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Chapter 19: Ayaka’s Counsel and Her Lie · Oct 08, 2026

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1 Chapter 1: The Invitation from the Erudition 2026-10-08
2 Chapter 2: The Arrival of the Harbinger ’The Captain’ 2026-10-08
3 Chapter 3 -: 3 The Tsaritsa’s Invitation 2026-10-08
4 Chapter 4: Seizing the Doctor’s Seat 2026-10-08
5 Chapter 5: When The Lady Met Little Lady 2026-10-08
6 Chapter 6: Rosalyne’s Invitation 2026-10-08
7 Chapter 7: Guess I’ll Have to Squeeze In and Share a Bed with the Girl 2026-10-08
8 Chapter 8: Columbina, Completely Shaken 2026-10-08
9 Chapter 9: Childe and Columbina’s Shock 2026-10-08
10 Chapter 10: Arlecchino: ’You already have children?’ 2026-10-08
11 Chapter 11: Praise from Arlecchino 2026-10-08
12 Chapter 12: Arlecchino, You Don’t Want Your Children Hurt, Do You? 2026-10-08
13 Chapter 13: Rosalyne: ’My Colleague Skipped Work, and I’m the Fool Picking Up the Pieces.’ 2026-10-08
14 Chapter 14: The Raiden Shogun Strikes… and Falls 2026-10-08
15 Chapter 15: Yae Miko’s Fear 2026-10-08
16 Chapter 16: Yae Miko’s Forced Smile 2026-10-08
17 Chapter 17: Yae Miko: ’Even my beauty lost to Kamisato Ayaka~’ 2026-10-08
18 Chapter 18: Ayato Can’t Keep It Together 2026-10-08
19 Chapter 19: Ayaka’s Counsel and Her Lie 2026-10-08
20 Chapter 20: Kujou Sara’s Resolve 2026-10-08
21 Chapter 21: Ei Revives… But as a Puppet 2026-10-08
22 Chapter 22: Turning Inazuma into a Second Fontaine, and Ei’s Defection 2026-10-08
23 Chapter 23: These Days, Nobody Believes the Truth 2026-10-08
24 Chapter 24: Sending Kamisato Ayaka to Deliver a Message to the Resistance 2026-10-08
25 Chapter 25: La Signora’s Shock, Ayato’s Resolve 2026-10-08
26 Chapter 26: Ayato’s Broken Heart, Kokomi’s Panic 2026-10-08
27 Chapter 27: Raiden Ei/Shogun: ’Arrest the Arbiter of Knowledge? Me?’ 2026-10-08
28 Chapter 28: Hiiragi Clan Head: A Wise Man Bends to Circumstances 2026-10-08
29 Chapter 29: The Greedy Raiden Ei: ’I Am a Child, After All.’ 2026-10-08
30 Chapter 30: Kamisato Ayaka: ’Yoimiya, This Is for Your Own Good!’ 2026-10-08
31 Chapter 31: Kamisato Ayaka’s Crumbling Resolve 2026-10-08
32 Chapter 32: Kamisato Ayaka: ’You’re Just Bullying Me…’ 2026-10-08
33 Chapter 33: Yoimiya Breaks Out in a Cold Sweat 2026-10-08
34 Chapter 34: Yoimiya: ’Little Ei, your daddy’s such a bully!’ 2026-10-08
35 Chapter 35: Raiden Ei Decides to Give Up on Treatment 2026-10-08
36 Chapter 36: Raiden Ei: ’I Was Not Throwing a Tantrum!’ 2026-10-08
37 Chapter 37: Yae Miko: ’That Raiden Makoto… she’s not real, right?’ 2026-10-08
38 Chapter 38: Raiden Makoto the Straight Man, Kamisato Ayaka in Panic 2026-10-08
39 Chapter 39: Kujou Sara Wants to Silence Witnesses 2026-10-08
40 Chapter 40: Ayaka’s Concern 2026-10-08
41 Chapter 41: The Gentle Raiden, the Stern Raiden, the Clueless Raiden 2026-10-08
42 Chapter 42: Ei’s Grievance 2026-10-08
43 Chapter 43: Makoto’s Misunderstanding 2026-10-08
44 Chapter 44: Kamisato Ayaka: ’Ei? How did you get so big?’ 2026-10-08
45 Chapter 45: The Hopeless Case of Raiden Makoto 2026-10-08
46 Chapter 46: The Century’s Hardest Question: Raiden Ei’s Good Points? 2026-10-08
47 Chapter 47: A Misunderstanding? Raiden Makoto’s Awkwardness 2026-10-08
48 Chapter 48: Dottore Loses His Cool and Strikes 2026-10-08
49 Chapter 49: Dottore’s Death, Ei’s Unease 2026-10-08
50 Chapter 50: Ayaka’s Fright, Ningguang Stretched Thin 2026-10-08

Chapter 19: Chapter 19: Ayaka’s Counsel and Her Lie

As night fell, Kujou Sara carried a massive food chest up to the highest chamber of Tenshukaku.

Thanks to Yae Miko’s instructions, she did not have to wander room by room in search.

And with the city darkening, only one chamber still glowed with lamplight—easy enough to find.

She had taken the meal duty upon herself, with a private hope.

Even if she could not glimpse the god, perhaps she could at least learn something from Kamisato Ayaka.

”Honored god, the evening meal is prepared. Shall I bring it inside?”

She knocked gently, but dared not peek within.

Yae Miko’s warning still rang sharp in her ears.

”Lady Kujou, please set the tray down and depart.”

The voice that answered was Ayaka’s.

”...I understand.”

So Ayaka was inside as well.

Even knowing she likely spoke on the god’s behalf, Sara’s heart remained unwilling.

Her steps away from the door were slow, every pace reluctant.

Just as impatience nearly consumed her, the door opened.

Ayaka appeared—then shut it hastily again, upon spotting Sara nearby.

She feared the girl might glimpse the scene within.

For if this loyal retainer of the Shogun saw that ruin... Would she not lose all reason, and throw her life against Su Ran in futile vengeance?

That would not only mean her death, but plunge Inazuma deeper into disaster.

Even without Yae Miko’s warning, Ayaka understood.

She was innocent at heart, yes— but far from a fool.

”Lady Kujou,” she said through the door, ”I know what you wish to hear.

All I can say is this: the Shogun still lives.”

A whole afternoon spent in Su Ran’s company had dulled Ayaka’s fear.

If not friendship, at least she no longer trembled before him.

”Then... is the Shogun well?”

Alive did not mean unscathed.

Sara’s sharp eyes caught the strain in Ayaka’s face; her heart sank.

”...Not well,” Ayaka admitted softly.

”But alive. And still able to guide Inazuma in time to come.”

She did not dare speak the whole truth.

If she shattered Sara’s faith, the girl might collapse entirely.

”...”

Yet the words only tightened Sara’s worry.

The invincible general in her heart had fallen.

Only the barest assurance remained: still alive, still Inazuma’s god.

”...May I see her?”

Ayaka shook her head.

”I understand...”

With that, Sara turned away at last.

Disappointed, but not empty-handed.

She now knew more than before.

And though the news was grim, it was still, in its way, good news: the Shogun remained.

As long as she remained, Inazuma had not yet fallen.

Watching Sara’s silhouette vanish, Ayaka finally exhaled in relief.

The Shogun’s most devoted admirer was gone.

Because not all she had spoken was truth.

The real Archon was indeed unharmed.

But the puppet who had ruled Inazuma for five centuries— her state was death in all but name.

Not a life ended, but a vessel broken.

And Ayaka had barred Sara from entering, not because Su Ran forbade it.

On the contrary, he would have allowed it.

But one look at the scattered remnants of the Shogun’s body would have driven the loyal girl into madness.

Ayaka returned to the door, lifted the chest inside.

”I think I’m beginning to understand,” Su Ran murmured, holding the puppet’s severed head in his hands.

He had finally unraveled its construction.

One could not deny Ei’s genius.

The puppet was astonishingly lifelike— in every respect.

So much so that Su Ran wondered: had she truly considered all that entailed?

And it was not mere realism.

This vessel had been built to bear the power of a god.

That alone proved Ei’s craft outstripped even Dottore’s.

Not that he held the Fatui doctor in high regard— his creations were machines trapped in rigid cycles, prone to collapse under their own flaws.

Yet this imperfect puppet had endured centuries, holding Inazuma together.

Perhaps only because Raiden Makoto had left such a rich legacy, or perhaps because Yae Miko had labored ceaselessly behind the throne.

”Lord Su Ran, dinner is here,” Ayaka said at last.

After their afternoon together, she no longer trembled to speak his name aloud.

If one measured in the terms of ”favorability,” hers had climbed to at least forty.

”Then let’s eat together,” he replied.

By divine beauty, Ayaka could not match the Tsaritsa or Columbina.

They were gods and shades, born with otherworldly grace.

A mortal body could not compare.

But Ayaka’s looks... happened to strike Su Ran’s own taste exactly.

That gave her an edge none could match.

”As I expected—you didn’t dare let her inside,” Su Ran chuckled.

He had almost wanted to see Sara’s face when confronted with the Shogun’s ruin.

A pity.

”She would have broken,” Ayaka whispered.

She knew the truth.

When she first climbed Tenshukaku, she had thought herself unafraid of death.

But when her faith was shattered before her eyes— and shattered so cruelly— the fear had nearly undone her.

Had it been Kujou Sara, so fanatical in her devotion, the result would have been far worse.

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