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Chapter 26: Ayato’s Broken Heart, Kokomi’s Panic · 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 26: Chapter 26: Ayato’s Broken Heart, Kokomi’s Panic

Inazuma had barely begun to recover from its former turmoil, and now it was sinking into an even deeper abyss.

No matter how much Kamisato Ayato revered the Raiden Shogun, her endless string of actions had left him utterly speechless.

”...But, Ayaka, why have you returned?”

Gods had their own ways of thinking—beyond mortal comprehension.

A human’s brief century of life could never rival the eternal gaze of a deity.

But why had Ayaka come back?

Wasn’t she meant to serve the Shogun?

”It was Lord Su Ran who sent me to visit my family. I must return to his side tomorrow.”

Even away from Tenshukaku, Kamisato Ayaka still addressed him with that respectful ’Lord.’

Not only had his boundless ideas left her awestruck, but his ability to recreate the Shogun’s puppet had also filled her with admiration.

Her shining eyes of worship, however, only made Ayato’s chest ache with unease.

That man... was a Fatui Harbinger.

He had openly admitted to colluding with the Tenryou Commission and the Kanjou Commission, manipulating the Shogun into enacting both the Vision Hunt Decree and the Sakoku Decree.

And now his sister gazed at him with admiration?

How could that not feel utterly wrong?

”Little sister... did this Su Ran... Lord... truly praise your beauty?”

Knowing the man’s true identity, Ayato could hardly bear it.

Yet with such divine strength, he dared not speak too loudly against him.

Still, the thought gnawed at him.

Had Yae Miko been right?

Did this man truly harbor intentions toward his sister?

”Th-That...”

Ayaka raised her fan to shield her face, unable to meet his serious gaze.

”...Yes. Lord Su Ran did praise me.”

Something inside Ayato cracked.

Ayaka, of course, understood what troubled him.

”But... he is a god.”

Whether the man had real designs on her or not, to Ayaka, the thought itself was already a blessing.

Gods were untouchable.

If one stood before you—close enough to touch— who would be willing to simply let go?

”And it’s not as if I fell in love with him at first sight...”

She lowered her head.

Her words sounded like denial, but the faint blush and clear fondness on her face only deepened Ayato’s despair.

His beloved sister—snatched away while he wasn’t watching.

The pain was sharper than any wound to himself.

She had been under his care since childhood, and yet in just a few short days apart, she had already drifted into another’s orbit.

Godlike strength or not, how could Ayaka have fallen so quickly?

If not love at first sight... then was it affection grown in just these fleeting days?

For one brief, dangerous moment, Ayato even considered fleeing Inazuma entirely.

The Kamisato clan was no longer as prosperous as before, but its wealth remained considerable.

Even a ”starved camel” was larger than a horse.

If they fled to Liyue, they could still live comfortably.

They would escape the chaos, protect Ayaka, and even sidestep the Shogun’s looming dream of eternity.

The more he thought on it, the more tempting it became.

The storms around Inazuma had cleared.

If they didn’t leave now, then when?

Ayaka, meanwhile, still clung to her hopes of stopping the Shogun and Su Ran’s plan.

But Ayato had already seen the truth.

They had been powerless against the Sakoku Decree and the Vision Hunt Decree.

And now, this dream that promised eternity... what chance did they have of persuading a god to abandon it?

If they ran now, there was still time.

If they waited, there would be none.

Both siblings knew: once a god wove a dream, ordinary people would not wake from it at will.

At the Sangonomiya Shrine on Watatsumi Island, a young priestess with the beauty of a vision fish sat with a letter in trembling hands.

The more she read, the more her heart raced.

The more she read, the more absurd it felt.

The storms surrounding Inazuma had vanished— the resistance was caught off guard.

Rumors said the Shogun had been defeated.

The shogunate was in chaos.

Kokomi had suspected it was a trap.

So she had chosen to bide her time.

But now, it seemed the rumors were true.

The shogunate’s morale was rising again.

To dream of victory for Watatsumi now... was nothing but delusion.

And worse still, the Shogun intended to enact something more outrageous than the Sakoku and Vision Hunt Decrees.

Kokomi slumped onto her desk.

Her every nerve screamed despair.

One small misjudgment had snowballed into a catastrophe.

”Raiden Shogun... this is far too absurd!”

To drag all of Inazuma into a dream?

A dream none could ever awaken from?

That was her so-called ”eternity”?

Kokomi’s hands shook violently as she clutched the letter.

Its truth was beyond doubt— for it bore the hand of Kamisato Ayaka, the White Heron Princess.

Since the war’s earliest days, Ayaka had shared intelligence with her.

Watatsumi’s survival owed much to her aid.

Kokomi trusted her word.

And yet, what good was forewarning, when they lacked the strength to resist?

The resistance could not even breach the gates of Inazuma City— how could they reach Tenshukaku?

How could they hope to dissuade the Shogun?

Nor could Watatsumi simply escape.

Unlike the Kamisato clan, they had no retreat.

”...No. Watatsumi must negotiate with the shogunate!”

Watatsumi was never meant to be under the Shogun’s rule.

Even her eternity should not touch the people who worshipped the great serpent.

That was a promise Narukami had once given Watatsumi.

And Kokomi would hold her to it.

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