Mount Fuji was an active volcano still in its dormant phase, with eighteen recorded eruptions in documented history.
Among them, the great eruption in the sixth year of the Jogan era filled the sea at Mount Fuji's northern foot with lava, giving birth to the Aokigahara Sea of Trees.
The Aokigahara Sea of Trees stretched for dozens of kilometers and covered over 3,000 hectares. How insignificant a lone person traveling through it was. Wearing a Kamen Rider suit, Tosu Hideo followed the stream downstream, unsure how long he had been walking.
It might have been an hour, or it might have been three.
Modern people had a poor sense of time once they lost their phones.
Tosu Hideo was just an office worker who lacked exercise, with a frail build and poor stamina. On top of that, Brother Skull had brutally tortured him all night, and he had lost a great deal of blood. He had only managed to trek through the wilderness for so long because his concern for his family's safety had unwittingly squeezed out every last bit of his strength and potential.
But by this point, he was utterly exhausted, and worse still, ravenously hungry.
Since being abducted by the Matori Group's Yakuza yesterday afternoon, Tosu Hideo had not eaten a single grain of rice. He began to suspect that if he did not eat something soon, he might pass out.
"Was there anything to eat?"
Tosu Hideo sat on a rock and looked around. As far as he could see, both banks were filled with dense, gnarled trees, while the ground was covered in mosses and lichens. There was nothing he could eat.
Just then, Tosu Hideo spotted a few dots of orange hanging among the bushes across the stream.
They were wild berries.
Delighted, Tosu