Chapter 648 The Doctor Arrives

Now, the Lucian that Lumine is thinking about so much is observing Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.

Not observing her explosive figure—observing whether she has 'amnesia' or 'disappeared'.

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata: "It's over... just like that..."

She had prepared to pay the price with her own existence, but unexpectedly, it ended so easily now.

She smiles brightly, feeling relieved in her heart—it turns out she can also not be forgotten.

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata isn't afraid of being forgotten or sacrificing herself, but if she can avoid being forgotten and continue witnessing Nahida and her people's future, how could she refuse?

As the God of Wisdom, she's extremely curious about what kind of technology humans will develop in the future.

Now, these curiosities finally have a chance to be realized. No need for more words of thanks—Lucian can't handle those.

Hearing Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's soliloquy, Lucian knows what's going on. Since she says it's over, it must be successful—the forbidden knowledge has been cleared.

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata hasn't disappeared; she's completely severed from Irminsul, becoming a thorough ordinary person.

However, to the people of Teyvat, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's existence has still vanished.

So now, the most important thing is to explain to the Nahida beside them. Her cute big eyes are blinking, clearly full of confusion.

Her small finger tapping her chin—it feels like if he doesn't explain soon, she'll start sucking on her finger.

This time, Nahida's expression only shows confusion, no sadness, because before erasing Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, she trusted Lucian—trusted that Lucian could save Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.

Now, she has successfully cleared the pollution, but there's one thing Nahida hasn't figured out: why is there suddenly an extra person beside her?

Moreover, this person looks like her—no, it's not just similar; this is completely her?

Nahida (hyper-evolved version).

With Nahida's wisdom, she starts analyzing various possibilities, but because of the thorough forgetting, she can't think of Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's existence at all.

Um... let's not talk about that first—can we change clothes first? Nahida blushes a bit.

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata resembles her too much—completely her grown-up version. And the clothes on the Tree King now—well, not exactly indecent, but quite revealing.

The clothes issue is also Lucian's fault. Lucian assumed beforehand that Greater Lord Rukkhadevata would be identical to Nahida, so he didn't bring spare clothes, thinking Nahida's would suffice.

Unexpectedly, after entering the puppet body, she directly grew larger. Good thing he brought 'Lumine's clothes'; otherwise, she'd really only be able to wear Nahida's 'bellyband'.

He'll have to take Greater Lord Rukkhadevata to his home later—there are plenty of women's clothes there, including many for tall figures.

Don't misunderstand—Lucian has no cross-dressing fetish or collection fetish. Those clothes were made by Chiori; it's just that everyone goes to Lucian's house, so they were left there.

But the clothes matter can wait; now, he needs to explain Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's existence to Nahida first.

Explaining their relationship is a bit troublesome. Fortunately, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata only lost her powers—her intelligence remains. Leave this brain-burning task to her.

In the real world, no one is explaining the situation to everyone; the sorrow and confusion in their hearts can't be resolved, making them very uncomfortable.

Lumine knows what the sour feeling in her heart is, but that makes her even more uncomfortable.

Everyone is uncomfortable, and coincidentally, the movie continues playing—now it's time for The Doctor to appear.

His entrance is perfectly timed; the audience's sadness can turn into anger.

He only comes after everything is handled—clearly, he sold out Scaramouche.

For the loving Fatui family, selling out teammates is quite rare.

Look at last time when Tartaglia was beaten—Rosaria dragged him away no matter what, even when encountering Yelan, she never thought of abandoning Tartaglia.

But The Doctor is different; he's the one least welcomed among the Fatui—of course, he doesn't welcome others either.

Scaramouche especially doesn't welcome him. Lucian told him that The Doctor deceived him a lot, but without specifics—Scaramouche still believes Lucian.

Like Mona, precisely because they trust Lucian too much, they're easily fooled.

How to say it—although Scaramouche always complains about Lucian verbally and dislikes him, he has deep faith in Lucian's abilities.

Precisely because of that deep faith, he breaks down reading the book—because he knows what happens in the book is inevitably the future.

So when Lucian tells him these things, he believes it directly, naturally losing any good feelings toward The Doctor.

Coincidentally, the several Fatui Executive colleagues beside him also don't welcome The Doctor much—they rarely share a bit of consensus.

As soon as The Doctor appears, he first knocks out the Traveler—using a sound wave that can quickly induce dreams.

This thing was invented by the Akademiya; now it's used skillfully by The Doctor.

After copying ninjutsu with the Sharingan, only to find the opponent plays it better than you—no place to reason.

The Doctor actually copied a bunch of Akademiya inventions, but unfortunately, only this one is somewhat useful.

He also knows the Traveler's physical resilience is exceptional; he has to use this kind of mental attack to knock her out.

The reason The Doctor knocks out the Traveler is to negotiate alone with the god.

The audience watches somewhat annoyed—after all, this guy The Doctor is one of the culprits behind Sumeru's chaos.

They didn't see the punishment scene for the other culprit—can they see it this time?

At this moment, the people of Sumeru really hope Lord Lesser Lord Kusanali can beat him hard.

Unfortunately, Lord Lesser Lord Kusanali's power hasn't recovered to its peak yet; otherwise, she would have acted long ago!

Well, with the Dendro God's personality, even at full strength, she wouldn't act—because acting would only destroy one of The Doctor's segments; negotiation maximizes benefits.

The audience is annoyed; in fact, The Doctor is quite annoyed too—mainly at himself.

At the beginning, he didn't want to come negotiate at all; he came with the idea of outright robbery, planning to act directly after the 'experiment' ended.

But then, in the blink of an eye, the person he has to face changed from 'Lesser Lord Kusanali'—a recently born god with plenty of data on her—to 'Greater Lord Rukkhadevata'.

The Doctor is a bit stunned at this point—I have to face Greater Lord Rukkhadevata? But I haven't prepared anything! How could I be so careless?

Fortunately, the current Nahida's power hasn't recovered; perhaps she's not his match. But negotiation is still safer—after all, he has no data on Greater Lord Rukkhadevata. What if she has some means he doesn't know?

[The Doctor says: "Since I've come to negotiate with you, naturally I can't do those dangerous things that would damage relations between both sides."]

He claims to be 'harmless to humans and animals'. Though he knocked out the Traveler, he won't make a move.

His meaning is: although I'm utterly evil, completely inhumane, morally bankrupt, ruthless and cruel—I'm a good person.