After Makoto announced the new policies for this world, Suzuki Shiro, who was far away in Japan, contacted him.
Now, after America's nuclear strike on Japan, not only Tokyo, but practically the entire country except for the area around the Totsuki Culinary Academy had become completely uninhabitable.
It could only be said that the US had really gone all out this time to deal with Makoto.
Makoto and his group didn't show much emotional change.
Not to mention Makoto himself, the parents of Utaha, Kato, and the others had all received invitations to the Moon Banquet Festival and were therefore safe.
So even though Japan had ended up like this, they weren't overly worried.
But with Japan now effectively destroyed, and over 99% of its territory severely contaminated by nuclear radiation, the country was clearly no longer usable.
"Why don't we just live here?" Ran suddenly suggested.
Sonoko immediately agreed: "Great idea. There's no country in the world with a better environment than America."
Sonoko wasn't just flattering America… it was true.
This country, whether in terms of its geographical location or its history of development, was like it had a cheat code.
Unlike Japan and Korea, which had harsh geographical conditions-
America's environment was top-tier across the entire planet.
No strong enemies to the north or south, two great oceans to the east and west, no internal wars on its mainland, and endless resources.
"We can negotiate with the President, ask him to give up a piece of land, and it would be perfect to use it as the New Japan."
However, when Sonoko uttered the words [New Japan], Yu suddenly shouted, "What New Japan! This is Makoto-senpai's country! It should be called the Makoto Nation!"
'Makoto Nation? What kind of name is that...'
Makoto couldn't help but feel speechless.
But honestly, the environment in this place called America was indeed good. Moving here wasn't a bad idea. He hadn't liked the earthquake-ridden Japan anyway.
In the end, after some discussion among the group, it was decided that the President would cede the territory, and the country's name would temporarily be changed to Nishikawa Nation.
Oh, it wasn't that they were taking Indiana as the land for Nishikawa Nation, but that all states other than Indiana would be given to Makoto.
Well, Makoto felt he was being very kind. The Americans had offended him gravely, yet he hadn't wiped them out.
After the decision was made, the women took out their phones to contact their families, asking them to move to Nishikawa Nation to live.
Immediately after, the President announced the matter through official channels, shocking the world.
Not only the survivors at the Totsuki Culinary Academy, but also many people from other countries began moving to Nishikawa Nation, hoping to live under the protection of a god.
Unlike Megumi and Utaha, whose parents were safe, when Ran contacted Eri, she immediately learned of Kogoro's condition and quickly returned to Japan.
Yukiko, who had also received the news and was preparing to move to Nishikawa Nation, suddenly remembered that her son was still at home.
He had also been within the area of the nuclear strike.
She had tried to get Shinichi to come to the Moon Banquet Festival, but he had absolutely refused.
Yukiko had no choice but to leave him at home.
Seeing Tokyo, now a post-apocalyptic wasteland outside the academy, Yukiko's face turned deathly pale. She fell to her knees, crying bitterly.
Eri, who had just taken Kogoro to a shelter, saw this, crouched down, and embraced her close friend.
Yukiko wept uncontrollably in Eri's arms.
Eri comforted her, "Yukiko, let's leave together."
Back in the Chainsaw Man World, she had refused to team up with the Kudo Family. The main reason was that she had noticed the two Kudo father and son were at odds with Makoto, and trouble was bound to happen sooner or later.
Now that the Kudo Family had only Yukiko left, she naturally no longer had that concern.
Yukiko sniffled and nodded.
Her husband was gone, her child was gone.
Where else could she go but to Makoto?
Now, the only person she could rely on was that man.
But what Yukiko didn't know was, just as she was leaving Japan with the Mouri Family—
Under the ruins of the Kudo Family's Western-style house, now a pile of rubble, a hand suddenly emerged from the debris. No matter how one looked at it, it was not a human hand.
…
A week later.
At the Suzuki… no, the Nishikawa Palace… rebuilt on the site of the former White House.
Ran, returning from Japan, burst into tears and threw herself into Makoto's arms, sobbing uncontrollably, "Sensei, Fa, Father... something happened to him... Shinichi is dead too... I, I..."
Returning to Japan, seeing Kogoro's current tragic state, and learning of Shinichi's death, Ran was overcome with grief, nearly fainting from crying.
When she saw Makoto again, she truly couldn't help but throw herself into his arms.
Although she still had her mother, who was unharmed, by her side, driven by female instinct, Ran needed the comfort of a male figure at this moment.
With Kogoro incapacitated and Shinichi dead, Makoto naturally became the only choice.
"I've already heard," Makoto said, one arm around her slender waist, his other hand stroking her back.
"I'll arrange for the best doctors in the country to see him. He's sure to recover."
Well, that was a bit of a stretch.
He had also heard about Kogoro's condition. He was in that state… recovery seemed impossible unless time could be reversed.
"U-Um, Nishikawa-san, c-can Yukiko move in as well?" Eri, walking with her close friend, asked in a low voice.
Makoto nodded.
Of course. Even if she didn't come, she would have to.
"I'm sorry about Yusaku and Shinichi's passing," Makoto said, looking at Yukiko.
Losing both her husband and son was indeed a heavy blow for a woman.
Looking into Makoto's eyes, Yukiko bit her pink lip tightly, almost crying again.
She also wanted to throw herself into his arms and feel the warmth of his embrace.
But mindful of her current position, Yukiko didn't dare.
Fortunately, that night, in Yukiko's room, a figure quietly arrived.
Yukiko, sleeping with tears on her face, felt someone nudging her.
Still drowsy, she rubbed her eyes and slowly opened them. Seeing Makoto's face so close, she almost screamed, but Makoto quickly covered her mouth.
"What are you doing? You almost woke up Eri." Yukiko, still shaken, looked at Eri sleeping beside her.
Yes, the two of them were sharing a room.
Both women had lost their husbands and were at their most vulnerable, so they stayed together to comfort each other.
Of course, Kogoro wasn't dead yet, but he was as good as.
"Going to do you," Makoto said succinctly.
Yukiko's pretty face flushed. She glanced at her sleeping close friend and whispered back one word: "Do."
Makoto scooped Yukiko up in a princess carry. "I turned down invitations from Reze and Alice. How are you going to compensate me?"
Yukiko blushed. "Then what do you want?"
Makoto leaned close to her ear and whispered a sentence.
Yukiko's face turned even redder. "Th-That won't do? That place is for..."
But before she could finish, Makoto jumped down from the window with her in his arms.
And Eri, whom Yukiko had thought was asleep, lay there with her eyes wide open in shock.
'When did those two get together?!'
Recalling what she had just heard, Eri felt her worldview shatter.
'Yukiko, how... how could you do that?'
'That man is your husband and son's enemy.'
Although Eri knew Makoto hadn't killed Yusaku and Shinichi, it was true that the two had been at odds with him during their lives. That at least made him half an enemy. Yet Yukiko...
'More importantly, Shinichi hasn't even been dead for a few days, and you're already so eager...'
Thinking about this, Eri didn't know what to say anymore.
Looking at the empty large room, Eri somehow couldn't fall back asleep.
She had managed to live like this before when she was separated from Kogoro.
Why was it that now, facing a similar situation, she couldn't adapt?
…
Several more weeks passed.
Nishikawa Nation had fully entered its reconstruction phase.
Countless foreign nationals flooded into the country, hoping to meet the nation's new leader.
Many of them were commoners, arriving with a pilgrimage-like mentality.
Thanks to Makoto's policies, plane tickets had become dirt cheap.
Countless ordinary people who had never even left their hometowns got on planes.
And 99% of them chose Nishikawa Nation, the country where the man they revered as a god resided, as their first destination.