Grand Narukami Shrine.
"Lady Guuji Yae, this is the light novel released by Yae Publishing House today. I find it very interesting." The shrine maiden named Inagi Hotomi handed a novel to Yae Miko. As a shrine maiden of Grand Narukami Shrine, she naturally knew that their Guuji Yae had opened a bookstore called Yae Publishing House.
Therefore, she had long been in the habit of visiting Yae Publishing House. Occasionally, light novels inside like "My Shrine Maiden Sister," "Reborn as a Great Shrine Maiden, Falling in Love with a God," and "Shogunate Duel, I Defeated the Raiden Shogun" also piqued her interest.
Thus, she would occasionally patronize Yae Publishing House.
"Oh?" Yae Miko took the book from Inagi Hotomi's hand. As the owner of Yae Publishing House, she would personally read light novels in her spare time, and occasionally, she would even write some herself.
Of course, her pen name would never be Yae Miko; after all, she was the Great Shrine Maiden of Grand Narukami Shrine, the Guuji Yae in everyone's eyes.
If people knew she wrote romance novels, wouldn't that be too embarrassing?
"The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me?"
"Huh..." Yae Miko was stunned for a moment. In Inazuma, no one had ever dared to write romance novels involving the Raiden Shogun; after all, in the eyes of the Inazuman people, the Raiden Shogun was their God.
"The pen name is 'White Heron'?"
For some reason, she felt "White Heron" sounded familiar. However, light novels from Yae Publishing House were one of the pastimes of the people of Inazuma, so there were quite a few people writing books there.
She had even seen bizarre light novels like "Reincarnated as an Electro Slime, Sliced in Two by the Raiden Shogun" and "My Love Story After Becoming a Hilichurl."
Something like "The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me" was nothing out of the ordinary, but she found it quite interesting and decided to take a good look at it.
She glanced at the light novel she was currently writing on her desk, then began to read "The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me."
As for the light novel on Yae Miko's desk, Inagi Hotomi vaguely caught sight of its title.
"Me, Great Shrine Maiden, Sisters Falling in Love with Me"
"Guuji Yae... about that Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual?" Although Inagi Hotomi felt a bit amused, she held it back and asked respectfully, "Should we start preparing?"
"Someone will come in a couple of days, don't be impatient."
...
At this moment, in the marketplace.
"Delicious... delicious..." Paimon was eating very seriously, sighing, "Turns out Inazuma has such delicious food too, so yummy..."
As for Raiden Ei, she was eating the sukiyaki in front of her very elegantly. Of course, if there were no outsiders present, she would definitely have started eating rapidly.
Raiden Ei's greatest expectation right now was still her sister cooking for her personally, so she was just tasting it slowly.
She had not come out of the Plane of Euthymia for a long time.
Raiden Makoto was still pondering matters regarding Kitsune Saiguu. If Kitsune Saiguu's memories still existed, it meant her true spirit was still present. If she wanted to resurrect Kitsune Saiguu, it should be a very simple matter.
"Sister, I heard from Yae Miko that she started a shop outside called Yae Publishing House, selling something like light novels..."
"Shall we go take a look?" As long as she could be with her sister, no matter what they were doing, she felt very fulfilled.
"It should be like the martial arts novels we saw when we were in Liyue, right?" Paimon said thoughtfully while eating, "I want to go see it too."
"Okay."
"The little fox actually came up with light novels?" Raiden Makoto was a bit interested. It seemed light novels were quite popular in Japan in her previous life, while in China, web novels were prevalent.
Light novels were slightly similar to web novels, and she was a bit curious about what Inazuma's light novels would be like.
Her memory of Inazuma stopped five hundred years ago; five hundred years ago, Inazuma was very rigid.
Yet Yae Miko had actually brought light novels to Inazuma.
Although her memory remained in Inazuma five hundred years ago, because she now had the memories of her previous life, her thinking was that of a modern person.
So, other than being slightly interested, she wouldn't pay too much attention. However, she saw that Ei seemed completely different. Ei had truly been disconnected for five hundred years, sealing himself in the Plane of Euthymia for five hundred years; Ei now completely resembled a naive country girl.
Taking her sister out to see the world was also a pretty good thing.
Yae Publishing House.
Yae Publishing House was not large, merely a very small shop, but it was filled with books.
"Sh... Shogunate?" Kuroda looked at Raiden Ei and Raiden Makoto in shock. He was slightly startled in his heart; there were actually two Raiden Shoguns. The one next to Raiden Ei should be the Shogun's sister.
But the fact that the Raiden Shogun had personally visited Yae Publishing House left Kuroda terrified, and he was even panicked inside, thinking something had gone wrong.
"May I ask if the Raiden Shogun has any instructions for visiting Yae Publishing House?" Kuroda asked with a flustered expression.
"Don't panic, I'm just here with my sister to take a look." Raiden Ei's tone was much softer. She casually scanned the books on the shelves and some of the books at Kuroda's side.
"Reincarnated as a Hilichurl, just keep eating Sunsettia and you can become stronger?" Raiden Ei looked bewildered. Not to mention the light novel title was too long, she simply couldn't understand how a person could turn into a Hilichurl? And how could a Hilichurl become stronger by eating Sunsettia?
"I don't understand." Raiden Ei turned her gaze to Raiden Makoto, "Sister, do you have any light novels you are interested in?"
"Or, would you recommend two good books for us?"
Kuroda was slightly surprised. So the one next to the Raiden Shogun, who looked a bit more youthful than the Raiden Shogun, was the Raiden Shogun's sister.
But he was also stunned that the Raiden Shogun actually wanted to read light novels.
"Raiden Shogun, the light novels at Yae Publishing House are generally aimed at ordinary people, so they might be a bit..." Kuroda was a bit embarrassed. After all, as the manager of Yae Publishing House, he had read and reviewed more or less all of the books in the shop.
There were even some light novels about the Raiden Shogun inside. If the Raiden Shogun saw those, that would be terrible.
"It's fine."
"The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me?" But at this moment, Paimon seemed to notice a book; that book was quite conspicuous, and he read out the title directly.
"The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me?" Lumine's gaze was also drawn by Paimon's voice, and he was stunned.
Kuroda was quite embarrassed, "Raiden Shogun, most of the light novels at Yae Publishing House are of a similar style... so please do not mind..."
He had just finished reading the book "The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me" not long ago and was waiting for the follow-up chapters. He even suspected that it was written secretly by their Guuji Yae; after all, who didn't know that Guuji Yae and the Raiden Shogun were good friends?
And the protagonist in the novel was female.
"The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me?" Both Raiden Ei and Raiden Makoto had their attention drawn to it. Raiden Makoto only knew that the light novels at Yae Publishing House were indeed similar to the light novels of her previous life, all being that kind of 'moe' fantasy style.
Like "Reincarnated as the Raiden Shogun, Invincible in the World" and "I Became the Raiden Shogun's Sword," even the titles were filled with a 'moe' flavor. Raiden Makoto roughly knew what Inazuma's light novels were like.
But "The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me"? Why not just call it "The Overbearing CEO Falls in Love with Me"? But Raiden Makoto subsequently noticed the author of that light novel.
"White Heron?"
She vaguely felt it sounded familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere before.
"This light novel is quite interesting. So the Yae Publishing House that Yae Miko set up is for these kinds of things now."
Although the book title was truly a bit embarrassing, she could accept it.
But for most of the books, Raiden Ei couldn't understand them just from the titles. She still couldn't figure out why a Hilichurl could become stronger by eating a Sunsettia; wasn't a Sunsettia just a very common fruit?
"The little fox is indeed quite interesting."
The reason Raiden Makoto found it interesting was that she discovered several books among those novels.
"The Story I Have to Tell with the Raiden Shogun" and "Me, Great Shrine Maiden, Marrying the Raiden Shogun." Several of the light novels were authored by the pink-haired fox.
Who was the pink-haired fox? It was self-evident.
So that's the kind of Yae Miko you are.
"Which books does the Raiden Shogun find interesting? You can take them back to read." Kuroda was still somewhat unnatural. After all, there were quite a few light novels about the Raiden Shogun in Yae Publishing House, and with the original person standing right in front of him, how could he be natural?
"Personally, I recommend the book 'Reincarnated as the Raiden Shogun, I Am Invincible.' It is the winning work of the recent light novel competition."
"Although..."
Kuroda didn't know what the Raiden Shogun's state of mind would be like reading light novels about herself, but it would definitely be very interesting.
"Let's take this one."
"The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me?" Kuroda was stunned for a moment, but then he quickly smiled awkwardly. After all, saying that directly in front of the Raiden Shogun was a bit strange. "Raiden Shogun..."
"Hmm." Raiden Ei only noticed that Raiden Makoto was paying attention to that light novel, which was why she intended to see what kind of content was actually inside "The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me."
As for the others, she didn't really care.
"Alright."
After Kuroda wrapped the book and handed it to Raiden Ei, Lumine very consciously stepped forward to pay for it.
"No, no... if the Raiden Shogun wants to read it, there is no need to pay." Kuroda quickly refused, "If the Raiden Shogun wants to read anything next time, just have someone come over to take it."
However, Lumine still paid, and then walked away with Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei to other places.
Kuroda watched the backs of Raiden Ei and Raiden Makoto. He wiped the sweat from his forehead; he was truly very nervous.
"The Raiden Shogun actually wanted to read that kind of book... and the Raiden Shogun actually has a sister?"
"That is big news."
"The Raiden Shogun's sister looks really gentle. But why does she look so much younger than the Raiden Shogun?"
"Sister, here..." Raiden Ei handed the light novel "The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me" directly to Raiden Makoto, saying somewhat seriously, "I saw that you seemed to be looking at this book the whole time, so..."
"..."
She was just thinking about who "White Heron" actually was, because she felt it was very familiar, which was why she paid a little more attention at the time.
Why would she want to read "The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me"? She was not a person who liked to read novels.
In her previous life, her leisure time was generally spent drinking tea, listening to music, watching plays, and occasionally cooking and innovating new food herself.
If it wasn't for the sake of being grounded with the young people of the current era, she wouldn't even play games.
But because it was the first gift her sister gave her after she returned, Raiden Makoto put "The Raiden Shogun Falls in Love with Me" away. As for reading it? She would definitely not read it.
At this moment, in Inazuma City, in a small alley.
"La Signora and the Scaramouche are both dead... Is Inazuma actually that dangerous?" A young man with brown hair was standing there with a grave expression, "The Raiden Shogun's Gnosis is still in her hands."
"But I must first contact Her Majesty the Tsaritsa... inform Her Majesty the Tsaritsa of the deaths of La Signora and the Scaramouche, and then take action." The person was Tartaglia, who had been called over from Liyue by La Signora to help.
He was not at all surprised by the deaths of La Signora and the Scaramouche. La Signora was completely responsible for her own downfall; daring to despise a God in their own land—those were the victors of the Archon War, and which of the Seven Sovereigns of the World didn't ascend by stepping over mountains of corpses and seas of blood?
Moreover, La Signora had set him up once in Liyue, so he had absolutely no good feelings toward her.
"The Raiden Shogun's Gnosis is not easy to get. I'll just wait and see for now."
Because Inazuma was closed off, apart from the Fatui being able to infiltrate Inazuma secretly, the main force of the Fatui could not get through at all; there were heavy thunderstorms in the seas outside Inazuma.
Snezhnaya and Inazuma also had almost no trade relations, so their influence in Inazuma was very limited.
Now, Tartaglia was at a complete loss; he had no idea how to obtain the Raiden Shogun's Gnosis.
Inazuma was not like Liyue; the other Gods in Inazuma had almost all completely fallen. He could not repeat the operation from Liyue.
Moreover, with his strength, facing the Raiden Shogun, who was peerless in martial arts, he would simply be vulnerable.
He was not La Signora; he had self-awareness.
Just as he was pondering, a familiar voice reached his ears, a voice he had heard countless times.
"Isn't that Childe?"
As Tartaglia looked over, he saw Lumine and Paimon walking toward him, and next to them were Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei.
There was a hint of surprise in Tartaglia's expression. Why were there two Raiden Shoguns? Could one of them be a puppet, and the other the Raiden Shogun?
But he didn't have time to think too much. He didn't even have a travel permit in Inazuma right now. If he were caught by the Raiden Shogun, it would definitely be a dead end.
Tartaglia then disappeared directly into the night.
"Childe ran away?"
"A Fatui Harbinger..." A hint of malice appeared on Raiden Ei's face. She was a bit angry.
"They are actually still in Inazuma."
"He really does look a bit like Thoma. No wonder those Shogunate Soldiers mistook him for Thoma back then."
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