It seems France has finally started moving.
Even if the Roman Catholic Church is pestering them from behind, that was a rather obedient response. Blowing up the sole land route connecting England and France is going to do quite a bit of damage to France's economy. And yet they still blew up all three undersea tunnels.
Even so, they're better off than England.
True enough. True enough.
For an island country like England, having its sole land route destroyed is like having half its life line severed. They're currently increasing the travel over the sea and air routes to prevent a shortage of materials, but the costs that brings will bring their debt over the limit before long.
It's because taking the same amount of luggage by plane costs significantly more than by train.
Some optimistic critics are saying they can solve this by using sea transportation, but that's impossible. When the Eurotunnel opened, a number of ports were destroyed in order to give precedence for using the undersea tunnel. If they tried to go back to only using sea transportation, they would find themselves oversaturated with luggage to transport. Things would end up as congested as the area around the cash register at a department store during a good sale and the pure amount of luggage would make it all fall apart.
It'll probably take at least 3 months to repair the undersea tunnel. Until that's done, the store shelves just aren't going to be the same. Also, there are many different complicated ideas about how the repair work should be done, so it would be surprising if that didn't get stalled somewhere or other.
Hm? Yes, yes. That's exactly right.
France is backed by the European countries under Rome and Russia's control. In response, it seems England has asked Academy City and America for help.
Ah.
You mean the war between the Euro and the Dollar.
America took the brunt of the economic blow caused by the C-Document incident in Avignon. Because of that, investors have already moved their attention elsewhere. Because they realize what a crisis they're in, they're extremely afraid of the Euro and Yuan markets becoming active. Enough that they're even willing to sabotage their enemies.
That's the idiotic result caused by that incompetent Terra of the Left.
You know the details, right?
You did finish him off yourself, after all.
This incident was directly caused by the hundreds of years of antagonism between England and France. However, now that an Americentric economy has come into conflict with a Eurocentric economy, that antagonism has gone into a cold war between England and France.
Europe is certainly in a rough state, isn't it?
This isn't a simple war between two countries that's starting here.
It won't end there.
It seems there's something that bastard Fiamma wants badly enough to turn Europe into a sea of flames. And what really pisses me off is that it's that very same Fiamma that has almost complete control over the forces of Rome and Russia. Even if you or I gave an order, no one would obey it. We have no authority left.
Are you still going to go?
It's true that you are fairly powerful. In a straight fight, you'd be stronger than me.
But will your power be enough to deal with a calamity that can destroy entire countries if not the entire world? You will have no enemies, no allies, and no direction. You will be attacked evenly from all sides like in a disaster film. Will your power be enough to deal with a situation like that?
Well, if you say you're going to go, then fine.
I have no right to stop you and I have no reason to care if you die.
I just want to tell you my own plans. I won't be going. Ah? Don't mock me. This isn't because I'm afraid. I can't use my Divine Punishment spell anymore. And you may be a bit different, but God's Right Seat can't use normal magic and spiritual items. I'll just be going from place to place making the proper preparations.
My plan is going to shock Fiamma a lot more than just going straight there.
You can't order me around.
You go on your path and I'll go on mine.
Hm?
What happened to my never saying never?
Who cares?
I just said that back then because I felt like it. Do I really look like someone who would restrict myself like that?