It is Kokang and Changchun

　Mistia took out the fried pork chop from the warming cabinet and handed it to Xiang, saying:

　"The one just now, her last name is Yougu and her given name is Xiangzi. Your names are quite similar, and I was often confused when I first met you."

　After serving the dishes to table number 2, Youtani Kyouko wanted to pick up the broom and continue sweeping the floor, but was stopped by Mistia.

　"Xiangzi, come here. This is the Xiang I told you about before."

　Seeing this, Yougu Xiangzi humbly said to Xiang: "Nice to meet you. So you are the Xiang that Misiqi (Yougu Xiangzi's affectionate name for the boss lady) often talks about. It's a great honor to meet you. Please take care of me."

　Xiang also bowed slightly in return and said, "It is indeed fate that we meet for the first time. Not only do we share the same name, but we also happened to run into each other today. I feel very fortunate to meet you. Please take care of me."

　After a brief greeting, Xiang prepared to go home with the fried pork cutlet.

　When she was about to reach the door of the store, a slightly inorganic voice called her.

　"Miss Xiang, please stay."

　Hearing the sound, Xiang's hand, which was about to grab the door handle, suddenly stopped and turned to look at the source of the sound.

　This is table number two where Yutani Kyouko served the food just now.

　At table number two, there were two girls sitting, one with a plain figure and long silver hair, the other with short green hair and dark blue eyes.

　Xiang asked doubtfully, "You are..."

　"Just call me Eve." The girl with long silver hair introduced herself.

　"Eve-san, what do you want from me?"

　Eve stated her request. "I want to...talk to you about something."

　"Sorry, I have some food here that I need to take back to someone else. Fried food should not be kept for a long time." Xiang laughed and politely declined Eve's invitation. After all, they didn't know each other.

　"I want to discuss the Red Revolution with you."

　After saying this, Eve once again stopped Xiang who was about to leave the store.

　Xiang put away his smile, immediately became alert, and asked, "Who are you?"

　"People who want to support the cause you're dedicated to." Eve answered without hesitation.

　Hibiki stared at Eve for a long moment. A shipgirl's perception was far more acute than a human's, including the ability to read people's expressions.

　"You don't look like you're lying." After half a minute, Xiang relaxed his gaze.

　She walked to table number two, sat down face to face with Eve and Xi, and said, "I hope you're not lying. This is not the place to talk about this."

　"I understand." Eve waved her hand to the waiter. "Waiter, is there a private room with better soundproofing?"

　Yutani Kyouko responded, "Yes, miss, do you need it?"

　"Well, open one."

　"Ok."

　The two of them then came to the private room. Xiang took off his hat and placed it on the floor next to him. He adjusted his white sailor suit and black pleated skirt, then knelt on the floor.

　Eve and Xi also sat down opposite Xiang at the same time.

　Xiang said in a low voice, "Just tell me, you want to support me. What's your purpose?"

　"What is the purpose of those who support progressive causes?" Eve asked in return.

　Xiang said seriously, "First of all, we don't know each other at all. On top of that, you're supporting me for no reason. This is very alarming."

　What surprised Xiang was that although this was the first time he met the girl who called herself Eve, he had a vague sense of closeness, as if there was some connection between her and himself.

　"Our acquaintance begins with strangers. Shouldn't comrades help each other?" Faced with doubts, Eve seemed calm.

　"How did you know I was doing revolution?" Xiang asked a key question.

　"I learned about it from Kokang. You should know her."

　"Masaka..." Xiang was shocked. Xiang knew very well that his old boss would never tell anyone about such a thing.

　Even the captain and Kong Siyu didn't know the relationship between Guo Kang and Xiang.

　"Why do you know? What is your relationship with Comrade Kokang?!" The girl gave Xiang a mysterious sense of fear.

　Seeing Xiang's slightly panicked look, Eve comforted him, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. Guo Kang and I are comrades."

　"But I've never heard Kokang mention you..." Xiang decided to send a message to Changchun to ask.

　However, the result was that the connection failed.

　Because at this moment, Changchun's communication module has been completely

　closed.

　Of course, it was not because Changchun had encountered any accident, but because she had just returned from training at the base and was doing something particularly comfortable to herself in bed.

　In order to avoid being disturbed by communications last time, Changchun simply turned off the communication module completely.

　"Huhaha...haha...today...no one can disturb...my self-generating power!"

　Changchun said charmingly while looking at the indescribable scene, holding the tools in his hands, breathing gradually becoming faster, and pupils slowly turning into heart shapes.

　Since he couldn't ask Changchun directly, Xiang had to try another way.

　"I'll ask you a few questions. If you can answer them, it means everything you just said is true. Comrade Kokang only told these questions to his closest comrades, such as me."

　Eve was very calm. "Ask me, I don't care."

　Xiang asked Eve seven questions, and Eve answered them one by one.

　Xiang nodded and said, "Hmm...sure. But why has Comrade Kokang never told me about you? I'll ask her another time."

　Eve's performance successfully dispelled Xiang's doubts.

　The reason why Eve knew the answers to these questions was that she had stolen Changchun's memory after they met at KFC in China.

　First comes the world view, then the methodology. Xiang first asks Eve about her views on Japan.

　"What do you think of Japan's current domestic situation?"

　Chapter 138 Breaking Free from the Shackles of the Treaty (3)

　Eve looked at Xiang and replied slowly:

　"How should I put it? Before the Fukushima uprising, Japan really felt like a one-dimensional society."

　"One-dimensional society?" Xiang heard an unfamiliar term and asked, puzzled:

　"I don't quite understand. Can you explain the meaning of this word?"

　Eve took a sip of her genmaicha tea, set it down, and answered Xiang's question. "It's a concept proposed by Marcuse of the Frankfurt School of Western Marxism."

　Specifically, it means that in developed capitalist industrial society, because all human needs are largely satisfied, critical consciousness has completely disappeared, and individuals have lost the ability to deny and criticize social reality. A one-dimensional society refers to such a society.

　Xiang pondered what Eve said, and while he was certain, he also had some new questions:

　"Hmm...it's a new perspective, but there are many people in Japan who criticize social realities."

　“Marcuse’s criticism and negation means stepping outside the logic of the capitalist system to criticize and negate.

　Since Japan's economic stagnation in the 90s, many people and experts have criticized successive Japanese governments and proposed many new solutions to the predicament.

　But how many of them criticize and offer solutions from the perspective of socialism and communism?

　Even if there are, how many of these critics realize that this path cannot be achieved by participating in the parliamentary system of the capitalist system?

　Eve gave Xiang some guidance on his thinking in a simple and profound way.

　Hibiki connected history and reality, and suddenly realized something. He sighed, "I understand what you mean. It's very insightful. For example, a few years ago, the Japanese Communist Party affirmed the existence of the emperor system. Does that count?"

　"It's okay if you understand it that way." Eve nodded.

　Xiang continued to inquire, "Just now I heard you say that before the Fukushima uprising, you felt that Japan really had a one-dimensional society feel. What about after the Fukushima uprising?"

　“After the Fukushima Uprising…” Eve smiled slightly and said, “After the Fukushima Uprising, I saw the possibility of the Japanese people getting rid of this situation.

　Although that uprising temporarily only drove the Liberal Democratic Party out of the local council, the temporary committee formed by Fukushima citizens at the time attempted to establish collective enterprises.

　More importantly, the Fukushima uprising's means of driving out the Liberal Democratic Party was violent, which is crucial.

　Although it has not completely broken away from the logic of the capitalist system, this is enough for a mass movement without the leadership of a political party.

　The people of Fukushima, who are full of martial virtue, need the leadership of a Marxist party."

　"A kindred spirit!" Xiang said excitedly. "I completely agree with your point of view. Although the revolutionary faction within the JCP has been rising since the Fukushima uprising, the reformists, led by Shii Kazuo, still hold the dominant position..."

　As Xiang spoke, his voice became a little deeper.

　Eve responded by quoting a famous quote: “The historical process is important, but individual efforts must also be considered.

　All the ingredients for a delicious dish are already in front of us; what matters is that each revolutionary exerts his or her subjective initiative and strives to make this dish well—to occupy the dominant position."

　"That's what I said, but..." Xiang was still a little worried. "I just don't know how long it will take... I think it will be very long."

　Xi, who had been standing there like air, finally spoke up. "Hey, you've been in the water since 1931, you've seen so many people and things, how can you not wait?"

　"Xi, don't interrupt!" Eve slapped Xi on the head again.

　Xi immediately shut up.

　Eve continued, "I'm really sorry, Xi's emotional intelligence is rather lacking. Let's get down to business."

　"It's okay, we generally don't care about age issues... Go on." Xiang waved his hand to show that he didn't care.

　Eve continued to express her views.

　“Sometimes history is unpredictable. Lenin once

　I once joked that we old people might not live to see the revolution. But a little over a month later, the February Revolution broke out.

　Later, under the general trend of the domestic situation and the efforts of the Bolsheviks, the October Revolution broke out more than half a year later and was successful.

　Hibiki: "Oh? Comrade, are you saying that there will be some major political changes in Japan in the near future?"

　Eve replied, "I'm not entirely sure. It's just a hunch. Comrade Hibiki, do you remember the violent incidents that spread across the country?"

　"Of course I remember. Could this be related to the revolution?" Xiang didn't understand why Eve suddenly mentioned this.

　"Maybe." Eve laughed. "I personally feel this matter is by no means as simple as the government says. There's probably something fishy going on.

　Let me make a prediction here: if there really is a problem—and I mean if—this problem could be so serious that it could cause a crisis of confidence in the Liberal Democratic Party government, thus providing fertile ground for the brewing of revolution.

　Xiang felt that Eve's guess was reasonable.

　"You're right. There's a high probability that there's something wrong. I just don't know the specific details yet, especially the relationship between the Japanese government and Takeda Pharmaceutical."

　Xiang remembered that shortly after the violent incident, Haruzuki told him in the communication that he had a strange stone in his hand.

　This stone was what was left after I killed a violent person in close combat and the violent person's body dissipated.

　Later, Haruzuki found a way to get the stone into Xiang's hands using various covert means, and Xiang then gave it to Akashi for analysis.

　Akashi's research results show that they don't know what it is exactly, but they can confirm that it is the same unknown substance in the last problematic vaccine.

　Moreover, Japan did not react slowly to the Fukushima nuclear accident, so why did it react so quickly to this vaccine?

　Could it be that they have a change of heart?

　Bah, instead of hoping that the bourgeoisie will have a change of heart, it is better to believe that a sow can climb a tree.

　Xiang therefore believes that this violent incident and the problematic vaccine are definitely related to the Japanese government.

　"By the way, Comrade Xiang," Eve called out.

　"What's wrong?" Xiang, who was in deep thought, looked up and responded to the call.

　Eve pointed at the fried pork chops that Xiang had placed in a lunch box and said, "Don't you need to bring your own food? Go back first. Fried food won't taste good if it gets cold. Let's exchange contact information and talk some other time."

　"Oh... Thanks for the reminder! I forgot everything else when I met my soulmate." Eve's reminder made Xiang realize his main mission this time.

　Xiang also glanced at Eve's bowl of tonkotsu ramen, which had become soggy. She felt embarrassed for disturbing her.

　"I'm so sorry, I'll go back first." After leaving his contact information, Xiang put on his hat, picked up the fried pork cutlet and hurried back to the port area.

　After Xiang left, only Eve and Xi were left in the private room.

　Xi was a little unable to complain about her sister. She said she was passively observing, but in the end she became an active observer.

　Especially after Eve read a book called "Qualitative Research Methods" published by Peking University Press in China, she became more proactive.

　She learned a new term there, called participant observation research.