I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 218 & 219: Tailed Beast Cloak? Half-Tailed Beast Transformation!

What lies capsized on the seabed is a small yacht, twelve meters long.

The yacht sank in Wakasa Bay several years ago, and a thick layer of dust and sand has accumulated on the wreck.

Shipwrecks like these, located near the coast, often become a paradise for marine life. Barnacles and corals take root on the hulls, attracting various small fish and marine predators, thus becoming part of the marine ecosystem.

But strangely, the area within a radius of several dozen meters centered on the shipwreck is completely barren.

It stands in stark contrast to the vibrant and colorful underwater world around it.

Naruto Uchiha was hiding inside the belly of the toad, and he had a clear view of what was happening outside.

"This is a yacht that sank in Wakasa Bay due to a storm in 1961. One of the seven passengers on board tragically perished. It has been five years since then."

Naruto Uchiha held a confidential document he had copied from the Metropolitan Police Department and slowly flipped through it.

"When the local government was retrieving the bodies of the victims, they discovered a horrific scene: one after another, the divers who went down into the water died tragically. After three people died in succession, panic spread and rumors spread that it was the work of 'mermaids,' and the retrieval operation had to be stopped."

"Wakasa Bay was already famous for the Yaobikuni, and the mermaid legend was deeply ingrained in people's minds, causing even more of a stir. This attracted the attention of the Metropolitan Police Department. After investigation, it was discovered that there was no mermaid in the shipwreck, but rather an evil spirit, which was later officially designated Type B-07!"

Naruto Uchiha took out a resume with a color photo attached from the file folder.

The deceased was a woman named Kimie Suzuki.

The woman in the photo, Kimie Suzuki, has thick, beautiful, long, black hair.

He only glanced at it and didn't pay much attention.

Once they become evil spirits, they lose their reason and humanity, and they are beings that should be destroyed.

Naruto Uchiha would not show mercy, and naturally, he had no need to know about the evil spirit's life experiences before its death.

Seeing the toad kick its legs, it swam around the barren land and coral reef around the yacht a few times.

The evil spirits are essentially made of Yin Release chakra, which is cold and icy. Combined with their instinct to indiscriminately attack living beings, the area around the yacht has become a forbidden zone of death.

Only a few abruptly raised artificial reefs stand near the yacht.

Naruto Uchiha knew perfectly well that there were hidden cameras in the holes in the rocks.

This is also a very special case among the only sixteen cases of type B so far.

The evil spirit of Suzuki Kimie is located dozens of meters below the surface of Wakasa Bay, so there is no way to talk about human surveillance or isolation.

The only thing the Metropolitan Police Department can do, besides erasing all the news online, is to install underwater cameras.

The local fisheries administration was instructed to dispatch sea patrol aircraft to conduct regular patrols in the surrounding waters.

Fortunately, evil spirits are all earthbound, and this sea area is sparsely populated, so the danger is almost zero.

This level of evil spirit could be destroyed with a flick of the finger by Uchiha Naruto. Even in the sea, he could use his fire-style techniques to blast the evil spirit and the yacht into pieces.

But isn't this making a mountain out of a molehill...?

It's better to eliminate the evil spirit secretly and without anyone noticing.

As Uchiha Naruto hesitated, the toad sensed the tremors coming from the sea.

"Buzzing—"

The toad spread its legs, pushed the seawater aside, and swam back hundreds of meters. When it raised its head, the shadow cast by a large steel ship covered it.

"It seems like one of them is a warship?"

Uchiha Naruto murmured, his tone hesitant.

After all, it was just a glimpse from the seabed, and the angle of view was different, so it wasn't very clear.

"Forget it, let's go up to the surface and take a look."

He clasped his hands together and apart several times, forming several hand seals, and then uttered a low shout:

"Spiritualization Technique!"

In an instant, Naruto Uchiha's soul left his body and rose above the sea level, while his body could be placed in the stomach of the toad without any worries.

Naruto Uchiha flew into the sky and looked down at the two ships, one large and one small.

The larger one is a scientific research vessel, and the other is a warship equipped with naval guns.

Unfortunately, even with Uchiha Naruto's military technology knowledge, he couldn't tell what kind of warship it was, but the Stars and Stripes were flying on the deck.

However, it looks a bit small, with a displacement of only two or three hundred tons, which is incomparable to behemoths like destroyers.

These two ships were clearly targeting Suzuki Kimie's evil spirit.

They came with menacing airs, clearly not with good intentions.

What are they up to now? Are they here to deal with the evil spirits of Wakasa Bay?

They must have also tested it; physical attacks like cannonballs are ineffective against evil spirits whose nature has been altered by Yin-style transformation.

Naruto Uchiha couldn't help but feel curious. Just then, he saw a dark face appear on the deck of the research vessel, which looked somewhat familiar.

Isn't this the head of the fifth section?

He has given himself a very generous gift.

Naruto Uchiha landed silently on the deck and floated past as if no one was there.

Using the Spirit Transformation technique for infiltration, it's as if entering an empty field.

The research vessel cut through the waves, its bow cleaving the sea and stirring up piles of white spray, countless water droplets splashing up and then returning to the sea.

Section Chief Mori stood on the deck, gazing at the boundless blue sea in the distance, his eyes slightly narrowed.

"arrive!"

Two hundred meters from where the yacht sank, the research vessel and the gunboat behind it came to a stop.

"Although according to experimental data from the beginning of the year, the furthest distance that Type B-07 could move was 45 meters beyond the wreck, for safety reasons, it cannot get any closer."

"Next to Section Chief Sen, a researcher wearing a white lab coat and with thinning hair said."

"Dr. Misawa, I understand."

A salty sea breeze blew in, and Section Chief Mori looked around, a hint of nostalgia in his eyes.

"Wakasa Bay, the last time we were here on a mission was fourteen years ago."

"Huh? That was in 1961. The evil spirits in Wakasa Bay were only discovered five years ago. Section Chief Mori was already a member of Public Security Section 5 back then, right? What mission were you carrying out here?"

Professor Misawa was somewhat curious. He was in charge of research on the Wakasa Bay evil spirit and was stationed in Obama City year-round.

"I'm sorry, Section Chief Mori. If it involves classified information, just pretend I didn't ask."

"It's been more than ten years, so it's hardly a secret anymore."

Section Chief Mori thought about it for a moment and decided that it wasn't a big deal and there was no need to keep it a secret, so he simply told the truth.

"In 1968, less than a year after the first case of the supernatural was discovered, the Metropolitan Police Department was conducting a large-scale investigation of shrines, temples, and folk legends throughout the country, trying to find any clues related to the supernatural," Section Chief Mori recalled.

"Isn't there a legend about the eight hundred nuns in Wakasa Bay?"

Legend has it that in the ancient city of Kohama in Wakasa Province, someone caught a mermaid with a human head and a fish body. It was ugly and no one dared to eat it, except for a little girl who curiously took a bite.

The girl who ate the mermaid's flesh became immortal and lived to be eight hundred years old. She lamented the impermanence of life and eventually became a nun.

This is Yaobikuni, a household name in Japan.

"Not only does Obama City have a mermaid festival that has been around for over a hundred years, but the local mermaid shrine also houses a mermaid specimen that is over 150 years old. I was ordered to investigate the authenticity of this matter."

"The mummy at the Mermaid Shrine? That's a fake." Professor Misawa's interest vanished immediately upon hearing this.

"That's right, that mermaid mummy was pieced together from the dried corpses of macaques and carp!" Section Chief Mori's tone was filled with anger and resentment as he recounted this old story.

"I went through a lot of trouble to trace it back to its source, and found that this mermaid mummy was actually a mass-produced fake sold to Europeans in Sakai City, Osaka!"

Sakai City in Osaka served as a gateway for trade between Japan and Westerners at that time.

In the Middle Ages, the Church used the image of mermaids, monsters with enchanting and seductive voices, to allude to female allure.

For religious reasons, Western Europe at that time was extremely obsessed with mermaids, and superstitiously believed that mermaids must exist somewhere in the world.

Although it doesn't exist in Western Europe or the New World, it might really exist in the Far East!

Merchants in Osaka seized this opportunity and began to produce various mermaid and kappa specimens to sell to Westerners, even forming a complete industry chain.

The National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, Netherlands, and the British Museum still preserve fake mermaid and kappa specimens from that era.

This demonstrates the spirit of craftsmanship in Japan.

"Kohama City got a fake mermaid specimen from Osaka and enshrined it in a shrine as a gimmick for the mermaid festival," Section Chief Mori said, both amused and annoyed.

"Besides Kohama City, there are all sorts of kappa, mermaid, and even dragon monster specimens all over the country. The Metropolitan Police Department investigated them one by one and found that they were all fakes, wasting a lot of manpower and resources."

"Hahaha."

Professor Misawa couldn't help but chuckle a few times before saying, "Speaking of which, tomorrow is the Mermaid Festival in Obama City. Section Chief Mori, would you be interested in taking a look around?"

"Mermaid Festival?" Section Chief Mori seemed unmoved.

"Young girls will dress up as mermaids and parade around town."

Section Chief Mori's expression shifted, and he changed his mind, readily agreeing:

"I've been given three days for this experiment. If it goes well, visiting the Mermaid Festival wouldn't be out of the question."

"Then it's settled. I'll be the host and entertain Section Chief Mori. I've also prepared some young girls for Section Chief Mori tonight."

"Once I get back to shore, I'm going to relax properly," Section Chief Mori chuckled.

"Without further ado, while the storm has calmed down, we can begin our experiments."

Several Fifth Division staff members in black suits brought out a square water tank with a diameter of over two meters.

Inside the tank, there was a listless little octopus monster. It bared its teeth and opened its mouth as if to spit something out, but only a trace of ink floated out of its mouth.

Section Chief Mori looked at the little octopus monster in the tank, a strange expression appearing on his face.

Hyoudou, the chairman of the Black Emperor Society, is truly ruthless and insane.

After Chairman Hyodo was attacked by superhumans at Elysium, the Metropolitan Police Department followed this lead and uncovered a lot of dirt on him.

This monster, unearthed from the ruins of the Palace of Bliss, is one of them.

If Chairman Hyodo were still alive, he would be in deep trouble.

However, once a person dies, everything is extinguished. It was discovered that the high-ranking members of the Black Emperor Society had been completely wiped out in the Palace of Bliss. The bigwigs in the political and business circles divided up the Black Emperor Society's assets with tears in their eyes, generously stating that the dead should be respected.

"This time, our experiment is to observe what happens when type A and type B come into contact."

Monsters with physical bodies can be eliminated through physical means, but the Metropolitan Police Department has tried everything to deal with intangible evil spirits but to no avail.

Scientists are curious about what kind of chemical reaction would occur when monsters and evil spirits collide.

Can evil spirits kill monsters?

Can monsters withstand attacks from evil spirits?

However, samples of monsters have always been scarce. It wasn't until this year, when the number of live samples captured increased significantly and the situation became increasingly bizarre, that this experimental project was put on the agenda.

"Let's begin."

Section Chief Mori and Professor Misawa directed the staff to work very hard to load the water tank onto the unmanned remotely operated vehicle, which was then slowly lowered into the sea using a cable winch.

After the underwater robot landed smoothly on the seabed, it started its tracks and moved closer to the sunken ship.

Section Chief Mori and Professor Misawa opened their eyes wide and observed the images in the sea through the multiple cameras mounted on the submersible.

After crossing the death line, the little octopus became somewhat restless, swimming back and forth in the tank and occasionally bumping into the thick glass.

The command console continued to steer the submersible forward, ever forward.

Forty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters...

Finally, about fifteen meters from the sunken ship, a white phantom emerged from the yacht.

Today, Wakasa Bay was calm and still, and the seawater was crystal clear under the sunlight, allowing the crew on the research vessel to see clearly what was in front of the submersible's camera.

The woman's face was deathly pale, her eyes were stark black and white, devoid of any emotion, and her thick, black hair danced in the water like seaweed.

"ah--!"

The operator felt a chill run down his spine, and his hands on the control panel froze.

"Don't stop, there's nothing to be afraid of!"

Section Chief Mori reprimanded:

"Previous experimental records have all shown that as long as we don't invade the evil spirits' territory, we will absolutely not be attacked. We are perfectly safe!"

The operator swallowed hard and cautiously maneuvered the submersible toward Suzuki Kimie's evil spirit.

Professor Misawa watched this scene intently, wishing he could glue his eyeballs to the screen.

It's getting closer, closer and closer!

The submersible crashed into the evil spirits of Wakasa Bay.

The evil spirit pierced through the submersible and the glass wall, and entered the body of the octopus monster.

Just then, something unexpected happened!

The octopus monster's body began to twist and swell, growing to the height of a person. Its upper body transformed into a woman, curvaceous and with a pretty face, while its lower body was covered with octopus tentacles full of suckers.

A dark red and ominous energy erupted, enveloping Suzuki Kimie's face and continuing to spread downwards!

"Tailed Beast Cloak? No, it's more like a half-Tailed Beast transformation!"

(End of this chapter)