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Japan has completely lost the possibility of being a chess player and has become a chessboard in the game between major powers.
The Tokyo district is pro-Kyushu, but there are many pro-European and American districts in other parts of Japan - no one can deny that assassination is really useful.
If Japan follows the trend, given its position, even if it is not biased towards Kyushu, the only option left for it is Russia. Russia has a vast territory and a sparse population, and its people are tough and fearless of death. It also suffered relatively small losses in the gastrula war.
Geographically, Russia is closer to Japan, so if Japan is attacked by protostomes, Russia can at least lend a hand.
But that is looking at the issue from the perspective of Japan's interests. From a personal perspective, if the United States extends an olive branch and bullets, everyone knows what to do.
Even if they don't understand, if the Americans assassinate one leader, the next one will understand.
Assassinating a leader shouldn't be that easy, but before the Gastroenteritis War, there were too many pro-Rice factions in Japan to guard against.
The reason why the Tokyo district leans towards Kyushu is entirely because Tendo Kikunosho holds great power and has superb family-inherited ancient martial arts.
A martial arts master is no match for a rain of bullets, but trying to assassinate him is also a dream. A knife cannot cut through a rain of bullets, but it is not difficult to cut through bullets in this world.
In ten years, the Holy Emperor died twice, but the Tokyo District's pro-Kyushu attitude remained unchanged.
The Holy Emperor smiled bitterly and said, "It is precisely because of the death of the previous two Holy Emperors that I, who have just ascended to the throne, do not have enough prestige, and Your Excellency Tiantong is getting older and older that I have been treated as a cursed child."
"The cursed children have many talents beyond human ability. In the world ten years from now, the cursed children will be a force that cannot be underestimated. I propose to enact the "New Law on Protocolon Animals" and I think it will gain the support of the children."
Su Qing: "..."
He really hadn't expected that these people who were not living a good life could actually do such a thing.
It's disgusting. It's disgusting.
Su Qing took a deep breath and said slowly: "So, you are atonement?"
The Holy Emperor nodded and said, "My ancestors had long felt that America would not let her live for too long, so they suppressed the treatment of the Cursed Children together with His Excellency Tiantong and secretly guided the trend in order to pave the way for me and allow me to gain the capital to establish myself in the future."
"Including the 'New Law of Protocolata'. That was when Lord Tendo thought that I could help the Cursed Children, but it couldn't be done all at once. Doing it several times would make the children of Tokyo more loyal."
The Holy Emperor herself resisted this kind of thing. After taking the throne, what she should do most is to consolidate her position, such as replacing her incompetent captain of the personal guard.
But she was completely focused on improving the treatment of the cursed children, and also meant to forgive sins - although the treatment of the cursed children was not caused by her, those who caused the treatment of the cursed children were all for her.
She has no choice but to take the blame for this.
But her resistance was useless. Tendo Kikunosuke was not a man who was easy to talk to. There was a kind of loyalty that I felt was loyalty.
I think I'm doing this for your own good. I believe that if you, Holy Emperor, slowly show kindness to the cursed children, you will be able to gain more support from the children.
Even if you, the Holy Emperor, order me, I will pretend I didn't hear you.
Even if he died and faced his ancestors, Tendou Kikunosuke would dare to say that he was loyal. He would even feel that he was unworthy of his ancestors and the previous deceased Holy Emperors by allowing the Holy Emperor to pass the new gastrula law too quickly and misusing the chips in his hands.
An old Japanese tradition.
Su Qing knocked on the table and asked, "I heard that Tendou Kikunojo's wife died in the mouth of the protogastric animal, so he hated the cursed children, which led to the treatment of the cursed children in Tokyo?"
The Holy Emperor's heart skipped a beat and he thought, it's coming.
Her original intention, of course, was to explain to Su Qing that there were reasons for Tokyo's current situation.
Because of Su Qing's appearance and the change in Su Qing's expression after hearing about the situation of Kyushu's cursed child, she emphasized that the Tokyo District had sided with Kyushu.
She made no secret of the fate of the cursed children on the island, but it was not to tell Su Qing that Tokyo was hopelessly rotten or to let Su Qing raze Tokyo to the ground.
First I'll tell you in detail how bad Tokyo is. After listening to what's said later and making a comparison, you'll feel that the Tokyo area isn't that bad after all.
The Holy Emperor shook his head slightly and said to Su Qing: "That is just a reason to suppress the Cursed Child. Your Excellency Tiantong does not hate the Cursed Child."
"How can you hate the weapon but not the murderer?"
The Holy Emperor thought to himself, I would rather die than let my friend die, you are the worst brother, now it’s your turn to take the blame for Tokyo.
"The real murderer who caused the death of Lord Tendo's wife was the force that developed the protozoan virus and released it to the outside world."
The Holy Emperor pointed downwards, meaning the other side of the earth: "It is for this reason that Lord Tiantong and his predecessors have single-mindedly turned to Kyushu and have no intention of compromising with the United States."
The Holy Emperor thought to himself, our Tokyo is in a bad enough state now. If you are angry about this, why don’t you go to Earth and vent your anger?
That side is the worst.
They were indeed much faster than us in Tokyo in legislating for the Cursed Child, but they were the ones who created the Evovirus, so they are the real culprits.
Chapter 19: Injustice
Su Qing was not surprised at all when the Holy Emperor said that America had created the enterovirus.
Who in the world is the best at this? If you think about it this way, you will have the answer.
He thought he could remain calm, but after the Holy Emperor confirmed the matter, Su Qing still couldn't remain calm and became increasingly angry.
The Holy Emperor observed Su Qing's expression and thought there was hope.
The poor treatment of the cursed children in the Tokyo district is of course due to many factors, but Tokyo is not the main factor.
The Holy Emperor said: "Soon after the protogastric animals appeared, with America as the core, they united with Europe to form an international supervisory organization for the initiators. The cursed children and the police formed a team to fight against the protogastric animals."
"This organization is the only one that dominates because it provides the potion that suppresses the erosion rate of the Cursed Children... and to this day, we in Tokyo are unable to produce the inhibitor ourselves."
The Holy Emperor shrugged his shoulders. After the gastrula war, the top levels of the various forces still had lines to communicate with each other, but the lower levels were not connected to the Internet with other areas, and the cross-regional network cables had long been broken by the gastrula animals.
In the past, when people could browse foreign websites at will, the lower classes would have been angry.
When the enterovirus broke out, did you come up with a specific medicine quickly?
Can you cover it up a little bit?
But after the outbreak of the protozoan virus, these people are fearless. Even if you at the bottom know about it, can you cross the wilderness full of protozoa to force me to step down?
Even before the emergence of the protostomes, it was only the president who was forced to step down. I have never heard of a chaebol leader being forced to step down.
The Holy Emperor said: "The poor treatment of the cursed children in Tokyo is largely due to the poor combat power of the cursed children. Because Tokyo is leaning towards Kyushu, the International Initiator Supervision Agency has arranged for the cursed children with weaker qualifications to be sent to Tokyo. The children with slightly higher qualifications have been plundered to Europe and the United States."
"But Tokyo District can only accept such an agreement."
"The more the Cursed Child fights, the faster the erosion rate increases. If you want to use the Cursed Child as a fighting force, you can only follow the rules of the West."
Su Qing frowned slightly. This was a misunderstanding that he had overlooked.
The issue of the erosion rate of the cursed children was mentioned very early in the original work. The erosion rate of the original heroine, Enju Aihara, was ridiculously high, as if the children's lives were not long.
But think about it carefully, didn't those children who lived in underground drainage pipes and probably didn't even have household registration also live for ten years?
No one should give these children long-term injections of inhibitors.
What if the kids don’t fight but are given suppressants?
Not to mention more, the lifespan can be at least more than 20 years.
Moreover, the longer time goes by, the more in-depth human research on protocol viruses will be. Since protocol genes can be inhibited and inhibitors can be popularized, what will happen in ten years?
Even if the children still face the problem of alienation when the erosion rate reaches 50, if the average lifespan of the cursed children can be more than 30 years or even more than 40 years... then the cursed children can at most be described as sad, but not miserable.
This world is in a doomsday context, and ordinary people don't have an easy life either. They may die in the mouths of protostomes at any time. There are too many things to be sad about, and a lifespan of only thirty or forty years doesn't even count.
Just consider it as a premature death, what else can we not be satisfied with? In the current situation of the world, is it safe for the army to fight against the protozoa? Is it safe for the police to maintain order in the city?
The average life expectancy of the younger generation who take the initiative to join the army may not be longer than that of the cursed children.
Su Qing admitted that he was almost moved by the Holy Emperor.
He also knew that the Holy Emperor was avoiding the main issue, but the problem was that compared to those culprits, this matter in Tokyo seemed really insignificant.
The entire population of Tokyo is not behaving like human beings and is discriminating against the cursed children. At least they have made their attitude towards the cursed children clear.
What about those people?
I have the medicine in my hand that can inhibit the enterovirus, but I won't give it to you.
Anyone who wants it must join the International Starter Watchdog and fight the gastrulae.
But fighting will cause injuries, and the gastrula genes in the children's bodies will repair the injuries, and the children's erosion rate will increase.
Even if they are not injured, children will always use their special advantages that surpass ordinary people in battle. As time goes by, they will lose them and the erosion rate will slowly increase.
Children who take inhibitors may not even survive longer than they would without the drugs.
Following this line of thought, Su Qing suddenly understood why the Tokyo district in the original novel didn't even have a powerful cursed child - because Tokyo and the supervisory agency couldn't get along.
The supervisory agency provides inhibitors for some of the cursed children in Tokyo, but whenever a highly qualified cursed child is discovered, it will be taken away and not left in Tokyo.
The fighting power of the Cursed Children is getting worse and worse, so much so that Tokyo increasingly looks down on the Cursed Children.
Su Qing remembered that there was a very funny scene in the original book.
Tokyo's stone monument was eroded, and the protostomes Aldebaran led a large number of protostomes to invade Tokyo. Tokyo urgently summoned civilian police and cursed children.
The army of police officers and cursed children were confronted at the meeting.
Tokyo is protected by our Self-Defense Forces, so we don't need you lowly people - the Self-Defense Forces said so and did so, placing the Civilian Police Corps behind the front line, where they can't even provide support to the front line.
The Self-Defense Forces themselves faced off against the gastrula and suffered a losing battle.
The gastrulae routed the JSDF, infecting a number of its members in the process, a significant number of them.
When watching the anime for the first time, Su Qing even laughed, thinking to himself, who are you? You don’t even know your own weight. You are a complete waste, a brainless character who gets slapped in the face. How could the author create such a minor villain?
But now put yourself in their shoes and think about it. Even if the Self-Defense Forces only played a side effect, they did rush to the front line and look down on the Cursed Children. This is probably because the Cursed Children in Tokyo have not had a brilliant battle record for a long time.
At least this shows that the most dangerous missions in the Tokyo area have always been carried out by the military, and the Cursed Children and the police are only doing second-line work.
For example, how to deal with scattered gastrulae that managed to sneak into the city by various means.
The cursed child of Tokyo certainly doesn't deserve the treatment he is getting now.
But compared to those regions that created the enterovirus, have virus inhibitors, and force the cursed children to go to the front lines of the battlefield... it seems that they are not completely rotten.
Even if the former Holy Emperor and Tendou Kikunosho planned to suppress the treatment of the Cursed Children and then show mercy, it would be much better than this.
In Tokyo's case, the means were somewhat harsh, but in the end, they were also intended to win over the Cursed Children.
In Europe and the United States, laws are put in place to protect cursed children, but secretly the children are being treated as consumables.
Su Qing sighed.