Ch.321World Strategy

# * * *

This is a bit unfair, I think.

If she’s Maria II, shouldn’t she know about me like Maria does?

Maria and I shared many things, and now that’s being passed down to her daughter.

“No, that’s going too far.”

“But she’s beautiful and has received Spetsnaz training in the White Army. Aren’t you worried about Your Majesty when I step down?”

Why the hell did she get Spetsnaz training? Isn’t that excessive just to assist me?

Wait a minute, come to think of it, doesn’t Maria select the maids herself?

So Maria picked people who all had Spetsnaz training, and her daughter is the same?

Don’t tell me she had her child undergo all kinds of training including Spetsnaz just to get her into the Kremlin?

When I think about it, isn’t our Maria truly a terrifying woman?

“How could you have such a frightening thought? And why are you concerned about appearance?”

“Because I think beautiful things suit Your Majesty.”

I gave up trying to understand.

Maria has been thoughtful toward me, so I should accept at least this much.

To be blunt, if it weren’t for me, Maria would clearly have become Yekaterinburg People’s Number 1 by now.

She’s even turned her own daughter into part of the maid corps for me, so I guess that’s fine.

“Alright. I suppose it won’t be bad.”

I can’t say no when she’s offering.

“If you get lonely, I could abandon my husband and children to stay by Your Majesty’s side. We’re already together in the Kremlin Palace anyway.”

“You don’t need to go that far.”

I trembled at Maria’s frightfulness.

To even offer her daughter to me!

No, isn’t abandoning her husband going too far? I just need people who won’t get in my way.

Come to think of it, Maria has had a child and is living peacefully with a husband.

I don’t know when Maria II will come to see me, but this means I can enjoy my leisure time.

Having my own hereditary maid. It’s a perfect plan.

Then I’ll settle on beating Vladimir later. Let’s take the identity laundering plan slowly.

“Isn’t this a bit harsh? No matter what, using your daughter like this seems wrong.”

“After all the grace Your Majesty has shown me, how can you say that? I’ll call our Maria later.”

After saying that, she withdrew with a happy face.

I really wonder if she’s the real power behind the scenes—is this right?

Shortly after, there was a commotion outside, and I saw someone who looked like a criminal running down the corridor in the distance.

“Your Majesty! I’ve found information about Yuri Gagarin.”

Suddenly, Beria came to visit.

I definitely had asked Beria to look into Yuri Gagarin.

“Is the Okhrana director still acting like such a child in front of His Majesty at that age?”

“Ah, I apologize. But I’ve investigated Yuri Gagarin.”

Well, Beria has always been that kind of person, so let’s leave it at that. I should hear about Yuri Gagarin.

“What’s Yuri Gagarin’s current situation?”

“Yuri Gagarin is currently preparing for the Air Force Academy.”

Air Force Academy. So, is he following the original historical path? Still, I should make sure.

For example, making him develop an inevitable interest in space while at the Air Force Academy.

“Then I have a task for you. Can you get Okhrana agents into the Air Force Academy?”

“That’s possible.”

“Then arrange for Yuri Gagarin to be able to enter the Air Force Academy, and have the Okhrana agents frequently talk about space to make Gagarin want to go there.”

I’m saying this just in case.

What if he has no interest in space because of the snowball I’ve set in motion? We’d have to make him go there somehow.

“What level of influence would be appropriate?”

“Hypnosis level would be good. Have Okhrana agents posing as Gagarin’s friends naturally bring up space topics constantly.”

He should be thoroughly brainwashed to dedicate his life to space! That’s the minimum requirement.

That way he’ll become the cosmonaut he was in the original history, right?

This could be seen as my consideration for Yuri Gagarin, whose life might become miserable if it diverges from the original history.

“Torture that turns Bolsheviks white will be sufficient.”

I wonder what that torture is.

Making Bolsheviks white must mean turning reds into whites? I don’t know what method that is, but we just need to guide Yuri Gagarin to go there on his own.

Oh, of course I don’t intend to kill him.

# * * *

After setting up Yuri Gagarin for the space issue…

The Middle East expedition has the Constantinople Treaty Organization headquarters, and it will come up in the next Duma.

I don’t have much to do right now.

“Maybe I’ll write a novel.”

Yes. For example, writing the original history as a novel.

What would the reaction be if I wrote a novel about Stalin taking power in this world, Renya Mutaguchi messing up the war for Japan, Nazi Germany, and so on?

It seems like it would be wildly popular, so it might be good to write it now that I’ve thought of it.

A history that only I remember, a tragedy of world wars that only I know.

I picked up a pen and slowly began writing the novel on paper.

“Hmm, I can’t remember the exact years.”

It’s not like I memorized history perfectly.

To be honest, living as a Russian in this world, I’m barely hanging onto memories of Korean history.

I remember the big events, like the process leading up to the Japanese colonial period in Korean history, or the history of the Joseon Dynasty.

For the Three Kingdoms period, I only remember the plausible parts.

Who led the golden age and how they fell. Well then, should I just make up the years?

It would be best to start the timeline change from when I supposedly died.

Once I started writing, the words flowed smoothly.

Things I had forgotten until just now came back clearly, as if that old man had given me power again, my head becoming clear.

It was like cleaning up an office full of messy piles of documents to find what you need.

I wrote fluently, as if pulling books from shelves and copying them while reviewing the world history I knew.

“Your Majesty, what are you writing so intently?”

“The original history if I weren’t here.”

I answered Alisa Rosenbaum who had come to visit, without even looking at her.

“May I read it too?”

“Go ahead.”

Originally, Alisa Rosenbaum was a writer. I heard she writes while being the head of the Roman National Party here. So she probably has a better eye for this than I do.

As Alisa read the book I gave her, tears welled up in her eyes from the beginning.

“Alisa? What’s wrong?”

Why is your face crumpled like that? You’re even crying.

“*Sob*. What would we do if you died like this?”

No, I didn’t actually die.

If someone saw Alisa, they’d think I really died. This is so unfair.

“What an outrage! That pig Stalin should be torn apart and killed!”

I keep telling you, this is just a book.

“My goodness. That’s just the content of the book I wrote.”

“But according to Your Majesty, that bastard might start a revolution even from a Siberian camp!”

No, he couldn’t possibly do that.

I always say that when a country can’t maintain itself properly, communist elements emerge.

But look at Russia now. Look at Europe.

Who maintains order and peace, and how strong are the countries that maintain that order and peace?

“The country has already become prosperous, the people praise the Tsar, and we’ve achieved peace in Europe—who would accept a revolution?”

Definitely not.

It would be fortunate if he doesn’t get beaten up by Anastasia supporters and end up whimpering.

Anyway, that’s the end of Stalin.

“That’s true. But Hitler seems quite pitiful. To think that the Father of the Danube, the Iron Wall Hitler, would massacre Jews and commit suicide.”

The Iron Wall Hitler.

That’s what Hitler is called in this world.

He blocked the French Commune and Communist Germany from above, and Italy and Yugoslavia from below.

A nickname given because he stopped enemies attacking 4 to 1.

Of course, the reason is that he was a competent commander at the time. It was thanks to the support of allied countries. Who else would have persevered so tenaciously in such an encircled situation?

To put it bluntly, if Hitler had surrendered, the Danube would have collapsed completely.

But they won, and intoxicated by that victory, the Danube people united completely. When Communist Germany invaded, Austria (which had been the same people as Germany) and the Sudetenland developed a national consciousness: “We are Danube people, different from those Germans!”

A hero of the century who united the fragmented Austro-Hungarian constituent states and their many ethnicities.

That’s how Hitler became a legend of the Danube.

Isn’t it interesting that such a hero became the Führer of Nazi Germany, killed countless people, and started a war of aggression?

Perhaps this is a unique pleasure that can only be experienced in this era.

“That’s right. But that’s not the important part.”

“Indeed. Hitler took all the blame and went to hell.”

That’s right. Hitler of Nazi Germany took all of that and played the villain, then went to hell.

Of course, personally speaking, considering his relationships with women and his behavior, there are some things deserving of criticism.

“In some sense, he becomes a figure who could be called a hero even by someone like Churchill.”

“Hmm, it does seem a bit sad.”

“Oh? Didn’t you just say it was absurd?”

She’s all over the place. Really going wild.

“I mean when you look at the current Danube Prime Minister. To be honest, even if he killed so many Jews, if he had won the war and conversely the Allied leaders like Churchill or de Gaulle had lost their heads, wouldn’t Hitler have become the conqueror of Europe, a hero? Then, conversely, Hitler really hated Jews. It seems like this would only remain as a dark side.”

While saying something plausible, she defended Nazi Hitler with dangerous statements like “This Nazi Hitler~” and “The good points of Hitler~” etc.

Somehow Alisa gives off a bit of a Hitler vibe, but that must be my imagination? I really want to believe it’s just my imagination.

Well, to be fair, when I look at Hitler from a third-party perspective, I see him differently too.

“You seem quite ambitious yourself.”

“Perhaps, if I were in this actual world in your writing, I might have just gone to America and lived as a libertarian, as Your Majesty said.”

Yes. That’s probably true.

“I wonder how the leaders of each country would react if they saw this.”

“Indeed.”

That would be interesting in its own way.

Still, just to be safe, let’s make it clear to people like Hitler and Churchill that this is just fiction.

And for our teacher Molotov, it wouldn’t be bad to make up an excuse that I downplayed him because he’s too much of a hero in reality.

It would be interesting for these people to know what happens to them in the original history.

Moreover, since I’ve included various national leaders, I should apologize a bit.

I must say that I absolutely didn’t write this with any other intention.

It would be good to send advance copies.

The title of the book should be “World Strategy,” that should work.

# * * *

Danube Federation.

“Hmm, it’s written very specifically and well, though heroes are portrayed as villains, but people like Churchill appear as victors.”

“Hahaha! Hahahaha! Well. The Russian Tsar certainly knows me well.”

“Pardon?”

“I really could have become like this. Honestly, when I was about to go to Russia as a volunteer, I was very disappointed in the German Empire. And truthfully, though I spared them out of consideration for the Tsar, I don’t have very good feelings about Jews.”

But he wasn’t the only one portrayed as a villain.

After Hitler’s death, France committed all sorts of massacres in Algeria, and the Netherlands did the same in Indonesia.

Yes. The Tsar truly sees the world as it is.

If the Tsar hadn’t existed, this world might really have become like that.

Being with that Goebbels fellow is a bit disgusting, but anyway.

Meanwhile, Churchill in London received the book first and made a strange expression.

“No matter how much of a Tsar he is, I wonder if this goes a bit too far.”

“Well, whatever the outcome, the British Empire wins in the end. Ho ho.”

Churchill just laughed happily.

As someone who had managed to salvage public opinion despite being called Mr. Dunkirk and nearly being dragged out by his hair and trampled to death, he didn’t mind his portrayal in the book.

Rather, as an imperialist, he wasn’t bothered since the glory of the British Empire was also described in detail.

Meanwhile, Atatürk felt a chill run down his spine.

He unconsciously touched his neck.

“So this is why he told me to take special care of my health.”

“Then, does this mean the Russian Tsar really saw such a world?”

“He must have seen it. Yes. I should definitely finish the Arabia matter.”

And in Japan.

“Indeed. Indeed. Since I am a hero envied by all, and since one cannot know what might be said if I were to be a hero in the book as well, he has humbled me like this.”

“It seems so.”

“But it’s quite interesting. Here I received the founding medal of the Balhae Federation, but there, Koreans respect me in a different sense. Hmm.”

Today, too, Western Japan was peaceful under the leadership of Renya Mutaguchi.