Event Occupation Raid Kanda Brigade

Igawa Sakura fighting Kanda Brigade

The **occupation** of Gosha Village by the Kanda Brigade was performed by the Japanese military, GSDF. It was done under the orders of the prime minister, which had framed the Taimanin for the murder of a politician.

An event exclusive to Canon Timeline happening during Taimanin Asagi 3. A much less impactful version occurs also in TABA and RPGX, but both fail early and are done very different.

## Event Timeline

### Pre Event

In the Canon Universe and TABA, Koujirou Asai was the current new prime minister of Japan. Unlike his friendly demeanor to the Taimanin would suggest, he planned to find an excuse to attack Gosha Village. While the DSO still collected evidence of his shady dealings, and connection to Nomad and UFS pro-nomad forces, Asai send Igawa Asagi out on a secret mission, during a time that most high profile Taimanin were not in Gosha Village. The former, now dead, corrupt finance minister Yamazaki Shin, had based on Asai's statements stolen large amounts of money and data, storing it at his summer home, which was still guarded by demonic Beastman. As a matter of national security, Asagi was meant to go alone and in secret, but all this was in fact a lie to get her away from Gosha and create justification for an attack on the village. When Asagi arrived, she found "Chief Cabinet Secretary" Nonomura Hiroo, dead, unknown to her forced to commit suicide as a result of Asai blackmailing him. Asagi and the Taimanin as a whole became instantly framed for their actions, and a group of Kanda Brigade soldiers and Raiden units attacked Asagi, which only survived thanks to the DSO's Masked Taimanin.

The Kanda Brigade was an independent army corp active of Japan, in the Peninsula Conflict. Suspected of numerous war crimes, from massacring non-combatants to looting, assaulting women, and other crimes, they were heavily favored for their excellence in combat and ease of use. However, stationed these past years on a northern island and blood starved since.

### Event

On national television, Asai proclaimed that the Chinese Union had assassinated Nonomura Hiroo, which forced the nation to now reconsider their standing with the UFS and fully join them for protection. Additionally, both martial law and a hard curfew were enforced for the time being, to get rid of all traitors within Japan. Behind this official statement to the public, Asai accused Asagi and all Gosha Taimanin for assassination and marked them as traitors. With now given power by martial law, he sent out the Kanda Brigade a very loyal and cruel part of the military to take over Gosha. These troops already very close to Gosha, as the whole situation was preplanned, had the village surrounded with a very large amount of troops and their new weapons the Raiden.

Both Igawa Sakura and Yatsu Murasaki were the only high level Taimanin currently stationed in Gosha and took over the defense, but the Gosha Village became overrun fast and soldiers appeared already near Gosha Academy. Akiyama Tatsuro, was sent out with a large amount of untrained student through a mountain path to escape, but they would run into 1000 soldiers stationed around this area and half of the students were killed with the rest being captured.

While Sakura and Murasaki were able to take down a few Raiden units and were able to defend the Academy at first. As soon as, captain Konou and major Kanda himself, appeared on the battlefield the fight was over, as they rolled over the head of one of the students and demanded surrender.

Tents were constructed around the Academy and Gosha Village was fully under occupation. The other students, were imprisoned in the Academy Gym, while Sakura and Murasaki became targets of torture and humiliation. The Brigade's next target was to collect information about Taimanin currently on missions and undercover, as well as any other hideout currently in use. Asagi, herself unable to return to the village, started to destroy the server rooms containing this information to protect the other students in Tokyo. The DSO Taimanin Koukawa Asuka, which at the time still assumed her adopted brother Sawaki Kosuke was at Gosha, came to his rescue and was able to free some of the Taimanin from the gym, which were able to escape thanks to a few of the more skilled members. Asuka encountered more soldiers, Fürst and in the end Edwin Black against whom she lost and almost died if the Masked Taimanin didn't come to her rescue. Though Asuka was able to escape damaged with her life, the Masked Taimanin herself died in her battle with Black. The commotion was heard even by Murasaki and Sakura, that at first assumed Asagi had arrived for rescue, but no such help ever came.

At some point, the brigade was able to collect the intel about the location of the server rooms, from some leftover students, but their torture of Sakura and Murasaki did not stop. Until they almost broke, but out of frustration and revenge, they killed both women and recorded the act. Those recordings were later shown to Asagi, when captain Konou and her crossed paths at the last server room location she just destroyed before he arrived. Unknown to both brigade and Asagi, both Sakura and Murasaki were recovered by Edwin Black which revived them with his demonic cells though, Demonization began and depending on ending route, they would become full demons or be saved by Koukawa Asuka and cured by Kiryu Sabato, which restored them to full health. Asagi herself was knocked out after she killed Konou, and forced to fight in the Demon Arena, which ended in a final confrontation with Edwin Black which turned out to be Koujirou Asai, the prime minister. In the vampire Asagi route, this confrontation resulted in the creation of the ZERO Universe and destruction of the former world, while in the true ending of the Asuka route, Black is killed by Asuka and Asagi and unable to use his ability.

* In TABA. An attack of Raiden, Brigade soldiers and Angers takes place that mirrors some of the events. Fuuma Kotaro used the confusion to capture both Angers and Kiryu Mikoto. The whole fight, resembling the Kanda Brigade attack, with Murasaki and Sakura fighting near the Academy. It seems to be more of a weapon test or mock battle.
* In RPGX. The Kanda Brigade attacks Mizuki Mansion, by secret orders of the Internal Affairs Bureau but is beaten back. They use the confusion to free Major (of Task Force G) a prisoner of Gosha at the time. Kanda himself as returned with a new design and works closer with Task Force G's David Dahl and the Internal Affairs Bureau of Mine Funako. This group of people does not work with Edwin Black.

### Post Event

With "Asai" dead, Yamamoto Nobushige was able to correct the false information spread, thanks to letters from Nonomura Hiroo that also incriminated Asai as the true perpetrator. As a result, both the official blame on Chinese Union and the behind scenes blame on the Taimanin, was taken back, and the occupation was ended, with the Kanda Brigade ordered back to base. The chaos created was further resolved by Yamamoto's political maneuvering and Igawa Asagi returned once more to Gosha together with Murasaki, Sakura and Kosuke. Nomad became much weaker thanks to the death of Edwin Black but also death or disappearance of the high ranking members Oboro, Fürst and Ingrid.

A group of other (Incubus) demons is mentioned, which now have shown up to fill the power vacuum created from Edwin Black's death, but the Taimanin and DSO remain optimistic.

## Trivia

* Given the large death toll of half the student body of Gosha Academy, it can be wondered if any of the now introduced online only characters have died in the normal canon timeline.
* Some confusing aspect of Taimanin Asagi 3 is that Akiyama Tatsuro lead the group of students, but then he is never seen again and instead a "hinted" Rinko, his sister, rescues the students from the gym. Rinko is suggested as the text states that, she is the best Sword user in Gosha and her pointing out that she understand, the type of love that Asuka feels for her brother as she is the same. However, as the game directly states, both Rinko and Yukikaze are not currently in the village. It also is odd that while Tatsuro is fully named as such, Rinko is only suggested. Additionally, if Tatsuro was part of a group in which half of them were killed, why does Rinko "a massive brocon" character never address his status as escaped, with me or dead while talking to Asuka about brothers. Based on fan speculation and any interviews, this seems to be a result of a rewrite mistake. As they planned, Tatsuro (somebody skilled in concealed movement) to rescue the people from the gym and escape unnoticed. However, obtained a voice actress and decided to make it Rinko instead. Then noticed the issues, so made it ambiguous enough, not to remove the already paid voice actor lines but also kept Tatsuro from the original unchanged script. This obvious still leaves some confusion and speculation to what really happened and why.