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Chapter 21: Ei Revives… But as a Puppet · 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 21: Chapter 21: Ei Revives... But as a Puppet

”...Where am I?”

The gates of the Plane of Euthymia had slammed shut.

Her link to the Shogun was gone.

In the midst of meditation, Raiden Ei immediately sensed the crisis.

But without the door opening, no matter what happened outside, she could not respond.

All she could do was wait— wait until the path back to reality reopened.

Fortunately, that day came sooner than she feared.

Though what awaited her beyond the gate... that, she could not know.

To step out was a risk.

But to remain was to do nothing at all.

At last, Ei chose to face the unknown.

”Ei? You’re finally awake!”

”...Shogun? Is that you?”

Slowly, Ei opened her eyes.

Dazed, she looked up at two towering figures.

”Yae...?”

”Why are you so... enormous?”

Her words made Yae Miko cover her mouth and giggle.

Something was terribly wrong.

Ei stood— only to find that, even upright, she was shorter than the two kneeling before her.

”...”

She looked at her hands.

Touched her head.

”...Something’s off.”

No—something was very off!

”Pfft—hahaha!”

Yae Miko could hold it no longer.

She collapsed, pounding the floor in laughter.

Even Kamisato Ayaka at her side failed to stifle a smile.

For Ei’s consciousness, her power, her entire being— had all been placed inside a tiny armed doll.

A two-headed-tall puppet, absurdly adorable.

But if this was Inazuma’s Raiden Shogun... what a joke it would be.

”...What is the meaning of this?”

Why had she become like this?

Who was responsible?

Yae?

Or perhaps the white-haired stranger standing nearby?

Ei had shut herself away in the Plane of Euthymia for five centuries.

She had never seen the outside.

Naturally, she did not recognize Kamisato Ayaka.

”Isn’t it obvious? Our dear Ei looks just like a little baby now. Want me to fetch you a candy, hmm?”

Were it not for the divine power still radiating from this tiny form, Yae Miko truly might have scooped her up and cuddled her.

”Quit joking! If nothing’s wrong, then turn me back!”

Ei was certain this was some trick.

Some unknown power had warped her body.

”Ahem... Ei, tell me—before your link to the Shogun was severed, you... knew nothing?”

Yae Miko’s expression turned strange.

Had the Shogun truly fallen, without Ei even realizing?

”I knew nothing. Why was the gate suddenly sealed?”

Ei’s mind swirled with questions.

No one but herself and the Shogun could close that gate.

Unless someone wielded power even greater than hers.

Yet she had sensed nothing before it happened.

Ayaka pointed her small finger behind Ei.

Yae’s smile faded, her face grave.

Unease prickling her heart, Ei turned.

There sat an unfamiliar man.

At his side— another Raiden Shogun.

And scattered around them, the wreckage of broken bodies... remnants of puppets like the Shogun herself.

”So, you’ve awakened.”

The Shogun approached the tiny puppet body.

”You... are the Shogun? Why was our bond severed?”

Ei stared at the form she herself had crafted long ago.

Her own hands had built it.

There could be no mistake.

Could it be... the work of Celestia?

Her eyes flicked instinctively to the man.

”Do you see those remains?”

The Shogun gestured at the wreckage littering the floor.

”My former bodies. Broken by his hand.”

Ei stepped closer, her heart heavy.

She recognized the fragments instantly.

The words were true.

Which meant— a great enemy had come to Inazuma.

”What is your purpose here?”

At once her suspicion fixed upon the silent man.

Ayaka was still mortal, despite her Vision.

Only this man was different.

She could not see through him.

Not shrouded in mist— but as if she could perceive only his surface, nothing deeper.

”My purpose? Does Kamisato Ayaka count? Does Yae Miko? Or perhaps... the Raiden Shogun herself?”

The man smiled at the doll-sized Ei.

”...What do you mean?”

Assassination?

But he had already broken the Shogun.

That was assassination enough.

Then why repair her?

Why free Ei from her Plane?

”Isn’t it simple?”

Yae poked Ei’s tiny cheek.

”Because, little Ei... the three of us are destined to serve the same husband.”

”...”

Ei slapped her hand away, face hard.

”This vessel holds but one wish— to pursue eternity.

I will suffer no bonds, no burdens to hinder my path.

Not even this man.”

She would never tie herself to him.

No matter how strong.

Unless... he himself were eternity.

”Uh... wait. Did you think I was after you?”

The man looked genuinely baffled by Ei’s confidence.

”...Not me?”

The denial caught Ei off guard.

Had she overestimated her own importance?

But she was the Raiden Shogun. Was she not?

”It’s me.”

The Shogun spoke.

”For saving my life, I have nothing else to offer— so I shall give myself to you.”

”But the one who broke you... was also him!”

Ei nearly believed her words,

until the wreckage at their feet reminded her otherwise.

He had destroyed her.

Then restored her.

How could that be considered a debt?

If anything, the scales tipped toward sin.

”Yet he freed me from the mission of eternity itself.”

The Shogun’s eyes burned with conviction.

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