War had indeed broken out, but the initial reaction it brought to everyone was not shock, but rather a deep sigh of relief.
There was no helping it. Topics surrounding the war for hegemony had been hyped up in the newspapers for several months.
As if before an approaching storm, the air was saturated with an oppressive atmosphere. Europe's citizens had spent the last few months living under a cloud of tension, their nerves on edge.
Now that war had actually broken out, the taut nerves of the populace finally loosened.
While the nerves of the people relaxed, the governments of various countries became highly tense. Especially for France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, which had to bet on luck, they couldn't afford to let their guard down for even a moment.
A calamity for the city gates often extends to the fish in the moat. This had happened far too often in history, and politics in this day and age was truly unfriendly to small countries.
