There were only a few photographs, but Kujou Sara studied them with extreme care, growing increasingly unsettled. She wanted to argue that they were forged, but neither the familiar handwriting nor the official seal representing the clan head looked fake.
"Y-you... where did you get these?"
"Kujou Takayuki's room. It took me quite some effort to find these things, you know?"
"You dared trespass in Lord Takayuki's room! This is..."
"Oh, spare me. After everything Kujou Takayuki has done, is he still your esteemed clan head?"
Kujou Sara fell silent. Yucheng was right. Dwelling on his crime of trespassing in someone else's room at a time like this was clearly unwise.
"The Resistance, Sangonomiya, the situation at the front... not a single word about any of it. Are the soldiers who died at the front and the hardships the people have endured all beneath mention?! This treats human life far too lightly! Clan Head, why would you conceal all this?"
"To ensure the Vision Hunt Decree could proceed smoothly, of course. What if he included all that and the Shogun changed her mind?"
"The Fatui! Someone as proud as the clan head actually chose to work with them. What exactly do they gain from issuing and enforcing the Vision Hunt Decree?"
"Naturally, they want to stir up social conflict in Inazuma and complete a secret Fatui experiment, that's all."
"A secret experiment?"
"The Doctor, the second of the Fatui Harbingers, developed an Artificial Vision called a Delusion. It allows people without Visions to wield Elemental Energy, greatly increasing their combat strength. The price of using these Delusions, however, is draining the user's life force.
"To perfect Delusions, they naturally need large numbers of people to use them so they can gather data. But of course, they can't use something so