I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Zongjie, you helped me block these arrows?"

Fujiwara Takumi looked behind him with tearful eyes...

Araki Sousuke, who was also unharmed, threw the two oars full of arrows into the water with his backhand.

"Well, I blocked a few for you... But if you have to row a boat and block arrows, you will inevitably miss a few..."

Glancing between Fujiwara Takumi's legs with guilty eyes, Araki Sosuke jumped onto the shore from the stern of the boat: "So, thank your gods for protecting the happiness of your lower body."

"Leak, leak... which ones?"

Fujiwara Takumi then lowered his head and looked somewhere between his legs...

There, a few arrows pierced straight through his thick winter pants, stuck to the sides of the "Jinyu" tightly, and sank into the bottom of the boat.

"Bastard, bastard... I haven't officially used it yet, so I almost..."

"Stop complaining, the 'visitor welcome ceremony' has already begun."

Just as Fujiwara Takumi carefully pulled out the arrows in his crotch, more than a dozen tall "giant bears" with white snowflakes hanging on their black fur had slowly stood up from the grass behind the lake shore.

"This is... a bear?! But aren't bears solitary animals, and why are there so many on this island?!"

Looking at the black row of "giant bears" in the distance, Fujiwara Takumi, who had just stepped off the boat with one foot, was scared and hid in an instant.

"Zongjie, why are you still standing there, get on the boat and run!"

Ignoring Fujiwara Takumi's weak call, Araki Sousuke quietly pulled out the souvenir wooden knife engraved with "Lake Toya" from his waist.

"Why are you running? We finally came here from Hakodate. Isn't the person we're looking for right in front of us?"

He unhurriedly tied the rope on the handle of the knife in circles, and looked at the "bears" in the distance without any timidity.

"He tribe... This island is the holy land of Utali, and outsiders are forbidden to enter!"

As the distance drew closer, among the group of "giant bears", came Japanese with a blunt pronunciation and an obscure tone.

"These bears...are people?"

Takumi Fujiwara, who was hiding on the boat, took a closer look. Inside the ferocious mouths of these "giant bears", there were faces with tall noses, sunken eye sockets, and bearded faces...

The "bear group" in front of them turned out to be a tall man who made a coat and hat from the whole bear skin and head, and wore it on his body.

"You...you are Ainu people?!"

Fujiwara Takumi instantly recognized the origins of these people through the opponent's extremely characteristic facial features.

Regarding the ethnic origin of the Ainu, there are many hypotheses, such as Caucasian, ancient Asia and Tungusic hybrids, prehistoric Aryans, Canaan and Phoenicians in West Asia, Polynesians in coastal Australia, and Andaman Islanders in South Asia. There is no conclusion.

In short, their dark skin, tall stature, deep facial features, prominent eyebrow arches and other characteristics similar to Eurasian race, compared with the "Yamato nation" who ruled Japan, seem so out of place.

"Tsk, don't use your clan's disparaging names to call us..."

Fujiwara Takumi's simple question was like igniting a barrel of explosives, causing the group of men to show an angry look on their faces, and they took out the giant bow behind them: "We are, Utaly!"

"Ah, sorry..."

Fujiwara Takumi, who took the opportunity to do his homework on the way here, realized that he had said something wrong.

In the Ainu language, "Ainu" means "people", and Ezo means Yidi.

Whether it is the Ainu or the Einu, they are actually the derogatory names given to this nation by the Hezu in history.

The real Ainu prefer to call themselves Utali, which means "partner".

"Utaly...Utaly...is it okay?!"

"Summon the evil spirits and clansmen, die!"

He didn't listen to Fujiwara Takumi's explanation at all, several arrows had already come towards his face from the wind and snow.

"Snapped."

There was a sound of piercing through the air, and the arrows that had just been shot had been precisely cut in two from the air, and fell powerlessly into the snow.

"The guy with the wooden knife is not simple... What about people?!"

Several Ainu archers showed unbelievable expressions just now, but Sousuke Araki, who cut off the arrow, has disappeared without a trace.

"Careful, on the left!"

A man standing at the front narrowed his eyes slightly and looked to the left with a burning gaze.

There, Sousuke Araki, dragging a dark afterimage with a wooden knife on his shoulder, had already come to the "bear group".

"This He clansman... is faster than the Snow Fox..."

Seeing Sousuke Araki appearing from the wind and snow like a ghost, the hearts of the nearest Ainu men felt cold.

"Spear array!"

They handed out their spears tacitly, forming a neat and dense array of spears.

Even the ghostly snow fox on the snow could only obediently turn into a corpse if it bumped into their spear array.

"What?!"

In the next second, in front of their eyes, Araki Sousuke's body twisted at a high speed with a slight and imperceptible range, and slipped past the spear array as silky as a loach...

"Hey."

That sinful face with a grin on the corner of the mouth abruptly occupied all the men's sights.

"This guy, is planning to be outnumbered?"

On weekdays, the Ainu hunters, who are at the top of the food chain in Hokkaido and even dare to hunt brown bears in captivity, feel a terrifying illusion of being targeted by wild giant beasts.

"Hey, since I didn't intend to speak properly from the beginning, let's change to a 'communication language'!"

Without giving the opponent a chance to react at all, Sousuke Araki had already passed behind the men at high speed.

On the "Lake Toya" wooden knife in his hand, the sound of piercing through the sky resounded one after another.

"Ugh... um... oh ho... yo hey..."

At the front of the line, five "giant bears" as tall as a hill, clutching their upturned buttocks in wailing, knelt down one after another like dominoes.

"Hey, next, it's your turn..."

The corner of Araki Sosuke's mouth cracked into a sinister smile, and he kept attacking the remaining dozen or so people with pale faces.

When he was in the middle of the lake, the "warm and hospitable" behavior of the other party's sneak attack without saying a word had already made him extremely unhappy.

If it were two ordinary people who went to the island rashly, they would have been pierced by thousands of arrows at this moment, turning into two corpses in the icy lake.

The men in front of me were hit by the "Lake Toya の crit". Although their lives were not harmed, it is estimated that when they go to the toilet for a long time, they will recall the fear of being dominated by this wooden knife.

"I'm careless. I obviously didn't sense any abnormal power on him. Who the hell is this guy?"

Looking at this scene, the tallest man in the team looked more cautious than ever.

On the opposite side, the seemingly "average" man from the He tribe actually "partially critically attacked" five seasoned hunters in the tribe who could hunt brown bears alone with only a tourist souvenir wooden knife!