On Yashiori Island, inside a room temporarily hollowed out from the mountains.
Raiden Ei had crammed through all the diary entries she missed while unconscious yesterday.
"He seems incredulous that I fainted because of him?" Raiden Ei propped her chin, lost in thought.
This was actually easy to understand.
Raiden Ei was indeed the Electro Archon, but Su Xuan had wielded a power no less than that of an Archon—perhaps even greater.
Both were users of transcendent power, which meant there was no distinction between transcendent and mortal between them.
When Su Xuan's telekinesis gripped Raiden Ei's neck, it was no different from a burly man choking an ordinary girl.
Fainting was perfectly normal.
But when her gaze fell on the photo Su Xuan had posted, Raiden Ei couldn't comprehend the scene—why was there another version of herself with Su Xuan?
Likewise, she glanced down at her own pale cleavage and sensed a difference from the one in the image.
"Hm... a layer of something blurry like snow?"
"I can't make sense of any of this at all, but..."
A faint ache from her wrists drew Raiden Ei's attention.
Combining it with what Su Xuan had said about using her as a pillow, she figured he'd bound her hands with a telekinetic ring to prevent Shadow from waking up in the middle of the night and ambushing him.
She subconsciously rubbed her wrists and found her movements no longer restricted.
Moreover, Su Xuan was nowhere to be seen in the entire room.
With a hint of puzzlement, Raiden Ei stepped out of the makeshift shelter. Yashiori Island's thunder-lit earth glowed with blinding white light.
In the downpour, a radiant orb immediately caught her eye.
Moments later, Raiden Ei approached Su Xuan from behind and said leisurely, "You needn't be so vigilant."
"As a warrior, as Inazuma's ruler who wields the authority of Electro, I would never stoop to ambushing someone."
Su Xuan's lips twitched slightly.
[I thought Raiden Ei would try to escape once she woke up, but instead she comes right back to my side, telling me not to be vigilant because she won't ambush me.]
[Like hell I believe her. This woman's too vicious.]
[Don't think I don't know—in the future, the Raiden Shogun claims to let my dear Yellow Hair Aunt walk out of Tenshukaku standing.]
[Yellow Hair Aunt had just stepped out of Tenshukaku when the Raiden Shogun's space-shattering Musou no Hitotachi appeared right behind her, nearly taking her life.]
Raiden Ei: "....."
She had no idea who this Yellow Hair Aunt was, but just tell her—did Yellow Hair Aunt walk out of Tenshukaku standing or not?
"So you're worried the Raiden Shogun will ambush you because you're from beyond this world?"
"You needn't worry about that. I'm out now. Unless I return of my own accord, the General can't forcibly override my will to act in my place." Raiden Ei explained earnestly to Su Xuan.
Su Xuan shook his head and pointed at Raiden Ei, now soaked by the rain.
"I'm just not a fan of getting drenched by the rain from the sky like you."
"But speaking of which, do you know where we are?"
"Yashiori Island. You mentioned it in your diary." Raiden Ei replied indifferently, then asked curiously like a child, "Do you know your writings have leaked?"
"So that's how it is..." Su Xuan stroked his chin pretentiously.
The diary copy was the core of his diary golden finger.
Beyond dispensing rewards, it played matchmaker, its main role establishing a void connection between Su Xuan and the holders of these diary copies.
If all these beauties couldn't see it, wouldn't his diary golden finger be a total waste?
"No wonder you know I'm from beyond this world."
Su Xuan's lips curved into a mischievous grin. "Tit for tat—since you peeped into my secrets, shouldn't I get to probe a few of yours?"
"Secrets?" Raiden Ei blinked, falling into thought.
Only after a long moment did she say leisurely, "You do have a point. But I don't know what kind of secrets you're after from me."
"We'll talk about it later." Su Xuan waved it off, his gaze drifting into the distance once more.
When he acquired the diary system, the diary had provided clues to the current Teyvat timeline.
Su Xuan knew Lumine and Paimon would arrive in Mondstadt in about a week.
That meant Teyvat's wheel of fate had already begun to turn.
What he hadn't expected was that the chain of events from Inazuma's Sakoku Decree and Vision Hunt Decree had already unfolded before Lumine even reached Mondstadt.
"The events here definitely deserve special documentation." Su Xuan murmured to himself, his mind stirring.
[Woke up this morning and specially covered all of Yashiori Island with telekinesis.]
[But I never imagined the Yashiori Island incident would happen this early.]
[Yellow Hair Aunt hasn't even reached Mondstadt yet, and everyone on Yashiori Island is already dead under Orobashi's influence.]
The women: "!?"
[Oh, wait—not quite. Precisely speaking, there's still one little boy waiting for his mother to come take him away, and one guy who's been testing drugs on himself.]
[The entire island currently holds just these two normal humans.]
[Though that guy who's dead set on researching a cure for Orobashi's corruption will lose his life to his own drug trials in the future too.]
The women: "???"
An entire island with almost no one left alive?