After a long while, Kamisato Ayaka, who had been waiting outside for Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei, finally saw the sisters emerge from the Delusion Factory. However, this time Raiden Makoto was walking in front, while Raiden Ei followed "obediently" behind.
Raiden Ei's eyes appeared to be a bit red.
"Makoto... what happened just now? Why..." Kamisato Ayaka looked at Raiden Makoto with a face full of confusion. She thought she had really heard the Shogun crying and making a scene faintly earlier, but how could the Shogun do that? If anyone was going to make a scene, shouldn't it be the one wearing the bamboo hat?
"How could there be..."
However, Raiden Ei put on a cold and aloof front before Kamisato Ayaka, saying with a serious face: "Something went wrong with the puppet just now, so my sister helped me resolve the issue."
She couldn't very well say that she had been spanked on a certain private area by her sister just like when they were little, could she? She had to maintain some dignity before her subjects; she still had some face to save.
"Something went wrong with the puppet?"
But then Kamisato Ayaka realized; Raiden Makoto seemed to have told her that the Raiden Shogun she had always seen was just a puppet, while her sister Raiden Ei was in the Plane of Euthymia. Although she didn't know what the Plane of Euthymia was, she could roughly understand.
Raiden Ei was now carefully sizing up Kamisato Ayaka. This young girl before her was the little girl of the Kamisato Clan that her sister was so concerned about. Her looks seemed rather average, didn't they?
"Sister, Scaramouche called out to Tartaglia just now... he should be another Fatui Harbinger in Inazuma, right?"
To be honest, Kamisato Ayaka could only fully reveal her true nature in front of Raiden Makoto, whom she treated as a close friend. With Raiden Ei present, she really didn't dare say anything.
Raiden Ei looked much more serious and cold than Raiden Makoto, and she had always been her direct superior.
"Almighty Shogun."
"Makoto, I was guarding the Fatui Harbinger you entrusted to me... then someone who looked a bit like Thoma came in. I couldn't beat him..."
"After that person..."
Kamisato Ayaka recounted everything about how Tartaglia broke into the Kamisato Estate, how he took Scaramouche away, and how he kidnapped her to the Delusion Factory.
Raiden Ei's expression grew worse and worse. She then gave a cold snort and said indifferently, "I thought that as envoys from Snezhnaya, the Fatui should follow Inazuma's rules. It turns out that group has always been overstepping and trampling upon Inazuma's laws."
"Those Fatui Harbingers will sooner or later pay the price for their actions." Raiden Ei's tone was filled with killing intent.
"Little girl of the Kamisato Clan, I'll also have to settle the score with you for funding the Watatsumi Island resistance..."
"Your brother has been diligent, but you have been secretly resisting the Vision Hunt Decree." Although Raiden Ei was in the Plane of Euthymia, she would occasionally see what was happening outside through the puppet.
Of course, that was limited to what the puppet knew.
Kamisato Ayaka looked at the cold and heartless Raiden Ei, stunned. Wasn't contacting the Watatsumi Island side Raiden Makoto's idea? How did it become hers now?
No, she couldn't let the Shogun keep an eye on her.
"Shogun, it has always been Makoto who was in contact with the Watatsumi Island resistance... I was merely..." Kamisato Ayaka looked at Raiden Ei's cold expression and felt that she couldn't take the blame.
Raiden Ei realized instantly and quickly cleared her throat. How could she dare settle the score with Raiden Makoto?
Having just been beaten, she had probably realized her mistakes. She knew how childish it was for her to hide in the Plane of Euthymia in pursuit of eternity.
Besides, her sister had never been pursuing eternity... Now that her sister was back, she had to follow her sister's lead again.
She was just a martial artist; she would just continue being her sister's Shadow Clone. As for the governance of Inazuma, her sister could handle it well.
"Sister... how about we head back early?" However, with Kamisato Ayaka around, Raiden Ei felt a bit constrained; she still wanted to keep clinging to her sister.
"Tartaglia should be nearby..." Raiden Makoto scanned the area around the Delusion Factory. She felt that Childe should be close, but he was completely hidden now. Finding Tartaglia wouldn't be easy.
"Let's go back and thoroughly resolve the issues with the Three Commissions. The problems in Inazuma are still quite significant..." Raiden Makoto felt somewhat helpless because Raiden Ei hadn't managed things for five hundred years, only setting some rules for the Puppet Shogun to constrain its actions.
As a result, there were internal issues within Inazuma's Three Commissions. The Kujou Clan and the Hiiragi Clan, for their own selfish desires, secretly colluded with the Fatui to implement the Vision Hunt Decree and covered up everything that happened on evil spirits Island.
Even though evil spirits was a very serious problem, the Kujou Clan actually concealed it and didn't report it, and even dealt a final blow regarding the refugee problem on Ba Yun Island.
Although with their abilities they truly couldn't solve the evil spirits problem, if they had reported it, Ba Yun Island would definitely not be in such a state of devastation now.
"You should know that someone destroyed the Ward on Ba Yun Island and released the evil spirits, right?"
"If I hadn't resolved it early, Ba Yun Island would be completely devastated by now, and the evil spirits would still be able to spread outward." Raiden Makoto's tone was grave. "By then, it would have been too late."
"Was the situation that serious?" Hearing Raiden Makoto describe the evil spirits phenomenon, Kamisato Ayaka couldn't help but be secretly shocked and somewhat angry. "The people of Watatsumi Island are too indifferent to human life, aren't they? That's..."
"It was the Fatui's doing... Watatsumi Island..." Raiden Makoto didn't know how to put it. Regarding the issue of the evil spirits phenomenon, Sangonomiya Kokomi also knew about it, but she had only executed the traitors and remained completely indifferent to the evil spirits phenomenon on Ba Yun Island.
"The people of the Tenryou Commission rescued the Ba Yun Island refugees on the surface, but secretly they slaughtered them all."
Raiden Makoto's words struck Raiden Ei one by one, and she lowered her head, becoming more and more silent.
She had completely failed. The current state of Inazuma was entirely because of her.
If she hadn't hidden in the Plane of Euthymia, such major problems probably wouldn't have occurred.
"They are truly devoid of humanity!" Kamisato Ayaka said with righteous indignation, her pretty face turning red. She had originally thought the Tenryou Commission's implementation of the Vision Hunt Decree was cruel enough, but it turned out they had committed so many more wrongs.
Look at that—is that how humans behave?
Fortunately, Raiden Makoto had solved the problem. Kamisato Ayaka looked at Raiden Makoto with a hint of admiration, and a different kind of emotion arose in her heart.
"Makoto, if you hadn't solved the problem, I don't know what..."
"No, it was everyone who solved the problem together; I just gave it a nudge." Raiden Makoto smiled gently. "Alright, let's head back quickly."
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