I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 186 and 188: Kamen Rider Suit

If you commit suicide here, a bear will tear your body to shreds.

"This really is Aokigahara, but where am I? This sign... I'm back to where I started!?"

With one hand covering his right ear, Torii Hero wandered aimlessly through the primeval forest of Aokigahara like a headless fly for a while before returning to his original spot.

All his belongings that could prove his identity were taken by the experienced Ku Ge, so naturally he wouldn't leave his phone with Bird Hero. Unable to call for help, he could only struggle to survive on his own.

At the foot of Mount Fuji, the Aokigahara Forest is filled with trees of almost the same species. As far as the eye can see, there is an unchanging primeval forest that blocks out the sun, making it impossible to distinguish east from west or north from south.

Even professional explorers would find it difficult to determine direction under such circumstances based on tree shadows, the sun, and star patterns.

Not to mention office workers like Hero Tosu who grew up in the city.

As expected, Tosu Hero got lost.

Although the hero was extremely anxious, survival skills and knowledge in the wild wouldn't just pop into his head out of thin air.

Bird Hero looked at the sign in front of him with a bit of a speechlessness.

He couldn't help but look up, then quickly looked down again.

"Amitabha!"

If you commit suicide here, the bear will tear your body to shreds.

Above the sign, a corpse, weathered to the bone, hung suspended, its coat still intact, swaying slightly in the air.

Aokigahara truly lives up to its reputation as a suicide forest. After Tosu Hideo woke up, he wandered around for only an hour before discovering two skeletons.

Ever since the 1960s novel "The Tower of Waves" by Seicho Matsumoto, in which the heroine walks alone into Aokigahara with a smile on her face at the end, the suicide forest has become famous, with people from all over the country flocking there to commit suicide.

Every autumn, the police conduct a large-scale search in the Aokigahara Forest, and each time they find seventy or eighty bodies.

Are there really bears?

Even the hero of the Birch Ridge couldn't help but show a hint of tension and fear on his face, and his headache worsened.

This is not just a metaphor.

His head was smashed open by Brother Ku with an iron shovel, and he was bleeding profusely. If he went to the hospital, he would need at least dozens of stitches. However, Hero Tori used his black whiskers to haphazardly stitch it up, which stopped the bleeding, but his head was still throbbing with pain.

As for the severed right ear and other wounds on his body, he forcibly stitched them up.

"It's so cold. My mouth is so dry."

After getting used to it, or rather, becoming numb to it, the pain from my battered body has become much dulled, but other negative symptoms begin to appear.

The primeval forest of Aokigahara is shrouded by towering trees, with only dappled sunlight filtering through, making it dark and gloomy even during the day.

Hero Tosu was left wearing only a thin shirt, and he couldn't help but hug his arms and shiver.

"Splash—"

It sounded like the gentle murmur of a stream.

Bird Hero's expression shifted, and he couldn't help but lick his dry lips as he followed the sound.

After walking for several dozen meters, Bird Hero pushed aside a clump of bushes, and suddenly a stream appeared before him.

The hero of the Bird's Nest was overjoyed!

Not only can it replenish water, but according to the limited wilderness survival knowledge of the Bird Hero, if you get lost in the forest, you can follow the river to get out of the forest.

"There's hope!"

The hero rushed across and ran to the middle of the stream, where a fawn with its ears perked up was drinking water on the other side.

Startled, the fawn took off in a flash and disappeared into the forest.

The hero of the roost didn't mind, scooped up a handful of cool stream water, and drank a big mouthful.

"roar!"

Suddenly, the bushes opposite began to shake violently, and a large gray bear poked its head out from its hiding place.

The brown bear turned its head in the direction where the fawn had disappeared, then looked at the roosting hero, letting out a deep roar.

The hero of the Bird's Nest suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Oops!

Although brown bears rarely attack humans during the food-rich spring and summer months, my intrusion earlier startled their prey, and in a fit of rage, the bear might mistake me for a deer.

Don't run, don't run.

Bird Hero's forehead was covered in a thick layer of cold sweat, but he also knew very well that turning around and running away would only provoke the brown bear's hunting instincts.

Moreover, even a world champion sprinter couldn't outrun a brown bear.

Humans, who walk upright and have no hair, are unimaginable monsters to brown bears.

If this stalemate continues, the brown bear might retreat on its own.

"Huffing and puffing."

The brown bear twitched its wet black nose a few times and slowly approached the roosting hero.

"It was the smell of blood on my body that aroused the brown bear!"

In an instant, Tosu Hero understood, his face turning deathly pale, and he involuntarily retreated.

"Roar roar roar—"

The brown bear let out a deep roar and approached step by step, about to pounce.

"No, don't come any closer!"

The bird-dwelling hero was so frightened that he slipped and fell into the stream, flailing his arms and legs wildly.

The black stitches on his left wrist suddenly snapped open, and his left fist shot out, striking the brown bear's vulnerable nose.

"Aww!"

The brown bear let out a miserable cry.

More than a dozen black tentacles, each two or three meters long, emerged from the left wrist of the Bird Hero, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws in the air.

The brown bear had never seen such a monster before, and it was so frightened that it turned tail and ran away.

"Hoo hoo hoo, what kind of monster have I turned into? Even the brown bear was scared away by me."

The survivor, Tori, with a complex expression, retracted his left hand through the connected black tentacles.

Now that his body has become this strange structure, can he really return to his warm and happy daily life?

Will Linghua and the mother of my child think I'm a monster?

But if I hadn't turned out this way, I probably would have died twice already.

If I die here, who will shelter this family from the wind and rain?

We must get out of Aokigahara as soon as possible!

Despite not having recovered his strength, the hero of the roost walked from the stream to the bank, and with difficulty, he trudged down the stream.

"It's so cold, so cold."

Although the exact time is uncertain, it should still be early morning, and there is a rather chilly feeling in the air.

The hero was wearing only a thin shirt, and the water vapor from his fall into the stream had soaked him, causing him to shiver.

Hero Togashi couldn't help but recall the coat on the skeleton that had been hanging in the tree earlier.

"No, that's too disrespectful to the dead. We haven't reached the end of our rope yet, it's not winter, and the temperature will rise by noon. Just bear with it, we'll be out of here soon."

Hero Tosu felt a little guilty for the evil thoughts that had crossed his mind earlier.

"What is this?"

The Hero of Birdsty walked along the stream for another half hour when he suddenly saw a metallic reflection not far from the riverbank.

He hesitated for a moment, but still went over.

On the higher earthen slope of the riverbank, beneath several jagged trees, lay a shallow pit containing the remains of a skeleton that had been weathered into dry bones.

A faded men's suit, a shovel lying to the side, and a bottle of sleeping pills.

It appears to be an ordinary suicide in Aokigahara.

However, directly above the crater, like a tombstone, lay a large, dusty, unopened Kamen Rider suit.

It's an extremely rare 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition!

(End of this chapter)