Genshin Impact: The 12th Fatui Harbinger

After Bai Luo's orders were issued, the Fatui began to operate at high speed.

Two billion Mora sounded like a lot, but with the Fatui's current reserves, it was easy to produce.

It wasn't just about the funds.

The agricultural products, food, equipment, and other things that Watatsumi Island lacked, which Bai Luo had specified in the contract, were also being prepared by his men.

Although he said he would handle it personally, in reality, after he gave the orders, it was his subordinates who did the work.

He, on the other hand, lay on a rocking chair, looking thoughtfully at the Tenshukaku high above.

What is eternity?

Makoto and Ei.

Raiden Makoto believed that eternity was fluid, a state called "dreams," even more illusory and abstract than "ambitions."

Ambitions mostly pointed to some kind of actual substance or conclusion, always finite, always replaced by new ambitions.

What Raiden Makoto focused on was the driving force that compelled humans to continuously generate new ambitions.

In other words, dreams.

This driving force was rooted in instinct. In other words, as long as dreams existed, ambitions would continue.

And endlessly continuing ambitions were the eternity that had not faded for generations.

"If one looks at it from the perspective of its changes, then heaven and earth cannot last for even an instant. If one looks at it from the perspective of its constancy, then all things and I are without end."

Unlike Raiden Makoto, the current Raiden Ei held a view that was the exact opposite.

She believed that eternity was stillness.

The scenery of the mortal world remains for a thousand years, but a person's life is like the morning dew and a fleeting bubble.

To move forward is to lose everything.

This was the iron law that acted upon the entire world, with time as its vessel.

In stories from a distant time.

Even the most prosperous and flourishing kingdom of man collapsed overnight.

One day... Inazuma would also lose the protection of its god.

Erosion was a law that even elemental beings, whose lifespans tended towards infinity, could not avoid.

The only thing that could solve this problem was eternity.

Eternity could bring all things to a standstill, making Inazuma immortal.

While everything was still beautiful, to remain still and journey towards eternity.

Thus, Scaramouche and the Shogun were born.

Putting Scaramouche aside for now.

The Shogun, with eternity as her goal, possessed the same appearance as Ei and had her own consciousness, steadfastly carrying out Ei's eternal will.

As for Raiden Ei, she attached her own consciousness to Raiden Makoto's Musou Isshin and entered a meditation with no end in sight, completely stopping her own time to resist the erosion that constantly tried to invade her.

But she did not realize that by having the Shogun single-mindedly pursue eternity, a fatal flaw had also emerged.

She only cared about eternity.

She only cared about the eternal mission that Ei had given her.

This was one of the reasons why, despite Bai Luo's long-running antics in Inazuma, the Raiden Shogun had never come to deal with him.

The Vision Hunt Decree, facilitated by the Fatui, was the confiscation of Visions, which was the confiscation of people's ambitions.

To the Shogun, this was beneficial.

Losing their ambitions, Inazuma would no longer change.

And without change, was that not what was meant by "unchanging and unmoving"?

Simply put... the artificial intelligence that Raiden Ei had created had a loophole that the Fatui had discovered.

Having spoken of the Shogun, let's talk about Scaramouche again.

Honestly, there was one thing that Bai Luo had always found very confusing.

If the information Bai Luo had was correct, then of the Raiden sisters, putting the older sister Makoto aside, as the information was too limited...

But Ei...

She should have been a martial artist obsessed with martial arts.

After all, all the martial arts of Inazuma were passed down from her.

So the question was, did someone like her understand matters between men and women?

Not in terms of romance.

But in terms of anatomy.

Did she even know that the physical structures of men and women were actually different?

If the puppet Scaramouche was made with herself as the prototype...

Then was it possible that Scaramouche's physical structure was different from Bai Luo's?

For example, compared to Bai Luo, did he have fewer "strengths" and more "depth"?

[A/N: To the people of culture who understood the meaning, that's an interesting thought that Bai Luo had.]

This was a question worth pondering deeply.

If he had the time, the two of them needed to have an in-depth discussion on this matter.

Hmm... there seemed to be a hot spring inn in the city, right?

He should invite him for a soak sometime.

...

Watatsumi Island

The first ray of morning sun shone into the room through the window, evenly casting its light on the face of the person on the bed.

Her lovely eyelashes fluttered, and after a moment, she slowly opened her eyes.

An unfamiliar ceiling.

Hmm...

It seemed...

Clutching her still-aching head, Sangonomiya Kokomi slowly sat up, and the blanket on her body slid down accordingly.

"???"

Looking at the body under the blanket, Sangonomiya Kokomi's brain almost shut down again.

She didn't remember having a habit of sleeping without clothes.

At the very least... she should have been wearing some underwear or something, right?

Why was she...

"You're awake, Miss Sangonomiya?"

Tatyana, who had been keeping watch by the bed all along, no longer seemed as aggressive as before.

That made sense. Before, they were considered enemies.

The Fatui had never been soft on their enemies.

But allies were different. Even if it was just for show, the Fatui would make you feel just how warm Snezhnaya could be.

[A/N: Hmmm...Snezhnaya is warm? thought a flying white baloon while tilting her head]

"What happened to me?"

Even though they were of the same sex, Sangonomiya Kokomi was not used to meeting so openly.

She pulled the blanket back up and asked her warily.

"Lord Instructor saw that you had fainted and carried you to the bed."

"???"

The Instructor?!

That word, like a bomb, that exploded in Sangonomiya Kokomi's mind.

The negotiation with the Fatui, the deal with the Fatui, and that sentence...

"Actually, the 'Battousai' who has been staying on Watatsumi Island this whole time... was me."

She remembered it all.

Limping, she slammed her hand on the bedboard. Her eyes had even lost their luster.

She had lost. It was a complete and utter defeat.

She was like a fish on a chopping block, being carved up at will, with no way to resist.

She recalled all the times she had confidently boasted in front of that "Battousai," saying that she understood the Fatui better than he did.

She herself found it ironic.

That "Battousai"... no, the Instructor, must have thought of her as a joke, right?

And even after she had fainted in the end...

Hmm? After she fainted?

Lifting the blanket and looking at her naked self, then looking at Tatyana beside her.

"The Instructor carried me to bed?"

"Yes."

"Did he do anything to me?"

"...No."

Averting her head with a slightly guilty conscience, Tatyana said this sentence with a noticeable lack of confidence.

That made sense. If this girl found out that her Lord Instructor had done nothing and just left, and had even just tucked her into bed...

Wouldn't the glorious and great image of Lord Instructor collapse?

Fortunately, she was on the scene and had promptly taken remedial action for him, helping this Divine Priestess remove her clothes.

"..."

Sangonomiya Kokomi suddenly discovered that what she had lost was not just Watatsumi Island, but seemingly something even more important.

[A/N: Perhaps, this innocent ornamental fish will have great grievances regarding our dear Instructor]

_______________________________________

Hey guys, A little support will be appreciated. As you know, we don't earn on fanfiction.

Check my P@treon for advance chapters:-

Their are 10+ advance chapters available on P@treon

[email protected]/AnimeDarcx