“Ah~! I want to take Manchuria!”

“Don’t shout it out loud, you idiot.”

Ah, damn, I couldn’t hide my dark desire again.
But there was no helping it.
When you play a strategy simulation game where you spread out a world map and repeatedly take over territories, anyone naturally feels the stirrings of an imperialist instinct.

The friend next to me, who was giving me a hard time just five minutes ago over the underhanded tricks of the despicable Allied forces, had also spilled his dark desires freely in pursuit of his Greater Germany dreams. That was undeniable.

“Come on, how can the game progress if you don’t take Manchuria starting as Joseon?”

“I get that, but I told you not to shout it out loud, you moron.”

“But compared to guys who just want to sleep with women or steal data fragments, wanting to take Manchuria seems pretty harmless, right?”

“…Is that so?”

Yes, exactly.
Moving a border a little is definitely harmless.
My friend’s screen, where he had just annexed Austria to shift Germany’s border during the Anschluss, proved it.

“Still, ‘taking Manchuria’ is such a lewd term, so I think it’s better to hold back a bit in a place with so many people.”

God.

Thinking about it, he was right, and I couldn’t argue.
Yes, swallowing Manchuria whole was clearly an excitingly lewd idea.
Shouting such obscene words in public was undoubtedly wrong.

“Sorry, I didn’t think it through. I’ll be careful from now on.”

“No, realizing it now is enough. Just watch out in the future.”

We ended the warm conversation and tried to focus back on the game.

Just then, a faint jolt ran through my body, and I sensed something ominous as I tried to stand.

Crackle, bang!

With a huge impact, my friend and I were thrown backward and tumbled across the floor.
The shock was so strong that I didn’t even have time to feel the pain before my consciousness began to fade.

The last thing I saw in my fading awareness was the message on the monitor, which had surely been destroyed:

‘Ugh, disgusting. Just leave.’

Wasn’t the truly disgusting thing the messy state of the Korean Peninsula nations, which had never once established a clean order apart from Joseon?

It was my final thought before taking my last breath on Earth.