I’M Really Helpless In Tokyo

"The Ainu people who were mainly fishing and hunting culture and once spread all over Hokkaido, from the Kamakura shogunate to the late Edo shogunate, during the northern expansion of the Yamato clan, countless tragic open confrontations and national uprisings broke out between the two sides..."

"In the end, the Ainu were completely suppressed by the shogunate because they were outnumbered and poorly equipped."

Seeing the group of Ainu turned their heads, Fujiwara Takumi cautiously explained.

"Under the ethnic segregation policy at the end of the Tokugawa period, the policy of encouraging settlement in Hokkaido at the beginning of the Meiji era, and the "Hokkaido Old Natives Protection Act" differentiated treatment and forced assimilation, the Ainu were forced to abandon their land, language, customs, and beliefs. The lifestyle, acceptance of the education and intermarriage of the ethnic group have led to the disappearance of most of their culture in the long river of history."

"The Toya Lake branch should have existed like a royal family within the Ainu tribe at the time, so it can adhere to the most primitive blood, cultural beliefs and living habits until now."

"No wonder they hold such a big hatred of outsiders. But what is going on with this big man who will become like a bear..."

Just as Araki Sosuke touched his chin thoughtfully, the sled that the two of them had already drove out of the forest and came to an open plain.

Villages composed of white sloping-roofed thatched huts appeared in the eyes of the two of them.

Hearing the movement of the team returning, many Ainu wearing fur coats walked out of the house one after another.

In addition to tall stature, deep facial features and dark skin, Ainu men mostly wear heavy beards, while women wear "lip lines" that look like a circle of beards around their lips.

"City Assistant, you are back!"

"Papa, did you catch fish by the way? People are hungry."

"Why are you walking weird? Are you playing any strange game?"

Several six or seven-year-old children, like little beasts out of the cage, greeted the team lively.

"Don't come here, tell everyone to go back to the house, and then go ask the patriarch."

"Oh!"

Pulling the sled to stop outside the village, the city aid dispersed several children.

"Hezu people, once again, we will answer your questions..."

He turned around and surrounded the two on the sled like the men, and took out the weapon in his hand: "But if you dare to do strange things in the village, or touch any tribe With a finger, we will stop you even if we die!"

Although the man holding a wooden knife in front of him did not show any breath of "extraordinary" power from beginning to end.

But the opponent not only relied on pure physical ability to understate his entire team in a few seconds...

He also used a wooden sword to defeat the "Bear Spirit Power" in his bloodline, so that the City Assistant still couldn't feel the existence of the "Bear Spirit" until now.

These few things are linked together, and they are "extraordinary" enough in themselves.

"Relax, we just want to inquire about something, and then we will leave. If you were willing to listen to people from the beginning, walking will not be so uncomfortable now..."

In the face of this sudden "big man", Araki Sosuke looked calm.

"Boy... you better keep your promises."

Looking at the "Lake Toya" wooden knife gently swinging in the other's hand, the lower parts of the more than a dozen tall men in bear robes couldn't help but feel cold.

"Those two are Hezu people? They look so weak..."

"Didn't the patriarch say that he cannot be caught back as prey?"

Behind the snow hill not far away, a few small heads quietly poked out, and they looked at the two people sitting on the sled with their big bright eyes.

Children of the Ainu tribe are obviously not a kind of obedient.

"These kids are..."

When his eyes fell on the few children with tiger heads and brains, Zongsuke Araki raised his brows slightly.

Looking closely, those children had various animal characteristics such as cat ears, canine teeth, and rabbit tails.

"If you read it right, these children should all be half-monsters... and, because the blood is too pure, you can't control the type of physical signs when you are young."

"What, half demon?!"

Fujiwara Takumi on the side sighed with a heavy expression.

"I've only heard that Hokkaido still has the last half-demon colony in Japan, but I didn't expect it to be in this kind of national park..."

As a generation who had been educated by the elites of the Fujiwara clan and Meiji Jingu, he was exposed to the historical secrets and was naturally not comparable to Sosuke Araki who grew up in an orphanage.

"Hokkaido...No, it should have been called'Ezo' at that time. It used to be an island belonging to Ainu people only..."

Until 1869, before the Meiji government gave it its name, this northern island has been called "Ezo Land", the place where barbarians live.

Even now, place names in Hokkaido such as "Hakodate", "Sapporo", "Otaru" and even "Toyako" are directly translated from Ainu.

"The reason why the shogunate and royal families of the past rushed to exterminate the Ainu people, wiped out their culture and beliefs, and diluted their blood at all costs, precisely because of their dangerous half-demon blood."

"That's it... This is the so-called non-self race. Does it have to be different?"

It wasn't until this moment that Araki Zongsuke suddenly realized that behind the bloody feud that has lasted for nearly a thousand years between the He clan and the Ainu clan, it is not just the friction between the nations, but the struggle between humans and half demons.

"This guest is right. The original Utari tribe was originally a descendant of Xiong Ling..."

As the crowd separated, a tall and thin old man dyed in colorful bear skin came to the two with a wooden stick.

"But with your Yamato clan's blindly expelling and obliterating, countless half-demons merged with us in the process of migrating to the north and fleeing, forming the diverse half-demon bloodline of the Utari tribe now..."

"However, even if we escaped to such a bitterly cold island, you still have to take away our last inch of living space!"

He took Fujiwara Takumi's words with an old voice, and the old man bowed his chest to the two of them: "Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. The current patriarch of Utali, distinguished from Mijiro, I have seen two of them..."

A faint green glow came out of the wooden stick in his hand and fell towards the two of them.

The green light spread across Fujiwara Takumi's body, and a golden chrysanthemum pattern suddenly appeared.

"It turns out that he is the god son of the He clan..."

But when the green light fell on Araki Zongsuke, there was no response, and it disappeared invisible.

"Also, this one is..."

Seeing this scene, the patriarch touched his head in confusion, speechless for a moment.

This green light contains the memory of Xiong Ling passed down through generations, and the origin of most of the extraordinary existence can be identified through "memories".

Even ordinary people, Xiong Ling will give corresponding feedback.

It was the first time that such annihilation was silent and unresponsive.

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