Japanese Diplomatic Mission to Parpaldia

**Japanese Diplomatic Mission to Parpaldia** is first contact with the Parpaldia Empire where the Japanese envoys send a delegation in order to begin preparations for diplomatic negotiations.

## Events leading to the Diplomatic Mission

After Rodenius War, the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs learned more about the Parpaldia Empire, a country located to the west from Philades Continent by the information and reports from the Qua-Toyne Principality, the Fenn Kingdom and other countries. Parpaldia Empire belonged to the Third Civilization Area and was considered one of the world’s five superpowers.

When Fenn Kingdom refused to make a national dedication or a loan request from the Third Foreign Affairs Department, Parpaldia Empire dispatched the Imperial Oversight Army’s Eastern Fleet to the Kingdom of Fenn to punish them. The Fenn Kingdom and Japanese officials opened diplomatic talks to join the military festival with eight escort ships to protect against Parpaldia Empire.

In the Battle of Fenn Offshore, the JMSDF destroyer *Myouko* used its accurate gun to target the masts of his ships immobilizing them. Parpaldia Imperial Oversight Army’s Eastern Fleet withdrew completely intact.

Before Japanese officials left the Fenn’s palace, Fenn Knight-Captain Magreb told them the story that Parpaldia punished with their military in another country in the past. Parpaldia ambushed their dragon riders and massacred them. They then invaded and conquered that country. Anyone who defied Parpaldia was executed; everyone else was enslaved and sold off to other countries. The entire royal family, including anyone who had royal blood, was skewered and left to rot in front of the royal castle. The Parpaldia Empire was not only strong, but also arrogant and proud.

After being sent off with that horror story, the delegation made their way out of the palace and headed for the Amanoki harbor where the Japan Coast Guard’s *Inasa* anchored.

The Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided sending a delegation to Parpaldia Empire by cautions for requesting to open diplomatic relations.

## Third Foreign Affairs Department

The Parpaldia Empire’s third foreign affairs department was located in a facility outside the palace in the capital Esthirant. The third department was in charge of all countries outside the civilized area, also known as the “barbarian countries.” They were given leave to apply as much pressure as necessary to squeeze whatever they wanted from these countries. With permission from the Imperial Oversight Army, they were allowed to take punitive action on them whenever necessary. Because there were so many barbarian countries, 60% of the entire foreign affairs department worked here.

The national resource acquisition stratagem being executed behind the scenes in the Louria Kingdom had failed because the strategy team had moved independently. Because they had invested so many resources into it, it wasn’t possible for them to hide their failure, but all the information was currently still limited to the third foreign affairs department, so no one else knew about the country called Japan.

Before making progress in their negotiations with the Fenn Kingdom in few next months, a group of officials from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been stuck in this routine for three months when they visited for diplomatic negotiations with the Parpaldia Imperial Foreign Affairs Department because of the absence of the section manager.

The Japanese official tried to ask Raita at the reception window for allowing meeting with someone who has authority and gave him a documents state, but Raita despised Japan as a barbarian country outside of civilization at his discretion report on Japanese diplomats. He gave them another two weeks appointment available for the department manager.

Simply because Japan was located outside the civilized area, it was being treated as though its national power were a thousand times smaller. Now that efforts at communicating had failed, there was nothing else they could do. The Japanese Ministry officials despondently returned home. Those two weeks would turn out to be two extremely important weeks to Parpaldia, but, at the time, no one knew what the future held.

In next two weeks after the Eastern Fleet of the Imperial Oversight Army was defeated by the Japanese Navy off the coast of Fenn in the Battle of Fenn Offshore, the third foreign affairs department head, Kaios read the reports. He was busy to begin to collect information for research this new “enemy.” At the reception window, Raita apologized Japanese Ministry officials that couldn’t meet with the department head and postponed the schedule in another month, or later.

Unknown to them, Japan itself had caused this sudden increase in workload, leading to a lack of personnel to meet with them, so the officials once again despondently returned home.

## Arriving at the Third Department Head's Office

Next few months later, Asada Taiji, diplomat from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs with his assistant, Shinohara arrived at the reception window to ask Raita for the department manager’s schedule appointment. This time, Raita would simply escalate them to his bosses immediately.

An hour later, Raita apologized the Japanese diplomats for the wait and came them this way to the third department head’s office. They exchanged glances. To suddenly be taken to the department head was unexpected. The diplomats from other countries all looked up at the Japanese diplomats in shock. This would normally never happen. The Japanese diplomats were brought to a separate building with a window. The building was primarily white, with numerous columns covered in delicate carved art. The ceiling was ornamented with sculptures made of pure gold, showing off their national power. This display was certainly meant to intimidate representatives from other countries, but the representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just made idle chat in a waiting room.

While they were chatting, there came a knock on the door, then the clerk Raita entered. They walked through the building, turning several times before arriving at a stately door. They entered the office room after Raita and then introduced themselves.

## Meet The Diplomatic Officials

These people were all representing the Parpaldia Empire. Apparently, all of these diplomatic officials had a fair amount of power concerning foreign affairs. Asada could sense their authority as they introduced themselves.

* Kaios, Director of the Third Foreign Affairs Department
* Thall, Division Chief of the Eastern Affairs Division
* Barco, Chief of the Islands Section of the Eastern Affairs Division
* Nicolas, Respondent of the North Islands of the Eastern Affairs Division
* Menthal, Chief Head of all Archipelagic States

## Diplomatic Negotiation

Asada told the Third Foreign Affairs Department Kaios and his diplomatic officials that Japan believed they have engaged in an unfortunate misunderstanding with Parpaldia Empire, thus; they were hoping to repair their relationship and find out if there is still any possibility of establishing diplomatic ties.

The Eastern Isles Chief Barco suddenly stood up and yelled him about the Eastern Fleet of the Imperial Oversight Army eliminated because it had become the responsibility of the Third Foreign Affairs Department performed speaking close to the intimidation against Japan. Department head Kaios stopped him with a hand and bade him to sit back down.

Kaios asked him to introduce about Japan. Parpaldia Empire didn’t know anything about Japan if whether it deserved to be associated with the empire.

Asada explained them to introduce their country where it transferred from another world. His assistant Shinohara handed out a packet of materials to each Parpaldian present. They each looked at the documents in their hands curiously with pictures. The information was clearly written in the common language of Philades.

Eastern Affairs Division Chief Thall looked up. They didn’t have that much land; it was a medium-sized cluster of islands. However, their population of 120 million was almost twice as large as the empire’s 70 million. Even though they were outside the civilized areas, just like the Kingdom of Louria, their population was worthy of attention. However, the surprising thing wasn’t the population in and of itself, but rather the fact that they were this close to the empire yet no one ever realized that there was such a populous country there. He kept reading.

Kaios and his representatives didn’t believe about country transference like Mu’s myths and tall tales, as well as the legend of the ancient sorcerous empire’s transference. Asada responded them that they were still in the midst of investigating on the country transference. He requested that a Parpaldian ambassador to dispatch and experience to the country of Japan.

The information they gave to the Parpaldia Empire this time did not include Japan’s military capabilities, their absolute technological superiority, the number of passenger vehicles in use, images of the capital, or anything like that. They only put in innocuous stuff like their location, their population, local specialties, etc. Because they had heard that the empire was dangerous and prideful, they felt it would be better for an ambassador, one of their own people, to bring back that information based on her or his own first-hand experience. If the empire were a country that refused to send a special envoy, then there would be no possibility of a normal state relationship; that was the conclusion Japan had reached.

Parpaldia Empire ruled over five countries within the civilized areas, and sixty-seven countries outside the civilized areas, but overall they have colonized seventy-three countries including Altaras Kingdom. Kaios asked him if Japan conquered and rules their countries. Asada responded that Japan did not impose their rule over other countries. All the Parpaldian representatives broke out into laughter.

Kaios yelled the Parpaldian representatives to stop laughing by being rude to Japanese guests. He decided regarding their request to send Parpaldian ambassador to Japan for about next two months.

## Aftermath

However, two weeks later, Foreign Affairs Auditing Office Remille joined the First Foreign Affairs Department and took over as the diplomat in charge of all issues concerning the country of Japan from Kaios. She was upset at Kaios by seeing the notes for first meeting with Japan that he treated Japanese diplomat like state guests, not making “meticulously educate Japan” by the emperor’s orders. It was too late because two months were too long to wait for sending Parpaldian ambassador a diplomatic mission to inspect Japan before Parpaldia Empire began to invade on the Fenn Kingdom where Japanese tourists visited in the city Nishinomiyako.

Unfortunately, the diplomatic negotiation between Japan and Parpaldian Empire had failed. Asada negotiated with Remille where she would immediately begin ordering them and the nation of Japan to the following ludicrous demands. After Asada refused to accede to any of the Parpaldian demands, Remille then gave the order to execute 200 Japanese citizens in the Nishinomiyako thru a magical crystal tube.

After committing mass murder against 200 innocent Japanese citizens, the Japanese government had declared war on Parpaldia Empire for the first time in seventy years since World War II.

For more detail, see: Nishinomiyako Massacre and Battle of Fenn Kingdom

## Trivia

* In the manga version, only two diplomatic officials, Thall and Barco, represent beside Director Kaios to negotiate diplomacy with Asada and Shinohara at the third department head's office. However, Nicolas and Menthal don't appear as five diplomatic officials from the light and web novel.

## Gallery

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