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Walking through the tunnel with the broken weapon, [Name] heard a high pitch yell calling him.
"[Name]! What did you do?!" Paimon fled over to [Name]'s side grabbing the now-shattered bits of wood. She was holding a piece in her tiny hands and striking [Name] in the head with it.
"Ow, what?!" [Name] took the piece back forcefully, "The polearm isn't a family heirloom but it's still expensive!!" Paimon reasoned.
"Well I need something to block his engine!" Aether just watched as the two argued again. He didn't mind that the weapon broke, it wasn't that good anyway and he himself broke a couple swords once in a while.
While the other looked back at Paimon, who's still scolding him, Aether took [Name]'s hand. As he locked the door behind them, the three of them entered the participant's preparation room.
[Name] huffed and turned away from Paimon, his gaze now fixed on his hand, which was still intertwined with Aether's.
"Aether tell him!" Paimon commanded as [Name] sits down on the blue chair. "Look, I'm not mad about the weapon thing. I have another one anyway," Aether took out a black and red polearm, shinier and sharper then the last.
[Name] took the polearm carefully and examined it, "It's a Blackcliff pole, Refinement two". "Is that expensive?" [Name] tried the polearm and he got the hang of it pretty quickly.
"Oh yeah, super expensive" A clang was heard as [Name] dropped the polearm in shocked. "Don't do that!" Paimon took the polearm and pretended to slash [Name] only for it to slip from her hand and once again was dropped.
"Oops" The two said as Aether looked at the two in a deadpanned face. "You know what? Do what you want with it. It's yours anyway." "Really?!" [Name] placed the weapon in his inventory as he looked at Aether like a child.
He hummed as [Name] runs and hugs the blond and Paimon and puts his head at the crook of the two. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Aether was shocked by the reaction, he didn't expect to be hugged and with [Name] actually hugging him to death. It was too different from Xiao.
[Name] pulled back as he then made the weapon disappeared. "Oh yeah I met Ganyu before this, she also gave me this." He pulled out the book she gave before and skimmed through the pages and gave it to Aether to take a look.
Aether then takes [Name]'s hand and orders him to summon his gloves, as if he knows what he's doing. Pain shoots up from the boy's head as he leans over the table, Paimon trying her best to hold his side.
As he felt lighter, the silhouette of the Yaksha Mask clouded his vision. The book began to rotate continuously until it came to a halt on a specific page.
