It is Kokang and Changchun

　"So... who was responsible for the incident on Yakushima? Most likely Japan and the women on the ships, right?" Kamala asked CIA Director Burns.

　Burns said: "Madam President, we investigated and ruled this out immediately, and the evidence is conclusive.

　And according to our preliminary investigation at the scene, these guys seemed to have done a very clean job, leaving behind not much evidence for us to infer who was responsible... But what's strange is that every wound on the soldiers who died at the scene looks like it was caused by a knife or other sharp weapon."

　Kamala was full of questions and asked doubtfully, "You mean, these people are using cold weapons?"

　"No," Burns clarified. "How could you possibly defeat a modern army camp with cold weapons?"

　He then pondered for a moment, recounting his lengthy reasoning. "Also, it's worth noting that the battlefield clearly shows signs of having been cleaned. This means our investigation will be difficult."

　Because it had been cleaned up, no one knew if everything at the scene was authentic, and no one knew if these enemies would release some misleading information as false evidence to mislead us into solving the case...

　But based on experience, these knife wounds were likely caused by the enemy to prevent us from analyzing the specifications of the ammunition they used through the shape of the gunshot wounds, and thus to use knives to crush the wounds...

　Before the incident, the relevant communication equipment of the Pacific Theater Command showed that the army and the garrison on Yakushima had been in contact.

　... All in all, the scene gave me the feeling of a carefully planned and covered-up scam.”

　Burns spoke for almost half an hour. Kamala interrupted Burns who was still narrating his reasoning and said, "In the end, you still don't know who attacked us, right?"

　"Mr. President, I'm sorry, yes." Burns said with regret and a little unwillingness.

　Kamaz replied without even looking up, "Go down. Come back to me when you have any results. I hope you can find the culprit soon."

　After Burns left, Kamath was thinking about something in her office. After a while, she finished thinking and called the landline on her desk to call Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Austin to come to the office to discuss something.

　In short, what KAMAZ, Blinken and Austin discussed was the recent situation in Japan. KAMAZ wanted to find an excuse to give Japan, where the anti-American wave is growing, a warning.

　KAMAZ's general idea was that the culprit behind the Yakushima incident was impossible to pin down immediately. And since Japan was deeply anti-American and had recently been urging the US military to relocate to Yakushima, we could use this as an excuse to launch a major operation.

　Using Japan's request to relocate its garrison to Yakushima as an excuse is a deliberate attempt to retaliate and hasten the unilateral abolition of the US-Japan Security Treaty. They also accuse Japan of having ulterior motives and complex connections with the unknown forces that attacked the garrison.

　Then they will label Japan as a country of militarism and fascism, and severely accuse Japan of doing this in order to restore militarism and go back to the old ways.

　Mobilize China and South Korea to oppose Japan.

　After all, China and South Korea are the most sensitive to Japanese militarism, and they cannot remain unmoved.

　Then they use the Panay incident and the Pearl Harbor incident as "criminal evidence" to increase the rationality and credibility of the accusation, thereby giving their next actions a seemingly legitimate reason.

　Besides, doing so can also help vent domestic public opinion.

　This way, we don't have to worry about the UN Security Council rejecting our request to use shipgirls. As for Congress, KAMAZ is confident that it will secure a two-thirds majority this time. (I'll explain the concerns about the UN Security Council and the use of shipgirls at the end of this chapter.)

　To this end, Kamaz and the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Foreign Affairs discussed the matter in detail for two days.

　Just when Kamaz was planning to make a big move against Japan, Japan also made big news.

　With the support of the ship girls, the domestic anti-security treaty movement, and the operation of the deep sea, Japan officially tore up the US-Japan Security Treaty and ordered all US troops currently stationed in Japan (except the Yakushima Incident Investigation Team) to withdraw all personnel and equipment from Japanese territory and territorial waters within seven days.

　If the US troops are not withdrawn by the deadline, the Japanese government will take compulsory measures to send the remaining US troops stationed in Japan back to the United States.

　Japan's decision directly caused many countries, especially those in East Asia, to open their eyes wide in surprise.

　"Great! It seems like you've really grown strong!" Kamaz made a call and said, "Connect me to the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and proceed according to the predetermined plan!" Kamaz hung up the phone gloomily.

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　Almost a month before the deep-sea raid on Yakushima, several countries submitted a resolution to the UN Security Council to restrict the use of ship girls in order to restrict the United States.

　In order to restrict Japan, the United States also participated in proposing this bill.

　The proposal is to establish a convention, mainly to restrict the actions of ship girls outside their own country and to limit the number of ship girls in each country.

　The first one passed relatively smoothly, but the second one was met with significant disagreement among the nations that owned the shipgirls. It was basically a case of the five permanent members vetoing each other, a kind of endless nesting doll situation.

　After fruitless discussions, they simply deleted the requirement to limit the number of ship girls in each country, and directly singled out the first article and passed it to become a formal convention.

　There are two important points: "1. Shipgirls are not allowed to enter the territory of another country without a legitimate reason and in non-wartime.

　2. When a country with shipgirls goes to war with a country without shipgirls, they may not use shipgirls in combat unless authorized by the Security Council.

　This convention was passed and signed by all countries with ship girls the day before the Yakushima incident, and took effect immediately.

　Chapter 159 Mikasa and Nagato's Worries

　Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan

　Nagato chose a time when there were fewer people around and took a bath in a bathhouse within the base, hoping to wash away his recent troubles.

　She was currently sitting on the edge of the bathtub, her eyes closed, resting, but her mind was filled with the recent domestic and international events, which kept coming and going.

　"Well, so annoying... you're just making things up." Nagato's fox ears twitched twice, dropping a few tiny drops of water that fell into the pool water and on the tiles by the pool.

　"Gee~"

　At this time, in a lush green area next to the bathing pool, a squirrel climbed down the tree trunk and came to the edge of the pool.

　"Nah?" Nagato also noticed the squirrel, opened his eyes and turned his head.

　The boat and the rat just stared at each other.

　A few seconds later, Nagato suddenly looked around and scanned the bathhouse, only to find that there was no one else in the bath except her.

　Then Nagato's gaze returned to the squirrel, and he suddenly stretched out his hands and grabbed the squirrel at an extremely fast speed.

　It was so fast that when the squirrel reacted, he found that he had been held down by Nagato's five fingers and could not break free.

　Nagato brought the squirrel to her tender cheek and kept rubbing her cheek against the squirrel's face, with a look of happiness, satisfaction and enjoyment on her face.

　"You're so cute, I'm not saying that just because I like you~"

　Just as Nagato was enjoying the comfort of the squirrel fur caressing his face, a familiar voice came from not far behind him: "Are you taking a morning bath?"

　The sudden greeting frightened Nagato so much that he dropped his hands and instantly returned to his serious and solemn demeanor.

　The squirrel, freed from Nagato's grasp, used Nagato's palm as a springboard to leap to the edge of the pool, avoiding falling into the water. After landing, it scurried away.

　"Mutsu... have you been listening?" Nagato's face flushed, and he turned his head stiffly, pretending to be calm and asked Mutsu.

　"Nani?" Mutsu looked puzzled and expressed doubt.

　Seeing Mutsu's reaction, Nagato heaved a sigh of relief. With her cheeks flushed, she turned back, cast a glance, and chuckled shyly, "No, it's okay..."

　Mutsu said nothing, but gave an intriguing smile.

　"Okay, sister, wash quickly, don't forget that we have something important to discuss later."

　"What? Senior Mikasa has arrived?" Nagato was shocked.

　Mutsu shook his head and said, "No, I just reminded you to take a bath and not forget the time."

　"I understand," Nagato replied, rising from the bath. Her flat figure was faintly visible beneath the alluring steam.

　After drying himself and changing his clothes, Nagato flashed back to his original form, brewed two cups of tea and placed them face to face.

　On the coffee table, waiting for Mikasa to arrive.

　Less than a minute later, Mikasa arrived on Nagato's ship, and Nagato immediately went out to greet her. After the two exchanged greetings, Mikasa was led by Nagato to the cabin just now.

　After the two sat down, they began to discuss the recent situation.

　Mikasa said, "It's just as I expected. After the tough stance, the US will definitely not give up. It's been a few days now, and the US troops in the country are still stubbornly refusing to leave."

　"Yeah, it's easier to invite a god than to send him away..." Nagato said unhappily.

　Then she began to criticize the United States: "The United States has been using the Yakushima incident to make trouble these days, insisting that our transfer of them to Yakushima was a complete conspiracy and that it was a sneak attack by our ship girls and the Self-Defense Forces.

　Guess what their reason was? They brought up the Pearl Harbor attack, saying we had a history of that, so it was us who did it, completely ignoring the evidence we presented.”

　After saying that, Nagato sighed unhappily.

　"If you ask me, double standards are an old American practice. They act like saints when it works for them, but their true colors are revealed when it doesn't.

　"The US is acting like a person clinging to a pole while about to be blown away by the wind," Mikasa commented solemnly, sitting upright.

　Mikasa thought about it and asked Nagato, "Speaking of which, I'm curious who attacked the American forces on Yakushima? Could it be that the air fleet did it behind our backs?"

　Didn't Zuikaku threaten a few days ago that if the US military didn't withdraw on time, she would launch a surprise attack on the Guam base?

　"No, they haven't gone that far," Nagato said, a little speechless, shaking his head. "That's just Zuikaku's personality. It was just a tirade. Who would launch a sneak attack and then publicly shout about it?"

　Speaking of Zuikaku, Mikasa couldn't help but feel a little worried. "By the way, I'm not just worried about Zuikaku, I'm also worried about the entire 125th Carrier Battle's philosophy.

　I hope Nagato-san can manage these younger generations. Especially at this critical juncture, I'm really worried that they'll do something wrong or say something wrong, giving the US an excuse."

　"Mikasa-senpai, please don't worry. I will try my best to keep them under control." Nagato promised.

　Nagato continued, "In the international situation, the United States wants to accuse Japan of reviving militarism in order to provoke China and get China to join them in imposing sanctions on us.

　Fortunately, China did not fall for this trick and instead revealed the true intentions of the United States in a subtle and indirect way.

　"China is indeed a country worthy of close friendship and is not easily tricked by the Americans. Unlike South Korea, which only barks at the back of the United States like a dog." Mikasa was pleased with China's response.

　Nagato lowered his head in thought. "I've been wondering what other actions the US might take against us besides media attacks and economic sanctions..."

　"Judging from history, we need to be careful in the waters surrounding Japan," Nagato made an educated guess. "The US is likely to repeat to us what they did in the South China Sea in the summer of 16."

　Mikasa widened her eyes and said, "To be honest, I have considered this possibility, but I think it is unlikely.

　I think the US shouldn't fail to consider the number of shipgirls Japan currently possesses. Even if the US military's human fleet of shipgirls were to join forces, we, along with the Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Air Self-Defense Force, would still have a slightly greater chance of victory."

　"But what if the United States uses nuclear weapons? We are not like China. We don't have nuclear bombs as a trump card." Nagato recalled the painful memories at the crossroads, his expression a little gloomy.

　"..." Mikasa didn't know how to respond for a moment. Nagato's reminder made Mikasa remember that the United States is a nuclear power.

　Mikasa lowered her head slightly, staring at her reflection in the cup of green tea, and began to think about Nagato's concerns.

　After a long while, Mikasa began to explain her thoughts: "Even so, I think the possibility of the United States launching a nuclear attack is not high.

　The US's condition for deploying nuclear weapons is to use them first in the event of a "serious non-nuclear strategic attack." Does the Yakushima incident qualify as a "serious non-nuclear strategic attack?" Furthermore, we were not responsible.

　In addition, in modern times, given Japan's geographical location, it is impossible for it to use nuclear weapons without considering the attitudes of China and Russia.

　"This next statement may be self-deprecating, but from the US perspective, Japan is merely a pawn. The US will not use nuclear weapons over the gain or loss of a single pawn. Furthermore, this isn't the Cold War. The US didn't use nuclear weapons during the height of the Cold War, so why would it use them today?"

　"Mutsu, stop eavesdropping outside and come in. I have been noticing you for a long time." Nagato did not respond to Mikasa immediately, but opened the cabin door and shouted outside.

　"Ah, Senior Mikasa's analysis is really brilliant~" Mutsu smiled and applauded, then entered the room from outside the cabin and praised Mikasa:

　"Senior, your analysis of the current situation in East Asia is brilliant and coherent. Listening to one of your words is truly worth ten years of reading."

　"Mutsu-san, you're too kind. I was just expressing some simple opinions..." Mikasa said tactfully and modestly.

　Mutsu came over to Mikasa and Nagato and took a seat.

　After taking their seats, Mutsu asked Mikasa, "Mikasa-senpai's unique understanding of modern situations and weapons must be inseparable from his diligence and love of learning. I have a question that I would like to ask Mikasa-senpai. Is that convenient?"

　Mikasa nodded slightly. "Of course, it's my duty to teach and enlighten the younger generation. Please speak, Mutsu-san.

　. "

　"Then may I ask Senior Mikasa, what are the main characteristics and contents of cyber information warfare?" Mutsu asked seriously with a smile.

　"Ah? Cyber...information warfare...?" Mikasa was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

　Seeing this, Nagato felt ashamed: "Mutsu, you are doing this on purpose, right?! Why are you bringing up such a topic?"

　So she immediately scolded her sister and tried to save her senior: "Mutsu, don't be rude."

　"It seems that seniors still need to study hard to keep up with the information age~" Mutsu chuckled and joked with his seniors.

　Nagato: "Mutsu!"

　……

　After the joke, the three of them began to discuss other serious matters, including domestic and foreign affairs, social economy and military.

　After a long time, the three people who had been chatting happily ended the discussion and went about their own business.

　After Nagato saw Mikasa off, he noticed that Mutsu had a little squirrel in his hand, and it was looking at him with squinted eyes and a smile.

　"What's wrong?" Nagato asked.

　"It's okay..." Mutsu still kept smiling.

　Nagato walked past Mutsu and said, "If everything is alright, I'll go back to the cabin."

　Watching his sister walk away with her back to him, Mutsu held the squirrel in his hand and imitated Nagato's movements of rubbing the squirrel in the bathhouse, saying cutely, "I didn't expect that even the flagship would like to act like a spoiled child sometimes~"

　When Nagato heard this, he turned around with a startled look, his face as red as a ripe Fuji apple.

　"Eh?!"