Looking at Raiden Makoto's gentle smile, Raiden Ei couldn't help but feel a bit guilty. She even wanted to tell Raiden Makoto directly that it was all the Shogun's doing! For five hundred years, she had been in the Plane of Euthymia; aside from occasionally eating desserts when she missed them, she spent the rest of her time in meditation.
Oh no, she was thinking about her sister the whole time in the Plane of Euthymia; her heart was completely filled with her sister.
At this moment, Kujou Takayuki and the Head of the Hiiragi Clan were both kneeling on the ground, trembling, completely afraid to lift their heads.
Raiden Makoto was actually the Shogun's older sister; Kujou Takayuki's heart was now filled with terror.
As for Lumine and Paimon, their mouths were wide open. They were quite familiar with Signora; she was a Fatui Harbinger who had occasionally appeared before them since their time in Mondstadt.
Every time she appeared before them, she had an insufferably arrogant air, yet Signora had now been completely reduced to ashes.
Signora was truly dead.
"Sister... I..." Raiden Ei blinked her eyes, acting cute in front of Raiden Makoto, though her appearance created quite a sense of contrast.
But Raiden Ei realized something else. Besides her and Raiden Makoto, the Tenshukaku also contained the heads of the Two Commissions—the Head of the Kujou Clan and the Head of the Hiiragi Clan—along with Yae Miko and those two whose identities she couldn't discern, Lumine and Paimon.
"Sister, the Vision Hunt Decree was entirely permitted by the Shogun; I didn't know anything about it." Based on the Shogun's actions and what the heads of the Kujou and Hiiragi Clans had said recently, Raiden Ei knew why Raiden Makoto said she wanted to settle accounts with her. She looked at Raiden Makoto with an innocent face.
"I already said, I'll settle accounts with you after dealing with them." Raiden Makoto just gave a soft smile, then slowly walked toward Kujou Takayuki and the Head of the Hiiragi Clan.
Raiden Ei shrank back and took a few steps away, but she also felt a surge of anger.
The Kujou Clan and the Hiiragi Clan had actually been feigning compliance while acting in opposition all this time, providing the Raiden Shogun with nothing but false information.
The atmosphere in the air even began to feel a bit oppressive.
"General... it was all him who bewitched me... saying we could keep the benefits brought by the Snezhnayan Envoy. I was blinded by him!" However, as Raiden Makoto slowly approached them, the Head of the Hiiragi Clan was the first to speak up.
Then Kujou Takayuki looked at the Head of the Hiiragi Clan in shock. "You... don't you dare slander me! General, it is this subordinate who is guilty... I shouldn't have been blinded by profit and conspired with the Fatui to implement the Vision Hunt Decree..."
"And as for the Vision Hunt Decree, didn't the General permit it?" Kujou Takayuki looked at Raiden Ei behind Raiden Makoto, but Raiden Ei's gaze toward him was filled with a chilling light—a death stare.
Kujou Takayuki shuddered. Had he said something wrong? But those were all facts!
If Raiden Makoto was Raiden Ei's sister, then he had to win Raiden Makoto's trust now to have a chance at surviving.
Signora's death had also completely terrified him.
Even a Snezhnayan Envoy was cut down by Raiden Makoto without a second thought; if Raiden Makoto wanted to kill him, he would have no chance of survival.
"That was all because this subordinate felt the Vision Hunt Decree was beneficial to eternity... so..."
"Even at this stage, you're still full of lies?" Raiden Makoto was completely disappointed. "The Tenryou Commission and the Tenryou Commission have already rotted completely from top to bottom."
Just as Raiden Ei thought Raiden Makoto was about to strike, Raiden Ei stopped her.
"Sister, let me do it." Raiden Ei walked over slowly, her gaze toward Kujou Takayuki filled with murderous intent.
How dare he complain to her sister right in front of her?
"I wasn't going to strike." Raiden Makoto didn't actually intend to use force; they were just two ordinary people, and there was no need for it. Keeping Kujou Takayuki and the Head of the Hiiragi Clan alive still had value, as they could reveal others who had conspired with the Kujou and Hiiragi Clans.
Raiden Ei only knew one thing: her sister was truly terrifying when she was angry.
In her mind, an incident from thousands of years ago surfaced, shortly after she and her sister were born from the thunder. At that time, because she was too rambunctious, she had gotten into a fierce battle with a God and ended up slightly injured.
In the end, she received a beating from her sister. Thinking back, her bottom still felt a bit sore even now.
She was still small back then. Thinking about how her sister had tucked her under her arm... the scene was quite embarrassing now. Fortunately, no one knew about those things except for Raiden Makoto.
"Sister... then them... should they be arrested first?" In front of Raiden Makoto, Raiden Ei lost her ability to make decisions again—or more accurately, she never had the ability to make decisions.
She only knew how to fight; she was a warrior through and through.
"Lumine, can you take them away?"
Had she known Kujou Takayuki and the Head of the Hiiragi Clan would be at Tenshukaku making their complaints, she should have brought Kujou Sara along.
"Ah? Sister Makoto... alright." Lumine was stunned for a moment, then she nodded and walked toward Raiden Makoto.
After she led Kujou Takayuki and the Head of the Hiiragi Clan out of Tenshukaku, only Raiden Makoto, Raiden Ei, and Yae Miko remained—two Gods and one fox.
Raiden Ei suddenly realized something. She then walked toward Yae Miko and said somewhat irritably, "Miko, when I asked you back then, you must have known Sister had returned!"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
However, facing the somewhat angry Raiden Ei, Yae Miko said calmly, "Then why didn't you tell me when you entered the Plane of Euthymia back then? We haven't seen each other for five hundred years, have we?"
"Do you really consider me a friend? Ei..." Yae Miko sighed deeply. For five hundred years, she had been the one cleaning up the mess in Inazuma.
After she taught Ei how to place her consciousness into an object five hundred years ago, Ei had opened the Plane of Euthymia and left without saying goodbye.
"If Sister Makoto hadn't returned, how much longer would you have kept yourself sealed away? Sister Makoto, don't you agree?" However, Yae Miko's form of address for Raiden Makoto in the next moment made Raiden Ei even angrier.
Her older sister could only have one younger sister—her.
"Miko, you're not allowed to call her Sister!" Raiden Ei said a bit angrily, her tone somewhat overbearing and tinged with a hint of jealousy.
Yae Miko looked at Ei, who seemed to be monopolizing Raiden Makoto, and couldn't help but feel a bit amused. What would Ei do if she knew that Makoto had acknowledged several other younger sisters outside?
Now that there were no outsiders left in Tenshukaku, Raiden Ei simply revealed her true nature.
Her older sister—only she could call her Sister! Even Yae Miko wasn't allowed to call Raiden Makoto "Sister."
Her sister could only have one younger sister—her!
"Alright, alright, stop it, you two..." Raiden Makoto rolled her eyes, feeling quite helpless. "You, you still have the same temper as back then. When will you ever change?"
"After the issues with the Tenryou Commission and the Tenryou Commission are resolved, I'm going to settle accounts with you." Seeing Raiden Makoto's gaze, Raiden Ei shrank her head back.
Raiden Ei said cautiously, "But wasn't that all the Shogun's doing? I..."
"Don't think I don't know."
"Then... Sister... can you be a little gentler?"
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