Both headquarters and the front lines faced severe food shortages.
Both headquarters and the front lines had come under heavy attack.
Beset on both sides, Watatsumi Island seemed shrouded in gloom.
The immense crisis weighed heavily on everyone's faces. Even innocent children had been infected by the despair, their smiles gone.
Narukami Island had cut off trade with them. To solve the food shortage, they could only buy supplies abroad, but with Inazuma sealed off by the Sakoku Decree, how could they cross the thunderstorms and bring provisions back to Watatsumi Island?
Even without the Sakoku Decree, a round trip abroad would take at least a month. By then, the soldiers and civilians would have starved to death.
The front lines needed Gorou to command and fight, but Gorou was also the only one who could barely hold Shanqi back.
The Resistance Army on Watatsumi Island had truly been driven into a hopeless corner.
Faced with both hunger from dwindling food supplies and attacks from powerful enemies, they might not even last until the Shogunate Army reached Watatsumi Island.
Hunger, despair, and crushing pressure would cause the Resistance Army and Watatsumi Island's civilians to break down and rebel!
Under these circumstances, even the resourceful Sangonomiya Kokomi struggled to come up with a solution.
With her energy utterly depleted, Sangonomiya Kokomi suffered headaches all day, pacing back and forth in her secret base in distress.
Meanwhile.
Out on the vast sea, Watatsumi Island's general, Gorou, led his soldiers aboard their ships in pursuit of the sea beast Shanqi.
At that moment, Gorou was more anxious than anyone.
Watatsumi Island had suffered destruction at Shanqi's hands, while the Resistance Army's soldiers were like brothers to him.
Without its commander, an army was little more than scattered sand. Against the well-equipped, well-provisioned