"What a pity about those Sun Children..."
After hearing the female official's account of the seven Sun Children, Shen Fei could only sigh softly. Though the Sun Children had been puppets, most ordinary Byakuyakoku citizens had not known that, so they had deeply hated them. In the end, only this female official, who had cared for them all along, still remembered them.
Even their final souls had been completed with the female official's own memories, only then freeing the remnants of their souls. Only remnants, because they had died after entering The Great Narukami Sun Shrine. With its temperature and the elemental nature of Aetheric Power, naturally, their souls could not have remained intact.
To prevent the Sun Children from causing any trouble once they grew up, those who controlled them in Byakuyakoku sent them into The Great Narukami Sun Shrine when they turned ten, prettily calling it a return to the embrace of the Sun God. That day was known as the Festival of Returning to the Sun. Those people were truly scum.
"A godless nation, yet they invented a fictional god and even had human sacrifices. How ironic. Come to think of it, Khaenri'ah seemed to have something similar. Human cruelty really exceeded imagination. Still, perhaps this can be put to use. Khaenri'ah's delegation happened to steal Past of Sun and Moon while they were here."
What had happened in Enkanomiya made Shen Fei think of the Inazuma arc of Khaenri'ah's Cataclysm that he was about to publish. He could incorporate some of Byakuyakoku's circumstances, such as the Sun Children, with Khaenri'ah's instigation behind it all. After all, he was writing a novel, not a historical record. A little creative adjustment was perfectly normal.
Khaenri'ah had now been confirmed as his enemy. Shen Fei naturally would not be