I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapter 14 Even Demons Have Chakra

The once calm lake surface rippled with waves, and the bridge was instantly pulled underwater.

Naruto Uchiha quickly arrived at the lakeside and activated his Sharingan. Neither the darkness nor the lake water could obstruct his vision.

"Damn it! It's this kind of thing again!"

He calmly observed for a while before taking off his sunglasses, removing his coat, wrapping his phone in it, and throwing it on the shore. Then he jumped into the water, splashing a large spray of water.

Naruto Uchiha jumped into the lake and dived down. The artificial lake in Nakano Park was not deep, with the deepest point being less than five meters. However, something seemed to be stirring up the bottom of the lake, causing mud and sand to float down, making visibility extremely poor. But this did not affect Naruto Uchiha, who possessed the Sharingan.

He saw something as thick as an arm and resembling tentacles wrapped around the ankle of a bridge that had been dragged into the lake.

Yiqiao was bent over in the water, holding a utility knife and cutting the tentacles under his feet. However, due to drowning and exhaustion, he swallowed a mouthful of lake water, his eyes rolled back, and his limbs drooped limply.

Naruto Uchiha quickly swam over, snatched the utility knife from her hand, channeled his chakra, and with a powerful slash, severed the tentacle on Ichihashi's foot!

Then, holding onto a bridge, he swam out of the water, his feet barely touching the surface before he swiftly ran from the artificial lake to the shore.

He glanced at Yiqiao in his arms and saw that her wet hair was spread over her chest, her eyes were closed, and her lips were pale, indicating that she had already fainted.

"Croak!"

A horribly grating scream rang out, and a monster emerged from the artificial lake, charging menacingly toward Uchiha Naruto.

The monster was a giant toad the size of a calf, with human hands and feet, webbed feet like an aquatic animal, two bulging eyes the size of a soccer ball on its triangular head, and slime flowing down its dark, uneven back.

A trickle of crimson blood seeped from the corner of the toad monster's mouth as it frantically dug at the ground with its hands and feet, leaving marks in its wake.

"What kind of monster is this? A kappa? A water tiger? It doesn't look like it at all. And this giant toad doesn't seem to resemble the descriptions in the books either." Uchiha Naruto stared intently at the monster.

In the past few days, Uchiha Naruto has also borrowed some books about Japanese yokai (supernatural beings) from the library, but he still can't distinguish the types of toad yokai.

This is not surprising, as Japanese yokai are known for their diversity, and even yokai folklorists are unlikely to know all of them.

"Quack! Quack quack quack..."

Enraged by the injury to its tongue and the loss of its prey, the toad monster croaked menacingly. Then, it opened its mouth and spat out a water ball the size of a washbasin.

Naruto Uchiha leaped past with Ichihashi in his arms, and the double chair behind him was hit by the water cannon, causing the backrest to collapse.

Naruto Uchiha placed the bridge on the grass, turned around, and his scarlet Sharingan gleamed with an eerie light.

"Is that all? Then you're my prey."

The toad monster opened its mouth and launched another water cannon attack. Uchiha Naruto neither dodged nor evaded, but charged straight forward and smashed the water cannon apart with a single punch. Then, he leaped from the spot, his body nimbly flying onto the toad monster's head. He raised his right leg high above his head and delivered a powerful axe-like chop, slamming it heavily onto the monster's head.

The toad monster's eyes bulged out, its already enormous eyes almost squeezing out of their sockets.

Naruto Uchiha suppressed the toad demon and carefully examined it up close, his Sharingan eyes with two tomoe spinning rapidly.

"This monster actually has chakra within it?!"

The Sharingan with two tomoe can see the color of chakra. When the monster was preparing to spew its power, Naruto Uchiha saw a little bit of blue-black energy surge from its abdomen to its mouth, and then it was turned into a water cannon and spat out.

Upon closer inspection, it becomes apparent that the nature of this energy is remarkably similar to the chakra possessed by Naruto Uchiha.

Although its quality was impure and its quantity and quality were vastly different from Naruto Uchiha's chakra, this special energy was surprisingly like a degraded version of chakra.

"That's incredible!"

Having transmigrated with the Naruto system, it was only natural that he would be endowed with chakra. However, Naruto was somewhat surprised that the monsters in this world also possessed chakra, rather than other types of energy.

While Uchiha Naruto was deep in thought, the toad demon that had been knocked unconscious earlier had regained consciousness and was jumping around like an enraged bull, trying to shake Uchiha Naruto off.

However, Naruto Uchiha had already learned to stand on tree trunks in the training ground, concentrate chakra in his feet, and stick tightly to the back of the toad monster.

Seeing that it couldn't break free, the toad demon carried Uchiha Naruto on its back and tried to jump into the artificial lake.

Just then, Naruto Uchiha lightly touched the ground with his toes, leaped into the air, and spun 180 degrees from bottom to top, head down, with his hands forming hand seals.

"Great Fireball Technique!"

A giant fireball completely engulfed the toad monster, causing a large cloud of water vapor to evaporate on the lake surface.

[Kill complete, calculating reward]

Water Release LV1

【Ninjade*15】

Naruto Uchiha landed steadily on the water's surface and walked back to shore step by step. Moonlight shone down, and the lake rippled. The handsome young man walked on the water like a spirit of the lake.

Just like the Shadow Imitation Technique he obtained after defeating the evil spirit, Naruto Uchiha also obtained Water Release after defeating the toad monster.

Considering the chakra within the monsters, it doesn't seem like a coincidence. Perhaps the monsters and demons of this world have some connection to the Naruto game.

"By the way, how's the girl with the twisted hair and glasses doing now?"

Naruto Uchiha looked at the girl he had laid face up on the grass. Although she was still unconscious, her breathing was steady, so she should be alright.

He went back to the shore and retrieved his phone, sunglasses, and jacket.

He dialed 119 to report that someone had drowned in the park, and was told that they would arrive in 10 minutes. Uchiha looked back again.

The nights in early April were still quite cold. As the night wind blew, the girl's body, soaked by the lake water, began to shiver.

Naruto Uchiha thought for a moment, then casually draped his outer garment over Ichijo's body before turning and leaving.

He's really lucky today; this means he can be promoted to Chunin.

(End of this chapter)