Yes, Lady Funina!

Seeing that Ying was looking at him, Richard had no choice but to speak:

"She guessed it herself, but it's not good to keep it a secret forever; she'll find out sooner or later..."

Ying clearly understood this as well; the truth would eventually come out, and judging from Yae no Kami's attitude, he probably wouldn't give up until he figured it out.

Ying sighed and led the two to the Pure Land of One Heart.

Chapter 263 There are actually experts here?

"What's wrong now?" General Thunder was once again pulled into the Pure Land of One Heart, only to find that the trial had been upgraded from a two-party trial to a three-party trial with the addition of an Eightfold Divine Child.

Faced with this situation, even General Thunder was speechless. Did they really not trust her that much?

To be fair, General Thunder felt he hadn't done anything heinous or immoral, nor would he do anything pointless, so he couldn't understand why Shadow and Richard were so worried.

If I had known it would turn out like this, I would have preferred to go back to the way things were before.

Despite having developed 'self-awareness', General Thunder still seems to think very differently from ordinary people.

After all, once a normal person develops self-awareness, they will instinctively resist the dissipation of self-awareness, but for General Thunder, she doesn't seem to care about this.

It can be said that as long as eternity can be achieved, it doesn't matter if the shadow destroys her; she might even choose to destroy herself, as she is a true and pure seeker of the Way.

"This is... alive?" Yae no Miko knew that General Raiden might have a problem, but she never thought that General Raiden would have a problem in this way.

The dolls from the past have actually come to life?

Then Yae no Miko realized a problem: whether the Raiden General, who now had a personality, could still be as loyal to the Shadow as before.

Let's hope it doesn't cause any trouble like the [Collapse of the Nation] that Shadow created before.

"Yes, he's alive." Richard nodded.

"How did you survive?" Yae no Miko asked again.

Richard remained silent; after all, he couldn't very well say that he was the one doing the work, could he?

Moreover, Richard wasn't entirely clear on why General Thunder possessed self-awareness; he only vaguely understood that it was related to his authority.

But if you ask Richard to create another life form similar to General Thunder, he really isn't confident he can pull it off.

It can only be said that the birth of General Thunder is an unrepeatable miracle.

Ying inevitably fell silent, after all, she couldn't very well say that after she fainted, General Thunder took over her job and then came back to life, could she?

If word gets out, given Yae no Miko's personality, she'll probably use this against her for the rest of her life.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Yae no Miko narrowed her fox-like eyes, and a smirk unconsciously crept onto her lips.

"Since they don't know, General, what about you?"

"Me? I think it was influenced by Richard's power?" General Thunder asked truthfully.

"That night..."

"General!" Ying admitted she was getting a little anxious. Was this something that could be told to outsiders?

Have you forgotten the previously stipulated regulations?

General Raiden certainly hadn't forgotten, but could Yae no Kamiko be considered an outsider?

If she remembered correctly, Inazuma Yaeko was one of Kage's few friends. After so many years of getting along, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they were like family to each other.

Not to mention Richard is sandwiched between the two, acting as a liaison. This relationship doesn't seem like that of outsiders at all.

Shadow felt that her task of teaching General Raiden was quite arduous. She had to make General Raiden understand that although Yae no Miko was not an outsider, there were still some things that could not be said.

"Is there something you can't say...? Okay, okay, I won't ask anymore, just stop looking at me like that." Yae no Miko waved her hand, indicating that she wouldn't ask, okay?

Even if General Thunder didn't say anything, the Eightfold Divine Child was so intelligent that she naturally guessed pretty much the truth based on the information General Thunder had just revealed.

It must be related to some secret matter within the intercalary period, otherwise the shadow's reaction wouldn't be so strong.

Yae no Miko's assessment of this was that it would be fine after a while. Right now, Kage is a newlywed and still has a sensitive side. Once she gets used to it, she won't have this worry anymore.

Seeing Yae no Miko's expression, Ying knew that the other party had probably guessed something, but guessing was one thing, as long as it wasn't confirmed, everyone could keep their composure.

"So what do you plan to do? Aren't you afraid of another country collapsing?" Yae no Miko said this in front of Raiden General.

She wasn't worried that General Thunder would overthink things, or rather, she said it on purpose. On the one hand, it was to serve as a warning to General Thunder, and on the other hand, she wanted to hear Shadow's thoughts.

"The country is collapsing?" Ying didn't understand why Yae no Kamiko would bring up that failed experiment at this time.

“You hid in the Pure Land of One Heart back then, so it’s normal that you didn’t know about that guy.” Yae no Miko told Kage what she had found out and some of her speculations.

General Thunder, who was standing nearby, also listened in and quickly figured out who the person the Eightfold Divine Child was talking about was.

"Wait, why is it different from what I remember?"

After Yae no Miko finished explaining the whole story, Raiden no Kami frowned and raised his own question.

General Raiden was born after the world line changed, so the memories in his mind are different.

This also explains why General Raiden could match some of the things Yae no Miko said, but not others.

For example, the decline of the Five Lightning Lineages seems to be due to their internal conflicts in General Lightning's memory. The ones who attacked the old patriarch of the Divine Realm were the Five Lightning Lineages who had defected to Zhidong, not some kind of Qizhe.

In response to General Raiden's question, Yae no Miko turned her gaze to Richard.

After undergoing a major memory restoration surgery, General Thunder finally understood the whole story.

“I am not him,” said General Thunder after understanding the whole story.

She's not so fragile as to forget her own existence after being abandoned.

General Thunder has always been clear about the meaning of her own existence, which is completely different from the collapse of the kingdom.

Of course, most importantly, she is far stronger than Guo Luo, both in terms of strength and spirit.

"Of course you won't be him, and you never will be in the future." Yae no Miko felt that it would be quite difficult for Raiden General to become the one who caused the collapse of the country.

After all, since you share the same body as Shadow, even if you want to do something bad, you still need Shadow's permission, right?

As for Shadow, the worst thing she ever did was probably creating the skirmishers, right?

In comparison, the lockdown order was relatively lenient.

After all, both the national isolation order and the eye-hunting order were interfered with by external forces, and the so-called Kabuki were indeed caused by the inaction of the Kage.

However, one thing Richard didn't understand was why General Thunder refused to help the other party when the furnace core went out of control.

Richard asked General Thunder about this, and General Thunder replied:

“At that time, I had just taken over Inazuma and could not manipulate the body as freely as I can now. Moreover, it was during a period of power transition, and I could not leave.”

When Kage entrusted Inazuma to the newly created eternal guardian, it's impossible to say there wasn't any internal turmoil.

Moreover, at that crucial moment, the sand-treading device malfunctioned, a coincidence that certainly raises questions.

Therefore, it was not unreasonable for General Thunder to refuse at that time.

“In fact, I had already promised to take action on this matter and sent people to investigate. If the situation is true, we can immediately suppress the evil spirit,” said Yae no Miko.

Unfortunately, the country's collapse at that time did not trust Yae no Miko, and from the bottom of his heart believed that Narukami Island could not help him, so he decided to take on everything by himself.

In the end, the furnace did shut down, but the skirmishers fell into the nightmare the Doctor had meticulously woven for them, and were manipulated at will.

Of course, even if the doctor is manipulating everything behind the scenes, it's impossible to say that the stragglers are innocent or forgivable.

After all, the skirmisher did have other options at the time, but he just made the wrong choice every time.

In this light, Shadow's initial assessment of him wasn't entirely wrong; a fragile puppet simply couldn't possibly shoulder the responsibility of being an eternal guardian.

"..." Ying didn't comment after listening, but felt that she had been too soft-hearted back then.

Indeed, after all experiments, the failed samples should be collected and destroyed after the relevant data is recorded.

“The current situation is that the Shinri family needs an explanation, and the five families of the Raiden clan who suffered this calamity back then also need an explanation,” Richard said.

Although not all of the five lightning demons are good people, and there are certainly many who have committed heinous crimes, this is not a reason for the scattered soldiers to create chaos in Inazuma.

If you want revenge, then take it openly and honestly. But hiding behind the scenes and manipulating the situation in Inazuma, causing the rest of the innocent people in Inazuma to suffer undeserved disasters, is the sin of the Sanbing.

"Of course, more importantly, we can't let that guy run wild outside anymore. Otherwise, if he causes even bigger trouble, neither of us can escape responsibility," Yae no Miko said.

“Well, actually he’s already made a scene,” Richard said.

"Modify the World Tree?" Yae no Miko asked.

"Well, before he modified the World Tree, he conspired with that guy Dottore to attempt to ascend to godhood in Sumeru." Richard succinctly explained what Guo Pang had done in Sumeru.

Although he was in Fontainebleau at the time, he learned most of the inside story through Ying.

"Wait, since he's caused such a huge mess, why does he still have a chance to get close to the World Tree?" Yae no Miko asked, puzzled.

Richard shrugged and said:

"I don't know, but according to Ying, it seems that the Little Lucky Grass King forgave the scattered soldiers?"

Yae no Miko felt that the world had become a strange place to her. Looking at the shadow, she sighed:

"There are actually experts here?" Shadow is one thing, but what's going on with Little Lucky Grass King?

"Could it be intentional? According to the information Ying gave, the Little Lucky Grass King seems to have the ability to read minds and read the true thoughts of the scattered soldiers?"

"If you can read minds, and you don't stop the other party from doing such a thing, isn't that already a dereliction of duty?" Yae no Miko complained.

Ying thought Yae no Miko made sense, but was she just talking about herself?

"In that case, shall I take care of him?" General Thunder's thoughts have always been simple and direct.

What are these stragglers, these these eccentrics, these these wanderers? Since they have committed unforgivable acts, let's just eliminate them with swift and decisive action.

Why bother with all that fancy stuff? Even if she has the heart to change, what does that have to do with her? If the other person can change, does that mean the wounds of the person who was hurt by them will heal?

The stragglers only need to think about repenting and atoneing for their sins, but General Thunder has many more things to consider.

"Find the person first, and then see how things go," Ying said. After all, this involved a god from another country, and they couldn't let General Thunder act recklessly.

"Alright, contact me if you need anything." General Thunder nodded.

"If there's nothing else, I'll continue with my official duties."

After finishing his speech, General Thunder walked to the table to the side and began to deal with the day's matters.

To ensure that nothing went wrong, Ying actually moved her office to the Pure Land of One Heart.

In the Pure Land of One Mind, a place similar to a consciousness space, General Thunder can exist without a physical body, perfectly solving the drawbacks of having one body and two consciousnesses.

In fact, after General Raiden came back to life, Shadow tried to see if he could give General Raiden a separate body.

However, the situation was not ideal. Although General Thunder possessed self-awareness, she still could not separate from Shadow.

Once the other party develops self-awareness, there are actually more restrictions.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, for a long time to come, the Shadow and the Thunder General will have to share a single body.

While sharing a body isn't unacceptable to Ying, the problem is, "what happens afterward? We can't just..."

Ying has already started avoiding this issue. Things will work themselves out; at worst, she'll just faint!

Looking at the diligent General Raiden, Yae no Miko felt for the first time that not everything Kage had done was wrong.

At least the fact that General Raiden is diligent in his duties has indeed saved Yae no Miko a lot of trouble.

Previously, Yae no Miko was dissatisfied with Raiden no Kage's rule mainly because Kage was hiding in Isshin no Jodo. Now that Kage has come out of Isshin no Jodo, Yae no Miko naturally doesn't hate Raiden no Kage as much anymore.

On the contrary, for some reason, Yae no Miko's interest in Raiden no Shogun may now be even greater than that of the Kage.

If the images weren't presented as if they were meant to protect Yae no Miko from wolves, Yae no Miko might have already begun instilling some strange and unusual knowledge into Raiden no Shogun.

After all, Yae no Miko was very curious about what kind of things the general, now possessing strange and unusual knowledge, would do using the body of a shadow.

More importantly, what will Ying think?

Just imagining that scene was enough to make Yae no Miko's fox tails show with delight.

"In that case, let's leave it at that for today," Shadow said to Yae no Miko and Richard.

"Are you already sending us away? It's almost dinner time, aren't you going to ask us to stay for a meal?" Yae no Miko asked.

If Yae no Miko hadn't said anything, it would have been fine, but the moment she did, it gave Kage the feeling that this guy was up to something.

"..." After a moment of silence, Ying finally nodded in agreement with Yae no Kamiko's statement.

Ying waved his hand, and everyone left the Pure Land of One Heart, leaving only General Thunder inside to 'work overtime'.