Akira and Chisato spent a long time handling official business.
"While handling official business today, I realized just how poor Inazuma is now, and how many places it uses Mora." Akira sighed, "Closed-door policy, stagnant and complacent."
"As the Miko said, eternity means never losing what you already have, but also losing the possibility of acquiring new things." Akira sighed, "For a country that needs to develop, this is simply a devastating blow."
"It's alright." Hiiragi Chisato stretched and said, "We are not afraid of any difficulties. We will develop even if we are poor. We are together. Inazuma and his subjects are now of one mind. It will only take some time to develop."
"Yes." Akira nodded, a smile appearing on his lips. His arrival was enough to save Inazuma from his past suffering.
He will also do his best to save the Yaksha Sage of Liyue, Focalors of Fontaine, and the Great Tree King of Sumeru. He has long wanted to make amends for the unresolved issues of the past.
Not long after, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Hiiragi Chisato quickly got down from Akira's arms, sat down to the side, and said, "Come in!"
A military officer who was in charge of investigations entered, bowed respectfully, and said, "My lord, officer in charge of investigations, we have found the contraband Void Terminals brought by the Sumeru Scholar. There are as many as 3,200 of them. They have now been sealed in the officer in charge of investigations' warehouse."
"Three thousand two hundred!!!" Hiiragi Chisato's eyes widened, and she gritted her teeth as she said, "These bastards! They deserve to die!"
If she was unaware of this, and had actually purchased this batch of Void, it would definitely have been allocated to Inazuma officials first. Even if she wasn't controlled, what about the others?
That damned Sumeru Order Institute—doesn't that mean they control the entire Inazuma leadership? How many Inazuma secrets will be stolen? And Inazuma will fall under Sumeru's control again!
"Fight! We must fight! These bastards!" Hiiragi Chisato slammed his fist on the table in anger, pointing at Sumeru on the map and saying, "Do they really think I, Inazuma, am weak and easy to bully? To do such a despicable thing!"
"Take us to the warehouse," Akira said calmly. "Where are those scholars who were arrested this morning?"
"My lord, they are currently being held in our detention center. The Heavenly Commander has already sent someone to take them over, and judging by the time, they should be arriving soon," the samurai replied.
"Okay." Akira stood up and looked at Hiiragi Chisato, saying, "Let's go, let's go to the warehouse and check the Void Terminals."
"Okay." Hiiragi Chisato calmed her anger, nodded, and followed the Kanjo Magistrate Samurai out of the office with Akira.
Soon, the three arrived at the warehouse, where many samurai were patrolling and inspecting the area due to the presence of contraband.
"My Lord! Lord of Investigation!" Upon seeing Akira and Chisato arrive, the samurai bowed repeatedly.
Akira nodded and led Chisato into the warehouse containing the sealed void terminal.
"..." Looking at the warehouse full of Void Terminals packed in wooden crates, Hiiragi Chisato sighed.
Akira stepped forward, picked up a void terminal and examined it. In Akira's vision, there seemed to be a faint green light connecting to Sumeru overseas.
"Is this the power of the Grass God?" Akira's eyes turned slightly cold. Everyone said that the Grass God was weak in combat, but this kind of power that could communicate with the deepest level of consciousness was definitely one of the top powers in Teyvat.
Akira directly used his consciousness power, and with a light tap, a crimson power directly invaded the void terminal. Immediately afterwards, he heard what seemed to be a painful wail coming from the void terminal.
"Huh? What's wrong, Master?" Hiiragi Chisato naturally heard the wail and asked in confusion.
"It's just a punishment for the person in charge of managing this," Akira sneered. "Soul shattered, consciousness disrupted, in short, he's become mentally disabled."
"He deserves to be punished like this," Chisato snorted.
"Unfortunately, all of this void here is controlled by this person, so it can only annoy him." Akira shook his head and said, "I'm too lazy to even check if he's a great sage or not."
Meanwhile, in Sumeru, in an office of the Pure Goodness Palace, an old man with gray hair suddenly screamed in pain, clutching his head and rolling on the ground in agony.
"What's wrong, Sage?" The soldiers of the thirty-man regiment heard the old man's wailing and ran in.
When they saw the sage rolling on the ground, their expressions changed drastically, and they quickly ran over to try to help him up.
When they helped the sage up, they were startled and threw him back to the ground.
The sage's eyes, nose, mouth, and ears were all bleeding profusely, making him look like a demon.
"Ah~" The sage was still wailing in pain, and the thirty soldiers were helpless, so they could only report to the great sage through the void.
Inazuma, Akira led Chisato out of the warehouse, and with a gentle wave of his hand, a golden barrier instantly enveloped the entire warehouse.
"I have sealed off this warehouse. No one is allowed to approach it," Akira said to the warriors. "You send two people to guard this place and prevent civilians from accidentally entering and harming innocent people."
"Understood, my lord." The warrior nodded.
At that moment, another samurai ran over and reported, "My lord! The Commissioner of Investigation! The Commissioner of Heavenly Territory has arrived."
"Sara has come in person?" Akira and Chisato exchanged a glance and said, "Take us to see her quickly."
In the conference room of the Kansei-gyō (a government office), Akira, Hiiragi Chisato, and Kujou Sara sat.
As he listened to the report from the military officer in charge of the investigation, Kujou Sara's face gradually darkened.
"I'm sorry, my lord, my magistrate, the Sumeru scholars insisted that they knew nothing, and we still couldn't get them to tell the truth," the investigating magistrate said apologetically. There was nothing they could do; they only had the authority to arrest, not to interrogate.
"It's not your fault. Just hand it over to the Heavenly Commander," Akira said.
"Yes, put them in my Heavenly Territory magistrate's prison, and even the most stubborn ones will confess everything," Kujou Sara sneered.
"It doesn't matter if you can't remember, it doesn't matter if you don't know, after all, what we, the Heavenly Territory Magistrates, are best at is the Great Memory Restoration Technique." Kujou Sara sneered, thinking there was nothing the Heavenly Territory Magistrates couldn't get out of her.
Kujou Sara's words frightened the samurai of the Kanjo Magistrate. There was a rumor that, although the Tenryo Magistrate had always upheld the principle of humane law enforcement, those who came from there and refused to confess seemed to have become neurotic.
"Alright, these are the handover documents from the Tenryo Magistrate." Kujou Sara took out an official document and handed it to Hiiragi Chisato, saying, "Senri, take me to get those idiots."
"Okay," Hiiragi Chisato nodded.