"Oh? Only know that the waste that eats and waits for death is back? Raiden Shogun glanced at the shadow and said disdainfully.

Shadow: "."

It's so angry, this Raiden General's mouth is still so damaged.

"What's the matter?" Shadow asked.

"Have you forgotten that catastrophe five hundred years ago?" Raiden Shogun replied, "Or have you forgotten?" ”

Shadow: "."

Listening to Raiden Shogun's words, Shadow fell silent.

"What's going on?" Paimon wondered.

"The beast hounds began to attack the sacred cherry trees, and after I observed this, I still cleared these beast hounds, until I saw you coming, and I remembered one thing in my mind that I had to do."

"Beast Hound Dog?!" Shadow said in disbelief.

Raiden Shogun spoke, "Yes, do you remember?" ”

Paimon wondered, "Ei, what's going on?" ”

"Five hundred years ago, Inazuma experienced a catastrophe that shrouded the land in a dark fog and monsters ran rampant... The catastrophe claimed countless lives and destroyed the homes they had worked so hard to build. ”

"Monsters have committed many atrocities in the land of Inazuma. And this beast realm hound in the mouth of the Raiden General has always been the advance force of the demon group. ”

"Their duty is to tear open the spatial passage with their sharp claws and summon more powerful beasts."

"Was it the battle of Kanria five hundred years ago?" Ying asked.

Shadow replied, "Looks like you've heard of it, it's a fragment I never want to recall. ”

"At that time, Inazuma faced multiple crises, some from the local area and some from others. From the fallen kingdom, Kanria. ”

"The disaster in Inazuma is reassuring to me, and if we don't intervene in time, this disaster could spread to the whole of Teyvat."

"And my friend Kitsunaya told me that she would use all the forces around her to take on the responsibility of guarding Inazuma and clear my worries."

“… I could feel that, even if no one spoke, she and I both understood that the road ahead was a lot of bad luck. ”

Paimon touched his chin and said, "Is Kitsunaya the one with short white hair, golden eyes, and wearing a red and white witch costume?" ”

"Yes, you've seen that?" Shadow wondered.

"I've seen her once, but I don't know where she's gone." Paimon replied.

Shadow: "??? ”

You didn't tell me about such a big thing?

"Do you know where she went?" Shadow asked excitedly.

"I don't know, the last time I finished the Divine Sakura Purification with Ying, I lost contact with her." Paimon said, spreading his hands.

Ying glanced at Paimon and said, "Paimon won't say that next time." ”

Paimon: "Hey, hey. ”

"Since you can meet her, then I will have a chance in the future." Shadow calmed down and said.

"Ei, do you mean that when the disaster happened in Kanria, Inazuma was also attacked?" Paimon asked.

Shadow said, "Exactly." Countless monsters suddenly appeared on the land of Inazuma. Fox Sai Palace, she... In order to protect the people, he finally gave his life. ”

"I didn't get to see her one last time. But I would like to believe that until the last moment, she was willing to keep her promise to me. ”

But even so, Inazuma's tragic situation far exceeded expectations. Those misfortunes have become great wounds that remain in this land... and in my heart. ”

"Ei, we really saw the Fox Palace, we didn't lie to you." Ying looked at Ying, who was in a low mood, and said with relief.

"Fox Zhai Palace is dead, even if you see her, it is probably just a remnant of the memory she left, right?" Shadow shook her head and said, "But if I could see her again in the future, I think I'd be happy, even if it's just a memory." ”

"Is this what the Son of God calls loss?" Paimon scratched his head.

Paimon's words made Yae Miko next to her glare at her fiercely, can you talk or not, I don't see that people are uncomfortable.

Shadow opened his head and turned to look at Yae Miko and said, "Miko, sure enough, I still can't face the pain of loss for a long time. ”

"I have no force, even if I can cut off the gods and destroy the demonic beasts, I can't defeat time after all, and I can't leave the people I cherish."

Yae Miko shouted worriedly, "Shadow"

"Miko, I'm fine, I'm just reminiscing about the past, but the arrival of the tassel, under her guidance, I think a lot, my eyes can't stay in the past forever, and my eternity can't let Inazuma fall into deep pain again."

"So, does Ei stick to the past?" Paimon wondered.

“… When I visited Inazuma with you earlier, I was able to see the progress of Inazuma over the centuries and the possibilities of people. Everything was beyond expectations. ”

"Moving forward brings loss, but it also creates encounters." Shadow said this and turned his head to look at Tassel and Miko, and finally stopped at Ying's body.

"Ying, look, what is that?" Paimon suddenly pointed to the remnants of several samurai who suddenly appeared next to him and asked at Ying next to him.

Only one of the samurai was standing, and the rest were all lying on the ground, with only a slight heaving of their bodies.

"It's a remnant of that time." Shadow explained.

"I can't, just fall my brothers, it's up to me," the Inazuma samurai who was standing looked at the rest of the fallen samurai and said.

"What's going on here?" Paimon asked at the Phantom.

"Who are you? Why here? The Inazuma samurai suddenly turned to Ying and Paimon and asked.

The samurai said anxiously to Ying and Paimon, "Run!" The beasts will come back...—once they're targeted, they'll never run away! ”

"We. . Absolutely will protect Inazuma until the last moment! ”

"What's going on here?" Ying asked.

Hearing Ying's words, the samurai asked in surprise, "You, you don't even know?" Inazuma is already shrouded in black. ”

"There are beasts everywhere, and even more terrifying monsters! They don't have feelings at all, they just go crazy and devour everything..."

"The proof of our human existence will be swallowed up by them..."

"But there's nothing around us?" Paimon spread his hands.

"It's not time yet, but they'll be back... Come on! There's no time! ”

The samurai said with a serious face: "Now that the general is gone, and the fox palace is gone, the only one we can rely on is ourselves." ”

"Can't he see us?" Yae Miko wondered.

Tassel spoke: "Oh hey! ”

"I don't know how long we'll be able to hold out, but... If we give up hope, we really have nothing. ”

Knowing at a glance that the tassel was her doing, she stepped forward and said to the samurai, "Don't panic, I'm here." ”

"General, General?!" The samurai looked at the shadow in surprise.

"You're back! Please, please help us... Please, save Inazuma! ”

"Without your supreme thunder, there is no way to dispel this darkness, and in this way, the entire Inazuma will become food for wild beasts!"

Shadow opened his mouth and said with relief: "Calm down, that war is over." ”

Listening to Ei's words, the samurai said with an incredulous expression: "The end? You... What are you talking about, general..."

"Look around to the right. The vegetation is full of trees, the wind and the waves are calm, all this is no different from the peaceful Inazuma you remember, there are no monsters, and there is nothing that threatens your life. ”

"Hmm" Hearing Ei's words, the samurai looked around and wondered, "But, why?" They've been around for a long time."

"Obviously, I saw just now that my comrade-in-arms' body was torn to pieces..."

"Calm down, you'll be fine." Paimon looked at the excited samurai and hurriedly said.

"I see, Shogun, did you save Inazuma?" The samurai turned to look at the shadow and said.

"Believing in the Shogun is really the right choice, as long as the Shogun is still around, Inazuma will live forever"

Saying this, the samurai raised his hands above his head and thanked the shadow reverently, "Thank you, Shogun, thank you, thank you..."

"What's going on?" Paimon looked at the samurai who was starting to fade and wondered.

Ying replied, "He's going to disappear?" ”

Paimon scratched his head and said bitterly, "I didn't even understand what was going on here. But I always feel sad and hopeless."

"If I'm guessing correctly, that scene should be the memory of a certain samurai left in the land. ”

"But why did he appear at the Narukami Shrine? It doesn't look like he's in the state of Narujin Taisha. Paimon wondered.

"Of course I pulled him over, so that Ying remembered something." Tassel spoke.

"Tassel, why are you doing this?" Yae Miko wondered.

Raiden Shogun said lightly: "Of course, it's a little incentive for someone who plans to eat and wait for death." ”

Shadow: "."

Yae Miko: "."

"You're right, the victims of that era, the future they desperately want to pursue, the landscape that exists in their hearts may not be the eternity I once expected. ”

"As the god of Inazuma, it's time for me to respond to their expectations, and the glorious souls of the warriors who once shed their blood here have merged into this land."

"I will not forget your efforts."

"I don't need you to respond, I don't need you to try, I just let you see, that's all, you better continue to eat and die." Raiden Shogun continued.

"Are you annoyed, you say every day that I eat and wait to die, and I have done a lot, okay?" Shadow Shinobi couldn't bear to speak.

Raiden Shogun tilted his head and wondered at Ei, "Didn't I do it all these five hundred years?" What did you do? ”

"Well, the general seems to have a mind of his own." Paimon said to Ying next to him.

"How, you want to hit me? Challenge me to a duel in front of the Gozen, Raiden really has just the right space of consciousness. Raiden Shogun seduced.

"I" Shadow listened to Raiden Shogun's words and hesitated.

Raiden Shogun looked at the hesitant shadow at this time, shook his head and said: "The eternity in your heart has been shaken, and you have separated yourself, but I will still do what you want according to the behavior you set in the past, and you can't interfere with me yet, so the future in your mouth is still like a bubble, it is illusory, and now Inazuma only has eternity." ”

"No, it's just that why did you choose to be in the Thunderbolt True Consciousness Space, isn't it good to be single-minded in the Pure Land?" Shadow wondered.

Raiden Shogun replied, "Guess. ”

Shadow: "."

"I'm waiting for you in the real consciousness space." With that, Raiden Shogun's figure disappeared in place.

"Shadow." Yae Miko stepped forward and looked at the shadow worriedly.

Ying rubbed her head and asked puzzledly, "Why, she was able to enter the Thunderbolt True Consciousness Space by herself?" I remember that I had sealed the entrance to the real consciousness space under the shadow mountain. ”

"Didn't you create Raiden Shogun? It's not surprising that you're capable, right? Paimon spoke.

Shadow touched her chin and thought, "That's true, but I've always felt a little strange. ”

"If you don't hurry, time is running out." As Eige pondered, Raiden Shogun's voice came again.

"Let's go, and head down the mountain."

The group followed Shadow to a cave at the bottom of Shadow Mountain.

"It should be here." Shadow said in the cave as he looked at the stone wall in front of him.

"What is here, and what is nothing?" Paimon wondered.

Shadow didn't answer, but held out his hand, and a red torii gate appeared out of thin air.

Paimon was surprised and said, "There's a torii gate here?" ”

Ying explained, "This is the entrance to the Thunderbolt True Consciousness Space that I have sealed with my own hands. ”

"Let's go inside, Raiden Shogun is already waiting for me inside, it's time to put an end to this." Shadow stepped forward and held out his hand to the torii, and a purple portal appeared from the torii.

"Come with me, Son of God, you watch from the outside, so you don't have to come in." Shadow turned his head and said.

"Ei, are you alright?" Yae Miko asked worriedly.

"No problem." After Shadow finished speaking, he walked towards the portal in front of him.

"Where's the go, uh-huh-" Paimon was still a little confused, and suddenly a suction force came and sucked Ying and Paimon in, and Tassel followed him anyway.

"Well, what's the matter, just leave me alone outside, really." Yae Miko complained angrily: "But it should be fine with her in the shadow." ”

"I'm so dizzy, I've been pulled somewhere." Paimon, who had come to his senses, shook his head and said.

"Here it is"

"It's a bit like a pure land." Ying looked at the vast space and spoke.

"Look over there, Raiden Shogun is waiting here." Paimon said, pointing to the two people in front of him.

"Oh? Is it coming? Raiden Shogun turned to Ei and said.

"Raiden Shogun, what do you want to do?" Shadow asked.

"Because you deviate from the law, then according to your setting, this body should be transformed into Shura." Raiden Shogun spoke.

After Raiden Shogun finished speaking, he pulled out a long knife from the space next to him and pointed it at Ei.

"This feeling, not quite like a puppet general." Looking at Raiden Shogun with a long knife in his left hand, Paimon said suspiciously.

Raiden Shogun looked at the shadow and said, "You have broken away from this body, traveled the world, and seem to have mastered the true meaning of eternity, and you think that you are more determined now than in the past, so you are right now." Is it? ”

"Tassel, what's going on, I don't understand." Paimon asked for help from the tassel next to him.

Tassel said mysteriously: "Well, everything is expected, don't worry." ”

"Do you have a new idea, or are you being worn out irresistibly? Or is it eroded by taboos? ”

"Hmm, tassel, how do I feel weird, I feel that Raiden Shogun has a sense of déjà vu when he reads the lines." Paimon scratched his head and said, "Her words are a little stiff, and some of Raiden Shogun's actions don't seem like she's a puppet." ”

"As long as you talk a lot, just look at it." Tassel said, glancing at her.

"Hmm, I'm just curious, if I don't say it, I won't say it, why do you have such a bad attitude, it's true." Paimon said with his arms folded in his hands.

"I'm here to answer you." Shadow spoke.

"Then show your weapons, you and I are both warriors, and only this method can resolve disputes." Raiden Shogun said to Ei.

"Well, the atmosphere changed all of a sudden, Ei, are you really okay?" Paimon asked worriedly as he looked at the Raiden Shogun in front of him, whose aura was obviously stronger than Shadow.

"As he said, as soon as I have the idea of changing, she will see me as an enemy." Shadow explained.

Paimon scratched his head and said, "But wasn't it good to be in the castle tower before?" ”

Shadow: "."

If Raiden Shogun is okay like that, then there will be no enemies in the world with bad attitudes.

"Although I made a change before, my thoughts were not so obvious, and I still wanted to chase eternity, but after experiencing Liyue and the previous events, I completely changed my opinion, which is why the general came to me."

"Uh... Although the shadow said that no matter how difficult it is, he will do something like that, but who would have thought that it would be this kind of situation to hit himself! Paimon complained helplessly.

"Eihe and the general are going to fight, I thought it was just talking before, because the first time the general refused."

Ying opened his mouth and said: "The law I set for the general is no, the general is the ideal of the past, the cornerstone of eternity, and it is difficult to shake. ”

"I won't try to change her unless I have to."

"Well, there's no other way? Talk about it or something. "Paimon wants to say something.

Ying opened his mouth and said, "Ying is not a person who will leave a way out for himself." ”

"However, they are obviously all for Inazuma"

Tassel said on the side: "Officially, this battle is only because of Inazuma, otherwise, Inazuma."

"Otherwise, what?" Paimon asked excitedly.

"Nothing, it's not the time to say it." Tassel shook his head.

Paimon huffed and said, "Well, I'm so angry, you're only halfway talking, that's very appetizing, okay?" I've decided to give you the title of the Riddler too! ”

Raiden Shogun said expressionlessly: "This body, a symbol of supreme majesty, has been granted the right to rule a country, and it embodies everything about Raiden Shogun. ”

But what everyone didn't notice was that when Raiden Shogun said this, the corners of his eyes twitched, and his toes were fiercely buckled on his shoes.

"Nature also sustains the pain that Shadow continues to lose when he moves forward, and the determination to reach eternity."

"It's all about fighting wear and tear."

"Determination, courage, love, hatred... will deteriorate and distort in the long river of time. ”

"Only the law is eternal."

(End of chapter)