I, Asuna, don't want to travel around the world

Because of the twisted infectious power of the Kamen Riders, the spies sent to Asuna by Minister Ernest and General Budd either defected or were completely wiped out, making them realize clearly that if Asuna's forces were allowed to expand to other areas, then in the near future, all the soldiers of the empire might be infected and become members of the Kamen Riders.

The infectiousness was comparable to that of an infectious disease, and even made them wonder if Asuna had obtained some imperial weapon that could control people's minds. As a result, whenever they met Asuna, they were very cautious, fearing that they would be controlled by Asuna and become a member of the Kamen Rider Group.

This trip to the imperial capital also allowed Asuna to thoroughly get to know Minister August and General Budd.

He was so corrupt that he ate so much that he became a fat man. The fat on his face made him look particularly disgusting when he smiled.

General Bud, although an upright man who serves the empire wholeheartedly, is too old-fashioned.

Even though he knew that Minister Ernest was a disaster, he always followed his ancestral teachings and believed that military generals should not interfere in politics.

Hmm? Let's learn more about the yellow robe.

One is corrupt, the other is pedantic; one is in power, the other is conservative.

Well, this empire has been able to last so long under the leadership of the two of them, it really has a deep foundation.

Because she had no connections at all in the imperial capital, Asuna reached an agreement with the two of them, met with the young emperor, and promoted her position to general, then returned to her base.

Kayaba Akihabara was sent by Asuna to find the officials who were forced out of the court by Minister Ernest, hoping to recruit them under her command to help her manage government affairs.

Asuna was not afraid of him running away, because as long as she wanted, Xavier's body and Kayaba Akiya's soul crystal would return to her warehouse and they would not be able to escape at all.

And Kayaba Jingyan seemed to understand this. Even though she was using a female... not even a human body, she was still optimistic about approaching every plant and tree in this world.

And from time to time he would let out one or two inexplicable exclamations.

Especially when Asuna defeats the alien imperial weapon users and hands their imperial weapons over to Kayaba Akigao for research, this guy will return to his original state and become a thorough scientific researcher.

If it weren't for the fact that Xavier was already a level 6 adventurer, she might not have survived until Kayaba Akihabara's scientific research was completed.

However, even Kayaba Jingyan was confused when faced with those imperial tools with strange powers and had no idea where to start.

He went in with the imperial weapon, and came out of the room a few days later with big dark circles under his eyes, but the imperial weapon had not changed at all.

Because of this, Asuna gave up her research on imperial tools.

After all, without the corresponding talents under your command, even if you have the corresponding finished products, you will not get any results.

However, if she took a few imperial tools to find the god Hephaestus, maybe she could figure out something.

After all, he is the God of Forging. Even if he can't figure out the principles behind the composition of SAO items, it should be possible for him to study how imperial items are made, right?

(Hephaestus: I feel a deep distrust!)

21 I shouldn't have...

After returning to the North, Asuna made a prompt decision and sent troops to attack and wipe out the foreign soldiers hiding in the North and West.

After the rear was stabilized, the new policy, which had only been a pilot program, was promoted and implemented rapidly according to the different situations in different places.

Asuna's mission progress is also slowly increasing with the implementation of the new policy.

As the northern and western ethnic groups surrendered one after another, the southern ethnic groups seemed to be afraid that the army led by Asuna would come to attack them, so they stopped the war very willingly, laid down their arms, and settled down.

Without the disturbance of war, Asuna began to disperse the Kamen Riders throughout the territory, using their twisted infectious power to recruit the other city guards who had not yet returned.

Reorganize the army, develop agriculture, and improve public security. What Asuna needs to do now is to ensure that the people in her territory have enough food to eat and are free from disturbances from corrupt officials and gangsters.

Moreover, with the return of Kayaba Akihabara, those ministers who were squeezed out of the court by Minister Ernest were also entrusted with important tasks by Asuna.

In this court where Minister Ernest has absolute power, any minister who dares to go against him is basically determined to die.

After all, it's General Bud's fault for not taking care of things.

If they all imitate the Calabash Brothers to save their grandfather, it would be strange if they were not committing suicide.

Although they survived in the end because of General Bud, they were still stripped of their official positions and returned to their families to live out their lives.

As for whether they will be unknown in their later years, that depends on whether Minister Ernest remembers their names.

So, when Kayaba Akihabara appeared in front of them and invited them to work under Asuna, they all agreed.

Nonsense, everyone knows that the weird woman who wears a mask all day is a rising star in the military. If we help her govern her territory well, maybe we can persuade her to oust Minister Ernest and restore order to the empire!

Thinking of this, these former ministers brought their families and moved to Asuna's territory to settle down.

It’s okay if I run away, but what if Minister Ernest targets my relatives and friends?

So the whole family must relocate!

Fortunately, under the protection of a group of Kamen Rider soldiers, these people arrived at Asuna's territory safely.

Moreover, because she spent too much time with those soldiers, they were gradually infected by their fanatical beliefs and gradually regarded Asuna as the savior who could save the empire!

(Asuna:???)

Although there were a few fanatical fans who appeared out of nowhere, Asuna still had great respect for these stubborn people who dared to go against Minister Ernest.

In addition, since they had become her fanatical supporters, Asuna had no hesitation in handing over several major cities in the north and west to them for management.

And the facts proved that they were indeed capable of governing those cities well, and Asuna's trust was not in vain.

The order that had been lost in the war was gradually re-established, and with the development of the New Deal, people's lives were improved far beyond the past.

Local officials were gradually replaced by his own subordinates. Although many of them were men of Minister Ernest and General Budd, there was nothing he could do about it. Who made them violate the laws of the New Deal?

Moreover, they were far away in the north and the west, and had no time to seek shelter from their own backers, so Asuna simply confiscated the property of those who were seeking their own death and exiled them.

I believe that those guys with big bellies will be very popular among the foreign races.

Um, good human oil?

As the new policy gradually spread, the north and the west were completely brought under Asuna's control.

And all this is thanks to the twisted appeal of the Kamen Riders.

Even Asuna and Kayaba Akihabara were confused as to how their infectious power came about.

Clearly Asuna was just fighting and eliminating dissidents, and then caring for her subordinates and winning their hearts after the war?

How come those guys got infected for no apparent reason?

Is it just because Asuna is a girl? And she wears a mask, and people imagine her to be cold on the outside but warm on the inside?

In that case, those male officers would be too miserable!

During this period of time, Asuna did send people to look for the traces of Akame and Kurome, but within her control, there was no news about the sisters, which made Asuna gradually become discouraged.

It took Asuna three years to rise from an unknown soldier on the battlefield to the top of the empire. Although she used many shady means during this period, in Asuna's view, those "victims" all deserved it.

However, even though she had such great power, she still could not find the two missing sisters. This made her suspect that Akame and Kurome might have died long ago, but she just didn't want to believe it.

Because the new policy has spread throughout the north and the west, and those vile underground transactions such as human trafficking have always been Asuna's main targets, so in the north and the west, those disgusting underground transactions will face military encirclement and suppression once discovered.

At the beginning, there were still people who took the risk, but after the incident their heads were hung on the city wall, no one dared to take the risk anymore.

Even in the North and West, casinos and brothels were completely abolished.

As for those who oppose the protest?

Are you too idle to go to casinos and brothels to kill time, wasting time and money?

Isn’t your wife nice?

Huh? No wife?

All right then, come with me to open up new land.

It can help you exercise your body and develop local agriculture at the same time, allowing you to make some contribution to your hometown.

A powerful army, strict but controllable laws, and sanctions that far exceeded the speed of the empire's legal enforcement capabilities made crimes in the city disappear one after another.

And peace, long-awaited, returned to the people of the North and West.

As the leader of this vast territory, Asuna naturally doesn't have to do everything herself.

With the restoration of order, Asuna's own administrative agency and think tank have already been established, and some major and minor political affairs will be handled by them.

Of course, Asuna will have to review it before it can be fully implemented.

The elite soldiers of the Kamen Rider Group were gradually handed over to the management of Kayaba Akihabara.

This is an old job for Kayaba Akihabara, except that she has changed from the leader of the Blood Knights to the leader of the Kamen Riders.

Also, because he's used to using Xavier's body, this guy's behavior has become more and more feminine recently.

Asuna felt a little regretful. She should not have put his soul crystal into Yves's body...

22 Ageless Face

By now, the territory under Asuna's command can be said to be completely independent from the empire.

Although the total area of ​​land connected by the north and the west is only one-fifth of the vast empire, this one-fifth of the land is the only area in the entire empire with no peace issues.

As for other places, they are still in chaos in every sense of the word.

And those places are beyond the reach of Asuna now.

Based on the conditions for her promotion at the time, Asuna could only reform the northern and western regions. Although many of Minister Ernest and General Bud's cronies were exiled in the process, those guys all deserved their punishment. For those with less serious crimes, Asuna would give them face and after a little punishment, she would throw them to the Kamen Riders for spiritual transformation.

Minister Ernest and General Bud's relatives were expelled back to the imperial capital by Asuna.

Whether those people are killed or brainwashed, it will make the relationship between the two sides tense. Instead of taking action against them, it is better to throw them back to the imperial capital and let them compete with others for interests, and the situation will become a dog-eat-dog situation.

Therefore, although the exile of their cronies offended Minister Ernest and General Budd, they did not offend them to the point of completely breaking off relations because they did not attack their relatives.

Moreover, because of the original agreement, Asuna would not side with either camp. However, under the guidance of Kayaba Akihabara and her think tank, the North and West led by Asuna unknowingly became a third-party camp independent of the two major camps.

However, even so, Asuna does not think that with her current strength, she can completely eliminate the corruption that has accumulated in the empire for thousands of years.

　Crowdfunding Group ④五⑥壹二７９４０ After all, compared to the empire that has existed for a thousand years, the power established by Asuna is just a baby that has just started to walk.

More efforts are still needed to clean up the empire.

As the North and West developed, the foreign races that once traded with the Empire also expressed their willingness to surrender.

The overall strength of these alien races is not very strong, and even among the alien groups they belong to the middle and lower classes. Therefore, when they saw that the North and West, which had been in constant war, began to develop and gradually prosper, they all wanted to surrender.

Anyway, they are a group that is bullied wherever they go, so they might as well change the map and make new developments.

However, although Asuna accepted these aliens who came to surrender and arranged for the Kamen Riders to surrender spiritually, problems still arose.

"The people on the border of the empire have a deep hatred for the people of other races because of the long years of fighting. Even though I have arranged for the soldiers of the Kamen Riders to mediate, the conflicts still continue."

In Asuna's office, Kayaba Akihabara said to Asuna while flipping through the documents in her hand.

"Racial conflicts are always difficult to mediate." Asuna sat behind her desk, looking at Kayaba Akiya in a secretary outfit, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly: "Also, can you change into something more normal, Kayaba!"

"Hmm?" Kayaba Akihiko, whose body is that of Yves but whose physical gender is female, asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Is it not suitable? I feel fine."

As he spoke, he lowered his head to look at the clothes he had specially tailored for him, and nodded with satisfaction.

"And I've been using this body for almost three years. I'm so familiar with it that I've completely regarded it as my own."

"ah--"

Asuna covered her head and sighed.

"If I find a body that suits you, I will definitely change it for you!"

Finally, he said viciously.

"What a bad taste! I finally got familiar with the female body, but in the end I had to change it back."

"So you don't want to become a man?!"

"I kind of miss being a man." Kayaba Akihabara looked out the window. "But, my current identity is the leader of the Kamen Riders. If I suddenly change to a male leader, I'm afraid those guys under me will be dissatisfied."

"…We'll talk about this issue later."

Asuna couldn't help but get a headache when she thought of those stubborn guys.

"Let's solve the problem with those alien races first. By the way, throw away these clothes when you get back!"

Although Yves's appearance is also very stunning, no matter how you look at her, she is the wild and warlike type. It really scared Asuna to see Kayaba Akigao suddenly change into a secretary's uniform and even enter her office without a mask.

"I think it's pretty good." Kayaba Akihabara muttered softly, and then discussed the conflicts between the border people and the alien races with Asuna.

Soon after, Asuna issued a new decree in the area under her jurisdiction.

In general, it means that you are not allowed to bully or discriminate against people of other ethnic groups who have surrendered, you are not allowed to bully mixed-race people of other ethnic groups, local officials and law enforcement agencies cannot discriminate, deliberately slow down the handling of affairs related to other ethnic groups, etc.

Later, Asuna established a large number of orphanages, nursing homes, sanatoriums, etc. in many cities, providing free shelter for homeless children, elderly people, and people who were injured and disabled in the war.