I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 223 and 224: The trial will soon begin!

"No, Suzuki! It wasn't me who abandoned you... it was, it was Shimazaki!"

Upon witnessing a mermaid who looked remarkably like Suzuki Kimie rise from the surface of Wakasa Bay, the suspicious Yukako was terrified and collapsed onto the beach, a suspicious liquid leaking from her crotch.

"Shimazaki?"

"That's right! It was Shimazaki! Back on that deserted island, you rejected Shimazaki's confession, and he held a grudge against you. That's why he pushed you out of the lifeboat seat. I was just afraid of Shimazaki's tyranny, so I didn't object."

Yu Jiazi spoke in a panic, trying to absolve herself of all responsibility.

"Suzuki, if you want to bring disaster upon yourself, go find Shimazaki. I'm innocent!"

"Does your survival mean my sister has to die? None of you six are innocent!"

The mermaid's voice became distorted with anger, and Yukako's blank and terrified expression changed as she realized something was wrong.

Yu Jiazi then noticed that although this mermaid had blue eyes and scale-like patterns on its cheeks and arms, its lower body was not a fish tail, but a pair of long human legs.

"You're not Suzuki, you're Suzuki's sister? No...no!"

The mermaid suddenly pounced and started fighting with Yukako.

Because of the shock she had experienced earlier, Yu Jiazi could only muster a small portion of her strength and quickly found herself at a disadvantage in the fight.

The mermaid grabbed Yukako's short hair and dragged her to the beach. The rising tide had already reached their calves, and then she pushed her head and face down into the sea.

"No, glug—"

Seawater poured into her mouth and nose, and Yuka struggled violently, but the mermaid coldly pressed her down, immersing her head and face in the sea.

Her once beautiful face was now twisted into a ferocious and terrifying shape, her eyes flashing with a cold light that was extremely intimidating.

A few minutes later, Yukako finally stopped moving.

Suzuki Maika then released her hands, and Yukako's pale face emerged from the sea.

Murder!

Suzuki Maika's face turned pale, her eyes staring blankly at her hands that had just drowned a living person. She buried her face in her hands and sobbed silently.

"elder sister……"

But she didn't cry for long before Suzuki Maika looked up and a small, crystalline object fell into the sea through her fingers and disappeared.

Suzuki Maika's eyes are now either azure blue or black, just like a normal person's.

"Mermaid contact lenses..."

Maika Suzuki quickly bent down and groped around in the seawater, but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. The small colored contact lens had been washed away by the waves.

The fish-scale-like patterns on her hands gradually faded as the seawater washed over them.

The tourist souvenir shop in Obama City sells waterproof stickers for mermaid scale tattoos and azure blue mermaid contact lenses. Suzuki Maika bought these from the shop after returning, disguising herself as a mermaid ghost.

Feeling guilty, Yukako was tricked into confessing everything that happened back then. Suzuki Maika, with murderous intent, drowned her in Wakasa Bay.

"Shimazaki Daiki!"

Suzuki Maika spoke slowly and deliberately, a chilling murderous intent flashing in her eyes.

Even if, as Yukako said, Shimazaki Daiki was the culprit who drove her sister to her death, she could not forgive the other yacht club members who watched their sister die in the storm and then acted as if nothing had happened.

These people were accomplices and deserved to die!

Including Okubo, who has already committed suicide, and Yukako, whom she killed with her own hands, she still has four enemies left.

However, Suzuki Maika did not know the whereabouts of the others, and she felt that she was alone and could not seek revenge on everyone.

After all, Suzuki Maika was just an ordinary health care doctor, not some high-IQ criminal who could commit the perfect crime, manipulate the police, and escape the law with ease.

However, Suzuki Maika has already decided to take revenge on her sister's enemies.

Even if it means mutual destruction, I would not hesitate.

The first to be targeted was Shimazaki Daiki, who was Suzuki Maika's most hated killer.

However, the most urgent task is to hide Yukako's body.

Tomorrow is the annual Mermaid Festival in Obama City. As is customary, the Obama City Police Department needs to deploy officers to maintain order at the festival. Yukako's disappearance may not attract the attention of the police department, and there is still some time before they notice it.

Kill Shimazaki Daiki at tomorrow's Mermaid Festival!

Suzuki Maika dived into the sea and, dragging Yukako's body, swam along the coastline toward a place she remembered.

As expected of a fisherman's daughter born and raised in a seaside town, Suzuki Maika is an excellent swimmer and quickly swam to a cliff by the sea. There was a cave more than a meter above the sea at the foot of the cliff.

First, hide Yukako's body here.

This secret cave will not be submerged by the tide, and the corpses will not be washed out unless there is a storm.

Suzuki Maika didn't expect the body to remain hidden here forever. She only needed a day or two of buffer time, during which she would at least kill Shimazaki Daiki as well!

Then came the other yacht club members.

Before being arrested by the police, he can drag as many people as he can down to hell!

Suzuki Maika's face was clouded with worry as she plotted her revenge. She jumped into the sea, oblivious to the slight twitch of Yukako's right little finger.

After Suzuki Maika left the seaside cave, a gray toad suddenly appeared on the undulating sea and leaped into the cave.

Naruto Uchiha emerged from the mouth of the toad and glanced with interest at the short-haired woman lying on the ground.

"I never expected Suzuki-sensei to be so ruthless. But it's her first time killing someone, so she's still inexperienced."

Naruto Uchiha chuckled, took a toad-shaped gourd from his waist, uncorked it, and poured it onto the ground.

A ball of pale blue light landed on the cave floor.

From within the blue light, octopus tentacles covered in suckers emerged, and 'Suzuki Kimie,' with the upper body of a human and the lower body of an octopus, materialized and appeared in the cave.

Suzuki Kimie's expression was dazed, and three illusory black tomoe appeared in her eyes.

Previously, Naruto Uchiha wanted to try to create a Jinchuriki himself, so he injected "Suzuki Kimie" into Section Chief Mori's body, but as expected, it went out of control.

Helpless, Naruto Uchiha could only destroy Section Chief Mori after he had transformed into a "Tailed Beast" and reseal "Suzuki Kimie".

Naruto Uchiha's three-tomoe Sharingan is definitely not enough to control a tailed beast-level being, but it's more than enough to handle a tailed beast like Suzuki Kimie.

Naruto Uchiha blinked, dispelling the genjutsu he had cast.

"Awooooo—"

Suzuki Kimie bared her teeth at Uchiha Naruto, wanting to pounce on him and bite him, but she didn't dare. She could only let out a low, threatening growl from her throat, full of bluffing.

"Hmph, what a beast indeed. But even a beast, as long as it harbors fear, will succumb to absolute violence!"

Naruto Uchiha had long ago discovered that the Tailed Beasts born from the fusion of demons and evil spirits were not as emotionless and fearless as evil spirits.

Tailed beasts are chakra life forms with biological activity characteristics and a certain level of intelligence.

However, after Suzuki Kimie had just been given flesh, her bestial nature overwhelmed her body, and she violently wanted to destroy everything. But after being repeatedly beaten by Uchiha Naruto, her biological instincts returned to their peak.

That is fear!

Furthermore, Naruto Uchiha used his Sharingan to deeply imprint fear into Kimie Suzuki's soul.

Because of fear, the bestiality in Suzuki Kimie's eyes was greatly diminished.

"Miss Junhui, let's just call you that for now. How much do you remember about your life before you died?" Uchiha Naruto asked.

"?"

Kimie Suzuki tilted her head, looking somewhat confused.

"Do you remember the short-haired woman lying over there?" Uchiha Naruto chuckled and gestured with his chin toward Yukako.

Following Uchiha Naruto's movements, Suzuki Kimie looked over and, upon seeing Yukako's face clearly, was first confused, then filled with a chilling killing intent. She revealed a mouthful of sharp teeth and was about to pounce.

However, Naruto Uchiha glanced at it and used his Sharingan to freeze it in place.

Suzuki Kimie's entire body was stiff, and she couldn't move even a single octopus tentacle.

"This reaction suggests you still retain some memories from your previous life. That's quite impressive."

Naruto Uchiha had never seen anything like Suzuki Kimie before; she was neither a monster nor an evil spirit. She was definitely worth observing.

Suzuki Kimie, a Tailed Beast that barely reaches the threshold of Jonin, is not even worth mentioning to Uchiha Naruto. He has no desire to become the Jinchūriki of such a chakra creature, as it would provide negligible boost to his own strength.

If one were to truly become a Jinchūriki, it would have to be either Kurama (the Nine-Tails) or at least Shukaku (the Kaguya).

However, this did not prevent Uchiha Naruto from collecting experimental data to prepare for the future. Although he could not use it himself, he could make it available to other apprentices.

"Miss Junhui, you don't want your sister Suzuki Maika to become a murderer, do you?" Uchiha Naruto said with a smile.

Upon hearing Suzuki Maika's name, 'Suzuki Kimie's' expression wavered even more, and she clutched her head, letting out a sob.

There is a play!

"Your sister, Suzuki Maika, wants to avenge you and kill all those who abandoned you back then. But she's just a weak woman; she can't possibly do it. She'll be arrested by the police soon, won't she?" Uchiha Naruto whispered devilishly, continuing to provoke him.

Incidentally, he used his Sharingan to transmit the images he had seen earlier to Suzuki Kimie through an illusion.

"Japan hasn't abolished the death penalty yet, right? If Suzuki Maika gets caught by the police, her fate won't be good," Uchiha Naruto said, delivering a fatal blow.

Actually, he was taking advantage of the current "Suzuki Kimie" not being smart enough. In Japan, killing one or two people would not result in the death penalty. In fact, people who are sentenced to death often stay in prison for more than ten or twenty years, and some die of old age or illness.

Upon hearing what Uchiha Naruto said, Suzuki Kimie looked at Yukako lying on the ground with a chilling murderous intent, but she was now controlled by the Sharingan and couldn't even move her tendrils.

"Waaaaah."

Suzuki Kimie looked at Uchiha Naruto, whose expression had always been one of fear, and finally revealed weakness and pleading.

Seeing that the time was finally right, Naruto Uchiha struck while the iron was hot.

"Miss Junhui, if you're willing to obediently submit and become my summoning beast, cooperating with my Jinchuriki experiments, I'll give you the chance to take revenge yourself. That way, Miss Maika won't have to kill anyone herself and become a murderer. How about it, isn't that a good offer?"

Although Uchiha Naruto could forcibly turn Suzuki Kimie into his summoning beast, the power he used was too strong to last long.

Although Suzuki Kimie couldn't defeat Uchiha Naruto, sealing him into other people's bodies would still cause him to go berserk due to anger, just like Section Chief Mori, making it impossible for the experiment to create Jinchuriki to continue.

Suzuki Maika might be an exception, and she might even become the so-called perfect Jinchūriki.

While it would be quite interesting to have Suzuki Maika use her extraordinary powers to stage a mermaid revenge story.

However, a rabbit doesn't eat the grass near its burrow, and Uchiha Naruto didn't want to turn Suzuki Maika into a superhuman.

It wasn't just to avoid attracting attention; after all, Suzuki Maika and her aunt, Sakaki Nami, had a good relationship and were roommates.

Becoming a Jinchūriki still carries risks, and even Naruto Uchiha couldn't guarantee that Maika Suzuki wouldn't go berserk.

"How's your decision?"

After a few minutes, Uchiha Naruto began calmly.

A flash of red light from the Sharingan released the restraints on 'Suzuki Kimie'.

Suzuki Kimie hesitated for a moment, then raised one of her octopus tentacles toward Uchiha Naruto.

"Was it a high five as a pledge? I didn't expect you to still remember that."

Naruto Uchiha extended his right hand and slapped Suzuki Kimie's octopus tentacles together.

"Then, the contract is established!"

Meanwhile, Yukako, who had been lying unconscious on the cave floor, coughed up a mouthful of seawater and then groggily woke up.

"I'm not dead?"

Yu Jiazi was still in shock.

That little bitch Suzuki Maika dared to pretend to be a mermaid and play tricks on me, and almost drowned me! I will never let this go!

This is attempted murder!

Moreover, Suzuki Maika somehow learned the truth about the yacht disaster years ago. If this gets out, the remaining five of them will all be disgraced and unable to make a living in Kohama City.

We must contact Shimazaki immediately; his father is the chief of the Kohama City Police Department, and he must have a way to punish that little bitch.

Yu Jiazi awoke from the shock of surviving the ordeal, her face filled with resentment. She reached into her pockets, ready to pull out her phone and call the police.

However, what I got was a cold, sticky substance.

An octopus tentacle reached into Yukako's pocket and pulled out her phone. Yukako stared at the tentacle in disbelief, then slowly raised her head, her expression one of utter despair and terror.

"Suzuki... Kimie?"

"Don't ruin it too much; it might come in handy later."

Naruto Uchiha picked up Yukako's phone. The phone was of good quality; it could still be turned on normally even after being submerged in the sea.

The phone didn't have a lock screen password, so Naruto Uchiha easily opened Line.

There was a group chat on Line for survivors from back then, but now only five people remain. Okubo, who committed suicide, has been removed from the group chat.

Naruto Uchiha thought for a moment, a strange smile appearing on his face, and sent a message to all members:

"The mermaid's judgment will soon arrive!"

(End of this chapter)