.

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Yomite and Hu Tao had an argument before separating.

Hu Tao didn't want to go with them, and neither did she want him to go and risk his life.

It wasn't logical. It was completely stupid.

He had no way of helping, why wouldn't he just ignore it and stay away as far as possible from Mondstadt until the pandemic came to a close?

Those were her true thoughts.

But relying on cold and logical calculation wasn't Yomite's style.

He was looking at the bigger picture.

If the city of Mondstadt lost to the pandemic...

Where would they go?

Escape to another country?

The mansion they so painstakingly bought and built, their memories with it, would be gone and they would have to leave it here...

If the disease spread, nowhere would be safe.

Even other countries would be in danger.

For a peaceful life and the peace of his mind, he had to try and fix the issue, even if it was out of his reach.

That was how he always acted on Earth.

Fixing things, someone's mistakes, helping to expand their stories and help develop the authors as much as he could.

That was his old job. The job he loved.

He was happy when someone managed to strike it rich with his partial effort on the line.

A secondhand joy they would call it.

Or maybe those were just human emotions.

Still, he had decided on what to do, and he went for it, despite the warnings of Hu Tao who became even more frustrated and angry once he told her his decision.

"You are just so... unbelievably...stupid... Assistant-kun...Fine..do as you wish..."

She wouldn't bother beating some sense into him anymore. He was simply as stubborn as a mule.

Yomite glanced at Lumine and she immediately knew what he wanted but she shook her head in denial.

To not lose any more time, Yomite wanted to use the teleport, but then Jean would find out that they had a personal teleport...

Scratch that, Jean could keep a secret so they weren't afraid she would tell it to anyone, but the problem was that from what she said, the Knights of Favonius were currently stationed everywhere around the town, making sure no one would leave their homes.

To stay safe and prevent the disease from spreading.

This would become problematic for one main reason, being that they were bound to be seen teleporting by regular Knights, as in Mondstadt, there were only two teleports.

One of the teleports was in the middle of the town square, they never used that one as they would immediately be found out by everyone...

The second teleport was on top of the Favonius Watchtower that wasn't normally used, but there was a high chance there would be Knights on the standby, checking whether no one snuck out of their homes, now that there was an emergency...

As for the other teleports that were outside the Mondstadt and it's vicinity...It wasn't worth a mention as they were probably equally as close as the party was from Mondstadt, currently.

But there was another problem...

The lizard mount couldn't carry more than three people, and Jean needed both Lumine and Yomite to go with her.

However, Iris had to stay close to him at all times.

As he was contemplating and Jean was anxiously wondering what's taking him such a long time to decide, Iris suddenly said that if she gets to their Villa, there should be enough residual energy for her to consume in Yomite's room for about a week.

So she would be fine either way, even after they would separate for a short time.

(That's great...problem solved.)

He sighed in relief

And so, Lumine, Paimon and Yomite joined Jean on her mount and went to Mondstadt as fast as they could, while Hu Tao and Iris went back by foot.

They still had to cash in on the Dendro Slime Mutant reward, after all.