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Chapter 42: Ei’s Grievance · 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 42: Chapter 42: Ei’s Grievance

”This Inazuma hasn’t changed much from when I left.”

Raiden Makoto let out a quiet sigh of relief after walking through the city with Ei, still carrying Yae Miko—now in fox form—in her arms.

She had feared that with Ei ruling alone, Inazuma might have regressed.

But if things had at least stood still, that was already a blessing.

She couldn’t expect more.

The fox in her embrace rolled her eyes.

This was only the surface.

Had Su Ran not cleaned up Kujou Takayuki and Hiiragi Shinsuke just yesterday, the city would likely still be a mess.

Now, with the Tenryou Commission headless and the Kanjou Commission’s cowardly Shinsuke paying for his life with coin, things were quiet—for the moment.

Makoto had no idea what Inazuma’s real situation was.

If she saw the battlefield littered with corpses, she might have been horrified.

”Yes... indeed!”

Ei dared not admit to her sister that she had neglected governance.

But seeing the dream-Inazuma still thriving, she felt relief.

At least, the vision presented to Makoto was beautiful.

”But this is still just Inazuma in a dream, isn’t it?”

Makoto immediately pierced her sister’s facade.

She had been an older sister for millennia— how could she not see through Ei’s heart?

The moment she said the word dream, Yae Miko was not surprised.

She already knew this Raiden Makoto was the real one.

Ei, however, froze.

She could not comprehend how a figure born in the dream could know this truth.

Even Inazumans themselves were unaware.

So why did Makoto know?

”Was it... Su Ran who told you?”

She couldn’t think of another possibility.

And resentment stirred in her chest.

Why had Su Ran revealed this?

Even if it was only a dream, must he be so cruel?

”Ei! I died five hundred years ago. The only reason I can walk here again is because of him. How could you blame him?”

Makoto would never resent Su Ran.

Even knowing the dream robbed Inazumans of freedom, she had been granted a chance— a chance to stand again beside her sister in their city.

Whatever Su Ran’s schemes, Makoto could not hate him.

Nor would she allow Ei to blame him.

”No... I just dislike that he told you.”

Toward Su Ran, Ei’s gratitude far outweighed resentment.

This eternal dream, Makoto’s return— for these, she was deeply thankful.

But everything was already perfect.

Makoto and eternity had both returned.

Why introduce this flaw?

Why let Makoto know it was only a dream?

Wouldn’t it have been better to let her believe it was real?

”Foolish girl...”

Makoto could not exist here in flesh, only as lingering consciousness.

And yet, here she was—walking the city streets.

How could she not notice something was wrong?

Besides, she had met Su Ran before.

She was the dream’s first guest.

”But if this is your ’eternity,’ isn’t it cruel to Inazumans?”

After hearing more of the dream’s truth from Su Ran, Makoto understood its horror.

No death, no illness, no aging.

Yet no new life either.

No births, no fresh souls.

Humanity stripped of the cycle of life and death.

And how long would this dream last?

Even if their bodies never wore down— could mortals truly endure centuries of memory?

To Ei, this dream was eternity.

But only because she had long grown used to self-confinement.

She had merely traded her plane of Euthymia for a dream-prison.

For her, little difference.

But why should Inazumans accept such a cage?

Makoto would not tell her sister to abandon it.

That too was part of their promise.

All she could do was stay beside Ei, to soothe the solitude that had weighed on her all these years.

When the talk of the dream ended, Ei visibly relaxed.

Borrowing yesterday’s memories of walking Inazuma, she led Makoto to try new things— like dango milk.

”Two... two Shoguns?”

The snack vendor Tomoki blinked, dazed, seeing two Raiden Shoguns before him.

”I... am I dreaming?”

Ei shot him a glance.

Indeed, this was a dream.

”Two bottles of dango milk.”

”Y-yes, right away!”

Dream or not, if the Shogun came to taste his snacks, what greater honor could there be?

This would be the best advertisement imaginable.

But as Ei took the bottles, she realized something.

She had no mora.

Yesterday Su Ran had been there.

Now he wasn’t.

She couldn’t possibly make Makoto pay, could she?

Her gaze fell on the fox in Makoto’s arms.

Time to cough up some coins, Miko.

But as a tiny fox, Miko didn’t seem to have any pockets for money.

”Put it on the Tenshukaku’s tab.”

Hearing she meant to pay, Tomoki shook his head furiously.

”No, no! For the Shogun to taste my snacks is honor enough. How could I take your money?”

”Rules are rules. They cannot be broken.”

Ei shook her head, recalling that infuriating Su Ran.

”Didn’t a man come yesterday, carrying a child who looked a lot like me? Put the bill on him.”

”...Eh?”

Tomoki froze.

He vaguely remembered that man— and the distinct child in his arms.

If even the Shogun knew them... then didn’t that mean...?

Tomoki suddenly realized he might have stumbled on a terrible secret.

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