Nilou went to the shore where Noelle remained after seeing the conclusion of what happened to Romeuf and his conspirators, as the day begins to fade into dusk.

"Noelle, you stayed here this whole time?"

"Mmm? Oh, pardon me Miss Nilou, I just needed time alone, thinking about an answer."

"An answer? On what purpose do you fight for?" Nilou asked, as she read Noelle's mind.

"Indeed."

"Isn't that obvious? You fight in the name of good, and to protect Aether as well as our family."

"That doesn't answer all of it... Maybe in due time, I will find the answer by myself."

"Let's stop fretting about such stuff, and go see the others. They're probably celebrating the end of filming the Roses and Muskets Movie."

"Oh, right! This entire time we were helping Lady Navia, so we didn't have the time to see how it goes. Let's head to where Aether and Lady Furina are currently at."

Opening an adeptus portal, the two then exited to another shore, where they see a number of familiar and unfamiliar faces. There stood Ayaka, in her Springbloom Missive outfit which is also part of the promotional material on the movie's cover art. There also stood Furina, picking on which dessert she would like to take, while Aether is chatting with a blonde girl wearing an earring with a huge ornament, as well as a rather revealing kimono getup, which exposed part of her sarashi cloth wrapping around her chest. Ayaka's brother Ayato is there as well, talking with another Inazuman that Noelle has never met before, taking on a stoic expression.

"Hey everyone! Look who I brought here!" Nilou shouted.

"The Maid herself! What took her so long? It's a shame that she didn't see through the filming sequences!" Furina exclaimed cheerfully, as she approached Noelle, and hugged her.

"Aether... The getup that maid is wearing... Is she really?" The blonde girl asked Aether, a look of awe on her face.

"Yes, Yoimiya. She is the daughter of the woman who caused a lot of havoc in Inazuma over a decade ago, before her mother faced the wrath of the Raiden Shogun."

"Can I speak to her?"

"Sure, you can. Although, she can be shy at times."

Yoimiya slowly approaches Noelle, who curiously looked at her and tilted her head.

"H-hello there... Are you really... The daughter of the Silver Knight?" Yoimiya asked nervously, as Noelle then noticed both Ayato and the unknown Inazuman holding the hilts of their blades.

"Indeed I am... Aether must have told you that, um... Miss..."

"Naganohara Yoimiya. You can drop the formalities, and just call me Yoimiya if you'd like."

"Naganohara? I do recall hearing of a fireworks maker by that name."

"Really!? If so, would you like to consider visit someday to look at the custom fireworks that I have made?"

"If we visit Inazuma City again, I shall remember that, Miss Yoimiya."

"Umu... You really are bound to be using formalities, huh?"

"She's just an airheaded maid, Yoimiya..." Ayaka whispered from afar, which only Nilou can hear.

Grinning, Nilou then spoke up.

"Also, Yoimiya... This may become a surprise for you, but as time passed during our travels, Miss Ayaka and Noelle became besties!"

Ayaka spat out her tea upon hearing that, while Ayato gave a hearty chuckle.

"Really!? Then that's a wonderful thing to hear! Ayaka rarely has friends, given that back before she joined the Traveler in his journeys, the one that makes the most effort of befriending her is both me and Chiori!"

"Chiori?" Noelle asked, tilting her head again in curiosity.

"THE Chiori, Noelle. She's the one standing beside Ayato-Sama right there."

Noelle then looked at the direction Yoimiya is pointing, and indeed she is pointing at the previously unknown Inazuman. Noelle then bowed to her, to which Chiori responded with a slight head bob.

"She's the one that designed Ayaka's outfit that she is now wearing, as well as the one that your dancer friend is wearing."

"I can tell that the silkworks as well as the handiwork of the clothing are both of top quality. If I may, maybe I can learn a thing or two from her."

"Oh? The Maid-Knight is also a fellow seamstress?"

Aether then approached Chiori, before speaking up, "Well, she made an outfit for me once, and it's wonderful."

"Where is this outfit of hers that she made, Traveller?"

"It's... at home. Maybe one day I can show it to you, Chiori."

Yoimiya then leaves for a bit with a man named Morris, to gather some fireworks that Yoimiya has stored in a nearby building. Not long afterwards, a gunshot is heard, and in an instant, Noelle disappears from sight, surprising everyone at the beach.

"Here we go again..." Paimon sighed.

"Let's check out what happened!"

In the building where the fireworks are stored, Noelle opens the door to see a girl in a modified Garde uniform aiming her pistol at Morris, while Yoimiya lies down on the floor unconscious with a single stalk of rainbow rose beside her body.

"Miss Yoimiya!"

Looking at whom the girl is aiming at, which is Morris, Noelle is about to dash towards them, but not before she sensed another presence nearby, another girl holding a pistol, shooting at the direction of Morris.

"Watch out!"

As the garde turned around, Noelle is already there, catching the bullet with her bare hand, which is infused with geo to suppress it's impact.

"Wha- who are you!?"

"That's a question for later... In return, what are you trying to do?"

"Maid, you are interfering with an official arrest."

"Then please allow me to assist, as she clearly tried to shoot the man that Miss Yoimiya accompanied."

"Noelle, stand down." Aether's voice is heard, as he emerged from behind a wooden crate, and pointed a sword towards the other girl.

"...Understood."

"As I just said before, you are under arrest too, Prop Manager Veronique. Or should I call you... The second musketeer?"

Noelle then tilted her head in confusion as she turned her sights from the garde and the girl whom the garde referred to as Veronique.

"...Who?"

The entire room then comically collapsed from that one single question from Noelle.

"Noelle, read this." Aether said, as he hands Noelle a novel.

Reading through it in a speed like no other reader would, Noelle widened her eyes.

"Could it be that she is the real life musketeer? Where is the other one?"

"In questioning." The garde replied.

The garde, who introduced herself as Chevreuse, then explained to Noelle about the entire ordeal with Morris and Veronique. As it turns out, Morris is Veronique's biological father, and that Veronique's mother, Elisa was a maid of Morris' family whom Morris fell in love with, which led to a relationship that got Elisa pregnant, causing Morris to tell her to move as far away as possible. After Elisa gave birth to Veronique, and the "first musketeer", who is none other than the very author of "Musket And Roses", Baptiste. Morris sent an assassin to murder Elisa, as he feared that the locket containing the picture of him and Elisa would be leaked to the public, however, the assassin failed to kill both Baptiste and Veronique, as well as destroying the locket. As a result, a few days ago, Veronique manages to find the assassin, and killed him in revenge.

In the end, Chevreuse chose to imprison Morris instead of executing him on the spot, something which Veronique doesn't totally agree on as it doesn't fully avenge Elisa's murder.

This entire ordeal itself also caused Noelle to have another dilemma after she went back to the beach to collect her thoughts.

"What is proper justice? What exactly am I fighting for, if my fights often caused others to bear fear and vengeance?"

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"It was my fault this happened... I was the one that pulled the trigger that started this conflict. I was the one who created a copy of her... when the real her disappeared. And then, after we brought back the Maid-Knight after a decade of absence, she left to protect us and fight that copy..."
Said Aether, as he looked at the Court of Fontaine from afar...

Both Noelle and Furina stood facing each other, on top of the Palais Mermonia, although something is different about Furina which Noelle immediately noticed.

Furina has red eyes instead of her hydro-related ones.

"Have you heard, Maid? Humans have obtained their utopia unheard until now here in Neo Fontaine. This is something that is beyond what you and the original Focalors can make. Only I can do this!"

"A peace that is achieved by sacrificing the weakest of the populace in case of an overpopulation problem... This is nothing that both of us, and anybody would have wanted. It seems that this new world is the same as you... A mere copy."

Furina grins, before she pointed her rapier forwards, and a ray of ousia energy shot out, hitting Noelle in the shoulder.

"Hahaha! You sure jest a lot, for a maid. I am happy I am able to have a bit of fun with someone like you."

"Weak."

"What did you say!?"

"Was the real Lady Furina this weak? I may have lost my memories after being sealed away, but my body seems to remember... the results of the real Lady Furina's training whenever she sparred with me."

"Silence, insolent servant! I shall show you my true power!"

"Cut! It's a wrap!" Xavier's voice can be heard as an applause occurs afterwards.

As it turns out, a few days after the Morris incident, it is announced that the movie is a success, and Furina is shown in a photograph with the rest of the filming crew (including Yoimiya and Aether, as well as Ayato and Chiori) and the main leads, whom are played by Ayaka and Chevreuse. The film's producer, Xavier then noticed Noelle in the crowd, and motioned her to come to him.

"Is there something that you would like to do, Mister Xavier?"

"I got an idea for a short movie after this. I need both you and Lady Furina to get ready."

"Considering you are a business partner of my master, I can agree to that."

"Excellent!"

This new film idea of his depicts the tale of a future Teyvat, in which Furina leads Fontaine into a new age after she transcended back into godhood. However one day she disappears, and Aether, with knowledge studied from Albedo, created a copy of Furina in order to restore order to the court. However, it didn't turn out well, so Aether went to find Noelle, who is sealed away in a Mondstadtian ruin where she is found to be devoid of her memories.

Even though this is only a film, Noelle has a terrible omen as she looked down, and gulped nervously at what her intuition is saying to her.

As the crew celebrates, they didn't notice a cloaked individual with cat ears and tail spying on them from a short distance, her body being transparent due to her ability.