Chapter Summaries

Yucheng visited the Liyue embassy and asked Ganyu to help Shenhe settle into life in Inazuma while he traveled to Sumeru. Ganyu hesitated over diplomatic propriety, while Yelan considered how Shenhe’s standing as Yucheng’s wife could affect relations between Liyue and Inazuma.

• Yucheng met Ganyu and Yelan at the Liyue embassy and said he had visited the Shogun after returning from Mondstadt.
• Yucheng told Ganyu he planned to travel to Sumeru once his entry permit arrived, and Ganyu briefly looked dejected.
• Yucheng asked Ganyu to guide Shenhe while she remained in Inazuma during his trip, citing her experience and Shenhe’s duties as mistress of the Uchiha Clan.
• Ganyu worried that spending time with the Regent’s wife could be seen as interference in Inazuma’s domestic affairs, but Yucheng reassured her that they could meet privately.
• Yelan recalled rumors that another powerful woman might be considered a more suitable principal wife for Yucheng and remembered Ningguang’s confidential instructions.

Yucheng’s plans brought Ganyu into his orbit, while Shenhe became the first woman to live with him at the Regent’s Office. He then gave Sara a slain dragon’s remains to turn into weapons and armor, along with a separate gift he had yet to reveal.

• Ningguang arranged for Ganyu to become Chief Envoy to Inazuma, hoping to bring her closer to Yucheng through her bond with Shenhe.
• Ganyu accepted Yucheng’s invitation, and Yelan worried that Ningguang’s plan had put her in a difficult position.
• Shenhe spent the night with Yucheng, and the next morning the Regent’s Office staff recognized her as its mistress while Sara looked exhausted from hearing them next door.
• Yucheng summoned a giant dragon carcass and bones at the Regent’s Office, then asked Sara to have them made into dragon-scale armor and Dragonbone Weapons for loyal subordinates.
• Yucheng told Sara he had brought her a gift, leaving her curious about what it was.

Yucheng summoned Ursa the Dread Dragon and gave him to Sara as the Uchiha Clan’s guardian beast. After Ei arrived to investigate the dragons, she questioned Yucheng about Shenhe and Sara’s matching revealing outfits and addressed Shenhe as his woman.

• Yucheng summoned Ursa the Dread Dragon, whose fearful behavior before him shocked the soldiers watching.
• Yucheng explained that he had subdued Ursa and altered his perceptions, then assigned the dragon to Sara as the Uchiha Clan’s guardian beast.
• Sara accepted Ursa and resolved to train him into a disciplined asset for Inazuma, while Yucheng ordered the dragon to obey her.
• Ei arrived after sensing an unfamiliar presence and discussed the dragons with Yucheng, who explained Ursa’s past devastation in Mondstadt.
• Ei told Yucheng that one guest had left and the other had gotten drunk and been blown away by the wind.
• Ei compared Shenhe and Sara’s outfits, asked Yucheng if he liked that style, then told Shenhe she hoped she would help his family flourish and multiply.

Yoimiya took Klee to sparsely populated Yashiori Island so they could set off explosions away from residents, but they encountered a strange samurai who attacked them. Yoimiya protected Klee from the assault, and both prepared to fight back.

• Yoimiya led Klee from Narukami Island to Yashiori Island so Klee could play without disturbing residents.
• Klee admired Orobashi's enormous skeleton and asked Yoimiya if she could blow up the Serpent's Head, but Yoimiya pulled her away.
• Klee spotted an armored samurai kneeling in a deserted area surrounded by Dendrobium, and she and Yoimiya landed beside him.
• When Klee stepped closer, strings appeared on the samurai and he sent a demon-faced shield charging at her.
• Yoimiya shielded Klee and dodged the shield's attack, then narrowly escaped its Cryo-powered return strike.
• Yoimiya drew Thundering Pulse, while Klee prepared to attack the samurai with Jumpy Dumpty.

Yoimiya and Klee fought the Maguu Kenki, whose speed and sword techniques put them at a disadvantage. Yoimiya combined Klee’s bombs with her arrows and knocked the puppet down to one knee, then asked Klee for more bombs.

• Yoimiya fired flaming arrows at the Maguu Kenki, but his mask blocked them, while Klee’s bombs drove him back.
• The Maguu Kenki used Anemo-enhanced speed to evade Klee’s bombs and attack Yoimiya with Iaijutsu, but she dodged and struck his armored back.
• The Maguu Kenki targeted Klee with Vacuum Slash, and Yoimiya tackled her to the ground to protect her from the sword energy.
• Yoimiya realized Klee’s bombs could make up for her arrows’ weak damage and tied a bomb to an arrow using her chest-binding bandage.
• After adjusting her aim, Yoimiya hit the Maguu Kenki with a bomb-tipped arrow and called to Klee for more bombs.

Yoimiya fought Maguu Kenki alongside Klee until a wind-powered double appeared and trapped them by the cliffs. She sent Klee climbing to safety and stayed behind to hold off both puppets, but the double’s Iaijutsu caught her as she tried to block its slash.

• Yoimiya and Klee used explosive arrows and bombs to fight Maguu Kenki while retreating, but Yoimiya ran out of the bandages she used to attach Klee’s bombs to her arrows.
• Maguu Kenki summoned a wind-powered double, leaving Yoimiya and Klee with the cliffs at their backs and the two puppets blocking their only exit.
• Yoimiya placed Klee on a high ledge and urged her to climb while she stayed behind to cover her retreat.
• Yoimiya fought both puppets with accurate flaming arrows, but without Klee’s bombs her shots could not reliably stop them.
• The wind-powered double charged its Iaijutsu and struck at Yoimiya; unable to evade, she raised Thundering Pulse to block the slash.

Yoimiya struggled to protect Klee from the Maguu Kenki after her hand was badly injured, and Klee narrowly escaped a deadly attack. Zhongli and Hu Tao arrived in time to shield them, and Hu Tao prepared to deal with the enemy.

• The Maguu Kenki injured Yoimiya and forced her to drop Thundering Pulse while Klee climbed the cliff.
• The Maguu Kenki unleashed Vacuum Blade at Klee, who leaped away and opened her Wind Glider.
• The Maguu Kenki used Tengu Sweeper to send five waves of blade energy at Klee, leaving her trapped in midair.
• Zhongli cast Jade Shields around Klee and Yoimiya, protecting Klee and healing Yoimiya.
• Hu Tao complained that Zhongli had cost her two potential clients, then agreed to see the fight through.

Hu Tao protected Yoimiya and Klee from the two Maguu Kenki while Zhongli shielded her with Geo. After the fight, Yoimiya and Klee thanked Zhongli and learned that he and Hu Tao came from the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.

• Hu Tao arrived beside the injured Yoimiya and told her to get Klee to safety while she faced the Maguu Kenki.
• Zhongli gave Hu Tao a Jade Shield, and Hu Tao charged the two Maguu Kenki seven times, forcing them back.
• Zhongli checked on Yoimiya and Klee, and Yoimiya found that Klee was bruised and Dodoco was badly damaged.
• Yoimiya comforted Klee, who felt guilty for disobeying, and told her that Dodoco could be repaired.
• Yoimiya thanked Zhongli and Hu Tao, introduced herself and Klee, and offered to repay them when they returned to Inazuma City.
• Zhongli introduced himself as a consultant for the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and identified Hu Tao as its director.

Hu Tao defeated Maguu Kenki and reunited with Zhongli, Yoimiya, and Klee. After Zhongli explained his connection to Klee’s mother and diagnosed Yoimiya’s exhaustion, the group prepared to escort the two girls back to Inazuma City, but Hu Tao sensed something from Maguu Kenki’s remains.

• Hu Tao used her blazing spirit art to destroy Maguu Kenki after Yoimiya and Klee had weakened him.
• Klee called Zhongli her uncle, and Zhongli explained that he had traveled with her mother, Alice La Signora, through Liyue.
• Hu Tao and Yoimiya found Zhongli mentioned in Klee’s copy of the Teyvat Travel Guide, confirming his connection to Alice.
• Yoimiya collapsed from exhaustion, and Zhongli diagnosed anemia from blood loss and a lack of rest.
• Hu Tao proposed escorting Yoimiya and Klee back to Inazuma City, then turned toward Maguu Kenki’s remains with a serious expression.

Hu Tao discovered a centuries-old spirit hidden inside the Maguu Kenki’s Energy Core and suspected its lingering attachment was connected to Inazuma City. She decided to take the spirit there with Yoimiya and Klee, hoping to learn its origins while getting them treated.

• Hu Tao found the Maguu Kenki’s Energy Core among its scattered parts, and Zhongli explained that it could automatically repair the puppet warrior.
• Hu Tao used a Wangsheng Rite hand seal to manifest the spirit concealed inside the core.
• Hu Tao identified the figure as an incomplete, centuries-old soul that could not communicate, and she explained her work sending lingering souls to the realm of passing.
• Hu Tao told Yoimiya that the Regent, Yucheng, had invited her and Zhongli to help Inazuma’s fallen soldiers; Yoimiya revealed that Klee was Yucheng’s guest.
• Hu Tao connected the spirit’s unusual reaction to the words “Inazuma City” with its possible attachment and decided to take it there with Yoimiya and Klee.

After Yoimiya and Klee returned to Inazuma City, they sought treatment at the Regent’s Office, where news of their attack enraged Yucheng. He learned Yoimiya could recover but might scar, and ordered rare medicines and restorative treatments for her.

• On the way back to Inazuma City, Klee regretted her recklessness, and the spirit in Hu Tao’s Puppet Core briefly said, “Inazuma… I’m sorry.”
• Hu Tao and Zhongli brought the injured Yoimiya and Klee to the Regent’s Office for treatment by Sangonomiya Kokomi and Kuki Shinobu.
• Yucheng rushed back from Seirai Island, concealed news of the Maguu Kenki attack, and gathered Inazuma’s senior officials while awaiting an investigation.
• Kokomi reported that Klee had only bruises, while Yoimiya had blade wounds, internal injuries, and severe blood loss but was expected to recover.
• Yucheng ordered Sara to provide Yoimiya with fresh Dragon Blood, medicinal baths, and Dragon Bone Meat Soup, and told officials to spare no expense on her treatment.

At a meeting, Takatsukasa Susumu challenged the Regent’s decision to reward Yoimiya with Dragon flesh and blood, hoping to secure some for himself. Yucheng defended Yoimiya’s actions and warned that if Klee were harmed in Inazuma, the whole nation would face destruction.

• Those attending the meeting learned that Yoimiya had been badly injured while saving Klee, and that the Regent had promised her fresh Dragon Blood and Dragon Meat as a reward.
• Takatsukasa Susumu objected that the reward was excessive and argued that Dragon flesh and blood should go to people who had served Inazuma.
• Takatsukasa Susumu revealed that Sara had rejected his own requests for Dragon flesh and blood, claiming he wanted it to restore his failing strength.
• Sara accused Takatsukasa Susumu of implying that she had concealed his request from Yucheng, and reminded him that Yucheng led the Uchiha Clan.
• Yucheng rose and declared that if anything happened to Klee in Inazuma, everyone in the nation would be buried with her.

Yucheng learned that Klee and Yoimiya had been endangered by Maguu Kenki on Yashiori Island and declared that harm to Klee could imperil all of Inazuma. He punished those who had complained about the pair by ordering them and the Takatsukasa Clan to relocate to Yashiori Island, then offered Takatsukasa Susumu a reward for developing it and went to visit the injured girls.

• Yucheng warned Takatsukasa Susumu that even he and the Shogun could not protect Inazuma if Klee were harmed, and Kuki Shinobu subdued Susumu after he collapsed.
• Sara reported that Maguu Kenki had attacked Yoimiya and Klee on Yashiori Island and that Hu Tao had smashed the puppet to pieces.
• Ayaka explained that Yoimiya had taken Klee to the island to avoid disturbing citizens, and Yucheng ordered the complainants to move there with compensation.
• Yucheng ordered the entire Takatsukasa Clan to relocate to Yashiori Island and take responsibility for its development.
• Yucheng told Sara to offer Takatsukasa Susumu giant dragon blood flesh if he developed the island well, then went to visit Yoimiya and Klee as Shenhe and Eula cared for them.

Yucheng visited the injured Klee and Yoimiya, praised Klee for choosing to care for Yoimiya, and offered Yoimiya dragon meat and blood to aid her recovery. After Yoimiya explained how she had combined her archery with Klee’s bombs against the Maguu Kenki, Yucheng called her one of the top five people he valued most, leaving her wondering if he had confessed his feelings.

• Klee leapt from her hospital bed to greet Yucheng, then refused his offer to play because she wanted to look after the injured Yoimiya.
• Yucheng sent Klee to fetch Yoimiya’s medicinal soup and reassured Yoimiya that she was not to blame for Klee’s danger.
• Yucheng praised Yoimiya for protecting Klee and offered her dragon blood and meat to help her recover.
• Yoimiya told Yucheng that her archery and Klee’s bombs had worked together against the Maguu Kenki.
• Yucheng praised Yoimiya as one of the top five people he valued most, and Yoimiya mistook his words for a confession.

Yucheng persuaded Yoimiya to become Inazuma’s gunpowder researcher, promising that her weapons would only defend the nation. After Yoimiya and Klee fell asleep in the hospital, Yucheng explained his military plans to Eula and Shenhe and prepared to meet the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor director and Rex Lapis.

• Yoimiya explained why her father had weakened a powerful fireworks formula, and Yucheng argued that Inazuma needed stronger defenses to earn respect as a nation.
• Yucheng persuaded Yoimiya to accept the post of gunpowder researcher, and authority over Naganohara Fireworks shifted from the Yashiro Commission to the Tenryou Commission.
• Klee fed Yoimiya Dragon Bone Meat Soup, then fell asleep beside her after the nourishing soup made them both drowsy.
• Yucheng, Shenhe, and Eula quietly left the hospital room, and Eula accused Yucheng of scheming to bring Klee to Inazuma.
• Yucheng explained that Klee’s Jumpy Dumpty and the Guizhong Ballista would help strengthen Inazuma, then announced that he would meet the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor director and Rex Lapis.

Hu Tao and Zhongli attended a feast hosted by Yucheng after saving Klee and Yoimiya, where Hu Tao discovered she had been eating dragon meat and insisted Zhongli try it. Hu Tao then asked Yucheng to help identify the spirit inside a Maguu Kenki core, and the spirit appeared before them.

• Hu Tao scolded Zhongli for refusing the feast and complained that he kept spending her Mora.
• Yucheng arrived with Shenhe and Eula, and Hu Tao learned the meat she had been eating was dragon meat.
• Yucheng, Shenhe, and Eula toasted Hu Tao and Zhongli for rescuing Klee and Yoimiya.
• Hu Tao gave Yucheng the Maguu Kenki Core and asked him to help fulfill the spirit's lingering obsession with Inazuma City.
• Yucheng speculated that the spirit might be a survivor of the upheaval five hundred years ago, and the core lit up as a blurry figure appeared.

Hu Tao discovered that the spirit reacted to Ei’s name, and Yucheng reasoned that it must have been someone close to the Raiden Shogun. After tracing the spirit’s likely connection to the Maguu Kenki, he concluded it was probably Iwakura Michihiro, Mikoshi Chiyo’s son.

• Hu Tao found that the spirit destabilized when she said Ei’s name, and Yucheng identified Ei as the Raiden Shogun’s human name.
• Yucheng explained that only Ei’s close friends and family would know her human name, while Hu Tao briefly asked about Rex Lapis’s.
• Zhongli asked Yucheng to identify the spirit, and Yucheng considered Ei’s known companions, including Sasayuri, Kitsune Saiguu, Mikoshi Chiyo, and Raiden Makoto.
• Yucheng ruled out Sasayuri because the Maguu Kenki technology appeared centuries after Sasayuri’s death.
• Yucheng connected the Maguu Kenki’s memories and sword technique to Iwakura Michihiro, also known as Mikoshi Doukei, and concluded the spirit was probably his.

Yucheng brought Hu Tao, Zhongli, and Eula to Tenshukaku after offering Hu Tao more Dragon Meat as thanks for saving Klee. He warned Ei about Klee’s near-fatal attack and persuaded her not to strike first against Alice, then said an old acquaintance wanted to see her.

• Yucheng offered Hu Tao more Dragon Meat, and Zhongli encouraged her to accept it as thanks for saving Klee.
• Yucheng led Hu Tao, Zhongli, and Eula through Tenshukaku’s security and went inside to announce them to Ei.
• Yucheng told Ei that Klee had been attacked by a Maguu Kenki on Yashiori Island and had been saved by Zhongli and his keeper.
• Ei considered attacking Alice first to protect Inazuma, but Yucheng warned that Alice’s unknown powers made a fight too dangerous and promised to protect Klee with Shadow Clones.
• Ei agreed to follow Yucheng’s advice and asked why he had come; Yucheng said an old acquaintance wanted to see her.

Yucheng realized the soul in the Puppet Core might belong to Mikoshi Chiyo rather than her son, while Ei decided to meet it and make amends with the Oni. When Hu Tao summoned the soul, it danced toward Ei, who recognized it as Chiyo.

• Yucheng considered that the soul might be Mikoshi Chiyo, since multiple Maguu Kenki existed and one could have killed its own mother without recognizing her.
• Ei reflected on losing her friends and blamed herself for the Oni's decline, then agreed to meet Doukei's soul and reconcile with the Oni.
• Ei left the room and met Hu Tao, who confirmed she had the soul in the Puppet Core.
• Hu Tao summoned the incomplete soul, and it turned toward Ei and struggled to say her name.
• The soul began dancing toward Ei, who grew pale and recognized it as Chiyo.

Ei recognized the incomplete spirit as Mikoshi Chiyo and rushed to the Grand Narukami Shrine so Yae Miko could use the Sacred Sakura to restore her. With her features and voice recovered, Chiyo saw Ei and apologized.

• Ei recognized the spirit’s sword dance and realized she was Mikoshi Chiyo, then tried to embrace her but passed through her incorporeal form.
• Yucheng sent the Oki-tan away, and Ei asked him to take everyone to the Grand Narukami Shrine so she could communicate with Chiyo.
• Yucheng transported the group to the shrine, where Ei ordered the visitors evacuated and explained Chiyo’s condition to Yae Miko.
• Yae Miko used the Sacred Sakura’s power to replenish Chiyo’s incomplete spirit, restoring her features.
• Chiyo opened her eyes, saw Ei, and said, “Ei, I’m sorry!”