Japan had suffered devastating losses!
It was not simply a matter of the Yasukuni Shrine being burned to the ground.
The Onmyoji, shrine maidens, and monks of all the major training halls had been slaughtered, and the Guardian Divine Beast, Yamata no Orochi, had been killed. All of Tokyo had descended into chaos.
Direct and indirect economic losses exceeded thirty billion yen.
Without its Guardian Divine Beast to anchor its national fortune, Japan's fortune had weakened to the extreme. Earthquakes struck frequently, volcanoes grew restless, and tsunamis erupted every few days.
The subsequent losses would be no smaller than the initial losses, and they would continue for a very long time.
Japan leveled extremely serious accusations against Dragon Country at the League of Nations, tearfully complaining that Dragon Country had persecuted it.
It pointed the spearhead straight at Dragon Country.
Dragon Country naturally denied everything outright.
Its representatives said that anyone wishing to accuse them had to produce evidence at the very least. Otherwise, it was blatant slander.
Japan naturally could not produce evidence. Its representatives could only stammer that the only people who could harbor such hatred for the Yasukuni Shrine were people from Dragon Country.
Suppressed fury filled the Dragon Country representative's eyes as he bluntly told the Japanese representative to explain exactly what the people enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine had done, and why the people of Dragon Country hated them so much.
How could he possibly say that out loud!
The Japanese representative was struck speechless.
Those were precisely the things they had gone so far as to alter textbooks to conceal. How could they possibly speak of them openly?
Not daring to explain the reason, the Japanese representative clung to the enormous losses his country had suffered, like a lump of cow dung persistently rubbing