Nihonkoku Shoukan

Chapter 1WN. Yeah. You read it correctly. We even haven’t reach Chapter 2 WN.

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Minasan Oidemasu! This is Yukkuri demasu!

The last part of the prologue.

In case you wondering… All the prologue is a complete rewrite of Chapter 1WN. Yeah. You read it correctly. We even haven’t reach Chapter 2 WN.

As always,

DISCLAIMER: There is no guarantee that my translation is 100%correct. Please correct me if I was wrong.

Plus, if youwant to thank someone go to the guys at Ainushi Translation who give me the RAWfor this LN. They’re the real MVPs.

Author:

みのろう (Minorou)

Translator:

Yukkuri Oniisan!

Editor:

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Part 8

Inside the Tokaido-SanyouShinkansen.

「Goodness gracious, I’m surprised. It had been mentioned in the report, but toactually see magic with my own eyes…… How amazing.」

Tanaka was praising without minding the surroundinglistener.

「Does healing type magic unusual in j.a.pan?」

Yagou didn’t feel bad being praised like this. Sincehis side was the one received surprise until now, to cause the j.a.panese sidesurprised for the first time made his heart wanted to boast about it a bit.

「Yes, not only healing magic, but magic itself doesn’t exist in j.a.pan.」

「「「EH!?」」」

At Tanaka’s simple answer, the delegation members wereshouting out from astonishment.

Hanki asked out.

「H-……However, if the communication between the aircraft and the ground isnot communication magic, then how could it be done?」

「That is using the radio wave. The principle is the same with the wrist.w.a.tchthat had been distributed to everyone. ……Hmm, how should I explain this? Justlike what I had said before, every technology in j.a.pan is based on science.」

「Everything…… Even that cold air filled refrigerator too?」

「Yes. In our previous world, in order to pursue the cause of every phenomenon,we have developed many fields of science. A radio wave is something developedfrom physics, the study of the cause of everything, while the refrigerator is developedfrom chemistry, the study of the 『change』 of matter. j.a.pan freely uses these technologies to improve the nation.」

The concept of science that Qua-Toyne didn’t have. Itwas the moment where the members of the delegation got their hand on a state-secretlevel of information.

If magic didn’t exist in j.a.pan, then the magictechnology that is studied in Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality could be presented as a negotiationissue.

Healing magic’s forte is in temporarily recoveringwound.

For example, if they proposed simple surgery magic,then it might be possible to establish a clinic that could immediately curesmall wounds or stiff shoulder and there should be a demand for emergency use likethe one in the accident not long ago. If there are unsolved diseases in j.a.pan,then they could also propose to research it together.

If they open a magic academy and provide the teacher, theycould increase employment and even obtain foreign currency. On the other hand, therealso could offer a term to import j.a.pan’s education system into Qua-ToynePrinc.i.p.ality. If the children could obtain knowledgeability using j.a.panese wayof learning, then it would be heaven-sent.

Be that as it may.

It was a significant discovery that j.a.pan relied only onthe knowledge of science.

In this world, to be able to gather a large number ofmagicians would be advantageous in a war and so magicians had a strategicimportance. However, there was the questionof the development and personnel of the magitech research, also the differencein the individual qualities, which presented a major challenge in establishinga large division of magician that is uniformly powerful in the first place.

Compared to that, as long as someone knew the basic ofthe science, then anyone could easily become a powerful soldier. In otherwords, it was possible for even Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality’s citizen to do so.

「Tanaka-dono. Is it possible to export science like physics or chemistry?」

Tanaka already had expected that question.

「Several days ago, our country has enforced a law called New World TechnologyDissemination Prohibition Law. It is prohibited to export core technology, so wecan’t particularly give out their content. However, if it’s only fundamental scienceknowledge then it is sold as textbooks or the likes at any bookstore. However……Since the translation studies hadn’t made any progress, so I believe it will bedifficult to translate into your language.」

From the j.a.panese point of view, there were manymysterious things in this world.

Especially the origin of the language-related “evenwhen speech is understandable, the written letters becomes different languageand grammar” phenomena. j.a.pan had begun a study to translate the materials thathad been brought back from Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality from the first meeting, but j.a.pan’sinformation about this world was still too scarce and the materials amount wastoo few that it was an extremely difficult ordeal.

Yagou interpreted Tanaka word that it was sold inbookstores as 「We won’t mind to give out if it’s just fundamental knowledge」, so he decided to bring back chemistry or physics books as much aspossible for the time being.

「Nevertheless, Hanki-sama, Shinkansen is fast right?」

「You’re right. Even though it’s traveling at such speed, the inside doesn’t swayat all, the seat is also pleasant and comfortable. However, in a speed likethis, an accident will be scary……」

「Since Shinkansen opening, there are no pa.s.sengers dying from an accident. Theysay it’s the safest vehicle in j.a.pan.」

「Hmm…… I’ll believe in that. But even after hearing it, I’m still uneasy.」

While the 5 people board it with uneasiness in theirheart, today too was yet another safe travel for the Shinkansen.

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From Yagou’sDiary

After pa.s.sing several large cities, the Shinkansen weboarded arrived at j.a.pan’s capital city, Tokyo.

The provincial cities that we pa.s.sed midway are evenmore developed and greatly surpa.s.s the capital of the major countries thatcrowds the Civilized Lands, but Tokyo is on a different dimension. Just aboutanything moves punctually, the number of the population is huge, and the heightof the highrise buildings are as if to pierce the heaven.

There even a structure that surpa.s.sed the famous EijeiMountain (539 meters above sea level) of my country.[1]

For myself, as a member of the diplomatic mission thatis dispatched to a country that could build these huge buildings, I am lookingforward to the working-level meeting tomorrow.

For my country’s national interest, I will work to thebest of my abilities.

It’s a heavy responsibility, but it’s fortunate to be presentin a history-making moment like this.

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The next day,

Central Calendar Year 1639, Month 2, Day 8.

Qua-Toyne Working Level Meeting

The conference had begun.

One slender bespectacled man began to address the diplomaticmission delegation from Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality.

「I am Himura from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Let me talkstraight to the heart of the matter at hand. Right now we desire food. The listof needed items are──」

Though the j.a.panese had prepared doc.u.ments that describedvarious necessary food items, they already received the report that written materialswon’t be understandable for the other party, so Himura was reading the doc.u.mentand described each of the items orally, which contents made the delegationmembers looked at each other.

「Th-…… The one-year aggregate amount is about 55 million tonne[2]!?」

「I am told that your country is a prosperous agricultural country. The foodself-sufficiency rate even surpa.s.s 100%. Even so, we never think that yourcountry alone could fulfill this requested amount, but we want to know how muchthat your country could potentially provide. Of course, we won’t ask for animmediate reply. However, we don’t have much time, so we honestly want to knowas fast as possible.」

Yagou wrote the amount of item that Himura had citedwith his own country’s script in the doc.u.ment on his hand. While looking at itand furrowing his brow, he began to speak.

「Fishery products are difficult and I don’t really know about this 『coffee bean』. Other than that, I believe we could provide the other requested items ifit is just in this amount.」

「What do you say!?」

「Other than coffee beans it’s possible, just how high the productionoutput……」

The j.a.panese foreign affairs officials were in astir. Honestlyspeaking, the request included items that need to be imported from severalcountries, but for a single country be able to provide them all…… It wasn’t strangethat they were surprised.

「Of course, after this is permitted by our country. Just……」

「Just?」

「Our country doesn’t possess the means of transportation for this amount toyour country. There are large farmland regions inland, but we don’t have the manpowerand the budget to transport it to the harbors. Even if we have transported itto the harbor, we also lack manpower to load the food. Above all, we lackships.」

「Then it decided, if you earn the approval from the Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality,then can you export the food right now?」

「I think it’s possible.」

By some chance, a possibility to avoid a food crisisin j.a.pan had come to their sight.

The j.a.panese delegation sat back and a white-hairedbespectacled dandy man began to talk.

「I am Maejima from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If Qua-ToynePrinc.i.p.ality doesn’t mind then we will improve harbor facilities and buildinfrastructure, a means of transportation in other words, towards the farmlandregion within Qua-Toyne. Our country to provide capital under the pretext of OfficialDevelopment a.s.sistant to establish the railway network and so it’s possible forour country to construct it directly. What do you think about this proposal?」

「!?」

This time it was the turn for the Qua-Toyne Delegationto be astir. For Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality where water and food were almost closeto free, the country could be enriched just by exporting it and, in addition, theyeven would receive harbor and railway.

Is there any more favorable term than this?

They also negotiated for several other items, and whilediscussing the future preparation for both party sealing the deal, theconference finished favorably.

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Ten days later,

Central Calendar Year 1639, Month 2, Day 18.

Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality and j.a.pan had agreed on these points.

· Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.alitywill export the food needed by j.a.pan.

· j.a.pan will expand Port Maiharkin Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality and establish transportation infrastructure fromMaihark to the farmland regions using j.a.pan’s capital.

· j.a.pan and Qua-ToynePrinc.i.p.ality will continue to discuss with each other toward establishing adiplomatic relationship.

· An exchange rate willimmediately put in place.

· As the compensation forj.a.pan’s bulk-purchase of food from Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality, for a period of oneyear, j.a.pan will establish essential infrastructure (water service, electricity,gas service) within Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality.

· Afterward, the food willbe purchased according to the exchange rate

· j.a.pan will continue fora conference with Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality to discuss the signing of a non-aggressiontreaty.

j.a.pan and Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality were able toestablish a favorable relationship. This inseparable friendly relationship thatthey will create in the future became a ship where both nations shared a commonfate. A ship that challenge the violent torrent of this world.

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Next chapter:

Why it’s a bad idea to bully Qua-Toyne-chan? Because Nipon-oneesama willget angry.

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