I am practicing in Tokyo

Chapter 73 (It’s sunny, there will be another chapter tonight)

The next morning, Fujii Shu and Uncle Tianhai got up early, got into a private car, and drove towards a national protected forest park outside Tokyo with a car full of camping items.

In the island country, camping is still quite a common outdoor activity, and it is also suitable for Uncle Tianhai, who has mild social anxiety. Before Fujii's original parents were killed, they often organized the whole family to go camping together, which was considered a family tradition.

The car drove to the mountainous area, and the scenery on both sides of the road changed from buildings to lush dense forests. When we reached the end of the tree-lined path, we finally arrived at our destination, an open land beside a river beach in the forest. There were many tents on both sides of the bank, and a two-story bridge was set up in the middle.

A ten-meter-long iron cable plank bridge with gurgling water on the river surface and a depth of only half a meter.

Kubota outdoor base?

Fujii looked at the signboard not far from the river beach. There were three rows of bungalows built below. The style was very similar to American motels. Each row of bungalows had several single rooms. They seemed to be prepared for tourists who wanted to live in private houses. The prices were also low.

Of course it won't be cheap.

"We made an appointment online, and this is a screenshot of the payment."

Uncle Tianhai showed his mobile phone to the staff and got two magnetic cards and a bag of charcoal. You can make a fire by the river beach, which is why the location was chosen here.

After setting up a tent in a flat open space, setting up an iron pot and pouring water into it, Fujii had no idea what would happen next.

Wash the ingredients you brought, put the two A-grade steaks into the frying pan, and fry them in a cassette stove made of metal frames. Add olive oil in advance. When the oil temperature comes up, add the condiments in sequence. Fujii Shu's Kitchen

Art is more than enough to do this.

"I heard that there used to be incidents of black bears attacking villages in the mountains, but not anymore. The rangers here are also issued shotguns, so large animals dare not come."

While tasting the food, Uncle Tianhai said inappropriately.

We are in the mountains, can we say this again when we go home?

Fujii Shu rolled his eyes. Their only self-defense tool was the fire-burning iron rod in the tent. It was not much thicker than an index finger and it would be difficult to beat a dog.

Maybe the FLAG was really established. When Fujii Shu and Uncle Tianhai were lying in the tent with a sleeping bag each in the dead of night, a thick figure that was obviously not human walked past the tent.

what?

Fujii, whose body is 2.4 times that of an ordinary person, has very sharp reflexes. The moment the black shadow flashed by, he opened his eyes with a look of surprise.

He got up from his sleeping bag and picked up the lid of the pressure cooker, which was still a little heavy.

Gently pulling down the zipper door of the tent, the world outside was silent. There was a fishy smell in the air. Fujii looked along the smell. Next to the container where their leftover food was placed, there was an adult-sized black-backed man.

The brown bear is working hard to feast.

There are really bears out there!

Fujii didn't know what to do for a while. Let's not say whether he could survive the beating. If he was really beaten to death, would he be sentenced to harming protected animals?

Relying on the blessing of his golden finger, Fujii Shu stepped forward and patted the brown bear on the back. The brown bear, who was working frantically, froze and turned its head with difficulty.

"Woo, wow!!!"

The brown bear actually yelled in a humane manner, dropped the rice pot in his hand, and disappeared from sight with a bang, leaving only a slowly falling leaf in the air.

This is?

Fujii reached out his hand to catch the fallen leaves. He began to doubt his eyes and pinched the palm of his hand. He was indeed not dreaming.

There is still a small amount of food left in the rice pot on the ground, and the footprints of bear paws are still lightly imprinted on the mud.

"The legendary tanuki that can change?"

He thought about it over and over, and this was the most reliable guess. He never thought that there would be such a magical creature in this world.

Interestingly, it seems that the golden finger gives me enough strength to face these extraordinary beings.

With an intelligence of 2.0, Fujii Shu could understand a lot of things in the blink of an eye. If there is such a tanuki that can do magic, there might also be other monsters, but ordinary people should never be able to come into contact with them in their lifetime.

Shinnosuke walked quickly through the dense forest. His old kimono and legs were scratched by branches and he didn't dare to stop. He is a two-foot-tall humanoid tanuki. As the lowest level demon, he is a sealed demon.

A new demon spirit born outside the barrier.

"Hoo ho ho!"

He kept panting, even though he knew that mortals could not see monsters. Only special big monsters and monster kings had the means to appear in the world. Small monsters like them with low magic power and short lifespan were not even qualified to scare humans.

But Shinnosuke is special in that he was born with the appearance of a tanuki, and he was born with some superficial transformation skills. The brown bear he just transformed into has helped him steal human food many times at night, but the human he met tonight was not as courageous.

Is it too big?

After crossing the mountain, Shinnosuke was surprised to find that his unintentional escape actually led him to enter a mountain shrine that was usually regarded as a forbidden area, where a fox god was enshrined.

"It seems like a visitor has arrived."

A young shrine maiden in red hakama and white clothes walked out of the main room of the shrine, holding an unsheathed sword in one hand. It was none other than Miss Kamiya Rin, who worshiped the Yubai Daimyojin.

"Sorry, I broke in accidentally. Please don't kill me. I have very little meat and it should be sour."

Shinnosuke immediately cried and his nose turned red. He covered his round head with his little hands and fell down with a pair of wind-catching ears on his head. He knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Then, can you bark like a dog?"

Kamiya Rin put her other hand on Shinnosuke's head and touched its furry ears. In order to achieve this action, she had to squat down halfway.

"Woof! Woo, woof! Woof woof woof!"

Shinnosuke, who was afraid of being killed, screamed obediently, causing Rin Kamiya to burst into laughter, and it took him a long time to calm down.

"It's a capital crime for a monster to break into the shrine without permission, but I feel sorry for you, so I'll punish you as a servant of this shrine maiden. Can you accept it?"

"Is there anything to eat?"

Shinnosuke heard that human beings are paid for their work, so he raised his face that looked somewhat similar to that of a human child and looked at Kamiya Rin expectantly.

"Of course. I have other arrangements for your work. Come into the house with me."

Kamiya Rin, who was dressed as a miko, stood up, took the short hand of the little tanuki monster, and asked about its origins.

"I had my own consciousness about two hundred years ago. I have lived in this forest until now, and I have never seen a few of my kind. If it hadn't been for the camps recently opened by humans, there would have been no communication."

Shinnosuke answered one to one, with his maroon tail wagging constantly on his back, holding a plum rice ball in his hand, his cheeks bulging up as he chewed the food.

As for little monsters, they can be used to guard shrines. They are always more useful than ordinary people.

Kamiya Rin fed another piece of plum rice ball. This little guy shouldn't be able to consume much food. In fact, youkai are energy creatures that don't need to eat. It's just that Shinnosuke's mouth is too greedy.

“Delicious, really delicious.”

The little tanuki, who always stole human leftovers, made a satisfied sound without paying any attention to Kamiya Rin's eyes with ulterior motives.

I haven’t saved the manuscript yet. I have another chapter in the evening. From now on, I will update it around nine o’clock in the morning and re-arrange the outline.

(End of chapter)