Chapter 522: Juyoung Hong (49) |
Prime Minister Abezo also recalled his grandfather's will.
[Never give up on Korea. Even if you cede everything to the Allied Forces, you should keep Korea. That's how Japan lives. Korea and Japan are like oil and vinegar. As Japan grows, Korea declines. Conversely, when Korea grows, Japan declines. In other words, we must keep Korea at bay, monitor them, and suppress them to hold back their economic growth. Over time, we must completely assimilate it into Japan. That is how Japan can survive.]
In the end, Japan had no choice but to give up Korea as a result of their defeat.
Since then, Prime Minister Abe has never forgotten his grandfather's will.
In fact, when Korea was devastated because of the Korean War, Japan experienced rapid economic growth. Later when Korea showed big economic growth, Japan's economy slid into recession.
So Prime Minister Abezo made it his top priority to revise the current Peace Constitution that stipulated that Japan should neither wage war nor possess an army.
Clearly, Korea was still among the highest war-risk countries. Japan would be forced to intervene if something like a war or a major conflict between the two parts of Korea broke out. Actually, that would be an opportunity for Japan to annex Korea like they did in the early 20th century.
'But I… I was too narrow-minded because my opponent is Korea!'
He was not unaware of the outside criticism that he was so submissive to the United States like a dog wagging its tail to his master. Even though he knew it, he kept wagging his tail to America because he wanted to make America side with Japan if it was forced to choose between them and Korea.
What's more, there emerged a Korean superman who made his great dream come to nothing.
"What the hell did I do?" Prime Minister Abezo uttered in frustration.
At the same time, he shouted, "Tell Chief of Staff Yamamoto to withdraw all the fleet! Retreat!"
Japan has built the current naval fleet by investing a huge amount of money and time, so he could not lose even one battleship.
At Prime Minister Abezo's order, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kono picked up the phone.
"Yes, I'll convey your order right away!"
He then called the Defense Secretary's office.
Shortly afterwards, his chief secretary told him, "We've received the report that they can't turn back immediately because there are so many battleships mobilized in one area on the sea. Of course, they've said they are going to retreat as quickly as possible at your order."
"Tell them to hurry up."
"Yes, understood!"
Prime Minister Abezo gave such an order because he also knew that they could not retreat in a hurry because of their close formation in the area.
At the same time, the prime minister muttered in a low voice, "I wonder if we can stop the typhoon even now."
Obviously, he was just asking it to himself.
But somebody in the corner of his office replied, "No, that's impossible."
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The waters off the coast of Tokyo were quite a distance away from the prime minister's office, but that did not pose a problem to me at all. Using Blink with zero cooldown, I moved to the prime minister's office to confirm how wrong his choice to mobilize the navy fleet was.
As soon as I arrived, I saw them hurriedly retreating after the prime minister gave the order to withdraw. And I saw the prime minister toying with hope against hope that he could stop the typhoon even now.
But it was too late. He should have made the decision to forfeit early on.
So I answered the prime minister's question by saying, "No, it's impossible!"
"!!!"
"!!!"
"!!!"
No wonder not only Prime Minister Abezo, but everyone in the prime minister's office turned their heads to me, startled by my reply.
But I ignored them, and continued, "You don't think this is the ring where the referee rules, right? Oh, it doesn't matter even if you think that way because the referee's ruling doesn't affect me at all."
Even when I was talking with them, the typhoon, accompanied by ice and gusts of wind as seen on the screen installed on one side of the prime minister's office, kept advancing.
The Japanese naval battleships, which were in the thick of retreating in a hurry, were directly in the path of the typhoon.
Watching that, the prime minister uttered desperately, "Damn, it's really a waste of the tens of billions of yen that we spent on them!"
Obviously, they would incur more than tens of trillions of yen in losses.
The huge fleet of naval battleships were shaking more violently than before.
At that moment, Prime Minister Abezo shouted urgently, "Let me surrender! Surrender!"
But I didn't respond right away to his mention of 'surrender.'
Why? Because he decided to surrender with great reluctance after he belatedly found out that he could not beat me. And this kind of half-hearted surrender would definitely cause trouble later.
So did I accept his surrender and stop the typhoon?
Given his cunning personality, Prime Minister Abezo would obviously regard me as a coward, and his wrong judgment would cause larger problems later. When that happened, I would have no choice but to sink half of this island country.
So I said in a low voice at his words, "It's already too late."
Startled, the prime minister shouted, "There are a lot of Japanese people on that ships! I don't think you're planning on burying all those innocent people in the sea, right?"
"So why did you let such a situation develop when you already knew that? You already witnessed my capabilities with your own eyes. Moreover, it took about a week for the huge typhoon created in the North Pacific to reach the sea off Japan. I gave you enough time, but you even refused my minimal consideration!"
"…"
Prime Minister Abezo didn't respond as if he was speechless.
At that moment, a scene that was so terrible in his eyes was displayed on the screen installed in the corner of his office.
Puck! Puck! Puck! Puck!
Ice chunks the size of a human body pounded the giant battleships relentlessly.
Generally speaking, ice chunks could not break metal, but the ice chunks I created were not ordinary ice.
Crunch! Bang! Bang!
The decks of the battleships had holes here and there after being hit hard by the big ice chunks.
Even the missile launchers installed on the deck were also shattered to pieces by the ice.
That was nothing, compared with what was to come.
My ice didn't just fall from the top due to the gust of a typhoon. Instead, they buffeted the ship from all direction.
As the ice chunks hit the side of the ships, huge holes were created instantly, through which seawater more than a few meters high began to flow into.
No wonder the damaged battleships began to sink one by one.
It was literally hell.
The prime minister was witnessing the tragic sinking of the battleships with numerous crew on board.