As the sky turned grey, the sounds of terrified screams could be heard, as the protagonists tries to run to the jade chamber, there she was...

Standing in a golden room with her servants on the side, "Remember what I told you." A warning could be heard from those words, a warning that was very late because the deeds have been done.

"M-my lady-" The cicin mages tried to explain themselves but it drowned as their lady begin speaking. "I understand that the harbinger is someone you cannot beat but have you tried to talk to him and inform him?" it sounded like a question but it was a threat to not continue.

"And you know...I know that you cowered in the shadows and now you two are going to pay.." A hint of sadness could be heard but nobody cared enough to listen to it.

The man in the middle kept bowing on one knee, he was at her mercy but it could not be the same for the other two. The pyro agent stared at the ground in fear, not daring to look at the lady nor at his friends who will meet their demise.

"My lady pleas-" a black string from her index finger could be seen, it wrapped around the cicin mages.

Their hands trembled as they remembered their families as the string tightened, tears and insanity cloud their eyes as tears fell to the ground. "P-ple-" Before she could even complete her sentence, their lady tightened more until the string would touch meaning that their flesh and bones got cut by that sharp string.

The smell of the corpse is something that the pyro agent would not forget, seeing the loss of his own comrades in front of his own eyes. He didn't understand it but tears were staining his cheeks.

"Clean this mess." Thei- no his lady spoke with little to no emotion before setting on a journey of her own.

He finally faced the corpse, saliva falling down both of their mouths staining their beautiful chin. Their bodies are mangled between each other like they were originally a part of each other.

He thinks that it was their fault, his lady has already made it clear that she doesn't take failure for an answer and these two failed to protect the travelers but then why is he grieving? why is he crying?

He quietly stood staring at the corpse, remembering them when they used to be alive. Before this mission of theirs, they used to tease him and make fun of him, he always felt bad and annoyed then why did he wish to meet them once more? Get teased by them more? Just why?

[Redacted] left the room, she stared over her head to find a dark sky, and from the looks of it, Childe has awakened the overlord of the vortex, Osial.

Standing on the ground, she stared up to see Ningguang in the sky with the adepti standing in front of the adeptal machines. It seems like their fight has begun.

Staring at the scenery she thought, 'how long has it been since I met my old friends...' she only planned to observe the fight not intervene.

They started shooting at the ancient god. Those golden bullets shined brightly as it touched the water. The signs of a fight could also be seen in the jade chamber itself, it seems like he sent the fatui agents there and the travelers with the qixing Keqing with the millilith are trying to fight.

"I hope you all win with the least injuries." She spoke, her hand on her heart as she gazed at the scene with worry.

Somewhere in the jade chamber, Aether and you are trying to fight the fatui agents to not let them hurt the machinery. The adepti has lent you powers to keep going.

[Redacted] kept watching from the ground as the adepti took care of the god, joining their power to give it a last blow while the human and the travelers fought off the fatui.

But slowly her eyes widened as the god slowly prepared a blow to the sky, she understood what he was going to do and if she let him destroy the jade chamber then Ningguang will have no choice but to sacrifice the jade chamber.

Hands trembling with confusion, what should she do? Help them or stay hidden.

A small thread in her heart broke as the god of vortex finished his blow.

The same black tar that killed her servants flowed out of her fingernails, eyes turned black slowly taking her vision for a second.

Before she knew it, she was in the middle of the sky. The black tar quickly coated the entire jade chamber, Every adepti with the humans was protected.

Only she was outside the jade chamber, standing in the air, hands protecting the heroes. She was able to dodge the blow from the god, and as the blows stopped she took the tar in her fingernails back.

She jumped on the floor of the jade chamber, a smirk gracing her mouth, "A new adepti is here! I apologize for being late." The adepti stared in confusion.

The streetward rambler, Cloud retainer, Moon carver, mountain shaper, Xiao and Bosacius. Seeing an old friend who was supposed to be missing or dead.

"Buckle up! I am tired of getting hit!" A bright smile as the strings from her fingernail connected it to every adepti machinery.

Her eyes closed, Channeling her power in the machinery, not too much and not too less, just enough.

The force of the hits grew more and more as the other adepti channeled their entire power to save Liyue, to save the contract with Rex lapis, and to not break the promise with Guizhong.

While still channeling power, her other wrist faced the god as dark strings surrounded the god, pain coursed through Osial's body as the string wrapped around every head.

A sick smirk graced her complexion as the string kept cutting its head, no matter how many times it kept growing. It felt like a loop to Osial who suffered the same pain thousands of times, getting his head cut, and as soon as he repairs it he experiences the same pain.

The cycle kept going until he died, finally, he thought before dying, in his last moments he thought about his wife as his vision slowly disappeared.

As he falls back into the water the other adepti stops, turning to the "new adepti" but she didn't stop.

She placed her wrist in front of the sea, the strings were fast as the light. She closed her eyes to pay attention to her task more. The adepti and the human quietly walked up to her in confusion or shock.

A smirk formed again, and she muttered, "I will send you to your husband." A scream of something non-human could be heard from the sea.

It was not that hard to figure it out, she was finishing his wife as well and she was successful.

"I deleted both threats, Osial and his wife." She turned to Ningguang almost ignoring the adepti and the travelers who were just as confused as the adepti.

"We are indebted to you and the adepti for your assistance. If the adepti hadn't happened to be here, the future of Liyue Harbor would surely have been in great danger..." Ningguang thanked the adepti from the bottom of her heart.

"I will be leaving then...I will be leaving Liyue after the rite of parting, if you wish to meet me, come there." She spoke, turning her head around, and her figure slowly disappeared into the floor.

You stared at the scene, surely you are not going crazy. That girl that gifted you a glaze lily, met you, and help you is surely not an adepti?!

My crush was an adepti all along?!?!?

[Just a small drawing I did]
[It is based on this book]

[Meme]