The original god of the Jyota Jinchūriki

Chapter 248 Conflict on the Outlying Island
"My dear little brother Thomas, since the documents have been checked, can I leave this island now?"

"Master Hu Tao, I just checked the permission to land on the island. If you want to stay on the island, you have to go to the Northern Kingdom Supervisory Office. As for leaving the island, you also need the approval of the Northern Kingdom Supervisory Office."

Thomas led the way while explaining various procedures to everyone. Paimon scratched her head after hearing Thomas talk about a lot of steps. Her stupid little head was almost turned into paste.

"Uh... it's so complicated and strict..."

"After all, in Inazuma, foreigners are called foreigners. It is not difficult to see from the literal meaning that foreigners are not so welcome in Inazuma, where the country is closed. This is also true even on the outlying islands where foreigners have settled. Please understand."

Hearing Paimon's complaints, Thomas gave a helpless smile. In fact, he used to be able to buy specialties from his hometown Mond from some merchants from Mond. But now, let alone specialties, he hasn't even seen a Mond merchant ship that can break through the outer thunderstorm of Inazuma for a long time.

"I remember that when the caravan of the Ke family came to Inazuma to do business, there didn't seem to be so many rules on the island. It's only been more than two years, and the island has become like this."

Before, after the Ke family’s caravan returned to Liyue from Inazuma, Ruo Jin had heard the caravan leader tell stories about Inazuma. At that time, Ruo Jin had not heard of so many rules.

"That can't be helped. If you are banned, you don't know the morals of the Kanding Fengxing. The Tong family, who manages the Kanding Fengxing, has set all kinds of rules in order to make money more efficiently."

Thomas smiled bitterly and explained in a low voice that the outlying island was the territory of the Tong family. His coming to the outlying island as the domestic officer of the Kamisato family had already attracted a lot of attention in secret. If he said such things blatantly, he would inevitably be criticized.

As for the image of Inazuma in the minds of Ruojin and the others, Thomas felt that once Ruojin and the others stayed in Inazuma for a few days, even if he praised Inazuma to perfection now, Ruojin and the others would know what Inazuma was like now after a few days. Instead of praising Inazuma against his conscience now, it would be better to be directly honest with her.

"Letting a family manage the finances of a country without any supervision, this Thunder God thinks everything is too good. Mora's temptation to ordinary people is definitely not something that ordinary people can resist."

As the god of Mora's creation, no one understands Mora's attraction to ordinary people better than Zhongli. As for his colleague's behavior, Zhongli thinks it may be because the Thunder God is too young. He hopes that she can see all this clearly as soon as possible.

"You have completed the procedures for landing on the island. If you want to go through the mainstream procedures, please sign here and pay the Mora."

At the formalities office, a woman was holding a light novel and reading it carefully. When she noticed someone coming, she spoke a lot without even looking up and continued reading the light novel in her hand, without even looking at the person.

She was so intoxicated by the light novel "Master Kamisato Fell in Love with Me" that every word in the novel touched her heart. The content portrayed in the book satisfied all her fantasies about Kamisato Ayato.

"Ying, this guy looks even more arrogant than you. It really makes me angry."

Paimon whispered something in Ying's ear, and Ying nodded in agreement. She was just a person who collected money, so what was there to be proud of? She was also an honorary knight of Mondstadt.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that the handling fee is one million per person."

“What!! One million per person?? Are you robbing???”

Ying was shocked by this number. She thought that after paying back 400,000 Moras to Yae Shenzi, the remaining Moras would be enough for her to live a comfortable life in Inazuma. But now she was told that it would cost 1 million Moras to handle the procedures. Isn't this making her a fool? "It's just 1 million Moras. If you don't have it, you can ask your friends to help pay for it. Those young men dressed in gorgeous clothes don't look like people who are short of Moras."

Lily Hua, who was in charge of handling the formalities, silently put the book aside. When she was doing ordinary supervision on the outlying islands, she had developed a pair of eagle eyes. Just by looking at a person, she could analyze whether the person was wealthy from the clothes and temperament.

It was precisely because of this ability that she was successfully transferred to this lucrative position after the previous person sitting in this position offended Yae Shinko's friend and was transferred away.

With just one glance, she immediately determined that the richest among the group should be the handsome guy with golden eyes and black hair who looked very elegant. The second was the rich young man wearing the Liyue thousand-gold fur coat and holding the arm of a young girl. These two men were obviously young masters from other countries.

"Aren't you bullying an honest person? How can a procedure cost one million Mora? I have paid fines for so many years and never paid one million Mora."

Knowing that Mona and Zhongli didn't have a single Mora on them, and that this sum of Mora would ultimately have to be paid by her, the head of the Wangsheng Hall, Hu Tao was now completely unable to sit still. She didn't bring much Mora with her this time when she went out. If she really spent it all here, let alone building a Wangsheng Hall Inazuma branch in Inazuma, she, Hu Tao, might even have to sleep on the streets.

It was okay for her to sleep on the streets, as she could still sleep with Ruojin. The key point was that she couldn't accept the fact that Mona and Zhongli were sleeping on the streets. If even her own employees had to suffer with her, it would be a dereliction of duty for her as the hall master.

Seeing Hu Tao directly take out the Homa Staff, Lily Hua did not show any surprise. She had encountered this kind of thing many times before. She just clapped her hands lightly, and a team of Tong family's private army immediately surrounded Hu Tao and others.

"Ahem, Miss Lily Hua, this is just a misunderstanding. How about you let my friends go for the sake of the master? I'll treat you to a meal when I have time, except for the handling fee."

At this tense moment, Thomas stood up in time. Although the three magistrates were hostile to each other, they would still give each other face tacitly on some small matters. Otherwise, if the matter was reported to the general, the three magistrates would suffer.

"Oh, Mr. Thomas, why don't I see you here? Since you are Mr. Thomas's friends, it seems to be just a misunderstanding."

When Yurihua saw Thomas suddenly stand up, her originally cold face immediately showed a bright smile. It is no exaggeration to say that Thomas, the household manager of the Kamisato family, is the second in command of the Kamisato family. Yurihua wants to get in touch with Kamisato Ayato, the head of the Kamisato family, and Thomas is someone she cannot afford to offend.

"I didn't expect Miss Lilyhua to be so considerate. I will definitely tell the head of the family about this."

Seeing that her goal had been achieved, Lilyhua walked up to Hu Tao with a smile. Taking advantage of her height, she lowered her head and looked down at Hu Tao and said sarcastically.

"Girl, are you good at fighting?"

"What's the point of being able to fight? To play, you need power and background. What kind of background do you have in Inazuma? If Mr. Thomas hadn't been here today, you would have been arrested and thrown into the shogunate's prison."

Seeing the sneer on Baihehua's face, Hu Tao's face turned red with anger. Sensing the fire element surging in Hu Tao's God's Eye, Ruo Jin stepped forward and gently held Hu Tao's hand to calm her emotions, then looked at Baihehua coldly.

"If Inazuma's hospitality is so crude, then I think I, the Liyue ambassador to Inazuma, don't need to stay in Inazuma anymore. I will report your actions today to the Liyue Seven Stars. I believe the Seven Stars will carefully consider the cooperation between Liyue and Inazuma in the future."

(End of this chapter)