Since she wasn't Ei's child, why did she look as though she had been carved from the same mold as Ei?
And from the looks of it, the other girl didn't seem to know Raiden Shogun either.
That made the problem even bigger.
This child who looked so much like Ei couldn't have popped out of a crack in a rock, could she?!
As Makoto racked her brains without finding an answer, Qianyi beside her took the initiative to explain. "Within the infinitely vast structure of the multiverse, there exists a phenomenon known as 'cross-world counterparts.' Put more fantastically, they are 'similar flowers.' They live in different worlds and have completely different life paths. They may never cross paths in their entire lives, yet their soul frequencies, appearances, personalities, and even certain aspects of their fates are astonishingly alike. Raiden Mei and Raiden Shogun are one such pair of similar flowers blooming in different universes."
"So... that was it?" Makoto nodded thoughtfully, and her tightly furrowed brow relaxed.
As a god who had once ruled Inazuma, it wasn't as though she couldn't understand the concept. Among mortals, there were occasionally two people with no blood relation whatsoever, separated by thousands of miles, who looked as alike as twins.
She simply hadn't expected this joke called a "coincidence of fate" to be played on gods as well.
Once she understood the whole story, Makoto's feminine curiosity immediately flared up.
After all, in her eyes, if her airheaded little sister could bury herself in this man's arms and cry her heart out, then she trusted him deeply. Their relationship had to be anything but ordinary. He might even become her brother-in-law someday.
And now, there was another girl beside Qianyi who was very close to him and looked so much like Raiden