Rebirth of Japan's Sekiro Legacy

Chapter 281 Hostage
"Kishimoto!?" Mizumoto Saina was taken aback when she saw the face of the visitor.

Not only Kishimoto, but other members of Team 13 are still alive.

"Go!" Kosuke Kishimoto looked as if he had rolled in the mud at the moment, "The nearby monsters will gather soon! They are hunting us!"

"You were hunted?" the man said. "What happened?"

"Let's talk later!" Kosuke Kishimoto looked nervous, "Our hiding place is not far from here."

Without further ado, the group set off immediately.

The further they went into the forest, they could occasionally see some skeletons hanging from the branches.

Because of this primeval forest and its convenient transportation and high privacy, many Japanese choose to commit suicide here.This in turn made Aokigahara a well-known "suicide resort" in Japan, leaving behind many vivid and supernatural legends.The police had to set up warning signs deep in the forest advising them to value life and not to commit suicide.

The bones of some suicides were trampled to pieces by wild animals.Ebina remembered that the geography teacher said that Aokigahara was rich in iron ore, and because of the magnetic field of the volcanic lava, the compass could not be used in the forest... Not all the dead wanted to commit suicide, and some people were most likely lost because they were lost. Get out of the forest and die.

After more than ten minutes of rushing, the group arrived at the place where Kosuke Kishimoto and others were hiding.

A cave hidden deep in the forest.

Many years ago, the lava from the eruption of Mt. Fuji flowed for a distance of [-] kilometers, and countless caves of different sizes were formed at the foot of the mountain. Some caves still have the phenomenon of exhalation.The walls of the most beautiful Fuyue Wind Cave are covered with icicles similar to stalactites, which do not melt all year round.

Although the cave formed by the cooling of the lava is not big, it has a long passage and is sufficiently concealed as a hiding place.

"We sprinkled some deodorizing powder around, so that those monsters can't find us." The member of the 13th team said.

The entrance of the cave was covered with plants. In the cave, a group of people started a fire. The temperature around Mount Fuji was very low, because there were many abnormal weather phenomena during this period, and thunder and rain often occurred.

After contacting the headquarters, the man asked, "What's going on?"

"In the evening, we were going to return, but we were attacked by monsters on the way, the communication device was lost, and the positioning system was also taken away. We can only hide here and wait for rescue."

"Great, it looks like we've been following those monsters." The man spat.

"It's probably a bait." Ebina said, "When we first saw the group of monsters, one of them looked like Mr. Kishimoto."

"Among those monsters is Faceless!" the members of Team No. 13 said excitedly, "It can take the appearance of anyone who comes into contact with it!"

"And we bit the bait." Mizumoto Saina said, "This matter must be reported to Akira Nakazawa immediately."

"The message has already been sent. The president said that we should hide first and wait for rescue during the day tomorrow. Night vision devices have been assigned to the on-duty personnel, and there are not many exorcists who can move without hindrance at night," the man said. soon.

Everyone understands this.

"By the way, this werewolf shouldn't be a blood-sucking species, right?" Kosuke Kishimoto stared at Mizumoto Saina cautiously.

He was too anxious and didn't pay much attention before, until now he realized that there was a "werewolf" in the rescue team sent by Akira Nakazawa.

"Kishimoto, if you talk nonsense again, I'll tell the president about you secretly using the weapon in the equipment store!" Mizumoto Saina took out the recovery potion from her pocket and drank it, gradually returning to her human form.

In fact, there is no need to restore the potion, the effect of the veterinary potion is already fading, and the tail has almost disappeared.Drinking the recovery potion was just to prove his identity.

"You are... Mizumoto!?" Kishimoto Kosuke looked at the familiar face that slowly changed back in disbelief.

As a courier working in a logistics company, the first person I encounter when I go to the company to check in every day is the counter attendant. It’s hard not to be familiar with it, and the only person who knows that he stole weapons from the equipment warehouse is Mizumoto Saina—— I was arrested that day.

"Aren't you supposed to be in Tokyo?"

"You may not believe it, but I'm actually a combatant." Mizumoto Saina said mercilessly, "It's you, a guy who tinkers with guns all day long, who actually came here!"

"Is there any way?" Kishimoto Kosuke blushed, "Someone must maintain the weapon, right?"

"So why is Mr. Kishimoto here?" Ebina asked innocently, "Shouldn't we maintain weapons in the arsenal?"

"Because our team lacked a member, he was injured, and Kishimoto replaced him." The team leader of No. 13 came out to smooth things over.

However, Saina Mizumoto knew very well that this guy definitely wanted to experiment with his "new weapon", so he came out with shamelessness.

"That's not it... Well, Ms. Shuiben, you see we've known each other for so long, right? President, please be flexible. I haven't paid for the wall decoration cost I lost last time..."

"Miss Mizumoto, forget it, I agreed with Kishimoto to come out with us." The team leader said, "Nothing went wrong along the way, until we were hunted down by monsters."

"By the way, how did you get targeted by the monster?" Mizumoto Saina asked.

This is very important. The nature of these two things is completely different from the encounter in the middle, and the enemy's ambush or follow-up in advance.

If it's the latter, it means that the monsters are also acting premeditated.

"The group of monsters appeared suddenly." Kosuke Kishimoto sighed, and said with lingering fear, "This afternoon, we found something was wrong in the middle of our patrol, and there was no shadow of a monster in this area. You must know that many The monsters who came out of the ghost gate have not figured out the situation yet, they should be in the stage of preparing to enter the human world, they should be eager to run out... But there are no shadows of monsters here, so we took a short rest and prepared to go to the headquarters When reporting the situation, the monsters came out, they hid in advance, in order to ambush us."

"But they didn't want to kill us purely." The team member added, "otherwise we would have died long ago under the circumstances at that time. Those monsters took the lead, and there were a hundred ways to make us die miserably. At that time A monster rushed towards me, and its claws easily cut through the rocks. One can imagine how easy it would be to cut a person's throat with its sharp claws, but it just rushed over, trying to break my hands and feet. I seized the opportunity to fight back. Thanks to Kishimoto's flash bomb, we were able to escape safely...Although we suffered some injuries, we are not missing arms or legs."

"Hostages," the man said, "the monsters want to take you hostage."

"Or pry some information from Mr. Kishimoto's mouth." Ebina said.

"The former is more likely." Mizumoto Saina said, "The exorcist was ordered to block Mount Fuji, and then wipe out the demons and find the location of the ghost gate. What other information can we get? What is our work and rest schedule? The point is, what is the purpose of the demons taking Team No. 13 hostage, is it to attract more exorcists to come to the rescue?"

(End of this chapter)