Chapter 29: Chapter 29: The Egret Princess's Request
The woman had snow-white hair, skin as white as cream, and a pair of water-blue eyes that radiated a charming glow.
The teardrop mole under the corner of her eye added a touch of charm to her appearance.
The girl just sat there quietly, but her whole body exuded a noble and elegant temperament.
Kamisato Ayaka, the egret princess, was truly beautiful.
She looked much better than her in-game model!
Thoma quickly introduced them: "Everyone, this is my young lady, Lady Kamisato Ayaka."
Kamisato Ayaka slowly stood up, folded her hands on her lower abdomen, and leaned forward slightly.
"Traveler, Paimon, I have long heard of your name. And this mysterious guest, it is a pleasure to meet you."
"Oh? How pleased are you?"
Victor replied subconsciously.
"Eh?"
Kamisato Ayaka blinked, with a confused look on her face, which was very cute.
Lumine rolled her eyes: "Don't be ridiculous."
Victor shrugged and sat down unceremoniously: "Okay, tell us what you want from us."
Kamisato Ayaka didn't beat around the bush and directly stated her purpose: "I would like to ask you to help us overturn the Vision Hunt Decree!"
"Vision Hunt Decree? What is that?" Lumine's mind was full of question marks.
She seemed to remember hearing about this Vision Hunt Decree when she was in Liyue before, but she wasn't sure what it was specifically.
"The so-called Vision Hunt Decree is actually General Raiden's order to seize Visions."
It was Victor who spoke up to answer Lumine's question.
"What? Confiscate Visions? Why would she do that?"
Lumine expressed her incomprehension but was greatly shocked.
By the way, can Visions even be confiscated?
This was the first time she'd heard of such a thing.
"She issued the Vision Hunt Decree mainly to maintain the balance of nature, to protect the people of Inazuma, and to protect the so-called eternity in her heart."
"General Raiden believes that when people have Visions, fluctuations will occur, affecting stability and destroying eternity, so she implemented the Vision Hunt Decree."
After listening to Victor's explanation, Kamisato Ayaka couldn't help but feel surprised.
She didn't expect that this foreign gentleman knew so much about the Vision Hunt Decree.
"Then may I know why you want to overturn the Vision Hunt Decree?"
Lumine also expressed her incomprehension of Kamisato Ayaka's motives.
Since the laws were issued by their gods to protect Inazuma, why should they be overturned?
Weren't their own people the beneficiaries?
Kamisato Ayaka sighed and said, "In fact, the Vision Hunt Decree cannot maintain the balance of justice, let alone protect the people of Inazuma. Instead, it will hurt many of them!"
"Those who lose their Vision will become confused, lose their memory, become mentally depressed, and in serious cases, their lives may be in danger!"
"This goes against the original intention of issuing the Vision Hunt Decree! That's why we must overturn it!"
"Since confiscating Visions would cause such great harm, doesn't your Thunder God know about it?"
"I don't know whether the general knows about it." Kamisato Ayaka shook her head.
"Don't doubt it, your Thunder God is not aware of this." Victor said.
Kamisato Ayaka asked, "How did you know?"
Victor did not answer but asked: "Let me ask you, do you think God loves the world?"
"Of course!" Kamisato Ayaka answered very straightforwardly.
"That's right, God loves the world! If that's the case, how could they do anything to hurt their own people?"
"The existence of gods is to protect their people."
"Once a law harms its people, normally the gods will immediately revoke it."
"But General Raiden continues to carry out the Vision Hunt Decree. This shows that there is a problem."
Kamisato Ayaka wasn't stupid; on the contrary, she was very smart.
Victor's words made her suddenly realize.
"Sir, are you saying that someone is deliberately hiding the dangers of the Vision Hunt Decree from the General?"
"Clever."
"Who is it?!"
"Haha, you're so smart, you should already have the answer in your mind, right?"
Kamisato Ayaka was silent for a moment before she gritted her teeth and gave the answer: "The Tenryo Commission and Kanjou Commission!"
"That's right, but apart from these two families, there are also the Fatui who are fanning the flames behind the scenes."
"The Fatui? Why are there Fatui everywhere?" Paimon couldn't help but complain.
She always felt that the continent of Teyvat lacked everything, except Fatui and mint flowers.
The expression on Kamisato Ayaka's face gradually became ugly: "How dare they collude with the Fatui, deceive the general, and do such a thing that harms the country and the people?"
"Why wouldn't they dare to do that?" Victor took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and continued, "You have to know that people's greed is limitless. As long as the benefits are big enough, they would dare to deceive the gods, even dare to change the owner of the sky!"
A philosopher once said:
When the profit reaches 10%, some people begin to get ready to make a move; when the profit reaches 50%, some people dare to take risks; when the profit reaches 100%, they dare to trample on all human laws; and when the profit reaches 300%, they are not even afraid of going to the gallows! (E/D: YOO! HAHAHAHA, this is funny XD)
Kamisato Ayaka took a deep breath, stood up and walked to the side of Victor and Lumine, then knelt on her knees and performed a formal bow to the two of them.
"Please help us!"
It was obvious that the Kamisato family alone was not enough to fight against the remaining two major commission families, not to mention that they had the help of the Fatui behind them.
Only if two strong individuals, Victor and Lumine, joined them would they have hope.
"Alright, alright, but you should also know that there is no free lunch in the world. Do you understand what I mean?"
Kamisato Ayaka naturally understood what Victor meant.
"If you two are willing to help us restore order, my Kamisato family will offer you the most generous rewards!"
"That's better." Victor stood up and rubbed his feet that had gone numb from sitting.
"Just wait for good news. It won't be long before the Vision Hunt Decree ends."
"And the culprits will be punished accordingly."
After saying that, he left the room with Lumine and little Paimon.
"Where are you going to start next?" Lumine asked.
Just now when she was in the Komore Teahouse, she hadn't said anything the whole time.
She didn't even say anything against it when Victor accepted the "commission."
Victor raised his hand and shook his index finger: "It's not about where I should start next, but where you should start next."
Lumine said with a dark face: "What do you mean? Are you planning to let me do everything while you just sit back and enjoy the results?"
Victor shrugged: "This is your main mission after all."
Lumine raised an eyebrow and said, "Do you really treat my life trajectory as a game?"
"Okay, let me put it another way. This is your journey."
"..."
Lumine was completely speechless.
If she could beat him, she would really like to stab him hard with her blade!
"Then you have to show me the way, right?"
"First, collect evidence of the Tenryo Commission and Kanjou Commission colluding with the Fatui. Then go to Tatarasuna to find the Fatui's Delusion workshop. Then go to Nazuchi Beach to take pictures of the battle between the rebels and the shogunate army. Finally, take all these things in front of Ei."
"After seeing this, she will naturally give up the Vision Hunt Decree and personally rectify the chaos of Inazuma."
"Oh, by the way, in case that sheltered girl runs back to the Plane of Euthymia and becomes a shut-in again, you have to go to Narukami Taisha to meet a pink-furred fox named Yae Miko and ask her to help you enter the Plane of Euthymia."