The moment their eyes met, Su Yuan immediately understood — the Raiden Shogun standing before him wasn’t Raiden Ei, wasn’t Beelzebul... but rather, the Shogun puppet.
There were no emotions in her eyes, yet at the same time, there also wasn’t a trace of that eerie power on her.
But if she wasn’t Beelzebul, then where was the real Beelzebul?
Could she still be hiding away like a shut-in, keeping her consciousness sealed inside the Plane of Euthymia?
Even though he had violated the rule’s warning, Su Yuan didn’t feel as afraid as he thought he would...
After all, even if he didn’t look her in the eye, his eyes were going to be gouged out anyway.
Now that he had, could things really get that much worse?
But in the next moment, the Raiden Shogun suddenly spoke:
"What did you see in my eyes?"
See? Su Yuan was confused.
He didn’t see anything.
Why would the Raiden Shogun ask something like that?
Seeing the confusion on Su Yuan’s face, the Shogun showed a disappointed expression and said calmly:
"So, it’s not you after all..."
"You were supposed to see true eternity in my eyes."
Su Yuan was a little stunned.
Raiden Ei had vanished without a trace, and now the Shogun puppet’s programming was glitching again?
Was she falling back into her pathological obsession with eternity?
The Shogun puppet was essentially an artificial construct.
Whether she might be under the control of eerie corruption was still something that needed careful consideration...
Speaking of which, what about Scaramouche—now known as the Wanderer?
Could he be affected by the eerie corruption too?
Although he and the Shogun puppet were fundamentally the same kind of creation, he had strong emotions and plenty of negative feelings as well.
If eerie forces could take advantage of that, he seemed particularly vulnerable...
Still, Raiden Shogun, if your goal is to pursue eternity, fine.
But gouging out people’s eyes, cutting off people’s limbs, and using them to build a whole new "Statue of a Thousand Arms and a Hundred Eyes"...
What does that have to do with eternity?
And from the puppet’s words, it seemed she was waiting for someone...
Someone who would be able to see true eternity in her eyes?
But before Su Yuan could make sense of it all, a sharp pain suddenly tore through his eyes.
In the next instant, blood spattered, and his vision was gone.
The world turned pitch black...
The Shogun puppet had ultimately made her move—
She had taken Su Yuan’s eyes.
"In that case, there’s no need for you to exist..."
The Shogun puppet spoke in an icy voice:
"Only by completing the true Statue of a Thousand Arms and a Hundred Eyes can one reach the realm of Tohsritsi—and attain true eternity."
In the next moment, Su Yuan felt a sharp blade pierce straight through his chest.
Yet strangely enough, he finally let out a sigh of relief.
It seemed the Shogun puppet had no intention of torturing him—
She had chosen to simply kill him outright.
The God of Time—Tohsritsi...
This time, it wasn’t a meaningless death.
He had gained intel—vital, precious information.
Su Yuan believed that next time, he would surely do better!
And as he felt the blood pouring relentlessly from his body,
His consciousness soon faded into darkness.
Su Yuan suddenly opened his eyes wide—but this time, it wasn’t the usual suffocating, panic-inducing feeling...
He just felt a bit tired.
Like waking up in bed the morning after resolving Fontaine’s prophecy crisis.
But as he felt the sharp sting in the center of his left palm, Su Yuan knew—he had probably died once again...
He raised his left hand and looked at his palm:
[Unfortunately, you’ve used up one of your death rewind chances. Remaining uses: 1.5]
[Because the "eyes" item provided by Lyney was a fake, it triggered the Raiden Shogun’s wrath. She now intends to arrest all of you and bring you to Tenshukaku...]
[Kujou Sara cannot disobey the Shogun’s orders—but if she can’t hear the Shogun’s instructions at all, she might be able to ignore them...]
[The current "Shogun" is actually the puppet. The real Raiden Ei is currently missing...]
[The puppet’s goal is to attain the realm of "Tohsritsi"—and achieve true eternity...]
[Also, please leave the Kamisato Estate immediately. The Raiden Shogun’s direct troops, the Okuzumeshuu, will arrive soon. Once they see Kujou Sara, the Raiden Shogun’s voice will sound, giving orders for Kujou Sara to bring everyone back to Tenshukaku...]
[Although the Shogun puppet doesn’t show any signs of being corrupted or controlled for now, its power is beyond what the current group can resist...]
[You must not head to Tenshukaku. If you do, everyone will face certain death...]
Su Yuan looked at Kamisato Ayaka, who seemed a bit strange beside Tohma.
Didn’t he gather some information about her last time?
And what about "Tohsritsi"? This name felt strangely familiar, like he had seen it somewhere...
Oh right! Su Yuan quickly remembered.
Reversed, it was "Istaroth"—the God of Time!
In the game, in the book The Past of Sun and Moon, it was mentioned.
Because they didn’t dare speak Istaroth’s name directly, it was referred to as "Kairos" in the book, or "The Immutable World Leader and God," sometimes even written backwards as "Tohsritsi..."
But Su Yuan couldn’t understand why the information prompt in his left hand referred to Tohsritsi using this strange format, rather than simply calling her by her real name.
Istaroth also appeared in the Raiden Shogun’s Legend Quest Chapter 2 in the game, where Raiden Makoto used a higher-level power, Istaroth’s power, to pass the seed of the Sacred Sakura tree into Raiden Ei’s hands, allowing it to be planted in the past Inazuma...
Moreover, didn’t some people say that the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Statue in Inazuma was actually Istaroth’s statue...?
Suddenly, Su Yuan had a terrifying thought—could the essence of his death rewind ability be related to Istaroth?
In fact, could she have even granted him this ability?
After all, the concept of a death rewind is almost like reversing time...
If that’s the case, the warning in his left hand to avoid Istaroth’s name might make sense now...
But Su Yuan didn’t have time to think much about it.
He looked around at everyone and spoke:
"Everyone, we need to leave the Kamisato Estate immediately!"
"Because the eyes provided by Lyney are fake, the Raiden Shogun has discovered this, and she is extremely furious now. She wants to capture all of us!"
"The Okuzumeshuu are about to arrive. We must leave here quickly!"
"Yay! Su Yuan’s information ability seems to have suddenly returned!" Paimon said excitedly.
"Since Su Yuan said so, there’s no time to waste. Let’s leave right away!" Aether nodded in agreement.
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