Duel of Honor

"Little one, to be precise, the one sitting in the Shogun's seat right now wasn't the real Ei, but the puppet Ei had created—the Raiden Shogun. She was an irritatingly stubborn fool, even more rigid than Ei herself."

As she said this, Miko's expression turned slightly disdainful.

Even now, she couldn't understand what Ei had been thinking, creating some artificial idiot to govern Inazuma for no reason.

You wanted to shut yourself away and become a homebody? Fine, she could understand that. She had experienced it herself, after all. Her sister and friends had departed one after another; it was understandable to become a little withdrawn.

But why exactly did you have to make that puppet?

And you made it with your own body. Didn't that creep you out?

Had she known this would happen, she never should have taught Ei the techniques for making puppets.

Both Liyue and Inazuma had folk tales about ghosts possessing living people, and everyone avoided such things like the plague. Yet here you were—no ghost dared possess the mighty Electro Archon and manage the country for you, so you made an artificial ghost to possess your own body instead?

That damned shut-in, sugar addict, and one-track-minded country girl.

Fine, you got an artificial ghost to possess you—but after all these years, I, cough cough cough... This Guusji couldn't even see you once?

You turned Inazuma into this mess, and I still had to watch over it and clean up your disaster.

And most importantly, your isolationist policies ruined Yae Publishing House's business!

They were clearly the best-selling novels in all of Teyvat, yet now they were all piled up in the country, with nowhere to export them!

And submissions from talented authors in other nations couldn't even be sent in.

Even Inazuma's local novelists