Nihonkoku Shoukan

Chapter 1

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Minasan Oidemasu! This is Yukkuri demasu!

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Author:

みのろう (Minorou)

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Yukkuri Oniisan!

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Chapter 1

Upheaval

Part 2

Louria Kingdom,Capital City: Jin-Haag, Haag Castle, Underground Barracks

In the corner of the room, illuminated by dimcandlelight…

The flame flickered from the minute movement of theair and made the shadows of the men reflected on the wall sway back and orth.

「Fufufu…… Finally the decision has been given! It has been a long time.」

A slanted-eyed man was speaking with a robe-wearing man.

「Yes. It really has been a long time.」

One section of the robe-wearing man’s hand had beendegenerated and was festering.

Immediately after the Royal Council session, the orderto form the subjugation army was transmitted to the lower echelons. However,since they already finished their preparations before the session’s decision, itwas really just more of a notification.

Adem, who had been selected to become thesecond-in-command of the main force of the Eastern Subjugation Army, sported aneerie smile while looking at the flickering flame.

「The demihumans ought to be exterminated. That I could partic.i.p.ate in thesubjugation campaign of the worthless country that grants rights for thosetrash, even more, to be in the frontlines…… is an honor……! I will──」

Adem’s slanting eyes slightly opened and changed intoones of fury. But, he immediately close his eyelids.

「── No, it’s nothing. In this world, the weak are the meals of the strong. Powerlesspeople are only meat waiting to be eaten. The corpses of demihumans…… Nay, thelives of my parents and siblings had taught me this law of the word. And thistime, I can teach this law to those demihumans…… I am rejoiced in this bliss!」

「My Monster Users Corps are unrecognized shadows that have never seen thelight of day. The Knights and the n.o.bles looked down upon us and continued tothrow abuse on us. But even Monster Users like us had been given a place inthis operation, so I am also in supreme joy tonight!」

That day, each person took their meals with alcoholand held a pre-war party. That tumultuous party continued late into the night──

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Qua-ToynePrinc.i.p.ality, j.a.panese Emba.s.sy

The sun showed its face on the horizon and the easternsky became brighter as the birds started singing. A pleasant wind and humid airflowed into the room from the opened window.

The carrier diplomat from j.a.pan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Tanaka, awakened from his sleep with a nice feeling and took a really deepbreath.

Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality didn’thave cars, factories, or airplanes, so the background noise were the songs ofthe birds, the murmurs of the streams, and the clattering of the horses. Comparedto j.a.pan, his sleep was unimaginably good.

「…… It seems today will be a busy day.」

It was something he mutteredout of the unpleasant premonition he had, but this was proved to be true.

「Amba.s.sador‼ Amba.s.sador‼」

The staff knocked at the doorto Tanaka’s room.

(What happened so early in the morning?)

Tanaka was a bit puzzled whileopening the door.

「Good morning. Is something wrong?」

「An official from Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality’s Foreign Ministry suddenly visitedwithout an appointment saying that there is emergency information that he needsto convey.」

In the communication between countries,visiting without an appointment, meant that there was a tremendous emergency situationhappened. Or perhaps, this was the normal way of diplomacy in this other world.Tanaka thought about this while he hurriedly changed his clothes.

After a quick face washing, hissuited-figure opened the door to the reception room, 15 minutes after the staffhad knocked at the door of his room. Inside was the troubled face of Yagou, theofficial from the Qua-Toyne Foreign Ministry.

「Good morning, sorry if I have made you wait too long.」

「Tanaka-dono, please excuse my rudeness to visit so suddenly in this earlymorning. But there is a worrisome development that I must inform you.」

Yagou stood up and deeplybowed. Tanaka said, 「What happened?」, while trying to reign in his private relief that even in this world, it’scommon sense to visit by making an appointment.

However, that relief wasbroken in an instant.

「I think you already know about the Louria Kingdom west of our country. Asthe result of careful investigations of information obtained from manychannels, we are certain that the Louria Kingdom is approaching to invade ourcountry.」

「A w-……war!?」

「The Louria Kingdoms soldiers already gathered in the west, towards the directionof the city, Gim, 20 km from the border. If I can be honest, if the war begins,then we couldn’t export the food in the agreed amount to your country. We are trulyapologetic for reneging on the treaty……」

Tanaka was speechless when heheard those words.

Since being severed from Earthdue to their country suddenly transferred to this world, the Ministry ofForeign Affairs had been a.s.signed with a task so that the citizens don’t starve.They had established friendly diplomatic relationships with the Qua-ToynePrinc.i.p.ality, that possessed huge farmlands, and the Quila Kingdom, that possessedconfirmed j.a.pan’s ill-needed resource deposits that covered most of the country(although until they could mine it, j.a.pan needed to get by with what they hadin the strategic resource stockpiles inside the country). It was a miracle thatthey could obtain the food and resources that were needed by the j.a.panesecitizens. But right now, there was a possibility that that absolutely indispensablefood import will cease. If the food import from Qua-Toyne ceased, then in lessthan 1 year, hundreds of thousands…… No, perhaps millions of citizens willstarve to death.

「Can your country still do the export somehow……?」

Although he understood that whenthe flames of war enfolded the nation, it’s not a situation where they couldworry about other countries, but Tanaka, who didn’t have any power to decide thisserious situation, could do nothing but inquire.

Yagou grimaced and cast hiseyes down.

「The Louria Kingdom has the largest military power in the Rodenius Continent.They already concentrated such forces at the border, and it seems that theykeep reinforcing that force. In any case, because the number is too great, whenthe combat begins, even though we have the local advantage, we need to beresigned to losing several cities. If that happens, then ensuring the movementof goods like we’re doing right now, will be an extremely difficult ordeal.」

Yagou made a fleeting upwardglance as if to await Tanaka’s expression.

「It would be helpful if we could have reinforcements……」

Yagou remembered the AirFestthat he observed when he was dispatched as a delegation member to j.a.pan. The tremendouslystrong metal-dragon’s powerful figure had been seared into his eyelids, even tothis day.

If they received j.a.pan’s reinforcement,he intuitively concluded that this country wouldn’t be annihilated in this war.

「j.a.pan…… has renounced the use of military force as means of conflictresolution between states in her const.i.tution. I am really sorry to say this,but a military reinforcement is……」

Of course, Yagou already heard about this military powerrenunciation when he was dispatched to j.a.pan. He asked since there was nothingto lose in this situation and so Tanaka gave a frustrated answer. Even thoughYagou had expected this, he dropped his shoulders in disappointment.

「Then, this is unfortunate, but there is a high possibility that it will bedifficult to export the food. Since I have no right to say otherwise in yourcountry’s domestic matters, I have no choice but to relinquish this request……」

To obey the const.i.tution and have thousands starve, orto have a 『very broad interpretation』 of the const.i.tution and save the citizens and the Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.alityfrom this crisis.

After the information of the suspension of food exportwas received by the j.a.panese Emba.s.sy, in an unprecedentedly swift response, 3weeks later, j.a.pan decided to send their troops overseas for the first timeafter World War 2.

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Article 9 of the j.a.panese Const.i.tution

(1) Aspiring sincerely to aninternational peace based on justice and order, the j.a.panese people foreverrenounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of forceas means of settling international disputes.

(2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea,and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. Theright of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.

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