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Chapter 22: Turning Inazuma into a Second Fontaine, and Ei’s Defection · 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 22: Chapter 22: Turning Inazuma into a Second Fontaine, and Ei’s Defection

”You... would abandon Eternity?”

When the Raiden Shogun spoke of being freed from her mission, Ei’s expression was a sight to behold.

After all, she had written Eternity into the Shogun’s core.

She had even installed failsafes to ensure that, if one day she herself faltered, the Shogun would never betray that principle.

And yet, somehow... the Shogun had been altered?

”No! I still uphold Eternity. But no longer as my sole mission in life—rather, as the path I myself must pursue.”

A missionless pursuit, one that could even defy the orders of her own creator.

For a Shogun with heightened intelligence, it was an absurd loophole.

The irony wasn’t lost on her.

Did her own creation now doubt whether she understood Eternity?

Ei, foolish Ei—what right did she have to lecture her puppet on the meaning of Eternity?

”I will no longer obey your commands, nor follow after that false Eternity! The true Eternity... is about to descend upon Inazuma!”

Ei’s eyes went wide, her tiny face blank with shock.

False Eternity? True Eternity?

Since when had there been two kinds?

”Ahem. Then tell us, Shogun—what Eternity do you speak of?”

Yae Miko’s voice was cautious.

The puppet had always been rigid to a fault, but this smelled of tampering.

Had that white-haired man slipped something into her programming?

The Shogun stretched out her hand.

In an instant, she snatched up an ornate chess piece.

”Even if the flesh perishes, the soul may endure.

No erosion, no war, no death.

Inazuma shall become a perfect nation, dwelling within a dream.”

With those words, she offered her Gnosis to Su Ran.

It carried the weight of a vow, almost like a child presenting herself for adoption.

”...I don’t get it.”

Ei’s large doll-eyes blinked up at Su Ran, full of suspicion.

This man was dangerous.

Too strong.

Strong enough to seize control of the Shogun.

Yet... he also seemed to understand Eternity.

Anyone who might disrupt Eternity must be eliminated.

Su Ran was no exception.

But if his path aligned with hers— then there was no problem.

”I intend to gather every soul upon Inazuman soil and place them into a single dream.”

Su Ran’s plan was simple in words, outrageous in scope.

A mirror of Fontaine’s Hotel of Dreams.

Not a perfect copy, of course—there would be difficulties.

But with time? Entirely possible.

The Gnosis was not just a keepsake of the Archons.

It held the power to forge divinity.

More than enough to serve as the heart of a dream.

”Without the burden of flesh, people would no longer die.

Existing outside of reality, their souls would not be eroded by Celestia.

A realm without death, without loss—would that not be a truly eternal nation?”

He gathered the tiny Ei into his arms.

She didn’t resist.

On the contrary—her heart was pounding with exhilaration.

This is it. If this is not Eternity... what else could be?

No death.

No partings.

Everything is preserved forever.

Was Su Ran not a messenger from the heavens, sent to grant her dearest wish?

The idea was fantastical.

Yet the more she thought, the more it thrilled her.

After all, had she not already pursued something similar herself— shedding her body, dwelling as pure consciousness, cut off from reality?

”This... this kind of Eternity...”

Ayaka, who had finally begun to relax, tensed up once more.

To abandon reality, to take refuge in illusion— could that really be called Eternity?

Why did it feel even more terrifying than the Vision Hunt Decree or the Sakoku Decree?

She was not alone.

Yae Miko, too, was unsettled.

To forsake the real for a dream?

Not to her taste.

Reality was far too fun to throw away.

”Very well! I will aid you!”

Ei, however, embraced it at once.

To her ears, Su Ran’s vision was the true Eternity she had sought all along.

One she had lacked the strength, or the imagination, to realize.

If Su Ran could achieve it— then she would be his staunchest supporter.

Her sudden defection surprised no one more than Yae Miko and Ayaka.

”...”

They exchanged a look.

This was worse.

Far worse than any decree before.

Three godlike beings, united under one cause.

If they resisted...

For a moment, even Yae Miko’s shrewd mind wavered.

If you can’t beat them... perhaps join them?

”I confess, I’m starting to look forward to how this plays out,” she murmured.

But Su Ran’s true ambition was not to build some paradise resort like Fontaine’s dream-hotel.

He knew full well there would be rebels.

Yae Miko, no matter how calm she looked, would surely oppose him.

And Ayaka’s worried little face gave her away completely.

He didn’t mind.

In fact, he welcomed it.

What he wanted most was to watch the rebels struggle— to see how they would resist, how they would face down gods, how they would shatter Inazuma’s dream.

And for that... they would need a leader.

A protagonist.

The Traveler.

Only problem?

That poor soul was still stuck in Mondstadt, wrestling with a dragon.

Was it Aether, or Lumine, this time?

He hoped it was Lumine.

”Abyss Order, do me a favor, won’t you? Twist fate a little, and give me the Princess instead of the Prince.”

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