Cyno, dressed in a bow-tie and suit, took to the stage. The UBA dudes and Sara waited with bated breath as the Mahamatra adjusted the microphone. They all wagered their Mora on the outcome of tonight. Whoever won would be set for life—if they remained alive afterwards.

Cyno cleared his throat.

"What did the fish say when he swam into the wall?"

In various seats, the dudes braced themselves for the inevitable bad joke. The newcomers, Ifa and Ororon, sat at their table, absolutely oblivious to the disaster soon to unfold. Then, Cyno took a breath.

"The fish said: Dam."

Cyno got a very enthusiastic laugh from some chirping crickets. Everyone else just shuddered, except for Wanderer. The sour puppet got up, declared, "No Mora is worth this," and left.

"What do you call a can opener that won't work?" asked Cyno. "A can't opener."

Chongyun passed out from cringe, falling face-first onto the table in a groaning mess.

"I sold my vacuum cleaner the other day. All it was doing was collecting dust."

Freminet shoved his head into his diving helmet. Alhaitham and Tighnari both tapped out. Tartaglia felt a little queasy, but swore to tough it out. Sara's eyebrow twitched. Bennett gave a very uncomfortable pity-chuckle. Everyone was in pain, except Itto. The Oni wore a stoic, almost blank expression.

Sara swore she wouldn't let that Oni last longer than her.

"Two windmills are standing on a farm. One asks the other, 'What's your favorite music?' The other one responds, 'I'm a big metal fan.'"

Baizhu hacked up blood and fainted. Albedo's brain shut down, his eyes melting into white pools. Neuvillette murmured, "I try to stay objective in most matters, but that joke sucked." Zhongli concurred, looking more than a little nauseous himself. Xingqiu fell to his back, knocked out cold.

"What kind of tea is the hardest to swallow? Reality."

Both Tartaglia and Diluc passed out while standing up. The proud warriors were like powerful tigers, so strong that their bodies would not crumple even in defeat. Kinich, who thought he had this in the bag, considering he dealt with the most annoying guy in Teyvat, fell from his seat, foaming at the mouth.

Two more jokes broke Lyney. Kaeya, Neuvillette, Zhongli, and Kaveh. Bennett's mental stamina, taxed beyond its limit, finally snapped. Razor fell when Cyno made a pun about lupical. Soon, only Sara and Itto remained.

Her head was one big migraine. It felt as though she were drowning in a sea of cringe. Yet, Itto remained unfazed. He sat at his table, eyebrow narrowed, his expression neutral. The man didn't even seem the slightest bit exhausted. No matter what Cyno said, Itto never reacted. But to her, each joke was a horrible spike rammed through her brain.

She couldn't do it.

How? She wondered. How is Itto so mentally strong?!

She collapsed, face-first onto the table. Itto was the last man standing as Cyno finished up his routine. The Mahamatra thanked everyone for coming and departed. Itto sat at his table, silent and alone, for another hour.

He hummed thoughtfully, as though trying to decipher an impossible math equation.

Then, miraculously, like the sun breaking over the distant horizon, the answer dawned upon him. His jaw dropped. An excited smile split his face.

"Oh! I get it. The fish said dam because it's like the word damn! Man, I couldn't think about anything else while trying to figure out that one!"