"Sister, no."
"Don't leave me."
In her dream, she once again saw that figure, but it was blurry, and in the dream, she seemed to see a ruin.
Was that what the original body experienced? She had a younger sister, but where was that sister? And why did she lose her memory? Why was she lying under a cherry tree by the coast?
Raiden Makoto, who had woken up from her dream, had been pondering those questions. They shouldn't have been dreams, but rather the Lady's personal experiences.
Since waking up, she had been in the Kamisato Clan's courtyard, quietly gazing at the tree within it.
"Miss Raiden?!"
"The Demoiselle has gone to handle affairs." After staying at the Yashiro Commission estate for a night, Kamisato Ayaka chatted with her for a long time, and she gradually began to understand the real Kamisato Ayaka.
Kamisato Ayaka didn't really seem like a Demoiselle from a prestigious family, nor was she as dignified as her appearance suggested; instead, she was somewhat playful and cute. Yet, in the eyes of the world, she had always been dignified and composed.
"Just call me Makoto, like Ayaka does. There's no need to be so formal." Being called "Miss Raiden" by Thoma made Raiden Makoto feel truly unaccustomed. She had already happily accepted the fact that she had become a beautiful Lady, but Thoma's address always felt a bit awkward.
"Alright." Thoma smiled. "I've already sent people to look for clues about your family, Makoto. You don't have to worry."
Since he came in, he saw Raiden Makoto quietly looking straight ahead in the courtyard, sometimes deep in thought, sometimes frowning. He assumed Raiden Makoto was worried.
"Mm."
"Thank you."
"But it won't be easy to find your family based solely on the clues Makoto provided, so I plan to take you around Inazuma City. Maybe you'll recall something," Thoma said thoughtfully. Since Kamisato Ayaka had ordered him to find Raiden Makoto's family, his top priority now was to do just that.
"Okay."
She was just thinking of taking a good look around Inazuma City, as she knew absolutely nothing about Inazuma right now.
She also really wanted to recover the Lady's lost memories. In fact, Raiden Makoto believed that she couldn't find her family based solely on the clues she provided. Her name was Raiden Makoto, but the Lady might not necessarily be named Raiden Makoto.
The Lady indeed had only one younger sister, but was her sister still alive? That ruin stained red by fire, that crimson moon in her dream—she must have experienced a great disaster, right?
So Raiden Makoto felt that it would be impossible to find her family, but she had no other choice, as she couldn't reveal too much at the moment.
What she had become was an amnesiac Lady.
That fiery red ruin must have been the aftermath of a war, indicating that the original owner must have personally experienced war. She could try to approach it from the angle of war.
After all, the sound of her sister's crying in the dream moved her, and she also wanted to reunite with her sister.
"Thoma, has Inazuma ever had a war?"
"War?" Thoma was stunned. He knew that Inazuma might have wars in the future, but there shouldn't have been any recently.
"There was a war when the Raiden Shogun conquered Watatsumi Island, but Inazuma has been peaceful ever since." Thoma wasn't a native Inazuman, so he knew very little about Inazuma's history.
"Raiden Shogun?"
"She is the ruler of Inazuma, and the god of the Inazuman people." Speaking of the Raiden Shogun, Thoma finally understood why the Lady in front of him felt somewhat familiar. Wasn't the Lady in front of him very similar to the Raiden Shogun? Only their temperaments were completely different.
Both the Lady in front of him and the Raiden Shogun had long purple hair and purple eyes, but the Raiden Shogun was Inazuma's supreme ruler, and also Inazuma's god, thus she was exceptionally noble and lofty. However, the Lady in front of him was approachable and very gentle.
He had never known the Raiden Shogun to have a gentle side.
"Is it the Electro Archon?" Raiden Makoto murmured softly. For some reason, that title felt somewhat familiar to her, but if the Raiden Shogun was the Electro Archon, it would be very normal for her original body, as an Inazuman, to feel a sense of familiarity.
"Yes."
"There was a war centuries ago, but now Inazuma is completely pacified, the people live in peace and prosperity, and the country is closed off, with no communication with the outside world, so there shouldn't be any more conflicts." Thoma nodded.
Then where did the scene of ruins in her dream come from? Inazuma hadn't experienced war for centuries. Could she be a foreigner?
But from the very beginning, she could tell from the Lady's attire that she was an Inazuman, unless she was a stowaway.
Thoma said Inazuma had closed its borders, and she woke up by the coast. Could she be a stowaway?
Mondstadt people are all of that European and American style, so she shouldn't be a Mondstadter. If she's not a Mondstadter, then she only knows of Liyue, which is based on Huaxia.
Could she be a Huaxia person who stowed away from Liyue? Although Liyue hadn't been released during the internal testing period, leakers had revealed Liyue characters, and even though she stopped playing later, she still occasionally paid attention.
Liyue also has a Lady with purple hair and purple eyes, Keqing. Could her younger sister be Keqing?
"Has Liyue ever had a war?"
"Liyue?" Thoma paused, then shook his head. "I'm not sure."
"Then do you think I might be from Liyue?"
"You mean...stowaway?" As someone who frequently dealt with outlying islands, he naturally knew a lot about stowaways, and sometimes he would even help them, which could also lead to some gains.
Thoma recalled Kamisato Ayaka saying that Raiden Makoto was found under a cherry tree near the coast close to outlying islands, and then he remembered Raiden Makoto's complete ignorance of Inazuma. It seemed Raiden Makoto really could be a stowaway.
Moreover, Raiden Makoto's name was completely different from Inazuman names. The surname Raiden and given name Makoto—that kind of naming convention would only be found in Liyue, right?
"If we can't find any clues about your family in Inazuma City, then you really might have come from Liyue." Thoma nodded, looking at Raiden Makoto somewhat seriously. "Makoto, it's possible that a shipwreck occurred during the stowaway process, and you lost your memory."
There were storms in the outer seas of Inazuma; crossing the ocean was very prone to shipwrecks, so that possibility truly existed, and it wasn't small.
She has purple hair and purple eyes, and Keqing also has purple hair and purple eyes, so her younger sister is Keqing?
"But you don't have to worry about that. Although stowing away is a very serious offense in Inazuma, I'll take care of it for you." Thoma smiled. "It just makes finding your family a bit harder."
"However, there are merchants from Liyue in outlying islands; we can ask them later."
"Mm."
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