I got thoroughly harassed by the perfume seller of Liyue named Yinger. I don't even want to think of it, and I am thoroughly suppressing the memory of the thirsty muggle woman's actions.
But in the end, I got a space bag that only cost me ninety percent of all my funds... Thankfully at least to me, it was by far worth it as its internal space pocket was more than thirty meters wide.
So, as I approached the restaurant/hotel we were supposed to be staying at for a couple days I had to blink in surprise as instead of Yanfei being wrangled into joining us for dinner, there was a blue-haired woman standing beside Eula, Lumine, and Paimon.
"Ganyu it's nice to see you again," I said as I approached the group and wrapped my arms around Eula and Lumine's waist to give them both a quick hug.
"Ah, Jake hello! Ahem yes after that... Unpleasantness in Mondstadt we couldn't stay due to Jean telling us we needed to leave so Mondstadt could be seen taking care of its own affairs." Ganyu continued her conversation mostly with Lumine and Paimon seemingly.
"Is Yelan alright? I saw her get burned a bit when one of Signora's flame tornados got close to her?" I asked and Ganyu hurriedly nodded.
"Yelan? Yes, she has made a full recovery and is currently continuing her work in the Liyue Qixing after she has taken a brief vacation." Ganyu explained before she shifted. "Well, I heard about how Mondstadt has closed its borders to weed out traitors but actually closing off the city magically and preventing even you two from entering is highly surprising," Ganyu muttered before she smiled.
"But either way Liyue welcomes you two into our great nation. The adventure's guild will appreciate such talented and strong adventurers to take commissions as well as Lady Ningguang may offer you jobs after seeing you both being capable of going against Fatui Harbingers!" Ganyu said and I wondered if Ningguang was considering more formally recruiting us.
As we were quite literally refugees as we were made formal citizens of Mondstadt after being made 'Honorary Knights'.
As we entered the restaurant the manager of the luxurious restaurant came out himself to welcome us due to Ganyu's presence and offered to take our orders. I took in the options on the menu and with how Liyue took after Chinese culture I just chose a less complicated dish that wouldn't be anything too exotic.
Like I have some adventurous tastes, but bird nest soup is a bit out there for me.
So, some good old sweet and sour chicken with some pork dumplings was what I ordered, Paimon got a small roasted chicken, Eula got a platter of dumplings and stickers of various stuffings, and Ganyu... She ordered a salad.
"So, Jake I had a question. No, actually myself and Lady Ningguang had a question. Would you be capable or willing to transport some sensitive goods via your flying summoned creatures with a couple members of the Liyue Qixiang to one of the islands of Inazuma?" Ganyu asked me after we began eating and I froze as I gave Ganyu an even look.
"Which island? Watatsumi island? Or Narukami island?" I spoke and Ganyu waved her hands in front of herself as she smiled wryly.
"No no no Jake I am not trying to have you dragged into Inazuma's civil war, but Watatsumi island is a such an oddly shaped island has been having troubles creating enough food rations for its people and the resistance army's own consumption. So, Lady Ningguang is sending exotic, fragile, and expensive magical planter boxes that can help grow large amounts of food but with how they break down without Adeptus care we need to replace the parts often within the system and thus I wanted to know if you could help us fly directly through the Electro Archon's storm that surrounds the island chain." Ganyu explained and I brushed my hands over my face as I looked at Lumine who only smirked at how I was being put on the spot as it were.
Because to others who may look into the situation, they will see Lumine, Eula, Paimon and I as refugees entering Liyue but in return for the warm welcome by the literal number two leader of the nation of Liyue in Ganyu, I was given a milk run of a quest to deliver a package or something to earn my welcome into Liyue. So if I refuse such a request that would make us look bad here in Liyue even if that's not what Ganyu actually wanted. But it would still suit the Tianquan's way of doing business.
So Ningguang wanted me and Lumine involved in Inazuma's affairs. Probably to help Beidou who has been supporting the resistance under Liyue's banners.
I hate politics....
"Look we came to Liyue to settle down a bit, see the sights do some work to recoup losses from Mondstadt. And most importantly not get dragged into a nation's turmoil. I mean what about Liyue? Aren't you guys worried with how the Fatui are going after other nations Archons that they may arrive in force and attempt to harm or force the Lord of Geo to give up his status like they did in Mondstadt during the very Rite of Descension that is scheduled literally three weeks from now?" I spoke and Ganyu's face tightened at my mention of the Fatui as they had already did plenty of damage in Liyue.
And with it directly being under the preview of the Harbingers of the Fatui, the nation of Snezhnaya couldn't just claim it was 'rouge agents' acting out of their own accord.
"Snezhnaya entrenched assets in Liyue like the Golden Bank have been seized in recompense to the lives lost and damages incurred with the Fatui's actions. Other than smaller traders from Snezhnaya, all Fatui personnel have been and are being purged ruthlessly here in Liyue... Not only that but for the Rite of Descension even my Moth... Ahem I mean the Adepti of Jueyan Karst will be coming down the mountain in the name of showing piety to Lord Rex Lapis so should any Fatui be on the scene they will be swiftly dealt with." Ganyu explained and I had to raise an eyebrow to that as the Adepti were all very powerful in their own right. Not to mention the wisdom they had for living for millennia.
"Girls, what do you think about a quick trip to Inazuma? Lumine if we go, we can go to one of the Electro Archons Statues of the Seven." I said in lieu of actually saying. 'Hey, let's go poke one of Ei's statues so we can yoink the power of Electro.'
"Ugh... We just got into Liyue. Paimon really doesn't don't want to fly over a stormy ocean even if Jake's new summon can block off the wind and stuff." Paimon groaned pouting as she tried to eat her food but the thought of traveling through the storm was the biggest con for her seemingly.
"When will this trip take place anyway?" Lumine asked Ganyu softly as she folded her arms under her chest and leaned back against her chair.
Ganyu raised an eyebrow at Lumines noncommittal response but still responded kindly. "The Adepti will be arriving here to oversee Liyue city for the Rite of Descension in a week and a half. So, with Jake's high speed flying summons and if the newest one is even faster than the one who flew us from Liyue to Mondstadt city in less than half an hour. Then the flight between Liyue and Watatsumi island should only take an hour and a half or at worst two hours even with having to push through the Electro Archon's storm." Ganyu spoke confidently.
"It's literally a round trip that won't take six hours to deal with. We can wear cloaks or something, and so long as we don't go fight the Narukami island soldiers we won't be in any trouble." Eula said bluntly before continuing. "But what is Ningguang offering Jake for his one-of-a-kind service? As you said the magical parts and planter boxes are too fragile for normal shipping correct and with it being a highly magical or elementally attuned system, they cannot fit in a space bag or something so convenient, correct?" Eula spoke showing off her previous nobility training.
Ganyu nodded as she took another bite of her salad and I saw she had put Qixing flowers into her salad and I wanted to shudder at the thought of eating those, as they were extremely bitter medicinal herbs.
"Lady Ningguang has prepared an opening offer of one million Mora for the safe delivery of the supplies and more importantly. She is offering you Jake. A house here in Liyue city that you will not need to pay property dues or other forms of taxation for up to ten years." Ganyu answered and I blinked in surprise at such an 'odd' reward that was.
I mean did I even want a house if I was to get the Serenitea Pot at some point here in Liyue?
But then it's a literal property I could own here in this world of Teyvat. It would be mine; it could be my own little slice of normality.
"Lumine I am alright with accepting this offer. You agree too?" I asked and Lumine paused before nodding her head.
"It will be nice to have a place to call home while we are Liyue. Even if we leave Liyue and continue traveling we are likely to come back here oftenly as it is the hub of the world basically." Lumine answered in affirmation with Ganyu proudly smiling at how Lumine complimented the city she had been working for literally millennia.
"I will tell Lady Ningguang the good news then. Thank you all for the wonderful dinner and here Jake. With your acceptance I was already given the key to the home in particular in advance." Ganyu said as she took out the large house key from her own space bag and I blinked as I accepted the key with its address carved into it.
"Why is the address carved into it? Wont that literally tell the robber where I live?" I asked wryly and Ganyu's face scrunched up as she paid the bill for our dinner.
"If you get the key robbed out of your space bag that is under your jacket, I think you have bigger issues as only people with extensive magical training or a Vision can open a space bag Jake." Ganyu spoke jokingly and I had to hand it to her that she was correct.
If someone could get to the space bag that was under my clothes and open it, then I would likely already be dead at that point anyway.
"Well, Paimon guesses we don't need to worry about a hotel room... Oooh does that mean Paimon can have her own room!?" Paimon spoke excitedly and I looked to Ganyu who shrugged.
"I am not aware of the dimensions of the domicile you have been sold. But its addressee is fairly close in the residential district." Ganyu said before she cupped her hands in front of her body glove clad chest, bowing lightly to us and left the restaurant probably to tell Lady Ningguang that we accepted her quest.
But I had a niggling thought that wouldn't leave me. If we just didn't happen to arrive in Liyue would they have sent someone to offer the quest to us if we were still in Mondstadt? And would the offer have been the same?" I mean sure Ningguang wasn't evil or some manipulative mastermind, but she had clawed her way to the top of world in the business sense and is literally the titled queen of Liyue as it were with how she directs its actions with how offhanded the Adepti and Morax were.
"Well, Paimon thinks we should just go find our new house seeing as we couldn't find Yanfei today." Paimon spoke out as we finished the rest of our food.
"Hmm." Lumine hummed in acceptance before she looked to Eula asking a good question. "Eula, you know where the residential district is?"
Eula nodded and thus she led us through Liyue and after a few minutes of walking through the residential district which was honestly was like an old Chinese building styled subdivision with rather similar houses all lined up with small plots of land around it.
"Well, here it is. And it's actually a good size too! Haha so I call my own room, you and Lumine keep sharing one!" Paimon said as she stole the key out of my hand as I took it out and before we could react unlocked the door and flew inside the house.
"Ah its already furnished too!" I heard Paimon yell as I and my two girls walked into the house and Paimon was right. The house was lightly decorated, not with too much stuff for there was a few tables and chairs and when we went to check the bedrooms, we saw beds were already made with clean bedding.
"Well let's just air out the bedding then we can go to bed or something." I said as although the bedding was clean but who knows how long it has been since someone used or cleaned it.
"So Jake... We going to christen this bed and house?" Lumine asked me softly as she came behind me and wrapped her arms around my chest and standing on the tips of her toes to tuck her chin on my shoulder as her hands ran up and down my chest as I had taken off my ornate jacket leaving myself in a simple white T-Shirt with a snowflake on it.
"You minx." I whispered to her as I leaned back into her and just enjoyed the warmth of Lumine's frame all but molded against my back and as Eula stood up from where she had fluffed up the pillows after I took care of the sheets and Lumine the blankets. I reached forward and pulled Eula against my chest, so I became the meat in the sandwich that was Eula and Lumine.
"Eula my love, would you help make sure we sleep well tonight in our new home altogether." I whispered into the blue haired beauties ear and I could see a small blush creep up her pale neck as she nodded.
"I will have vengeance for this surprise though Jake." Eula muttered but as her words were swallowed as Lumine's thinner and softer hands snuck away from my chest to wrap all around all of us and Eula grunted as Lumine bluntly just grabbed Eula around her boobs in her bear hug around us all.
"Jake lay down first." Lumine whispered to me, and I separated from the girls as they hugged one another with their chests pushing against one another as they side hugged one another, Then they in unison lifted the one arm that wasn't hugging the other woman to themselves to sensually push me back to land upon the bed.