Genshin OC Story

  In the plains of Inazuma.

  Aether is surrounded by a dozen Kairagi, he barely stood up while shielding Paimon as well. The enemy itself isn’t the strongest, but their numbers and protecting Paimon stopped Aether from even being able to land a scratch on any of them.

  “So do you give up now?” One of them spoke to Aether.

  “No way in hell.” He rose his sword with his tired arm, looking at the Kairagi’s in front of him. Thinking to himself what to do, he could maybe run away if he left Paimon, but she has been along his side since he started this journey. No, that was his answer, he will fight till the end.

  A large swing from a Kairagi comes down, Aether closes his eyes for a moment and then BOOM a loud bang right in front of him.

  He opens his eyes to see the Kairagi way back and directly in front of him, a tall man with long pinkish red hair.

  The man turned to Aether,

  “Are you okay there? Lent me lend you a hand with these idiots.”

  He looked at all Kairagi’s there and smiled, as he redrew his sword from his sheath large amount of Electro goes everywhere. His eyes filled with it as well, “It seems like I don’t warrant the same authority that I once did, what a shame, I guess that is what happens when you leave for 500 years.”

  The Kairagis looked at him with some confusion, looking at each other wondering what the hell he is talking about, regardless they ran towards this mysterious man.

  Aether looked on from the ground, they all ran it him at once, then as soon as their blades were about to connect. He almost became a ball of pure Electro and in a singular moment dashed through all of them, dropping them to the floor like flies.

  He turned back to Aether,

  “Can you stand?”

  “Yes I can, but who are you?” Aether slowly stood up and Paimon flew up from behind his. “Yeah who are you even? You appeared out of no where and slashed all those Kairagi’s like they were nothing.” Paimon is back to 100% it seems. “Not like Paimon couldn’t do it if she wanted to.”

  He laughs a bit, “You seem to be quite old the both of ya but you don’t know me.” He carefully sheaths his blade, “My name is Toshiro, and I was the guard of Ei and Makoto.”

  This mysterious Electro swordsman is revealed to be the so called guard of Ei and Makoto.

  Toshiro stretches his back out,

  “Now since I saved you, I think it is only fair if you took me out for a meal.”

  Aether chuckles,

  “Sure enough, I bet Paimon is also hungry.”

  She is just floating around the both of them,

  “You betcha, lets go have a nice meal together.”

  So they make their way into Inazuma city together and sit down to enjoy a meal.

  Aether during his meal kept looking at Toshiro, wondering what was it that he was talking about. Being the guard of Ei and Makoto as well. That would imply that he is at least over 500 years old, but that wouldn’t be too surprising, seeing as the Adepti are way older. But the thing that isn’t the thing, how would he know that the Raiden Shougun was not one person but was both Ei and Makoto.

  Paimon and Toshiro just finish their dishes.

  “You have been staring at me the whole time, what is on your mind?” Toshiro already caught onto Aether’s gaze.

  “You caught me I guess, I will come clean then, what were you talking about being the guard of Ei and….”

  Toshiro cut off his words, “Not in public, let us go over to Tenshukaku and there I can talk freely about everything. Is that okay for you?”

  Paimon gulped down, she didn’t even notice the atmosphere, Aether sighs a for moment then, “Let us go there then.”

  Thus they all head up to the Tenshukaku.

  A guard in front of the door tries to stop them,

  “Stop right there, no one is allowed to enter.”

  Toshiro begins to take out his right arm from the inside of his kimono, but Aether walks up in front of him, “It is fine, he is with us and he knows the Raiden Shougun, so it is fine.”

  He instantly fixes his posture and puts his polearm next to him perfectly upright,

  “Excuse my ignorance then, you may proceed into the Tenshukaku.”

  Toshiro says under his breath as they enter in, “It appears I hold no name here as well, this is a fresh turn of events.”

  “Ei!! We have arrived and we brought a friend along as well.” Paimon directly exclaimed as they entered. Ei turning around to be greeted by a face she hasn’t seen in a long time.

  “Is that you Toshiro?” Her voice a bit shook, Toshiro waves at her, “It is me, how long has it been Ei? 500 years already?”

  They walk up to the front of the room to where Ei is.

  “I didn’t expect to see you returning to Inazuma, have you sorted yourself out? I remember how badly you took the news of Makoto passing.” Ei unlike her stern or relaxed demeanor she was quite worried.

  Toshiro let out a light sigh,

  “It is better now, you know how much she meant to me, so after all that happened I decided to wander the world that she gave her life for. But after all this time I thought it would be a good time to return to my homeland.”

  Ei seems to be relieved to hear this, but this relief won’t last,

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  “So what is your plan now that you are ba…”

  BOOM!!!

  In an instant a portion of the wall gets blow out sending rubble everywhere.

  Toshiro drew his sword, and with a slash across the ground rose a wall of pure Electro, blocking all the incoming rubble.

  The dust clears to reveal a handful of Fatui Soldiers and in the center of them all stood someone who was dressed differently than the usual Fatui attire.

  “Who are you and what are you doing here?!” Toshiro exclaimed loudly.

  “I am going to be the next Harbinger of the Fatui as soon as I take it from this pathetic Archon.” His voice not only crude in his manor of speaking but very annoying to Toshiro.

  Around Toshiro a large aura of Electro forms,

  “First off, how dare you break the wall of the Tenshukaku.” A spark of the aura flies forward to the wall, “Second off, how dare you insult the Raiden Shougun in front of   me.” He takes a deep breath, “You are strong, right Aether? Cause I will leave the riffraff to you.”

  Letting out his breath he sheaths his sword, “And lastly, you as such a filthy thing should not be in here, so how about we step out for a bit.”

  The aura around him gathers as he grips his sword, the so called wannabe Harbinger looks at Toshiro,

  “You really think you can beat me, you aren’t even strong…” in the instant he says that, Toshiro closes the distance, running the hilt of his sword into his abdomen and launches them both out of the Tenshukaku and directly into the area in front of Chinju Forest.

  “Okay now that we are out in the open, how about you take out weapon and if I were you, I wouldn’t be frugal with your delusion either.” Toshiro pointed the sword towards him, “You insulted my Archon, you should be ready to carry the consequences of that action.”

  “Hahahaha, I still don’t know who you think you are but I am someone nominated to be a Harbinger the Pierro himself, all I need to do is get the filthy Gnosis and I will be promoted.” He draws his sword in response to Toshiro, his vision of Pyro lights up.

  “SO GET OUT OF MY DAMN WAY!” He lunges at Toshiro.

  Toshiro smiles, intercepting his blade, the clash launches him back but Toshiro stands unaffected.

  “Like I said, use your Delusion, you are too weak without it.” This time Toshiro goes on the offensive.

  Each of his strikes sends Electro into the air, the latter barely blocking any of the attacks striking him. His breath starts getting heavy and his blocking slows down, in that moment Toshiro slashes his cheek and kicks him to the ground.

  “Come on, get up.” he drives his foot down into his abdomen, “Is this all you have? I thought you were nominated to be a Harbinger, was that all bullshit?”

  He stomps once again into his abdomen. The wannabe Harbinger is now pissed, the Delusion begins to glow brightly, it was an Anemo one. And with a gust of Anemo he sends Toshiro flying back.

  “Now you have done it, you wanna die so badly, then I’ll help you with it.” Not only his Delusion but his vision light up. He swings widely with his blade, sending a slash of Anemo infused with Pyro at Toshiro.

  Toshiro smiles, raising another wall of Electro, “That is more like it, using both might give you a chance.”

  They close the distance between then in an instant, their blades clashing, each creating an overloaded shockwave around them. Toshiro though seemed to be enjoying this now, not going in with any intent behind his blade.

  Meanwhile the other going in with full intent to kill Toshiro.

  “So what is your story, why are you fighting?”

  “Shut up and fight, you don’t have the option of making small talk.”

  Toshiro pushes him away, “Oh come on, what seems to be the problem, you are demanding a lot even though you are quite a weakling.”

  He struck a nerve, the attack of the wannabe Harbinger become more vicious, “WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW?! DON’T YOU JUDGE ME.”

  Back in the Tenshukaku.

  Aether and Ei took care of the random soldiers.

  “Ei can I ask you something?” Aether has grown curios about Toshiro at this point, he was never mentioned by anyone, but there we has fighting so strongly.

  “What is it Aether?” Ei responded.

  “Who is Toshiro, he doesn’t seem like a normal person.”

  Ei let out a sigh, “Since you are involved already, I might as well tell you who Toshiro is.”

  “Toshiro is what in Liyue you would consider an Adeptus. It was around 700 years ago, Inazuma was being attacked by an unusual amount of Rift Hounds and such. In that time both me and Makoto took direct action to minimize the damage they would cause. But still they attacked many villages, killing many people, one such village was Toshiro’s village. By the time Makoto arrived the village was already ravaged, leaving no one but him. So Makoto brought the young boy back to the Tenshukaku. But unlike she planned the boy wanted to stay and learn how to use a sword and not be weak anymore. And so the time flew by until the boy was an adult, so as Makoto as a gift granted him a portion of her own power, making him unaging in the process. He swore to me and Makoto to protect us in anyway he can, no matter what. And so more and more time passed, he went into battle by our sides, he even took care of some major things himself.

  But then the incident at Khaenri'ah happened, and thus Makoto’s death as well. When I came back to Inazuma and told him, the light in him faded away, Makoto, the person who he looked up to, the person who saved him and the person who gave him everything. Now dead. Without much time for me to tell him to stop, he left Inazuma on that day, ever since then he hadn’t appeared till today.”

  Aether looked shocked, he expected a connection, but not such a deep connection,

  “Wow, though it does seem like he hasn’t gotten over what has happened.”

  Ei puts her hand on her head,

  “I doubt it, he is the type to not show his true colors, but that Fatui member is not gonna get away.”

  “Why do you say that?”

  “It is simple, he insulted the Raiden Shougun, that is why.”

  Back at Toshiro’s fight.

  “You ask what I know? Oh little boy, I know way more than you could imagine.” Toshiro’s attacks grow more and more vicious, “I have been around longer than you can think of.” He instantly sheaths his sword in the blink of an eye unsheathes it, driving the sword across his chest. “And I have lost more than you can think of.”

  Toshiro pushes him to the ground, then impaling his shoulder.

  “Now let us get to some questions, if you comply I might keep your arm on your body, okay?”

  “YES! I will tell you anything.”

  “Oh wow so easy, I thought you would put up more of a fight. So let us start, why are you here?”

  “I was sent here by the Tsaritsa…” Toshiro flows Electro down his blade into the wound.

  “Don’t lie to me, not even for a moment, if you do, I will overflow your body with Electro.”

  “OKAY! I was told by Pierro that he got a message from the Balladeer that the Raiden Shougun took back her gnosis.”

  “What else aren’t you telling me?”

  “Nothing I swear, that is all I was told, just leave me be now…” Another pulse of Electro goes down the sword.

  “What. Else. Is. There.”

  “Pierro was planning to have me kill the Shougun if possible, but I swear on my life, that is all I know.”

  Toshiro pull out the bloody blade from his shoulder, “I see, then thank you.” he sheaths the blade, “You can go now, but let me tell you this, you are lucky, if this was 500 years ago, for that insult I would’ve killed you.”

  He looks onto Toshiro’s back, and gulps, thinking “500 years ago? What did I pick a fight with.”

  Toshiro draws a large breath, realling back, then in a moment becomes a dash of bright Electro, instantly appearing before Ei and Aether.

  “Yo.”

  The Tenryou commission came in shortly after to clean up the mess that was made and to lock up the Fatui that were there. Aether also left there after to head off to complete some commissions, leaving Toshiro and Ei alone.

  Toshiro lets out a sharp breath, cutting the silence,

  “I am sorry Ei, I left and thus neglected what I swore to you and Makoto. I am willing to take any punishment that you are to give me.” his voice trembles as he speaks to Ei.

  Ei notices how much he was holding back what he truly wanted to say, she reached out her hands and hugged Toshiro, “I know that you are hiding what you truly feel, but there is no need, Makoto would’ve told you the same thing.”

  Toshiro finally sheds a tear and begins to cry,

  “I am sorry Ei, I am sorry that I hid. After Makoto’s death I didn’t know what I could do anymore, I thought the world would fall apart. So I ran away, ran all over Teyvat, trying to forget what happened, but I can’t.”

  Ei brushes over his head,

  “Toshiro I know, I know what you mean but that was what happened, neither you nor I had any control over it. The best we can do is honor Makoto in our hearts as much as we can.”

  He gets out of Ei’s hug and wipes away his tears,

  Slowly collecting himself, “You are right Ei, I shouldn’t sully her name anymore by crying. From now on I will face it head on.”