[Akane Nishino]: Yuki-kun, Yuki-kun, what should I do? help! sob~~~~
Akane Nishino decisively contacted Yuki in the group. Compared to others, her bold move this time took Queen Marika and the rest by surprise.
[Yuki]: You truly wish to become stronger? What is your reason?
Asked by Yuki about her reason for wanting strength, Akane, seeing this, immediately typed her response in the chat without hesitation.
[Akane Nishino]: I want to change. Just like what Miss Galacta said before—once I become strong enough, the shadows of the past will all turn to bubbles!
[Akane Nishino]: So, I want to leave behind the cowardly self who used to run away!
[Seitenshi]: Oh ho! Taking a brave step forward to change the present! This big sister supports you!
[Saeko Busujima]: I definitely agree!
[Raiden Ei]: No longer running away? Heh, I strongly support that! Because~ I've been there too.
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Teyvat, Grand Narukami Shrine.
Raiden Ei, with the Tenshukaku still under repair, was still staying at Yae Miko's Grand Narukami Shrine.
At the moment, she was sitting formally, legs folded beneath her under the Sacred Sakura. A small square table beside her held tea and pastries.
Accompanied by the slowly falling pink cherry blossom petals, it was a uniquely beautiful scene.
From a distance, Raiden Ei seemed to be meditating. But upon closer look, one would see her eyes weren't closed; they were fixed on something invisible in the air.
A faint smile involuntarily flickered in her violet eyes.
"My, my, our Almighty Shogun seems to be in a very good mood today!"
Just as Raiden Ei was watching the messages in the chat group, a graceful pink figure approached from the direction of the shrine building, her tone laced with playful teasing.
"Is that so?"
Raiden Ei slowly turned her head to look at Yae Miko walking towards her.
"But of course! My Almighty Shogun!"
"Don't I know you best?"
A light, coquettish smile graced Yae Miko's face as she leisurely walked over to the tree and sat down beside Raiden Ei.
"You've been so troubled by official duties lately! It's rare to see a smile on your face."
"What is it? Did something happy happen?"
As Raiden Ei's familiar, if there was anyone in this world besides her sister Makoto who understood her best, it was this little fox.
"Mhm. You could say that."
Raiden Ei gave a slight nod.
"I met someone who was quite similar to my past self, someone who also chose to run away from something important."
"But now, seeing her finally choose to change, it makes me happy for her."
Raiden Ei's willow-leaf brows relaxed very naturally; it was clear her mood was genuinely good.
"Oh! Is it someone from that 'Myriad Worlds Chat Group' you mentioned?"
Yae Miko thought for a moment, recalling the day Raiden Ei had told her about the chat group.
Back then, Raiden Ei had kept saying the world was going to end, that doomsday was coming. She had scared poor Yae Miko half to death, making her think Raiden Ei had been possessed by something or that the corrosion was acting up.
But after the crisis passed and Raiden Ei explained, she understood what the chat group was. It also made Yae Miko realize that beyond Teyvat, there existed countless other worlds.
"Mhm. A girl named Akane Nishino."
Raiden Ei nodded gently.
"My, my, I never thought our Almighty Shogun would care about someone other than the people of Inazuma!"
Yae Miko laughed charmingly, teasing Raiden Ei.
Raiden Ei merely glanced at her with a faint expression and retorted:
"I care about all my friends."
"And, why are you here? Don't you have anything to do?"
"Of course not. As for the Grand Narukami Shrine's affairs, I just need to delegate them to the other shrine maidens."
"So compared to you, a Shogun burdened with governance, I'm quite free, you know!"
Yae Miko chuckled softly in reply.
Hearing this, a trace of helplessness involuntarily surfaced on Raiden Ei's face.
Truth be told, she wasn't very adept at governing a nation. In the past, such matters had always been handled by her sister. Her role was solely to provide the martial force.
Thinking of this, Raiden Ei felt it necessary for her to improve in this area and seek some help—perhaps from Seitenshi in the group later.
Seeing Raiden Ei fall silent, Yae Miko beside her simply stayed quietly by her side, occasionally picking up a small snack from the table and popping it into her mouth.
Meanwhile, back in the hotel bathroom via the chat group...
Seeing Akane Nishino's message, Yuki smiled slightly, then quickly replied.
[Yuki]: Alright, let me first take a look at the situation in your world.
[Akane Nishino]: Mhm, mhm! Thank you so much, Yuki-kun. (Cute)
Everyone knew that given Yuki's current status, the myriad worlds belonged to him, and he was the myriad worlds.
Within these myriad worlds, nothing could escape his sight.
He could travel to any world across the multiverse. His gaze could reach every corner of existence.
So for him, just a casual glance was enough to know everything about the world of anyone in their group.
Leaning back in the bathtub, Yuki's eyes focused on the void, piercing through all dimensions, directly arriving at the Shadow Garden world where Akane Nishino resided.
A slight stir of his mind, and in less than a second, all the information about the entire world swiftly poured into the depths of his consciousness.
Although he had seen this work back on Earth and knew the general situation of this world, given the deviations that had occurred before, Yuki suspected this world might differ somewhat from his impression.
Sure enough, Yuki did discover differences.
In the Shadow Garden universe, aside from Akane's world (Modern Earth) and one parallel world of a different realm (The Isekai World), there existed countless parallel worlds, each guarded by a Demon King.
This aligned perfectly with Yuki's memory.
The only difference was that Yuki could not find the existence of the male protagonist, Cid Kagenou (Shadow)—the ultimate chuunibyou who constantly ranted about becoming the "Eminence in Shadow."
This did surprise Yuki a little.
But since this chuunibyou protagonist was gone, it didn't really matter to Yuki.
As for the "Seven Shadows" saved in the original plot—Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta—without this protagonist, they naturally couldn't be rescued as in the story.
Recalling the members of Shadow Garden in the original work—each one a beautiful girl—when Yuki had watched the series, he'd even felt like going over there to slap some sense into that chuunibyou protagonist who only cared about showing off.
Here he had all these lovely girls, yet he did nothing with them, just spent all day comparing himself to a nuclear bomb ("I am Atomic"). The guy truly had a few screws loose.
It's good that he's gone now! Yuki thought. Saved me the trouble of wanting to punch him if we ever met.
[Yuki]: Akane Nishino, your world isn't as simple as it seems, you know.
[Akane Nishino]: Huh? Really? But isn't it just like an ordinary world here?
[Yuki]: It's not. The general situation of your world is as follows...
Yuki then briefly explained her world's situation to Akane, including the parallel world of another realm and the countless parallel worlds guarded by Demon Kings...
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