I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

Between Mount Yotei and Mount Horoshiri lies a vast canyon densely covered with jungle.

"Hey... is it this way?"

At this moment, Araki Sousuke was galloping along the snow-white forest path.

"Well, changed direction?"

He held a flashlight-like bare handle in his hand, and threw it into the snow like a discarded shoe from time to time...

Under the dilapidated handle of the knife, there seemed to be some kind of sharp invisible thing extending out, quietly piercing through the wind and snow, allowing it to hover at a height of half a meter above the ground.

Every time it is inserted into the snow, the "floating" handle will fall to the ground after a couple of dull shakes...

"Oh, slightly to the right this time?"

In the next second, Araki Sousuke will quickly pick up the handle of the knife, move forward for a certain distance in the direction indicated by the knife head, and repeat the action of "throwing the knife".

"Zongsuke, wait for us..."

Behind Sousuke Araki, who kept "throwing the sword forward", was a wooden sled pulled by an Ainu dog and a Sengoku samurai, on which sat Ichisuke and Takumi Fujiwara.

"Are you a deer? With such deep snow, you can run faster than sled dogs."

To Araki Sousuke, the snow that was more than half a meter deep and difficult for ordinary people to pull out seemed to not exist.

A few Ainu dogs followed him and ran for almost an hour in the snow-covered canyon. At this time, they were sticking out their long tongues and emitting hot white air.

"Take a break... If you continue running like this, the little ones won't be able to hold on for long... Phew!"

The city assistant holding the rein whistled and stopped the sledge.

"Lululu..."

He melted the snow on the side into the wooden bowl he carried with him, and called a few Ainu dogs to come over to drink water, and rubbed the snow on them.

The Ainu dogs bred by the Ainu people for generations are full of energy, strong in stature, and extremely cold-resistant. Even without the help of warriors from the Warring States Period to pull the cart, they can run continuously on the snowfield for several hours.

But right now, Sousuke Araki was moving too fast, and there were two big men on the sled, which caused the Ainu dog's body temperature to rise sharply, and he had to stop to cool down.

"The direction should be correct, the shaking of July Rain is more obvious..."

Sousuke Araki, who was standing aside, looked around at the pale and dazzling snow-capped mountains through his sunglasses, and secretly clenched his fists: "Little bird Yushi and the others must be getting closer and closer to us!"

"But, Zongsuke...it doesn't look like a bus can pass us this way."

Standing beside him, Takumi Fujiwara, who kept stomping his feet, looked in the direction he came from with some hesitation.

"And, according to what you sensed before, that bus should be in a dark place..."

After running for an hour with Qi Yueyu who was incarnate as a "candy-finding stick", they have now crossed the canyon and came to a mountain where two high mountains meet.

"Look, the snow is shining brightly around here, doesn't it look like there are similar places?"

Looking around, the goal of entering is the towering main peaks of "Xiong Mountain" and "Female Mountain" a few kilometers away.

Looking down from the low mountains between the two mountains, apart from the refreshing and endless snow slopes, there are only dense forests with thicker snow.

"That's right..."

Sousuke Araki scratched the back of his head in confusion, pulled out July Rain from his waist, and threw it towards the snow again with the skillful technique of illegally throwing garbage: "Don't talk about continuing to go up, just where we are now, the bus There should be no way to drive it, right?"

"Buzz..."

In Fujiwara Takumi's eyes, the July Rain who was held up in mid-air by invisible objects and "refusing to land", after trembling slightly, fell down skillfully on the snow like a professional actor who has played corpses for decades.

"Above Mt. Yotei?! I said, is the direction pointed by this thing really scientific..."

The two looked up in the direction of the handle of the knife, and what they saw was the snow-white "Ezo Fuji" Mount Yotei, which towered into the clouds and had the same shape as Mount Fuji.

"How did the bus go to a place where even a helicopter might not be able to go there?"

"No, although the direction is this way, assuming they are not on the top of the mountain... Could it be that they are inside the mountain?!"

Retracting his sore neck from Mount Yotei at an altitude of 1,898 meters, Sosuke Araki suddenly looked at the snow under his feet: "Ichisuke, are there any crypts, caves, etc. near Mount Yotei, can we drive into one?" The kind of car?"

"There are many bear dens in the mountains, but I have never heard of a cave of that size..."

The city assistant who was feeding the jerky Ainu dog shook his head, and suddenly remembered something: "However, when you and your tribe were engaged in the "Hokkaido Development" more than 150 years ago, they were built one after another in the mountains. Lots of tunnels."

"tunnel……"

After carefully recalling the images that flashed through his mind, Araki Sousuke clapped his hands suddenly: "That's right, the place I saw might be a tunnel in the mountains!"

"Tunnel... Ichisuke, where are we now?"

Inspired, Fujiwara Takumi took out a roll of Hokkaido map from his backpack, spread it out on the snow, and examined it carefully.

"Here? The nearest tunnel nearby should be in... wait..."

However, after confirming his location, he discovered an extremely embarrassing thing: "The nearest tunnel is also 20 kilometers away?!"

"It looks like this from the map... But I heard from the patriarch that a tunnel was built a hundred years ago at the border between 'Xiong Mountain' and 'Female Mountain', but it was abandoned after decades of use... "

"At that time, we had a branch village at the foot of the mountain. Later, due to road planning problems, we were forced to move back to the center of the lake, so I can't remember wrongly."

Shisuke, who was squatting beside him and looking at the map carefully, kept walking on the map with his rough fingers: "Probably in this area, but now that the mountain is blocked by heavy snow, the tunnel and the connecting road have long been abandoned. For decades, I have not been able to determine the exact location."

"Is this location nearby? It does look very close. After climbing over this snow slope, we should be there..."

Sousuke Araki checked carefully and found that the location indicated by Shisuke seemed to be not far away from the three of them.

"Naively, haven't you heard the phrase "looking at the mountain and running to death?" If it involves the internal structure of the mountain, you can't just look at the plane terrain..."

"ha?"

Fujiwara Takumi who was on the side didn't know when to put one hand in his pocket, looked handsomely at the two of them, and smiled coldly: "If you say that July Rain is regarded as some anti-human 'task pointers' in the game, it will only point directly to the person in the tunnel. If the little bird swims inside the witch, we will not be able to find the entrance of the tunnel if we follow the directions, and we will wander around outside, exhausted..."

"Then what do you mean?"

Lightly holding up the sunglasses, his face was reflected by the snow, shining a dazzling light that people couldn't look directly at: "Hmph, the layman is leaving, and then, I'll leave it to the experts..."