Marco Polo bridge Incident - 1937

That time we thought we would finalyl be back to the forest and our time, yet were teleported to some room that looked like a military forest. Suddenly a man in a uniform came into a room holding a glass of water and some pills. Frederike recognized the man in a uniform as Tashiro, who was a leutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army - the one responsible for keeping the stalemate between the Japanese and the Chinese forces in the recent time. Tashiro sat down on the red chair and was about to drink his medicine, but then suddenly someone knocked on the door. Tashiro puts his glass and pills down and walks outside to talk to the fellow officer. Right at the moment when Tashiro left the room, an unknown man that was apparently hiding behind the bookshelf quickly slipped through the room and swapped the Tashiro's pills with different ones and runs out of the room. Laura and Frederike realized that they must not let Tashiro die, and so they decided to swap the pills back to the ones Tashiro had. They have done that just in time; Tashiro came back into the office and took his pills. Meanwhile, Laura and Frederike used the time machine to get out of that place.

In real history Lieutenant General Tashiro dies from a heart attack, presumably the cause was natural although the controversy lies in the fact that Tashiro was in charge of the stalemate and the Japanese High Command wanted to start the massive operation against China as fast a possible so some think that the Tashiro's death was intended.

We thought that preventing Lieutenant General Tashiro from dying will cause:

• The stalemate between Japan and China to continue
• Japanese forces having no pretext for going to full scale war with China
• No large scale conflict to happen in the Asian region

Unfortunately not everything worked out as planned and our predictions were partly false:

• Even though, the stalemate continued for two more months, the Japanese government still invaded China under a new pretext, which was that China was promoting nationalism and anti-Japanese movements and organisations.