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Chapter 128 - Nahida, Happy Birthday

[System: Ei's livestream will now pause. Next up: Nahida, Happy Birthday.]

[Nahida: Today is indeed my birthday.]

[Paimon: Happy birthday, Nahida!]

[Ningguang: Happy birthday, Nahida.]

...

[Paimon: This system is really thoughtful. It knows today is Nahida's birthday and specially chose today to send its blessings.]

[Ningguang: I wonder what will play on my birthday.]

[Lumine: Everyone remembers the system is about sad moments, right?]

[Paimon: A knife is coming!]

On screen, a sweet and adorable young girl awoke from a flower carriage, her smile radiant and warm.

[Paimon: Nahida is so cute! And so tiny!]

[Arataki Itto: A... badminton shuttlecock?]

[Paimon: She really does look like one!]

[Yae Miko: So the Dendro Archon of Sumeru is still a child.]

[Nahida: I... I am not a child anymore...]

[Yae Miko: Then she is malnourished. She must not get enough to eat every day. The Grand Sage of Sumeru is terrible, starving our little Dendro Archon like that.]

[Nahida: I... I do not need to eat either...]

[Zhongli: The physical form of a god is tied to their power. Generally speaking, Nahida has very little power left, which is why she appears as a young child.]

[Paimon: That is the most reasonable explanation. So Nahida is the weakest of the Seven?]

[Nahida: The weakest among the Seven? That would be me.]

[Lumine: Your power will gradually return.]

"The flower carriage swayed, and Nahida opened her eyes. She said she had just dreamed that today was her birthday. In the dream, the Flower Knights and attendants found her."

The people of Sumeru reached out toward Nahida.

"Oh deity, we have finally found you. Everyone is waiting to see you."

Flowers bloomed everywhere in the streets and on the walls. People dressed in their finest clothes, dancing and singing around Nahida.

"The Sabzeruz Festival has begun. The people joyfully circled around her."

Finally, Nahida boarded the magnificent flower carriage and happily greeted everyone.

"Until Nahida boarded the flower carriage, waving goodbye to everyone."

[Yae Miko: Excellent. Grand and passionate, magnificent and solemn. As befits a deity's birthday!]

[Keqing: It rivals Liyue's Lantern Rite.]

[Yae Miko: It rivals Inazuma's festivals too.]

[Paimon: I must say, Nahida's flower carriage is truly beautiful!]

[Yae Miko: The decorations are very ornate and very exquisite.]

[Paimon: Yes, yes! Such a beautiful carriage. The people must really love her.]

The screen faded from white to black.

A listless Nahida forced her eyes open, then quickly put on a smile.

"The flower carriage swayed, and Nahida opened her eyes."

"She said she had just dreamed that today was her birthday."

On screen, Lumine, Tighnari, Cyno, and Alhaitham ran toward Nahida, reaching out their hands.

[Paimon: Lumine and I are both in there!]

[Lumine: It seems we will celebrate Nahida's birthday together.]

[Ningguang: The Traveler's hands are very beautiful.]

[Furina: That is clearly the wrong thing to focus on!]

"In the dream, the Flower Knights and attendants found her. 'Oh deity, we have finally found you. Everyone is waiting to see you.'"

Lumine and Paimon danced and sang around Nahida, joined by many happy citizens of Sumeru.

"The Sabzeruz Festival has begun. The people joyfully circled around her."

Finally, Nahida boarded a simple wooden carriage, not at all luxurious, and warmly bid farewell to everyone.

"Until Nahida boarded the flower carriage, waving goodbye to everyone."

[Keqing: Why is the carriage so much more crude in the second birthday?]

[Ningguang: The carriage is not a consumable. They could have used the same one as before.]

[Kamisato Ayaka: And there are far fewer people in Sumeru. Will the people of Sumeru no longer love Nahida in the future?]

[Nilou: We knew the Lesser Lord Kusanali existed, but we have never seen her. The Dendro Archon is this adorable?]

[Paimon: You have never seen the Dendro Archon?]

[Jean: To be honest, without this livestream, we never knew we had seen the Anemo Archon.]

[Kamisato Ayaka: Her Excellency the Shogun rarely leaves Tenshukaku. Most people in Inazuma have never seen her.]

[Paimon: I see. Not having seen one's deity is actually quite normal. Only Fontaine is different. Every person in Fontaine has seen Furina.]

[Furina: After all, I am Fontaine's biggest star!]

The screen shifted. This time, the one opening her eyes was a sorrowful Nahida. The background was filled with gray, and the voice carried pain and sadness.

"The flower carriage swayed, and Nahida opened her eyes."

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