Changes
* <span style="color:#000099">'''E7-432, Nonama 16'''</span>: Birth of Yuriko Hirota (female [[kitsune]]), prominent member of the [[Youkai Nation]] and Task Force "Mind's Eye".
* '''E7-450:''' Satoshi Sangi is elected mayor of [[Yurai]] with 77% of the votes, on a campaign promising the unification and strengthening of the youkai people and communities. He gains the nickname of ''"Black-Eye"'', after the color of his third eye.
* '''E7-451, Prima 7:''' Task Force "Mind's Eye" is established. It is composed of Sangi, his three trusted lieutenants (Haraguchi, Tawara, and Hirota), and a small team of highly-skilled youkai activists.
* '''E7-451, Triema 18:''' Mippei Yosai's Town Security renames itself to ''Task Force "Divine Edge"'' ('''作戦部隊 「神刃」''', ''sakusen butai 「kamujin」''), and establishes the Training Center ('''講習会場''', ''koushuukaiba''), a 100% youkai military recruitment and training center.
* '''E7-454, Prima 1: Birth of the Youkai Nation:''' During the New Year celebrations, [[Satoshi Sangi|Satoshi "Black-Eye" Sangi]] declared in a televised announcement, the entirety of the towns with a majority youkai population, as well as all Intersections and roads in between, to be part of a new, separate country known as the [[Youkai Nation]]. The territory encompasses the totality of the Northeastern Zone, plus the towns of [[Aosaidan]] and [[Masatomo]].
** The stated purpose of the Youkai Nation is to be a self-sufficient, safe and prospering country made by youkai, for youkai, with no interference from human-dominated factions and interests, and with its own [[activist fighter|defense force]]. Sangi then extended an invitation to all youkai in the Mazes to join the Youkai Nation and help build what he referred to as "our country". The announcement ended with a warning not to challenge the independence and legitimacy of the Youkai Nation; any such acts would be treated as an act of war.
** The [[Maze Military]] and the [[Maze Police]] condemned the announcement, refusing to recognize the Nation as legitimate and seeing it as an unsafe, subversive decision that will only make the world unsafe and prevent them from doing their jobs in the Northeastern Zone.
* '''E7-454, Hexema 1:''' In response to the announcement, the Military mobilizes all of its forces and enters a state of high alert, preparing themselves for war. Colonel Mark Phasma, the leader of the Military at the time, treated the announcement as a declaration of war, and intends to strike the Youkai Nation's capital, [[Yurai]], in what he described as a "surgical strike intended to demoralize the enemy activists". This plan is dubbed ''Operation Needle Poke''.
* '''E7-455, Prima 16: Operation Needle Poke:''' The First Company, led by Captain Francis Donahue, moves out towards Yurai to invade the town and demand the unconditional surrender and disarmament of the Youkai Nation's armed forces.
