Chapter 224 – The Manchurian Incident (2)

(So the decisive battle is on a Friday, huh.)

It’s not the title of that song I once heard in a distant memory, but in my previous life, the day the incident broke out, September 18, 1931, was indeed a Friday.
Though rather than a “decisive battle,” it might be more accurate to call it “D-Day” or “X-Day.”

That aside, ever since September 8, when the Manchurian Party put forward the deposed emperor Puyi and carried out the “Restoration of Puyi” and establishing the “Provisional Government of Manchuria,” I haven’t been able to stop worrying about how things would unfold.

For now, the world’s reaction to the “Provisional Government of Manchuria” has been muted. In most countries, Manchuria is someone else’s problem.

The reactions of the directly involved parties, Japan, Red Russia, and the Republic of China, have also been