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Klee looked genuinely delighted when she saw Jia Changjiang and the others. “I was just about to go looking for you!”

With her little backpack bouncing, Klee dashed up to the group and looked up at them. “I didn’t know where to find you guys.”

“What brings you to us, little Klee?”

Jia Changjiang crouched down with practiced ease, meeting Klee at eye level. “Are you hoping to go fish blasting? I happen to have a few extra bamboo tubes—I made some firecrackers, we could set them off outdoors together, how about it?”

But Klee shook her head hard, like a rattle drum. “No! Klee got a super scary, super scary letter! I have to go to a place!”

“A scary letter?!” Lumine bristled. “Who dares send our Klee a letter like that?! I’ll tell Jean! Put out a bounty! Death sentence!”

“Hey! Maybe hear her out first before passing judgment!” Paimon hurried to pull Lumine back to earth.

Klee began to explain the letter: “That person won’t admit that Klee is Dodo-Ko’s family, and says Klee has to pass a test—go to Dodo-Kingdom, but… but…”

She stumbled over her words, almost biting her tongue in her rush.

Her mouth was moving faster than her mind could keep up.

“Who sent the letter?” Lumine asked.

“Bad guy, bad guy… he’s called Dodo-King!” Klee declared, tiny fists clenched.

“Who’s Dodo-King, Klee?” Paimon asked, puzzled.

“Paimon hasn’t heard of him either?” Klee replied, sounding surprised.

“Of course not… And why ‘also’?” Paimon retorted.

Klee planted her hands on her hips. “Because even Klee has never heard of him!”

“Knew it—this is definitely some weirdo!” Lumine huffed. “Unforgivable!”

“At first, I wanted to find Albedo, but Albedo-gege wasn’t home, so I wanted to find Uncle and Sis!” Klee produced a letter. “This is Dodo-King’s letter! Klee will read it for you!”

“‘Evil little flame girl, by the name of the Dodo clan—’ uh, I can’t read this part… ‘By order of Dodo-King, I hereby revoke your right to become Dodo-Ko’s new family! Unless you bring Dodo-Ko to the Golden Apple Archipelago, light the—’ ‘accept…’”

But with only a handful of years behind her, Klee clearly didn’t recognize most of the words.

So she looked up at Jia Changjiang and the others for help.

Jia Changjiang gave her a helpless shrug.

He could speak just fine—language wasn’t a problem—but reading… well, he was still learning, and might not even be better than Klee at it…

“Let me!” Paimon volunteered, hopping over to examine the letter. “Hmm…”

“‘Ruler of the Dodo clan… light four beacons, knock on the door of trials…’ Looks like it’s a challenge.” Paimon read. “And at the end it says ‘judgment’… Dodo-King wants to put you on trial.”

“Huh?!” Lumine was outraged. “Even I can’t bear to scold Klee! Who does this Dodo-King think he is, trying to take Klee’s Dodo-Ko?!”

“What?!” Klee, who had only half-understood, instantly grew anxious when she heard Dodo-Ko mentioned. “Dodo-Ko is Klee’s best friend! I won’t let anyone take him!”

“Dodo-Ko… Dodo-Ko, that’s the friend you always carry on your back, right?” Jia Changjiang eyed the plush toy strapped to Klee’s backpack. “So there’s a whole Dodo clan now? But where exactly is this Golden Apple Archipelago?”

“Klee doesn’t know!” Klee shook her head vigorously. “It’s my first time hearing about it too. Golden… Apple… Archipelago…”

“It must be an island full of apples!” she said, brimming with confidence.

“Then there must be tons of Cuihua trees!” Lumine was getting excited too.

If there’s lots of wood, then there’s lots of furniture. With more furniture, I can make my Serenitea Pot even cozier, and then I can invite more friends to hang out… My teapot’s pretty big! You can even nap there when you’re tired!

“Be serious, we’re supposed to be the responsible adults here,” Jia Changjiang chided, then turned back to Klee. “So Klee, do you think this is for real?”

“It’s real! Because Dodo-King knows all about me and Dodo-Ko! I can’t back down!” Klee pumped her little fists. “Klee has to go to the Golden Apple Archipelago!”

“But…” Paimon hesitated. “We don’t even know where that is.”

“True,” Jia Changjiang nodded. “We’ve been in Teyvat for over half a year now and never heard of the Golden Apple Archipelago…”

Hearing Paimon and Jia Changjiang, Klee turned her hopeful eyes to Lumine, the last one who hadn’t spoken: “Honorary Knight Sis, you’ll have a way, right? Klee believes in you!”

“But…” Lumine hesitated a little too.

“Please! Please, please, please—help Klee!”

“Alright! Wherever you want to go, Klee, I’ll take you!” Lumine hugged Klee tightly. “Golden Apple Archipelago, Golden Watermelon Archipelago, Golden Pineapple Archipelago—I’ll take you anywhere!”

“…Ugh,” Paimon facepalmed, exasperated.

Why is my Traveler like this…? Such a goof…

“Well, letting Klee go alone would be dangerous anyway. And since we’ve got nothing better to do, let’s just go with her,” Jia Changjiang said.

“Yay!!” Klee cheered.

Paimon sighed, resigned. “Fine… But Klee, you have to promise to be good, and don’t go running off by yourself, okay?”

“Okay~~!” Klee promised.

“Now that it’s decided, let’s get moving!” Lumine swept Klee up in her arms, kicking open the Knights’ headquarters’ front door. “Let’s start asking around for the Golden Apple Archipelago right now!”

“Let’s go!!”

“Yeah!”

…

At the doors of the Adventurers’ Guild Mondstadt branch, Jia Changjiang and the group found Cyrus right away and asked, “Cyrus, we want to ask you about a place!”

Klee looked up at Cyrus with bright, expectant eyes, as if hoping for an immediate answer.

“Looks like this little adventurer has something on her mind. Got a problem?” Cyrus greeted them with a warm laugh.

“Not really a problem,” Jia Changjiang replied. “We’re just trying to find an island that’s pretty far out, so we wanted to ask if you’ve ever heard of it…”

“Do you know the Golden Apple Archipelago?”

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