But that was a dead end.
Fukuyama Toshin was also sprinting down a dead end, desperately seizing wealth in hopes of giving his life a chance to restart.
After Prince Akihito's death, his body turned into a tree man. Fukuyama Toshin extracted a new medicine from the body that could resist the tree man's pollination, thereby extending his own 'life'.
By that time, the Aum Truth Sect had already grown into a massive entity. They took over Prince Akihito's investments, demanding that Fukuyama Toshin produce research results. The latter was worn out merely trying to survive; each tree man was a precious experimental subject. How could he allow the Aum Truth Sect to squander them?
After a round of negotiations, Fukuyama Toshin simply suggested they rob graves.
