Tokyo: Parasite

Chapter 430 200: God's Chosen

[This is the midday news bulletin from Hokkaido Broadcasting Corporation. A large-scale volcanic eruption occurred on Rausu-dake on the Shiretoko Peninsula. The latest tracking situation is as follows: Although the volcanic activity has entered a temporary stable period, about 1200 hectares of forest, including the World Natural Heritage area, have been burned, and the situation is serious.]

[This eruption clearly showed the characteristics of "Vulcano-style" explosive volcanic activity. It is particularly noteworthy that because the magma is highly viscous rhyolite, the pyroclastic flow speed reaches 80 kilometers per hour]

“That’s really exaggerated.”

"Who says it's not true? The scene a few days ago was even more shocking. It seemed like the whole sky was on fire."

"Alas, the volcanic ash is getting heavier. Boss, are the ingredients here okay?"

In an izakaya in Asahikawa City, several diners were chatting while watching the news on TV.

The shopkeeper wiped his sweat and continued to roast the bird: "You can eat as much as you want. At least my ingredients will not be affected this week. I have cold storage for them. But the market price will definitely go up. The volcanic ash will cause many crops to fail. I can only buy vegetables shipped from other places."

"What a hassle! My car is so dirty."

"Who said it wasn't? Now you have to put on a layer of useless clothes outside, otherwise you will go home covered in dust."

People continued to discuss their most recent volcanic eruption or... No, there has never been a volcanic eruption that could affect them.

So they were at a loss as to how to deal with it, and the authorities have been constantly popularizing preventive measures these days.

Xiong Ling sat aside, neither trying to get closer nor trying to move away, just lowered his head and ate the snacks on the table.

He ate slowly and ate a lot, and he still hadn't finished eating even after most of the guests had left.

"Boss, do you have Rinnde here?" Xiong Ling put down his chopsticks and suddenly looked up and asked.

The boss who was wiping the chopping board paused for a moment, looked carefully at Xiong Ling, and then nodded slowly: "Yes, wait a moment."

After saying that, the boss took out an iron can from the corner where his personal belongings were kept, which looked like the kind used to store tea leaves. He then poured out some alder bark fragments from it and boiled them in the teapot.

Then he took another small pot, put in some salmon, added potatoes and wild vegetables and stewed it.

Soon, both things were ready and he handed them to Xiong Ling's desk.

"It's my treat, along with the Ohaw stew."

"Thank you."

The boss nodded and went back to process his own materials, but his eyes would occasionally glance at Xiong Ling, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

The Rinnde that Xiong Ling just ordered is an Ainu tea drink that tastes slightly astringent like tree bark and has the effect of relieving fatigue.

As for the Ohaw that the boss added, it is a kind of stew and is the daily staple food of their tribe.

Xiong Ling started eating slowly.

After a while, he finished eating everything and let out a long sigh.

He hadn't tasted this flavor since his adoptive grandmother passed away.

"Are you from out of town?" The boss asked Xiong Ling as lunch time was over and there were basically no customers.

".Yes, from Tokachi."

"You are still young, why don't you go to places like Sapporo?"

“Big cities are too far away from nature and lack the protection of nature.”

The boss stared at him strangely: "I didn't expect that at your age, you are more stubborn than the most stubborn old man of your tribe I have ever seen."

".Is she as stubborn as Hawkgirl?"

"Almost." The boss stopped talking, his eyes widened in disbelief, "How do you know Hawkgirl? Are you her grandson?"

"She picked me up from the forest. When she passed away, she told me about Qingheyuantou Village."

"Eagle Girl passed away. She was so old. Haha, although she seemed stubborn, she was actually an intellectual who had been to college. Later, I don't know what stimulated her, so she hid in the mountains and forests and became a savage. The last time I saw her was 20 years ago, when I just opened this store. She said that Japan is using invisible discrimination to assimilate the last bit of our blood, and we must resist or die in nature."

"I just opened a shop and invested all my money in it. I also have a wife and a child. How could I abandon everything just because she and I are from the same village? Not to mention that the village is long gone."

Xiong Ling did not argue about right or wrong, but asked other questions: "Doesn't the city have a special Ainu school? There are also museums and policy support. Isn't this good?"

Hearing this, the boss stopped talking.

After a while, he sneered, "Actually, what Eagle Girl said is right. The Japanese are using implicit discrimination against us to make us give up our traditions. It is true that many people have changed their surnames, completely abandoned the past, and integrated into them. If it is normal integration, it would be fine, but it is more to avoid discrimination, find jobs, and socialize. As expected, we are like tribesmen who have been discriminated against, and we can't even be called Eta non-humans."

The boss was obviously holding back his anger, and even blurted out the taboo words.

But what does it matter? He soon became like a deflated balloon: "Forget it, I have no right to say anything about them. After all, I have been silent all my life. No matter how disgusting these methods are, they are not open to the public, you know? They renovated the Ainu school a few years ago. Even so, few families dared to enroll in the school for fear of being discriminated against, and the children could not find many playmates in the school."

"I heard that big companies have a list of discriminated tribes and the Ainu. I don't know if it's true or not, but most people don't dare to take the risk for fear of ruining their children. Anyway, it doesn't matter what tribe we live under. Our ancestors didn't leave us anything except a language that doesn't even have complete words."

It seemed like Xiong Ling and the boss' roles were reversed; usually the diners were the ones who confided their concerns, but now it was the boss who kept talking.

"Sorry, I was so abrupt. I accidentally said too much." The boss was a little embarrassed. "Consider this meal as your treat. Eagle Girl helped me a lot in the past."

"No need." Xiong Ling put down the money, "But I want to ask a question."

"Uh, ask."

"If the Ainu Kingdom is restored, will you go back?" Xiong Ling's question was a little shocking, and the boss's face froze, wondering if he had heard it wrong.

Seeing Xiong Ling's serious expression, he smiled bitterly: "Maybe, hard to say."

Xiong Ling nodded: "I understand."

After saying this, he opened the curtain and stepped into the sky full of volcanic ash and snow.

The boss subconsciously stretched out his hand, but quickly dropped it again.

He felt that there was something indescribably strange about this person.

"Well, in this weather, I should think about raising the price." The boss turned around and returned to the daily necessities of life.

Xiong Ling tightened the backpack behind him, and the bones of his ancestors were still lying there.

He is not a genius. Strictly speaking, he is just an unemployed young man in his twenties who has not received much formal education.

The knowledge he learned was basically taught by the Eagle Girl, and the obsession with restoring the country and the vigilance against the Japanese were also the ideological imprints she left on him. However, after being pushed down the mountain by Sato as if he were dead, this imprint already existed, and the Eagle Girl just reinforced it for him.

But Hawkgirl also said that if you want to accomplish something, you can't be an executioner who kills innocent people indiscriminately. If everyone is afraid of you, it won't last long and it can't be done.

Only when you have both respect and fear can you accomplish great things.

But now he is alone, what can he do? Is one person also a country? Or should he be required to join the Special Affairs Bureau and divide the territory?
It's impossible to think about it. The Special Affairs Bureau does not need a supernatural person like him.

Unless they can take advantage of the situation, such as when encountering a major crisis, they need his help, and his ability is very important. There are not so many coincidences.

Moreover, the mentality of the tribesmen nowadays is basically calm, and they don't care much about inheritance, but this is understandable and he has nothing to blame.

Next, he planned to visit Qingheyuantou Village. The village had gradually become deserted due to population migration, and most of the villagers had moved to the city. Now it had become an exhibition hall to display their culture.

That's ridiculous.

He traveled through the volcanic ash, and in order not to appear too different from ordinary people, he held an umbrella and wore a mask and a hat as a disguise.

After some time, he arrived at the transformed village.

The visit is free. In this weather, there is not even a guard at the door. The door is open and people can come and go freely.

Xiong Ling originally thought that he would be the only one here at this time, but he didn't expect that, according to his perception, there were still three people active in the village. Hmm? Three, or four?

It was the first time that Xiong Ling encountered such an unclear number of people, especially a situation where they could be counted on one hand.

He remained vigilant and walked towards the location of the few people.

Soon, he arrived at the largest wooden house, which was also the room converted into a showroom.

There were three people standing in front of the exhibits, looking like normal tourists.

Xiong Ling approached calmly and found that what they were looking at was a wooden carving of an eagle with its wings spread.

"Please allow me to apologize to you first. We came here this time with other purposes."

One of them slowly took off his hat, turned around and spoke.

Xiong Ling was secretly alert, but did not show any big reaction.

"Special Affairs Bureau?"

"No, no, it's an organization with a lesser reputation. Maybe you haven't heard of it, but I can introduce it to you." The man smiled, "About the existence of the Soul Assembly."

"Who are you?" Xiong Ling had indeed never heard of the name of this organization.

Compared to the prestigious Special Affairs Bureau and the occasionally heard-about Heaven Node, the Soul Gathering seems like a small organization that popped up out of nowhere.

"Of course, you can also start by getting to know my name - Augustus."

"You want to make those who once looked down on you bow their heads, and you want to show the world how indispensable you are - you need strength, and the Mother Goddess can grant you everything you wish for. Come, follow me. This world cannot accommodate you, so let's create a new world."

On Shikoku Island, in a luxurious Japanese-style mansion, on top of corpses scattered all over the ground, sat a young man whose body was covered in blood and whose very breath seemed to smell of blood.

After listening to Ozaki Hiro's persuasive words, he clenched his fists quietly, and his palms were filled with sticky blood.

"Is it okay for me to kill so many people like I am doing now?" He pointed blankly at the broken limbs and the heads with eyes open on the ground.

"The people here are either evil, stupid, or vulgar. You are the chosen one of God. You are countless times nobler than them. Even if you kill everyone in the world, you are still innocent. The Mother Goddess will embrace you. The blood on your hands is the testimony of your merits."

The young man grinned, his smile growing brighter.

Yeah, he was not wrong, it was these damn bastards who were wrong.

He should have been a genius, but because he offended a local family, he was repeatedly held back. Even if he found a good job, he was soon fired for various reasons.

The flowers that once bloomed suddenly vanished, leaving only after-dinner laughter and talk.

"Do you know the kid of so-and-so who graduated from the University of Tokyo? Oh my, he's still living off his parents."

"No better than me, the kid who just graduated from high school and started working."

"Haha, I knew there was no way a genius would come out of their family. Aren't they just some idiots who are good at studying? Oh, oh, oh."

These bastards knew that my failure was caused by someone behind the scenes, by the family under my feet, and that it had nothing to do with my ability. Yet these mediocre people would still rather believe everything they wanted to see, just to satisfy their own pathetic, jealous and twisted self-esteem. They were so stupid and ridiculous.

It wouldn't matter if a world with such stupid, evil and vulgar people was destroyed. Only destruction could put an end to everything.

The young man's mind was screaming wildly.

He had just torn these evil and stupid people to pieces, and some witnesses had escaped. He was too lazy to run away and just wanted to wait for the Special Affairs Bureau to arrive.

But before the punishment came, good news came first.

Mother Goddess, what warm and beautiful words, anyone who can understand them must be a smart, wise and gentle being.

"Please take me to see the Mother Goddess. I am willing to sacrifice everything for this."

The blood, body parts and pleasure of revenge had completely plunged him into a frenzy of excitement.
The prayers of those people before they died, and the superiority of holding their lives in their hands, made him completely sink into it.

"No, you don't have to sacrifice for this. On the contrary, you will gain a new life, new ideas, and everything new." Hiromu Ozaki reached out and pulled him up.

See people talking, see ghosts talking.

Facing Kawakami Tatsuya, he naturally would not use such a rough method, as it would most likely backfire, and he would end up having to arrange for someone to strangle him on a full moon night, thus inheriting Yuehen's fate.

But that was not perfect and there were risks, so he took a gentle approach towards Tatsuya Kawakami.

But the man in front of him was different. Just after being secretly guided by him, he couldn't wait to launch revenge and tried to eliminate all existence that opposed him.

What a useful chess piece.

"Now, we have five of the six chosen ones, and we can prepare for the ceremony. You cannot escape the body that has been embraced by the Mother Goddess, no matter where you are."

"Or a cape."

(End of this chapter)