With the disappearance of the Storm Barrier, the absurd farce came to an end.
But the repercussions of the incident were far from over.
Ellin teleported back to Mondstadt that very day, making a clean getaway.
Still, treating the esteemed Tri-Commission like that was no small matter.
Of course, events could hardly follow such a clichéd course. Although Hiiragi Shinsuke had been beaten, the shogunate's people would not simply blame everything on Ellin without investigating the cause.
More importantly, Ellin was simply too powerful. Someone that strong would not beat him up for no reason.
Who knew how many people had watched Hiiragi Shinsuke get beaten that day?
So when Kujou Sara, personally dispatched by Tenshukaku, led her people to investigate, they quickly uncovered the whole story.
The Kanjou Commission had been exploiting the populace and oppressing foreign merchants.
A woman named Ellin had been charged four million Mora, then repeatedly harassed and humiliated by Hiiragi Shinsuke, who had demanded that she drink with him. Unable to tolerate it any longer, she had finally lashed out, resulting in this farce.
Upright and decisive, Kujou Sara immediately reported the matter to the Raiden Shogun upon learning the truth.
Once the Kanjou Commission's corruption was exposed, all of Inazuma was in an uproar, with the people cheering the news.
Unexpectedly, however, Ellin's parting attempt to sow discord seemed to have worked.
Afterward, the more Hiiragi Shinsuke thought about it, the more convinced he became that La Signora had indeed been setting him up by asking him to stop Ellin!
Although Hiiragi Shinsuke did not know what La Signora hoped to gain by sabotaging an ally, Ellin's strength was beyond question. He had learned that lesson all too well after being slapped.
Asking a mere mortal like him to stop someone who could