The sky outside the store was hazy, and the moisture condensed into rain and dew, rolling down the glass windows.
The tall girl was wearing an ill-fitting school uniform. She bent over and meticulously wiped the dust on the vertical bookshelf, occasionally looking out the window.
Aso Zhen is eighteen years old. After graduating from high school, he did not go to college but found a job in a toy store.
She had no money to continue going to college. After her parents divorced, she stayed with her grandma and lived on her grandma's pension.
In my spare time, I would make some high-quality and cheap handmade rice balls with my grandma and sell them on the tram, but the profit would be meager.
Over the years, the most precious income Aso has encountered is a top-notch Patek Philippe watch handed over by a gentleman in a suit and leather shoes.
The gentleman was young, probably about her age. But the boundaries between people are already so clear.
I really saw enough kindness and respect in those clear eyes, but I also subconsciously felt cowardly and inferior.
She doesn't know what kind of family background allows people to take off a watch worth more than ten million yen as a reward for paying for a meal.
If you sell this watch, you will have the money to pay for your college education and improve your life with your grandma.
But it didn't happen. Although she didn't give up her ideal of going to college, she decided to work hard and save money on her own.
She has never been in love and has no idea what kind of boy will be waiting for her in college.
And that watch was really carried close to her body, like Cinderella's glass slipper. Maybe she would never meet the young gentleman to express her gratitude in person again, but at least it would give her good luck.
But the toy store has not been very lucky recently. The store owner who kindly recruited her as an employee was extorted by gangs two days ago. The gangs on the street said that this store used to pay them protection fees, and now it needs to be converted into a toy store. Keep paying it forward.
Otherwise, they will destroy the entire store. Before destroying the store, they will send people to sit in the store every night. The hideous-looking gangsters will scare away all the customers who come to buy toys and comics.
With a "ding" sound, the small bronze bell on the door rang. A guy in a long white windbreaker came in, with a baseball bat hanging from his waist that did not match his height. He casually leaned the dripping umbrella against the door frame.
"Are you still on duty tonight?" The guy greeted me like an acquaintance.
"Welcome." Zhenze hid behind the counter, blocking himself with the cashier box, and said in a trembling voice.
She has been working the night shift alone for the past few days, while the gangsters are sitting in the middle of the store playing with bats. This kind of thing cannot be dealt with even if the police call the police, but it will anger them.
So I secretly called the gang's hotline, hoping to be dealt with properly.
After graduating from high school, she cherished the job she got after graduation and did not want the toy store to close down.
The Noda-gumi in Kabukicho is small but has always been famous for its bravery.
Hisashi Noda has been envious of gangsters since he was in school, because his cousin Kozo Noda is also one of them. Wearing long windbreakers with embroidered snake patterns on the cuffs, they swagger around the bustling streets of Tokyo, forcing all passers-by to avoid them.
For this reason, Noda Hisashi decided to drop out of school and follow his cousin into the underworld. Kozo admired his cousin's ambition very much, so he gave him the management of seven stores under his name. The work is not complicated, just collect protection fees on a monthly basis.
There are still a few gangsters following him, and every time he enters the store, the owner will bow and say hello, and the protection money will be delivered to Noda Hisashi's apartment without any instructions, so his life is comfortable.
After all, most of the shops in Kabukicho cannot escape the business related to the red light district, so there is a lot of money to be exploited.
However, these days, the adult sex shop owned by Hisashi Noda actually sublet the store and was converted into a toy store by the new owner, who refused to pay the protection fee, causing the business under Hisashi Noda to shrink significantly.
This incident made Noda Hisashi very angry, and he decided to take the opportunity to establish his power and let the shop owner know the cost of offending the Noda-gumi.
Originally, Noda Hisashi didn't have to come to the store every night, but he was a manga fan. Even the long trench coat he wore was modeled on the style of Feng Minato, the fourth generation of Namami in Naruto. If he was bored at night, he might as well squat in the store and read. comics.
After being in the underworld for a long time, he also felt that his life of collecting protection money on time, occasionally gathering people to bring clubs and machetes, and scaring shopkeepers was not very interesting.
The adult world is very realistic, there is not so much brotherly loyalty, and all the talk is about interest disputes.
Rich people enjoy all the resources of society wantonly, while people without money are forced to become slaves to money.
Comics are better, especially hot-blooded comics, which are all men’s worlds. As soon as everyone talks about friendship, bonds, and the future, they immediately get excited and start charging.
Before Noda Hisashi was completely immersed in the "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" comic, he heard a harsh brake sound.
The young man couldn't help but frown and stood up, randomly stuffing the comic books into the bookshelf. He kept hitting his palms with the baseball bat in his hand, showing a fierce and ferocious expression, trying to see who was coming in to buy toys.
However, after the door was pushed open, five people in long black trench coats stood outside the weathered door. Silent lightning illuminated the bustling and splendid Ukiyo-e paintings on the silk lining of their open black clothes, including the sharp Yaksha and the colorful tigers. , naked beauties and fallen cherry blossoms.
The young man in the middle had a handsome face and a cold expression. He slowly lit a cigarette for himself and stepped into the store first. Just a casual glance made Noda Shou feel extremely frightened, as if his whole body was being seen through, as if he was meaningless. .
Noda Shou has heard of these people, the law enforcers of his family. Compared to gangsters like them who can only scare people with steel pipes, these people are the real evil spirits who kill without blinking an eye.
Zhenze looked at the visitor with joy. She knew a classmate who had connections with the underworld and asked for a phone number. The classmate said that this was the family's helpline and told her that if she was unable to do anything when faced with threats from gangs, she could try calling this number for help.
Zhen dialed the number, and the person who answered the phone was a sweet female voice. In order to get my family to come forward, Zhen had the courage to say how cruel the gangsters on the street were, and told her that our family would send someone to solve the problem, and asked her to wait a moment. I never contacted Zhen again after that.
The girl thought that the matter would just go away, but she didn't expect that the noble family actually sent out law enforcement officers.
"you you……"
Noda Shou sadly found that when facing the man with evil eyes in the middle, his legs were shaking unconsciously.
Lu Mingfei moved a chair like a dog and placed it considerately in front of Young Master Yuan, but Caesar immediately sat down first.
"May I have your name?"
The young man with blond hair and blue eyes was the first to interrogate. Lu Mingfei stepped aside on the spot and translated loudly with a sullen expression: "The Emperor Caesar asked, are you doing something like that?"
