Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

That's bad now; he's starting to lose track of reality and is beginning to talk nonsense!

"What are you talking about, Zhen? You... why are you suddenly acting strange? You really need to rest." Lei Yingdong looked at his sister with concern. "Of course, I don't mean sleeping... Damn it, I'll go to Mondstadt and find that Anemo Archon for you. It's said that he's good at using music to treat mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Nightmares should also be a mental illness."

"You're the one with a mental illness! I told you I didn't have nightmares!" Lei Dian retorted irritably.

"What are you talking to yourself about, Zhen?"

“I’m seeking advice,” Raiden said earnestly. “I’m seeking advice from the future world.”

Lei Movie thinks the sister is really having a crazy dream.

“However, I haven’t received any feedback.” Raiden sighed. “But according to the timeline… I think I need to go to Liyue before going to Kanria.”

"Notify the Rock King Emperor? Can I go? Sister, you're not even as fast as me!"

“No, I have to go… There are some things I need to verify.” Raiden Shin walked barefoot off the bed, then suddenly remembered something and curled his lips into a smile. “Speaking of which, A-Ying, I recently learned about a device called a ‘telegraph.’ As long as there is electricity, it can communicate over long distances. This device should have been created by Sumeru, but I think since it requires electricity, why can’t we, as the Raiden Demon Gods, create it? It won’t interfere with the course of history, will it? After all, it’s only been four or five hundred years since the telegraph was invented.”

She looked at Torachiyo, her smile growing even warmer. "Chiyo, go and prepare for the telegraph project. I've already written down the specific invention concept. I want to see the telegraph widely used in Inazuma within a year."

"Me?" Torachiyo was taken aback. "But I... I don't know anything about alchemy. Shouldn't you have left this to Kosai-no-miya?"

"I'll leave it to you to handle. Don't worry, you'll definitely be able to do it well." Raiden laughed. "After all, this is a technique that your future husband taught me. If you can't learn it, you'll embarrass your dear little wolf dog."

"Huh? Really? What are you talking about? I have a husband. Have you forgotten that my husband is a son-in-law who married into the family and takes my surname, Yuyu?" Torachiyo looked completely bewildered.

"Chiyo, you're destined to be a ladies' man. You'll understand many years from now." Raiden patted the delicate face of Inazuma's most beautiful woman, then looked at the roof beam. Torachiyo also looked in confusion, only to see the mahogany ceiling.

Then she heard Thunder whisper:

"Forgive my ignorance, Ryoko, but please teach me how to proceed from here."

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"Please teach me."

The voice still echoed in my ears, but when I opened my eyes, all I saw was the mahogany ceiling.

Awakening from a deep dream.

Shen Liang stared at the ceiling for a while, then saw that on the beam of the bedroom ceiling, the young girl Hu Chiyo was lying on it, swinging her slender, dark red legs. She wasn't wearing shoes and was looking down at him with boredom.

He then realized that he had completely woken up from the dream where he was immersed in Raiden.

"A thief on the roof?" Shen Liang cleared the jumbled thoughts from his dream and looked at her strangely. "What were you doing up there?"

"I've been watching all night," Torachiyo said, pursing her lips.

"Oh? Looks like I'm pretty good-looking, good enough to keep you looking all night?" Shen Liang yawned. "We're sleeping so well, why did you go upstairs? I'm pretty lonely in the middle of the night. Anyway, even if they come in, they won't see you, so what's there to be afraid of?"

Torachiyo really doesn't like returning to the Stigmata. In her words, she's finally been given a second chance at life, and she doesn't know how long she can stay alive. She wants to experience as much of life as possible, and she usually wanders around in the real world. She will never return to the Stigmata unless absolutely necessary.

Like Pikachu.

Torachiyo stared at him, sighed softly, and then nimbly jumped down from the roof beam. After all, she was a Heroic Spirit without physical substance, so she wouldn't hurt Shen Liang.

Holding the young girl-like figure of Tiger Chiyo, Shen Liang lay on the soft bed, feeling as if he were floating in the air, completely relaxed.

Counting the days, there were only a few days left before leaving Inazuma. The large ship docked at the island had been there for some time; it was a private merchant ship arranged by the company's head. He and a group of slightly rebellious young ladies would board this ship and head to an unknown country to create a new life under the name of the "Immanelli Group."

Whether it was the group of young ladies who already lived on the Teyvat continent or him, Liyue was a completely unfamiliar place. So, everyone's feelings about this journey were similar: saying goodbye to their parents, friends, and everything familiar, leaving their comfort zones to make a living.

Many young ladies may have chosen to join Shen Liang's bandwagon simply out of consideration for their families' interests, but regardless, he has at least begun to build up a force. He is no longer just a young man from another world who only needs to be responsible for himself, but the leader of an organization.

A sense of bewilderment welled up in Shen Liang's heart, but he was even more excited about the future. His interest surged, and he turned around, grabbed Hu Qiandai's shoulders, and lowered his head, habitually wanting to share his joy with her delicious cherry lips.

"No!" This time, the demon girl didn't cooperate with the same joy. Instead, she quickly pressed one hand against his face and resisted forcefully, huffing, "Boss, you just woke up! Don't kiss me!"

This was the first time Shen Liang had been rejected, and she was very confused. "Chiyo-nee, how dare you look down on me? You weren't like this last night! Besides, I have Hua Haiyue, okay? I don't need to brush my teeth and I don't smell! I haven't complained about you not brushing your teeth for the past few months!"

"It's not about brushing your teeth, it's just... you were really drunk all night yesterday and have no idea what happened?"

"It's not that bad. I know you almost screamed your lungs out last night, but luckily there was no one else in the yard." Shen Liang's face was also slightly flushed as she whispered, "You dared to provoke me even when I was drunk. Don't you know I usually give in to you?"

Torachiyo gave a wry smile. Her eyes were hesitant, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she suppressed all her emotions and turned her head away angrily, "Pah! Anyway, you're not allowed to kiss me today unless you rinse your mouth!"

"Crazy..." Shen Liang felt that Torachiyo had been acting strangely since early morning. Could it be that even a Saint Mark Heroic Spirit has a period of irritability every month?

However, he decided not to provoke the sudden and inexplicable bad luck of Torachiyo. He changed his clothes, came out of his bedroom, and before he had taken two steps, he saw Yoomiya and Ayaka Kamisato receiving something from the postman at the gatehouse in front of the living quarters.

Shen Liang walked over curiously, only to be spotted by the postman, who immediately laughed and said, "Ah, Lord Dongguo Wushuang is awake... Wait, you two slept together yesterday?"

Before Shen Liang could reply, Ayaka Kamisato calmly said, "Mr. Postman, please be careful with your words. We only slept at the Imperial Bath Office for one night."

At this moment, the postman saw many early-rising girls appear behind Shen Liang. He then looked at the handsome boy who was only wearing a thin bathrobe, with messy long hair and red fingernail marks on his neck. He immediately understood and quickly lowered his head to avoid looking at the young ladies from various families. He said respectfully, "I know, Princess Bailu, please rest assured, I will never reveal these things. You all just slept at the Imperial Bath Office for one night, and nothing happened."

Ayaka Kamisato roughly guessed that the postman must have misunderstood, but the postman was still the postman of the castle tower. The girls here came from countless families in Inazuma, so he couldn't just talk nonsense and offend a lot of people. So it didn't matter if he misunderstood.

Shen Liang also noticed the postman's gaze on him. He looked down and saw the mess of red marks and wounds on his body from Tiger Chiyo's scratches last night. He quickly activated the Transformation Sea Moon to erase the marks, so as not to let Little White Egret keenly notice that he had not behaved well last night.

He just didn't know why Torachiyo suddenly came over and pinched him expressionlessly.

After the postman left, Shen Liang looked at Ayaka Kamisato curiously, "What did he bring?"

Ayaka Kamisato unfurled the silk banner dyed with gold paint, which depicted a majestic dragon head holding a sword. She held the banner upright so that everyone could see it.

"The Jade Dragon Banner!" the girls exclaimed, and many of them rushed to Ayaka Kamisato's side. "It's actually a Jade Dragon Banner that the Grand Master sewed by hand! This is usually given to the 'Dare to Fight Award', right?"

The Daring Fighter Award is usually given to the most outstanding member of the team. Although Shen Liang has fought the fewest times in the Blizzard team, everyone knows that he is the only one who truly deserves the Daring Fighter Award.

"Peerless in the East!" a girl shouted excitedly.

Immediately, someone responded: "Peerless in the East! Peerless in the East!"

"Unrivaled in the East!" The employees of the Emmanuel Group clapped and cheered.

"What's all the fuss about so early in the morning? It's just a Jade Dragon Flag, it's not like I don't have one." Shen Liang wasn't used to the girls' enthusiasm, then glanced at Xiao Gong, who was practically drooling over the Jade Dragon Flag, and said helplessly, "If you like it so much, why don't you just keep it at your place? Anyway, we're all on the same team, and you'll get a share of the title 'Peerless in the East' too."

"Really!?" Xiaogong was overjoyed.

"Hey, hey, hey, Ryoko, this is the Jade Dragon Flag! Even if you have the Jade Dragon Flag from Umijima, this is still very precious! It was personally sewn by the Grand Master! At the very least, shouldn't you give it to Ayaka?!" The girls exclaimed in shock, "There's only one Jade Dragon Flag, you can't find a matching one!"

Yomiya then realized what was happening and quickly waved his hand, "That's right, if you didn't want it, you should have given it to Ayaka! The Kamisato family is much safer storing this thing than my family! If it's kept at my house, it will definitely be stolen by thieves!"

“But isn’t this what you want most?” Shen Liang countered.

“Yes, Ryoko, you can have it. The Jade Dragon Banner is the same whether it’s in the Naganohara family or the Kamisato family. There’s no need to worry about anyone coveting it. After all, I have a share of this banner. Who would dare to steal it?” Kamisato Ayaka smiled gently and handed the flagpole to Yoomiya.

Xiao Gong was overjoyed and exclaimed, "Linghua, you're so domineering! When my father sees this jade dragon flag, he'll be so excited he won't be able to eat!"

Ayaka Kamisato casually tossed her long silver hair and chuckled, "Keep it safe, okay? This is proof that we fought side by side with Ryoko. It proves that we are the best of sisters and will always be the closest of sisters who will share everything."

These words were slightly odd, and the observant girls had already noticed. However, Miss Yoomiya remained blissfully unaware, simply nodding repeatedly, "Yes! Yoomiya and you, Ayaka, will always be best friends!"

"It's a deal, and you can't go back on your word later."

"Oh, it's a deal! From now on, whatever good things I, Yoomiya, have, you'll get! When you and Ryoko-nii go back to Inazuma, I'll officiate for you two..." As Yoomiya spoke, her tone gradually faded, and for some reason, she didn't want to continue. Moreover, the thought of Shen Liang and Ayaka Kamisato leaving Inazuma to be together again made her previously passionate feelings turn sour.

Ayaka Kamisato, with a clear understanding of the situation, slightly curled the corners of her lips and said, "Ayaka will also share some of her good things with Yoi-no-miya."

The conversation made many girls laugh. Ayaka Kamisato gave the group of precocious young ladies a reproachful look, and they quickly covered their mouths to stifle their laughter. Yoomiya, however, looked at everyone with a puzzled expression, scratching her head, feeling that there was something she hadn't noticed in their conversation.

“The summer festival queen of the Naganohara fireworks shop, you’re really lucky.” Hiiragi Chisato pinched her arm.

"My dad also says I've always had a lucky life! Hehe!"

Chapter 259 Saying Goodbye to Everyone, Embarking on a New Journey

The departure date is at the end of June, and these days the temple is filled with guests from the shrine.

Inazuma, a country with a culture leaning towards Eastern traditions and quite similar to Japan on Earth, is a place where various festivals and celebrations flourish in June. These include the Tsushika Festival, where palanquins sway through the town streets, and the early summer fireworks night at Hanamizaka.

In fact, even if the shogunate didn't encourage it, the Inatsuma people would do it spontaneously, holding a small festival every three days and a large festival every six days. So Narukami Island has temple fairs and garden parties every day. Therefore, every June, the shrine magistrate is particularly busy, as all kinds of approvals for festivals come from the Kamisato family, and the Kamisato family has to send someone to personally oversee every arrangement for the festival.

Of course, many people also use this pretext to try and establish connections with the Kamisato family.

Or rather, they came to Shen Liang to discuss cooperation.

The news about the Emmanuel Group has been circulating among the prominent families of Inazuma these days, and some people even know that Shen Liang held a celebration banquet at the Royal Hot Spring, seemingly showing great confidence in the "small category" of the clothing industry.

Many people know that because of this industry, the people gathered around Shen Liang are mainly daughters of prominent families, and their numbers are not large. Therefore, some officials with lower ranks and smaller families are also eager to try to join this organization.

However, Shen Liang rejected all of them. This was partly because the power Shen Liang wanted to build required the assistance of someone with "high status, position, and strength." On the other hand, Shen Liang felt that the group didn't need too many people in its early stages. The Emmanuel Group, which already had more than thirty people, was still doing nothing. Adding more people who were just there to do nothing would be a waste of money.

However, his refusal caused public opinion in the shogunate to shift again.

"Perhaps His Highness the Regent is just using the guise of organizing power to exploit the beautiful young women from various households? He only likes daughters of high social standing, and those of lower rank don't even catch his eye?"

"Although the Regent has caused so much trouble on Narukami Island and seems very ambitious, as if he wants to accomplish something great, upon closer inspection, he doesn't seem to have much interest in the shogunate. Instead, he's become quite close with beautiful girls like Princess Shiraga and Princess Yoi, and even the shrine maidens at Narukami Shrine call him 'boss'."

"He's obviously just a young man, too inexperienced in managing power. It's all a joke."

"Those powerful families who are in charge of the society and the administration of the capital send their daughters to study under them. I think they're just selling their daughters to curry favor! What kind of visionary investment is that? What a load of rubbish!"

Despite this, Shen Liang still refused many officials from the shogunate who tried to curry favor with him every day. Even when it came to selling his daughter, many people wanted to sell their daughters to him... After all, selling one's daughter is also an investment to some extent.

After a day of polite socializing, Shen Liang chased away the last scoundrel who boasted that his daughter's talent and beauty were no less than Princess Bailu's and that she was proficient in the Forty-Eight Techniques of Edo, and returned to the back room of the Kamisato residence. There he saw Kamisato Ayaka sitting opposite Sangokoro Kokoro, drinking tea and chatting happily.

With his two gentle and lovely girlfriends there, Shen Liang's mood instantly improved, and his steps became lighter. Just as he was about to go over and sit between the two soft girls, he suddenly heard Coral Palace Xin Hai put down his wine glass and ask Shen Li Linghua, "Miss Linghua, the Emmanuel Group that you and my Regent founded is currently not even open for business and is probably in a state of losing money, right? May I ask how you plan to start and turn this situation around?"

"It's not fair to say we're spending more than we earn. As the current Shrine Maiden, Ayaka's sisters are all quite wealthy, so their salaries aren't too high," Ayaka Kamisato replied with a smile.

Shen Liang thought to himself that it was more than just surplus; every girl who was willing to follow him was a young lady from a top-tier noble family or wealthy merchant family in Inazuma. In terms of status, the young lady of the magistrate, Ayaka Kamisato, was of course the highest, on par with the young lady of the magistrate, Senri Hiiragi. But in terms of assets, most of these young ladies were even richer than Ayaka Kamisato! After all, the magistrate didn't have much surplus food left because of disaster relief. Fortunately, after the uprising of a hundred men, Raijin finally decided to order disaster relief.

But these young ladies didn't really need Shen Liang's salary. It wouldn't be entirely accurate to say they didn't want it; what they wanted were the shares held by early investors, guaranteeing they would share in Shen Liang's fortunes. Many of them secretly approached Shen Liang, saying they had brought their own investment and could ask for money whenever they needed it.

Shen Liang wasn't quite sure whether he was supporting them or they were planning to support him.