A young man with black hair wearing a blue suit sighed while he leaned behind a pillar lazily. He was not hiding from the deaconess he was a bit overwhelmed by the large number of people in the winery near Monstadt.

"So here you are. Did you wait long?" Barbara asked with a smile while she held a pair of wine glasses. Ren smiled and took one of them. The two had actually snuck out of the party and are now on the garden/grape plantation.

"Not really, I was just thinking of some stuff," Ren replied she smelled the glass of wine on his hand, "How's being an idol working out for you?"

"It's good, I can't go out much but it's really great! How about you, anything interesting happened?" Barbara said as Ren put his coat/suit jacket around her shoulders. He did not really need a coat as he already modified his clothes to never be too hot or too cold for him. Barbara blushed as she felt his hands around her shoulders for a second, the familiar scent of the spearman made her feel safe and she could only shyly drink her non-alcoholic beverage.

"Not really, But I did get a ticket for a single person to Liyue harbor's fine inn, I forgot the name... Well, I also get to have fun around a ruin guard," Ren said, remembering the time he used wicker man to fight against the Ruin guard.

"Well, that's fun, I guess. Now..." Barbara said as she controlled herself and spoke in a cold voice, A piercing look bore on his skull as she stood up and dug her heel on his foot. The spearman can only flinch a bit as the idol made him look at her face by grabbing his chin. That look would even make the king of heroes be scared.

'Mommy! I'm scared! Oh, shit, I don't have a mother in this life and world'

"Explain please," Her kind voice was betrayed by the fact that her heel was digging into his foot.

"Well, I have nothing to-" A kick to the shin stopped him as Barbara's hand on his chin tightened its grip,

"Explain," Barbara repeated, and pulled the spearman closer.

"Hey, Diluc is calling for me," Ren said as he summoned his horses to help him.

"..." The pair of warhorses said nothing as they watched the two, hell! Liath Macha was watching while eating some sugar cubes and treats.

'Traitor!' Ren called out as he watched his horses lie down on the ground and smirk at him,

"Huh?! Did you say something?" Barbara asked with a dark expression on her face

"I said you looked cute!" Ren said what was on his mind to stop her glare.

Barbara pouted and stopped herself from poking a hole on Ren's foot with her heel. Hearing that her friend and crush (only unknown to Jean and Ren) was trying to sleep around with women made her chest ache. Also thoughts of using her vision to, 'question' Ren surfaced on her head but quickly shut it down

The young spearman winced as he flexed his toes under his dress shoes, This was the first time that Barbara reacted at him this violently, other than the time he killed Decarabian by Cutting him with Claiomh Solais, Shining arrow Balor's bane, and piercing his heart with Gae Bolg, the barbed spear that pierces with death. He was barely alive and was dragging himself, his right shoulder was cut through the hip, Several holes to the side and heavy blood loss.

He didn't remember how he survived and just remembered that he threw duban to protect Barbatos and use another Gae Bolg: Barbed spear that pierces with death, to fully kill Decarabian. Hah! Serves that breezy-headed fucker!

[Flashback]

He woke up after a few days to Barbara sleeping with her head on the side of his bed. Smiling and gently rubbing her head, he made sure not to wake her and use some runes to make her more comfortable by putting her on the bed. He was all bandaged up and like a true chad, he ripped all of them off and used some healing runes to speed up the proccess.

The healing session with his runes only took half an hour. It was a miracle no one barged in to see how he or Barbara was doing. After he was completely healed, he carved some runes on the bedpost to help recover the deaconess's fatigue and he put on a jacket and a pair of pants in the bathroom (of course) and silently waited for the deaconness to recover.

This was the first time he went all out and almost died, He knew that if he wasn't with Barbatos and Dvalin at that time then...

"Ren!" Barbara shouted as she glomped at the Spearman with some tears on her eyes. "You're okay!" Barbara sobbed as she pulled him close, pressing her face on his chest.

Ren seeing this, awkwardly patted her back and let her cry on his bare chest. She was holding his jacket tightly and while sobbing.

[Flashback end]

"How about we have a ride in my chariot and pick up some snacks?" Ren asked, hoping that Barbara would cheer up.

The deaconness merely nodded and pulled the spearman for a hug to hide her face.

"I see, I'll tell Jean before we leave, just please let's stay like this," Barbara said as she hugged Ren and discreetly enjoyed his warmth and scent.

'Looks like I am winning,' Dubh sainglenn said to Liath Macha in their connection.

'Just you wait' Liath Macha replied.

"It's a bit cold here and you're warm..." Barbara said with a smile and closed eyes while looking up at him. She then quickly dug her face on his chest to hide her blush.

Seeing this, Ren blushed a bit and just let her do what she wanted. 'She looks so cute,'

In her sleep, a cute white haired maid woke up and accidentally used her vision to summon a shield, An archer broke an arrow, and an empress impaled a simp with a glare on her face.

[An hour later]

Ren smiled as he and Barbara (Under a disguise) went around Monstadt on a little da- outing (Can't use the d word because a dragon is trying to roast me)

Ren smiled as the two of them walked around the city while they carried spicy meat skewers.

"This is so good!" Barbara said happily as she ate her skewer, liking the spiciness of it and the juices.

"Yeah, just a bit disappointed there is no gravy," Ren said as he held Barbara's skewer while she took some bites from it.

The deaconnes had practicall demanded that Ren spoil her for the night and he could not help but accept, lest he suffer the wrath of the deaconness.

"Oh, Hey Amber!" Ren said with a smile as he saw the red-themed outrider who was on a patrol.

"Oh, Hey Ren!" Amber said as she happily ran towards him but froze as she saw the disguised Barbara, who pulled Ren's left arm close to her.

The two looked at each other intensely and some sparks appeared.

"And who's your friend?" Amber asked hotly.

"Oh, this is-"

"Oh, I saw another vision!" A blue haired man wearing a black and white mask walked towards them. In instinct, the masked man had a smirk but suddenly froze as he neared Ren

The horrible image of his doom stopped him. Him, Il Dottore, one of the eleven harbingers of the Fatui was stopped by the mere presence of this unkown person. His body told him that one more millimeter and he would have died. He defeated Ursa the drake alone and yet...

A sole Red slitted eye glanced at him dismissively causing every cell of his body to get the hell away from him. He hurriedly walked past from him and the moment he did, his pockets felt heavy. Looking at it, they were bloody fatui agent masks that were destroyed. A cold sweat broke out as he took out the note.

"Let the hunt begin, Il Dotorre."

-Laelapps

Written from the blood of his trusted agents that he modified.