From the perspective of the Raiden Shogun, what does Lord Shura Anyakonsen-shou look like?
According to the report submitted by the Tenryou Commission, this person is an adventurer from Liyue. After eliminating over a thousand wandering samurai who were harming the people of Inazuma, he was spontaneously acclaimed and elevated by the populace.
The Raiden Shogun had no particular objections to this.
Trade between Inazuma and Liyue had existed since ancient times, so it was perfectly normal for an adventurer from Liyue to arrive.
Moreover, this person had eliminated threats to the people = contributed to Inazuma = as Inazuma's deity, she should bestow commendation and reward.
One could say the Raiden Shogun is incompetent, but she is truly not malicious.
"This body has promised its subjects a single dream: an eternity unchanging and immovable through a thousand generations and ten thousand ages."
If she were truly an evil being, she wouldn't have such lines.
So, let's do a slight analysis of the Raiden Shogun.
At present, the true Electro Archon of Inazuma is Ei. The Raiden Shogun should be seen as something akin to an AI created by Ei—perhaps even something like a daughter.
Five hundred years ago, Ei lost most of the friends around her, including her closest sister, Makoto. As a result, she shut herself away.
In Ei's mind, "eternity" meant the time before the catastrophe five hundred years ago—when all her friends were still by her side.
That was a beautiful memory. But after the disaster came reconstruction. Having suffered so much emotional pain (eating so many "knives"), Ei's defenses shattered.
Extending this to others, Ei didn't want the people of Inazuma to suffer the same blades she had.
Then Ei analyzed the reason why she had been stabbed and why those close to her had left: it was because a nation that kept advancing forward.
She felt that Inazuma's future—if it continued to advance—was too unpredictable and too dangerous. So she resolved to pursue an eternity where there would be no further progress.
And to prevent herself from wavering and wanting to move forward again, she decided to simply lock herself away inside the Plane of Euthymia.
But at the same time, looking at the humans outside who needed protection, she thought about it and, within her sense of responsibility toward people, found a good method: AI governance.
Using her ideal personality as a template and her own understanding of eternity as material, she created the stern, rigidly principled Raiden Shogun.
Then she taught her nothing—just handed over all state affairs to this Raiden Shogun, whom she believed was better suited in personality to handle governance.
In the end, Ei hid alone inside her inner mental space for self-reflection. To prevent any changes in her belief in eternity from causing suffering to Inazuma's people, she even gave the Raiden Shogun the function of a prison warden—ensuring that if she ever had a sudden impulse to change her mind, it could be stopped and unnecessary losses avoided.
Ei probably thought something like this: With AI governing the country and all unstable factors locked away by herself, surely this would allow Inazuma to exist in beautiful, unchanging eternity?
There was probably also a bit of personal desire mixed in—for example, inside her Plane of Euthymia, she could think of nothing at all and thus avoid ever eating the blades of her past experiences again...
But it's likely that Ei—who usually left all governance to her sister back in the day—didn't even realize one thing.
Human wisdom and greed are boundless.
Although you established at the highest level, through AI governance, that Inazuma would develop toward a beautiful future...
The people below don't think that way. Many of them care far more about what they can grasp in their hands than about some vague, distant "eternity" for Inazuma.
When Ei withdrew, she probably never imagined that humans would dare to deceive an Archon.
Even the neighboring Morax had to occasionally descend to investigate the people's livelihood and patch legal loopholes.
Could you really expect a Raiden Shogun—who stays holed up in Tenshukaku day after day without ever setting foot outside—to restore Inazuma to its past beauty just by remaining indoors?
She simply doesn't have that capability, okay?
Fighting? She's excellent at that. Politics? She'd basically be sending herself to die. The people below can fool her without even needing to think too hard.
Don't think this is impossible—subordinates paying lip service while secretly disobeying is nothing new.
For concrete examples, just look at the list of households raided when the Chuangwang entered the capital, or eggs selling for fifty taels each. History will tell us the truth.