After the whole slime incident, we decided to travel a bit more carefully. It's quite apparent that neither of us are quite adapt at combat, paimon is unreliable and I'm very weak at the moment, although I could control the power of Anemo, I stil have very terrible control over managing it and ended up making chaos or worse, might hurt myself in the process! I decided to do what every traveler in this game do best, Explore! I found chests and finally found my first weapon. Oh the ol reliable dull blade. In the game and cutscenes the traveler never let go of this weapon. Although in the game such a low rarity weapon is considered garbage. Maybe in reality this thing is actually a legendary weapon! After all why else would traveler keep using this weapon if it isn't anything special? Hence, while we continued exploring, I practice swung my new sword, occasionally getting scolded by paimon since she almost got hit. I just laughed it off and shrugged. Then, it happened. As we walked, a giant shadow loomed over us from above, both me and paimon looked up in shock to see a huge dragon flying in the sky! The sight of dragons is rare in this world, and especially since according to the story, this dragon is dvalin one of the four winds, he's going to be essential for this story's progression. It seems like our story is just getting started. Thus, both me and paimon followed the dragon. From there everything played out just like in the game. We saw venti, the young boy with a girl like appearance, a bard clad in green outfit was talking with a huge dragon called dvalin. Suddenly, just like in the game, i resonated with anemo out of reflex and this startled the dragon to flee, leaving a red tear drop. I and paimon approached the tear drop and discussed about it, eventually deciding to take it with us. The next time we meet venti the tear drop should be purified if we're following the story but… I don't know how to purify this thing. I doubt the real traveler knew either so im just hoping for another miracle here. But just then, a huge sound of explosion can be heard not far from where we were. Both me and paimon turned reflexively in shock at the direction of the explosion.

"Wha.. what was that?" exclaimed paimon

"I don't know.. you're the guide here"

"it seems dangerous, lets get out of here!"

As we were about to turn our tails, a large shadowy figure was sent flying at our direction and it collided with paimon.

"Paimon!"

I shouted in panic, although I don't particularly like paimon, she's still a good person and I can't possibly just stand by when she gets in trouble, this real life is really a hassle… in the game paimon barely ever get scratched so my mind was racing. Paimon and the huge figure collided on a nearby wall. The big shadowy figure was actually a mitachurl. It's a rather advanced mob and paimon was dangling on its head. I was worried that something like this came out so early and being inexperienced in combat, this is just dangerous but… something is weird, the mitachurl seemed unconscious? It came flying over so I thought it was attacking us but the more I look at it… isn't the mitachurl being thrown ? I wonder just what on earth could even throw something like a mitachurl. Could we be in bigger danger than I thought.

"oh? Who are you?"

Just as I was deep in thought, a voice rang out from behind it, the voice doesn't sound familiar at all, if it was a Genshin character im positive I'd recognize it instantly, that's just how much I've played this game, but this voice is weird.. it sounded young like a child? As I turned I saw a small boy with a rather peculiar jet black spiky hair. The outfit he wore seems to resemble that of Inazuma npc's with a blue Gi and yellow shorts. Wait Inazuma Npc? We're in mondstat aren't we? The only Inazuma npc I know that exist outside of that place is in liyue, who is this kid… moreover he looks kinda familiar but I don't recall anyone in geshin looking like this child. His looks is far from an npcs and from what I've seen, people look less like npc's in this world than in the game so it might just be different with this kid too but that doesn't answer his Inazuma origin..

"uhh miss?"

"ah.."

His voice calling out to me once again snapped me out of my deep thought.

"umm, are you lost boy?" I decided to ask the child

"huh? Well I guess I am. Do you know this place?"

"This place is called mondstat child, we're quite far from the city, where did you come from"

"uhh I don't know, I just woke up in the middle of nowhere and was suddenly surrounded by those guys"

The boy pointed at a group of unconscious individuals and mobs. Wait.. those are treasure hoarders and some hilichurls aren't they? Did this kid beat them up? No that doesn't make sense, but then again kids in this game can be pretty insane… maybe he's an npc vision holder? I've heard of npc with vision but I don't see any vision on him.

"Miss? Did you happen to see a dragon flying over by just now?"

"huh? Oh yeah we just did…"

"Did you see where it went?"

"No.. it left pretty quickly"

"ah darn…"

The kid seemed dejected. Did the kid also saw dvalin flying over and came here? Well it's huge so its not strange people would see it but this kid's curiosity seems rather dangerous but then again he seems to be able to keep himself safe.

"Awawa…."

Just then, paimon went flying wobbly towards us. Oh she's okay!

"hmm? Who's this?"

"this right here is paimon, a friend of mine"

"ohh, nice to meet you paimon! Im goku! And miss what about you?"

"ahh im.. natalie"

In the game, we get to name the traveler anything so I thought I'd just use my real name for more immersion when I inevitably hook up with some hot male characters. Plus the only one who calls me lumine in this world would be my brother aether. Wait a second… just before my trail of thought wandered, I recalled something. Did this kid just call himself goku?

"Um.. what was your name again child?"

"I'm goku! Son Goku!"

Son.. goku… wait that sounds familiar… AH! The spiky hair, the monkey tail, and the Japanese styled outfit! No wonder he seems familiar, isn't this kid goku from that anime called dragon ball? I never watched it but my nephew loved to watch it. I only got to see the show a few times when he was watching it on tv. The little kid named goku went through adventures with his friends collecting dragon balls. But then again… why is goku here? I don't recall Genshin ever collabing with dragon ball..

My questions ended up piling up more but my trail of thought was broken by a loud sound of stomach grumbling. I look towards goku and he was laughing as he scratched his head, seems like he's hungry.

"How about we have some meal while we chat?"

"Ohhh!"

"Ohhhh!"

Both paimon and goku exclaimed together. And thus I ended up cooking for the two of them.