"Or are you, as the god of a nation, so incompetent that you cannot control your subordinates?"
As his voice fell, the air in the hall seemed to solidify into iron.
Kujou Sara's face was deathly pale, her fingers digging deep into her palms.
She only found out about that reply after the fact; by the time she wanted to stop it, it was already too late.
Yae Miko's vision went dark, and she almost fainted.
It was just for this?
Isn't this how conversations between nations always go?
You say a few harsh words, I say a few harsh words.
As for private compensation, I would have certainly given enough.
At least let me save some face.
If she had known the Great Guardian of Fontaine would come knocking on their door, she would never have let that reply be written so aggressively.
Raiden Ei was silent for several seconds.
She had no idea about the specific contents of that reply.
After the Sakoku Decree was lifted, there were countless matters to attend to.
The documents submitted by the three commissions were as vast as the sea. Her time was limited, so she focused more on the 'general direction'.
As for the specific details... silly Ei trusted her fox strategist.
Now it seemed there was a serious problem with that trust.
Sigh, silly Miko... Raiden Ei stood tall with her blade, her figure lonely.
Purple lightning crackled, illuminating her expressionless face.
"That reply..."
"Was authorized by me. I personally reviewed it and issued it with my seal."
"It represents Inazuma. It represents the will of the Raiden Shogun."
"Ei?!"
Yae Miko snapped her head up, her tear-filled eyes full of shock and heartache.
She knew that Ei was using the most clumsy method to completely clear her, the true culprit, and was taking all the blame onto her own shoulders.
Tears surged, hitting the back of her hand with a splash, making Yae Miko's heart tremble with the heat.
King looked at the unyielding Raiden Ei and nodded, as if he had already expected this: "In that case, things are simple."
"As the person with ultimate responsibility for Inazuma, you must bear the full consequences of this matter."
"Come back with me to Fontaine to face a public trial at the Opera Epiclese."
As his voice fell, a deathly silence filled Tenshukaku, leaving only Yae Miko's suppressed sobbing and Arataki Itto's heavy breathing from the pain.
"I refuse."
Raiden Ei's answer came without the slightest hesitation.
With a flick of her wrist, musou isshin emitted a clear, vibrating hum. The tip of the blade pointed far toward King as the lightning around her body violently surged!
Purple electric snakes danced wildly, making her look like a descending god of lightning punishment. A violent aura soared into the sky, shaking the ceiling of the hall until dust fell.
"I will bear my own guilt in my own way."
"But how can the God of Inazuma be judged by a foreign court?"
"Only the blade in my hand can decide right from wrong!"
"This body is eternity, and this blade is judgment!"
BOOM—!!!
As if in response to her determination, the sky outside Tenshukaku, which had been relatively clear, was suddenly covered in dark clouds.
Countless thick purple lightning dragons rolled and roared in the clouds, and the deafening thunder instantly swept through the entirety of Inazuma City!
The majestic heavenly power was suffocating. Countless citizens knelt in terror as if the end of the world had come.
This was the power of the Electro Archon; with a single thought, heaven and earth changed color!
However, facing this divine power that altered the heavens, King only gave a soft sigh.
"Then there's no other way."
He raised his right hand, his five fingers slowly closing into a fist.
Thump!!!
The emperor engine roared!
A dull roar, like the collision of stellar cores, erupted violently, instantly drowning out all the thunder outside!
With King as the center, an incredibly overbearing 'field' violently expanded!
Crack, crackle—!
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