The residents of Inazuma City were utterly shocked by the appearance of Raiden Mei and the Raiden Shogun, not merely because they rarely saw the Shogun anywhere outside Tenshukaku.
More importantly, they were concerned and worried. The Shogun had appeared here... Had something major happened?
But their worries were unnecessary. This time, it was not the "Raiden Shogun" they knew, but Ei herself. She had only come here... to change her mood and see what Inazuma was like now.
Present-day Inazuma was completely different from what it had been centuries ago. For a moment, she doubted even more whether the eternity she pursued had been wrong.
If it was eternity, then Inazuma should not have changed.
Yet now, the Inazuma before her bore little resemblance to the Inazuma in her memories.
Inazuma City was still Inazuma City, but everything within it was utterly unfamiliar. There were so many things she had never seen before.
She paid no attention to the residents around her and continued onward... until she reached a small stall. Catching a scent, she stopped.
"It smells so good! What is this? It looks very pretty too."
Ei could not help curiously asking as she looked at the desserts on the stall. They felt familiar to her, yet entirely different—nothing like what she had eaten long ago.
But as she looked at them, Ei could not help recalling the first time, centuries ago... when everyone had still been together, that she had tasted the desserts in Kitsune Saiguu's hands.
After so many years, the memory was still vivid.
Perhaps it was simply her nature, but Ei had always been the clumsiest one when it came to games.
Whenever she played games with her sister, Mikoshi Chiyo, and Sasayuri, she had never emerged as the final victor. Nor