#425. Because humans are scary.
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“When the swordsman came, the Soviet Union was terrified.”
It was natural.
Those who led the Soviet Union at the time were the ones who led the revolution and massacred her family.
no. The Soviet Union, which was established after the collapse of the Russian Empire, and all the people who sympathized with the revolution were enemies to her.
That’s why the Soviet Union obsessively pursued its plan to confront the Sword Master.
However, in the end, the federation, which met the sword without any results, was in despair.
It was because they knew that if the Swordsman took revenge, they would have no choice but to be slain.
It was the age of heroes.
The Sword Master is the Absolute.
Because it was a time when everyone knew their strength and fear.
“But Swordsman didn’t want revenge.”
Ordinary citizens, of course.
Even in front of the chief clerk they captured and the enemies who shot her family directly, the swordsman did not pull out the sword.
Instead, I just asked for it.
self-righteousness as heir to the Russian Imperial Family.
The people, who were trembling in fear, accepted the demand as a matter of course.
She acknowledged that she was the rightful owner of the Soviet Union and gave everything from her territory to her property.
Including the right to life and death of the entire nation.
Everyone knew that, if she wanted to, everyone was as good as dead anyway.
However, the swordsman did not use that right.
He leased all his property and rights back to the country for an indefinite period and left the rule to himself, choosing only to watch from the throne.
It was the moment when a country unprecedented in history, a communist country ruled by an empress, was born.
“Are you trying to be a monarch who reigns but does not rule? The oppressor swordsman?”
“All the swordsman really wanted was to get his rights back.”
Is it because of the notoriety of the sword?
It’s like I can’t believe it.
Looking at Bachemenski, who was blatantly frowning, Limon said bitterly.
And muttered in a slightly subdued voice.
“…the biggest reason was that he didn’t want to disappoint his teacher.”
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“The irony is that the Soviet Union was able to escape the crisis thanks to the swordsman becoming the empress.”
In the first place, it started because of unreasonable efforts to make up for the absence of an absolute leader in the decline of the Soviet Union.
However, with the existence of an absolute swordsman, the Soviet Union was able to stop all plans and even reduce military spending.
For the federal government, it was a blessing in disguise.
“Even so, it was not possible to recover national power at once.”
No matter how absolute, the sword master is the sword master.
Although he could defend his country and fight the enemy, he could not perform the miracle of producing gold.
The situation in the Soviet Union at the time was so serious that even a few tons of gold could not solve it.
As a result, high-ranking members of the federal government, who came to their senses only belatedly, had no choice but to rack their brains over a country that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
“While contemplating how to solve the problem, the secretary at the time came up with a revolutionary solution.”
“…”
“It happened that their country had a lot of wealth and there was someone who would not say anything even if they took and spent the money to their heart’s content.”
I guess I guessed what was going to happen.
Looking at Sergei, who was silent and her eyes darkened even more, Ekatriche twitched her lips slightly.
“It’s our silver dragon clan.”
The Seven Dragons of the time, if not as much as the present, were also an organization that gained enormous wealth by ruling the world’s crimes.
In addition, as it was an open enemy enough to be called the Demonic Cult, it was possible to solve the finances at once by beating them.
The problem was that plundering the Seven Dragons, which had countless masters, was a crazy idea.
They had an afterword.
“The Swordsman gladly accepted the federal government’s plea to defeat the Silver Dragon Clan who exploited the people.”
In fact, the silver dragon clan at the time was a criminal organization that stole and copied technology from all over the place to print and sell counterfeits.
Whether as a ruler who protects his people.
Or as a swordsman’s apprentice.
Swordsman willingly set out to subdue the silver dragon clan.
The silver dragon clan fought against it desperately, but that was only the first time.
Even the silver dragon princess of the time, who had managed to draw with the swordsman, had no choice but to run away to protect her family.
He left the enormous wealth he had accumulated in the base as it was.
“The Soviet Union solved its financial problems with the money plundered from us by the swordsman.”
Thus came the heyday of the Soviet Union.
A strong guardian called Swordsman.
The property stolen from the silver dragon clan.
Based on those two, the Soviet Union generously provided welfare and received cheers from all citizens.
“But the money looted from us ran out quickly.”
It was natural.
The Seven Dragons, which had been scattered in the form of point organizations to avoid sword attacks, were also scattered in hundreds of places.
After robbing some of them, all I could do was pee on my frozen feet.
However, if we reduce welfare and tighten our belts now, the people’s cheers will turn into anger.
In order to regain the people’s support, which had fallen due to the return of Swordsman, the policy that prioritized welfare came back as a boomerang.
“So the federal government has come up with another revolutionary idea.”
“…”
“The swordmaster secretly threatened our Silver Dragon clan to ‘repay’ the property on their own if they did not want to be hunted by the swordmaster.”
The Silver Dragon clan eventually accepted the threat.
It wasn’t just because the princess couldn’t risk being killed or injured.
It was the result of a cold-hearted judgment that it would be less damaging to pay moderately and be guaranteed safety than to repeatedly run away after the secret base was destroyed.
It was the moment when a nation that was unprecedented in history was born again, running state affairs with the money exploited by the Seven Dragons.
“Thanks to that, the Soviet Union was well-financed, but it had a hidden problem.”
“…You mean that the exploitation of the silver dragon clan got worse because of that?”
“Yeah, even our family doesn’t have infinite wealth. I had to get that money somewhere to give it to the government.”
The target of the exploitation, of course, became the people.
They hired workers at infinitely low wages and had them print fake copies to raise money for the reward.
The government, which received a reward from the silver dragon clan, tolerated it as a sacrifice for the country.
As a result, a bizarre structure was completed in which welfare was plentiful, but lower-class workers were forced to do harsh illegal labor.
“Because being human is scary.”
“…”
“For the sake of equality, you are thinking of exploiting the Seven Dragons as well as the Sword Master.”
If the definition of exploitation is to work without paying a fair price, then it was exploitation.
Originally, the sword master’s power, which could not be borrowed even with billions of dollars, was provided free of charge just for the sake of the country.
The silver dragon clan exploits the people.
Swordsman exploits the Silver Dragon clan.
The federal government is exploiting the swordsman.
The federal government gives to the people.
A country that has been completed in a truly terrible vicious cycle.
That was the reality of the Soviet Union, which all revolutionary forces now regard as an ideal state and which all Russians long for.
At the time, the majority of the people, excluding some who were exploited, could live by playing and eating.
“And this structural problem led to another problem.”
“…that power that is not monitored corrupts.”
“that’s right. High-ranking members of the federal government, who were the only ones in the system that weren’t exploited at the time, started siphoning off money.”
First a pack of cigarettes.
Or a bottle or two of booze.
However, that pack soon became a truck, a container, and a ship.
As much money was exchanged, the fact that even if they siphoned that much, it wouldn’t show, made them bold.
The problem is that it wasn’t just one or two people who were so bold.
And the more money that was siphoned off, the more people were exploited, while the welfare decreased.
10% initially.
Next time 30%
and eventually up to 70%.
The Soviet Union, which was established for workers’ freedom and equality, became a country that only enriched the ruling class by exploiting workers more than any other country.
Swordsman, who had been destroying only the bases of the Silver Dragon Clan for the sake of the country, did not realize that fact.
It was because the federal government used all means to give her a semblance of affluence.
As the youngest daughter of the imperial family when she was young.
Growing up, as a swordsman who lived in a sword tower for the rest of his life.
Unable to catch the time of the world, she was too naive to see through such circumstances.
“It was only after the federal government could no longer hide the rot of the country that the swordsmith noticed it.”
Protests everywhere.
Significantly reduced finances.
successive problems.
The Swordsman, who notices something strange and interrogates, and the citizens who realize the honeymoon between the Seven Dragons and the government and start a riot at any moment.
Meanwhile, the federal government was cornered.
“And here the federal government did something revolutionary again.”
“…”
“They left all responsibility to the swordsman.”
Responsibility cannot be avoided anyway.
So it’s better to minimize it.
And the best thing they thought of was to turn the anger of the people over to the Swordsman.
No matter how wild the people were, they wouldn’t dare to touch the Sword Master.
The problem was the wrath of the Swordsman…
“Maybe they thought. The punishment won’t be severe if the swordsman is soft enough to leave even the enemies of the family alone.”
After years of deceiving the swordsman, I knew that she had a strangely naive side.
and receive a prison sentence.
or sentenced to exile.
It was a decision that I was able to make confidently because I had siphoned off a huge amount of wealth to live with in prison as well as abroad.
“The swordsmith’s response was clear.”
One problem.
There was a significant error in that calculation.
“Immediately blew the heads of the entire federal government.”
they had to know
The fact that the swordsman kept them alive was only the result of following the teacher’s teachings.
It’s not because you’re merciful.
And that, even if you do favors, don’t become a hukou was also the teaching of the teacher she respected more than anyone else.
However, because the revolutionary government was annihilated, those who could prove the swordsman’s innocence also disappeared.
People came to believe that the Swordsman had exploited the country, made it rich, and silenced the federal government for exposing the truth.
At least to them, the federal government was great people who gave them money and food even if they didn’t work.
The outrage sparked nationwide riots.
“The interesting thing is that even the people of the Soviet Union viewed swordsman as a protector.”
“…”
“Otherwise, I wouldn’t have dared to hold a hostage against Swordsman.”
Imperial family attendants and maids who survived the past revolution.
An officer from a fallen aristocracy who was acquainted with the swordsmith.
Even those whom she helped by destroying the stronghold of the Silver Dragon clan.
Citizen forces who called themselves the New Revolutionary Army captured all those who had any ties to the swordsmen and made them hostages.
And threatened with a sword.
Put down the throne and compensate for the trouble you caused to the country.
By serving them like slaves for 1,000,000 years until the sword master’s eternal lifespan is over.
The swordsman naturally ignored their threats.
And he strongly recommended that the hostages be released, but
the result was the bodies of 20 hostages, including children up to 3 years old, sent in a trash can.
The moment when men saw a pile of corpses with clear traces of death after receiving all kinds of torture and women receiving all sorts of insults that they could not bear to speak of.
After the sword, let go of mercy.
I pulled out the sword given to me by my master.
…It was the moment when the most ruthless sword master oppressor in history was born.
