Chapter 307: Chapter 307: Friendly Fire Doesn’t Exist

Chapter 307: Friendly Fire Doesn’t Exist

Looking at that slash brimming with destructive aura, Bai Luo not only felt no fear—he was filled with delight.

If he had some snacks and drinks at hand, it would have been perfect.

Watching the show from this distance couldn’t have been more ideal.

Friendly fire? That doesn’t exist.

After using Shadow Step, Raiden Ei could no longer sense his position at all. She would only vent her rage at the place where he had last disappeared.

And that place… was right in front of Scaramouche.

To make sure Raiden Ei’s slash didn’t miss, he had even deliberately used “looking for a letter” as an excuse to get close to Scaramouche, ensuring nothing could go wrong.

What? You say this is screwing over a colleague? That it’s immoral?

Raiden Ei created Scaramouche. In a certain sense, she’s his mother.

This move was Bai Luo reuniting mother and son—how could that be considered immoral?

Didn’t you see how happy Scaramouche was, even calling out Bai Luo’s name?

Enjoying the show was one thing, but Bai Luo didn’t linger in Byakko Plain.

Because he knew that once Raiden Ei realized she’d cut down the wrong person, she would definitely start looking for him everywhere.

She might even start calling down lightning indiscriminately across Byakko Plain.

Most importantly, that guy Scaramouche would also be very likely to come looking for trouble.

In Bai Luo’s view, helping him find his mother was just a small favor. He really couldn’t bear the “gratitude” that might follow.

Better to slip away.

Leaving Inazuma, the first place one would normally consider was Ritou, the only port to leave the country through official means.

The problem was that Bai Luo had just torn down Tenshukaku together with Raiden Ei. He didn’t think Inazuma would still give him any face.

So Ritou was completely out of the question.

That left him with only one choice—Watatsumi Island.

That’s right. Bai Luo had just come from Watatsumi Island to Inazuma City and hadn’t even had time to drink a bowl of hot tea before he had to go back again.

He didn’t know if it was just his imagination, but when passing by Yashiori Island this time, he sensed that something felt off.

It wasn’t that the Shogunate forces were on higher alert than usual—rather, it felt as though something extra had appeared on the island.

The situation was urgent, and he didn’t have time to think it through. He hurriedly left.

…

“…”

Ei had already returned to the Plane of Euthymia. Now the one controlling the body was the Raiden Shogun, who had just finished rebooting.

Looking at the devastated Tenshukaku before her, she nearly crashed again.

How did her home disappear in the blink of an eye?

After briefly reviewing the memories from the time she had been offline, she fell silent once more.

“Shogun-sama…”

Seeing the silent Raiden Shogun, Kujou Takayuki stood beside her, wanting to say something.

Though it was mostly words meant to clear his own name.

After all, at the time Tenshukaku had been completely engulfed in lightning—ordinary people had no way of entering.

If the Raiden Shogun were to assign blame, subordinates like them could only bear it.

This was what they called serving a ruler is like living with a tiger.

“No need to say more. Regarding Tenshukaku, you need not inquire further.”

In the past, she would certainly have ordered the Tenryou Commission to issue a nationwide manhunt for Bai Luo. But from the battle at Tenshukaku, she could tell that Bai Luo’s strength was something ordinary people simply couldn’t handle.

Sending them to capture someone impossible to catch would only be making things difficult for them.

It was better to let this matter remain a secret.

“As you command.”

Upon receiving the Shogun’s order, Takayuki finally let out a sigh of relief.

No matter what, as long as the Shogun didn’t blame him, it was fine.

After reporting the relevant affairs, he didn’t linger. As for Tenshukaku, Inazuma City still needed him to fabricate a reasonable lie to calm the people.

Otherwise… with such a large city, who knew what kinds of rumors would spread.

“Yae Miko, where are you going?”

After sending Kujou Takayuki away, Raiden Shogun held her naginata and turned her gaze toward Yae Miko, who was trying to quietly slip off to the side.

She hadn’t forgotten why she had gone into a crash state in the first place.

“That brat Bai Luo has run off. He’d been eyeing the Gnosis Ei left with me before, I need to hurry back and check, or he might’ve taken it.”

Yae Miko’s excuse sounded perfectly reasonable. By all logic, Raiden Shogun had no grounds to stop her.

Unfortunately, after dealing with this noisy fox for so long, even as a puppet, she had already grasped some of Yae Miko’s habits.

For example, in a situation like this, there was no way this talkative fox would casually leave the Gnosis lying around at the shrine.

“If it’s lost, then so be it. I’m more curious about one thing—why did that man appear behind you?”

“Ah… looks like I can’t dodge this after all.”

Seeing that her lie hadn’t fooled Raiden Shogun, Yae Miko could only obediently explain her tangled history with Bai Luo.

She also shared some of her speculations about him along the way.

“Related to the Dendro element?”

“Yes. I had people investigate before. Every time that Harbinger performs one of those long-distance movements, there are always those strange flowers nearby. But this time at Tenshukaku… I still haven’t figured out what was going on.”

Though Yae Miko said she hadn’t figured it out, she already had a rough guess in her heart.

At the time, inside Tenshukaku, there really hadn’t been any of those blue wildflowers near her.

But in her snack pouch, there was something else connected to Bai Luo.

Sunsettia.

That entire plate of Sunsettia Bai Luo had left in the room—aside from the three eaten by herself, Bai Luo, and Kuki Shinobu, there had still been four left.

She crushed one and diluted its juice to make this batch of snacks.

The remaining three, for fear that someone might eat them by mistake, she carried with her the whole time.

When she was inside Tenshukaku, worried that the Raiden Shogun might suspect something was wrong with the fruit, she deliberately placed the snack pouch containing them behind her.

And the place where Bai Luo appeared… happened to be right behind her.

She suspected that these Sunsettia, altered by some unknown method Bai Luo had used, could also serve as a medium for his teleportation.

It was just that, compared to those blue wildflowers, Sunsettia weren’t connected to the ley lines. As a result, he couldn’t control them the same way, nor could he hear or see what was happening inside Tenshukaku.

Perhaps because of this, after the Shogun ate the Sunsettia, Bai Luo mistakenly thought she’s the one who had eaten them, and so he tried to teleport over to cause some trouble.

In the end, not only did he fail to stir things up—he nearly got “dealt with” himself.

“By the way… Ei’s slash didn’t hit him, did it?”

This was what Yae Miko was truly curious about.

Just moments ago, atop the ruins of Tenshukaku, she had personally witnessed the lightning over Byakko Plain.

According to the information sent by Kamisato Ayato, that area had the greatest concentration of those blue wildflowers, so it didn’t surprise her that Bai Luo would appear there.

But judging from Raiden Ei’s behavior—returning straight to the Plane of Euthymia—she clearly hadn’t succeeded.

Yet just now, someone had obviously been fighting Raiden Ei over at Byakko Plain.

So what, exactly, had her blade struck?

A melon?*

“No. That slash… hit someone else.”

“Someone else?”

Yae Miko looked curiously in the direction of Byakko Plain.

She could tell that neither the Raiden Shogun nor Raiden Ei within the Plane of Euthymia wanted to dwell on this unknown individual.

But within the lands of Inazuma, aside from herself and Bai Luo, was there really anyone else who could take that slash head-on?

Thinking about it that way, she really did think of someone.

A Harbinger who had arrived in Inazuma almost at the same time as Bai Luo—someone she had jokingly referred to as the Kabukimono.

“…It couldn’t really be him, could it?”

Yae Miko suddenly realized that Raiden Ei’s slash might truly have cut into a melon.

And a very big one at that.

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