(HIATUS) Valkyrie Traveler (Honkai Impact 3 x Genshin x Kiana Reader)

Chapter 22

"Inazuma's not such a bad place, Paimon's having a pretty good time! "

"But...we should probably go and see about the "next operation" that Thoma and Ayaka were talking about, right?"

"As usual, it's the first stop, Komore Teahouse. Are you ready to head over?"

"Yeah, let's go!"

"Da."

You reunited with Lumine, Bronya and Fu Hua and decided to go back to Komore Teahouse to know the next operation. When you arrived, nobody was there.

"How strange...it's never this quiet here."

"Woof, woof...woof!"

"Thoma's playing his ventriloquist game again, huh? Thoma...Thoma..."

"Woof! Woof!...Woof!"

"Hey, you can come out now...Paimon's seen you already...huh, not a peep...ugh, so where the heck is he, then?"

"Woof, woof, woof! Woof!"

"Huh? What's got Taroumaru so worked up today? He's always such a good boy..."

"Hello, have any of you seen Thoma?"

Ayaka came running in quickly, she's probably in a hurry.

"No, we thought he'd be with you! Why, has something happened?"

"Then it as I feared...on the way here, I heard that Thoma had been taken away by the Tenryou Commission. I wasn't certain whether it was true, so I came right here. The fact that he hasn't arrived here as we arranged suggests that it is true. The Raiden Shogun is holding a Vision Hunt Ceremony at the Statue of the Omnipresent God today, to mark the 100th Vision seized under the decree. And the 100th Vision bearer in question...the one who will have their Vision seized, I fear...is Thoma."

"Hold up a second...so the ceremony that Thoma said the Tenryou Commission was busy preparing for...that was this Vision Hunt Ceremony? And he was the target all along?"

"...I believe so. The shogun and the Tenryou Commission see the ceremony as a milestone. With the 100th Vision, they wish to mark the success of the Vision Hunt Decree to date. This cannot happen. I must go and rescue him!"

"Woof, woof! Woof!"

"But you are the Shirasagi Himegimi."

"Yeah! Like it or not, you represent the whole Yashiro Commission. So if you go and pull a stunt like that, you're basically declaring you and the Raiden Shogun are enemies now, right? And by doing it so publicly, you might be implicating a lot of other people from the Yashiro Commission, too..."

"There is no other option... I must act with haste, the ceremony is about to begin. I will not abandon Thoma like this. He is my friend! To think that not long ago, we were...all eating hotpot together..."

"He is our friend, too. We will save him."

"But..."

"You said it yourself. No time to delay."

"...Okay, I'll...wait here for your return. Get back safely."

"Don't worry, Ayaka. A friend's life is on the line. We ain't about to mess this up!"

You went to the ceremony site, but it was too late to do anything. Thoma was already tied up for his Vision to be taken. There was the Raiden Shogun. She prepared to take his Vision, then...

POV: No...I can't let this slide! I must do something!

Seeing the Vision get taken away, you jump in and take it with your Void powers. You summon a portal to let the Vision fall into your hands and get in front. Lumine teleports there to free Thoma thanks to her new Electro powers with Fu Hua and Bronya following, but Lumine was stopped by the Raiden Shogun.