"A silk flower, yes." Another request had been given to the physically-challenged girl that was manning the front desk.

Bubu Pharmacy would be one of the many shops engraved into the heart of Liyue Harbor. It sold precious medicine, recipes for certain artisans and craftsmen, even a little bit of meat laying around if someone snooped deeper than the wide array of local specialties dominating the centerpiece.

The little apprentice worriedly peered at her fingers as if they'd give her the answers. She forgot what the customer asked of her. Did the woman require a Qingxin flower? Those were difficult to obtain during the course of this week. Abyssal mages were becoming more rampant as the ages continued to proliferate.

For someone like Qiqi, she didn't worry about life and death. She was given the blessing of being unbreakable. Rather, it was her memory that impaled her good qualities. There was one minor incident that almost caused the business to funnel 70% of its revenue stock to a swindler. The man had fled as far as Tianqiu Valley, affiliated with treasure hoarders.

If Baizhu had not chased after the scammer with Qiqi's help, they wouldn't have covered the face value of their expenses. Changsheng was this close to injecting venom into Qiqi's shoulders at her narrowly thrilling blunder.

All because Qiqi believed she would get free milk from the man. She was a kid nonetheless with a bad memory. How could anyone not take advantage of that?

"Excuse me? I said I wanted a silk flower."

Qiqi's head arose from behind the desk, only her purple beret was visible in the customer's eyes. The little girl opened up her notebook, seeing the elegant penmanship scrawled into the pages telling her what she should do.

"H-ho..." She heaved a breath, calming herself. She wasn't emotional but she did make it a point to always end the day successfully. This was one of the times she disliked forgetting things.

Greet the customer. Inquire for their order. Kindly give the product once the transaction is met equally. Repeat.

"Hello?! Are you open or not?"

"Yes, we are. Violet Grass is what you want?"

The woman's eyebrows depicted frustration. "Where is the head of this business? Why is an inexperienced child servicing customers?"

Qiqi's expression lingered, she arranged the piece of paper perched on her forehead. "A-ah..."

She'd focus later on training her brain. That is if she remembers.

There was something wrong with her today. She didn't have trouble with customers usually. This would be one of many mistakes.

Baizhu entered the scene, tapping the woman's shoulder cordially, "May I help you?"

The woman scowled, "Ugh! You may! Your workers need to be tended to! Aren't there supposed to be age restrictions in labor?"

"Whatever might be the problem you have with my precious apprentice?"

"So you're the boss around here? I'm already having a bad day and your business can't even get my order right!"

Baizhu only smiled, "I offer my sincerest apologies. We're not undistinguished in serving our customers to the best of our ability. Qiqi's... a special person." He muttered the last part. "Please, this way. I have a few good words to preach to you so the rest of your day runs smoothly. We have skin products as well if you'd like."

Qiqi fiddled with her thumbs at her carelessness. If only she could remember things clearly without the aid of her notebook.

"With the assassination of Rex Lapis, my day can never be the same again." The woman cried out.

This was one troublesome patron.

"It is certainly earth-shattering,"

Baizhu led Qiqi into a closed room full of boxes and clutter of documents. This was where the group attended monthly meetings discussing the latest buzz of Liyue's public interests.

If Mondstadt prioritized tranquility and justice, Liyue opted for business and faith. The two cities, while not at war with each other were mild in their relationship. It was better than Musk Reef.

Baizhu leaned against the wall preparing what to say to Qiqi. The situation was nothing new. Qiqi had always been terrible with memorizing. She needed to be ordered around to operate. She'd have to know what to do to execute. Complex instructions were far beyond her reach but she required the process to be accurate. She was like a machine of sorts who needed data.

Without others, she'd be more lost.

She didn't talk much and she wasn't going to act any different now. She'd hear whatever Baizhu had to say to her. Exercising at dusk later.

In the last attempt of rubbing the lower part of his elbow, Baizhu concluded, "Do you want to take a break for a while?"

Qiqi was not an open book but Baizhu was scarily sharp with children. Even if they lived over a hundred years.

"I don't understand." What kind of break was he referring to? Was she being fired?

"Roaming freely. Living as you please. I'm asking you if you're capable of those things. Liyue withholds great landscapes as well as valleys from the northeast. I'm sure you'd like a fresh breath of air sitting atop a cliff." It wasn't the same question at all but Qiqi was now starting to comprehend. While she could feel Baizhu wasn't serious all the time with her, his business was no joke.

"Am I being sent out?"

Baizhu dismissed it with a wave, "Of course not. You're an efficient worker when you put your mind to it." He wrote something on a piece of paper before giving it to Qiqi, "Perhaps small girls shouldn't push themselves to overwork. Something's on your mind, maybe that'll help."

Baizhu was being strange. He wouldn't just give things for free. That isn't how the business worked. Qiqi remembered writing that down somewhere in her notebook.

Qiqi inspected the letter's content before her throat released a hum of curiosity. Baizhu let out a satisfactory chuckle.

She couldn't understand what was written there though.

Qiqi opened her notebook up, reading through each page fast before speaking to Baizhu again. Once she finished, she responded, "Will the business be fine without me? I am not the Tianquan, I can't have that much power."

Baizhu laughed this time in hysterics over Qiqi's innocence, "Rightfully so! I fear the day you scale the ranks and overthrow Ningguang's prominence." He continued, "However, technically, you're still a child Qiqi. Children, unlike us adults have to have breaks to replenish their strength and vigor."

Qiqi tilted her head a bit to the side, her rear sitting on a stool, her petite legs unable to reach the floor. "Don't adults get tired too?"

Baizhu smiled, "Some don't. They say they're tired but in actuality, work begets added energy. If the work's done right, then adults like me won't get exhausted from it. That's how responsibility and passion for endeavors are."

Maybe only for you. Qiqi wanted to say that but she wasn't so expressive.

"Children should frolic the fields and catch frogs or something, that's an ancient maxim worded poorly by yours truly." Baizhu ruffled the top of her head, "I can't very well have you creating more complaints in my shop if you're not in the best condition. I have a ton of employees at my beck and call, just enjoy your break. Come back when you're rejuvenated."

He already knew she'd return. She didn't have anything else, honestly.

On the piece of paper, the words read,

Confirmation letter. Glider approval. Know the gliding rules 101.

Baizhu packed her things.

When Baizhu told Qiqi to take a break and roam different lands, he wasn't joking. Qiqi took everything to heart and often asked questions to him for assurance. While unfeeling, she naturally despised mistakes and the like.

Qiqi frequented the outskirts of Liyue Harbor like a playground. She went there to meditate. Any tool that helped in rewiring her memorization tendencies were done here. Aside from the occasional hilichurl that mocked her, she had no qualm outside of the border besides bashing in a few skulls of monsters. Being slow in memory didn't mean she was slow in action. She held her own fairly well against monsters double or triple her size.

Having a vision, she was underestimated by both humans and monsters alike. Until they taste her freezing blasts.

Onward she crossed Dunyu Ruins, a place where ruin guards inhabited the area. She hadn't stopped there. Traveling to the Guili Plains in search of her problem and arriving at Wangshu Inn did nothing but make her legs stressed from all the walking.

Baizhu had mentioned something about her having problems within herself. Besides her memory, what else could there be if she forgot it so easily?

Contending against abyssal mages, cooking food with other travelers, finding chests in uncharted territories, and elevated turfs, Qiqi had just about done all there was to be qualified as an adventurer albeit not registering those achievements in her head. It didn't take long for her to reach Mondstadt. On foot and with elemental powers, she had reached another municipality in the course of three days.

What was the secret behind her fast travel? She didn't think much of it. All she knew was her notebook, Baizhu, the Bubu Pharmacy, and the piece of paper she'd been given.

She hadn't been this far out before from Bubu Pharmacy. The farthest had been Mt. Tianheng and that was as close as she can get with the outside world. She reached for the paper, rereading it again.

"Glider. Mondstadt. Approval." The letter was formal and well-written but Qiqi only recited certain phrases of it.

"Ohhhh..." She exhaled.

Before she could get into the city, two guards at the front gate stopped her tracks.

"State your busin- Wait, a child?"

"Like a youngster's new to you. Were you born yesterday? Of course, it's a child!"

"I know that nitwit! We just don't get them regularly as visitors without their elders. You don't have enough shifts in your job to know these things like I do!"

"A-anyway... The kid's holding something. You ask her."

One of the knights went near Qiqi, kneeling down and relying on the end of his lance like a shovel buried underneath the dirt to steady himself. "May I?"

Qiqi slowly let go of the piece of paper. She felt like she could trust this awkward man.

The knight read carefully through the contents of the letter, astonishment crossing his face.

"Well, is she a refugee from somewhere? Does Jean have to take care of it again?"

"No. She's taking the gliding examination."

The other knight's eyes widened in surprise, "T-this girl wants to glide?"

Not expecting Jean Gunnhilder, acting grandmaster of the knights of Favonius to come out of headquarters, the two squawked in further stupefaction before doing the noble greeting gesture.

Qiqi looked at her in wonder. Specifically, the things that settled on her upper chest. Qiqi looked at hers.

She let out a dead sigh.

"Oh? Who might this be?"

After Qiqi had begun to put a little trust in Jean, the two talked about themselves in a respected manner.

"An apprentice? I've heard of the apothecary but to think their helpers comprise of children as well..." Jean rested her fist against her bottom chin in worry.

Qiqi was now in Jean's territory. Specifically, the Knights of Favonius Headquarters. How on earth she got here by herself, she'll never remember.

Lisa was sitting beside her on the couch, a charming smile on her face. "My! She's cuter than you, Jean!"

Jean, exasperated with workload and stress replied back, "That isn't the main issue here."

"Who cares about the world's predicaments when you have a girl like this by your side?" Lisa shrieked from delight, hugging the little zombie girl. Qiqi remained stoic.

Jean paused for a moment before speaking again, "And you say you traveled here for this one purpose only? Nothing else?"

"I... went here for the gliding... As well as... fixing my problem."

"Oh? What kind of problem" Lisa asked.

"I don't know myself... I've yet to find out what... So to seek... I ask for the glide."

The two women looked at each other. Entertaining this girl would only be met with a nonchalant expression. But that didn't stop Lisa from hugging her tightly.

"My! Can you be my pillow?"

"Huh...?" Qiqi hummed.

"I'd get Amber myself but I'm busy at the moment with some duties."

"I'll do it. Imagining myself as the mother of this little girl... My oh my! How brazen of me!"

Jean said, "Thank you. Be here when you're done."

"Ya know... At my age, I used to read a lot and revere the knights to the highest degree. Seeing Qiqi..." Amber mentions, awkwardly smiling, "She kind of reminds me of myself."

Qiqi was fiddling with the wings on her back like they were chew toys. She tried running with them but the wind carried her up into the air without her control. She landed on the branches of a tree, her clothing stuck in some edges.

"Ouch..." she remarked.

"Why would you and the acting grandmaster both agree to this? She's too young to glide."

Lisa giggled, "Are you sure about that?"

Amber could only raise an eyebrow to Lisa's question.

It didn't take long for Qiqi to get a handle on gliding. Surprisingly, she didn't need her notebook for instructions. She just felt the wind ushering her to go left or right. It was a miracle she could do something without someone's help.

She rose further up into the sky, seeing more and more of Mondstadt from above. She descended afterward, landing perfectly.

"You're a natural!" Lisa exclaimed.

Amber came forthright, "There's supposed to be a three-step part to this but Qiqi's still young so she can only glide in particular areas. Any more and it's a violation."

While she was amazed at herself for being able to glide, she was still conflicted. She didn't know why.

"Is there something wrong?" Lisa, detecting turmoil within the girl's heart asked.

Qiqi shook her head.

Qiqi left Mondstadt to ponder in Starfell Lake. Mondstadt was a cheery city and Qiqi couldn't fit in so easily. Lisa was starting to annoy her too. She touched her chest and felt them.

"Hm... No good." She yawned, laying down on a huge rock.

"What... is my problem? Do I even know what it is?" She asked herself. She grabbed her notebook and opened it up, skimming through each page again as she always does.

Now she remembered the decrees of Bubu Pharmacy and the well-being of the employees. She faintly smiled. She wasn't such an amnesiac after all.

"This is... the greatest storage of information..." She beheld the tiny scrapbook with a few doodles on the back pages.

A deep voice gave the meadows a chill. Qiqi arose from her spot, pinpointing the exact location by throwing her sword in the direction she aimed for.

"Whoa now!" An abyssal mage popped out of the bushes, teleporting beside Qiqi and snatching the notebook away from her hands. "I'll take that!"

For the first time in her life, Qiqi panicked.

"G-give that back!" Her frigid body was now enveloped in a snowy-colored mist, forming spear-like objects shooting towards the target. The abyssal mage easily deflected them with her barrier. Qiqi was now on the verge of tears.

That notebook held everything there was to her life. Without that, she'd have no meaning. She would forget everything over and over.

Trying to hold on to her memories, she yelled out a powerful cry that transformed the field into a land of winter and solitude. The flowers wilted and froze, the lake encircling a family of geese were harmed. The abyssal mage continued cackling, his barrier impenetrable.

Qiqi was now growing desperate. Dashing through the fields, she slashed at the barrier wildly with the tenacity of a fighter hilichurl.

"Give it back! Give it back! Give it back!" One by one, her swings became more brutal, actually cracking through the shield. Her swordplay was now getting faster each time she asked for the notebook to be handed over.

"This will be useful information for the Fatui... I commend you for your hard work..." Fatui? She wasn't familiar with that word. If she did, she'd forget immediately.

Disappearing in a blink, Starfell Lake returned to silence. The alarmingly cold environment had now dissolved. Qiqi heavily panted from using too much of her power. Realizing she let the thief go away with her precious item, she fell down on the grass and wept.

There were so many memories she wrote in that notebook. Though she couldn't remember them all at once, she could remember the way she wrote them with care as if she wrote a novel.

Baizhu, being the carefree yet intellectual manager he was, monitored Qiqi's actions and of course, the time when she wrote these things down. It was full of so many memories. Embarrassing, happy, sad, and every emotion Qiqi couldn't express. All of it was inside there.

"Am I... going to forget?" she asked herself. How she hated that word so much. "Will I..."

She was going to forget the memories she made.

Sitting down against a big tree near Windrise, Qiqi hugged the bag Baizhu packed for her during this temporary break. Would the idea of this being a break fly away from her mind? Will she forget tomorrow?

She still had her clothes. She wished strongly to remember everything back in Liyue by the fabric that experienced it alongside her. Qiqi splayed out the materials inside the bag. Anything to just remember. She can do it. Just a piece of paper. To remember everything and not forget.

When she was looking so hard for paper, she noticed another notebook was sitting there right before her. This one was different in both size and color, probably bigger than the previous one she wrote on.

Filled with newfound energy, she opened it up, eager, and prepared to write things down again before her mind became a mess.

What stunned her is the volume the notebook had. The writings contained inside it were filled to the brim. There was no space left in all of the pages. She didn't write this.

When she had read it, however, she discovered these were all the things she'd done in Liyue.

Upon finishing up, the moonlight at the middle of the universe, the very back page enclosed the name of a certain someone.

In case you forget your notebook. This is a spare. Baizhu.

On a side note, your writing's comical. Keep it up.

She was going to slap him when she went back home.