I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 188 and 190: Mount Fuji holds more than just bones.

Mount Fuji is an active volcano that is currently dormant, with a recorded history of eighteen eruptions.

The great eruption in the sixth year of the Zhenguan era filled the sea at the northern foot of Mount Fuji with lava, creating the Aokigahara Forest.

The Aokigahara Forest stretches for tens of kilometers, covering an area of ​​over 3000 hectares. How insignificant one would feel to walk alone through it. Wearing a Kamen Rider suit, Tori Hero walked downstream along the stream, unaware of how long he had been walking.

It could be one hour, or it could be three hours.

Modern people become very slow to recognize time after losing their mobile phones.

Torii Hero was just an office worker who lacked exercise, thin and weak. In addition, he had been severely tortured by Brother Ku all night and lost a lot of blood. The fact that he was able to trek in the wild for such a long time was because he was worried about the safety of his family and had unintentionally squeezed out all his physical strength and potential.

But by the time we got here, we were exhausted and, to make matters worse, starving.

Since being kidnapped by Yakuza of the Machigo group last afternoon, Tosu Hideo hasn't eaten a single grain of rice. He's starting to wonder if he might pass out if he doesn't eat something soon.

"Is there anything we can eat?"

Bird Hero sat on a rock, looking around. He saw that the riverbanks were lined with tall, craggy trees, and the ground was covered with moss and lichen, with nothing edible.

Just then, the hero of the roosting bird saw a few orange spots hanging in the bushes on the opposite bank of the stream.

They are wild berries.

Hero Tosu was overjoyed and tried to stand up, but his legs felt as heavy as lead.

"hateful!"

This short distance of just over ten meters, with its shallow stream, seemed like an insurmountable chasm blocking the path of the Bird Perch hero.

"Got it."

Birdsty Hero had a flash of inspiration and raised his left hand, which was wearing a masked hero glove.

With a barely perceptible "poof" sound, the left hand separated from the wrist, pulling out strands of black tentacles that shot out and grabbed the berries on the opposite bank, squeezing them down in one gulp.

He retracted his left hand using the connected black tentacles.

"My wrists can separate and then stretch back—am I Straw Hat Luffy or Buggy the Clown?"

Torii Hero looked at the orange berries on his left hand and thought to himself, trying to find some humor in his predicament.

Hero Tosu works for a toy manufacturing company. His physique reminds him of a boxer toy that the company previously released, which can launch a boxing glove from the wrist and retract it via a connected spring.

The strange changes in his body made him very uneasy, and even a little fearful.

Aside from the severed limbs, if the hero wanted, he could even spit out long, slender, black tentacles from his nose.

With these terrifying tentacles covering my limbs and bones, can I still be considered human?

Will this body scare Linghua and her child's mother?

Bird Hero shook his head, suppressing his fear and unease; his immediate priority was to get home.

He glanced at the wild berries in his hand, his Adam's apple bobbing, but he didn't rush to put them in his mouth.

The roosting hero squeezed a berry, letting a little juice drip onto the back of his bare hand.

Based on his knowledge of wilderness survival from detective novels, he believed that the juice of wild fruits should be non-toxic as long as it wasn't irritating.

After waiting for a minute, there was no redness or other adverse reaction on the skin.

With a press of the mechanism on the side of the Kamen Rider helmet, the mask folded up, revealing his mouth, and he eagerly stuffed the berries into his mouth.

He swallowed a dozen or so wild berries, each the size of a fingertip, whole, like Pigsy eating ginseng fruit, without tasting any flavor at all.

These berries were hardly enough for an adult man; in fact, they stimulated stomach acid secretion, making the Bird Hero feel even hungrier.

The roosting hero looked around, trying to find more berries, but this time he wasn't so lucky; there was nothing to be found.

Finally, the hero of the roosting bird turned his gaze to the babbling brook.

As he walked downstream along the stream, he saw small fish splashing in the water.

"I've never even fished before. I buy all my fish at the convenience store. Without fishing gear, you can't catch anything. Besides, I simply don't have the energy to move stones to build a riverbank to catch fish..."

Seemingly sensing its inner turmoil, several black tentacles emerged from the gap in its left wrist.

Yes, I still have this!

Bird Hero then seemed to wake from a dream, stood up from the rock, stood on the bank, and looked back and forth across the stream with wide eyes.

Suddenly, his pupils contracted, and he raised his left hand towards the stream. More than a dozen black tentacles shot out straight out, stirring up waves in the stream.

A small fish, about two fingers wide and three inches long, was wrapped up by four or five black tentacles and brought to the hands of the Bird Hero.

"How are we supposed to eat this? We probably need to remove the internal organs, right?"

A black tentacle moved at will, its extremely sharp tip slicing through the fish's belly and pulling out its internal organs.

"This..." Tosu Hero's expression was complicated.

I've gradually gotten used to and even become dependent on these strange black tentacles. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, a blessing or a curse.

"Never mind, let's eat first!"

Hero Tosu opened the mechanism on the Kamen Rider helmet, revealing his mouth, and tore apart the simply prepared fish meat.

For the Japanese, eating raw fish is simply instinctive and not worth mentioning.

The small fish in the stream were very fresh, with chewy flesh and a slightly sweet aftertaste. The cold fish meat helped to quench the hunger of the bird-dwelling hero.

But that's not enough.

Hero Tosu closed the Kamen Rider mask, tightened the black scarf around his neck, and extended his left arm. The left sleeve of the Kamen Rider suit began to bulge, and dozens of black tentacles shot out from the cuff, baring their fangs and claws in the air.

Just then, the hero of the roosting suddenly saw a white shadow flash by in the depths of the forest on the other side of the stream.

"What's that? It looks like it's covered in white fur, is it a mountain hag?"

The pupils of the Tosu Hero under the Kamen Rider helmet contracted, and he couldn't help but think of the terrifying ghost stories in Aokigahara.

Yama-baba is an old woman abandoned by her family in the deep mountains. She died of hunger and thirst, filled with resentment, and transformed into a monster.

Tosu Hideo initially dismissed the idea of ​​monsters and evil spirits, but after experiencing a near-death experience and his body transforming into this grotesque state, he couldn't help but begin to have some doubts.

The white figure flashed by and appeared on the other side of the stream the next second.

A furry, white-haired monster stared directly at the Bird-Staying Hero across the shallow stream.

His heart pounded wildly, and the dozens of black tentacles that had been extended forgot to retract, writhing restlessly.

"Lord Kakuyuki, the 'King General' has been waiting for us for quite some time."

The white-haired monster lowered its head and said respectfully:

"What happened to the batch of monsters you took from Tokyo?"

(End of this chapter)