Chapter 102: Praise Time

Following the sound, I turned and saw a girl in a dark blue suit with white hair and blue highlights on her head. She stopped smiling and strode forward. Clearing her throat, she said, "Hello, please give me a piece of the power cake too."

Ming Chong looked at Cesar, who was a little surprised, and then at the nervous waiter. Everyone around the lobby avoided his gaze and whispered to each other.

"Don't be surprised, my dear little friend. I, the famous star of Fontaine, Funina, am so dazzling!"

Mr. Little Friend?!

Ming Chong almost couldn't breathe.

"...I didn't ask for your name...and, the big star thing, you made it up, right?" Ming Chong took the small cake on the white porcelain plate handed to him by the waitress, and nodded to the side, signaling Funina to take a closer look. Wherever her eyes went, everyone was afraid of the reality.

"Hehe! What do you know?" Funina said, her hands on her hips, a proud expression on her face. "It's nighttime now, a celebrity's private time. This is all a sign of respect for me."

As Funina took the white porcelain plate that had been so swiftly delivered to her, Cesar led Ming Chong to an empty table and explained in a low voice, "This Lady Funina is the ruling deity of Fontaine, the water goddess. In Fontaine, it's best not to mess with Lady Funina at night."

ah?

Water, water god? Didn't you feel it?!

Ming Chong opened [Truth] and took a look. Oh, it was the Water God, divided into two parts. "She also distinguishes between day and night? Can gods... also have split personalities?"

"That's not the case." Cesar thought for a moment and briefly explained the situation. "According to the folklore of Fontaine, Lady Funina seems to be sleepwalking at night. What appears before everyone is only a part of her. She is actually unaware that she is dreaming."

"So, there's a possibility of doing anything strange."

Ming Chong was stunned. "Ah? She herself doesn't know, then how do you know she is sleepwalking?"

"Look at Lady Funina's hair." Cesar reminded implicitly.

"Oh, her pigtails are glowing." Ming Chong turned around and saw that the ends of the girl's hair looked like they were sprinkled with glitter, blingbling. He took a big bite of cake and nodded thoughtfully.

Cesar quickly pressed his face to turn his head back. Seeing that Fernina did not turn her head, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "In the daytime, Lady Fernina has long hair with two tails, shaped like a jellyfish."

"And Lady Furninna of the night—"

"At night, Lady Funina not only wanders around, but also catches children and eats them one by one!" Funina walked to the table where Cesar and Mingchong were sitting, put down the small cake, took over the conversation, glared at Mingchong, shook her fingers, and made a threatening gesture.

Ming Chong calmly forked the other half of the cake on the plate into his mouth and chewed it. "Oh, hello, my name is Ming Chong, nice to meet you."

After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "I'll share the table with you. Can you give me a piece of your cake?"

"..." Cesar's brain was confused for a moment. Huh? What did this sentence mean?

The atmosphere in the Debo Hotel suddenly became stagnant. Although there were only three people at the table on the surface, there were actually many more eyes and ears.

"Uh..." Finina choked, "Okay?"

Those who were watching were shocked: He actually agreed?!

Cesar was slightly surprised. After all, Ming Chong, whom he had just met, was okay and he knew him well. But the behavior of Lord Water God was unexpected.

"That's great!" Ming Chong looked at her in surprise.

Stare, stare, stare——

Being stared at like this, Funina felt a little uncomfortable. She slowly cut a little bit of the edge and picked up the unused fork. "Okay -"

The next second Ming Chong took away her plate and said, "Thank God for giving me strength."

Then with a "whoosh", it was gone.

Everyone in the hall gasped, it was like a bolt from the blue. They all looked away, not daring to watch what happened next.

"Haha, haha..." Funina pulled up the corners of her mouth stiffly, slowly raised her eyes, and met Ming Chong's eyes with great deterrence, gritting her teeth, "You, you are very good..."

Ming Chong quickly moved his mouth, swallowed it, wiped his mouth, and grinned, "Hehe, I think so too. So..."

"So?" Furninna repeated with a sneer.

"So, let's be friends? I owe you a piece of cake." Ming Chong said happily.

Those who were secretly watching him wanted to grab his shoulders and shake him madly: No, is that all you want?! Aren't you afraid that Lady Funina will arrest you and take you to Melo Petersburg for stealing the Water God's cake?!

Ming Chong was fearless and even a little excited when he saw the depressed Funina.

——Hehehe, she’s angry! She must be angry!

——I want to see how strange the things the water god does at night are!

Cesar looked at this and that as if waking from a dream, and slowly said, "Huh?"

——

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Furninna agreed.

Those who were watching, whose emotions were even more up and down than those of the people involved, said:

Maybe she was laughing out of anger. Such a dramatic turn of events occurred. Lady Funina was delighted to see the prey and showed a little bit of her daytime personality. She probably thought she was having a lucid dream.

——(Sobbing) Yes, that’s how we are at Fontaine, pursuing drama more than logic.

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However, although the gods were not angry, the rest of the Sacramental Crown Night made the people of Fontaine think that it would be better to be angry.

In this way, at most the person who offended Lady Funina would be teased, instead of the entire Fontaine being implicated!

Remember that sometimes, one plus one is greater than two.

"Hahahahahahahaha—I didn't expect you to want to be friends with me so much! Oh, there's nothing I can do. I, Funina, am just so graceful and charming..."

Funina felt as if the depression in her chest was cleared away, and she felt refreshed!

If conditions allowed, she really wanted to take the experimental video recorder from the Fontainebleau Academy of Sciences and hit Ming Chong in the face.

While being led by Cesar to the souvenir shop, Ming Chong, who was sucking Fengda, squinted his eyes and looked at Funina with disdain, who was smiling all the way for some reason.

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"Is she really your water goddess?" Ming Chong turned to ask Cesar, confusion in his eyes.

Cesar patted his back helplessly. "This must be the power of a god. Ordinary humans cannot understand it. Moreover, tonight is Lady Funina's festival, established to commemorate her protection of Fontaine."

"Oh... okay!" Ming Chong reluctantly accepted this statement. The achievement of saving Fontainebleau as a water god in human form could indeed increase his favorability.

Finina wiped away the tears of laughter and strode after the two of them. "For the sake of our friendship, Mingchong, I forgive your offense."

"You went to the souvenir shop to buy a wonderful gift for some child, right? Ahem, I, Funina, know where to find such a gift!"

Ming Chong, who was focused on the mistake, turned his head hesitantly, "Cesar, did I tell you what I was going to do?"

Cesar shook his head and considerately added the cause and effect, "A Chong, you invited Lady Funina to go to the souvenir shop just to see what her choice was." For example, how strange it was, whether it was fun, whether it had any reference value, and so on.

Seeing that Funina was so proud that her head was about to be raised to the sky, Ming Chong suppressed his doubts. It was not important. He could go to the World Tree to see it himself when he had the chance.

The important thing is that she can’t be proud anymore!

But Funina couldn't hold it in any longer. "Hey, Ming Chong, I'm the God of Fontaine! There's nothing in Fontaine that I don't know!"

"Yeah?"

"Of course! You know, I have spies all over the continent of Teyvat!"

"Oh, I see. Then let me test you." Ming Chong saw Funina puffing out her chest with pride and said, "How many pigeons did Cesar use in his magic today?"

“…”

Funina: No, haha.

Cesar smiled and replied, "29, that's my limit."

However, Cesar still came to the rescue of his god. "However, for a magician, such information is a secret within a secret. It cannot be easily shared with others, let alone seen by others."

"That's right!" Finina nodded heavily, pointing. "Once someone observes how this subject of mine hides the pigeon, his magic will be cracked, and he will lose his current position in the magic world."

Cesar then said to Ming Chong, who was curling his lips, "When you cooperated today, the magic was presented very well, Chong. This is no secret to you."

The soothing effect was effective, and he continued with a faint smile, "Besides, the important thing now is that you need to prepare a gift for a child, right? Magic can certainly increase the surprise, but I believe that Lady Finina's help will also be indispensable."

"Hehe! Very good!" Although she was well aware of this technique, she was still overjoyed by it, and even Funina's ahoge hair shook a few times.

"Oh—well, you win!" Ming Chong finished his Fengda and smacked his lips. "You're definitely not trying to get me out of here because you want to rush to that magic show in the middle of the night, are you?"

Cesar blinked and tilted his head with an innocent smile.

"If not, then I'll go play with Funina."

Just as Cesar was hesitating and almost said that this was also a reason, Funina took the initiative to grab Ming Chong's wrist and said, "Ahem! Okay, okay! I'm also in a hurry and I didn't abandon you as a friend. Let's go!"

"Burp!" Ming Chong let out a loud burp. "Hey hey! I haven't finished yet—"

With a snap of his fingers, a water-blue vortex suddenly appeared from the air, grew larger, swallowed Ming Chong and Funina in one gulp, and then suddenly shrank and disappeared just as it appeared.

Cesar, who witnessed everything, kept smiling the entire time. After a while, he belatedly exclaimed, "Ah... As expected of Lady Funina of the Night. So this is the origin of the 'Ubiquitous Water God'..."

"But...if it's magic...how about bringing someone back to life?"