Island Nation's Disaster (Extra Chapter for Last Month's 3,700 Votes)

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions rang out across Osaka. At this moment, the power of high-explosive shells was revealed beyond all doubt. Every large-caliber high-explosive shell that detonated inflicted serious damage upon Osaka.

Streets were destroyed, houses were blasted into ruins, and raging fires rose up. The entire city trembled amid the fierce bombardment. Here, the might of the powerful weapons created by human industrial civilization was displayed in all its fullness.

"God! This is truly magnificent!" Rear Admiral Mauff lowered his binoculars, his face filled with intoxicated fascination. He seemed to greatly enjoy the feeling of bombing an enemy city into ruins. To him, that feeling seemed incomparably beautiful.

"Yes, it is indeed magnificent. But that is because it is happening on enemy soil. If it were happening on our own soil, it would probably not seem so magnificent. It would seem exceedingly bloody instead!" Vice Admiral Spee said.

"Who could possibly launch such an attack against the German Empire? I certainly do not believe anyone could. The German Empire is the strongest empire in the world, without equal. No one can bring the flames of war onto our homeland!" Rear Admiral Mauff said.

Vice Admiral Spee nodded, apparently agreeing with that statement. However, neither of them knew that in another time and space, the flames of war had likewise spread onto Germany's soil. Many parts of their country had been bombed into ruins. No one knew how many people had been displaced by the war and lost their lives.

Yet in this time and space, the Germans were fortunate, because they had a wise and mighty emperor who enabled them to escape such a fate. But for other countries, that was undoubtedly a misfortune!

Boom!

A 380-millimeter high-explosive shell landed amid a crowd. When it exploded, the blast wave