"Hello, please give this lady a glass of wine like mine." Shen Qin still asked the waiter in the tavern to serve Rosaria some wine.
"It seems that you are quite a gentleman." Rosaria crossed her arms and leaned back lazily on the chair, "My name is Rosaria. As you can see, I am a nun in the Favonius Cathedral. You don't need to introduce yourself to me. I know you, Mr. Qin."
How can you look like a nun? You look like a rebellious girl.
Shen Qin said speechlessly: "So what does Ms. Rosaria want to talk to me about?"
"Can't I just come here to drink and happen to sit at the same table with you? It's very common to share tables in a pub." She took the wine handed over by the waiter, thanked him, before taking a sip with an intoxicated expression on her face. "Sure enough, drinking after getting off work makes the wine taste delicious."
Shen Qin raised his eyebrows, ignored her and continued drinking.
"You seem to be courting Barbara?"
Shen Qin almost spit out the beer in his mouth. He tried hard to swallow it, coughed a few times, and said, "Don't talk nonsense."
At this moment, he could already feel the vague hostility coming from all around him.
"Really? Then why did I see you gave her a bracelet this afternoon and she accepted it? And she wore it on her wrist the whole afternoon?"
She seemed to be deliberately adding fuel to the fire, and the hostility in the eyes of the people around her became more and more intense.
"Huh? He seems to be the great alchemist who invented the flying hoverboard and bionic prosthesis!"
"It's him! I saw him at the gliding competition!"
"If it's Master Qin, he seems to be a good match for Miss Barbara..."
"What? Barbara isn't an adult yet! Even if you want to date her, you have to wait until she's an adult!"
The hostility around him suddenly eased a lot, and even some people wearing prosthetic bodies came over to toast him respectfully.
Rosaria: "…"
"What do you want from me?" Shen Qin lowered his voice and said to her, "You did that on purpose just now, didn't you?"
"Tsk, boring." Rosaria drank the wine in the glass, leaned her head close to him, and whispered, "The Knights are forming an investigation team to find a way to enter the ruins of Old Mondstadt. Unfortunately, because of the barrier that comes from the ruins of Old Mondstadt, which involves the Anemo Archon Bartobas, the church assigned me to participate."
"It's Barbatos." Shen Qin corrected her, "But what does this have to do with you looking for me?"
"Okay, Barsibato." She said perfunctorily, and then looked into Shen Qin's eyes, "I saw that Captain Jean and the others were wearing the same bracelet, so I asked casually, and then I wanted to come to you to ask for a similar bracelet."
Shen Qin was speechless: "So this is the attitude and strategy that you came up with, just to ask me for a bracelet?"
"So what do you want? Are you trying to——" She suddenly heaved a sigh towards Shen Qin and blinked charmingly.
Then his expression returned to normal: "Is that so?"
To be honest, when the scent of wine and her faint fragrance reached Shen Qin's nose, his heartbeat did speed up a little, but when he saw her indifferent eyes, he still suppressed the throbbing in his heart.
Calm down, calm down! This is a very scary woman, young man, you can't control her.
"Alright, alright, I'll make one for you. When does the investigation team leave?"
"The day after tomorrow morning."
"Alright, then you can go to my alchemy workshop to fetch one tomorrow." Shen Qin finished the last bit of wine in the cup, stood up and prepared to leave. "As you wish, today's wine will be paid for by me. I don't think Master Diluc will mind."
"You're quite nice." She blew him a kiss expressionlessly and said in a flat tone, "This time you treated me, next time I'll treat you to one."
Shen Qin: "…"
Sucrose and Klee returned to the Alchemy Workshop and wanted to have dinner with Shen Qin, but found that he was not there. So the two of them looked through the photos taken today while waiting for him to come back.
Sucrose kept looking at the door, feeling a little nervous: Will he be angry if Klee and I left him to play this afternoon? If he is angry, what should I do?
In her anxiety, Klee was the first to notice Shen Qin coming back. She ran over to share the beautiful photos she had taken today with him, but she stopped one meter away from him, frowned, and waved her little hand in front of her nose: "Eh - it stinks!"
Sucrose, who followed closely, smelled the alcohol on him and frowned slightly: "Have you been drinking?"
"Ahahaha——" Shen Qin scratched his head and explained, "Didn't Master Diluc invite me to the Angel's Share before, saying he would treat me to a drink! It just so happened that the smart bracelet was finally made today, so I went to his place to relax a little."
"Klee hates adults who drink! They stink." Klee put her hands on her hips and looked at Shen Qin with dissatisfaction.
She also didn't like Kaeya after he drank, but Kaeya would avoid her after drinking, so he could avoid being disliked by her.
"Okay, then I won't drink again." Shen Qin looked at Klee, who refused to be close to him, dejectedly, regretting that he indulge his momentary appetite and made Klee dislike it
"You just drank and didn't eat, right? Do you want to go to Good Hunter together?" Sucrose said with some heartache as she looked at the disappointment on his face.
"Let's go, I'm just hungry." The three of them went to the Good Hunter for dinner together, but along the way, Klee was unwilling to approach him.
After returning to the alchemy workshop, Shen Qin began to make a bracelet for Rosaria, and Sucrose assisted him.
At work, she wanted to apologize to him several times for what happened in the afternoon, but she didn't have the courage. Fortunately, Shen Qin's attitude was no different from before, which made her feel relieved.
Maybe I was too sensitive. In fact, he probably didn't take it seriously at all. Before going to bed at night, Sucrose hugged his knees and blamed himself.
Of course, Shen Qin didn't notice Sucrose's little thoughts. He just wanted to finish Rosaria's bracelet quickly and then start making a small toy for Klee.
He already had an inspiration, which was the mechanical pet called "Haro" in the "Mobile Suit Gundam" series of anime on Earth. It looks like a ball, can fly, communicate with people, and store things in its body. It is quite suitable to be Klee's playmate.
"Well...but the appearance can be slightly modified to suit her taste."
While Shen Qin was still immersed in his own alchemy world, a meeting coveting him was taking place in Snezhnaya, far in the north of the continent.
In the grand and solemn hall, apart from the long conference table and eleven chairs in the center, there were no other items placed. At this time, ten of the chairs were already occupied, and only the sixth chair was empty.
"I think I have made it very clear about the matter of this genius alchemist. The flying hoverboard and bionic prosthesis will be left to Sandrone to study. I hope that a more efficient hoverboard and prosthesis suitable for combat can be developed as soon as possible." The "Jester" sat alone at the head of the long table and gave orders to "Marionette".
"Hmm~." Marionette played with her fingers absentmindedly.
"Rosalyne, you can leave for Mondstadt now. They should have succeeded, but you just need to do what you should do. Shen Qin and I have other arrangements, so don't interfere."
"Understood, Your Excellency." The "Fair Lady" Rosalyne raised the corner of her mouth dangerously.