Once I knew about my classmates actually possibly being in the Genshin world, I quickly ran back to where the others were, being careful to not ruin the food on the way. Really, I was in full-on excitement and concern when I first knew.

But first, let me tell you a bit about my dear classmates.

Alyssa. She's my very much best friend. Well, all of my classmates that I had mentioned before are. She is, one, a Muslim, and two, a big Kirby fan. No, you cannot be mean to my Muslim friends otherwise I will impale you with my polearm. And for extra, she's a glasses-girl.

Riddhima. I think she's Indian. I think. She knows and plays Genshin Impact and very much thinks that she's a Lesbian, despite of the religion rule of not being gay/lesbian/related to those. And for extra, she's also a glasses-girl.

Sophia. Well, to say something that is very much common knowledge of her, she really likes Eddie Munson from Stranger Things and Loki from The Avengers. She also makes paper dragons when she's in boredom, so that's something. She knows Genshin as well, but I don't really know if she actually played it. I dunno, thoughts. For extra, she's also, also a glasses-girl.

Loreize. She's a great friend of Sophia and is maybe going to be a future glasses-girl. She also makes paper dragons, but that's only sometimes. She really likes Will Byers from Stranger Things, by the way.

And that's basically what I'll say about them. No, I will not put their personal info, otherwise those idiotic psychopaths who are called to be friggin' p3d0ph1l3s will try to find us. Little did they know that if they do find either one of them or me, they would get immediate torture from children themselves.

Anyways, back to the story itself...

"Your friends are possibly in this world?" Xingque asked to confirmed about my explanation. "Yes, indeed...and to tell you the truth, actually...the Kirby gang over there, me, my friends...all of them aren't from your world. In fact, we're possibly from a complete different universe..." I replied, telling him about the fact, finally.

He did showed some confusion, so Aether and Paimon explained for me, despite having to persuade them a bit that I could explain myself on my own. Really, I was a bit embarrassed that someone else had to do the talking...

"The Universal Teaveller? You mean, the Universal Traveller?" Xingque said in disbelief. "Yep..." I halfly lied. Sure, I was in Kathlyne's body, but that doesn't mean that I'm that person who I'm accidentally controlling the body of.

"I am quite a big fan of your mysteries between your world and ours! So many histories marked because of you...and so many good ones, too!" He said, shaking my hands a bit 'hard' like we just met. "Oh, um, excuse me..." he then said as he backed up a bit. "So...with your friends possibly being in this world...I hope that they, including you and the others to go back into your world safely..."

"Yeah, hopefully..." I said, then facing the Kirby gang. The four (including Paimon and Aether in the background) were already enjoying the food I gave them, including Meta. The way he eats, though...it seemed like he felt some sort of freedom that he just took off his mask to eat. He was bothered from being called 'cute', but I guess with a creator beside him, and that I once slept beside him before...he finally felt the need to be more free and all, rather than hiding in the shadows, usually thinking of the bad past and all...

Ya know, Meta sometimes reminds me of my friends, actually, when he's in the 'chill' zone. The way he had been doing his things in a way that other people joyfully do during their daily jobs and all...it kinda reminds me of my friends. But then I thought about it...5 months seemed a lot, but once you go away too far and too long from the path, it would only feel like a few days are left. I didn't want to lose them...I really didn't.

I cared for them, and I didn't want them gone just yet, not only because they are my best classmates, but also because I didn't give them their own name that I could call them. Not separate names, just one that I could call them by.

Now that I thought about it...maybe I should call them by my 'peeps' from now on... But really, I did cared for them seriously.

"So...*nom* what plan *nom* are we gonna *nom* plan out so that *nom* we can find *nom* Kathlyne's friends *nom*?" Paimon asked while she ate the food. "Please don't eat while speaking, otherwise you might choke," Xingque said with a bit of a concerned tone. "Aside with that, I'm not really sure what to do, besides looking for them around Monstadt and Liyue first, before going to Inazuma."

"Oh yeah, we haven't been to Inazuma yet! We were just planning to go there after a bit of wandering around Liyue for a little longer, too! Well, until we found Kathlyne..." Paimon said as she ate the last piece of her serving of food.

"Inazuma? Sounds like an 'electrifyingly-interesting' place to me," I said with a little smirk. No one saw me smirking, which I was glad that no one did. "But anyways, I think it's more important to keep going around Liyue Harbor, to maybe find some clues if my friends had been here before, and that maybe they're still in the Liyue border." I then suggested, quickly removing the smirk and replace it with a little smile a bit noticible enough.

"I think you should, because they might take a long nap here...and a deep one, too..." Aether pointed out while signalling that we should wake up the Kirby gang, who for some reason were asleep, besides Meta, who was reading the Khaenri'ah research book again.

I then nudged them to wake up. "Helloo? We're going now. Or else we'll leave you three behind..." I said to them, but they were still asleep. Then I thought about something. "Hey, ya know that we could get more delicious food if you three wake up now..." The three of them immediately snapped out of their nap the moment I said 'delicious food'. It was a bit hard to not laugh on that, because the others who were awake did a little chuckle on their reactions. Even Meta did so, and lemme tell ya, he was dang cute when he did so. Non-hesitantly commenting on him due to cuteness. Yes.

Since Bandana fully woke up first, it took out its notebook and little pen thingy once again, writing some words on it and gave it to me, which I read out for everyone to listen (well, besides the other crowd). "I don't need the food, by the way...but seriously, where will we go next? If still in Liyue, where exactly?"

"That's a good question..." Xingque said. "How about we meet the knoledgable Mr. Zhongli?" Paimon suggested. "It's possible that he could know some ideas, and that Kathlyne's friends' info could be in one of Zhongli's ideas!"

"I think we should," I agreed with Paimon's suggestion. "And I think we should get going, too. But is Xingque gonna be with us?" "There is no need for me to follow your path," Xingque replied. "Besides, I am already fine to stay here in this bookstore for a little longer."

"Well, if you say so...let's go onwards!" Paimon said with a determined smile. "If we only have 5 months to find them, then we have to move on. 5 months sounds a lot, but being distracted for too long could result in less than a week!"

"You sound a bit more determined than before, Paimon," I commented on what Paimon had said. Really, she would mostly mention food in conversations. "Of course! Paimon wants your friends to be with you again after a whole year!" Then she went silent in thought. "Wait...a year in which world?"

"I guess in my world..." I replied, then I realized something. "Oh my goodness...how long have my friends been here?!" Everyone else, including the Kirby gang who overheard our conversation, were a bit confused about what I had said until I explained something a bit overloaded.

Remember when I read the history book back in Monstadt? When it once said 'one month in her world is five centuries in ours'? Calculate that for a sec. 12 months had past in my world, so 12×500=friggin' 6000 years. 6000 YEARS! That's, like, 6 milleniums in a row...but the question in my mind was when Kathlyne met my classmates...

'Hey, when did you find my classmates?' I asked her in my mind. '1000 years before now, I think,' she replied in my mind. 'Then how come your note said to find them if you've already found them?' I asked her another question relevant to the last. 'I felt something bad happening to them in the future. I purposely and accidentally left that note to Gouba, because he's good at remembering faces,' she replied again.

'What bad?' I asked again. 'Something that even I couldn't describe to anyone...but what I know is that 5 months later, that bad thing will happen...' Kathlyne replied, this time with a concerned tone. 'Okay, now, the problem is...where da hec are they...' I thought to myself, not asking Kathlyne, before I went back to my thought of reality. Then I remembered: Oh yeah, there's so much going on that I've forgotten to check Xingque's stats.

Really, I had already missed a few character's stat-checking, and I then felt eager on what their stats were. With that thought in my mind, I ckecked Xingque's stats.

Name: Xingque

Lvl: 75/80

Hp: 11369

Atk: 1273

Def: 835

Em: 53

Er: 79%

Cr: 49.7%

Cd: 197%

And guess what? His constellation was at C5, almost at C6. Great. At that time, I ignored the talents and passive talents, including the weapon section, since the stats were just good enough for me to know.

Now it's time to tell you all about the others' reactions when I said that my friends could've been in the Genshin world for 6000 years, since 1 month in my world is 500 years in the Genshin world, and that 1 year, which is 12 months, past by in my world.

"So you're telling Paimon that your friends have been in our world for 6000 years?!" Paimon exclaimed.

"6000 years?! That's so long!" Aether said in shock.

"That could've meant that they had really matured over the years..." Xingque said in thought.

"Poyo?" Kirby said in confusion. In his aging and Meta's, 6000 years is merely just an adult. 100 years is a child. Yeah, pretty confusing, right?

"6 milleniums?! That's a lotta years for some people like you to live for!" Dedede said with a surprised look and tone.

"6000...I wonder how much they had grown and experienced during those milleniums..." Meta wondered aloud.

Bandana showed actions of surprise and disbelief, since it couldn't speak in the first place.

"I was surprised as well! I can't imagine what they would look like..." I said, thinking on how they would actually look like.

'Hey, how does my classmates look like?' I asked Kathlyne in my mind. 'If you remember their looks, that is,' she replied, clearing her throat. I was a bit confused until she said 'Exactly like their OCs,'. I was really prepared to find them, because oo boy, their looks are really, REALLY different compared to most of the Genshin cast. Maybe even all. Ya know what that means? Playing Odd-One-Out I guess.

Will I tell y'all readers my friends' OC descriptions? If so, it'll become 4000+ already, so no. Anyways, back to the story-

"Well, at least we know about that kind of knowledge..." Paimon said with a sigh. "An additional one, too. Now, with all of this going on, how about we search for Mr. Zhongli? Since Paimon said that he's a knowledgable person, there's a chance that he might know where to start searching. If he doesn't, well..." I said, then facing to the horizons of the city. "We might as well search for them the hard way: finding them by luck."

"Well, I'll stay here, so you guys go on without me," Xingque said, getting a book to read. "I'm more satisfied on reading books here." "Okay, then! We'll set off!" Paimon said, then facing the way of the exit. "Bye, Guhua Geek!"

After that, we set off to find the all-knowing Zhongli so that we can ask him some questions. I was not entirely sure of his knowledge, since my friends aren't exactly that 'unique' to be so popular that they were inlisted in the history book. Not to offend, though. Just possible facts. Possible. But as I was thinking of that, I also remembered that they had their OC's powers, since they were in their OC's bodies, anyways.

Anyways...during our searching of Zhongli, I asked myself: Where's Myllia? She promised to come back after a day, and it was already the due date. Maybe she's still discussing with Lumine about me, or maybe she basically forgot. Either way, I hoped that she was okay, despite of her being a friggin' Abyss Mage.

But as I was thinking of that, Bandana and Dedede found what we were looking for. "Hey! Isn't that person the guy who we're looking for?" Dedede asked, pointing at the dude in the distance, talking with another person. If ya know who Hu Tao is, ya know what their conversation was. Or I guess, it was purely just a guess.

"Yep, that's the guy," I replied with my arms crossed. Welp, I was expecting little to no answers from him, but also expected some useful informations and ways to find my friends. "And that person who he's talking to...who's that?" I then asked, pointing at the other person who he was talking to. I was still in my pretending-thing-zone, so yeah, a bit disappointed to even become friends with her immediately when we meet.

"Oh, that? Her name is Hu Tao, the 77th director of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor," Paimon explained, then pointing at the Wangshu Funeral Parlor area. "Wait...a funeral parlor?" I repeated, acting like I was confused. Sure, the first time I had known that she existed with that job, I was really confused, but after a whole year of playing and knowing Genshin, it is less confusing. Only a bit confusing now.

"Yeah, it's a bit confusing the first time, but you'll eventually understand a bit," Aether said, then he approached Zhongli and Hu Tao. The rest did the same, with Meta having his cape wrapped around, like in the anime.

Hu Tao noticed us first, then waved at what seemed to be Aether and Paimon. "Heya, Traveller! Paimon! And whoever those people you have there!" Zhongli then noticed us as well and gave a little nod of greetment.

"It is a pleasure to meet you all once again," he said with his usual conversation tone. "You've met them before?" Hu Tao asked him, pointing at me and the Kirby gang. "Yes, we have, before we had a little problem related to a crowd..." He then faced directly to Aether. "I am assuming that you have explained a bit about miss Hu Tao to miss Kathlyne before, right?"

"Yes, we have," Aether replied, gesturing that Paimon also explained to me about Hu Tao, even though secretly, I didn't need explanation about her. I then stepped up on front to introduce myself. "Shall I introduce myself to miss Hu Tao?" I asked first, since immediately introducing yourself without warning felt a bit weird in my perspective.

"Oh, I don't mind anyways! Go on!" She replied with a joyful smile. "Okay, then..." I then introduced myself as much and little as possible. I didn't tell her about the half-fact that I'm the Universal Traveller, and I obviously didn't want to tell her about the full-on fact that I was the creator of that Universal Traveller.

Now, here's a fun fact; I made it so that Kathlyne will be a very unique traveller, but what I didn't expect is her actually doing more than she was 'modified' to do. Her own titles, especially 'The Universal Traveller'...those weren't planned in her allowance of travelling through the whole fictional multiverse. But in the end, it's all gonna be confirmed as fake...

Anyways, after my introduction, I explained a bit about the Kirby gang before letting them do the rest of explaining. Since Kirby and Bandana couldn't speak in English in the first place, it's more reasonable to let the ones who could to go first before helping the other one introduce themselves without a voice. Using sign-language is 'a bit' difficult, since both Kirby and Bandana has nubs as hands, so it's more reasonable to use another's voice (not without permission). For Bandana's explanation, it decided to let Dedede explain about it, since it didn't want to waste most of his papers only because of its introduction.

"Wow, so many intros! Maybe one more, and I might have my own coffin to use!" Hu Tao commented on the long session of introductions. "Sorry if there was too many..." I apologized to her. Really, the session was long, longer than I thought. "Oh, no no, it's okay!" She reassured. "Besides, I'm quite interested in you and the weird creatures not from this world now! Though, I'm more interested on your sizes..." That last sentence was said under her breath, and that only I could hear her say it.

"Having the audacity to call us 'weird creatures'..." Dedede murmured under his breath, but I was still able to hear it. I didn't think of the others hearing it too, though.

"Now, with all of that very long introduction session..." I started to say. "We need some answers from Zhongli. There's some questions I wanna ask you about stuff."

"Oh? If so, you may ask," Hu Tao replied for him. He also agreed with a nod. "Okay then, so..." I then started to say.

"Have you seen any people that seems off here in Liyue Harbor?" I asked the first question.

"No, I have never seen anyone like that besides those creatures that is with you." Zhogli replied.

"Okay, then...have you ever heard of news regarding some strange people?" I asked another question.

"Oh, I've heard of one person!" Hu Tao answered for him.

"Really? Could you tell me what kind of news was it?" I then asked to Hu Tao.

"Well, the news stated that there was a female with a red dress and blonde hair outside of Liyue doing rituals and other weird stuff near the entrance. Some hilichurls and Abyss Mages would come over and try to stop her rituals but she would immediately one-shot them out!" She explained. "That news was quite recent, too, so not much has heard about it yet."

"Do you know what kind of ritual it was?" Paimon asked Hu Tao for me.

"Well, I haven't seen it personally, but some says that her rituals were a bit confusing. There were small red cubes surrounding her and she would do a sort of dance, speaking an unknown language," she replied. "Her words were heard, yes, and if I'm correct, this is what she said: O superi, sinite me reverti quo iure conveniam!"

"Geez, such gibberish..." Paimon muttered disappointedly.

"It could be important evidence," Zhongli stated. He then faced to me. "Do you know what it means, miss Kathlyne?"

"Well..." I started to say. I was thinking hard on what the language was and what the meaning was. I then had to ask Kathlyne herself for the answers. She does have google with her, and as of then, I couldn't just plop out my phone and just start typing.

'Let's see...' she said in my mind, looking for the meaning. 'Aha! Here; it means...' She did told me the meaning, and after that, I told the others what it meant. 'Thanks for the meaning, bud,' I thanked her in my mind.

"If I remember correctly, it would mean this: Oh gods, allow me to return back to where I rightfully belong!" I replied to the question Zhongli asked. All of them were shocked on my answer. And for those wondering, the language was from Latin.

"I didn't expect for miss Kathlyne to translate such language not from either of our worlds..." Meta said in awe. Even Kirby, Bandana and Dedede were surprised on my answer. But really, I got it from Kathlyne who originally got it from Google, so yeah, praise an app if they want to.

"Really? Wow, you do have some great knowledge!" Hu Tao complimented. "No no, it's just some knowledge that I stumbled across before and then I remembered the meaning, that's all!" I said, not really accepting her complimenting. What I really wished for is a set of Kirby plushies and then I'm set. I can actually die right after I placed my last needed plushie for the set.

"I have another question, though..." I then started to say. "Did the news said the female's name?" "Hmm..." She was thinking hard about the question. "I think Zhongli knows. He also knows about the news as well, and he's much more into the mystery than I do."

Zhongli let out a sigh before answering my question. "Barely anyone had payed attention to the last part of the female's appearance news, and that last part of it was this: She once cried out what seemed to be her name, probably thinking that the archons could hear her. That name was 'Aiko Hestia'," he said.

"Aiko Hestia..." I repeated the name. "Well, that's enough asking for now. Shall we move on?" I then asked the others if we should get going. They all nodded, and said their goodbyes. "We'll see you two next time!" Paimon said, waving at them one last time before following the rest of us.

Since I actually have forgotten on where we entered, I asked Aether where the location was. "Is it because you want to find that 'Aiko Hestia' that Zhongli mentioned?" He asked first. "Yeah, I have a feeling that she knows some things about my friends," I replied. He then gave me the location and which directions to go before ending up at where we entered Liyue Harbor in the first place.

"Now," I started to say while we were existing the harbor. "We just have to look for a female with a red dress and blonde hair, and then if any of you find her, just go back here-" I was about to finish my sentence when suddenly a sword almost hit me by a few centimetres. The sword tip was deep into the soil ground (since we were a bit far from the harbor), so I was sure that I was close to certain death.

Everyone (besides Paimon who doesn't have a weapon and me) took out their weapons, ready to strike. "Hey! Watch where you're throwing your sword at, would ya?" I shouted. Then, a person suddenly appeared in front of us. It was who I, or we, were looking for. A female blonde with a red dress.

She removed the sword from the ground, making it vanish into golden dust. "I thought you were an enemy searching for me to use me as a weapon," she said with a full-on glare at me. "I've heard news of you, miss Hestia," I said with a small grin. I then face to the others, signalling to put away their weapons. They were a bit hesitant, but they did so.

"Now, I think I'll do the introduction for miss Hestia over here. May I?" I then asked, facing at Aiko once again. She let out a sigh. "Fine, if you say so..." "Great! Now, where to start..." I then thought of a starting. "Ah, I know!"

I then faced back to the others, saying what seemed to be an intro that could never be forgotten to Aether and Paimon.

"This is Aiko Hestia, also known as the daughter of what many call her as the Unknown God."

(Extra)

Kathlyne: "Aiko Hestia? Geez, it's been so long since I've met her!"

Me: "Really, huh?"

Kathlyne: "Yeah, really! And you should do the explaining now, by the way."

Me: "Oh yeah that, I'll do it..."

(I'M SO SORRY THAT IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO DO THIS...but hey, at least I added a new character! Btw, Aiko Hestia is actually one of my friends' OCs! Is my friend taking control of Aiko, though? Well, ya gotta wait for that. Welp, I'll see ya in the next part, baibai :>)

(Also I have nothing else to say in the extra sou...yea)