It is Kokang and Changchun

　"Yuudachi-chan, you're not here to cause trouble, are you?" Hibiki squinted at Yuudachi humorously and said jokingly:

　"The US troops stationed in Japan have been driven out. This is a great thing that benefits both the country and the people. Everyone is happy, except for those who have been kneeling for so long that they can't stand up. And my joining the party is just a trivial matter. Such a great thing must be celebrated! Don't you want to eat for free?"

　"Of course I do. If I don't take the free meal, I'd be a fool!" Yudachi said happily.

　Now that he had received Xiang's affirmation, Yudachi simply motivated himself and ate to his heart's content at the upcoming banquet.

　After sending Yudachi away, Xiang suddenly remembered something and called Shimakaze on the communication line: "Oh, that Shimakaze-chan, Shimakaze-chan

　Are you there?"

　"Hi! Is that you Hibiki-chan? I'm here, I'm here!" Shimakaze, who was chatting with Suruga, replied energetically.

　"It's me. Go to the dumpling shop I took you to last time - the Qinglan Linghuwu shop, and buy some more dumplings. Buy as many as there are people attending the party." Xiang said after the call was connected.

　Shimakaze hesitated for a moment and said, "Ah, this is enough for hundreds of people. Shimakaze's wallet is almost empty..."

　Xiang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, this banquet is at public expense, and we will make it up to you when the time comes~"

　"Oh, that's no problem." When Shimakaze heard that the expense could be reimbursed by the government, he readily agreed.

　Then Shimakaze left the base and went to buy dumplings in bulk.

　While everyone was smiling happily, some ships seemed calmer and even a little worried, such as Noshiro and Jintou.

　Although Xiang is aware that the United States is only making a temporary concession, Noshiro and Jintou are more pessimistic than Xiang in this regard.

　They believe that the main reason for the US withdrawal is not because we have too many shipgirls, but because of the unfavorable domestic and international political and economic situation. If a war really breaks out, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and the shipgirls have little chance of winning.

　Because the enemy has nuclear aircraft carriers and missile battleships, these are a dimensionality reduction attack on the hulls and armaments of World War II ship girls. This is not only in terms of armament, but also in terms of subsystems and systems.

　After careful consideration, Noshiro and Jinto decided to discuss this issue with Hibiki and Nagato Mikasa in a tactful manner.

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　The US's concessions to Japan caused other countries to have different views on the US. For example, some European countries, such as Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, wanted to take advantage of the fire at home to break away from the US influence.

　France even said it planned to withdraw from NATO and establish a European common defense organization. Britain, France, Germany, and Italy all expressed varying degrees of agreement with this proposal, but also expressed disdain for the country that proposed it.

　Britain, an old enemy, was the first to sarcastically retort, “I admit that starting anew is indeed necessary, but it is strange to hear this proposal from you.

　"France, look at yourself. You don't even have double-digit numbers of shipgirls in your possession. What qualifications do you have to make this proposal? If you ask me, I should be the one making this proposal."

　Slightly humiliated by Britain, France clenched its fists and retorted with a hint of anger, "On this planet now, nuclear weapons are the absolute truth. You shipgirls have to stand back! I have nuclear weapons in my hands, so why don't I have the right to do so?"

　"You in France have nuclear bombs, but I don't?" Britain retorted unconvincedly.

　France: "What? You think you can beat me with nuclear weapons? Our conventional and nuclear forces are far superior to yours. Come and have a fight!"

　Britain: "But you have so few shipgirls."

　France was furious, slamming the table and cursing, "Rosbif! (French derogatory term for Britain) I'm talking about nuclear weapons, and you're bringing up KanColle? You're bringing up something completely unrelated, are you looking for a fight?"

　Britain: "Huh? Frog (British derogatory term for France) is already broken? You have no gentlemanly manners at all! If you want to fight me, I will fight you to the end!"

　So, the two sides suddenly got into an argument at the venue, throwing baguettes and fish and chips at each other.

　Germany and Italy, watching the British and French throw weapons at each other, were sweating profusely. They looked at each other and shrugged.

　"Well, should we try to stop the fight..."

　Chapter 172 The scar is healed and the pain is forgotten

　Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

　"Fortunately, things didn't develop in the worst direction..."

　After seeing the news of the US military's withdrawal, Takuma Ozawa finally felt relieved.

　He turned to look at the figure of KanC Xiangye next to the desk.

　"Otherwise, publicly speaking, all the efforts of the anti-American mass movement over the past period will be in vain. Personally speaking, I may never see Xiang again..."

　As he spoke, he picked up Xiang's figurine, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but start to daydream.

　"It would be great if there were two Hibiki. Wouldn't that be double the happiness?" Takuma Ozawa began to imagine the feeling of having Hibiki on ship C in his left hand and Hibiki on ship B in his right hand nestled in his arms.

　Although this feels nice, it is impossible in reality because there is only one Hibiki-class destroyer in reality, so there is naturally only one Hibiki.

　Huh? Someone suggested we try replica ships, isomers, and so on. Please think about it: does this fit the style of the book?

　"How about...if there's a chance, let's try to have Hibiki cosplay himself as Kan-C? It always sounds interesting."

　Ozawa thought about it, and began to imagine what it would look like if Xiang wore the clothes of the ship C Xiang.

　However, what Ozawa didn't know was that Xiang had been wearing this way for a long time, but had never mentioned it to Ozawa.

　Because some of the Japanese shipgirls in Kanba are wearing revealing original skins, and because of military discipline, most of these shipgirls usually wear the original skins of Kanba or Kanba. In short, just do whatever is best.

　For example, Ayanami usually wears a sailor suit with a Kan C or Kan R skin when she's in the harbor, rather than a Kan B skin. The same goes for Hibiki, Yudachi, Shigure, etc.

　As for Dafeng... Dafeng deliberately exposed her shoulders and breasts and didn't wear her clothes properly. Just force her to pull up her kimono and wrap herself up.

　At this time, Xiaoze's mobile phone rang with a message alert tone, and he picked up the phone

　She saw it was a message from Xiang, which read, "Hi, Comrade Ozawa! Have you completed your mission for this week?"

　"Shit!" Ozawa shuddered. "I almost forgot about this!" He put the figurine back in its place and pulled out a copy of the official 2010 edition of Japan's "Revised List of Commonly Used Kanji" to begin studying and copying.

　Hibiki's mission was to have Ozawa learn to recognize, write, and read Chinese characters (both onyomi and kunyomi) in a standardized way. Weekly photos would be used to verify Ozawa's learning progress.

　Why did Xiang force Ozawa to learn Chinese characters? We have to start from the broader social and historical background and then gradually go down to the micro level.

　From the Meiji Restoration to the end of World War II, there were more than 4000 commonly used kanji in Japan. Although there have been intellectuals who have called for the abolition of kanji since the Meiji Restoration, they have not succeeded because kanji has long been an integral part of Japanese culture.

　After Japan's defeat in the war, it became a puppet state of the United States. While the US was carrying out democratic reforms in Japanese politics and society, it also began to Westernize Japanese culture. The US planned to Latinize the Japanese alphabet and completely abolish Chinese characters.

　However, a later survey report pointed out that the Japanese people's literacy rate for Chinese characters is quite high, and coupled with the limitations of Japanese grammatical structure in terms of expression, Chinese characters are not possible. Completely abolishing Chinese characters is impossible.

　The US had no choice but to abandon the complete abolition of Chinese characters and instead asked Japan to drastically reduce the number of commonly used Chinese characters, reducing the number from over 4000 to just over 1000. Although the number of commonly used Chinese characters has rebounded since the 80s until 2010, it is only half of the original number - 2136 characters.

　Second, and also related to the United States, after the US occupied Japan, a large amount of Western culture was introduced, leading to an increase in foreign words. Furthermore, for the reasons just explained, since the Cold War, foreign words have been replaced with katakana syllables rather than simplification.

　Third, with the rapid development of information technology from the 90s to the 21st century, typing has become more common. As a result, people can recognize characters, but writing them is not always easy, so when they encounter kanji that they cannot write or cannot remember clearly, they use kana instead.

　As a person who was born and grew up in such a macro-era context, it is impossible for Takuma Ozawa not to be affected.

　For example, when describing the word camera, Hibiki usually uses "写真機" while Ozawa Takuma usually uses "カメラ".

　When expressing common self-references in writing, Hibiki usually uses "私", while Ozawa Takuma usually uses "わたし".

　When expressing something interesting in words, Hibiki usually uses "面白い", while Ozawa Takuma usually uses "おもしろい".

　In short, in the chat records between Ozawa and Xiang, the large amount of kana and rare Chinese characters in Ozawa's bubble box form a sharp contrast with the large amount of Chinese characters and rare kana in Xiang's bubble box.

　This made Xiang a little angry, and Xiang lectured Ozawa, "Ozawa-san, Xiang doesn't want the future successors of communism to be a bunch of people who forget their roots. Look at you, you can't even recognize 2000 Chinese characters. You really don't deserve to be a university student! You have to know your shame, know your shame!"

　So, Xiang started to make Ozawa cram for Chinese characters, and also said that he would teach him to recognize 4000 Chinese characters in the future. His firm tone left no room for negotiation. Ozawa had no choice but to start learning the Chinese characters he didn't know.

　After a long while, Ozawa finished learning the Chinese characters for today, reported to Xiang, and started Azur Lane to relax.

　Seeing the devilish smile on the homepage secretary's face, Xiaoze suddenly felt something else. "Hmph, you make me learn so much every day, I'll make you blush today."

　As he said that, Ozawa opened the formation and prepared to drag Xiang into the formation to fight the big world.

　"No..." Ozawa muttered to himself, calming down a bit. "This is too much! If Xiang-san knew about this, he'd probably mock and ridicule her."

　After completing his daily tasks, Ozawa started browsing online news. This browsing was not a big deal, but it caused Ozawa's blood pressure to soar. The news content was as follows:

　[After the "Fukushima Unknown Incident" was settled, the Fukushima City Government, which successfully returned home, forcibly confiscated the nuclear accident compensation distributed by the "Fukushima Self-Police Force" to the victims.

　The victims expressed serious dissatisfaction and placed their hopes on the Supreme Court of Japan, hoping that the Supreme Court would give an explanation. As a result, the victims filed class action lawsuits against the Japanese central government, the Fukushima Prefecture government, and Tokyo Electric Power Company.

　The Supreme Court of Japan issued a unified ruling on a class action lawsuit filed by victims of the Fukushima nuclear accident, finding that the central government and the Fukushima Prefecture local government were not responsible for the Fukushima nuclear accident. Instead, it placed the blame entirely on Tokyo Electric Power Company.

　This is also the first time since the nuclear accident that the Japanese Supreme Court has ruled on whether the Japanese government is responsible for the Fukushima nuclear accident.

　"You idiot!" Ozawa's rage flared up. He called his comrade and asked, "Hey, Comrade Suzuki, have you heard about the recent news about the Supreme Court?"

　"Of course! I was just about to call you and tell you!" Suzuki said anxiously.

　Ozawa was outraged by the Supreme Court's actions. "It's only been a little over a year since the Fukushima uprising, and these carnivores have forgotten everything? How dare they be so brazen? They don't even care about their manners when eating! They've forgotten the pain after the scar has healed!"

　"I have a feeling that this incident will definitely make the remaining people in Fukushima who still have some illusions about the Japanese central government

　"I wouldn't say everyone has given up completely, but it will definitely be much more desperate," Suzuki concluded.

　Ozawa suddenly remembered someone and asked, "By the way, how is Comrade Inoue (the Inoue here refers to the person who had a quarrel with Ozawa in Chapter 82 due to differences in policy)? Is he still clinging to the idea of ​​purely parliamentary struggle?"

　Suzuki: "Inoue... He seems to have changed a bit after this incident. He's starting to doubt his past ideas. Also, the branch secretary said we must seize this opportunity to spread awareness and organize strikes and marches. We must get the Supreme Court of Japan to give the victims an explanation!"

　"Alright, that's what I've been waiting for, Secretary." Ozawa said passionately. "I joined the Communist Party for three reasons: fairness, fairness, and damn fairness!"

　"Suzuki, let's go! Get ready to march in the streets!"

　Pop a bubble to prove that I didn't run away

　The exams are finally over. These days, the plane and train tickets for going back home are very unstable. They are always cancelled after being booked.

　The current plan is to take a train to Xi'an early this morning and then fly home from Xi'an at noon.

　But no matter what, I will definitely update it before July 18th at the latest. I am really sorry to have kept you waiting for so long.

　Chapter 173 This shot should have sprayed out a midsummer.

　While the citizens of Fukushima City were taking to the streets to protest the SB operation of the Supreme Court of Japan, a middle-aged man in Nara City was preparing something.

　In a slightly dim little room, a middle-aged man took out the printed No. 12 shotgun shell from the 3D printer, and placed it on his workbench, ready to load it with gunpowder and shotgun shells.

　When putting things away, his elbow accidentally caught his ID card, causing it to fall to the ground with his personal information facing up. Four words were printed on the name column - Yamagami Tetsuya.

　"If I use a shotgun, I won't hurt passers-by." Yamagami Toru looked at the shotgun, then looked at the pressure cooker bomb on the workbench and muttered to himself.

　He originally wanted to make a pressure cooker bomb, but although he made the bomb, he didn't want to hurt innocent people; so he changed his mind and made a shotgun again.

　Then he took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened Twitter, went to the main page of Shinzo Abe's Twitter account, and checked the relevant updates.

　"Damn guy..."

　Yamagami Tetsuya cursed through gritted teeth.

　"Abe Baka! Damn Unification Church member... What a pity, this day next year will be your death anniversary!"

　Yamagami Tetsuya deeply hated the Unification Church. His mother, obsessed with the group, sold the land she inherited from her grandfather and the good property in Nara where she lived with her three children, ultimately bankrupting her family.

　Shan Shang was a university student at the time, but due to his mother's actions, he had no money to pay his tuition and was forced to drop out. He has since harbored a grudge against the Unification Church. Although Shan Shang repeatedly tried to persuade his mother to come to her senses, it was to no avail. His mother remained stubbornly unmoved.

　So, what is the Unification Church? It is not just a cult; in fact, it is a profit group that integrates religion, business conglomerates, media power, and political influence.

　Fortunately, compared with its heyday, the Unification Church's influence in Japan is now much less than before.

　The Unification Church's image in Japanese society has become increasingly negative, with it often compared to the notorious Aum Shinrikyo. Many second-generation members have left the church, and its membership is aging rapidly, with its numbers declining.

　But despite this, the Unification Church is still harming society.

　Yamagami Tetsuya loaded the printed shotgun shells into the chamber from the muzzle, then wrapped the entire gun with black tape, disguising it as a digital SLR camera. He then attached the camera's long strap.

　"Good, this should be enough." Yamagami shouldered the shotgun, hanging it on his right shoulder and resting it on his left waist.

　Before leaving, he took one last look at Shinzo Abe's Twitter account, which showed him his activities for the day. "Next to Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City... Yeah, I'll remember that."

　Yamagami Tetsuya, who has a million soldiers in his heart, has already prepared himself to die and scatter thousands of cherry blossoms.

　"For the harm done to my mother and the people of the world by the Unification Church, I must make Abe give his confession here today!"

　Yamagami Toruya put on a mask and glasses and walked out of his house with a heavy face. Because he had a gun on him, for the sake of secrecy, he did not take any other means of transportation, but rode his own bicycle to the scene.

　On the way, he couldn't help but think of his days in college and his service in the Maritime Self-Defense Force, and also thought of the ship girls who are currently living deep in the Maritime Self-Defense Force base.

　Toru Yamagami is also one of the loyal fans of those lovely girls. According to some rumors, he heard that quite a number of them have ambitious ideas and want to make Japan better and better.

　In this case, Yamagami believes that his actions today are not only to avenge personal grudges and eliminate harm for the people, but also to provide extra help to the ship girls.

　Clearly, Yamagami Toru lacked the nourishment of revolutionary knowledge, so it's only natural that he'd harbor such Socialist Revolutionary ideologies. However, if Mikasa, Nagato, and Hibiki were to learn of this, they'd probably be terrified to the point of trembling in their tracks. (They don't support terrorist acts like assassination.)

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　Tenzen Nara City