Chapter 65: Lisa, the Purple Rose Witch

It was the continuation from the previous chapter.

Everyone finished dinner and moved to the floor below to take a bath in the hot spring.

Tanya and Charlotte joined Ray as usual. But Tanya also noticed the longing gaze from Salter who was clearly in love with Ray but her knightley mindset prevented her from admitting meanwhile Ray is too dense to realize it.

She wouldn't say Ray is very dense. If there is a clear hint, he will get it but the subtle ones are beyond him.

She sometimes wonders if she should do something to help or let nature take its course. But, she chose to just observe for now. After all, she understands Ray. He might enjoy the notion of having a harem, but the hassle of dealing with every woman's need is what prevents him from picking any female he fancy.

She noticed Salter is the type to be needy once in a relationship and could get jealous unlike herself which she honestly didn't mind as her relationship with Ray might now look as mutual love but it started as mutual benefit before it changed to the current one. She considers herself as an independent and low maintenance type of woman. As for Charlotte, she started out as his submissive sex pet after that incident but an accident during experiment later caused her to change into her new self. Ray accepted her after he trained and domesticated her into a loyal slave/familiar?

Long story short, she wants to help with Salter's affection for Ray but she is afraid she would end up burdening Ray with the thing he wanted to avoid when having lovers, jealousy and high maintenance women.

In the hot spring, all three soak in hot water that mimics actual hot spring water filled with natural minerals after taking a shower to clean themselves.

They made a collective sigh of satisfaction as the water melted away all the tiredness and stress from their body.

"How's your day?" Ray asked while he hugged the two in his arms.

"Nothing out of the ordinary." Tanya replied as she tried to joh her memories to verify her words and really found nothing except the little incident this afternoon.

"Well, a thief did accidentally bump into me. But, my barrier protected me and nothing happened as he was arrested by the knights." Tanya recounted.

"Hmn." Ray hummed but his hand stealthy sneaked toward her breast and kneaded them while his mind was occupied with the partitions busy sorting his mental archive. Charlotte too is having her breast touched which she enjoyed and leaning on his chest with her eyes closed, purring with joy.

"I see." Ray replied after a long pause before he looked at Tanya who pouted again.

"Do you really dislike the size of your breast?" Ray lowered his head to lick her earlobe and earned a cute yelp from the surprised Tanya. "I do like them though." He whispered.

"Liar. You clearly like bigger boobs." Tanya hissed like an agitated kitten which made Ray chuckled.

"Yare yare, Tanya-kun. A real connoisseur of breasts didn't care about size. Size doesn't matter as each has its own pros and cons." Ray said like an old sage sharing his life advice.

"Yours might be smaller, but they are cute, springy and fun to tease because yours are more sensitive. Besides, it fits your body. Lithe and slender figure. I find it very arousing." He whispers into Tanya's ear, making her blush become even redder.

"How about Charlotte's big boobs?" Tanya asked.

"I like it too, sexy especially when she is tied up. Her thicker body figure fit for those latex suits which are hard to describe, but also arousing." Ray gives his honest opinion.

"Then, which one do you like more?" Tanya asked curiously while her hand helped attend to the already stiff little brother below.

"I don't know. I like both. Each has their own uniqueness… So, how about we figure it out?" Ray smirked and lifted Tanya by her thigh to his lap. His stiff rod stood proudly and erected as it poke below her navel, asking to be comforted.

"You…" Tanya's face slowly turned to a mischievous grin too as she stroked the rod before lifting her hip slightly and guided it to the correct passage. Then she lowered her hip, burying the entire length inside her while gasping softly, waking Charlotte up from her brief nap.

"You.. you two starting without me!" Charlotte was shocked by the development and about to voice her dissatisfaction but swiftly stopped by a pair of lips and a hand that probed two fingers inside her vagina to keep her occupied and satisfied.

The three continued for another half an hour before leaving the indoor onsen to continue on bed till midnight.

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In Mondstadt city, after the night had settled. Lisa finally had the time to rest and cool her mind from the high she just had.

The feeling of her life span shortening again from her thirst for knowledge made her remember her reason for returning to Mondstadt.

"Fool. I thought I washed my hands from seeking after knowledge recklessly." Lisa muttered and took a rest in an inn because she forgot to meet up with Jean and was busy stalking the mysterious sorcerer.

Suddenly her door knocked down forcefully like a SWAT team breaching the door.

"Lisa!"

"Jean?"

"You! Where did you go?! Do you know how worried I was when you didn't appeared." The blond knight with a rapier on her waist went in and hugged her friend.

"Sorry sorry. Someone caught my interest today and I went to observe her." Lisa replied offhandedly and accepted the hug by wrapping her arms behind the blond knight.

"Observing? More like stalking. I have known you long enough, Lisa."

Lisa chose to ignore the jab from her old friend. Then she remembered, Jean has a close connection with the Knight of Favonius and they should have information about her target.

"Say, Jean. Do you happen to know the owner of the store that is always crowded in the eastern part of the city?"

"Wait, don't tell me the person you stalked was blond haired and blue eyed?" Jean asked hastily.

"Yeah. Also, now I noticed how your features also lined up quite similarly. Could it be that you are related to them? Your long lost sister?" Lisa asked, half curious and half teasing.

"As if. The two had been quite a headache for the Knight of Favonius that even the top echelon ran ragged with countless sleepless nights because of those menaces." Jean cursed, reminded of the state of the Knight of Favonius headquarters after the appearance of Ray and his gang.

"I don't know much but apparently the male one is a god and the female one is a normal human as far as the investigation goes." Jean shared with her old friend, Lisa although this information is technically confidential.

"A god?" Lisa tensed a bit and inquired about the details in which Jean shared what she knew.

"God of death you say…" Lisa gulped. She didn't want to hope. She had decided to live a carefree life in Mondstadt. Her curse is incurable. Yet, she can see a glimpse of hope. Hope that the curse can be reversed.

"Tell me… Tell me Jean. Where can I find this god?" Lisa grasps Jean's arms with a crazed look on her face.

"You couldn't be suggesting to…" Jean cut herself from finishing her words. She knew about Lisa's affliction.

Jean knew that the intention of the god remained unknown. Neither amiable nor hostile toward Mondstadt city. This is honestly more troublesome than one of the two since the real intention remains unknown, the Knight didn't know how to proceed and was forced to live their day like a person with Klee's bomb strapped to their body, not knowing when the timer could run out.

God is known to be fickle after all. Today he might target Fatui. Tomorrow could be the Favonius.

Who knows if this god is good or evil. Precisely because of this, Jean didn't dare to let Lisa meet this unknown god that could force her to pay a very heavy price to be cured. Even if it is just a possibility.

Yet, it's cruel to take away the only hope to cure her friend's affliction.

Jean is in a dilemma.

As time goes on, she soon finds herself caving in to Lisa and telling her the details she needed. She might have yet to formally become leader of Knight of Favonius but it's only a matter of time from the way her mother had been grooming her and she got to know some secret information about Ray although only tidbits.

"Thank you, Jean."

"It's fine."

"*Cough*"

The two look to the source of the cough and see the inn owner with his arms crossed and foot tapping the floor, impatiently looking at the busted door.

"I'll pay for it…" Jean said because she is the one that broke the door.

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Next morning, Ray arrived at Mondstadt city early in the morning to find Venti. He found the bard got wasted, sprawling at the stairs behind the tavern named Angel's Share.

"This damn drunkard." Ray cursed under his breath and held the bard up with one arm around his neck.

"Oh, R- *hick* ugh… *blergh*" Venti vomited rainbows after his body was shaken by Ray's action.

"Goddammit! Not on my shoe!" Ray shouted and quickly discarded the shoe and Traced a new one after cleaning away the bile and alcohol mix sticking on his foot.

"Don't wipe it on my shirt! Oi!" The bard wiped his mouth on Ray's shirt which Ray couldn't stop in time. "Fuck me."

"Eh…*hick* Fuck me yourself- *hick* you coward. Hahaha. I always wanted to say that *hick*" Venti continues to flail under Ray's help who drags this drunk bard to Good Hunter and eats something to sober up.

Venti continued to giggle and tease Ray much to his annoyance because Venti acted too much like a girl. Well, he did discover that Venti is originally spirit and spirit is genderless. But, that's not the point.

After he dropped the bard at Good Hunter and ordered him some food and warm tea, he sat there and waited for the bard to finish up.

"Rayyyy… feed me please. My hand cannot.. too wobbly." Venti shows by trying to bring the fork with meat to his mouth but misses by a large margin.

Ray begrudgingly helped because he wanted to end this embarrassment before more people flock the street.

While he is doing so, Lisa and Jean also arrive at Good Hunter, a place they like to hangout and have a meal. They didn't notice Ray and Venti at first because that takes a more secluded corner near the alley but after hearing the sound of giggles and exasperated sigh, they noticed the two.

"Oh, quite a lovely pair." Lisa commented but Jean instantly blushed and reminded of her rather exotic romance books.

"That bard with black hair is male." Jean told Lisa

"Oh, my… that's rather surprising." Lisa grinned and teased the blushing Jean.

They order their breakfast and observe Ray and Venti occasionally with Lisa constantly teasing Jean. It went on for a while until Ray and Venti were done.

"Come on, let's go find your friend Dvalin. I still have much to do today."

If Jean and Lisa were any normal people, they might have shrugged at the name Dvalin and thought it's probably the name of a person. But the two of them recognised the name, it's the name of Barbatos friend and one of the Four Winds of Mondstadt.

"Muhhh… can't you be more gentle." Venti pouted and coyly said when Ray pulled his arm. "After you kidnapped me, tied me up in your sex dungeon, ravaged my body for an entire night then took away something very precious to me. Is this how you treat me after that?" Venti said with a pitiful face but Ray knew this was just an act.

(I leave this to your imagination.)

"Stop twisting the truth and making a scene, you drunkard! Let's go already." Ray hissed at the yet to fully sober up Venti when his words were heard by people around and made them stare at Ray with disgust or the same way they look at scums.

"No! Carry me!" Venti continues to act coy and pout despite Ray's anger already reaching the boiling point.

Meanwhile, Lisa noticed something odd. Blond hair, blue eyes, named Ray.

"He is the god!" Jean slapped the table and finally noticed it.

"You realized it only now?" Lisa looks at her friend with a raised eyebrow. "My~ you still have a long way to go, Jean."

Ray went to pay the bill and did carry Venti, but not the way Venti wanted. He carries Venti like a sack of potatoes. Mostly due to the disdainful stare people gave Ray due to Venti's rambling. He wanted to escape quickly, so he ran to another alley and escaped with a portal.

When Jean and Lisa arrived, they found the alley to be empty. But, Lisa informs Jean they escaped with magic because the concentrated energy still lingers in this spot.

"Let's chase after them." Lisa said.

"How?"

"Just follow me." Lisa already knows the direction where Ray went by deciphering the remnant of magic energy. "To the ruin of Old Mondstadt near Brightcrown mountain."

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