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

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101 Chapter 101: A Battle of Gods… Turns Into a Family Dispute? 2026-10-08
102 Chapter 102: The Tsaritsa’s Shock 2026-10-08
103 Chapter 103: The Cryo Archon: ’Your Inazuma Has Ayaka? My Snezhnaya Has the Maiden!’ 2026-10-08
104 Chapter 104: The Lady and the Harbinger Who Got Played 2026-10-08
105 Chapter 105: The Tsaritsa: ’Baalzebul, You Don’t Want to Just Watch Him Leave… Do You?’ 2026-10-08
106 Chapter 106: Furina, the Blonde That Fell from the Sky?! 2026-10-08
107 Chapter 107: Living with Ningguang, and Giving Her a Ring 2026-10-08
108 Chapter 108: Ningguang Feels Powerless Before the Might of the Cosmos 2026-10-08
109 Chapter 109: Taking In the Rich Lady Ningguang 2026-10-08
110 Chapter 110: Let Ei Go Beat Up Scaramouche 2026-10-08
111 Chapter 111: Ningguang’s Hint: I’m Already His Woman 2026-10-08
112 Chapter 112: Eula’s Overwhelming Sense of Justice… and Decision to Sit Back and Watch 2026-10-08
113 Chapter 113: Lumine: ’I Happen to Be Friends with a Fatui Harbinger!’ 2026-10-08
114 Chapter 114: Keqing and Ningguang Are Terrified 2026-10-08
115 Chapter 115: Little Duck: ’If I Told You Who My Parents Are, You’d Die of Shock!’ 2026-10-08
116 Chapter 116: The Tsaritsa: ’Have I Been Blind All Along?’ 2026-10-08
117 Chapter 117: The Upright Keqing Can’t Stay Tough Anymore 2026-10-08
118 Chapter 118: Has the Ice Goddess Become the Jilted One? 2026-10-08
119 Chapter 119: Arlecchino Can’t Keep a Straight Face 2026-10-08
120 Chapter 120: Focalors: Let Me Bully You First! 2026-10-08
121 Chapter 121: The Fox Priest’s Sarcasm, and Ningguang’s Shock 2026-10-08
122 Chapter 122: The Suspicious Herta Puppet 2026-10-08
123 Chapter 123: Herta: Is He Out of His Mind? 2026-10-08
124 Chapter 124: Lumine’s Helplessness, and Yelan’s Glimmer of Hope 2026-10-08
125 Chapter 125: Kokomi: Why Haven’t They Let Me Out Yet? 2026-10-08
126 Chapter 126: The Traveler Arrives in Inazuma 2026-10-08
127 Chapter 127: Lumine Gets Wanted the Moment She Arrives in Inazuma 2026-10-08
128 Chapter 128: The Shogun’s Little Temper and Her Advice 2026-10-08
129 Chapter 129: Herta: ’Let Me Study You!’ 2026-10-08
130 Chapter 130: Failed Poaching, and Herta’s Shock 2026-10-08
131 Chapter 131: Staffer: ’Are you sure this isn’t Lady Herta?’ 2026-10-08
132 Chapter 132: Herta: ’Let’s get married!’ 2026-10-08
133 Chapter 133: Herta’s Shamelessness 2026-10-08
134 Chapter 134: Topaz: ’Is This Guy Insane?’ 2026-10-08
135 Chapter 135: Topaz’s Shock 2026-10-08
136 Chapter 136: Topaz: ’Is it still too late to get plastic surgery?’ 2026-10-08
137 Chapter 137: Ruan Mei’s Invitation 2026-10-08
138 Chapter 138: The Disliked Ruan Mei 2026-10-08
139 Chapter 139: Topaz Feels Like She Boarded a Pirate Ship 2026-10-08
140 Chapter 140: Ruan Mei: ’It’s Ruan·Mei, Not ‘Soft Girl’!’ 2026-10-08
141 Chapter 141: Topaz: ’What kind of nickname is ‘Ranking Queen’ supposed to be?’ 2026-10-08
142 Chapter 142: Ruan Mei’s Overflowing Curiosity 2026-10-08
143 Chapter 143: The Possibility of Becoming the Next Swarm Aeon & Topaz Being Angrily Amused 2026-10-08
144 Chapter 144: Herta Can’t Bear to Let Him Leave 2026-10-08
145 Chapter 145: Herta: ’I’m a Real Mature Onee-san, Okay?!’ 2026-10-08
146 Chapter 146: Lumine: ’You’re damnable, you know that?!’ 2026-10-08
147 Chapter 147: Raiden Ei: ’You’re not allowed to think about other girls!’ 2026-10-08
148 Chapter 148: Yae Miko: ’Of course—don’t let benefits flow to outsiders.’ 2026-10-08
149 Chapter 149: Raiden Ei: ’You want me to socially die… in front of Makoto?!’ 2026-10-08
150 Chapter 150: Ningguang Wants to Be the Madam Boss 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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