＜ Episode 178 >
“Last time, I couldn’t even say thanks because I wasn’t in a good mood.”
“Ah yes……..”
silence.
It was a bit embarrassing to see a little boy a few years younger than him come to say thank you.
“But did you change your clothes?”
The original SS uniforms could be disposed of quietly due to the consideration of the construction work. What he is wearing now is a US military uniform.
“Ah, yes… what.”
It was dark, so I couldn’t see it in detail, but I wish I had forgotten just how credible the kid’s testimony would be.
“My father said he was sorry. He found his daughter, but he said he couldn’t even thank him by seeing her face in person. You are very busy.”
“If you are busy at this time…. Where are you going to be the boss of a military factory?”
These days, the busiest people are the soldiers or those working in a military factory, but seeing them wearing nice clothes and wearing nice clothes, I thought she was the daughter of a well-to-do family.
“Oh, so are you an officer?”
“…Yes, if you are an officer, you are an officer.”
Where is the daughter of the general’s house? Or Admiral?
“Anyway, it was what I had to do. Beyond my job, as a human being.”
I felt something. Are you a watcher?
Well, it is common for the legation to be the target of surveillance in the first place, and it is not unusual for the United States and Britain to declare war on each other at any time. If I didn’t shoot, I could endure it.
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Most of all, I was going to leave soon.
“yes…….”
The girl, who noticed that something was missing, opened her mouth.
“I heard you are leaving soon.”
“Yes, that’s right… But where did you hear that?”
The schedule for the withdrawal of the U.S. legation is known only to the parties involved or to the highest officials in both countries.
“My father thanked me and told me to come.”
It seems that the father is a rather high person. Well, I’m not in a position to talk too much.
In any case, within three days, Nicholas M, Captain Miller, is set to board a merchant ship bound for New York. And it will disappear like smoke in America, and again Nikolai Mikhailovich Romanov will cross the Pacific to Vladivostok.
It’s already a constant to come back and get destroyed…. If there’s something to be gained by having a conversation with a little in-depth, I suddenly thought that it might be possible to reduce it from hitting the head to just closing the joint.
Above all, if you take advantage of this opportunity a little bit better, you may be allowed to fly as short as a training flight at the land airfield. You wouldn’t normally be able to sit in the cockpit of an airplane, but that’s too harsh.
The beauty of the world above the clouds that cannot be compared with the beauty of any other beauty, the sunlight and the clouds beneath your feet, like fog on both sides.
That feeling that made me think he was really good at applying as a combat pilot. Never again to experience the sensation that made him feel alive.
If you didn’t know from the beginning, you wouldn’t know, but what if you know you can’t do it again? It is said that there are people who have never touched drugs for nothing, but nobody who has tried drugs only once.
Well, I didn’t hear about Mariil on a high-risk mission, but I was prepared from the moment I was shot down after volunteering.
When my father found out, he said, ‘Oh, you look really anxious to die, so I’ll give you a taste of your eyes.’
If you give it a try, you may find out more important information than you think.
I heard from my little mother, but it is said that it is possible to infer military secrets from very trivial and trivial information.
Coordinates can be identified with one seemingly insignificant photo, and the location of the command center of a unit can be roughly guessed only by information about who is in a certain position and where and where they are serving in the military, or to track the location of an airfield using aircraft specifications. Even seemingly trivial things like price fluctuations and types of supplies can be clues to accessing key information.
Well, that’s what I’ve been doing for half of my life, so it’s not strange that I’ve grown up… Anyway, a conversation with a little girl whose father is an unknown person in a high-ranking military position may be worth more than I thought. In the beginning, when a person is with their own children, they are quite relaxed.
or not
***
“Irina.”
“Yes?”
“I seem to have a lot of high blood pressure these days, shouldn’t I get a health checkup?”
“In a word, the last time I measured it, it was perfectly normal. If this is high blood pressure, it means that you usually have low blood pressure.”
“You know everything, but you don’t say a single word.”
“There is not much information that I do not know, even in the world beyond the Russian Empire. Would you believe it if we even recorded the sleeping habits of the monarchs of each country?”
“Do you have mine? No… just don’t answer.”
“You can see for yourself, but what are you investigating?”
Irina changed Karina’s diaper herself, ignoring my gossip, and the hired maid panicked.
“I……”
“Put the child down and leave.”
“Oh, yes!”
Irina, who had just kicked out the maid, came over and stroked the back of my neck.
“What caused your blood pressure to rise, my Majesty?”
“Don’t play around.”
“Guess what, because of the French?”
“Yeah, damn things, what are you thinking…”
“Free France has no ground forces. It’s equipment, even if we say we’re going to hand it over, doesn’t that mean there aren’t enough people to operate it? No, is there any? It is questionable whether or not it will come out as a regimental level.”
“The colonies are almost gone, so they were sent to run rampage in the Indian Ocean, but these are stuck in Vietnam? Did you have any intention of fighting?”
“Well, after the war is over, you can get paid.”
“ha.”
“Then this is the latest information. Do you remember the last mass shooting in the French military?”
“I remember that some guy fired a gun not long before surrender, killing one general and seriously wounding two.”
“That’s right. Admiral François Darlan was killed on the spot, and Generals Patin and Henri Giro were shot. But… it seems that Patang did something again.”
“Something? And I’ve never heard of him regaining consciousness.”
“We have never had such information. I was just saying that he must have regained consciousness after receiving information about what Pateng was trying to do.”
“So, that ‘what’ is something.”
“It’s a steal. It seems that he was plotting to smuggle into South America to avoid the eyes of some government officials, some generals, and the German army.
“Did you get killed?”
“No, the Germans arrested him and locked him up somewhere in Austria. They weren’t the only ones who took away almost all of the high-ranking French officials who didn’t obey them.”
It’s funny. In the original history, Patin, the head of Vichy France, plotted an anti-Nazi plot here and was taken to a concentration camp.
In fact, in the original history, the Nazis shivered even with the slightest pretense of being a Vichy France, but it’s only natural here that France is talking about Germany’s rightful power, Lebensraum, and so on.
“Are you saying you don’t know the exact location?”
“Oh, it’s not like that. We’ve narrowed down the candidates quite a bit.”
“Tell me the conclusion.”
“One of the most likely candidates is about 170 kilometers from our team. in a straight line Of course, you have to cross the mountain range, so it’s not that close. Well… I’m not saying you have to save it, I’m just saying that if De Gaulle doesn’t like it, there are other options. In fact, I’m fighting to death with the Chinese warlords who were ordered by the Japanese Empire, so I think De Gaulle should think about it first.”
“Not to mention.”
In addition, major topics such as the fact that the German army was presumed to have entered into a breath-taking operation, a massive famine in China and political instability resulting from this, and an attempted coup in Greece were raised as major topics.
But at the end of the story, I suddenly asked.
“Irina.”
“yes.”
“You think I’m wrong? It was not that industrialization was not promoted more radically.”
“It’s that light industry and agriculture have not been sacrificed.”
“Yeah, if that were the case, it might have had more industrial power than Britain and Germany combined.”
“Whatever you say… I don’t think it’s going to be an appropriate answer.”
“is it.”
“However, the blood of thousands of people has already been shed. Pouring more blood on it… even I, who is used to sacrifice, is not very happy with it.”
“Right.”
I closed my eyes.
“When the movement of the Elbe River is completely seized, then it will be a battle of blood and steel. Pushing it to the Rhine, and beyond that, to the lowlands and France, and to the south, Italy.”
Without expecting an answer, he continued muttering.
“An all-out war with the Royal Navy is unlikely. For us, but there are those who can.”
United States of America.
“While the US forces are destroying the Royal Navy, if you have time to look away from Europe for a while, you should look south and east.”
“Is it the Middle East and the Far East?”
“Well… depending on the situation, we may move our troops to Persia, but it’s too much to go to Afghanistan, and even more so to the Indian subcontinent. To the east are China, Japan…and Joseon. China is… Russia’s biggest security threat in the East. They must be divided, they must remain divided. You can’t let them come together as one piece.”
“your majesty.”
“I don’t know if there will ever be a chance to land our troops in Japan and Britain. But… Either way, the war will be over, it must be over.”
“Napoleon said this about us Russia.”
Irina said softly.
“Russia is the only country in Europe capable of a fairy tale war. They appear out of nowhere, go to war, and suddenly leave. But the rest of Europe…”
“I have to live the rest of my life in the consequences of war.”
“He was wrong. I… No, it seems that even we have to live in the consequences of war. So, if the outcome of the war could be any less devastating, I think your Majesty’s actions are right.”
“What if, as a result of that choice, more damage is caused by not gaining an edge in the war?”
“Humans cannot be held responsible for the consequences of all their choices.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“You shouldn’t be immersed in it, but you shouldn’t get used to it, but you shouldn’t take it for granted. But that’s it. Please do not try to take responsibility for all of them. My Majesty.”