Chapter 437: Furina Doesn’t Want to Be a Pet

Chapter 437: Chapter 437: Furina Doesn’t Want to Be a Pet

"No! I object!"

"I’m going to amend the law right now!"

"From this day forward, pets are forbidden from being named Focalors!"

Furina was determined to cut off every possible escape route for the legitimate Hydro Archon.

Now that Focalors didn’t have to die and Fontaine could be saved, why should Furina have to keep playing the role of the Hydro Archon?

Had all five hundred years of suffering been for nothing?

If Focalors hadn’t existed, Furina would have been able to start living the life she wanted five hundred years ago.

"Hm, that’s fine."

"As long as the law hasn’t taken effect yet, it isn’t illegal."

"The law doesn’t apply retroactively."

"You!"

Furina was genuinely about to die of anger.

These two are teaming up to bully me!

"If Furina really doesn’t like it, I can just change my name."

Focalors didn’t care about being the Hydro Archon anyway.

What she had always wanted was to become human.

Furina had been born from all of Focalors’s fantasies about humanity.

"But I don’t want to be this god anymore..."

Yet if Focalors didn’t take over,

Furina couldn’t retire.

For five hundred years, she’d suffered so much that she’d wanted to die—but she couldn’t even die.

It was more terrifying than hell.

Honestly, being locked up in the Fortress of Meropide would’ve practically counted as a vacation for her.

"Then retire."

Su Ran casually suggested it.

"Can a god actually retire?"

Furina was astonished.

Wouldn’t a nation fall into chaos if its god stepped down?

"The gods of Liyue have already retired."

"Have you ever seen Mondstadt’s god actually manage anything?"

"Besides, Fontaine has Neuvillette."

"Weren’t you basically just a mascot anyway?"

Furina: ...

Even if that was true...

you didn’t have to say it out loud!

Didn’t she have any dignity?

She couldn’t beat him.

Her divine status didn’t intimidate him.

She couldn’t even come up with a threat that would work.

Furina was practically on the verge of shutting herself away.

They’re all terrible.

They’re bullying an honest, innocent person like me.

"Come on, Furina."

"You don’t have to worry anymore."

"Now that the fake Hydro Archon has become a real Hydro Archon, you don’t have to keep pretending."

"You can do whatever you want."

"Who’s going to stop you?"

Furina: !!!

...That actually made sense!

Before, she’d been terrified that people would think their Hydro Archon was incompetent.

That’s why she’d always maintained that exaggerated personality.

But now she was literally part of the Hydro Archon.

Didn’t that mean she could act however she wanted?

She wouldn’t have to spend every day meeting fans and maintaining her image anymore, right?

"In a while, just hand the position over to Neuvillette."

"After that..."

"I’ll take care of you."

Furina nodded.

Then she suddenly became suspicious.

"Why do I need you to take care of me?"

She’d lived for five hundred years.

Her private savings were considerable.

Every theatrical performance she’d appeared in, every script she’d helped write—she’d been paid for.

She was practically a hidden millionaire in Fontaine.

Why would she need someone else to support her?

"Because with me, Furina, you can truly become a completely useless person who does nothing but enjoy herself all day."

"If you have money, you still have to figure out how to spend it."

"With me, you won’t even have to worry about that."

Furina: How dare he tempt me!

For a moment, she actually wavered.

At first, she’d looked down on Focalors for being willing to become a pet.

And now...

the offer had somehow landed on her.

Being useless wasn’t necessarily bad.

The problem was that the useless person hadn’t been her.

Now that she was the one being tempted...

she had to admit she was hesitating.

"If I refuse..."

"...what happens?"

"Nothing."

"I’m not a bad person."

"Don’t think so badly of me."

"Then I definitely won’t become a useless person!"

In the end, Furina’s willpower defeated temptation.

Become useless?

Absolutely not!

If word of this got out, she’d die of embarrassment.

Even the fact that Focalors was willing to become a pet was already embarrassing enough.

There was no way Furina herself could do it.

"That’s a shame."

"You missed your chance."

"Some people would love to have this opportunity."

"What idiot would want something like that?"

The moment she heard it, she knew it was humiliating.

How could anyone possibly want it?

Only that silly Focalors would agree to something like that.

"Since Furina doesn’t want to..."

"Fine."

"I’ll take my pet and go save Fontaine."

The moment she heard save Fontaine, Furina immediately grabbed Su Ran by the clothes.

"You’re going to save Fontaine?"

"I want to see it too!"

Wouldn’t she want to see Fontaine finally escape the disaster foretold by the prophecy?

The opportunity was right in front of her!

Until she witnessed the prophecy being broken with her own eyes, she wouldn’t even be able to sleep peacefully.

"Who are you?"

"Baiwen, Baixiao, or Baishi?"

Ningguang and Tingyun had both gone downstairs to handle business.

But the space station wasn’t lacking in people.

Su Ran spotted one of Ningguang’s secretaries.

As for which one she was...he had no idea.

He couldn’t even remember the name of the person who had received him in Liyue last time.

"I’m Baishi."

"And I’m not their biological sister."

"There’s actually quite a noticeable difference in our appearances."

The boss’s boss was her direct superior.

That was the kind of big shot she absolutely couldn’t afford to offend.

She’d personally seen Miss Tingyun bring enormous quantities of advanced technology to aid Teyvat just to curry favor with this boss.

Su Ran’s overwhelming strength was obvious to anyone.

No wonder even Lady Ningguang bowed before him.

"Oh."

"You have a generic face, so I didn’t bother remembering."

As Ningguang’s secretaries, the three women were all quite beautiful.

But compared with all the people Su Ran had encountered...

they were, at best, ordinary.

"Whatever makes you happy, sir."

If he couldn’t remember her, then so be it.

Who could blame him?

He was the truly important person here.

"These two..."

"The Hydro Archon of Fontaine?"

Looking at the two identical Furinas, Baishi’s mind was thrown into complete confusion.

She’d heard that Inazuma’s Electro Archon was actually twins.

But she hadn’t expected Fontaine’s Hydro Archon to be twins too.

When did having twin gods become so fashionable among the Seven Nations?

"Eighty-Five..."

"What is this place?"

Surrounded by darkness,

Furina felt distinctly uneasy even standing on the floor.

And what was that enormous sphere beside them?

"A place higher than the Sky Island."

"Beyond the heavens."

This was Furina’s first time visiting such a place.

Naturally, she was intensely curious about everything around her.

"So it’s this dark outside the sky?"

"It’s not pretty at all."

She’d imagined there would be all sorts of fascinating things beyond the sky.

But this was it?

"Furina, if you’re interested..."

"How about coming with me to Penacony sometime?"

"I can take you to meet a superstar."

"I’m a superstar too!"

Furina planted her hands on her hips and puffed out her chest proudly.

"That superstar has more than one trillion fans."

Furina’s proudly straightened back immediately collapsed.

...That really is a superstar.

There was no way she could compete.

If she dared compare herself to someone like that,

she’d probably be drowned in spit by that superstar’s countless fans.

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