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Father's day, a significant day of June which was celebrated in Mondstadt. Not all of them celebrate such day yet banners strung up high in a big writing of discount, Flora's stall getting a lot of customer, and a few workers asking to go home early.
Once upon a time, Diluc might have also bought a beautiful bouquet for his dad from Flora's store because he had no time to pick fresh flowers or made a breakfast for him. After his return to Mondstadt, he was also busy but no longer as busy as before.
So the morning was spent in near Wolvendom, strolling around plucking stray Blue Grass Flower. When he had a handful, he went back to the Winery.
On the way, he heard a nearby shout and panicked yell for help. Diluc quickly observed his surrounding, relying mostly to his hearing to search for the source. He had took a left and found two young boys running towards him, two mitachurls and 6 hilicurls coming after them. Both were familiar so Diluc could recognize the unruly kept gray hair and the same pyro vision with bandana on his arm. He came out in the middle of the street slowly as not to startle both kids, then he readied his weapon.
"Mr. Diluuuuuuuuuccc, help!"
Bennett shouted while running. Behind him was Razor who looked somehow worse than his umlucky friend. His clothe was torned and with a single glance, Diluc could see that he was limping. There were lots of cuts and bruises on both boys and he didn't like it.
"Hide behind me!" Diluc had shouted. After the boys ran passed him, he swung his claymore, sending a humongous fire phoenix towards the mitachurls and hilichurls. In a minute, there was none left.
"Are you-"
Diluc was unprepared for the sudden hug from Bennett. The boy was crying to his jacket. Behind him, Razor also had a kicked-puppy face but obviously trying to hide his injuries from him.
After a few mili seconds, Diluc slowly returned the hug, patting the boy in the head while murmuring words of encouragement. Then another force stroke him from side and watched as the wolf boy he had been housing for a while was hugging him as well. A little bit confused mixed with embarrasment, Diluc took his right hand from Benett's head and placed it onto Razor's dirty and a little coarse head.
A couple of minutes later, both boys finally let him go, leaving Diluc's hand stranding on air. Noticing this, Diluc quickly took back his hands to his side.
"What were you doing in here?"
Razor's eyes met Bennett for a second before the fiery boy clenched Diluc's arm.
"It's...it's my fault...." He started "I want to give my dads flowers and asked Razor to come with me...b-but-we accidentally come into hilichurls camp...."
Diluc nodded. Even before he had Razor in the Winery, he had always heard about a boy with creepling misfortune around him. He didn't need to ask his informant to know the identity of said person.
"If you want to pluck flowers next time, ask me or Aether to accompany you, alright?"
It's better if he come along, it might be a good practice after all.
"You will?"
Bennett asked in a daze. This poor kid, Diluc thought, nobody wanted to offer an adventure invitation because of his own misery.
"I will. Just let me know a few days ahead so I can prepare"
He would need a rope (wouldn't it break suddenly? Maybe two?), A utility knife (in case his claymore broke into thousand pieces, a lighter (worst case his vision would be taken), and perhaps snacks (they wouldn't get any hunt, he presumed), and many others.
"Thank you so much! I will be sure to do that!"
Diluc hummed absent mindedly.
Then he glanced to Razor. The boy was clutching the tree bark near him. Diluc let Bennett go, the boy went unreluctantly, and knelt down with his back to Razor.
"I know you leg is injured, climb my back, I will carry you"
Clearly Razor was very hesitant. Bennett beside him pushed his friend to Diluc's back. Then Diluc felt small hands clutching onto his shoulders. He flinched a but from Razor's long nails digging into his skin. He was going to cut it by the time they come home.
After Razor was settled on his back, they started to walk along the path to Dawn Winery. Bennett rambled to fill the silence and Diluc grunted occasionally or ask for more information.
By the time they arrived, there were leaves on Diluc's hair but fresh plucked flowers on Razor's bag. Diluc forgot about his own bouquet so he had to pick flowers as well however when they gotten near the flowers, hilichurls spotted them. They had to duck into nearby bushes. A few of those flowers also turned out to be whopperflowers and so on.
Adelinde fussed as soon as she opened the door to greet them. Before ordered by his own maid to take a bath, Diluc told her to cut Razor's nails.
They met them again in the dining room, freshly showered and munching foods. There were 3 maids in the room to ensure Bennett's unfortunate trait didn't went wild. Diluc was glad to see their injuries already covered by bandages and salves.
After having some lunch, they walked to the capital. While Razor and Bennett went to Barbara first before giving flowers around, Diluc went straight to the cemetery.
He searched for his father's and quite surprised to find a beautiful Calla Lilies bouquet. A small smile painted his face.
When he went back, he didn't forget to wait in front of the Knight`s Headquarter to wait for the Cavalry Captain and take him to dinner with the rest of the kids later on. If he also gained a bouquet of sweet flowers and a plate of charred fried egg and hash brown, let`s just say that both served well as an appetizer tonight.