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Chapter 397 Farewell to Childhood · Oct 31, 2026

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352 Chapter 352: The Show Begins! 2026-10-31
353 Chapter 353: Xiao’s Day of Tribulation 2026-10-31
354 Chapter 354: What Bad Things to Say with Xiao 2026-10-31
355 Chapter 355: Discussing Heroes Over Brewed Wine 2026-10-31
356 Chapter 356: Fooling the Silliest One 2026-10-31
357 Chapter 357: Barbara Fainted 2026-10-31
358 Chapter 358: Journey Through The Chasm 2026-10-31
359 Chapter 359: Katarina 2026-10-31
360 Chapter 360: Rare Positive Image of the Fatui 2026-10-31
361 Chapter 361: Paid Content for the Fatui 2026-10-31
362 Chapter 362: Lyudmila 2026-10-31
363 Chapter 363: Requiem of the Echoing Depths 2026-10-31
364 Chapter 364: Flee Quickly 2026-10-31
365 Chapter 365: A Man’s Promise 2026-10-31
366 Chapter 366: To this day, I am proud of you all. 2026-10-31
367 Chapter 367: Perilous Trail 2026-10-31
368 Chapter 368: Yelan’s Entrance 2026-10-31
369 Chapter 369: What Is Yelan’s Identity? 2026-10-31
370 Chapter 370: Within the Underground Palace 2026-10-31
371 Chapter 371: Lies Don’t Hurt 2026-10-31
372 Chapter 372: Ushi 2026-10-31
373 Chapter 373: Ghosts Fear Ghosts 2026-10-31
374 Chapter 374: Where’s the Geo Archon? Save Us! 2026-10-31
375 Chapter 375: This Boss’s Butt Is Amazing! 2026-10-31
376 Chapter 376: The Room That Brings Fear 2026-10-31
377 Chapter 377: Imagining Xiao’s Peerless Beauty 2026-10-31
378 Chapter 378: Battle-Worn Xiao 2026-10-31
379 Chapter 379: What If This Is a Will? 2026-10-31
380 Chapter 380: Super Oni Punch 2026-10-31
381 Chapter 381: I Understand the Logic, But Why Is It So Big? 2026-10-31
382 Chapter 382: Three Letters 2026-10-31
383 Chapter 383: Boyang’s Letter 2026-10-31
384 Chapter 384: Elevator, Activate 2026-10-31
385 Chapter 385: A Glimpse of a Hem 2026-10-31
386 Chapter 386: Escaping to the Heavens 2026-10-31
387 Chapter 387: The Five Yakshas 2026-10-31
388 Chapter 388: Yaksha · Family 2026-10-31
389 Chapter 389: A Fleeting Life, Forsaking All 2026-10-31
390 Chapter 390: Heroes of the World, Never Strangers 2026-10-31
391 Chapter 391 Papilio Charontis Chapter 2026-10-31
392 Chapter 392 Second Tablet Half Price 2026-10-31
393 Chapter 393 Promoting Another ’Home’ 2026-10-31
394 Chapter 394 Granny Yama 2026-10-31
395 Chapter 395 An Unheard Flower Name 2026-10-31
396 Chapter 396 Psychologist 2026-10-31
397 Chapter 397 Farewell to Childhood 2026-10-31
398 Chapter 398 Breaking Free from the Shackles of the Past 2026-10-31
399 Chapter 399 Hu Tao’s Story Ends, Hu Tao’s Story Begins 2026-10-31
400 Chapter 400 Little Hu Tao 2026-10-31

The illustration focuses on ’Big G,’ who is a child, looking about ten years old.

Arataki Itto sucks in a sharp breath. It really appeared! A translucent ghost!

Fortunately, it’s not the kind that suddenly pops up to scare people, nor is there any atmospheric buildup, so Itto isn’t too frightened.

Not only is he not scared, but seeing that ’Big G’ is a child tightens his heart. This kid passed away so young…

Arataki Itto’s emotions are quite delicate; he’s already starting to feel upset.

Readers are surprised but quickly realize: Right, ’Big G’ passed away in childhood, so it makes sense he’s in a child’s form.

Because of the name ’Big G,’ everyone subconsciously assumed he was older than Old Meng, so they were a bit shocked at first glance to see Big G as a child.

Paimon, like everyone else, is misled by the name. The difference is that others figure it out, but she doesn’t.

[”Paimon: ’He’s Big G? Why is he a kid?!’”]

[”Hu Tao explains: ’Because he’s a ghost, naturally he retains the appearance he had back then.’”]

Hu Tao’s explanation helps some still-confused little Paimons catch up.

Everyone brings ’Big G’ back to the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor to discuss what to do next.

The reason ’Big G’ appeared here is simply that he wanted to visit his friends in Liyue Harbor. However, he’s terrible with directions and got lost.

This shows that being directionally challenged is a soul-bound trait. Even after death, a directionally challenged person remains so.

A lifetime of being directionally challenged means being directionally challenged for this entire life.

[”Paimon, puzzled: ’But don’t ghosts and spirits usually fly? If he just flew up, wouldn’t he find his way?’”]

Yet, in Lucian’s illustration, the only one floating in the scene is Paimon. As a ghost, Big G is standing firmly on the ground.

He’s afraid of heights and doesn’t dare fly up to see where he is, so he just follows that person named Luo Cheng.

See that? Fear of heights is also soul-bound, a fear rooted deep in the soul.

So, it turns out Luo Cheng’s issue wasn’t entirely psychological self-scaring. There really was a ghost following him. For him to sense it, you could say he’s got high spiritual sensitivity.

Luckily, Luo Cheng didn’t go to Chongyun. With Chongyun’s pure yang constitution, if ’Big G’ didn’t flee, he might have been purified on the spot.

But if he did flee, being directionally challenged, he’d probably get completely lost in Liyue Harbor. Maybe one day he’d end up in a ’deep, soulful gaze’ with Zhongli.

After all, Zhongli’s also a slacker who wanders aimlessly, not much different from the lost, wandering ’Big G.’

In the end, ’Big G’ is just a kid—a kid who gets lost and is afraid of heights, completely at odds with the name ’Big G.’

[”Traveler says: ’Let’s not call him ”Big G” anymore.’”]

But if not Big G, they don’t know what to call him. Surely not ’Puppy,’ right?

Big G is very timid. After arriving in Liyue Harbor, he spent most of his time hiding until he was drawn out by the Ley Line Monolith, which is how he met Hu Tao and the others.

[”Old Meng sighs: ’So you didn’t turn into a malevolent ghost. That’s great, really great…’”]

Indeed, he hasn’t turned into a malevolent ghost. He’s completely a scaredy-cat.

But no one would mock his timidity, as he’s just too young.

Now, the task is to send ’Big G’ back to Wuwang Hill, but they can’t let his trip be in vain.

Hu Tao decides to bring along items from Big G’s friends for this farewell ceremony—not the friends themselves, but their ’mementos.’

Hu Tao still doesn’t want ordinary people to have too much contact with ’that world.’

Unfortunately, she entrusted the wrong person. The Traveler is great at fighting, but asking her to discreetly obtain someone’s ’memento’ is a bit challenging.

It’s not Lumine’s fault—it’s mainly because she has a ’big megaphone’ by her side.

[”Paimon to Xiao Wu: ’Mhm, we heard about it. So, let’s say, if you were to pick a memento to give to Big G, what would you choose?’”]

[”’Just hypothetically, just an example, absolutely not like we’re actually going to commemorate him.’”]

With Paimon’s level of ’hinting,’ anyone who isn’t a fool would see through it.

In the previous story, even Arataki Itto could see through Paimon’s lies at a glance.

Xiao Wu doesn’t call Paimon out. He says that for himself, he’d make a ’Tender Pepper Chicken,’ a dish that requires Jueyun Chilis. He asks the Traveler to fetch some.

The Traveler doesn’t even need to fetch them because her inventory is full of random stuff like this. She can easily find a couple of Jueyun Chilis.

Besides, Zhongli once gave Lumine a birthday gift—yup, Jueyun Chilis.

She thought it was a stingy gift at the time, but now she realizes this is ’the most useful episode of Zhongli’s gifts.’ The Geo Archon’s actions surely have deep meaning!

From Paimon’s words, Xiao Wu has already guessed the Traveler’s purpose, so he tells her to go find the others first, and he’ll prepare the dish and bring it over soon.

[”Paimon, confused: ’(Huh? How did he know?)’”]

Yeah, how did he know? Even Arataki Itto is puzzled.

Without his ’beast intuition’ triggered by being tricked, his brain capacity isn’t quite up to the task.

The second person the Traveler finds is Mumu. When he sees the Traveler and hears her mention ’Old Meng,’ he guesses the reason. Truly a sharp merchant.

The ’memento’ he provides is a deluxe toy box.

When they were kids, everyone wanted one but couldn’t afford it. Now that he can afford it, he bought dozens at once, but they rarely gather together anymore.

It’s like when you were a kid, you wanted game skins or figurines but couldn’t afford them. As an adult, you splurge to make up for it.

But when you check your friends list, you find your friends haven’t been online in ages, and you don’t know who to ’show off’ your figurines or skins to.

The last person the Traveler needs to find is Congzi, who arranged to meet Mumu at the ’Sky Corridor.’

When the Traveler arrives, Xiao Wu, Mumu, and Congzi are all gathered together.

The three of them often meet like this because their hometown was destroyed. Without a hometown, they can only gather with people from their hometown.

The ’memento’ Congzi prepares is a Xiao Lantern with the names of the five written inside.

Having collected the three mementos, the Traveler heads to Wuwang Hill to find Hu Tao.

[”Hu Tao says bluntly: ’Paimon, you didn’t spill the beans, did you?’”]

Of course! Who do you think Paimon is? She spilled the beans with her very first sentence! Proudly!

You’ve got to hand it to Hu Tao for reading people well—she knew right away that Paimon would leak.

But it doesn’t matter. They were willing to provide the mementos, so they probably guessed something. Whether it was leaked or not isn’t a big deal, as long as they didn’t follow along.

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Character Voice Line · Lucian: About Hu Tao

”She asked me to write a story for her, but when I did, she wasn’t happy.”

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