In the dark streets of Mondstat strolled Ather and Paimon. It's been a day since the last attack from stormterror and the building that were destroyed before we're being built again.
Ather and Paimon were currently taking a long and deserved brake before they went to the temples tomorrow.
Ather and Paimon walked round the city tasting delicious food do to paimons request, Touring, and doing commission.
But although Ather did manage to enjoy himself, his mind was filled with complicated toughts. Besides his lost sister, Meliodas was the biggest thing that has been in his mind.
The enigma that was him, made him confused.
Through his lesiourly stroll today, he had gone to he library in hopes of finding information on the Anemo Archon. But in his research Paimon managed to find a book called 'Adepti and Magical Beast'.
The book showed details and research on many types of magical beings. From hirchulls, spirits, and dragons.
This book made him speculate what Meliodas true identity was, after all, having the strenght to fight a dragon isn't something someone could do so easily.
"Hey Aether, doesn't he look kind of weird... Paimon is getting worried just looking at him" suddenly spoke Paimon.
Aether snapped out of his thoughts and redirected his gaze to a petite man in green that was muttering unintelligent words at a rapid pace.
He seems scared out of his mind and there also seems to be a broken glass bottle with liquid splashed on hlthe floor.
"Paimon thinks we should check on him, maybe Barbara could help him" said Paimon with a worried tone.
Aether nodded and approached the man. As he did, he reached for his shoulder and said "hey are you o-" before he could ask if he was okay, the green dressed man flinched and jumped away like. Frightened cat.
"Noooo don't kill me please!" He screamed as he crossed his arms infornt of him as if trying to block something.
Aether looked at him with confusion until he realized.
'Wait wasn't that the voice I heard that time's
In his second fight with stormterror a sudden voice appeared on his mind. That voice also seemed to help him as it gave him a huge Anemo power boost against stormterror.
He also wanted to ask Meliodas if he had heard it also but he was knocked out from the fight.
The man infront of him was also the one that they saw talking with stormterror when they had first arrived in Mondstat
"Um I'm not going to kill you, I was just making sure you were alright" Spoke Aether in a gentle voice as to not scare away the bag of answers that was infornt of him.
The man slowly lowered his arms and looked at Aether with a sigh of relief.
He quickly stood up and brushed off.
"Hehe my apologies traveler, allow me to introduce myself. I am Venti the bard, the greatest bard and musician in Mondstat." He exclaimed with pride as his whole personality did a 180.
"Really, if that's so then why did you help me during during my fight against Stormterror?" Asked Aether with curious tone.
Venti Flinched at his question and looked away nervously"*Cough* My apologies, I don't know what your talking about. I am but a humble bard"
"You can't fool Paimon!. We also saw you talking with stronterror when we accidentally walked in on you two" Exclaimed Paimon in her usual annoying but amusing tone.
Aether nodded in agreement to Paimons accusations making the bard sweat even more in nervousness.
Venti, seeing that their gaze were basically burning through him spoke up "Sigh~ Fine alow me to reintroduce myself, I am Barbatos the Anemo god but now a wandering and humble bard"
Aether and Paimon were shocked at his revelation, they did doubt it a bit at first but him being the Anemo god would explain how he helped him against Davalin and why he was speaking with Davalin earlier when they had interrupted.
"Well now that you know my identity do you have any further questions?" Asked Venti.
He was going to come into contact with him sooner or later to have him save davalin but he never thought it would this soon.
Right now he would answer his questions to the best of his abilities.
Aether hearing his question, asked In return "Do you know anything about my sister" he asked hopefully.
Venti seems to think about it for a bit and until he responded " ehe Nope sorry I don't know anything about your sibling, the only people that could probably hold any information about her would be the gods of other nation. And if you are then I recommend that you go to Liyue next were Morax, the god of contracts rules... And the son of that monster" he answers truthfully with a frightened shiver.
Aether felt disappointed that after all this searching he finally managed to find the god of this nation only for him to not know anything.
The only consolation that he had was that he now knew what his next destination was.
And son of that monster?
What does he mean by that?
Aether felt curious but it seemed like something personal between those two gifs so he didn't ask more about that.
"My next question is... My were you acting like that earlier?. You seemed like you had looked at a ghost or something... You looked really scared." Asked Aether.
He was really curious as to what could make a god shrivek up in fear like that. It couldn't be Davalin considering that Venti seems to be wanting to reconcile with it. This was a deduction Aether made by the single interaction he saw between them when he had first arrived here.
"... I had just returned to Mondstat after traveling around teyvat a bit and for celebration I decided to drink some wine after 2000 years. Well I did and I drank a lot of it, I ended up drunk and started walking the streets of Mondstat randomly until I saw him... The very incarnation of vengeance and the one that almost killed my during the Archon war due to me making him mad. If it weren't for Davalin helping me, I would have never escaped with my lifenthat day. He was also the reason I stopped drinking alcohol altogether for the past 2000 years"
"But I'm sure that was a drunk hallucination after all he's been gone since the Archon war heheheh" after saying his explanation, Venti started to laugh nervously.
Aether looked at him in surprise.
The very incarnation of vengance?
Almost took his life?
How terrifying and powerful must he be to make a Archon run away.
"And what was his name?" Asked Aether in curiosity.
"... He goes by many names tough many have been lost due to time. The one that should have been among the seven, the uncrowned and strongest of the eight, the god of family('tough the nickname ,god of vengeance, is a close second' muttered Venti under his breath), the greater spirit, the divine dragon, the fool. But even with all those nicknames and titles he went by the name 'Meliodas Pendragon', the strongest god that participated in the archon war" answered Venti with a scared face.
"... Huh?"(Aether)
"... Ehhhhhhhh!!!" (Paimon)