Genshin Impact : Eerie Teyvat
Chapter 188: Ch 188 : Trap

Chapter 188: Ch 188 : Trap

"Traveler..."

Looking at the Traveler’s actions, Nilou’s expression became extremely cold...

Many bright red blood tears flowed uncontrollably from her dark, scarlet eyes...

"What exactly did Su Yuan feed you...?"

"For him, you even threatened me with death..."

"Where am I lacking compared to him???"

"Unable to understand... unforgivable... I will never forgive..."

Both Aether and Su Yuan felt that something bad was about to happen; this action seemed to have had the opposite effect...

Nilou’s emotions were clearly becoming more unstable...

The next moment, Nilou’s fingers transformed into claws, turning into a dark shadow that lunged towards Su Yuan, aiming directly for his throat!

Aether threw himself in front of Su Yuan without hesitation, taking the blow head-on!

Aether could clearly feel that at the last moment, Nilou seemed to have held back; otherwise, he would not have survived this hit...

"Traveler... why... why are you protecting Su Yuan?"

Nilou’s expression showed immense pain, unable to believe the reality before her...

"There’s no other choice now..."

At that moment, Clorinde’s figure appeared beside them.

"Reasoning with something Eerie is pointless. If we don’t want Nilou to hurt innocent people, then we can only strike her down here and now..."

"Clorinde, why are you here?" Su Yuan looked at Clorinde and asked.

"Lord Neuvillette was a bit concerned about you two, so he had me follow along. I didn’t expect such an unexpected situation to occur..."

As Clorinde spoke, she drew her rapier and walked up beside ’Nilou’, slowly saying:

"Nilou, have a proper, fair duel with me!"

"A duel? Why should I duel you?"

’Nilou’ shot back.

Clorinde thought for a moment, then said, "Because only the victor of this duel gets to be with the Traveler..."

"If you refuse to duel, then the Traveler will be mine."

"I won’t allow that to happen! The Traveler belongs to me and me alone!"

’Nilou’ clawed frantically at her own head, screaming hysterically:

"I’ll prove to the Traveler that I’m not inferior to anyone!!!"

"A duel, is it? Fine—I accept your duel!!!"

In the next moment, an eerie power suddenly erupted from Clorinde, turning the situation into an eerie-versus-eerie showdown!

Su Yuan and Aether both knew that ’Nilou’ stood no chance against Clorinde...

"Nilou..." Aether looked on at the scene, momentarily speechless, his heart heavy...

Then he turned to Su Yuan, and said something strangely cryptic:

"Su Yuan, you will save Nilou, and save everyone... won’t you?"

Su Yuan didn’t know how to respond to Aether’s question...

Perhaps the old him would’ve had the confidence to say something like that without hesitation... but now, he no longer had the strength to speak such words.

Nilou’s death was already inevitable...

This was the first time he had to endure a farewell he was powerless to change.

Soon, "Nilou" was defeated by Clorinde’s sword.

She collapsed to the ground, her gaze drifting toward Aether as she slowly reached out her hand...

But Clorinde didn’t hesitate for even a moment—she drove her final sword strike straight into Nilou’s head.

Nilou’s raised hand fell limply, and the eerie power surrounding Clorinde also dissipated along with it...

Clorinde looked at the scene before her, took a deep breath, and slowly said,

"Miss Nilou... may you rest in peace."

"Nilou..." Aether stepped forward slowly, knelt beside Nilou, and gently held her hand.

A few silent tears rolled down from the corner of his eyes...

Su Yuan also couldn’t bear to watch.

He knew that partings like this... would only become more and more frequent in the future.

But at the very last moment, Su Yuan noticed something strange—Nilou’s eerie aura had completely faded.

The look in her eyes when she turned to Aether was pure, and crystal clear...

Could it be... that Nilou was also being controlled by someone else?

That her arrival in Fontaine was the result of an incomplete eerie transformation?

Could it have been that Doctor, Dottore, pulling strings behind the scenes again?

As much of a bastard as he was, Su Yuan knew he couldn’t always keep pushing the blame onto him...

Because honestly, he had no idea what reason Dottore would even have to do something like this.

But then again, who else—besides Dottore—could manipulate others using external eerie powers like this?

Su Yuan knew Nilou likely had some feelings for Aether... but surely not deep enough for love or obsession, right?

And Aether, too, always kept a certain distance from the people of Teyvat, knowing that one day, he would eventually leave this world behind.

Looking at it now, the timing of Nilou’s arrival in Fontaine... was far too suspicious.

Why did she show up the very day after Fontaine’s prophecy crisis had just come to an end?

Something as major as what happened in Fontaine would surely be noticed by the outside world—so why, of all times, would Nilou come here for a so-called dance exchange during such a sensitive period?

Wasn’t the timing just a little too inappropriate?

If what Nilou said before was true, then something big must have happened in Sumeru...

Nahida might have already been corrupted—contaminated and controlled by the Eerie...

"Su Yuan, I’ve made up my mind. I’m going back to Sumeru." Aether looked at Su Yuan, wiping away his tears, his voice firm.

"Whatever the reason... Nilou died in a foreign land..."

"I have to return her soul to her homeland—to the Grand Bazaar—and apologize to the people there."

"But the current situation in Sumeru is clearly not looking good. I think we need to be careful and think this through..." Su Yuan tried to reason with him.

"Su Yuan! You’ve changed!" Aether suddenly shouted at him, "You weren’t like this before!"

"The old you would’ve never hesitated like this! But now... you’ve become timid, always weighing pros and cons, hesitating over every little decision!"

Faced with Aether’s words, Su Yuan was momentarily speechless.

...It’s true. He had changed.

Without the ability to rewind death as a fallback, he realized he wasn’t as brave as he thought he was...

But right at that moment, a chilling thought struck him—

If Nilou had been partially corrupted by someone else, if her eerie transformation was incomplete... then maybe her true purpose for coming to Fontaine... was to die in front of Aether on purpose—

To lure him back to Sumeru.

After all, back at the Opera Epiclese, he had already discussed with Aether and Nilou some preliminary thoughts on what might be happening in Sumeru, which had, for the time being, dissuaded Aether from wanting to return there...

"Aether, you need to calm down! This is very likely a trap!"

Su Yuan looked at Aether and said seriously:

"A trap to lure us back to Sumeru... so we walk right into it ourselves!"

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