I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapter 7 007 Undercurrents

"Uchiha-kun, come up here and do this problem."

During the fourth period of math class in the morning, the math teacher, a woman in her mid-twenties with shoulder-length short hair and a slightly aloof demeanor, called on Uchiha Naruto's name.

Naruto Uchiha stood on his seat, studying the math problem on the blackboard: a3k, a3k+1, a3k+2, the elements in every three sequences form a group that satisfies the above relationship... every three numbers can accumulate a remainder of 1, ... a3 to a2022 are exactly 677 groups...

So the solution to this problem should be like this...

After pondering for a full minute, Uchiha Naruto finally walked to the blackboard and wrote down the process and the answer.

"You got it right, Uchiha-kun, but don't fall asleep in my class next time. Your solution process is a little incomplete; this part should be..." The math teacher picked up the chalk and began writing on the blackboard.

Because training lasted too late yesterday, Naruto Uchiha was a little exhausted and dozed off for a bit, which was noticed by his sharp-eyed math teacher.

Before long, the bell rang, signaling the end of get out of class. Math class was the last class of the morning, and the students were already hungry. The math teacher had no intention of extending the class, so he immediately announced the end of get out of class.

Naruto Uchiha doesn't even make breakfast for himself, let alone a bento box, so he went to the cafeteria with Hikaru Tanaka.

Naruto Uchiha ordered a beef set meal, patted his rumbling stomach, and then ordered a large tonkotsu ramen.

The beef set meal consists of stir-fried beef and onions, plus a poached egg, a bowl of miso soup, and a bowl of rice. The large tonkotsu ramen is topped with two large slices of pork, piled high with minced garlic, scallions, and bean sprouts, exuding the aroma of animal fat.

This meal cost Uchiha Naruto 1200 yen; it would have been even more expensive to eat outside of school.

Tanaka Hikaru, carrying a tempura set meal, sat down opposite Uchiha Naruto. He was somewhat surprised to see that Naruto had ordered so much.

"Uchiha, so you're a carnivore? You can eat so much!"

Because of his chakra and ninjutsu training, Uchiha Naruto's appetite had increased considerably. He first finished off the pork in his ramen, then slurped up the rest of the noodles, filling his stomach before speaking:

"Maybe it's because I'm in high school and growing faster, but my appetite has increased a lot recently. Before, I would only eat about half a meal."

"Development...hehe, you were dozing off in Inoue-sensei's class just now, was it last night...?"

The little expressions on Tanaka Hikaru's face were absolutely priceless.

"Don't think of me as such a pervert. I just stayed up a little late playing games and didn't get enough sleep." Uchiha said with a disdainful look, continuing to shovel rice into his mouth and eat another beef set meal with the leftover broth from the tonkotsu ramen.

"I almost embarrassed myself in math class today. I can't train this late anymore; it's affecting my daily routine. I also can't neglect my studies, otherwise I'll have less time for training." Uchiha Naruto swallowed a piece of fragrant, juicy beef, licked his oily lips, and thought to himself.

Although he has awakened the Sharingan, Naruto Uchiha has no intention of giving up his studies.

His deviation score is quite good. Judging from his entrance test scores, although he is still far from top universities like the University of Tokyo, he is very confident of getting into a top 10 university.

Naruto Uchiha wasn't a particularly intelligent person, and he put in a lot of effort to achieve such results.

Island nations are also highly competitive exam-oriented countries. In private high schools like Jinguji High School, the academic pressure is immense. If your grades suddenly plummet after you start high school, your parents will definitely be contacted.

Learning is like rowing against the current; if you don't advance, you fall behind. To maintain your grades, you must spend time studying. However, this may delay the time it takes to unlock the third level of the Jade Rank.

Naruto Uchiha finished the last sip of tonkotsu soup, still feeling a bit unsatisfied. He devoured both set meals, except for a bowl of miso soup.

He wasn't used to drinking this kind of thing, and he couldn't understand the islanders' fondness for miso. Unfortunately, the cafeteria's set meals all came with miso soup, the only difference being that restaurant A had tofu miso soup and restaurant B had seaweed miso soup.

Meanwhile, Tanaka Hikaru, who was eating and scrolling through his phone, seemed to have seen some interesting news and couldn't help but read it aloud:

"A gas pipeline explosion occurred in an old apartment building in Shimonakano, causing a violent fire. This video of the scene is quite interesting."

"Tokyo is so big, with a resident population of over 1000 million, it's not surprising at all that gas explosions or fires happen," Uchiha Mei said calmly.

"Fire is not usually news, but take a look at this video."

Tanaka Hikaru handed over his phone. The video quality wasn't very high; it was probably captured by a nearby security camera.

Suddenly, a violent explosion occurred in the first room on the second floor of a dilapidated, cheap apartment building. A large hole was blasted open in the wall, and raging flames poured out from the breach, quickly engulfing half a floor, with flames shooting into the sky.

If the video ended there, it would just be an ordinary fire video. But strangely, after the fire, it seems to rewind and shrink back into the house, as if using special effects, and the fire disappears.

"How did the fire shrink back on its own? This video doesn't look like it was played in reverse. It must be photoshopped. The Photoshop skills these days are really amazing," Tanaka Hikaru exclaimed in amazement.

During the conversation, the progress bar had finished, and just as Tanaka Hikaru was about to play it again, the video showed that it had been deleted.

"Huh, where did the video go?"

Meanwhile, in room 201 of the cheap apartment building where Miyu Ogura was murdered, a handsome man in a black suit and glasses asked the technician beside him:

"Have all the videos online been removed?"

The technician, swiping on a tablet, replied, "Yes, Inspector Uchiha. The technical department has already blocked the website's source file links. We'll announce it was an explosion caused by aging gas pipelines; we're very familiar with this kind of thing."

If Uchiha Naruto were here, he would recognize that the handsome man in the black suit is Uchiha Senmon.

Behind them was a group of well-dressed police officers in uniform, carrying various complex and sophisticated instruments, scanning around room 201.

Suddenly, a police officer's device, resembling a metal detector, started beeping.

Uchiha Senmon's expression changed slightly: "The fact that they can detect unusual reactions means that Officer Kanbara from the Nakano Police Station's report isn't entirely false."

"Inspector Uchiha, the autopsy report for the previous suspect has been released. Would you like to take a look?"

Uchiha Senmon quickly took the tablet from the technician.

The cause of death was typical mechanical asphyxiation, and the autopsy revealed no other possible causes of death. The ligature marks on the deceased's neck and hands matched perfectly in comparison, and the skin flakes extracted from the deceased's fingernails only contained the perpetrator's DNA, which strongly suggests that the perpetrator's suicide was not committed by a second person.

The killer did indeed strangle himself, not commit suicide.

"Is it really another supernatural death? It's only April, and the death toll this year has already surpassed that of previous years."

Uchiha Senmon then took out several documents from his briefcase. These were the police report handed over by Kanbara Yuuji, along with a series of interrogation records, and even a mental evaluation certificate for Kanbara Yuuji.

Uchiha Senmon frowned, repeatedly reading the report word by word, his expression growing increasingly serious.

"An evil spirit that manipulates shadows, and a monk who can breathe fire, took all the flames with him and vanished on the wind. It seems like a pipe dream..."

The Uchiha Senmon did not doubt the existence of evil spirits; both his personal experiences and official records contained things even more unbelievable than this.

However, the mysterious monk named "Dilu," who can spew flames, mentioned in the second half of the report, is somewhat hard to believe.

If this is true, even though the existence of certain non-human entities was basically confirmed fifteen years ago, this is still a major event that would shake the upper echelons of the island nation.

This could be the first confirmed human being with superhuman abilities!

Since the first supernatural event was observed in 2007, after Heisei 19, various bizarre and mysterious supernatural events have occurred one after another. The Metropolitan Police Department even captured a special individual suspected to be a "monster".

Starting the following year, the Metropolitan Police Department secretly conducted a thorough search of temples and shrines across the country, hoping to find legendary sorcerers and Onmyoji who possessed magical powers to exorcise demons.

But in the end, they gained nothing.

Later, the search expanded to the general public, and many well-known psychics and superpowered individuals were found, unsurprisingly, to be frauds.

But this time it seems different.

Uchiha Senmon then said to the technicians, "Pull up the surveillance video."

Staring at the tall monk whose face was slightly blurred in the video, Uchiha Senmon gave instructions: "Notify the technical department to figure out this monk's face, compare it with the database to perform facial recognition, and see if we can find out his real identity. Also, call up all the nearby surveillance cameras and trace back from the time he appeared in the apartment until we trace back to the earliest location where he appeared."

"Notify the intelligence analysis department to check the list of registered monks in all temples in Tokyo. Even if you can't find the monk with the Dharma name Jiraku, try to analyze which sect and temple he belongs to based on the clothes he wears."

"And this Officer Kanbara, has he been apprehended? Take him to the Metropolitan Police Department in Chiyoda; I want to speak with him personally. Submit all the information to me by 8 PM tonight, and I'll report to my superiors!"

One instruction after another was issued in an orderly manner.

The Uchiha Senmon were well aware of the shockwaves their investigation report would cause upon submission.

"After demons and evil spirits, is it finally the turn of human superhumans to make their appearance? When I was young, there were no such things. What will this country become?" Uchiha Senmon rubbed his temples and muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)