Three-Million-of-Bamboo-Spears Strategy

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+* 竹槍三百万本論
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**Author:** ©︎[[*user Nanigashi Sato]]
**Translator:** [[*user salamander724]]
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[[size 150%]] **Surface-to-air Bomboo** [[/size]]

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**Flying Bolts ,,(飛箭, //hisen//),, (IJAMEA),**
**[[[SCP-518-JP]]] (the Jailors),**
**Type イ Anti-air Bomboo (Toyoho)**
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= **Conspectus**

In the prewar era, there was [*https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sadao_Araki an army minister] who said that three million bamboo spears would be enough for national defense. Neither the authenticity of that statement nor the minister's intention matters here. We are neither soldiers nor historians. However, it seems that there was someone who took his words literally and sincerely tried to realize it. If the arrangement of this bamboo grove had been successful, it is certain that Imperial Japan would not have suffered from airstrikes.

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= **Knowledge**

**Traits:** This bamboo grove is located in [[[toyoho hub|Tohno Youkai Sanctuary]]] and the mountains of Nagano Prefecture. It behaves like mundane bamboo unless it meets the requirements described later.[[footnote]]Since ordinary bamboo does not voluntarily take actions, it cannot be said that it “behave nothing”. -- //R.円.//[[/footnote]]

**Nature:** The bamboo shakes off its branches and leaves and ejects everything above the root node into the air when any object powered by an engine enters the airspace above the bamboo grove. The launched stem rushes into the flying object at great speed and explodes at the same time as it makes contact.[[footnote]]What a messy firework. -- //K.K.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]Is that so? It may not be extravagant, but I think it is sufficient for a firework. -- //C.X.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]Well, in Toyoho, the improved bomboo variety is actually used as a firecracker, so I was wrong to say that. Even so, please refrain your woooosh to [*https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Dirty_Fireworks a meme] …… never mind. I am sorry. -- //K.K.//[[/footnote]] There is no sonic boom or shockwave that physically should have occurred. It is worth noting that the bamboo is capable of both hypersonic speed and high-performance interception. The number of bamboo that fire depends on the size of the target, and there is even an automatic tracking function, capable of deflection shooting to intercept a target moving at speed.

This property is completely lost when the bamboo stem is completely separated from the rhizome by causes other than its own attack manoeuvre.

**Approach:** Needless to say, never levitate nor fly near the bamboo grove consistng of this bomboo.[[footnote]]If you get locked-on, there is not even time to give up. It is Mach 2000. -- //AO//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]For comparison, the latest intercontinental ballistic missile is about Mach 20. -- //Deck.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]This is too much even for a [[a href="*https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/破竹の勢い"]]‘bamboo-smashing force ,,(破竹の勢い, //hachiku-no-ikioi//),,’[[/a]]. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]]

**History & Associated Parties:** This story begins in 1945, when Tohno Youkai Sanctuary was established. A group of youkai mutinied, deserting [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ijamea-hub the IJAMEA's Youkai Battalion] to flee to Tohno. It appears that Tohno provided them a ride on the Galactic Railroad,[[footnote]]Currently, this functions as one of the methods of transport into the Sanctuary. -- //R.円.//[[/footnote]] one of the legacies left by the late Mr. Kenji Miyazawa. While carrying youkai east across the Japanese archipelago, the Galactic Railroad train encountered a barrage of anti-air fire[[footnote]]Does this mean that it endured an impact at Mach 2000!? A flying steam locomotive!? -- //Deck.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]The Galactic Railroad navigates the fourth fantasy dimension, not three dimension space. I'm not sure why the youkai chose to, or could not help choosing to escape through high-risk physical airspace. However, even the most powerful bomboo firecrackers are nothing more than a physical attack, so it seems it is not impossible to break through the barrage if equipped with metaphysical or pataphysical conceptual armour. -- //R.円.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]] I've actually witnessed this event, and I'm sure the locomotive was running on a rail high in the blue yonder. Let me ask Yabu why did she sent the train when I see her for a dop with next time. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]] as it passed through the airspace of Nagano Prefecture.[[footnote]]I don't know in detail, but the IJAMEA is known to have thoroughly defended the planned capital relocation site of Matsushiro. -- //AO//[[/footnote]]

Afterwards, practitioners who had been members of the Youkai Battalion and the defectors from the Keepers jointly restored the samples embedded in the body of the Galactic Railroad train and grew them into a grove.[[footnote]]This is astonishing. It's like a reproduction of a pistol from a fired bullet. -- //C.X.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]Doesn't the Toyoho website say that it was taken from IJAMEA, or something like that, right? -- //U.K.N.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]It must be some kind of technology theft. It's quite a novel method. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]] As a means to counter external invasions, repeated varietal improvements to the bamboo have been made,[[footnote]]It is not a improvement by breeding, but a magical alteration by thaumaturgy. This made possible to launch bomboo stems arbitrarily. When the ward magic of the Sanctuary detects the eerie force of intruders, the stems will be launched directly into the coordinates. -- //R.円.//[[/footnote]] and Type ト is now being used.

The original variety was developed in 1945 by the IJAMEA to be placed in air defense points,[[footnote]]There must have been no time to increase production. -- //Deck.//[[/footnote]] and was “contained” by the Jailors after the crash of an airliner happened in 1980s.[[footnote]]How could it possible that no airplane passed the airspace over this area for 40 years? And I don't think that the Jailors could not sense the forcible breakthrough of the galactic railroad. Is it possible that it was intentionally concealed by somebody? -- //K.K.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]For example, the “hidden” ones from the IJAMEA. -- //AO//[[/footnote]]

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= **Illustration**

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= [[[dialogue-at-toono|My new friend]]] in Tohno, Song ,,(松),, treated me to bamboo shoot rice made with shoots collected from the anti-air bomboo grove.[[footnote]]What? I've never heard of anything like this. -- //U.K.N.//[[/footnote]] It tasted the same as a normal bamboo shoot, normally fresh and delicious.[[footnote]]Cap, I believed you but you……. -- //U.K.N.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]Fine, I'll take you next time, alright?! -- //AO//[[/footnote]] -- //AO//

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= **Observations & Stories**

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“No genetic anomaly was detectable in SCP-518-JP, and it has been concluded that its genome is consistent with mundane bamboo species belonging to the genus //Phyllostachys//, subfamily Bambusoideae.　//( . . . )//　Considering that its properties were not dependent on environmental conditions including soil factors,[[footnote]]Was it? I should add it to the ‘Nature:’ section. -- //AO//[[/footnote]] it is thought that the anomalous nature of this object relies on its underground rhizome or root.”

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 -- //Genetic analysis report 518-JP//
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With some exceptions,[[footnote]]The Jailors are not infallible. We know that, and they know themselves as well. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]] the Jailors' scientific analysis is reliable. It is very useful as a reference data.[[footnote]]Frankly, I envy their financial and technical powers. -- //K.K.//[[/footnote]] -- //C.X.//

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“I cannot help but regret that the success of Project //Samidare// ,,(五月雨, __lit.__ ‘rain in May’),, had not been a little faster. It is said that any bomber is like scrap metal in front of //hisen// ,,(飛箭, __lit.__ ‘flying bolts’),,, so how much of the realm and how many of its loyal subjects could have been saved if it was faster? I will never forget our compatriots who became [[a href="*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitobashira"]]//hitobashira// ,,(人柱),,[[/a]] for //hisen// to defend the fatherland.

　The yankees are already around the corner. Even if we begin to increase the area of //hisen//-groves from now on, there will not be enough time to surround a city with a grove. So, at least we must protect the new capital where his Majesty will be.”

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 -- //Manuscript by General Watanabe, Shōwa 20 (1945)//
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The Gingkonut guys[[footnote]]I've been curious for a quite time, why do you call the IJAMEA ‘the Gingkonuts’, Shirō? I think Mayor Isanagi also call them the same name. -- //AO//[[/footnote]][[footnote]] In Japanese, the IJAMEA is read: //ijō-jirē-chōsa-kyoku// ,,(異常事例調査局),,. Adding ‘//i// ,,(異),,’ from ‘//ijō-jirē//’ and ‘//chō// ,,(調),,’ from ‘//chōsa-kyoku//’, it's ‘//i-chō// ,,(異調),,’. Meanwhile, ‘gingkonut ,,(銀杏),,’ is read ‘i-chō’ [*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kun%27yomi by the meaning], ‘ging-nan’ [*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%27yomi by the sound]. So in the old days, the IJAMEA was called ‘Gingnan (the Gingkonuts)’. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]The old days? when the hell was that. -- //Deck.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]About a hundred years ago, the Taishō era. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]] tended to think that patriotism or [*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-damashii yamato-damashī] could solve everything. But bamboo?[[footnote]]Refuse to rate. -- //K.K.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]It wasn't a ginkgo tree, was it? -- //AO//[[/footnote]] This is not mentalism. Of course, there seems to be some mental aspect, but at least in this case, it's nothing but a mental of patriots sacrificed to develop this fearsome anti-air weapon.[[footnote]]It feels very complicated; including the fact that things from that background are playing a remarkable part in the Sanctuary, //de facto// independent from Japan. -- //AO//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]That's the fate of every looted weapon. -- //Deck.//[[/footnote]] The reason everyone at the time recognized the Gingkonuts as a formidable opponent was because they really did have the executory ability to find solutions to given problems. -- //Shr.//

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“The anti-air bomboo grove is the core of defence of our locality, along with the Grand Ward. I am doing my best with pride in this work. Though I might be still immature, I inherited the position of bamboo keeper ,,(竹守, //take-mori//),, from my father. It is the child's duty to enable their parents to fully retire as soon as possible, isn't it? If anybody invades us by an airway, it'll be over my dead body. There has been a noticeable reduction in attacks since my father's incumbency, so maybe even [[[groups-of-interest-jp#five-elements-association|the Five Elements savages]]] have given up. If that's the case, I'll be glad. Still, I'll make sure the fireworks at the festivals are properly and perfectly produced. The next one will be a blast. If you don't mind, please let me know your thoughts.”

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 -- //Reika Komori ,,(籠守令佳),,//[[footnote]]She used ‘Komori’ like a surname, but it seems to be a title for a caretaker of bamboo grove. ‘//Komori// ,,(籠守),,’ literally means ‘bamboo basket ,,(籠),, keeper ,,(守),,’. -- //AO//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]I've heard that in the countryside, people respond amply if you call them by their job or [*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yag%C5%8D house name]. -- //U.K.N.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]Perhaps it is the result of the ancestor of Komori-kun, that is, the practitioner from the Youkai Battalion who made this bomboo grove, taking a surname by themselves. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]]
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--What kind of expression did I look on my face when talking to her? It was my first time meeting someone who is a bloodline of the IJAMEA like me but is not “hidden” like me, so I was strangely nervous. Since [[[from-busan-to-tono-2020|the last getaway operation]]], the encounters with the shadow of the IJAMEA have been suddenly frequent. Even though it is matter of course as the Sanctuary was originated from the IJAMEA, I couldn't get myself sorted yet. I feel qualms and envy  of her. I don't intend to change the direction of my life, but I can never be a good daughter. Oh, what was I going to write? I shouldn't have written personal feelings in the first place. I will erase this later.--[[footnote]]Why is everyone preventing me from erasing what I wrote? This is egg on my face. -- //AO//[[/footnote]]

Of the “ways” into the Sanctuary, the landway,[[footnote]]Visitors, including us, generally enter Tohno via this way. I don't know how they identify, but it seems that the Bookburners or the Jailors cannot get entry even if they disguise themselves as guests. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]] the seaway,[[footnote]]Youkai Sanctuary is topographically a solitary island. This seaway refers to an invasion from the sea surrounding the Sanctuary. The aquatic youkai including Kappa alone will not be enough to intercept the enemies, so there must be some defense mechanisms deployed here, too. -- //C.X.//[[/footnote]] and the airway, the airway is the most frequently used by uninvited guests trying to infiltrate.[[footnote]]In inverse proportion to the high restrictions on landways, the airway seems loose. Is it because they trust the performance of anti-air grove? -- //U.K.N.//[[/footnote]] And for decades since its landscaping, this anti-air bamboo-spear[[footnote]]If I make a spear out of this bomboo, will it be possible to thrust at hypersonic speed? -- //Deck.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]Processed products are no different from ordinary bamboo products. -- //R.円.//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]But the bamboo dragonfly that I received as a souvenir is flying around too much. -- //AO//[[/footnote]][[footnote]]What a workmanship of master craftsperson. -- //R.円.//[[/footnote]] grove has shot down all uninvited guests. However, just as the Galactic Railroad train carrying the youkai of Tohno broke through the IJAMEA's //hisen// grove in the past, there will be ways to break through. I don't think that Mayor Isanagi have dismissed this possibility,[[footnote]]She can be surprisingly vague at times, even a little dull……. Still, I expect she has some idea of this problem. -- //Shr.//[[/footnote]] but there is no harm in keeping the risk in our mind. -- //AO//

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= **Doubt**

After an inquiry in Tohno, I noticed one thing. No one has ever seen these bamboo in bloom. The stems that spring up and are recognized by us as bamboo are all connected underground. Biologically, the entire bamboo grove is one single bamboo plant. Bamboo flowers indicate that bamboo will die sooner or later.
What I want to say is that when a bamboo plant dies, all the bamboo in the grove wilts at the same time. It seems that this generally occurs every 120 years. If the anti-air bomboo grove withers all at once, Tohno will lose its anti-air defence for at least a year.

This worry may be unwarranted. Perhaps they have already modified it so that it won't wither. But we know that things are not always that handy and easy. And although the frquecy of attacks from the Five Elements Association has decreased, there is no way they will just give up like this -- they are much more obstinate than the Jailors. The anti-air bomboo grove of Tohno is about 70 years old. I have an ill-favored intuition about this: if the Five Elements are not plotting another approach to “destroy” the grove, the Sanctuary might face turmoil, comparable to the time of its establishment, decades later.

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