"Your Excellency, everything has been resolved!"
When Kujou Sara and Lumine completely dealt with the elite Fatui troops brought by Scaramouche, the previously chaotic Shogunate Army encampment returned to normal.
As for Kujou Masahito, he stood there in a daze, looking somewhat lost and bewildered.
"Kujou Masahito, do you understand now?" Kujou Sara looked at the dazed Kujou Masahito, her heart filled with disappointment. She didn't know when her brother had lost his sense of loyalty and righteousness.
Scaramouche's mind was a mess. He had become a prisoner, and he truly regretted it.
When Paimon saw Scaramouche kneeling on the ground, she said with a mocking expression, "Oh? Isn't this Scaramouche? Haven't seen you in a while, how did you get so pathetic..."
No matter how Paimon mocked him, Scaramouche remained unmoved, his heart in a state of intense struggle.
"Your Excellency... I cannot escape the blame for the current state of Ba Yun Island. Please punish me, Your Excellency!" Kujou Masahito suddenly knelt on the ground. If he had followed his heart and disobeyed his father's orders, if he had defied his father and reported what was happening on Ba Yun Island to the Raiden Shogun, would things be better now?
He had those thoughts, but he hadn't acted on them.
He also knew that his father was colluding with the emissaries from Snezhnaya, yet he hadn't exposed it.
"I am guilty!"
"Judging by how your soldiers are pleading for you, I can tell you aren't entirely bad. Now is not the time to punish you. Take your men and destroy the Delusion Factory on Ba Yun Island."
Raiden Makoto then looked at Scaramouche and said with great interest, "How about it? Have you figured it out yet, little one?"
The puppet created by her sister actually possessed such high-level intelligence. Could her sister be a legendary tech geek?
Facing the fact that he was now a prisoner, Scaramouche was in complete despair. And wasn't he always longing to be acknowledged by his "mother"? Standing before him was his "mother's" sister; calling her "Aunt" wouldn't really matter.
"Scaramouche should just be your codename, right? Tell me your real name." Scaramouche had done many bad things and was deeply sinful; she intended to take him to her sister to deal with personally.
However, before that, Scaramouche would have to follow her for a while.
"Ku... Kunikuzushi."
"Hahahaha hahahaha!" Hearing Scaramouche's real name, Paimon laughed out loud from the side, "Kunikuzushi... what kind of name is that? It's so funny!"
"Hahahaha."
Lumine couldn't help but chuckle. She also thought Kunikuzushi was a bit... but she held back her laughter, as mocking someone's name wasn't very nice.
"You!" Scaramouche glared at Paimon, his face full of anger, "You stinking bug!"
Having been glared at fiercely by Scaramouche, Paimon shivered. She quickly flew to Raiden Makoto's side, her little face full of an innocent expression, "Sister Zhen, he glared at me! And he called me a stinking bug!"
Raiden Makoto rolled her eyes. She certainly knew that Paimon had mocked Kunikuzushi's name first, but she had to admit, her sister really was terrible at naming things.
"Alright, enough."
"Kunikuzushi, tell me, where is your evil eye manufacturing factory on Ba Yun Island?"
Destroying the evil eye manufacturing factory on Ba Yun Island could be done simultaneously with suppressing the evil spirits on Ba Yun Island.
"Confession brings leniency, resistance brings severity." Paimon circled around Kunikuzushi's head and added, gloating.
"At Serpent's Head Mine..." Kunikuzushi knew he was powerless to resist. Now he could only obediently tell everything; otherwise, he wouldn't even have a hope of escaping.
Unless the Tsaritsa descended in person, he wouldn't be able to escape from Raiden Makoto.
He had completely recognized reality.
"Sara, you and Kujou Masahito lead the Shogunate Soldiers to the Serpent's Head Mine to completely destroy the evil eye production factory, but be careful."
"Yes, Your Excellency!"
The next moment, Kujou Sara and Kujou Masahito began to mobilize to destroy the Delusion Factory.
"The Fatui, haven't they always wanted this?" As Raiden Makoto took out the Gnosis, Kunikuzushi's eyes widened.
"The Gnosis... how is it in your hands? Isn't it in the hands of that fox?!"
"The Gnosis?" Paimon and Lumine had once seen Zhongli hand over his Gnosis with their own eyes, so they knew what a Gnosis looked like.
"Do you want it?" Raiden Makoto smiled slightly, then she put the Gnosis away completely.
If the Tsaritsa was truly collecting the Gnosis to oppose the Heavenly Principles, handing it over to her wouldn't be impossible, but the Tsaritsa really lacked sincerity.
For the sake of the Gnosis, the Fatui had turned Inazuma into such a mess; she was truly angry.
But if it weren't for the Fatui, the internal problems of Inazuma wouldn't have been exposed so quickly. So, to some extent, the Fatui even helped Inazuma by making its internal problems manifest, making it easier to resolve them.
Raiden Makoto would not hand the Gnosis over to the Tsaritsa so easily; at the very least, she needed to see some sincerity.
"I... I want it."
"Aunt!" Kunikuzushi finally said the title, and after saying it, he lowered his head completely.
"Sister Zhen... Kunikuzushi called you Aunt? Is he... is he the son of the current Raiden Shogun?" Paimon asked, full of curiosity, "Does that mean he has to call me Aunt too?"
"He is just like the current Raiden Shogun, both are puppets created by my sister." Raiden Makoto said calmly. Seeing that Kunikuzushi had truly laid down his arrogance, she knew he must have recognized reality.
"Get up."
After Kunikuzushi found he could move, he took advantage of Paimon's smugness to grab her, saying with a look of disgust, "You hateful stinking bug!"
"Help! Help!"
"I can tell that Ei probably never disciplined you, nor did she instill the right values in you. Although I don't know what you've been through, everything you've done is enough for me to tear you apart into pieces." Raiden Makoto roughly understood why the puppet her sister created had become a Fatui Harbinger.
"You were probably just a test subject, right? Ei threw you away, and you wanted to prove something to Ei?"
Kunikuzushi was like a child abandoned by his parents; in his heart, he was extremely lacking in love, and he longed to be acknowledged by Ei.
Kunikuzushi's values were also instilled by the Fatui, and everything Kunikuzushi did was under the orders of the Fatui.
But she would not forgive Kunikuzushi for this; no matter what, Kunikuzushi had done too many wrong things.
"Everything you are doing now will never win you Ei's acknowledgment; it will only make Ei loathe you more and more."
Because of Raiden Makoto's words, Kunikuzushi let go of Paimon, and he fell into complete silence.
The current Inazuma is in darkness, and from this moment on, thunder shall shatter the darkness.
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