The Japanese ambassador to Britain picked up The Times while eating breakfast. When he saw the front-page headline, he froze in shock. After reading the article, his face turned deathly pale.
"How... how is this possible? Could something like this really have happened?!"
The ambassador abandoned his breakfast and immediately ran to the telegraph room, ordering someone to send the newspaper's contents back to Japan.
At that moment, the prime minister had also seen the Japanese edition of The Times. Since the paper's editions were published simultaneously worldwide, although not many people in Japan subscribed to The Times, most government officials and members of the elite did.
After all, The Times was the world's leading newspaper.
After reading the article, the prime minister slumped into his chair, his expression terrible. He muttered, "The thing I feared most has finally happened. With such a huge commotion, the truth could never stay hidden forever."
"Now that The Times has reported it, unrest and turmoil will surely erupt across the country. And was this really the military's doing?"
The prime minister had always harbored suspicions toward the military. After all, only with the military's involvement could this matter have been concealed so thoroughly. He simply could not believe that eight hundred men had wiped out twelve thousand—unless someone had sacrificed those twelve thousand people for that money.
The military had always been rather fanatical. They constantly stirred up trouble just so they could deploy troops and gamble the nation's fate on war.
The military had been deeply dissatisfied with this year's budget, claiming the government had given them too little money. They had fiercely argued over it several times before His Majesty.
Could someone have gone so mad in their desire to start a war that they had set their sights on the