After Inazuma lifted the Sakoku Decree, it gradually resumed contact with the other nations. When Yae Miko had previously gone to Sumeru, aside from the stated reason of taking the authors under her wing to seek inspiration, her main purpose had been to restore ties with Sumeru. Kamisato Ayaka's visit to Fontaine this time was much the same, using Fontaine's Chiling Cinematic Play Festival to establish cultural exchange.
In fact, Kamisato Ayaka was not the person in charge of this visit. Kamisato Ayato had come along as well. Fontaine and Inazuma had always enjoyed a fairly good relationship in terms of cultural exchange. Novels from both sides had audiences in each nation. Strangely enough, though, Inazuman light novels had their smallest readership in Liyue, while Liyue's Wuxia Novels likewise had little readership in Inazuma.
But aside from Liyue, Inazuman light novels had been well received in every other nation, even Natlan. There was an elderly figure over there who loved light novels, and one particular light novel she liked was practically as old as she was.
War Chronicles of Mirage was Yae Publishing House's longest-running light novel. It had been serialized for eighty-eight volumes so far, with three changes of author along the way. The fourth author was writing it now. The authors had not been replaced because they wrote poorly, but because they had died. This light novel had been running for fifty years already, and it looked as though it could continue for another decade or so. Without a sufficiently long lifespan, one probably would not live to see it finished.
Still, that was already fairly good. Over in the neighboring Xianzhou, updates were measured in centuries.
"Chiori, are you here to pick up Ayaka and the others too? Huh, you're Xavier. You're back in Fontaine."
At Hailu