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"Although the magistrate serves the general, due to his duties, he is also the one who is closest to the people's livelihood. The magistrate's power comes from the people's trust. How can we sleep soundly if we turn a blind eye to such a situation?"

Jiang Bai wanted to say something about what Ms. Shenli had said, but after thinking about it, he held back and decided to wait until she finished speaking.

He is a polite person and will not interrupt others.

Ayaka Kamisato paused for a moment before finally stating her purpose, "Please lend me your power, and we will surely be able to..."

Kong interrupted her, "I'm only here to see General Thunder, not to rebel."

Although he already knew Thomas and his group's plans, he still felt uncomfortable when the request was brought up again.

He came only to see General Thunder and Lightning, not to join any rebellion.

Why do you think he alone can change the situation in Inazuma?

He may be somewhat special, but he's not that special, is he?

Why place your hopes on an outsider like him?

The person behind the screen paused and fell silent.

Jiang Bai glanced at Kong. It was rare to see someone as kind-hearted as Kong get a little angry.

Since Kong had already expressed his opinion, he didn't intend to listen any further.

"If you're only here to say these high-sounding words, then we're ready to leave."

Hearing the sound of someone turning around, the person behind the screen became visibly anxious. "Ah, wait! Please...don't go yet!"

"As a friend of Kong, I have some questions I'd like to ask you."

Jiang Bai didn't really intend to leave; he was just putting on an act.

He still had many questions he wanted to ask the egret princess.

"Um...please speak." Ayaka Kamisato wasn't surprised by Jiang Bai's words.

Before Thomas led them to the reception room, the two had a brief conversation.

"Mr. Thomas, could you please bring some tea and snacks? I prefer to sit down and talk business."

"OK, wait."

The tea was served quickly. Jiang Bai drank a cup of tea to moisten his throat and then stuffed a piece of pastry into Paimon's mouth.

After drinking a cup of tea and eating a pastry, Jiang Bai turned his gaze back to the screen.

"I would like to ask Ms. Kamisato, what is the Shaman Magistrate's view on the war between Umijima and the Shogunate?"

Without hesitation, Ayaka Kamisato replied, "This is the people's resistance against the Eye Hunting Order."

Jiang Bai shook his head in disappointment. "In your eyes, is the Eye Hunting Order all you care about?"

Chapter 461 Wanting Both (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"Miss Kamisato, don't tell me you don't even know the root cause of the rebellion on Umijima Island."

Everyone in the room looked at Jiang Bai, and Paimon, who was stuffing snacks into his stomach, asked directly.

"Is not it?"

"Of course not. Only a very small number of people are affected by the Eye Hunt Order. How could the entire Sea Spirit Island disregard the lives of everyone on the island and launch a rebellion because of this?"

Kong seemed to be deep in thought.

He also felt that it was far-fetched to think that a country would be plunged into civil war simply because of the Eye Hunt Order.

Even though most people with the Eye of God are in high positions, and they start to rebel in order to protect their Eye of God from being taken away, war is not child's play.

Do the soldiers below really want to lose their lives to protect that tiny minority?

Shen Liling knew that her explanation wouldn't fool the two of them, so she sighed and said:

"Because of the lockdown order."

"Isolation order? Why?" Paimon continued to ask, completely unaware of the implications.

"Haizhi Island cannot produce food; it can only rely on its special products, such as coral and pearls, for trade in exchange for food and daily necessities..."

Paimon vaguely felt he was grasping a thread: "Because of the isolationist policy, they couldn't exchange goods for food, they went hungry, so they rebelled..."

"Yes. That is the main reason for this war. There are historical legacies, religious conflicts between the two sides, and political differences... The Eye Hunt Order is just a banner that is put in the open."

Jiang Bai felt that this group of people were a bit off. If they were going to rebel against the isolation order, they should just rebel against the isolation order. Why did they have to bring up the Eye Hunting Order in the open? Even the soldiers below believed that they were rebelling against the Eye Hunting Order.

What if the Eye Hunting Order is gone, but the Isolation Order is still in effect?

Moreover, this slogan seems to have gained public approval...

It might be a unique aspect of the local culture, but Jiang Bai doesn't understand it.

"Oh, I see..." Kong suddenly realized, so that's how it is.

He had been on Narukami Island and was unaware of what was happening on Umigi Island, nor was he aware of these events.

"So, Ms. Kamisato, if you want to face the lightning head-on, does your company support this war?"

Behind the screen, Ayaka Kamisato opened her fan, concealed her face with it, lowered her eyes, and considered for a moment before saying:

“Our Kamisato family has been secretly supporting Umijima all along, but the magistrate of the shrine cannot do such a thing.”

Hearing her say that, Jiang Bai was even more puzzled.

Since your Kamisato family is secretly helping Umijima, why couldn't you have stopped this war from the beginning?

Now that we've met General Thunder, shouldn't we tell him these things?

Or does this deity know all this, but still disregard the people's wishes?

“I’m curious about something: why don’t you tell General Raiden about the suffering caused by the national seclusion edict and the eye-hunting edict? Since Inazuma has been stable for thousands of years under His rule, it means that He is not a dictatorial god.”

"If He knew that His lockdown order was causing the people to starve to death, He certainly wouldn't have turned a blind eye, would He?"

“This…” Ayaka Kamisato was stumped by the question and didn’t know how to answer for a while.

Jiang Bai narrowed his eyes. "Don't tell me that your loyalty to General Lei Dian is this kind of 'loyalty'—knowing your mistakes but not admonishing you, yet being dissatisfied with them and resorting to underhanded tactics."

Behind the screen, Ryouka Kamisato looked bitter. "To us, the General is Inazuma's heaven. How dare we defy the will of heaven?"

"The matters of the Eye Hunting Order and the Seclusion Order are to be fully implemented by the Heavenly Commander and the Investigation and Executioner. For us to submit official documents would be an overstepping of our authority and would bring unwarranted disaster to the Kamiri family. However, we cannot bear to see the people suffer, so we can only do things in private..."

Kong's brows furrowed deeply.

To put it nicely, Ms. Kamisato is saying that it's inconvenient for her to interfere in other matters, as it might be considered overstepping her bounds.

To put it bluntly, they dare not interfere.

Having witnessed Sister Mondstadt who could even forget the name of the wind god and Keqing Yuheng who dared to question the emperor, I always felt uneasy about such blind loyalty to the will of the gods.

While it's not that she did nothing, she did help the holder of the Eye of God and funded the resistance on Haiqi Island.

Tell us what they did; they're keeping quiet about something that could clearly be solved at its root.

They were still hoping that he, an outsider, would break the current situation in Inazuma.

Can't you do it yourself? Why do you have to rely on an outsider?

If he doesn't come, will this lockdown order and the hunting order continue indefinitely? Will they continue until the people are forced to live in dire straits?

"Actually, it's fear. On one hand, they're afraid of being implicated, of the Kamisato family being implicated, and of their family's status being affected. On the other hand, they can't bear the pangs of conscience..." Jiang Bai didn't give the Kamisato lady behind the screen any face and spoke bluntly.

His gaze fell on a shoji door that obscured what lay behind it, and he continued:

"Neither the national isolation edict nor the eye-hunting edict has any direct connection to the interests of the Society Magistrate, and the God's Eye cannot be seized from you."

That's why you're sitting here, in the back, hoping that we outsiders will break the deadlock, both to spare your conscience and to allow those of you behind the scenes to escape unscathed from this turmoil.

"Truly worthy of being called a hero who defeated the Fools' Enforcers, his words have made us all feel ashamed."

A voice came from behind the door, the shoji door was pushed open, and a figure walked out with a look of shame on his face.

"Brother..."

Upon hearing her brother's voice, Ryoka Kamisato, who had been sitting on pins and needles behind the screen, could no longer remain seated and got up to emerge from behind it.

"Master!" Thomas was somewhat surprised, but still bowed in greeting.

"Gentlemen, it's a pleasure to meet you. I am Ayato Kamisato, the head of the Kamisato family, and this is my younger sister, Ayaka Kamisato."

Ayato Kamisato pulled Reika Kamisato to sit down at the tea table opposite them, and Jiang Bai carefully examined the two of them.

Both of them are undeniably good-looking, and they look remarkably alike.

Ayato Kamisato has long, narrow eyes and a faint smile. A beauty mark adorns the lower right corner of his lips, but he looks like a humble young master from a noble family, without any aggression. It's hard to imagine that he is already one of the top three in Inazuma Power at such a young age.

But Jiang Bai's intuition told him that this person was dangerous.

Like a long sword sheathed, concealing all its sharpness, it is clearly a peerless weapon of destruction, yet it appears harmless.

If you judge him by his appearance and assume he's harmless, you might end up being swindled out of everything, and even have to help him count the money after you've been sold out.

Looking at Ryouka Kamisato, she is still young, with round eyes and neat bangs covering her forehead, making her look very cute. She pays great attention to her demeanor and manners in every move.

This similar humble temperament manifested in her as a girl's gentleness and refinement.

Chapter 462 How could Inazuma not be in a mess?

"So this is what Princess Egret looks like..." Paimon stared at the suddenly appearing Miss Kamisato for a few moments before his curiosity was finally satisfied.

Kong also glanced at her a few more times, not because the other person was good-looking, but purely because the mystery surrounding her was so strong. Now that he had seen her, he couldn't help but take a second look.

Jiang Bai... Jiang Bai felt nothing at all; on the contrary, his vigilance was immediately heightened.

Do you think that being good-looking can erase everything that happened before?

Don't tell me you didn't intend to take advantage of them. Now that your verbal offensive isn't working, are you trying to use your femininity?

"Weren't we supposed to use a screen to receive guests? Is it alright for you to come out?" Paimon looked at Ling Hua with suspicion, then his gaze fell on Ayato Kamisato. "And this head of the Kamisato family, what are you doing eavesdropping on our conversation!"

"Now that Mr. Jiang Bai has said such things, if we don't show up, wouldn't it really mean that we have designs on you?"

Ayato Kamisato wore a gentle smile, and the shame he had shown when he first came out seemed to be just an act.

'If you hadn't had such intentions, you wouldn't have hidden behind the door.'

If it weren't for what he just said, this guy wouldn't have had any intention of showing up in the first place.

Jiang Bai rolled his eyes inwardly, but still wore a polite smile on his face.

Ayato Kamisato sighed, "My sister and I are insiders, while you two are outsiders. You can do whatever you want, but we can't. If we do one thing, it will affect the whole situation."

“Although the Kamisato family only consists of my brother and me, there are many other people in the company besides us. I cannot drag them into danger because of my own wishes…”

Jiang Bai couldn't say anything about this reason.

Everyone has their own difficulties.

"Now that you, head of the Kamisato family, have appeared, I'll ask you some questions directly." Jiang Bai looked at Kamisato Ayato seriously.

"Excuse me."

"As far as I know, the Eye Hunting Edict and the Isolation Edict were both issued in the last year or two. There was nothing like this before. Why would General Raiden suddenly issue such a decree? What is the reason behind it?"

Thomas said these laws were because General Thunder wanted to pursue eternity, but General Thunder's ideal has always been eternity, so why weren't there such laws before?

“Thoma told us it was because General Raiden was pursuing eternity, but General Raiden didn’t suddenly start pursuing eternity in the last few years.” Jiang Bai looked at Ayato Kamisato seriously, waiting for his answer.

Such things are only known to people of high rank and power, like the head of the clan; newcomers like them have no way of knowing these secrets.

"Because the other two are in charge."

"How so?" Kong and Paimon both looked on with curiosity.

"The Eye Hunting Order was actually an idea proposed by the Heavenly Territory Commissioner, while the Seclusion Order was a joint proposal by the Survey Commissioner and the Heavenly Territory Commissioner. The Shogun believed that these measures would benefit Eternity, so they were promulgated and implemented by both parties."

"Why would either of these parties make such a proposal?!" Paimon was furious!

"Because of interests." After learning the reason, Kong immediately understood.

"With the closed-door policy in place, all foreign merchants are at the mercy of the authorities, who can raise taxes however they want, just like what happened to us on the outlying islands..."

Jiang Bai twirled the teacup in his hand and sneered, "And it's even simpler for Tianling to vigorously implement the Eye Hunting Order."

“The holder of the Eye of God is an unstable factor. Once the Eye of God is taken away, he is just an ordinary person. Once all these unstable factors are removed, who will be able to stop the Tenryo Magistrate?”