The "Motivation"


1 week before the showdown start

Inazuma's city

The storm around Tenshukaku was very large and raging while the thunder and lightning struck fiercely and loudly at the moment. The situation inside Tenshukaku was no better.

"Kamisato Ayaka reporting for duty!" Ayaka bowed at the Shogun "Is there anything I can do, your excellency?"

"Yes, this is really important" The shogun made a serious face (Not sure if she can ever show emotion on that puppet…) "And it's involved the fate of Inazuma"

"And what it is your excellency?"

"We're going to war with Liyue"

Ayaka was shocked about the Shogun decision: "But why…"

The shogun gave her the tournament's application about the battle between Inazuma, Liyue, Mondstadt.

"Uhh your excellency, this is not a war it's just a sparring to show who's the best warrior" Ayaka explained, still feeling awkward about what the Shogun said earlier.

"But the prize is really important" the Shogun still kept her usual serious monotone voice while she showed her the picture of the grand prize… "And I thought you are interested about the prize?"

A direct hit from the Shogun

Got attacked by surprise, Ayaka couldn't evade the question anymore but to answer honestly with her tomato face

"Ahh no, I mean yes…" Ayaka tried to answer quite struggle.

"Very well then I have a mission for you" The shogun gave Ayaka a book.

Ayaka received the book from the Shogun and saw the cover:

"Raiden Shogun's plan to Aethernity"

She read it for a while and asked the Shogun: "Your excellency, why is this plan written like a novel? And why is named "Aethernity"?"

"I learn it from some bookstore and that Traveler showed me a lot of interesting about Novel so I decided to write a plan based on that" The Shogun replied "But the thing that interests me the most about novel is the Harem genre"

"Ohh…That's sound interesting, your excellency" Ayaka replied while she was still clueless about what Harem was…

"That's why I want you to bring the grand prize here so our plan to "Aethernity" can be started" The Shogun said "The fate of Inazuma depend on you…Ayaka"

"I…I understand now…I shall get prepare…" Ayaka bowed

"Also…Don't forget to buy for me some Dango Milks. I haven't had that since the Traveler left"

When Ayaka left the hall, The shogun then mumbled quite dangerously and cold "Seem like this battle is going to be fierce"

Meanwhile in Liyue

The Qixing was having some meeting and the situation seemed to be very tension

"Is Inazuma going to war with us" One of them said "Are they crazy!?"

"Where did you hear that?" Ningguang asked, making them went silent "It's just basically a sparring between 3 nations but the grand prize cannot be underestimated"

"And what's the grand prize?" The other Qixing asked.

Ningguang then told everyone about the grand prize of the tournament as they were very exciting about it…but there was one problem.

No one dare to participate the tournament as they knew this was going to be out of their hand since no one strong and dedicated enough to join the tournament, except one…

"I will do it…For the better Liyue" A girl with purple hair stood up and raised her hand as sign of joining the tournament

Ningguang then looked at her, grinning: "Huh, I thought it's mostly for you…Keqing"

Keqing's face went red: "What? It…It's not like I really want it but...it's a crucial part for our dream Liyue"

"Or perhaps yours" Ningguang teased her again, made Keqing speechless…

A direct hit from the Tianquan.

"Well at least we have a representee now" one of them said "We should get ready, not sure who they will bring against us"

"I know who it is…" Keqing growled, clenched her fist while she was thinking about that Inazuma girl.

Also, in Mondstadt

There were two girls were arguing about who was going to join the tournament…

"I'm better than you!" a certain Outrider with the Pyro vision shouted.

"No! I'm better!" The maid with the Geo vision shouted back.

"ARGHHHHH!" They couldn't hold it anymore and jumped into a "small" fight after that. As the result, they knocked each other down, unconscious.

"Ugh seem like we won't have anyone to join the tournament this time…" Jean facepalmed at these two.


P/s: Now you can understand why there's no representee from Mondstadt :P