[She does sound genuinely impressed, and looks up at his horns again with a smile when he taps them. It does mean a lot to have something like this explained to her so well, and so simply, and she likes hearing stories from other countries.]
It must be hard for the blue oni to hide so well, with so many people around. [Just how would a whole group of oni just... vanish like that? Where could they even be?]
Do you have any idea where they are? Do they all live together?
They've gotta have it mastered by now, hiding from everyone.
[that's really the only explanation, and a question he didn't really think to ask Takuya at the time. Maybe it'll be one he can ask when he goes back]
Far as I know they all live together - I've got a vague idea where they are but I, uh, got arrested and couldn't go see 'em. Then some other stuff popped up and - [he's still in Liyue, as far as he knows]
[How sad... to have to hide like that, an entire people, for so long... just to keep the other half of their kind safe. And how brave, and true for them to have done it for so many years.
Hearing that he got arrested, at this point, is not actually too surprising to her and she manages to keep from smirking. Instead, she squeezes her fingers gently around his hand.]
You'll find them some day. What do you think you'll do when you get there?
[he could go on and on about how great the blue oni are, he had so much respect for them and honestly, even more after meeting Takuya despite the circumstances. Being able to tell their story to someone who cares aside from the traveler is just, really nice]
I hope so, I wanna visit when I get back to Inazuma.
. . . I, uh, I don't know what I'll do, though. Learn more about 'em? I mean, running into oni is rare as it is, even crimson oni. I asked Takuya some things, but it'd be totally different in person.
[She'd honestly love to hear it. The whole time he's been talking she's kept her hand lightly curled around his, the side of her thumb occasionally shifting back and forth across one of his fingernails, and her attention hasn't left his face for a moment.
It's true enough that she finds strength appealing, but there's something else as well. He's sweet and eager in a dorky but earnest way that she finds entirely endearing. The way he approaches everything with such energy.]
Do the crimson oni keep away from humans too? Or are there just... not that many oni?
[She doesn't know much about Inazuma but surely it isn't so big that it could hide two large groups of people like that? But then, she has heard that there are many large and deep caverns beneath all the countries of Teyvat... even with Khaenri'ah put aside.]
[he scratches a hand through his hair, face scrunched up as he thinks of how to explain it]
Not in the same way the blue oni do, nah. But there aren't too many of us, at least that I know of? I know I'm the only one running around the ports and the city.
Before Takuya, the only ones I really knew were my parents. [an easy shrug] Might be that all the crimson oni are living in different villages and I just haven't run into them.
[She does appreciate the way he's so patient in explaining all of this to her. Vennessa, though uneducated in many things, is always curious about the wider world and especially now, when she has the freedom to be curious.
And Itto is so very interesting.]
Maybe they are. Have you not travelled Inazuma very much?
[It's islands, she understands, and so not so easy to simply traverse on a whim as Mondstadt.]
My tribe used to move around a lot... though Inazuma was always out of our reach.
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[She does sound genuinely impressed, and looks up at his horns again with a smile when he taps them. It does mean a lot to have something like this explained to her so well, and so simply, and she likes hearing stories from other countries.]
It must be hard for the blue oni to hide so well, with so many people around. [Just how would a whole group of oni just... vanish like that? Where could they even be?]
Do you have any idea where they are? Do they all live together?
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[that's really the only explanation, and a question he didn't really think to ask Takuya at the time. Maybe it'll be one he can ask when he goes back]
Far as I know they all live together - I've got a vague idea where they are but I, uh, got arrested and couldn't go see 'em. Then some other stuff popped up and - [he's still in Liyue, as far as he knows]
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Hearing that he got arrested, at this point, is not actually too surprising to her and she manages to keep from smirking. Instead, she squeezes her fingers gently around his hand.]
You'll find them some day. What do you think you'll do when you get there?
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I hope so, I wanna visit when I get back to Inazuma.
. . . I, uh, I don't know what I'll do, though. Learn more about 'em? I mean, running into oni is rare as it is, even crimson oni. I asked Takuya some things, but it'd be totally different in person.
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It's true enough that she finds strength appealing, but there's something else as well. He's sweet and eager in a dorky but earnest way that she finds entirely endearing. The way he approaches everything with such energy.]
Do the crimson oni keep away from humans too? Or are there just... not that many oni?
[She doesn't know much about Inazuma but surely it isn't so big that it could hide two large groups of people like that? But then, she has heard that there are many large and deep caverns beneath all the countries of Teyvat... even with Khaenri'ah put aside.]
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[he scratches a hand through his hair, face scrunched up as he thinks of how to explain it]
Not in the same way the blue oni do, nah. But there aren't too many of us, at least that I know of? I know I'm the only one running around the ports and the city.
Before Takuya, the only ones I really knew were my parents. [an easy shrug] Might be that all the crimson oni are living in different villages and I just haven't run into them.
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And Itto is so very interesting.]
Maybe they are. Have you not travelled Inazuma very much?
[It's islands, she understands, and so not so easy to simply traverse on a whim as Mondstadt.]
My tribe used to move around a lot... though Inazuma was always out of our reach.