Ch.429Modern Era: The Age of Grand Anastasia (27)

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“I understand.”

Since there are U.S. occupation forces anyway, there won’t be any bloodshed.

Meanwhile, the situation in East Japan was deteriorating more seriously than expected.

For half a year now, anti-Black sentiment that had been trapped under thin ice emerged from the hearts of the Yamato people. The Black population was angry too.

After all, these Yamato people had sown division and ultimately torn the Kanto Republic apart.

The country their ancestors had built! They implemented strange policies and eventually took independent actions.

“We built this country! We cannot leave, and the Yamato people are one with us!”

“If you truly dislike us, you Yamato people should get out to West Japan!”

“The Kanto Republic belongs only to us!”

“Damn black bastards! We won’t let this slide!”

Protest groups and civic organizations were fighting in earnest, and racial discrimination incidents frequently occurred on the streets.

The fighting between civic groups continued. And around this time…

Mini Anastasia, who had been busily running around Anastasia World, finally got an opportunity to enter East Japan.

“I’ll infiltrate super kawaii-style, okay?”

“Aaaagh! All the security programs have been destroyed!”

Today too, Mini Ana-chan was purifying the world.

The United States, focused on accelerating their spacecraft development after hearing about our Nicholas V, couldn’t pay attention to Japan.

According to what I heard through the Okhrana, American intelligence agencies seemed to be working behind the scenes to extract information from us.

But most of the core technology is held by AI Ana-chan.

No matter how much they want to build it, they probably can’t. So no matter how hard they try, it’s useless.

“Has another crisis erupted in America?”

“It seems they haven’t been able to update their Aegis system.”

“Public safety in East Japan is deteriorating. This is serious.”

That makes sense. The Yamato people have socially declared independence.

With this, systems like the police can’t function properly due to internal friction between Black people and Yamato people, though it seems the Yamato people will handle things well enough on their own.

“Mini Ana-chan has rendered East Japan’s Aegis system completely inoperable.”

Mini Ana-chan took down East Japan’s Aegis system?

“Huh? What did America say about this?”

“They only made a small protest.”

A small protest? America? Why? They should be foaming at the mouth and throwing a fit.

Oh, of course, regardless of what Mini Ana-chan did, I have no intention of advancing into East Japan.

This is an issue for the Co-Prosperity Sphere to decide, and even the Co-Prosperity Sphere wouldn’t fight against the U.S. occupation forces.

America knows this too, which is why they couldn’t do anything beyond a small protest.

“East Japan has truly become pitiful, however it ended up that way.”

“Here is our investigation into the history between Black people and Yamato people in East Japan.”

I brought up the hologram of what our AI Ana-chan had investigated about East Japan.

I used to hold the country of Japan from the original world in quite high regard.

How could a defeated nation achieve such significant prosperity just from the war economy of a neighboring country’s conflict?

No matter how much money you earn, without will, there’s no possibility.

Look at Afghanistan—despite consuming so much American money, they couldn’t develop their country due to corruption, only lining their back pockets before being consumed by the Taliban.

Even if the Korean War’s economic benefits helped Japan, if Japan had been some uncivilized, primitive tribal society somewhere, they couldn’t have achieved prosperity.

Korea also achieved the Miracle on the Han River. In that respect, I hold both Japan and my former country Korea in high regard.

However, the current East Japan, split in half and shared with Black people, has no such history. While it developed with American capital and has a relatively high national power ranking, it’s all thanks to America, because the Black population brought in all the American capital.

West Japan also receives help from the Co-Prosperity Sphere-Roman Treaty, but anyway. Setting aside West Japan, East Japan lacks the original world’s foundation and is overshadowed by the Black population.

On the surface, it appears the Yamato Association has accepted the government’s proposal, but it seems the Yamato Association is hoping the Black population will make aggressive moves first.

By staying still, they’re already halfway to victory.

East Japan is already broken.

Though it maintains the appearance of a country now, once something major erupts, it will collapse.

That’s inevitable given its system.

To put it bluntly, would things resolve so easily just because South Africa laid some groundwork?

No. Eventually, the dormant anger erupted.

In the relationship between post-war Black immigrants and indigenous Yamato people, the power dynamic was clearly established.

When the yen became worthless paper, dollars began circulating, and just as the ancestors of Black people worked in cotton fields and were subjugated by their masters, Yamato people were subjugated by Black landowners.

A repetition of evil practices.

‘Be grateful to us for giving this much luxury to a criminal nation.’

Black people thoroughly exploited Japanese people while paying them pittance wages, and continued to exploit them.

A Japanese communist—I don’t even remember his name now—but a communist official left behind a quote of what his master said before he died.

And when the Yamato people, who had regained some stability after the post-war chaos, came to their senses, they unleashed their anger toward the Black people who had oppressed them.

Conveniently forgetting that those same people had fed them.

That accumulated anger had merely been concealed until now due to East Japan’s national face and the Japanese people’s habits.

Eventually, this had to explode.

A state where the slightest touch could trigger an explosion. This wasn’t just a simple prediction but the current situation in the Kanto Republic.

There’s much talk about how the younger generation of Yamato people is lethargic and doesn’t work properly. But even this social problem is related to the Black population.

In any profession, if the superior was Black, Yamato people would work half-heartedly and then quit.

It seems the Black population is also strongly resisting the currently passive Yamato people, not wanting to give up their privileges in Japan.

That’s roughly the content of the report.

“It has become pitiful. Humans are beings that cannot exist without conflict.”

“Yeah. Humans are inevitably like that. That’s why throughout thousands of years of history, countless nations have appeared and disappeared, accompanied by corruption.”

There is absolutely no perfect nation. One must arm oneself with new ideologies appropriate for the times.

Stagnation leads to rot; humans are ultimately evil by nature.

As evidence, haven’t countless nations appeared in history only to rot, decay, and perish?

This is an unavoidable reality.

“It’s our fault though.”

“No, it’s entirely South Africa’s fault.”

It’s not our fault. It’s the fault of overly loyal South Africa, and we knew nothing about it.

Shouldn’t we gradually withdraw South Africa?

If America is starting a space race, they’ll withdraw from Japan, but they’ll help the Kanto Republic at least covertly.

If so, they’ll at least try to prevent internal instigation.

South Africa will eventually be caught.

The instigation in East Japan has been too effective, and it seems like a major conflict will erupt. This will only cause trouble for South Africa.

It’s time to withdraw.

“Let’s convene the Duma.”

“Yes, understood.”

The Duma’s influence has been greatly reduced with the emergence of AI Ana-chan, but it still had a strong voice in the Roman Treaty when it came to policy decisions limited to Russia.

Prime Minister Navaldi convened the State Duma at my summons.

“What does the Duma think about this East Japan situation?”

The Duma members stirred at my words.

It was a rare summons, and they probably didn’t expect the Tsar to bring up Far Eastern affairs.

“The East Japanese are truly foolish. They should be joining forces when they’re already lacking, yet they’re fighting because of racial differences.”

This was a statement from an Asian member.

That’s right, Russia is also a multi-ethnic nation. We have Asian people mixed in.

The difference from the Kanto Republic is that in Russia, even if their heads were cracked open, it would be “Ana-chan!” In the first place, they didn’t come over semi-forcibly through immigration policies like the Black people in East Japan. They have divine worship solely for me.

And that only intensifies the longer I don’t die.

Living as citizens of a country where a saint exists. How joyful that is.

But East Japan is a country without foundation from the beginning.

It started with the U.S. military government, which established a puppet government that continues to this day.

In such a situation, it would be strange if things went well. When there’s no foundation from the start, things don’t last long.

Yes, just like Korea in my previous life. Although the circumstances were different, we couldn’t achieve independence on our own, and the country was divided by the Soviet Union and the United States, becoming North and South Korea.

The regime changed countless times, creating political chaos, and amid all that, a nuclear war broke out.

Compared to that, East Japan is better off, but the internal racial conflict will continue for a while.

At least West Japan had Renya Mutaguchi who properly established himself.

“It’s a pitiful situation. Really.”

Though I’m the one who caused it.

I have no intention of helping, nor can I help, and there’s no way to help.

If they were truly a mixed-race population, it might be different. Yes, now that we’ve achieved our goal, withdrawing might be the way.

“South Africa is behind this incident. South Africa needs to withdraw.”

The Duma fell into silence at my statement.

If all this started from South Africa, then the chaos in East Japan was ultimately caused by us.

“South Africa should withdraw?”

“Yes. A long tail gets caught.”

We only need to focus on space matters, so why extend our tail and risk getting stepped on?

We should withdraw smoothly, as if we just discovered this.

I think I’m handling this quite intelligently.

“Is South Africa behind this incident?”

“Yes. Why are you so surprised?”

Hasn’t the Duma investigated this at all?

The Duma is certainly an organization that must be acknowledged for its laziness.

“Did Your Majesty order this? Our policy is that we shouldn’t provoke America right now.”

“I didn’t provoke anything.”

Anyone listening would think I’m really a troublemaker. It’s unfair.

“Your Majesty, I apologize for my rudeness. What I meant was, if South Africa acted alone, we might need to grant them independence due to our relationship with America.”

Navaldi quickly corrected his statement, suggesting we should grant South Africa independence?

It seems we need to go that far if we’re cutting ties.

“Is that how it works?”

Yes, America is currently like an active volcano.

If we provoke them even slightly, they’ll go berserk against the Roman Treaty.

Of course, America is the hegemon after us, but strictly speaking, in terms of national power, the Roman Treaty is much stronger.

Though we’re cooperating behind the scenes, what they’ve recently suffered from us is significant.

And even in space technology, South America isn’t behind America.

That’s all fine. But it doesn’t make sense that the Duma didn’t know about this.

“Japanese people from South Africa did this to liberate Japan. The Duma didn’t know?”

Did they really not know?

“We received no notification from the Roman Treaty side.”

“So South Africa completely deceived us.”

If the Japanese in South Africa are mainly from East Japan, honestly, I don’t think it would end just like this. If only we know about this, did South Africa deliberately plan this?

This will make it difficult when America deliberately tries to find out.

We need to portray South America in a positive light.

As I said, we knew nothing. It wasn’t instigation but something done personally, and a country that collapses from just that is at fault.

Let’s establish this justification and, because we feel sorry, bring in Yamato people who want to emigrate from East Japan.

In other words, we should take the initiative.

First, we’ll reveal what we did. We’ll say it was the atrocities committed by some nationalists from South Africa in East Japan.

So, although it can’t be called compensation, we’ll help Yamato people from East Japan immigrate to South Africa.

This way, it will be easier for Yamato people to integrate.

They claimed rights because they were indigenous, but Yamato people who come to South Africa are different.

We can formally grant them privileges.

This way, we can at least initially avoid division within East Japan.