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ActionsEntire Work ← Previous Chapter Next Chapter → Chapter Index Bookmark Mark for Later Comments Share DownloadWork HeaderRating:General AudiencesArchive Warning:Creator Chose Not To Use Archive WarningsCategories:F/MGenFandom:原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)Relationships:Raiden Ei | Baal/ScaramoucheRaiden Ei | Baal & ScaramoucheKong | Aether & Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)Characters:Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)Raiden Ei | BaalKong | Aether (Genshin Impact)Paimon (Genshin Impact)Yae Miko (Genshin Impact)Nahida (Genshin Impact)Kamisato AyakaArataki IttoKuki ShinobuAdditional Tags:IncestVideo Game MechanicsKindaSlow BurnParent/Child IncestLanguage:EnglishCollections:AnonymousStats:Published:2025-01-19Updated:2025-08-29Words:54,037Chapters:16/?Comments:43Kudos:125Bookmarks:8Hits:4,326Eternity lead to Doom!AnonymousChapter 11Notes:(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter TextMakoto doesn't know what to feel right now.
He is right now in the Guest room in Tenshukaku. Lying on his back as he looked at the ceiling.
The futon is nice and the room is clean, there is nothing to complain about the room.
He remembers the moment after he and his mother pass the door. It felt awkward when many attendants and Servants of his mother looked at him like he was something unique , no, perhaps familiar was a better choice of word. He can taste the awkwardness in the air when they welcome them a few moments after he takes a bath. They are not leaving him alone at all, he knows they are just following orders from his mother but still…
Is it really necessary even during his bath time?. The bath was nice after a few days of only bathing in the river and changing his clothes to another (one of perks of having Anemo element yet keeping his clothes clean everytime with Anemo power kind of bothersome) but the constant feeling of someone looking at him during that time really ruined the relaxed atmosphere.
Even after that, there were two female attendants to help him dress. He almost blew them away with concentrated Anemo, luckily his Vision was not on him at the time and he was sensible enough to not electrocute them with Electro. It's not good for him to cause problems inside the most protected and guarded place in Inazuma. And to make it much worse why in the world when he threatened them they giggled. Freaking giggled at him. Him .
To make him dislike them more was the fact that both of them have a smell of 'fox' for some reason. He really hopes they are not connected to that damn pink 'fox'.
They explained that they are under direct command of Electro Archon herself to help him and so they follow her order, which Makoto begrudgedly allowed them to dress him, ignoring the fact that they also looked at her body with impure intention in their eyes and sometimes touching certain parts of his body too long, too affectionately . They also talk too much while dressing him, asking about "who he is", "what his relationship with their Archon", "are you the one in rumor", etc. And he is not answering any of them.
He cursed them in his heart, that moment that feels like Eternity has passed finally ended and both them finally leaving him alone.
All of that fortunately just sours his mood. Not enough to make him regret saying yes to his mother.
Makoto sighed.
It's useless to regret his choice.
He can complain about all of that tomorrow to his mother.
He needs to sleep right now, only because he has nothing to do here. It's just better to pass the time by sleeping than thinking of something useless, he bitterly chuckled, after all sleep was basically useless to him, no matter how Nahida tried to sugarcoat the positive effect of sleeping to him. He just needs to close his eyes and let himself into the embrace of darkness.
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Makoto doesn't know how many hours have passed since he was lying on the futon. He just doesn't know why he cannot sleep, it should be easy, he just needs to close his eyes and let his "mind" shut down like usual when he wants to sleep.
Probably because this is Tenshukaku. The place that supposedly became his true 'home' but the world, The fate itself not seeing it fit to allow him that or perhaps it's not fate itself but his mother's decision which to blame.
No, perhaps it's all his own fault.
Because he's not strong enough to Gnosis.
Because he has weakness.
PathEtic.
Because he's just a mere prototype.
Useless.
Tap…Tap…
Before he can drown himself deeper in self-deplecating. He hears an almost inaudible foot step to his room. Whoever makes those footsteps is trying to hide their presence. It's good but not good enough.
Tap… Tap…
" Just a single person" from what he can detect.
But the question is, who?.
Makoto doubts it's those attendants of his mother, if it's them, he sincerely hopes it's not one of those two 'foxes'.
He shifted his lying position to face the door, wanting to see who came in when it opened. Makoto pretends to be asleep, but his eyelids are not closed completely, enough to see whoever they are.
Tap… Tap…
Tap… Tap…
The sound came closer then they stopped right in the front of the door of his guest room, then the door opened to show. No matter how dark the room is, he can still clearly see who it is. She.
" Mother!?"
"Shogun you know, the broth itself was very tasty and don't forget about…"
Raiden Shogun hears her creator talking nonstop about the food that Makoto cooked for her since she was lying on her futon, and for the next few hours later she is still talking about the food. Raiden Shogun doesn't know how to feel when her, their tongue tastes Makoto food. No, it's better to say that Raiden Shogun doesn't know how to describe what she experienced, she doesn't understand what mortals call "delicious". Its meaning is just not something she can comprehend yet , but when their artificial tongue touches and tastes Makoto cooks, something happens inside of her.
She doesn't know what happened to her that time, then Ei put another spoon, then another. Every time Ei put another spoon, Raiden Shogun almost lost her control, it was foreign thing to Shogun.
Raiden Shogun can feel all parts of her body feeling that sensation that she can only call as her program ' glitched' . It foreign but nothing bad happened afterward, her program still working as usual. She doesn't understand at all.
Fortunately Ei don't have any awareness about all of this.
Raiden Shogun, thinking about Makoto, She runs another check to her program, she finds nothing, all her problems working as usual. Ever since Ei, their eyes on Makoto all of this foreign thing start to happen to her.
The ' glitching ' that she cannot find in her program always makes her want to be close to him and makes him want to be close to her. For all of E T e r ni t y .
So, she subtly persuades, gives suggestions and agrees with Ei's ideas, as long as she can be close to him.
It's abnormal and outside of her duty to prioritize her own goal besides to be a Shadow to Ei but she is far from broken. She is still capable of doing her duty without any sign of problem.
But…
Still, she wants to be close to him.
So, she waited.
Raiden Shogun waits as Ei consciousness falls to slumber and she can take control of the body completely. This night, she can be close to Makoto without raising Ei suspicion.
She is really thankful that Ei developed this new habit of hers. Sleeping like mortals do.
Raiden Shogun stood up from their futon, smoothed the wrinkles on her sleeping clothes, then she silently checked again if Ei consciousness was active or not. Pleased that shows no sign of the activity of her creator.
And so Raiden Shogun walked to Makoto's room.
Silently as possible.
" Mother!?"
Makoto right now trying not to make sudden movements. He doesn't know why his mother suddenly wants to visit him in his room without notification. Especially when he is supposedly still 'sleeping'.
He looked at her, even in the darkness, still capable of looking at many features of her face with the exception being her eyes and the color of her hair and that is definitely his mother.
The question is why?. Why come when he supposedly already sleeps, what is she trying to do?. Makoto observes her, wary about what she is trying to do.
She is still in front of the room, still not entering his room at all. Makoto can see that her attention is on him right since the door opened.
She walked into the room, then the door closed. One step then another step, it's not long before she stands besides him, looking at him 'sleeping' quietly.
Then something that only Kabukimono ever dreamed about happened.
SHE, his mother, Electro Archon, the one Kabukimono cried to in his dream in his loneliness, Scaramouche wished to be replaced with himself and Wanderer saw nothing more than a childish woman.
Right now, laying in the same futon as him and…She held him tightly in her embrace.
Makoto wants to rebel out of her embrace, but he can't. No matter how he will himself no strength comes to his body. Whatever leave from Kabukimono inside him told him to accept it, let's drown in the warmth they, he once hoped for.
He wants to cry, he doesn't want to accept that he still wants this from this damnable woman. All of this was wrong from beginning, Fuck Teyvat, he dont want to show any weakness, he is strong. He doesn't need this childish dream of Kabukimono to happen, he already buried all of that deep inside and promised to himself to never let it surface again.
Still… why.
Then, there was a snarky scream of Scaramouche that mocked, belittled and screamed at him in the far corner of his head.
Makoto hated Scaramouche, He was shameful past he resented but for now he is thankful to him. Right now he feels much better, his mind not clouded by all of these sentimentality.
He lets his mother embrace him before he decides to 'wake up' and act surprised at her.
Pfft, he can imagine her surprised reaction with him walking up.
He didn't know how long she embraced him, before he felt her slightly lift his head from where he was resting, tilting it to the side a little before…
"Sllrrpp"
He can feel a wet feeling on his back neck.
" What the…" Makoto instantly 'wakes up', and gets as far as he can from her. Before stopping in front of the door of his room.
He looked at his mother very, very confused. Makoto can feel something wet at the back of his neck, using his left hand to make sure, " shit" and indeed it's wet.
Now, he doesn't know what he needs to do, he really hopes Nahida is here right now, he doesn't care if she doesn't do much, he just doesn't want the one need to deal with this kind of thing.
"Ei, Why the hell are you licking my neck!?". He screamed at her.
Raiden Shogun never desires a physical touch with anyone, she only ever does physical contact with a few people in her centuries of being active. She never wishes nor seeks what mortals call "Love" ; it has nothing to do for her purpose.
She exists only for the purpose of what she created before then it's changed to a different purpose after Ei, her creator changed. She, The Raiden Shogun herself also changed, well only after battling her own creator for a few centuries. She agreed to change. But can it be called a change? Her duty is still protecting The Eternity, just a different one from before, but Eternity nonetheless. Before she put the processing for these kinds of thought to halt because priority for these was just unimportant for her cause.
" Makoto" She thought as she looked at the sleeping figure.
Makoto, the young man, just looking at him caused her so many errors in her program. If she follows the procedure that Ei put inside her, it either needs to be Delete or studies to find why it caused a problem. Raiden Shogun chose for the latter, Eunthanitazion of humans especially foreigners can cause many problems on the line. She also doubted that Ei agreed with her too. Especially after the fact he is also close with Lesser lord Kusanali, if she chose the former, the impact was too big to ignore and so the former was the choice she chose.
She looks at Makoto. By human standard he is a very beautiful young man. But that is not important right now. She needs to collect info about him while he and Ei are still asleep.
Raiden Shogun then does something that, if Ei know , definitely caused her trust in her to dwindle. Raiden Shogun doesn't care, she is just doing her duty based on the program her creator put in her, it's just a mere coincidence it's aligned with her personal intention. It sounds like she tries to make excuses for what she tries to do to Makoto, but really it's just pure coincidence.
She slowly, not trying to wake him up, lay beside him, wrapping him in her embrace. She tries to do it as gently as possible, Mortal called mortal for a reason after all.
Raiden Shogun then made sure that her position was not bothersome at all to him then continued to still embrace him before checking if there was any sign that he would suddenly wake up.
Pleased that she found none. It's then time to do some checking. First, checking if there is something dangerous like disease on him, he is a foreigner, there is a good chance there is a disease or something that can cause a pandemic. Especially someone from Sumeru. She doesn't want there to be a pandemic in her nation.
Using her Elemental sight, her scanning detected nothing harmful about him. No sign of anything indicates that he carries disease or plagues, besides something that looks like something he was born with. Need further investigation. Priority : High.
Raiden Shogun note 1# about makoto : There is a difference between him and a normal human with the way elemental energy moves inside of him.
She scans his body using a different Elemental sight, this one much superior than human possessed. The one she is using right now is much more suitable for checking the inside of his body, and the result is…
Raiden Shogun momentarily paused. She checks if she makes a mistake in the scanning, she uses Elemental sight one time again then the second one. Still the same result.
Raiden Shogun note 2# about Makoto : she finds proof that Makoto is not a human at all. Based on the fact there are too many differences in the way the human body works with Elemental energy. It's too efficient and results in no energy waste.
Find what kind of creature he is. Priority : High.
Makoto came from Sumeru but with Inazuma heritage. There is a probability Makoto is a Youkai or a descendant of one. Checking again, to find the synergy between manifested spiritual energy and Elemental energy. And then make the comparison between data. Result : None.
Zero result. Then he is not a Youkai or descendant of one either. Raiden Shogun checked her database of sentience species on Sumeru ; Human, Neither, Valuka Shuna too show no compatibility.
His outer body structure looks human with few differences. There is something weird about his body.
Raiden Shogun starts to theorize that his uniqueness only applied to himself. His body is similar to that of a human but much more sturdy and efficient on elemental energy use, the difference is the purpose of elemental energy just different, with humans they use it like invisible barrier that protect them from harm; like Pyro vision passively clad the user with Elemental energy protecting them from heat and flame to certain degree or Cyro vision that work the same way to grant resistance to cold.
On Makoto it's work is different, while it's also protecting him too, it's also become the source of power to his body. Her scanning shows how the elemental energy moves and empowers all parts of his body, like he is some sort of perfect imitation of humanity, and that is not even the most surprising part. He has two elemental energies inside him working together, most being only able to have one element naturally. Even if they are Youkai, Elemental being and many others, with certain exceptions like the Traveller, then again the Traveller himself is an exception.
Back to the part that he looks like an imitation of Humanity. This part of her own hypothesis based on data she collected. Make her feel more curious.
He is definitely breathing, Raiden Shogun already made sure of that. But another data from her scanning found there is no purpose from this act. Because when a creature breathes they also unconsciously absorb a very little amount of elemental energy, but not with Makoto. To the way she looks it is just a natural attempt to blend or perhaps act normal .
Raiden Shogun has never met someone like him before. He is full of intriguing mysteries for her.
She reminds herself that her programming dictate just happens to coincide with her own intention. She is still following her newly updated programming in her system that Ei updated.
Much detailed Scanning is impossible to conduct. While her Elemental sight is much superior there is a limit to it. He cannot see inside someone's body like their organs.
But Raiden Shogun will not easily give up, if she can in the first place. Her very existence is the ideal of Eternity. Whose Eternity, she doesn't care.
There is one way to collect more information about him but it's risky . He probably would wake up from his sleep and Raiden Shogun needs to give reason for what she did to him.
She thinks for a moment, making probability and the path she needs to take to make a greater result gained in the future to her programming deem worthy while minimising the risk.
The risk calculated. Then the result is found.
This result formed based on the data collected that show the accumulation of Elemental energy on outer skin behind his neck. She can collect much data by connecting to his body with this method.
Raiden Shogun prepares to use a part of her body that is much more sensitive than mere artificial skin, so he can gain more data much faster and efficient.
Speed is the key to this.
She then wakes and sits in seiza position before slightly lifting Makoto's head from where he was resting, tilting it to the side a little while looking at the Electro tattoo symbol before…
"Sllrrpp"
Licking his neck. In that moment she gained a little more new data about him.
Unfortunately, he woke up.
"Ei, Why the hell are you licking my neck!?". He screamed at her. His face was red, clearly angry.
She suddenly wants to make Ei deal with this. She can deal with him if he is not angry, but dealing with someone angry is not her forte.
TextHis neck feels cold and wet, the complete opposite of the warmth in his body especially in his face.
" What the hell? " his mind still can't make out what just happened. Did his mother really lick his neck? Or it's just mere hallucination caused by this place. " no".
It's just too real and the sensation still hasn't disappeared at all, cold and wet . So he definitely is not having a nightmare or worse . Wet dreams about his own mom. It's all real. From the hug to that.
Makoto looked sharply at his Mother. She is still looking toward him, like a predator.
He doesn't know what he should do right now, run or confront his mother. Both choices feel useless to him. Run from her especially in her own place, impossible but the latter also the same. He who just merely guest confronts one of the strongest beings in Teyvat, laughable.
So he does what he can do right now. "What the hell are you doing !?" he asked her again, growling like a stray dog cornered.
Her face shows nothing, before she disappears, only to appear stopped a few steps right in front of him. Her hand ready trying to grab his neck.
It's not long for his mind to make sense of the situation right now.
Fortunately–or unfortunately because this all problem began from this, The world stopped moving again. As proven that he cannot move his body at all along with his mother.
Well, that take a turn
" This fucker" He cursed the damn 'window'. How he wants to tear apart the damn 'window' and make whatever behind this regret what they have done to him.
He turned his attention to his frozen-in-time mother before going back to the window. Makoto doubts this 'window' can save from whatever this situation is called.
Then the 'window' shows something that makes what fluid inside him can be considered as blood boiled.
You opened "The Raiden Shogun"
Reward for completing the quest :
1+ friend ! (Number of friends : 0/3)
Failed/reject the Quest :
Ever heard of our lord and Savior, Nanook?.
Accept/Reject.
" wh-what." Makoto's mind can't comprehend what he just read. This damnable 'window' at this time dares to give a quest, but that is not the problem.
He doesn't know who the hell is 'Nanook' supposedly but reading the name caused some sort of primordial fear inside him, fortunately easily controlled before it affected him in a meaningful way.
" Yes." He really, really wants to punch someone right now.
Congratulation
Quest "The Raiden Shogun" has begun!!!
Clue :
It's not the one you think (0/1)
" what the hell that suppo–" Before he could think more about what the clue meant, his mother grabbed his neck. " Shit, I forget about her."
His mother lifts him up to their eyes meeting each other. The strangling, while uncomfortable, doesn't have enough force to cause humans to asphyxiate, even if it's strong enough to cause one to human, it's still meaningless to him.
" Makoto." There is something wrong about his mother, something alien yet very familiar to him but still cant put what that was. "I need you to calm down"
"There's a reason for what I just did to you, so you need to calm down, this is not an order but just someone politely asked to give her reason to be heard." She perhaps came from the Abyss because Makoto remembered their way of 'politeness' was very similar to what she does to him right now.
" Let me explain to you, if you agree I can release you" She said with absolute authority in her tones. Makoto already heard similar words many times during his life and everyone who ever said that sentence to him was proved as low life in the end. But to hearing it from the mouth of his mothe-, No the one in front him is the Electro Archon, Raiden Shogun. " I would release you but be quiet, we don't want to alert the guard, blink twice if you understand."
"Blink" "Blink"
Makoto gives her what she wants to make her release him. But be quiet?.
" Like hell I followed your damn order." Makoto disdains thought. As his mother released her grab on his neck, Makoto kicked her with his left leg which was easily blocked by his mother, his next attack by channeling Anemo energy on his right hand creating an orb of Anemo energy that exploded in front of her face. Unsurprisingly his mother does not move at all, not even an inch and she showed no wound, not even a scratch. That just caused her clothes to be a mess.
"I told you to be quiet." Makoto feels a chill in his spine, if before her tone were soulless, now it's very chilling like death itself manifesting. It's different from many times when she talked to him before they were in Tenshukaku. Makoto remembers how soft and gentle her words are but at the same time like there is a certainty that a storm is waiting. " The noise you make is fortunately not enough to alert the guard stationed, they probably think the noise you make is a storm that is approaching, which luckily is showing signs that it will happen tonight. For a mortal your elemental power is quite astonishingly powerful."
Makoto doesn't hear what she just says, his mind goes back to the clue given to him by the damn 'window' it's written "it's not the one you think." So definitely not his mother, while he once imagined her as someone like the one in front him. But these past days it's given him a different view of her, he already hears from Nahida and the Traveller conversation about her but he doesn't trust them. It's a completely different experience meeting her as someone 'new'.
In just a short moment, Makoto found the answer.
"That goddamn replacement." It's not hard to find who is in front of him right now, all the information he acquired and then cross checked makes it very easy. His little sister. His cold blooded tyrannical little sister.
Then the expected annoying 'window' appeared.
Congratulation
You get a New clue !
What a good big brother does to his cute little sister if she misbehaves.
" Cute!? That flying brat is much cuter compared to this one." Makoto cursed, found nothing cute about his replacement.
"Be quiet and let me explain," She said, still with the same authority. Makoto still observes the Raiden Shogun. The difference is he now looks at her as nothing more than a mere Brat who drunk with power.
"Then let me hear it, you Brat." Gone all his fe–, no, not fear, guard toward the one in front him replaced with annoyance he infamously known in Academia.
"You show no fear to me anymore, what a fast change of emotion but you are still trapped in the same predicament." She said with the same authority but this time Makoto can hear confusion in her words. " This is why I don't understand any of you."
" Really?, she compares me to them". Makoto scoffed and knew what she meant by that. Comparing him to humans and their irrationality, that's nothing new, Nahida already did that to him not as ridicule but as learning material. And that does not change the fact that he still hates the comparison.
" I will be blunt to you" Raiden Shogun said, as she put her right hand on his shoulder. He really wants to slap the shit of his little sister's face. " Or Ei's face" He grimly thought. Makoto doesn't want to hurt Ei without good reason, he was not a Scaramouche anymore, then again Makoto doubts he can leave even a scratch on her face. " Follow my words or face the consequences."
"Damn you talk a lot and what the consequences are, you damn replacement of the real one." Makoto mocked, trying to provoke a reaction from her. And it's a success.
Raiden Shogun looked at him sharply.
" Those interesting words you just utter." Her eyes glowing and ready to execute him in the place he stood.
"I will give you a chance to explain yourself in detail about what you just said. I don't want to make international tension just because I punish someone who just happened to be close to Lesser lord Kusanali and to a certain degree close to the Traveler." She explained, but the air of authority she emanated started to rub off more and more of his 'vast' patience. He doesn't know what kind of programming Ei put inside her, but his mother clearly forgot to put humility in her 'second child'. " But you better give me a good explanation, if I deem your explanation not good enough there is punishment waiting, not execution but others is much better suited, no doubt Lesser lord Kusanali herself will find that as aggression to her nation from Inazuma, after all there is no difference between the aggression of the Archon and the nation they rule. But that is something I and Inazuma itself can deal with, but not what you just said. It's something dangerous that threatens Inazuma, Eternity and my duty."
" What's wrong with her!?" Makoto is now convinced that his 'little sister' is just another failed product of their mother. He finds it somewhat funny and ironic that both of them are failed children of the same mother. The difference perhaps, he was aware and she wasn't, he was forgotten and she kept as replacement.
"So, you want me to explain what I just said, right? What if I don't want to? " Makoto provokes her again.
" Then face the judgement, i ask you one last time, explain or..."
"Fine, I will explain. But you need to explain first what you need to do…" He shivers." that when I sleep." He answered without letting her complete the sentence.
" I understand, I will explain first then your turn to."
Makoto nodded, while the agreement was not that bad, he was still in a bad situation. He needs to have more advantages than this.
" Why do I just do it to you before is nothing more than a mere simple check." Surprise, surprise, hearing that half-hearted explanation from her almost made him somewhat upset.
"Checking for what?" Makoto asked, his tone borderline threatening. She definitely will not answer that but there is nothing wrong with that.
" That good enough explanation for you"
What an annoying little sister he has.
" Not it's your part to explain."
Two can play at that game.
" I will But there is a catch."
"You humans always surprise me in a bad way". Raiden Shogun silent for a moment before opening her mouth again. " ...then tell me what you want to demand from me."
"Listen closely brat, i only say it once, just once." Makoto tries to provoke her again but she is apparently already aware of that.
"You need to be punished." Makoto chuckled inside his mind. Punishment is what a good big brother does to his naughty little sister. That is what Makoto remembers when The eleven talks about his younger sibling and he needs to be disciplined. And Makoto is pretty sure as the Harbinger Childe way disciplined must be by punishment right. No matter how crazy that sounds to him right now. If he failed then good. He doesn't need to deal with her, their mother or anyone anymore.
" Excuse me." That really caught the guard of his little sister. After all there is zero chance her little system and programming can predict something so utterly ridiculous. He feels generous right now, so he tells him one more time.
"Yeah, you hear me right, you need to be punished." He smirks, feeling the dominance over her. Fuck the 'window' , fuck International relationship, fuck his existence and fuck the entire Nahida lecture about attidute. If that means he can be someone above her at this moment, on her own game, no matter how fake it feels and delusional he is right now.
Raiden Shogun expression changes from showing hostility to neutral, not showing any emotion. She closed her eyes for a moment that felt like an Eternity before opening it again. Looking directly into his eyes. And then she talked.
" Fine," Makoto felt his body and mind relaxed after hearing that word.
" I permitted it, hope you give me a good explanation."
"Hah, so you're not that bad of a person." Makoto wants to laugh at what he just says. The one in front him is not that different from him, the difference perhaps he changed better as a true sentient.
"Hmm, where should I explain…" Makoto pretended to think from where he should start. He looks at Shogun to search if it somehow aggravated her more and much to his annoyance he found nothing indicating that. "Ah yes right how i start from there."
"Make it fast, there is no point in searching for a way to escape from here." Huh, what an annoying little sister he has.
"Tch, i already want to explain but you cut me off." Makoto really wants to laugh, he doesn't know that his replacement will be this funny to make fun of. What an innocent monster she is.
" Continue, then" Answer her. Ah, unfortunately looks like she doesn't want to be made fun of.
"Fine, ever heard that current Inazuma leader not the origi–, shit." Makoto Dodge perfectly from Raiden Shogun trying to choke him again, fortunately this time she failed.
" From where you hear that from." Makoto can feel the danger that emanates thickly from her. That definitely pisses her off or whatever closest emotion to that.
"Pick one, my explanation or choke me, you brat, is this how Inazuma shows hospitality to tourists now? Can't say I expect much from you but this is clearly a new low." Makoto mocked, while he looked for whatever body sign that could depict her next move.
" From where you heard that, you did not supposedly know that" Straight to question, Makoto thought, feeling kinda bored with her reaction.
"Was that important to yo– hey why you want to choke me so much." Again, Makoto successfully avoided another Raiden Shogun effort to choke him again. "Cant you stop that."
" Answer or face my judgement"
" Fine, I heard from a bunch of random Fatui agents who talked about it. Curious, I asked Nahida about that, nothing more nothing less. That's enough for you?."
Her reply was just a single nod. That was good enough for Makoto.
"Let me continue then." He looks at his little sister, she shows no refusal fortunately from her body movement, if he can detect any movement at all from her. "The current Archon of Inazuma is not the original one, not even Inazuma people know about this with certain exceptions. Example ; Guuji Yae the one many call as the right hand of the Archon herself, the Traveler and his flying bratty companion, others Archons and their trusted people, me and of course it's you, her own replacement, her own puppet."
Raiden Shogun looks at him, he doesn't know what she is thinking right now. What her judgement is to him.
" Normally you would be executed as punishment just by having this kind of information but your personal connection to Lesser lord Kusanali, her status as The Dendro Archon and by her own will to confirm this information to you, deeming you trustworthy. While the confirmation of your connection to the Dendro Archon only came from the mouth of the Traveler, it's already enough to support your claim. But formal confirmation is still necessary. I still can't execute you but another form of punishment is still necessary."
"Wait, that's not in our agreement!" Did she try to break her agreement with him?
" Our agreements are not bound by any form of formality by Inazuma law, tradition and I recognize and acknowledge, it's just made because both of us want to gain something, there are no vows or formalities written between us. There is no need for me to honor 'our' agreement."
"And I am still not done checking you more."
"You little shit." Now, as after he says that Raiden Shogun is trying to grab his hand instead of his neck and successfully grab his right hand. He instantly feels how the entire body is electrified by her elemental power. He is indeed very (un)lucky that he has such immense pain tolerance to withstand such pain.
"Hm, you're a very durable one, any other normal mortal already will be unconscious but you're still standing." Makoto doesn't know if she means to praise him or what.
"Grrrr." He growled, attacked her again with a slash of Anemo power, it only ended up shredding her clothes more of her already ruined clothes.
"Durability test, Status : completed."
"Is that just a test? you damn little bastard." Makoto doesn't know how to feel, this feels unreal. He feels weirdly proud but at the same very angry at her.
"Indeed that just a mere test to gathering information about you, i am sorry about that"
"Hahahaha…" Makoto laughed, he cannot sense any remorse in her words and sincerity in her apology. Either she doesn't have one or just doesn't know how to pour out her emotions. "You don't sound very sincere about the apology, so I will never accept that."
"Then how do I show my sincerity? And have your forgiveness?." Raiden Shogun asked, again without showing emotion. Makoto doesn't know how she can be so cruel and cute at the same time. The jealousy he feels toward her is almost gone, it's still in his heart but a very small amount left. The funny thing was he didn't care much about the pain she caused him.
"Shit, I am already mellow down." All of this happens because Nahida, the Traveller and that damn flying brat. He 'hates' them, but he was very thankful to them. Perhaps he can pay them a little kindness by doing this. "Then follow our agreement, you damn brat"
He can pay them indirectly by showing what he can consider as kindness to others, to her little sister.
"If that is enough for you, then I will respect it."
Shogun looks at the empty corner of the room. It's clean and there is no dust from what she can see.
She can sense the Storm approaching, one of the reasons for Ei (and by extension Shogun too.) inviting Makoto to Tenshukaku. The way the atmosphere and elemental energy condense and move probably make the storm itself not that big of a problem. But it's enough to cause a few problems during sailing.
" Can I ask you how long I need to face the corner?." Shogun asked as she was being punished by Makoto himself to face the corner. She doesn't understand why this can be considered as punishment in the first place.
"30 minutes. And you ask again, I added another 30 minutes."
Not that long. She can wait that long. But there are some parts of her system that don't want to wait at all. But agreement is still an agreement, no matter how insignificant and unimportant it was to her.
Still 30 minutes is not that long.
Makoto looked proudly at what he had done to her. His little sister, the Shogun herself. Punished to look at the corner of the guest room.
He is waiting for the 'window' to pop out again and gaining a new update of this quest. It's already close to 30 minutes but there is no sign of the damn 'window'.
30 minutes passed and her punishment was done. Still no 'window' at all.
" I'm already done with your punishment." Shogun stated. Both of them right now sit facing each other.
Makoto nodded. So perhaps punishment is not what the 'window' means. Then what?.
Childe always talked about his younger siblings to the point he only considered him unfit for the rank among the Harbingers. Makoto thought more deeply perhaps he misunderstood that moron mean as punishment.
He remembers the Captain, the one he begrudgingly respects. What other Harbinger, including himself do to their failing underlings is punishment, even if they did not deserve it. The Captain lectured and guided them why they failed and supported them.
Should he do the same thing to Shogun ?. Lecture her about what?. Makoto internally grinned.
"Hey, I ask you, are you aware why I give you a punishment in the first place?." He asked. hoping that she knows the answer.
" No."
Makoto felt disappointed. This is his replacement ?. This is no better than asking children.
"Do you really need me to explain it? "
" Yes." Huh, what a tiresome little sister.
"Simple, that's what you do to me!." Makoto tries to make her remember what she did before to him. "Remember what you did to me when I was sleeping, you licked me then fricking electrocuted me. You don't believe I would let you go that easily right."
" That something acce–." Before Shogun could say all her lines, Makoto cut it. "That is something far from acceptable, you idiot."
"You lucky I just punished you like that. You understand what I'm saying right!?." That's more emotional than he intended too.
" I understand."
"Good. Don't make the same mistake again, brat."
Congratulation!
You get a New clue!
Name is important!
Makoto read all of that instantly before it's gone again. He understands what it means. Well, what makes it hard asking someone's name?. Just asked about it. She was already made aware of his knowledge about her existence.
"Hey can i ask your name, it's very annoying to call you Brat all the time." He asked her. Makoto is curious what her name is, what kind of name she gets from Ei. After all she is a successful product of hers, the good one always gets the name.
" Raiden Shogun." Did she misunderstand what he meant?
"I ask for your name, not your title or your job. I ask again what your name is."
" Shogun, I'm just always known as Raiden Shogun." Makoto can feel how disappointed he is right now. He wants to laugh. Not because it's funny but because of how ironic he finds this. A successful one not granted name. What can be hoped for by a prototype can get one in the first place.
Makoto closed his eyes, trying to calm his emotions down. It's just not the time, not now nor later. He opened his eyes to look at Shogun again.
"Then we'll give you a name."
"Then we'll give you a name."
Raiden Shogun feels something that she can't understand in her chest. It's the same as before, just feeling different yet feeling the same.
She doesn't understand how such words from his mouth can affect her this much. Is this perhaps a metal attack unknown to her. But she cannot sense danger or threat at all from him. Shogun doesn't understand what he calls her Brat in the first place and when discover she doesn't have a name he suddenly wants to give her a name. She has no need of a name. She is just and always be a Raiden Shogun.
"What name do you want?" Did he ask what name she wanted? She didn't know and didn't care at first but the look in her eyes moved something inside her.
"I don't know ." Her honest answer. Never has a thought about having her own identity. She is Raiden Shogun. There is no need for another identity.
"Tsk, annoying Brat." He cares for her, but why is he hiding it?. "What is your hobby?."
Hobby such a mortal concept. " I don't have one."
"Favorite food."
" None either."
" Favorite time, weather, animals, anything?".
She shakes her head.
"What an annoying task." " Task you gave to yourself ," Shogun added in her mind.
Makoto's momentary silence, looked hesitant about what he wanted to say.
"What is your duty besides being 'Raiden Shogun'."
Her duty only being Raiden Shogun and what Ei intended before and after their fight.
What Ei intended…
What Ei intended then it is…
" As a shadow to The true Electro Archon." She answered.
"A shadow huh." Makoto thought for a moment before. "I am not good at naming things or even someone but "Tsukiko". How about that?"
" Tsukiko..." She doesn't have a problem with that, but somehow the feeling in her chest became much bigger and hard to control. " Yes I like it."
Makoto grinned, proud of what he just did.
"Then from now on I will call Tsukiko, Raiden Tsukiko. How that sound."
" Raiden ? I don't understand why I need to use her name too." She and Ei are different people, so there is no need for both of them to use the same name in front of Makoto.
"You are her child, well a creation of her, definitely a child of Archon." it sounds so wrong yet so right to her programming. A puppet can't be considered as a child to the creator but she is different from other puppets, she has her own will and mind. "There is no need to think too much about that, you are her child no matter how much your creator wants to deny it.
She nodded, deciding agreed with his logic.
"Now tell me what your name is to me."