Chapter 70: More Painful Than a Gunshot Wound (2)

Then they might be satisfied just living peacefully on their island.

'No, no. Too optimistic thinking?'

Or who knows. They might appear again grinding their teeth after 30 years for a fate-betting rematch.

Whatever happens, it's our role to grasp and control East Asian hegemony from now on.

For now at least.

"Whew, finally feels like we're at the starting line."

I should probably be happy about preventing the empire's collapse by winning the war.

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Currently during negotiations, the Japanese-Russian army front line was right above Pyongyang.

It's questionable to even call it a front line - most troops had withdrawn and even some who fled weren't strategically retreating but just running away to mountains or southern Korea saving only themselves.

Though battles ended, the Russian camp was still busy with over 40,000 dead and 80,000 wounded in the past 8 months, but within there was one group maintaining solemnity.