The night was already deep. After the banquet ended, Beidou and her group did not stay at Sangonomiya Shrine but went to Bourou Village instead. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ NoveI~Fire.net

As the main camp of the Watatsumi resistance, Bourou Village had an extremely long history. It was said that the ancestors of the original inhabitants of Bourou Village came from Enkanomiya.

After the Vision Hunt Decree, more and more people came to join the resistance, and this place became their place of rest and recuperation.

Returning from the banquet, one could still see traces of the bonfire party. Many soldiers and sailors were even holding wine jugs, lying scattered on the ground, sound asleep.

The few logistics personnel responsible for cleaning up the scene immediately stopped their work after noticing Beidou's group and bowed to them.

This bow was mostly directed at Bai Luo.

As mentioned before, within the resistance, Bai Luo held a status comparable to that of the Divine Priestess.

Although his initially ordinary appearance was quite disappointing, during the bonfire party earlier, many sailors had brought up the events at sea.

One man, one sword, one small boat, daring to single-handedly challenge a sea demon as tall as a mountain. Just hearing about it was enough to make one's blood boil.

What's more, he had even severed one of its heads, saving the entire fleet.

Perhaps the sailors' storytelling skills were not as good as those of the storytellers, but these rough men who toiled on the sea had their own unique way of passing down stories.

Even if every two sentences of the story were punctuated by a curse word, they still managed to successfully convey that sense of despair to the Watatsumi resistance members present.

The few new recruits in logistics had not participated in the bonfire party, but while they were carrying food and wine, they had also taken the time to listen to the sailors' descriptions.

So their reverence for the Battousai was now even greater than before.

"Gentlemen, your rooms have been prepared. This way, please."

After the group arrived, the personnel in charge of accommodation came up to greet them.

Unlike the large communal rooms where the sailors and soldiers stayed, the merchants and the high-ranking members of the Crux Fleet mostly stayed in double or single rooms.

And Bai Luo, relying on his fame, even had a separate study, which was to his liking.

"Mr. Himura, see you tomorrow."

After returning to her room, Beidou, still holding her jug of wine, waved at Bai Luo as a greeting.

Bai Luo, on the other hand, followed the young man to his own residence.

"Lord Battousai, this is it."

After leading Bai Luo to his room, the young man who had guided him gave a slight bow and departed.

And on the young man's sleeve, Bai Luo still saw the not-so-conspicuous Fatui insignia.

This insignia was basically only known to those in the Special Affairs Division, and was specially designed to prevent undercover agents from accidentally harming their own allies.

It seemed that Igor wasn't lying. Watatsumi Island had indeed been severely infiltrated.

After entering the room, Bai Luo's first stop was the study. If he wasn't mistaken, the arrangement of a study was not just because of his status; there should be another purpose.

He was right. Although the study was impeccably clean and the furniture with Sangonomiya's characteristic style was neatly arranged, there was a certain pattern to this neatness.

Following this pattern, Bai Luo found a thick stack of documents inside the stone block used as a footstool by the bed.

"Tsk tsk... this is a bit too much, isn't it?"

Looking at the thick stack of documents, Bai Luo couldn't help but complain.

He had originally just wanted to take a look at the recent situation on Watatsumi Island and how Igor and his men planned to infiltrate it further. Now it seemed... he had sent over all of his plans and logs since arriving on Watatsumi Island.

Because he had given prior notice, no one came to disturb him at night. He lit a lamp and began to read through the documents.

From the documents, it seemed that Igor's initial progress on Watatsumi Island was not very good.

First of all, Sangonomiya Shrine only occupied this small area of Watatsumi Island and barely survived on fishing. Coupled with the intentional suppression from Inazuma, there was almost no profit to be made here, so The Regrator had completely cut off his funding.

This forced Igor, who had originally planned to infiltrate Watatsumi Island as a sponsor, to change his plans and switch to gradual infiltration. That's right, the friend from Snezhnaya who, according to Sangonomiya Kokomi, had brought caviar to Watatsumi Island was actually Igor in the past.

However, the previous Divine Priestess was extremely vigilant and gave him almost no opportunity to develop informants.

Even though some battles with the Kairagi had prevented Sangonomiya from curbing his development in time, they would always manage to eliminate a portion of the insiders he had secretly cultivated afterwards.

This made his infiltration plan extremely difficult.

It wasn't until... the new Divine Priestess, Sangonomiya Kokomi, took office that this situation changed.

Compared to her predecessor, the new Divine Priestess rarely showed her face, and her resistance to the Fatui's infiltration was constantly failing, only managing to root out some insignificant minor characters.

However, at that time, the internal unity of Sangonomiya was relatively high, and Igor could only corrupt a small number of people.

Later, the Vision Hunt Decree came unexpectedly. More and more outsiders came to Watatsumi Island, a territory independent of the Inazuma Shogunate's rule, and the resistance was thus formed.

The outsiders, who did not have a strong sense of belonging to Sangonomiya, naturally became Igor's targets.

He not only frequently used petty tricks to stir up conflicts between Sangonomiya Kokomi and her subordinates, but also successfully instigated a high-ranking official of Sangonomiya who opposed the formation of the resistance.

To this day, the entire Watatsumi Island is almost under the control of the Fatui.

From Igor's words, it was not difficult to see that he was very confident in his infiltration plan. He had mentioned more than once that he could overthrow the entire Sangonomiya Shrine in a few days and change the leadership of Watatsumi Island.

His confidence was mainly due to the several special insiders he had planted.

For example, the shrine maidens of Sangonomiya Shrine, the generals of the resistance, the high-ranking officials of Bourou Village...

Every vital point, it could be said, was under the control of the Fatui.

Even the kitchen that managed the Divine Priestess's meals had Fatui personnel.

With a single order from him, a chef would carry a Pyro Slime and a bowl of chicken soup to Sangonomiya Kokomi's bedchamber.

Even if it couldn't poison her, it could be used to perish together with her at a critical moment.

In any case, no one was getting out alive.

But... was it really as smooth as Igor imagined?

As an old... ahem, an honest assassin.

Bai Luo knew very well how difficult it was to infiltrate a force of such a large scale, and the previous Divine Priestess had also confirmed his thoughts. Sangonomiya Kokomi might not be as resourceful as the rumors said, but she was not so foolish as to let Igor plant insiders in the Watatsumi resistance at will.

In that case, Igor's so-called smooth progress might be worth pondering.

Because, everything was just too smooth.

It was like reading a satisfying power fantasy novel that one couldn't put down.

But a novel is just a novel. How could it become real?

It seems that exposing himself prematurely was a bit rash.

But... there was still a chance to remedy it.

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