This chapter is the correct one, the last one was a prank anyways, have fun.
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"But before all of that, My majesty. Would you like to partake in this pesky game of ours?" Tsaritsa quietly nodded and grabbed Ezra's hand.

The others wanted to say something but unfortunately they were utterly powerless here, they could merely observe as Tsaritsa left the room leaving all of them to their doom.

"What do we even do?!" Murata grits his teeth in anger, he feels utterly useless, and that angers him even more. Zhongli sighed, a pained expression gracing his face.

"Truthfully, I am more pained that you betrayed us." He sounded like a disappointed father, Nahida who was sitting beside him sighs.

"Ezra, so you meant to tell us that one of us is the culprit?" Nahida asked, completely ignoring the others, she received a nod in reply. "Guy, I think that we should stop panicking and instead work together to find the culprit." She suggested with a determined expression on her face.

"With the power of friendship? Seriously?" Focalor asked, her eyes filled with annoyance. "Can't you just tell me?!" Aether grabbed her hands, with a pleading face.

"Nah, Traveler I am giving you exactly thirty minutes. Make your choice." She took a seat, letting go of his grip on her and relaxed.

Aether sighed and glanced at his choices, The god of wisdom, the god of justice, the god of contract, the god of eternity, and lastly the god of war.

He felt angry at the fact that these people who are supposed to protect the mortals kidnapped his sibling, just from the appearances and their labels, Aether could leave Nahida and Focalors because why would the god of justice commit a crime?! And Nahida has a childlike aura.

And it is a known fact that when someone gets kidnapped, it is most likely someone familiar with the victim, could it be Ei or Zhongli? But Murata seems slightly crazy as well.

His finger trembled as he tried to think more and more. "Traveler, how about we rule out alibis of the other archons." Nahida suggested, breaking him away from his thoughts.

"I am sorry but you have no way of proving your innocence in this room, I won't let you out just to find your Alibi." She quickly replied, causing a few of them to sigh in disbelief.

"Time is running thin." Aether turned his head to the clock to find that ten minutes have already passed, 'HOW?!' he wondered.

For some reason only Nahida was trying to think of ways to get out of this situation, the others were either emotionless or aggressive.

"Well...I could look into others' memories, which will prove others innocent! But you will have to permit me." Nahida suggested once more, Aether nodded and turned his gaze to Ezra who just nodded with a not giving a fuck aura.

Feeling hopeful they turned to the archons, "I refuse." Raiden shogan said, causing the duo to get confused. "I refuse as well." Zhongli added, causing fire to fuel, making them more disappointed.

"What kind of idea is this?! It sucks!" Murata added, "Don't you guys want to live?!" The brother of the victim asked, he wanted to bash his head on the table, and he will but not right now.

"That's the thing, we do want to survive like any other species but our minds hold way more than things that should be told to other peoples, it's not a matter of we will, it's a matter of we can't." The archon of Fontaine explained or was more likely to give a very vague answer.

"Why though?!" He shouted, he didn't want to be in distress nor do the archons but they are forced to be in this situation.

"We can't tell you that, do you want our nations to die." Murata shouted, a pissed-off expression on his face. "It is because of Heavenly principals, she can be quite a bitch y'know." Bombastic side eyes that the very first harbinger got were something new.

The archons were utterly stunned, nobody and literally no one had the balls to curse the one who worked in the making of this world. "W-wait, You know about her?!" Aether was kept in the dark by Lumine, by [Name] and by Ezra, poor boy.

"Indeed I do, Would you like to learn more like her weaknesses?" Aether rapidly nodded, "Well from my experience with her... She hates powerful opponents, she is utterly terrified of the improvements of others. She likes to dominate so she hates it when someone disobeys her. So if you wish to take revenge, don't. Leave Teyvat with Lumine and [Name] for your own sake, I have lived through millions of lives and I wasn't even able to touch her."

Her eyes were dull, full of pain but no hint of fear. "Times up!" Suddenly her eyes regained life, she announced with a smile. "So who is the culprit, Aether?" suddenly he remembers that he is getting sidetracked.

"Uh...." He tried to think of the most suspicious one, his mind went through many stages of chaos as he tried to find the culprit in the span of seconds.

Raiden and Zhongli have spoken the least, and Nahida talked the most. Most culprits sweat a lot but all of them are not mortals and have different systems from humans.

And most people fidget when they are put on a spot, the one who fidgeted the most would be Nahida, mostly likely due to her childish nature.

The ones who spoke a little would be Focalor and Murata, she was calm and calculated which could be a great sign of a killer but she was also said to be extremely intelligent and Murata acted quite stupid and aggressively, his entire behavior was shouting guilty.

Aether sighed, closing his eyes to calculate more, "I think it's Murata.." Within a span of seconds, the chair he was sitting on was broken along with the table.

There was a pregnant pause that gave birth to thousands of other pauses that were equally stunned and dazed.