#elemental skill

Just like the rest of Liyue, you also had absolute faith in his Universal Diagnosis and Holistic Revivification but you don't fall ill so offen. You accompany the little children who's parents are too busy in their pursue of earning money in the harbour. Baizhu loves your little visits to bubu pharmacy, where you'll drop the kid off, talk to Qiqi, talk to Baizhu about the children's medication and take them back. He wishes to have a proper conversation with you but you don't seem to stay around.

Your head hurts. Suddenly from 2-3 days it started hurting in waves. Yesterday the pain was too much, so much so that you couldn't keep your eyes open and had to lie down.

"Dr Baizhu I took the medicine you gave yet I don't feel better. I hope it's not something bad." Baizhu places his hands under your chin and lifts it up to meet your eyes. "Don't fret dear, you can trust my Herbal Nourishment. You'll be fine in no time." So trust you did.

He treated you with utmost love and care, both medically and personally. But you noticed one thing. The more you went to Baizhu, the more.....'bizzare' your symptoms became. Symptoms that when others experienced, Baizhu would send them home with medications, but he asked you to stay with him, 'to keep an eye on you' he says

You lay on his bed, your body's temperature as high as humanly possible. It is becoming difficult for you to breath through your nose, the sound of you panting desperately for air filling the room. " Issssn't it wrong of you to keep this human conssssently ill" you could here the snake around his neck speak up. "Ah no worries, I will make sure their condition doesn't worsen, yet they are obliged to be under my care. After all the first they'll do when they wake is go back home. Now we can't have that can't we" Your head hurt too much to focus too well on his words, yet you still managed to crack open your eyes look up at him, seeing his Attentive Observation on you, a delightful smile on his face.

I have been literally watching this for an hour now...

As he walks through the corridors of the Akademiya, his Invoker's spear in hand, the researchers and scholars bow down slightly to show respect. As the General Mahamatra, it is his duty to lead the Matra and discipline those who go against the Akademiya's rules.

You were a scholar too. But one can say that the two of you were almost.....friends. Almost. Acquaintance would be a better word. The TCG tournament allowed the two of you to exchange pleasantries in between rounds. He was a lawful enforcer, the one that held authority over the nine bows. But you did not see it that way. For you, he was just Cyno, a fellow TCG player. It was weird at first that even outside of a tournament setting you could be slightly frank with him, shocking your colleagues and Cyno himself.

He was interested in talking to you about more than just TCG and research and he even made an effort not to include his jokes in your conversations. But one day he was eavesdropping on your conversation with one of your colleagues did he finally understand the motive behind you getting close to him.

"Oh don't worry I'll talk Cyno out of suspending you from the Akademiya. He likes me he'll definitely listen to me"

Oh but that's not how it's gonna work. You must recieve punishment for even thinking that you can take advantage of him.

So with a Wolf's Swiftness, he began making arrangements for your punishment. Surely this will make you realise the consequences of you leading him on.

"On the accounts of plagiarism and delibrate destruction of another scholar's research, you are hereby suspended from the Sumeru Akademiya"

You couldn't help but be dumfounded. How did this happen??

"My research is 100% original. I have given credits where I did not cite my own data and I did not destroy anyone's work!! These are false accusations" right at that moment Cyno walks in and you felt relieved. He will surely get you out of this mess. "Unfortunately for you these are not false accusations, I have confirmed them myself. Please collect your belongings and empty your allotted room"

"But this is not fair where will I live Cy-"

"You have three days. Meeting dismissed"

With tear filled eyes you look back at the Akademiya that you so loved and wished to go back, but now you'll never be able to step foot again. With nowhere to go and stay, you went on your way to another nation.

Cyno looks at you from the window. He truly wished things could become more romantic between you two but your corrupt ways had to be corrected. He cannot allow Sumeru scholars to behave like this. Others got to know about your friendship with him, he could not let others think about being friends with people in the Matra to gain an advantage, so he delibrately suspended you.