Chapter 222: The Dim Vision

Lumine feelings were very complicated. She patted the Yin-Yang Disc.

"Qiu Bai."

Lumine looked at the Yin-Yang Disc in her hand and spoke with a heavy tone.

"Ah..."

On the other side, Qiu Bai looked at the Yin-Yang Disc in his hand, closed his eyes slightly, and pondered for a moment.

"Excuse me for a moment, Lady Guuji."

After a while, Qiu Bai slowly opened his eyes, looked at Miko before him, and spoke.

Then Qiu Bai form flickered, and he transformed into the appearance of Morcius.

"Hmm..."

"Why are you changing into the form of a god?"

Yae Miko looked at Qiu Bai who had transformed into the divine form before her and asked with surprise.

Morcius had his back to the Guuji and did not speak.

He simply shook his head and then disappeared.

"Lumine, what the matter?"

Morcius appeared behind Lumine and asked calmly.

"Qiu Bai!"

"Quick, save Teppei! He used the Delusion and is about to die!"

Paimon looked at Qiu Bai who suddenly appeared and said with a trembling voice.

"Qiu Bai..."

"You should have a way, right?"

Lumine expression was very sad, one hand covering her chest, looking at Morcius before her, speaking somewhat pleadingly.

"Hmm..."

Morcius turned around and looked at Teppei, who was sitting on the ground with white hair and a face full of wrinkles.

He remained silent for a while.

His brows furrowed slightly, his gaze carrying some complexity.

"I'm sorry."

"I cannot save him..."

Morcius closed his eyes slightly, and after a long while, spoke faintly.

"Why not?!"

"Don't you have the ability to revive people and restore them?!"

Paimon looked at Qiu Bai refusal, widened her eyes, and said loudly.

She couldn't believe these words came from Qiu Bai mouth.

Came from the mouth of their familiar, kind, yet somewhat improper Qiu Bai.

"Qiu Bai, why?"

"Why can't you save Teppei?"

Lumine looked at Qiu Bai speaking with such an indifferent tone, and at this moment, she didn't understand why Qiu Bai had become so cold.

"I know, but I'm very sorry."

"Lumine, I cannot save him."

Morcius turned around, looked at Lumine before him, and spoke with a somewhat complex tone.

"Why?!"

"Qiu Bai, do you also have difficulties like Zhongli?"

Paimon, anxious to the point of almost tears, looked at Qiu Bai before her and asked anxiously.

"..."

Morcius heard this, sighed, and looked toward Teppei who was sitting on the ground.

"Lumine, Paimon, do you remember?"

"A sentence I said at Gorou camp."

Morcius turned around, looking at Lumine and Paimon with complex expressions, and asked.

"Any power comes with its price."

"The price is that I will no longer help them recover from injuries."

Morcius looked at Lumine and Paimon before him and said.

"But..."

"But Teppei, he!"

Lumine looked at Morcius before her, wanting to say something more.

"The power of the Delusion strengthened many resistance fighters."

"The resistance fighters, because of this, killed a greater number of Shogunate soldiers on the battlefield."

Morcius interrupted Lumine and murmured.

"This war, was originally..."

"A war caused by the Fatui, the upper echelons of the Tenryou Commission, and the Vision Hunt Decree."

"The Shogunate soldiers below are just doing their jobs, there was never a right or wrong."

Morcius looked in the direction of Inazuma City.

"Every Shogunate soldier also has a family, also has a wife and children..."

"They are like Teppei, or perhaps there are those who are even more miserable than him."

At this point, Morcius looked toward Teppei and slowly spoke.

"The power of the Delusion allowed the resistance to win several battles at a cost."

"But the same cost is their lives..."

Morcius closed his eyes slightly and said.

"But Teppei is our friend!"

Paimon looked at Morcius before her and cried.

"Friend..."

"He is indeed our friend, but likewise, I respect his choice."

Morcius opened his eyes, looked at Teppei sitting on the ground, and spoke with a somewhat complex gaze.

"Having his own dreams and pursuits, willing to sacrifice himself to protect his teammates."

"Teppei determination and wish to abolish the Vision Hunt Decree is no less than anyone else."

Morcius turned around, looking at Lumine and Paimon before him, and said.

"But people like him, without a Vision, are really too small."

"He chose to burn his life for a brief radiance."

"But similarly, people like Teppei in the resistance, even in the entire Teyvat, are not few."

Morcius looked at Teppei sitting on the ground and slowly spoke.

"But this does not represent the Fatui exploitation and contempt for the lives of others."

"These small but pure souls are equally worthy of respect."

Morcius closed his eyes slightly and murmured.

"The Fatui..."

Lumine gripped her hand tightly and said angrily.

Then she ran outside, and Paimon, with tearful eyes, looked at Morcius once, and then flew away following Lumine.

"Sigh..."

Morcius opened his eyes, sighed with a complex expression.

Then he looked again at Teppei sitting on the ground.

"Teppei, huh?"

Morcius murmured, his eyes somewhat complex.

An ordinary person, with ambition, with dreams, with the pursuit of glory, with the determination to protect everything.

But he was too mediocre, his power too weak, without a Vision.

Nor did he have abilities like Lumine, who could control the elements without a Vision.

But despite being so ordinary, he still moved forward.

Walking toward his dream, doing his utmost to protect everything he wanted to protect.

But did he regret it?

I think he doesn't regret it, because he pursued power and glory that he couldn't achieve before.

Protecting things he wanted to protect before but couldn't.

His wish was not for a Vision.

But to abolish the Vision Hunt Decree...

Even when in the end, Lumine faced the Raiden Shogun alone, the wishes of countless Inazuman people echoed in Lumine heart.

"Hope to abolish the Vision Hunt Decree."

In the end, standing with Lumine in her heart was Teppei.

Lumine viewed Teppei from the perspective of a friend.

While Qiu Bai looked at the issue from the perspective of a god.

If Teppei were to be given a Vision and revived, then what about the casualties of the Shogunate army, and their wives and children after their sacrifice?

"A god?"

"Am I now a human or a god?"

Morcius looked at Teppei sitting on the ground with increasingly weak breathing and murmured.

"Would the former me have considered so much?"

Morcius looked at the birds flying in the high sky with a complex expression and said.

"Ah..."

Morcius shook his head and left.

In the process of leaving, Morcius form changed back to Qiu Bai.

And Teppei sitting there, with white hair, wrinkled face, and gradually diminishing breath.

Suddenly...

Teppei felt a warm sensation in his chest.

It was a Vision, an Inazuman Vision shell, with a Taiji mark in the center of the Vision.

The yin and yang within were now emitting dazzling light and constantly rotating.

"This is..."

Teppei used all his strength to slightly open his eyelids, vaguely seeing the floating Vision before him.

"I... finally, have been..."

Teppei, with blurry eyes, looked at the floating Vision before him and murmured with difficulty.

Having used all his strength to say this sentence, he slowly closed his eyes.

After a while, the Vision also lost its light, turned dim gray, and fell onto Teppei stomach...

"Sigh..."

Qiu Bai sighed with complexity and continued walking forward.

Perhaps, maybe even Qiu Bai himself didn't know.

Why he changed from the once being an otaku who called everyone "waifu" to what he is now...

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