18. Tokyo earthquake

Yuriko let the remaining Aurors who still had combat power control the surviving Yokai Mountain, and she, along with several of the stronger Aurors and Sherlock, left the Daidoin shogunate and appeared on a street in Tokyo.

"This ...... What's going on? ”

If Tokyo at night looks like a beautiful girl who has taken off her simple clothes and changed into sportswear, then Tokyo is now a black city.

The night scene that used to be full of flowers is now not visible from afar.

"Is there a power outage in Tokyo?" Yuriko said suspiciously.

But in the end, Sherlock used his wand to release a bright light into the sky, which was as bright as a flashbang, allowing those around him to see how terrifying the scene was nearby.

The street that used to be full of high-rise buildings was now a pile of ruins, and Sherlock and Yuriko and the Aurors were the only places on the street where there were no ruins.

Soon Yuriko Ino could hear the subtle voice of a call, a cry for help, and the cries of everyone to come to the rescue.

"See? Obviously, this was caused by the earthquake, which meant that when the leader of Yokai Mountain opened the magic seal that sealed the demon gate, all the contents were actually released. ”

Sherlock pondered, "I've probably guessed that Abe Harumi should have sealed a very powerful earth force into the Demon Sealing Gate, and this earth force can't be done by Abe Harumi as a wizard, it's obvious that he is just a leader." ”

Sherlock went on to say, "Compared to the original Abe Harumi who first discovered this earthquake, and it was likely to bring more damage at the beginning, so Abe Harumi and other wizards worked together to seal this earth power, hoping to use time to wear off the earth power, but unfortunately, although hundreds of years have passed, the earth power has indeed worn out a part, but the rest of these are released, still causing great damage in Tokyo." ”

Sherlock sighed, and although he was very happy in his heart, he could not show it on his face.

"Damn...... If the Daishoin shogunate was still in its heyday, we would be able to ......"

Sherlock interrupted her, "What must be able to do so?" Stop this time from moving naturally? Or do you have Newt Scamander's ability to cleanse the Muggles of the entire city with the power of magical creatures, and then send a large number of Aurors to restore the city! ”

Sherlock shook his head, "You can't do it in your current state at all, and the Shogunate of the Great Daoyuan has lost so many Aurors this time because of Youkai Mountain, although it has eliminated Youkai Mountain, a cancer in the magical world, but the consequences and damage caused are really too great, I don't know how many Muggles will die in this Tokyo earthquake!" ”

That night, the Palmer Observatory in Alaska, the United States, quickly sounded a shocking alarm bell, and the world's major news agencies announced the disaster news to the world on the same day - the Hawaii Earthquake Observatory in the United States announced: A 7.5-magnitude earthquake occurred in Tokyo, Japan, with the epicenter near Mount Fuji!

It wasn't until the next day that the Japanese government began to quickly search for people buried under the rubble or even missing due to the earthquake, except for Tokyo, which was the place of suffering.

Because the earthquake occurred in the early hours of the morning, the preliminary statistics of the Japanese authorities put the death toll at about 160,000, which is a shocking number, and what is even worse is that the Tokyo earthquake contributed to the bursting of Tokyo's economic bubble.

Japan has to endure the casualties and losses caused by the Tokyo earthquake, and at the same time face the consequences of the domestic economic earthquake and the huge financial crisis.

So what is the impact of Japan's deadly economic rupture after the direct loss of 160,000 lives due to the Tokyo earthquake?

In the year 1991 Japan's famous suicide forest, where suicides peaked, the number of people exceeded 2,000.

Many Japanese multimillionaires have become tens of millions of losers.

After the earthquake and the economic collapse, the streets of Tokyo, which were not bustling with each other, are left in ruins.

Stocks plummeted further after house prices fell, falling by more than 80%, but no one dared to buy them.

The yen plummeted further, and in 1991 the yen fell by more than 30% against the dollar, causing the arrogant yen to fall off the altar and begin a 20-decade depreciation, and the Japanese who bought it disappeared from the world.

A large number of enterprises went bankrupt, more than 3,000 banks and real estate companies went bankrupt, and the pressure on employment in Japan was unprecedented, and low wages and long working hours almost became a stubborn disease in Japan.

Commodities are no longer in demand, and people are tightening their belts.

In the 90s, the rampant Japanese industry, many people were middle-aged women who were bankrupt and divorced, and female graduates who caught up with bad times, they also chose this industry with quick money.

Yakuza took advantage of the opportunity to expand and merge businesses and associations, and in the 90s, the number of yakuza in Japan reached its peak.

In 1991, the divorce rate in Japan skyrocketed, exceeding the normal level by 2.5 times, and many of them were bankrupt middle-class families.

The bankrupt Japanese, in order to survive, had to sell the goods they bought when they were rich, so Japan started a new second-hand monopoly business, among which shoes, bags, jewelry, antiques, etc. are more popular industries, and now Japan is the largest exporter of second-hand diamonds.

Before the economic collapse of Japan could think of countermeasures, it ushered in the biggest killer of the country: aging (Japan's elderly population is more than 20%, and the fertility rate has been lower than the death rate, making it the first developed country to enter the "decline" of the population).

And seeing the decline of Japan overnight, Sherlock can be regarded as indirectly playing an influential role, Abe Harumi may have sealed the power of earth movement behind the demon gate, or he may have sealed some curses that affected the country's national fortunes.

Now they were all released overnight.

The Hoseiin of the Daidoin Shogunate did not die, and he and Ino Yuriko quickly commanded the wizards of the shogunate, trying to deal with the end of the matter.

Kazemoyoichi resigned due to his dereliction of duty as a shogun, and Yuriko Ino took over the position of shogun, and Yuriko Ino dissolved her engagement with Kazemoyochi the next day.

The Youkai Mountain organization was destroyed overnight, and Sherlock contributed the most, but it was a pity that the witch was escaped by the sorceress of Chie Rii.

The overnight change in Japan shocked the wizarding world around the world, and it is rumored that the earthquake in Japan was also the result of a spell by the European Prince of Charms.

Sherlock didn't know why the outside world was spreading like this, he just used an Arajo cave to open it, but the shogunate of the Great Daoyuan was also strictly secretive, so people outside didn't know what happened.

Sherlock has been in Japan for almost a month, spending the summer vacation, until the day before the start of school, he told Yuriko Ino and Shoma Teramoto that he was leaving, and the book full of codex Sherlock also lifted the seal on the outside, in fact, there was only a short sentence inside.

"The fool's fool's fool's fool's joy, the joy of the happy, the wisdom of the wise."

Seeing this sentence, Shoma Teramoto and Yuriko Ino turned red, and this sentence seemed to mock all the Japanese wizards who were tightly guarding the Codex.

Because Ashiya Michiman didn't write this codex to Abe Harumi at all, it was clear that no one would give the codex to Abe Harumi, so he made a joke that joked on future generations for hundreds of years.

Sherlock once again left Japan in Torikai Maru and returned to England, but he didn't know that because of the isolation of the Japanese magical world, it was difficult for Europeans to notify Sherlock himself, so at this moment, the European magic regime had long been in chaos because of Sherlock's actions in the Japanese magical world.

(End of volume)