The animation finished playing and entered the dialogue segment.
Paimon: "Who are you?"
The woman with black satin wrapped around her eyes: "We're very sorry for disturbing you esteemed guests. I know our appearance is very abrupt, but before introducing ourselves, please allow us to handle one matter."
Then the scene changed. Except for the youth in the center who was kneeling on one knee, everyone else was performing a kneeling bow toward Yiya.
"First time meeting, no need for such grand etiquette. Besides, you seem to be kneeling to the wrong person. The main character is over here."
Huohuo said while looking at the kneeling NPC.
[As expected of a country whose prototype is an island nation. Even greetings and salutes are this solemn.]
[Speaking seriously, I feel like they're not kneeling to us, but to the pouch at Yiya's waist.]
[Didn't they say this pouch would only be useful once we reach Narukami Island? It's already being used while we're still on Ritou?]
"Current Narukami Omamori, Fifth Generation Head of the Shiba Family, Shiba Kaoru, along with retainers, pays respects to the Sky Phoenix Marshal!"
Shiba Kaoru, kneeling on one knee, cupped his hands and bowed toward Yiya.
Huohuo listened to this voice, paused auto-play, and said in the livestream: "Huohuo feels that Shiba Kaoru's voice sounds a bit familiar. Can anyone recognize who the voice actor is?"
The chat friends also said the voice was very familiar, but they just couldn't remember where they'd heard it before.
Clearly this was the Japanese dub, not Jun Bai's Chinese dub, yet most people in the livestream had actually heard it before.
There was only one possibility: Shiba Kaoru's voice actor, like Tomatsu Haruka, had voiced a very familiar character like Asuna.
But for the moment, everyone really couldn't figure it out.
Suddenly, Huohuo had a flash of inspiration. She took out her phone, searched for a while, then turned the volume to maximum and played three audio clips:
"ブラックホールの嵐が起きる!"
(I will stir up a black hole storm!)
"私には限界はない!"
(I have no limits!)
"君はまだ2万年早い!"
(You are still twenty thousand years too early!)
As soon as it played, the chat friends instantly woke up:
[So it's the voice actor for my Dai-Sero!]
[Miyano Mamoru! My eternal god!]
[MiHoYo actually managed to invite heavyweights like Zero and Asuna. You've made it big!]
[Shiba Kaoru's elements can really make my DNA knot. True Sword Wielder, Sharingan, and now even Zero has appeared!]
"Jun Bai and Zero — what a wonderful crossover."
Huohuo sighed, then clicked auto-play again.
Paimon: "Nirvana God? Jun Bai is here too?"
Jun Mo Li: "Third Brother didn't come, but they are indeed paying respects to Third Brother — or rather, to something Third Brother left on Yiya."
Aether: "Could it be..."
(Looks at Yiya's face)
(Looks at the pouch at Yiya's waist)
Huohuo chose the second option.
[This must be the pouch. When Jun Bai and Yiya were little, they looked exactly the same!]
[You'd better think that the Nirvana God and Liyue's Sky Phoenix Marshal are people whose true faces ordinary people can see.]
[Jun Bai himself already said that this pouch is a form of identity proof. One look and you can tell the pouch is working its magic.]
[No, is no one seeing that I'm just messing around? Who doesn't know Second Brother is talking about the pouch!]
Aether looked at the pouch at Yiya's waist.
Paimon: "Oh right! Jun Bai said this pouch can also serve as a symbol of identity!"
Shiba Kaoru: "In fact, even without this pouch, we could still recognize Lady Yiya's identity."
Shiba Kaoru: "Lady Yiya's appearance is exactly the same as the portrait of the Marshal that has been passed down through generations in the Shiba Family."
Yiya: "Yiya, yiya~" (You should all get up first before saying anything else.)
Paimon: "Yiya says you should all get up first before continuing."
Shiba Kaoru: "All members of the Shiba Family, rise!"
As his words fell, all the black-clad figures behind Shiba Kaoru stood up together in perfect unison with only a single sound.
[This discipline is impressive.]
[I have a feeling that the Shiba Family's relationship with Jun Bai is not ordinary. So is it possible that the Shiba Family is Liyue's Millelith Inazuma branch?]
——Teyvat
"Greetings, esteemed guests. This is the current Omamori of Narukami Island, Fifth Generation Head of the Shiba Family, Shiba Kaoru."
The woman with black satin wrapped around her eyes pointed to the youth beside her and introduced:
"And I, Amamiya Kotoya, am the current head of the Amamiya Family and also the current housekeeper of the Shiba Family."
As she spoke, Amamiya Kotoya bowed to everyone once more.
"You're too polite, too polite."
Paimon quickly waved her hands.
But Jun Mo Li noticed something unusual in Amamiya Kotoya's words: "Omamori?"
"Is it the kind of Omamori I think it is?"
At sea.
Through the system, Jun Bai also saw this scene and began recalling how this part of the plot connected to him.
Unlike the original plot's background, Inazuma's political structure had added positions called Omamori on each island in addition to the original Three Commissions.
The Three Commissions managed finances, military, and rituals, while the Omamori managed matters related to people's livelihoods.
In simpler terms, they were like neighborhood committee chairpersons with a bit more power and a wider scope of management.
And there was one such position on every island.
They managed a wide range of things, but their actual power was quite small.
However, there was still a difference between Omamori and neighborhood committee chairpersons. The difference was that Omamori were nominally directly subordinate to Raiden Shogun.
This made the status of Omamori very special. Even the leaders of the Three Commissions had to give face to the Omamori of each region.
That was what an Omamori was.
"And the Shiba Family..."
Jun Bai found this name in the incomplete false memories.
"I see..."
Ritou.
"So, what business does the Omamori in charge of Ritou have with us? Are you here to deport us back to Liyue?" Jun Mo Li looked at Shiba Kaoru with an unfriendly expression.
"This gentleman is joking. Even an Omamori cannot leave Inazuma, let alone deport anyone. And given your identities and statuses, any deportation would have to be personally handled by the Shogun herself."
Amamiya Kotoya smiled.
"Kotoya, let me explain the situation to our esteemed guests." Shiba Kaoru suddenly spoke up. "Our guests are not outsiders, so there is no need to beat around the bush."
"Yes, Family Head."
Amamiya Kotoya respectfully stepped back half a pace, allowing Shiba Kaoru to face everyone alone.
Shiba Kaoru faced the group with an unchanged expression: "I am not here to meet you as an Omamori, but as the Fifth Generation Head of the Shiba Family to pay my respects to all of you."
"Earlier, I received a message from the Sky Phoenix Marshal stating that His elder brother and friends would arrive in Inazuma in the near future and hoped that I could host all of you."
"Five hundred years ago during the Khaenri'ah Cataclysm, the Marshal saved the ancestor of my Shiba Family in the disaster."
"He even taught my ancestor sword techniques and skills for exorcising demons and protecting the righteous path. That is how the Shiba Family came to be."
"My ancestor once said that the Marshal has great kindness toward the Shiba Family. Therefore, every generation of Shiba Family heads must prioritize the Marshal's orders above all else when the Marshal needs help."
"In normal times, the Marshal's orders are second only to the Shogun's orders."