The Head of State's Roar

March 20, 2033.

With the U-12 transport fleet under threat, the Jieko Group's Far East Task Force began turning south, cruising toward the waters around the Ryukyu Islands.

The enormous fleet advanced in grand procession. Five Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruisers, along with a large number of destroyers, frigates, and submarines, formed a fleet group whose formation stretched over a hundred kilometers. It was an annihilation fleet capable of driving the vast majority of countries around the world to despair.

March 21.

The Beautiful Country's USS Roosevelt Carrier Battle Group also began accelerating northward. Aircraft took off from and landed on the USS Roosevelt at high frequency, spreading out a reconnaissance information network.

Radio signals spread densely across the ocean. Countries around the world had already caught the smell of gunpowder before a decisive naval battle. Every nation capable of establishing a satellite network altered the orbits of its military satellites, locking their focus onto the Ryukyu Sea Area.

March 22!

A Beautiful Country reconnaissance plane flew over the Far East Task Force. Although it was quickly shot down by anti-aircraft fire, the pilot still managed to transmit a radio message before the crash.

This meant that the location of the Jieko Group's Far East Task Force had been exposed to the Beautiful Country.

Everyone in the USS Roosevelt Carrier Battle Group erupted upon receiving the radio message.

Fleet Commander Sigmund clenched his fists. He had waited far too long for this news, so anxious that he could neither eat nor sleep. Now that they had finally found the Far East Task Force's location, it meant their general offensive had begun.

"Pass down the order. Execute Battle Plan B. Deploy the battle formation, launch the carrier aircraft, and notify the military bases throughout the Ryukyu Islands to carry out an air