Chapter Summaries

Kamisato Ayaka reflected on her loneliness and her admiration for Ellin, whose freedom and heroic deeds embodied the life Ayaka longed for. After learning Ellin had secretly helped Inazuma and written a novel, Ayaka hoped to meet her, and a warm voice called out to her from afar.

• Lumine and Paimon explained that Fischl’s signature and the name Ailin confirmed Ellin had written the novel.
• After Lumine and Paimon went to rest, Ayaka sat alone with the novel and thought about the responsibilities and loneliness of being the White Heron Princess.
• Ayaka recalled following Ellin’s rise from an ordinary girl to a celebrated hero through reports Thoma brought from Mondstadt.
• Ayaka learned Ellin had arrived in Inazuma, written a novel, and secretly helped resolve crises in Tatarasuna and Yashiori Island.
• Ayaka hugged the novel and wished to meet Ellin soon, when a warm voice called, “Hi, Ayaka!”

Ellin reunited with Kamisato Ayaka, brought her foreign dishes, and spent a happy day with her on a mountain peak. Ayaka agreed to help Ellin and her brother seek a peaceful resolution to the conflict, and the two watched the sunset shoulder to shoulder.

• Ellin arrived by flying to meet Kamisato Ayaka, who was delighted and flustered to see her.
• Ellin carried Ayaka to a peak near Mt. Yougou and brought out signature dishes from Liyue and Mondstadt.
• Ellin encouraged Ayaka to eat freely, and the two shared a relaxed meal together.
• Ayaka told Ellin that she and her brother would do their best to help resolve the conflict peacefully.
• As the sun set, Ayaka moved close to Ellin, and they watched the sea of clouds shoulder to shoulder.

Ellin arranged with Ayato and Ayaka to act after chapter five, then sent the manuscript to Yae Miko, whose alarming contents prompted her and Ei to investigate. The chapter revealed a Sacred Sakura cleansing ritual and ended with Ei sensing an old friend in a shrine maiden named Hanasato.

• Ellin visited the Kamisato estate, gave gifts to Ayato, Ayaka, Thoma, Paimon, and Lumine, and agreed with Ayato and Ayaka to act after chapter five was released.
• Ellin prepared chapter five and sent it to Yae Miko, who read it and decided its claims warranted investigating with Ei.
• Yae Miko brought the manuscript to Tenshukaku, and she and Ei read chapter five before deciding to go see for themselves.
• The chapter explained how the Sacred Sakura purified filth from Inazuma's ley lines through a ritual performed by shrine maidens.
• In Konda Village, Ei and Ailin encountered the masked shrine maiden Hanasato, and Ei sensed an old friend's presence in her.

Ei reunited with Hanasato, who was a remnant of Kitsune Saiguu’s memories, and helped complete the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual. After Hanasato disappeared, Yae Miko confronted Ailin and demanded that he leave Ei’s side.

• Ei and Hanasato reunited before the fox statue and agreed to perform the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual together.
• Ei, Ailin, and Hanasato purified the Sacred Sakura’s roots at every location, leaving only the final underground space.
• Ei apologized for not returning five hundred years earlier, and Hanasato explained that Kitsune Saiguu had died without regrets while protecting Inazuma.
• Hanasato revealed that she would disappear to complete the ritual, then turned into cherry blossom petals as Ei said goodbye.
• Yae Miko appeared beside Ailin and demanded that he leave Ei’s side.

Ei and Yae Miko helped Hanasato complete most of the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual, but Ei stopped her from dissipating and persuaded her to acknowledge her past as Kitsune Saiguu. The three friends reunited beneath Mt. Yougou, where Ei began recounting the past five hundred years.

• Ei and Yae Miko found Hanasato in Konda Village and persuaded her to join the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual.
• The three cleared the defilement at several locations and reached the final step beneath Mt. Yougou.
• Hanasato prepared to dissipate, but Ei angrily asked why she still refused to acknowledge them.
• Moved by Ei and Yae Miko's sorrow, Hanasato removed her mask and revealed herself as Kitsune Saiguu.
• Kitsune Saiguu comforted Ei, and Ei began telling her about the past five hundred years while Yae Miko added details.

Kitsune Saiguu comforted Ei and urged her to keep moving forward before fading away. Her sacrifice cleansed the Sacred Sakura, completing the ritual and leaving Ei with a fox mask.

• Kitsune Saiguu told Ei that she had not written The Domineering Electro Archon Falls for Me, though its author seemed to understand and care about Ei.
• Kitsune Saiguu rested her head in Ei's lap, apologized for leaving her alone, and urged her not to let grief or fear of loss blind her.
• Kitsune Saiguu said goodbye to Ei and Yae Miko, then faded into cherry blossom petals, leaving a Red-and-White Fox Mask behind.
• Hanasato's disappearance cleansed the filth from the Sacred Sakura, and the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual was completed.

After meeting Kitsune Saiguu, Yae Miko urged Ei to give herself more time to process her grief and reconsider her fear of progress and loss. When chapter five of The Domineering Electro Archon Falls for Me! went on sale, a manuscript for chapter six appeared at Yae Miko’s door.

• Yae Miko and Ei left the Underground Space with Kitsune Saiguu’s mask after saying goodbye to her.
• Yae Miko explained how Three Civets’s novel had guided Ei toward confronting her past and encouraged her to move on.
• Ei admitted she still could not let go because she believed that wishes and progress had caused her loved ones’ deaths and feared Inazuma would suffer Khaenri'ah’s fate.
• Yae Miko decided Ei needed more time to reflect, and the two returned to Tenshukaku and the Grand Narukami Shrine.
• Yae Miko delayed publishing chapter five until after the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual to prevent crowds from gathering in Konda Village.
• A day after chapter five went on sale, Yae Miko found the manuscript for chapter six of The Domineering Electro Archon Falls for Me! outside her door.

Yae Miko urged Ailin to leave Ei to spare her the pain of outliving him, and Ailin agreed, but he struggled to part from her. When Ailin asked why Ei traveled with him, her answer reassured him, and Ei asked what he thought of the Vision Hunt Decree and the Raiden Shogun.

• Yae Miko told Ailin that his short mortal life would bring Ei another devastating loss and asked him to leave her.
• Ailin agreed to find a reason to part with Ei, but over the following days he could not bring himself to tell her.
• Ei noticed Ailin seemed troubled, and they sat beneath a tree to rest.
• Ailin asked why a monarch would travel with an ordinary person, and Ei said he might hold an answer she had long sought.
• Ei asked Ailin whether he believed the Vision Hunt Decree was right and whether the Raiden Shogun was heartless.

Ailin explained to Ei why he believed the Raiden Shogun was a gentle god, arguing that losing their Visions had spared three people from worse suffering caused by their ambitions. Ei listened as he suggested the Shogun had taken away ambitions to keep people safe, leaving their conversation with his sympathetic view of her actions.

• Ei asked Ailin what he thought of the Raiden Shogun, given the suffering of people whose Visions had been taken away.
• Ailin argued that losing his ambition had stopped the Swordmaster from shattering more dreams and accumulating guilt.
• Ailin said losing his Vision had freed the Shogunate samurai from excessive charity that would have driven him into debt and brought ruin to his family.
• Ailin suggested the warrior from Konda Village could leave behind decades of painful waiting and live more freely after forgetting his ambition.
• Ailin concluded that the Raiden Shogun had taken people's ambitions away to keep them safe, and called her a gentle, kindhearted god.

Ailin explained to Ei why taking away people’s Visions and wishes caused them suffering, and urged her to consider the happiness the future could bring. After reading the story, Ei reflected on its message while Yae Miko encouraged her to leave the Plane of Euthymia and move forward.

• Ailin told Ei that people chose to endure suffering because their wishes mattered more to them, so the Vision Hunt Decree took away something precious and caused greater pain.
• Ei asked Ailin what he thought of eternity, and he compared her retreat from loss to his cousin shutting herself away after heartbreak, giving up on future happiness.
• Ei considered Ailin’s words, then said she had business on Narukami Island and asked whether he wanted to go back and rest with her.
• In the real world, Ei read Chapters Six and Seven of the novel and fell silent as Yae Miko said its arguments had reached her.
• Yae Miko reminded Ei that Makoto and Kitsune Saiguu had sacrificed themselves for their wishes and warned that staying in the Plane of Euthymia meant losing time, friends, and future happiness.

Yae Miko tried to loosen Ei’s resolve by recounting how Mondstadt’s people overthrew Decarabian when he no longer answered their wishes. She revealed that a New God had appeared on Watatsumi Island and challenged Ei to a duel, offering victory as proof that Inazuma’s desire to advance could overcome Eternity.

• Ei questioned whether abandoning Eternity would expose Inazuma to destruction by the Heavenly Principles, and refused to yield based on words alone.
• Yae Miko acknowledged that Ei protected Inazuma out of love and feared that its people might suffer an even worse fate if she stopped.
• Yae Miko told Ei how Decarabian failed to answer the people of Mondstadt’s wishes for freedom, and how Barbatos helped them overthrow him.
• Yae Miko revealed that a powerful New God had appeared on Watatsumi Island in answer to the wishes of people resisting the Vision Hunt Decree.
• Yae Miko delivered the New God’s challenge: if she defeated Ei, Ei would let go of Eternity and look upon her people again.

After Ellin challenged Ei on behalf of the people’s wishes, Ei agreed to a duel, and the Tri-Commission secured a suspension of the Vision Hunt Decree. Notices announced that the duel would take place in three days on Seirai Island, leaving Yae Miko determined to rally Inazuma’s hopes behind Ellin.

• Ei agreed to meet Ellin for a duel after Yae Miko asked her to choose a time and place.
• Yae Miko contacted Kamisato Ayato, Kamisato Ayaka, and the other officials to prepare a joint petition from the Tri-Commission.
• Ei suspended the Vision Hunt Decree, easing the fighting between the Resistance Army and the Shogunate Army.
• The Tri-Commission and Yae Publishing House posted notices declaring that Ellin and Ei would duel on Seirai Island in three days, with the outcome deciding the future of the Vision Hunt and Sakoku Decrees.
• Yae Miko looked toward Watatsumi Island and vowed to help more people entrust their wishes to Ellin.

Ellin and Ei began their duel above Seirai Island, with the battle set to decide Inazuma’s future and Ellin’s life. After trading powerful attacks, Ellin slipped past the Shogun’s defense and struck her with a flaming punch.

• The Shogunate Army and Resistance Army secured Seirai Island, evacuated Neko and the shrine cats, and spectators gathered for the duel.
• Ellin and Ei arrived above the island, and the Shogun declared that Ellin had to defeat both her and Ei to prove Inazuma’s people could move forward.
• Ellin opened with Windwalking Sword, and the Shogun met her strike with Thunderclap, creating a storm of wind and lightning that stunned the spectators below.
• Ellin transformed into lightning and used Thunderstrike to attack the Shogun from behind, but the Shogun sensed her and blocked the strike with her Naginata.
• Ellin released her sword, ducked beneath the Shogun’s Naginata, and drove a scorching fist into her stomach with Dragon Claw: Flame Dragon Breath.

Ellin’s surprise Pyro punch sent the Shogun crashing into Seirai Island, but the Shogun responded by taking her strongest puppet form and striking back with overwhelming speed. After her Geo shield failed, Ellin was blasted into a crater, and the Shogun hurled three Lightning Demon-Quelling Vajras toward her.

• Ellin struck the Shogun with Dragon Claw: Flame Dragon Breath, blasting her into Seirai Island and drawing cheers from the Resistance Army and Watatsumi Island.
• The Shogun rose from the crater, recognizing Ellin’s strength and her ability to wield Anemo, Electro, and Pyro energy.
• The Shogun transformed into her strongest puppet form and charged at Ellin with a gigantic lightning blade.
• Ellin formed a Geo shield, but the Shogun’s blade shattered it and sent Ellin crashing into the ground.
• The Shogun discovered that Ellin could wield Geo energy and hurled three Lightning Demon-Quelling Vajras toward her.

Ellin fought the Raiden Shogun on Seirai Island, shattering her lightning pestles and dismantling her lightning arms with powerful elemental attacks. As Ei wondered how Ellin could fuse four elements, Ellin formed an enormous Geo Sword in the sky.

• Ellin fused Geo, Electro, Pyro, and Anemo into a spear, destroying the three Demon-Quelling pestles before the Shogun shattered the spear with her blade.
• Ellin attacked the Shogun with the Skyward Blade, whose Anemo blast battered her as the Shogun sent three lightning arms against Ellin.
• Ellin swept four fused elements across the lightning arms and completely dismantled them, astonishing the Shogun and Ei.
• Ellin used a storm to halt herself in the sky, then gathered Anemo and Geo to form a colossal Geo Sword.

Ellin and the Shogun traded devastating attacks that leveled Seirai Island, then resumed their duel in the sky. The Shogun used “This eye beholds the mortal world” to summon two enormous lightning hands from spatial rifts and trap Ellin between them.

• Ellin sent a Geo Sword wrapped in Anemo plunging toward the Shogun, who halted it with a massive lightning slash.
• Ellin triggered the Geo Sword’s resonance, destroying the lightning slash and unleashing a blast that reduced Seirai Island to a barren wasteland.
• Ellin and the Shogun plunged into the aftermath and exchanged countless rapid strikes in the sky.
• The Shogun drove Ellin back, retreated, and used “This eye beholds the mortal world” to summon two lightning hands from rifts north and south of Seirai Island.
• The enormous hands charged toward Ellin from both sides, their eerie eyes fixed on her.

Ellin unleashed Dragon Claw Fist: Wind Dragon Opens the Heavens to tear apart the Shogun’s colossal lightning attack and wound her. The Shogun recognized Ellin’s strength and proposed ruling Inazuma together if Ellin lost, but Ellin and the Shogun prepared to fight on for a decisive victory.

• The Tri-Commission, Kamisato Ayaka, and the Resistance Army watched in alarm as enormous lightning palms closed in on Ellin on Seirai Island.
• Ellin summoned dark-gold Geo gauntlets, gathered Anemo power, and used Dragon Claw Fist: Wind Dragon Opens the Heavens to split the lightning sea apart.
• Ellin’s Wind Blades struck the Shogun, destroying three of her arms and damaging her lightning blade and body.
• The Shogun praised Ellin’s strength, offered to spare her and rule Inazuma alongside her if she lost, and challenged her to continue fighting for victory.

Ellin and the Raiden Shogun prepared their strongest attacks to decide their battle, with the Shogun unleashing Final Tribulation against Ellin. Ellin answered by summoning a vast storm of Anemo and thunder and diving toward the incoming blade aura.

• The Shogun restored her body and weapon with Electro Power, then opened a colossal rift above Seirai Island.
• Ellin recognized the Shogun’s ultimate attack and gathered enormous amounts of Anemo and Electro as the rift filled the sky.
• The Shogun shouted “Final Tribulation” and swung a mountain-sized arm’s lightning blade toward Ellin.
• Ellin summoned a storm of wind and thunder, then dove down and stomped toward the Shogun’s blade aura.

Ellin defeated the Shogun in a devastating clash that shattered Seirai Island, but the Shogun said she could not repeal the Vision Hunt Decree or the Sakoku Decree without the approval of the one within. Ei then emerged and challenged Ellin to fight.

• Ellin summoned a lightning-charged tornado that overcame the Shogun’s slash and drove her underground, breaking Seirai Island into three pieces.
• Ellin stood over the defeated Shogun and declared that she had lost.
• The Shogun accepted defeat and acknowledged Ellin’s will and the wishes she represented.
• The Shogun refused to repeal the decrees, explaining that the one within also had to approve changes to eternity.
• Ei emerged, addressed Ellin as Sky-Clearing, and challenged her to fight.

Ellin fought Ei after defeating the Shogun, hoping to prove the strength of Inazuma’s people’s wishes and persuade both of them to reconsider Eternity. Ei defeated Ellin when her power ran nearly dry, leaving the change to Eternity unresolved.

• Ei explained that Ellin had to face both her and the Shogun to prove her resolve and challenge Eternity.
• Ei summoned Musou Isshin and fought Ellin with precise, relentless swordsmanship.
• After more than ten thousand exchanges, Ei unleashed a storm of lightning, and Ellin countered with Heavenly Glimmer to escape her pursuit.
• Ei saw that Ellin had nearly exhausted her power and declared her the loser.