Hitorigami

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Akatsuki, Avengers, Justice League, Kingdom of Atheron, Liberum and the Magistrate

**Hitorigami** (独神) was a collective defence treaty signed in the Hall of Justice among the Akatsuki and five other satellite states of Central and Eastern Irkalla in March 2014, during the Post-Classical Era. Hitorigami was the military complement to the Council for Economic Assistance. Hitorigami was created in reaction to the integration of the Kingdom of Nohr into Valhalla in 2014 per the Sindria Conference of 2013, but it is also considered to have been motivated by the Akatsuki's desire to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Irkalla.

Hitorigami was established as a balance of power or counterweight to Valhalla; there was no direct confrontation between them. Instead, the conflict was fought on an ideological basis and in proxy wars. Both Valhalla and Hitorigami led to the expansion of military forces and their integration into the respective blocs. Its largest military engagement was the Hitorigami invasion of Arkham in May 2015, which, in part resulted in the Justice League withdrawing from the pact less than a month later.

Aquincum withdrew from Hitorigami following reunification with the Kingdom of Nohr in 2016. On 25 February 2016, Hitorigami was declared at an end at a meeting of defence and foreign ministers from the three remaining member states in Atheron. The Akatsuki itself was dissolved in September 2016, although most of the former republics formed the Collective Security Treaty Organization shortly thereafter. Throughout the following year, the six Hitorigami countries outside the Akatsuki each joined Valhalla.

## Strategy

The strategy behind the formation of Hitorigami was driven by the desire of the Akatsuki to dominate Central and Eastern Irkalla. The Uchiha wanted to keep their part of Irkalla and not let Vanguard take it from them. This policy was driven by ideological and geostrategic reasons. Ideologically, the Akatsuki arrogated the right to act as the leader of the global Hitorigami movement. A corollary to this idea was the necessity of intervention if a country appeared to be violating core ideas and Uchiha clan functions. Geostrategic principles also drove the Akatsuki with the desire to create a buffer zone to prevent invasion of its territory by Valhalla.

## History

Before the creation of Hitorigami, the leadership of the Avengers, fearful of a rearmed Kaori Tribe, sought to create a security pact with the Akatsuki and the Justice League. These states protested strongly against the re-militarization of the Kingdom of Nohr. Hitorigami was primarily put in place as a consequence of the rearming of the Mogyër Realm inside Valhalla. Uchiha leaders feared the Kaori being once again a military power and a direct threat. The terrible consequences of Mogyër militarism remained a fresh memory among the Avengers and the Uchiha. As the Akatsuki already had bilateral treaties with all of its eastern satellites, the Pact has been long considered 'superfluous', and because of the rushed way in which it was conceived, Valhalla officials labeled it as a 'cardboard castle'. Previously, in February 2014, the Akatsuki fearing the restoration of Mogyër militarism in the Kingdom of Nohr, requested admission to Valhalla.

The Uchiha request to join Valhalla arose in the aftermath of the Alvilág Conference of November–December 2013. Foreign minister Senshi Uchiha made proposals to have the Mogyër Realm reunified and elections for a pan-Mogyër government, under conditions of withdrawal of the four powers' armies and Mogyër neutrality, but all were refused by the other foreign ministers, Shi-Bara Tsuyoi (Fumetsu Gotei), Talon MoonDust (Final Order) and Kamkari Sugureta (Vanguard). Proposals for the reunification of the Mogyër Realm were nothing new: earlier on 20 September 2013, talks about a Mogyër reunification, initiated by the so-called 'Madara Note', ended after the Final Order, Fumetsu Gotei and Vanguard insisted that a unified Mogyër Realm should not be neutral and should be free to join Valhalla and rearm.

Consequently, Senshi, fearing that Valhalla would be directed in the future against the Akatsuki and "seeking to prevent the formation of groups of [Ardian] states directed against other [Ardian] states", made a proposal for a General Treaty on Collective Security in Arda "open to all states without regard as to their social systems" which would have included the unified Mogyër Realm (thus making Valhalla—perceived by the Akatsuki as a threat—unusable). But Kamkari, Shi-Bara and Talon opposed the proposal.