Chapter 4: The Führer and the Current Situation
At the end of the service of the online strategy simulation game ‘The Last Battalion Online’, I had fallen asleep and found myself as ‘Eryutheia’, my in-game avatar.
Okay, that’s the end of the explanation.
Although I don’t know the principle behind it, it’s simple and clear in terms of words, and there’s nothing to twist about it.
However, I believe that it would not be safe to accept the reality as it is, because it would be quite dangerous and complicated.
Because right now I am ‘Eryutheia’, the Führer of the Yamato Empire.
I’m not one of those ordinary people, okay?
I’m not so stupid that I don’t understand the situation.
It was indeed me who controlled the character Eryutheia. However, I am not Eryutheia herself.
I’m just an ordinary guy sitting in front of the monitor playing a game.
Then I suddenly became Eryutheia… I can’t help but wonder if I can fulfill my role as head of state.
Besides, I’m just an ordinary high school boy who likes to play games, and I don’t know what they’ll do to me if they find out I’m not Eryutheia.
Well, it was never my intention for this to happen, you know?
But what would the people of this country think if they knew that an ordinary high school boy had become Eryutheia, the supreme leader of their country?
They would be angry, wouldn’t they? If you think about it in Japan, it would be like the Prime Minister suddenly being possessed by a high school student from another world, right?
Who the hell do you think you are?
In case they find out, my body belongs to Eryutheia, so I don’t think they’ll execute me… Still, I don’t know what they’ll do to me.
They might even experiment on me or torture me to get me out of Eryutheia’s body.
Even if they don’t, I might be thrown into prison as a suspicious person.
I hate pain. I also don’t want to spend time in prison.
Therefore, this fact must be concealed by any means necessary.
I cannot expose myself by being incompetent.
As I made up my mind, I was guided by Ayame, the self-appointed adjutant NPC whose face was even more glowing after taking a bath, through the corridors of a place that looked like a palace.
……This is probably the Führer’s residence.
Lasbata is merely a strategy game. The smallest detail shown on the map was a city, and there were no detailed graphics of the individual buildings that existed there.
So I can’t say for sure that this is the leader’s residence, but… Well, I’m sure it’s the Führer Palace, because that’s where I, the Führer, live.
I feel like there was a setting like that in the game.
It’s a remarkably gorgeous building. Everything shines, almost like a fantasy. It looks like the Palace of Versailles and other palaces.
Just from the size of the long corridor I’m walking through, it’s much bigger than my house in my previous life.
As we walked through such a magnificent palace, I asked Ayame-san, “Speaking of which, what was the emergency?”
See, aren’t you curious about what the emergency is?
Also, I’d like to get as much information as possible before the meeting so as not to expose my incompetence.
In response to my question, Ayame-san had a look of disbelief on her face and replied, “Well, do you believe in another world, Eryu-san?”
Aah, you mean another world.
“Yes, I do believe.”
Of course, I immediately replied.
Certainly, if it were an ordinary person, I don’t think they would believe in another world. It’s just too unscientific.
However, I am already facing the most unscientific phenomenon, which is being an avatar of a game and being in the game world.
To someone like me, a different world is not so surprising anymore.
“Ah, while it’s still too early to talk about it. It seems that our country has been transported to another world.”
…… I see, so that’s how it is. No, let’s just say that’s the situation.
The only possible topic at this time is “Our country has been transported to another world.”
This is ….a problem.
I mean, it would be incredibly difficult to be the head of a nation even in normal times, but in a situation that I don’t even know much about, this whole situation of being transported to another world, can I survive without exposing my incompetence?
“This way. Is everything ready, Eryu-san?”
After about ten minutes of walking through the Führer’s Palace under deep feelings of anxiety, the place I was taken to was… The sign on the door says ‘Conference Room 1’.
If I go beyond these doors, the Imperial Meeting, or whatever it’s called, will begin, and I can’t show any real incompetence.
…… It’s gonna be fine, I can do this.
I nod my head in response to Ayame-san’s question and ask her to open the massive door. and then I went inside…
“…Woah, pre-war huh?”
“Did you say something?”
“No, it’s nothing. Ayame-san”
The scene beyond the door is exactly like the world of a war movie depicting Japan during World War II.
Two rows of long desks are lined up in a dimly lit conference room with thick curtains closed, and numerous old men in suits and military uniforms are lined up neatly, staring at each other with serious expressions on their faces.
What can I say, the atmosphere is already so bad.
The temperature feels like it is freezing.
The atmosphere is especially bad with the old man in the blue navy uniform and the old man in the khaki army uniform. They are glaring at each other.
As soon as I entered the room, those intimidating old men stood up and bowed to me in unison, saying, “Glory to you, Führer.”
How could they react like that to such a small girl, as if a terrifying dictator had arrived at their doorstep?
By now you can guess how Eryutheia was treated.
Eryutheia isn’t just a head of state. She is a total dictator.
Well, of course. Because in the game, as the player, it was me who was in charge of internal affairs, diplomacy, the navy, and the army.
A dictator who controlled all the power in the country. This is my other half, Eryutheia, whom I play as a player.
If they find out that I am just an ordinary high school student, things will get more serious than I imagined.
Up until now, even if I was found out, it would be my own fault, and I don’t want to be tortured or put in prison… I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but it’s not the same.
If it were discovered that Eryutheia’s inner self was me, it means that the dictator Eryutheia has suddenly disappeared.
A dictator who practically rules the nation by herself disappears overnight, you know?
There’s no doubt that there will be chaos at the national level.
I was once again determined to keep this fact a secret for myself and the country, no matter what it took.
……But on the other hand, I wonder why all the big guys here are staring at my thighs― my absolute territory?
Is it because I’ve turned into a girl? it seems that I can sensitively feel someone’s gaze, like, “Oh, that old man is looking at my thighs right now.”
It is a little embarrassing, so I try to cover it with my hand. So what does that mean, that all these old guys… No, they all have a very disappointed look on their face, except for the military officers, right?
Don’t tell me they’re all thigh fetish perverts.
……Wait a minute, come to think of it, my country, the Yamato Empire, seemed to have ‘Perversion’ as a national trait.
Within Lasbata, it was a useful ability to increase the speed of technological development, with no particular disadvantages or anything like that… Could it be that the whole nation has actually become a pervert?
There’s no way that could be true, right?
Although I’m worried about their gaze and the tendency of our country’s bureaucrats, I don’t want to make any unnatural movements so as not to be discovered… I walked through the conference room as confidently as possible and sat down on a throne-like seat.
Then, the cabinet ministers, bowing their heads together, were ordered by hand to “sit down.”
They all sat down in a single, undisturbed movement.
Wow, the cabinet ministers who run the country are behaving like pet dogs.
So this is what you get when you have a dictatorship.
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The setting that probably won’t be mentioned in the main story.
Yamato Empire Edition.
The nation created by the protagonist in Last Battalion Online.
It is an island nation of about 120 million people located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
In addition to the main island of Yamato Island, which is about the same size as the entire mainland of Japan, it also has several other smaller islands within its territory.
Geographically, it may be closer to the Hawaiian Islands because it is in the middle of the ocean away from the continent, but its latitude is about the same as that of Japan.
Its basic culture is very similar to that of prewar Japan. A red circle on a white background is set as the national flag because the protagonist can only draw a simple picture on his computer.
The basic political system is a dictatorship based on the leadership principle. This is a remnant of the game era when players could run a state as full dictators.
As the most powerful industrial country on the Lasbata Chaos Server, it has an industrial strength similar to that of the United States prior to World War I.
Unlike Japan, the country is able to be self-sufficient with minimal resources, but only food cannot be produced domestically due to the limited amount of land mass.
National Traits :
Fanatical Patriotism (National Unity and National Happiness slightly increased)
Leader Worship (Greatly increases National Unity and National Happiness after victory in war)
Perversion (Increases speed of Technology R&D)
Technological Supremacy (Increases speed of Technology R&D)
Elitism (Slightly increases Military Training Speed)
……There may be some possible changes.
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