Ch.437Modern Era: The Age of Grand Anastasia (35)

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So, if I don’t have any female connections from my college days, what are the chances of meeting women in the future?

Does this mean I need to find someone from outside?

“Want me to introduce you to a woman?”

Even if not Maria, couldn’t I pick one of the girls from the Imperial Guard?

Of course, she would still need to be under my supervision.

“No, that’s fine. We just met and you’re already asking if I have a girlfriend or not.”

Seeing him sigh like that, I’m not sure if he’s okay.

Now that I understand his views on women, I get it. But at this rate, isn’t this guy going to live like a eunuch?

Shouldn’t a man born as a man want to experience different women?

That’s what I’m saying—he now has the power to do so.

Ah, maybe it doesn’t matter? This means women don’t catch his eye at all?

If that’s the case, it means he has no choice but to depend on me.

Which means I just need to take responsibility for him.

“Well, I guess there’s no choice. Your big sister will have to observe from the side.”

“What, are you saying you’ll marry me?”

At the sudden mention of marriage, I found myself unconsciously pressing my lips together.

Marriage is out of the question.

Suddenly, Maria’s face flashes in my mind, and the faces of the Kremlin Palace family members rush through my brain.

I don’t know what this means.

“Come on, even a Tsar can’t marry you.”

The Tsar is an absolute being, a saint. Someone no one should dare touch.

If I were to seriously declare marriage or anything like that, the world’s balance would collapse.

It would be like finding out your beloved idol, your worshipped icon, is dating some unknown man and has done all sorts of things. How would that feel?

I’m not just a symbolic Tsar, you know.

“As if.”

“Well, we’re not dating, so maybe eternal friends who are neither this nor that?”

So friends but less than lovers? Something like a flirtation?

I think we could become perfect friends as a man and woman.

“My goodness, the Tsar’s eternal friend. I’m honored.”

Siyun shrugged and smiled.

That smile won’t last long—surprisingly, it will become real later.

* * *

Sendai, Kanto Republic

Sendai in the Kanto Republic was once where an atomic bomb fell, but the city has now been rebuilt.

Sendai was developing brilliantly, initially thanks to Black immigrant settlers.

However, in the current era, existing Black residents, mixed-race people, and some Yamato people were causing disturbances.

It all started very simply.

“Withdraw the Yamato Declaration!”

“Yamato people and we Black people are one!”

“Stop discriminating against mixed-race people!”

“Who do you Yamato people think brought you to where you are today? It’s because Black immigrants came to this devastated land and developed it!”

“America, which burned the entire country claiming they would destroy the Japanese Empire, drove Black people they suspected of being communists to Eastern Japan. Did they help out of goodwill? They were forced to come here and had no choice but to invest to survive! We never discriminated against anyone!”

“Isn’t your attempt to separate and become independent because of racial discrimination?”

“Calling nationalism racial discrimination—you’re truly idiots!”

“When we counter with logic, you can’t say anything, can you? In this age of reason, you cling to emotion?”

A major dispute broke out between the Yamato people and Black residents living in Sendai.

Black protesters got into arguments with passing Yamato pedestrians, and when the Yamato people overwhelmed them with logic, the enraged protesters beat them up.

At this point, under AI Anastasia’s policy, Yamato people in Sendai began to be relocated to separate them from the Black residents, and shortly after, PCs and smartphones stopped working.

“My smartphone isn’t working!”

“I can’t use my computer!”

“This is an AI invasion! AI Anastasia must guarantee human rights!”

“Mini Anachans are filling up the monitors and paralyzing them!”

Emergency measures by Anastasia.

Countless Mini Anastasias forcibly invaded computers and smartphones, paralyzing them.

As a result, whether on mobile phones or smartphones, you could see Mini Anachans plastered all over the screens like wallpaper.

-“The paralysis of PCs and computers is a measure taken out of concern that protests portraying the oppression of Yamato people as racial discrimination might spread throughout the world. Stopping the protests is the first step.”

She stopped computers and smartphones that could become tools for spreading incitement because they were portraying nationalism as racial discrimination and playing the victim.

“Let’s take up arms!”

“AI is also racist!”

At this point, it finally led to riots.

Organizations called Black extremists were born.

Unlike the Yamato Association, which attacks through public opinion rather than taking up arms directly, these groups rose up with weapons in hand.

They carried clubs, attacked government offices, and destroyed servers.

Naturally, such actions could not be forgiven.

“What will change by destroying things like that?”

“How did they end up like this? It’s pitiful.”

The Yamato people found it very distressing.

“Please don’t treat us the same as them.”

Africans drew a clear line between themselves and Eastern Japan.

Why would they be treated the same as those Eastern Japanese Black people who separated hundreds of years ago?

In any case, the city paralysis in Sendai served as a good lesson for the Black residents.

When Yamato people heard about the Sendai city paralysis and the incidents of Yamato people being beaten by excited Black residents, talks of separation and independence began.

“We absolutely cannot live in the same country as those people! Grant us independence!”

“That’s right! How can we coexist with such people?”

“AI Anastasia will hear our desperate cries.”

They strongly insisted that they could never live under the same sky.

Yamato people across the country began to protest for separation and independence.

This was exactly what AI Anastasia had been hoping for.

* * *

I told Maria’s family that I, as a man, have almost no interest in women because of me. When I said that, Maria’s children seemed to be seriously concerned.

“Surely His Majesty, a man, couldn’t be… a eunuch!”

No, that’s not it. He’s not a eunuch yet. It’s unfair, so I’d really appreciate it if you’d stop treating him like one.

Even as a man, wouldn’t I watch adult videos and have time to comfort myself? If you think about it, it’s obvious.

Anyway, wouldn’t he like it if we set him up with a woman?

“Still, wouldn’t he like it if we set him up with a woman?”

“Isn’t sex just an act for pleasure? For love or marriage, you eventually have to choose a woman, right?”

Yes, that’s right. In the end, you have to decide based on qualifications.

You have to carefully consider practical issues, like whether a woman is only marrying for money.

“What should we do about this? What if he becomes someone who doesn’t know women?”

No matter how I look at it, isn’t this my fault?

If he couldn’t meet women during college, he should at least look for them at his workplace.

The AI Anachan Research Institute has an equal ratio of men and women. There might be possibilities if he tries.

Would he develop romantic feelings for a foreigner?

“Hmm, but Your Majesty doesn’t necessarily need to take responsibility.”

“Even so, I didn’t expect things to turn out like this.”

I can’t help but feel a bit worried.

“You are certainly too beautiful, Your Majesty. It’s only natural.”

“It’s very natural for standards to change when Your Majesty is nearby.”

“In the end, it’s because you only spend time with us at the Kremlin Palace.”

Maria’s possessiveness is beyond imagination.

Sometimes the three of them torment me.

Come to think of it, the Marias are practically my lovers.

Didn’t the 1st and 2nd generations, excluding the 3rd, have husbands? Isn’t this a serious betrayal?

But since I’m not particularly interested in men either, and only wanted to create descendants, it doesn’t really matter.

“Well, anyway, won’t Your Majesty be with him?”

“That’s true.”

“Then there shouldn’t be any particular problem, right?”

“I guess so.”

“If he wants to become a sage, is there any need to stop him? He earns good money, so if he gets lonely down there, he’ll find a woman on his own.”

Um, well. I can’t imagine myself doing anything to women with money.

“No, that sounds like a rather vulgar statement. And when I was a man, I did think about marriage once.”

“Is that so?”

“For example, I needed someone to take care of my body when I died.”

“But there’s a possibility your wife might die first, or your children might abandon you—”

It’s from when I was a man anyway, but thinking about it now, it seems terribly sad.

Your wife dies first, you hold the funeral, live alone, and then die without your children knowing.

If that’s the case, in our busy modern society, it might be better to just live alone.

“Hearing such negative futures makes me think it’s better to stay single.”

“In this case, it’s not so bad. To put it bluntly, if you’re with Your Majesty, even if you die, there will always be someone to take care of you.”

“That’s right. I have all of you here. For things like funerals too. I need to think long-term.”

Why do I have to think about these things—why do I feel angry? It’s his fault. If he really cared, he would show some interest even without me doing all this.

There’s no choice. I’ll have to manage him.

Despite appearances, I’m a kind Anachan. I can treat my other half well enough.

* * *

Kanto Republic

In the Kanto Republic, talks of separation and independence were spreading rapidly with each passing day.

Of course, it was about the independence of the Yamato people.

Areas where many Yamato people lived were already at the point of conducting opinion polls on independence.

AI Anastasia seized this moment.

-“Many Yamato people desire separation and independence. We cannot ignore the voices of Yamato people crying out for independence.”

“No way!”

“Eastern Japanese are one—Black, mixed-race, and Yamato people without distinction!”

If they’re one, then stop discriminating.

Yamato people had been discriminated against in many places without even realizing it was discrimination.

Many Black people had mocked the Yamato people.

-“When hatred accumulates, it eventually leads to civil war. We must negotiate through dialogue while compromise is still possible.”

When separation through dialogue and compromise is possible, it must be done.

From the Yamato people’s perspective, having to give up half of Eastern Japan to these newcomers is rather heartbreaking, but there’s no choice.

“That’s why I made the Yamato Declaration, but it went wrong.”

President George, who had formally returned under AI Anachan, was heartbroken by this reality.

He had made the Yamato Declaration to prevent this situation, but it had turned out like this.

Finally, President George rose from his seat to make his final statement.

“Our ancestors were accused of being communists and expelled from America to these islands. However, we tried our best to embrace Japanese culture to blend in with the Yamato people as newcomers, developed this country, and hoped for integration with the Yamato people. I do not wish for the division of our citizens. But there are contradictions in our society. In the end, Black people were just newcomers. Even if we somehow get through this moment, similar incidents will occur in the future. If it’s like this now, there’s no guarantee it won’t happen again. There’s only one solution left: to discuss the separation and independence of Yamato people through a vote.”

“That absolutely cannot happen!”

Black people still refused to acknowledge the separation and independence of Yamato people.

The Yamato people looked coldly at such Black people, and President George continued his speech.

“Black people have vaguely disrespected Yamato people. Yet they oppose the independence of Yamato people because if that happens, Black people would no longer be Eastern Japanese. They lack justification. Now we must give the Yamato people a chance to choose—no, we must return their original rights. I ask the Yamato people: Do you want separation? If so, we must vote. We must consider separation and independence according to the fair voting results under AI Anastasia.”

President George’s choice was to find the best solution until the very end.

Patching up this mess somehow is not necessarily the right thing to do.

If this situation worsens, civil war is inevitable.

This must be decided for the future of Northeast Asia.

“However, I ask everyone to remember one thing. Both Black people and Yamato people must be clear on this point: Black people must acknowledge and reflect on the fact that while they demanded an end to racial discrimination, they did not treat Yamato people equally. And Yamato people should recognize that Black people helped resolve the karma your ancestors received for starting a war.”

And so the voting began.

President George’s final speech resonated deeply with both Black and Yamato people, but after bloodshed had already occurred, it was difficult to change public sentiment.

“The independence of the Yamato people has been achieved!”

It was the moment when Yamato’s independence was realized.