Beating up one of the Tri-Commission's commissioners and blockading Ritou.
Such actions had, ultimately, made Inazuma lose face.
Even if Ellin had been in the right, beating someone up was still against the law.
And so, naturally, Ellin became Inazuma's most wanted criminal.
Of course, everyone knew that Ellin had done nothing wrong, much less anything truly heinous. Besides, she was incredibly powerful. There was no need to make an enemy of someone so strong over this.
Anyone could therefore see that the wanted notice was merely a face-saving measure, giving the shogunate and the Shogun a graceful way out so they could put the matter to rest.
Still, a wanted criminal needed a wanted notice, didn't she? And that notice needed a portrait, didn't it?
Thus, Kujou Sara sought out witnesses to the incident and asked them what Ellin looked like.
That would have been fine if she hadn't asked. The moment she did, the witnesses excitedly launched into extravagant descriptions of Ellin's appearance right in front of Kujou Sara. But it all boiled down to one word: beautiful.
"Was she really that beautiful?"
She questioned dozens of people in a row, and every last one praised Ellin's beauty. Kujou Sara had heard so much of it that her ears were practically growing calluses.
Then Kujou Sara suddenly remembered that a samurai in the Tenryou Commission had once paid a fortune for a photograph of Ellin.
At the time, she had wanted to scold him for being foolish enough to spend five months' wages on something so frivolous.
But when she thought of the enormous collection of Statues of Her Excellency, the Almighty Narukami Ogosho in her own home, she ultimately held her tongue.
In any case, Kujou Sara found that samurai and borrowed his photograph of Ellin.
"Oh!