Chapter 88
Chapter 88
Chapter 88
Invasion (8)
Japan responded in a unique way.
-Korea's President, unauthorized intrusion into Japan.
This news was delivered as breaking news. They were pressuring through public opinion.
I was still waiting for the Prime Minister at the ruling party headquarters. I put my smartphone with the news into my pocket and said,
"Interesting."
"Aren't you ashamed of a nation's president throwing such a fit?"
The middle-aged man who first spoke to me said again.
I stared at him intently.
"Did you tell the media?"
"The truth was simply conveyed."
I laughed. Then I picked up my phone again.
"This is what you started. Watch the price you'll pay clearly."
I spoke into the phone.
"Begin. For reference, these guys publicly criticized me."
I hung up like that.
10 minutes later.
Not my phone, but his phone rang.
The expression of the guy who answered the phone turned deathly pale.
-Naval base attack.
He must be hearing that news.
The Navy is Japan's pride. However, that's the story when they're out at sea.
"What are you doing?"
He shouted looking at me.
"Why? What's wrong?"
"Are you trying to start a war right now?"
At his question, I stood up from the sofa. Then I smiled cruelly.
"That's what I want. Then I can sweep away all the guys here."
I spoke so that everyone could clearly hear.
"That's also the Heavenly Demon's way."
Watching them tremble, I sat back on the sofa.
"30 minutes. Last chance. If the Prime Minister isn't sitting in front of me within that time, I'll really declare war on you."
I pressed the button on my phone again.
-Yes, Cult Leader.
It was Jimun Seo-saeng's voice.
"Prepare a declaration of war against Japan."
-Understood.
"If I don't instruct you to stop within 30 minutes, just announce it."
-I'll prepare it.
War doesn't happen easily. This is what the whole world believes.
But war inevitably happens. This is also a fact.
"You have 30 minutes left to live."
After that, no one said anything.
When 20 minutes had passed, someone hurriedly entered the party headquarters.
It was the Japanese Prime Minister.
He seemed to have heard all the reports and sat urgently in front of me. However, he didn't open his mouth first.
So I spoke first.
"You're meeting me even though it's an unauthorized intrusion?"
At my words, the Japanese Prime Minister hurriedly remedied the situation.
"Release a correction article."
The young man beside him hurriedly picked up his phone and turned around.
"What brings you here?"
"The Heavenly Demon wants to meet, how dare you refuse?"
"That's..."
Kwang!
I struck the table.
Not only the table but a huge hole appeared in the floor.
"Someone like you dared to refuse the Heavenly Demon?"
This time I stomped my foot.
Clear cracks appeared in the building's floor.
I didn't stop there and gathered my internal energy in my abdomen to unleash a Lion's Roar.
"How dare you!"
Jjjeong!
The building's windows shattered, and blood flowed from the ears of those nearby.
The cracked floor couldn't withstand it and collapsed downward.
The moment I fell, I grabbed the Prime Minister's neck and went outside the building. Then I took him to the rooftop of the tallest building nearby.
Kung!
I threw the Prime Minister carelessly onto the rooftop.
No one would have seen the Prime Minister being dragged here.
"9 minutes left until the declaration of war."
"That would be despair for both sides..."
"Only Japan will despair. The war will end within 24 hours."
Then, the Prime Minister's phone rang. And a report he didn't want to believe came through.
-Two naval bases have been completely annihilated.
The Prime Minister looked at me with trembling eyes.
"What do you want?"
"Originally I was just going to put Japan under the Heavenly Demon Cult's influence."
"If you give us time, we can work toward a favorable..."
"Now I've changed my mind. I got annoyed being refused a meeting, and when I came directly, I even got criticized, so I became displeased."
I sat down in front of the fallen guy.
"Don't you think a guy called President is being too self-centered?"
I grabbed the Prime Minister's chin.
"That's how the Heavenly Demon originally is."
"There was a mistake in policy decision-making. If we convene a meeting, we can sufficiently convince..."
"7 minutes left. War starts in 7 minutes. I'll start by killing you."
I picked up my phone.
-Yes, Cult Leader.
"I've secured the Prime Minister. If I declare war, I'll kill him immediately, so understand that."
-Understood. Currently, the US military is withdrawing from Japan. They will not get involved in the war.
"Tell them to get involved if they want to die. I'm extremely irritated right now."
-What will you do about civilian attacks?
"Tokyo, Osaka. I authorize civilian killings in those two areas. Just destroy them. It will be a symbol that Japan has disappeared."
The Prime Minister was so shocked his mouth just gaped.
I hung up the phone and looked at him.
"Why? You want to solve this politically but I'm not doing politics with you, so you don't know what to do?"
Time kept flowing.
Sirens rang from below the building, and people looking for the Prime Minister busily ran through the streets.
"6 minutes left."
"I, I want to negotiate."
"I don't want to."
"I'll recognize the Heavenly Demon Cult as Japan's official security force."
"I said I don't want to."
I sneered at him and continued speaking.
"You don't understand. I want to wage war. I didn't originally, but you guys made me want to wage war."
"If that happens, many Koreans will die too."
"So what?"
I asked back in a dry voice.
At these words, the Prime Minister seemed to have completely lost his mind.
"Japan will disappear from history. 5 minutes left until that time."
The Prime Minister's phone rang again.
I snatched it before he could answer. Then I crushed it in my grip.
"Don't contact anyone. I want to wage war."
The guy lay on the floor rolling his eyes.
This is what a person looks like when desperately thinking.
"Please tell me the method."
These were the words that came out after long deliberation.
"You have to think of the method. A method pleasant enough for me to stop the war. 4 minutes left."
"If you just maintain Japan's lifeline, I'll do anything I can."
In the end, he chose meaning.
"Good, then I'll give you one last chance. If you agree to this proposal, the war will be as if it never happened. But if you refuse, the war starts immediately. There won't be a second chance."
He had a tense expression. He must be praying desperately inside.
But we both know how miserably that expectation will be shattered.
I looked into his eyes and spoke with force.
"A new person will enter the Liberal Democratic Party. And he will become the party leader, and the Prime Minister position will also be given to him."
There's no problem according to the Japanese constitution.
The Prime Minister is decided through a meeting of the ruling party and can be replaced midway.
However, there's one obstacle.
"If he's not Japanese..."
"He's Japanese."
The Heavenly Demon Cult has various nationalities. Among them were Japanese people too.
Specifically, Hundred Tiger Ghost.
His Japanese name was Nabe.
"3 minutes left."
The Prime Minister had an expression of entering hell.
They all know.
"Either become like China."
They clearly know how the Chinese President was exploited and how much damage was incurred in that process.
It's just classified as confidential and not disclosed to the public, but every country with satellites knows this fact.
Compared to China, Japan is easy.
The Japanese Prime Minister knows this too.
"2 minutes left."
The final pressure.
It's not certain whether he'll surrender. It's because we haven't exercised as much actual military force as in China.
More than anything, the reason this probability decreases is the history between Japan and Korea.
-Japan and Korea absolutely refuse to lose to each other.
There's a history of a strange rivalry relationship.
The reason they negotiated with other groups first to avoid the Heavenly Demon Cult was also because of this public opinion.
-We can never bow our heads to Korea.
This situation occurred because I'm Korea's President.
'They're holding out to the end.'
The Prime Minister didn't answer until the end.
'I'll have to go to war.'
I didn't really think it would go all the way to war either. The Prime Minister still didn't open his mouth.
Then, the rooftop door burst open. And a sweat-soaked middle-aged man in his 50s shouted.
"The Magic Guild and Ehwa Palace have withdrawn!"
What they believed in was revealed.
They believed in Ehwa Palace and the Magic Guild.
But they don't want a fight with the Heavenly Demon Cult.
"Now, what will you believe in? 1 minute left."
The Prime Minister said with a despairing expression.
"Crazy bastard."
Unexpected words.
Tang.
A gunshot rang out. And he collapsed.
He shot himself in the stomach.
In the end, he didn't accept it.
He was also Japanese, and it seemed he couldn't kneel before a Korean President.
I snapped my fingers. The head of the guy who opened the rooftop door exploded.
I picked up my phone.
"Jimun Seo-saeng, you heard everything?"
-Yes. Will you declare war?
"Postpone it by three days. I need to do preliminary work."
-Is it an operation to minimize Korea's damage?
"I'm still nominally the President. I can't kill the citizens."
-I will do so.
Jimun Seo-saeng answered in a satisfied tone.
"Contact America and find out all of Japan's military facilities."
Japan is in a situation where it reports all military facilities to America. We can find out even the smallest unit.
Following Jimun Seo-saeng, I contacted So Iryeon.
"So Iryeon, start the operation."
The full-scale operation to bring down Japan began.
The first thing to handle was the naval bases.
Japan's military power is concentrated in the Navy.
In fact, if Japan doesn't receive US support and the Navy is paralyzed, it can't beat Korea's military power.
-All the keys are in the Japanese Navy.
It's not an exaggeration to say it's only the Navy.
This is the result created by Japan's position of not being able to possess medium- and long-range missiles.
They possess excellent air force capabilities, but these too have nowhere to go if the Navy collapses.
"Jimun Seo-saeng, prepare missile strikes. So we can fire immediately upon declaring war."
From now, three days.
This is the time remaining until Japan falls.
The Japanese Navy urgently dispatched warships to sea. Because they'll be attacked if they stay at the base.
This was quite an excellent response.
That doesn't mean there was no damage.
The naval bases became even easier to capture because the warships and personnel had left.
However, there was one place that set a trap.
This trap was quite dangerous.
When the Hundred White Blood Corps recklessly went on the attack, Cheong Ak-sal, who judged something was strange, hurriedly ordered a retreat.
And immediately the entire naval base was engulfed in a tremendous explosion. It was an impact like missiles had fallen.
The naval base disappeared without a trace, and even the surrounding military areas caught fire.
It could end at this level because the Hundred White Blood Corps somewhat anticipated it and first bombarded with magic from a distance.
If Cheong Ak-sal hadn't discovered this, it could have been a situation where the Hundred White Blood Corps might have been completely annihilated.
They resisted us to the point of completely blowing up one naval base.
Hearing that news, I hurriedly went to them. Fortunately, there were no injured.
'You want to go to the end?'
I had to change the operation. Recklessly attacking like this wasn't the way.
"From now on, the Hundred White Blood Corps will destroy major facilities of the Japanese government. Especially facilities and people related to the Self-Defense Forces should be dealt with without question. Since there might be more bombs, fire magic first before going in."
I gave the Hundred White Blood Corps a somewhat safer mission.
If government facilities collapse and figures related to the military start dying, the damage won't be insignificant.
I handed over the information received from America to Hundred Tiger Ghost.
"Contact Jimun Seo-saeng and receive target designations."
"Yes!"
The Hundred White Blood Corps immediately left.
"So Iryeon and Cheong Ak-sal attack the air bases."
They also changed their targets.
Air bases are threatening opponents when the Korean Army arrives. If we deal with this in advance too, we can reduce the Korean military's casualties.
"I'll handle the naval bases alone."
It can't be helped even if it takes time.
The Protectors had worried expressions, but I gave the order firmly.
"Move."
Everyone scattered toward their targets.
After they all disappeared, I also checked the next target.
"Tsk, if only the Witch was here."
If the Witch were here, their traps like this would be useless. Because long-range strikes are possible.
"Still, you need your older sister, right?"
I turned my head at the suddenly heard voice.
The Witch was standing there with a satisfied smile.