Dragon Raja: I practiced Naruto ninjutsu next to Lu Mingfei.

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He often concealed his presence within Caesar's group, occasionally uttering barbed remarks, as if he saw through everything, a carefree and unrestrained god playing with the world.

Noda Hisashi answered Caesar's question, explaining that he was a member of the Noda Group in Kabukicho, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, and worked for the second-generation Noda Kozo.

The Noda-gumi was originally responsible for unclogging the sewer pipes in Shinjuku Ward. After the drainage system was renovated, they had nothing to do, so they started collecting protection money on the streets. In fact, the gang they belonged to was not even a big shot and was not even ranked in the main family.

There used to be seven shops here that paid protection money, but recently one of the adult product shops quit and became the toy shop where Asou Nozomi works, so there is one less shop that pays protection money.

He felt that toy stores and sex shops were the same—both sold fun and interesting things—so paying protection money was only fair…

Chapter 383 One Shot, One Kill!

Chu Zihang stood to the side for a long time, then asked Noda Hisashi, "How old are you?" just like a security guard caring for a wayward child.

Noda Hisashi answered his age and also said that he was a Gemini and born in the Year of the Dog.

Gu Ran let out a sneer from the counter not far away. Yuan Zhisheng noticed it and knew that he was underestimating the Japanese underworld.

For a nobleman like Caesar, these underworld activities might be a great experience for ordinary people, but for Gu Ran, it's just watching idiots.

Sakura also noticed Gu Ran and the young master, and wanted to resolve the farce quickly.

The matter is actually quite simple. Noda Hisashi made a boastful remark about wanting to increase protection fees, but toy stores don't charge protection fees. Moreover, the protection fees for an entire street are negotiated and fixed by several big shots, not something that some small-time thug can just decide to increase. Noda Hisashi's gang doesn't even have the right to attend meetings, yet he dared to talk nonsense about increasing protection fees, so the main branch must punish him severely.

Sakura then drew her sword and placed it against the back of Noda Hisashi's neck, who was kneeling on the ground.

Eighteen-year-old high school girl Asou Makoto was terrified when she saw this scene. She only wanted to scare the thug and didn't want to kill him, so she pleaded with Sakura for mercy.

Noda Hisashi felt the cold glint of the blade against his neck and trembled even more, for he remembered Gu Ran's words from the beginning: "Even the swords of our main family don't remember how many people they've killed."

He was really about to pee!

“Since the person involved is pleading for leniency, then cut off your finger as an apology. But if you really exaggerated the facts over the phone, you will be punished later.” Sakura said this, actually to scare Aso Makoto, because the main family’s service hotline is not used like that. Aso Makoto also exaggerated when he made the call, which is equivalent to making a false police report.

Caesar was astonished that coming to sit in a toy store would result in cutting off his finger!

Sakura said in Chinese that she just wanted to scare him and prevent him from abusing his power.

Lu Mingfei also said in Chinese, "Miss Ying is so gentle!"

"Hahaha, what the hell is gentle!" Gu Ran flipped through the "YuruYuri" manga, making sarcastic remarks in Chinese mixed with Japanese. It was unclear whether he was criticizing the manga or Lu Mingfei. Judging from his sarcastic manner, it seemed that he was criticizing Lu Mingfei more.

After hearing Lu Mingfei's words, Ying's usually cold and aloof face showed a hint of embarrassment. Then, after being teased by Gu Ran, she became even more uncomfortable.

Aso was a bit timid. When she heard that her finger had to be cut off, she was scared and regretful. The people in her family were all fierce and menacing. Among them, she was most afraid of Lu Mingfei because he would occasionally complain, then volunteer to be her servant, and then suddenly show a fierce look in his eyes. He seemed to be the kind of neurotic beast.

When Noda Hisashi heard that the punishment was only cutting off his finger, he couldn't help but relax, because he had been terrified by Gu Ran at first, thinking that he was really going to die.

It's just a finger amputation now, so it should be treated leniently.

Without saying a word, he gritted his teeth and drew his short knife, saying, "It's my fault. Don't blame Miss Zhen. I'm willing to apologize!"

After saying that, he pulled out a white handkerchief, tied it around his little finger, and was about to cut it off.

Caesar and the other two were very surprised, thinking that this guy was a fool who actually wanted to cut off his finger.

"Is this what gangster culture is like?" Lu Mingfei muttered in a low voice. "It's even more ridiculous than the 'Young and Dangerous' movies!"

Yuan Zhisheng knew that, as Gu Ran had said, the lower-level gangsters were indeed all petty thugs with questionable intelligence, so they could only be restrained by loyalty and so-called gangster rules.

This is true for most of the world's organized crime groups.

Just then, Noda Hisashi was about to cut off his finger, but Sakura changed the punishment, making him apologize to Miss Makoto and work as a helper in the shop for three months.

She pointed out that Noda Hisashi had been coming to the toy store these past few days because he liked Aso Makoto, and that the so-called protection money was just an excuse, and the rest was just small-time thugs showing off and talking nonsense.

When Noda Hisashi's feelings were exposed in front of the girl he liked, he was actually a little shy, but his arrogant denial was of no use, as Lu Mingfei had already seen the name of Miss Shin engraved on his baseball bat.

And so this farce came to an end.

……

"Sorry, there was a mistake in tonight's arrangements," Genji said. "How about we go to a nearby nightclub?"

Lu Mingfei glanced at the wall full of comic books, then saw Gu Ran and realized that he had been flipping through them for a long time and had even finished reading a single volume.

When he was in high school, he loved going to bookstores to browse for free pirated comics.

"Sit here for a while," said Chu Zihang, who was usually quiet. He seemed to see the longing in Lu Mingfei's eyes.

"It would be nice to sit here and have some affordable coffee," said Caesar, the group leader, so everyone could stay for a while.

Lu Mingfei happily joined the group of people reading comic books.

"Miss Zhen, which volume of this manga has been published so far?" Gu Ran raised the book "YuruYuri" in her hand.

"It's up to volume four now."

Aso answered somewhat timidly. This was a yakuza boss who said he was going to kill someone as soon as he walked in. It seemed a bit incongruous that a killing machine was reading a light yuri shoujo manga. But he was quite handsome. Could this be what they call a tough guy with a soft heart?

"Oh, then please wrap all four volumes for me, I'll buy them," Gu Ran said.

"Hai! Thank you for your patronage!" Asou Makoto immediately went to get the book wrapping paper.

In Japan, bookstore clerks will proactively cover books for customers. This is partly because Japanese people value privacy and don't want others to know what books they've bought. After all, bookstores in Japan have books of all colors, and it would be incredibly embarrassing if a pornographic book fell out while you were shopping.

On the other hand, book covers can make books less likely to get dirty.

Aso Makoto is tall and slender, and works very quickly and meticulously, as if he's afraid that if he doesn't wrap it well, the yakuza boss will stab him with a knife.

Noda Hisashi was about to apologize to Makoto, but he was too embarrassed to speak up because Gu Ran was there. Meanwhile, Makoto would steal glances at Caesar every now and then while wrapping the books.

A moment later, Asou Shin handed the wrapped book to Gu Ran with both hands: "It's all wrapped up, please check..."

What's the point of checking these well-packaged books? Just pay up.

Aso thought to himself, "Great, I've finally finished serving this god of death."

"I saw there are blind boxes here!" Gu Ran became interested again when he saw the Pokémon blind boxes next to him. The prize for the A-level prize was a clay Pikachu, about the size of a fist.

"500, 500 yen for one draw..." the part-time worker Aso said weakly.

She didn't really want Gu Ran to open the blind box. What if he got angry and attacked her if he didn't win? Besides, the blind box event only started today, so the probability of winning an A prize was extremely low.

Gu Ran took out 500 yen, intending to make a purchase.

"Please, please." Aso Shin took the money and held out the blind box with both hands for Gu Ran to draw from.

Gu Ran secretly rolled her eyes and took the only remaining A-level prize ticket from the blind box...

He had never thought of using eye rolls to open blind boxes before. Wouldn't that guarantee a 100% success rate? This was his chance to win big with a small investment!

One shot into the soul!

So, it seems like he could just roll his eyes and go to the lottery shop to buy scratch-off tickets, only buying the winning ones... In short, winning the lottery doesn't seem that difficult.

Gu Ran touched the cards and immediately drew the winning numbers; both were A-rank prizes.

Aso was truly stunned!

You should know that less than five of these blind boxes were sold today, leaving at least forty more. Yet this gangster from the same family was so lucky that he actually got the A prize on his first try!

"Oh my god! (Congratulations!)" Aso Nozomi quickly offered her congratulations, then swiftly took out the A prize from the counter.

Caesar and Genjiro, who were not far away, were also stunned, seemingly not expecting Gu Ran to be so lucky.

"Looks like you're under the spotlight of your wedding!" Caesar said to Gu Ran, holding up his coffee. "All the good luck is on our side, and the mission ahead will surely go smoothly."

"I'm just having an engagement party. We'll get married in a few years. In China, men have to be 22 to register their marriage," Gu Ran said with a smile. "Unlike in Japan, girls can get married at 16 and boys at 18, even though in Japan, you're considered an adult at 20."

Japan has a serious problem with a low birth rate, so the marriage age has always been very low. It wasn't until several years later that the marriage age for women was raised to 18, and the age of adulthood was lowered from 20 to 18.

Therefore, the plot of older men marrying high school girls in some Japanese anime series is very likely based on reality.

Meanwhile, Caesar was playing with Aberca, a character from the last game he played as a child, Star Ocean III.

Gu Ran played with a Pikachu clay figurine while drinking a 3-in-1 instant coffee.

Chu Zihang picked up a light novel, "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya," from the bookshelf and stared blankly at the cover illustration, while Lu Mingfei was reading Crayon Shin-chan comics.

It was raining heavily outside, and two gangs were facing off, making quite a commotion. Genji used his family crest and sword to signal them not to make a move so as not to disturb their distinguished guest.

Noda Hisashi then found an opportunity to apologize to Aso Makoto, and said he hoped to visit her grandmother. Makoto told him not to bother her, as her grandmother was old and didn't want the yakuza to disturb her...

Caesar watched the young people being so foolish for love and suddenly felt a bit old. So he took out five or six 10,000-yen bills from his pocket, pressed them on his coffee cup, and then took away the toy he loved most as a child, reminiscing about the past.

As he left, Genji walked to the middle of the road, sheathed his sword, and stood with the two gangs clearly separated, each with several dozen members.

Upon seeing the head of the Yuan family, they all looked at Yuan Zhisheng's retreating figure, bowed to him, and respectfully saw him off.

Once Genjiro and his group were out of sight, a brawl began...

Yuan Zhisheng explained that these people all make a living from logistics. The territory is only so big, and there are so many people who need to make a living, so they have no choice but to fight for it.

Chapter 384 Let's Go to Sea!

This is also why he cannot leave the Snake Clan. Many people work for him and may be the petty thugs that Gu Ran mentioned. But if petty thugs are not restrained, they will cause greater trouble for society.

This is the problem with countries where organized crime is legalized. There must be an iron-fisted order underground, otherwise if the underworld is in chaos, the superstructure will also fall into chaos.

"You're quite good." Caesar was satisfied with Genjiro's reception and gradually began to appreciate him. "You have a man's sense of responsibility and commitment. Taking responsibility is a man's duty."

By this time, Caesar had come to regard Genjiro as a friend, and Genjiro thought to himself, "So this is how easy it is to win the friendship of these lunatics."

"No wonder there are so many losers in the world," Gu Ran scoffed. "Every 'green tea' girl who wants an abortion hopes a loser will take the fall and shoulder the responsibility, so her biggest wish at this time is to find an honest man to marry..."

“Sigh, honest people are so pitiful,” Lu Mingfei chimed in.

"What is green tea?" Yuan Zhisheng asked.

Gu Ran explained, "It's equivalent to the 'landmine woman' in Japan."

Genji still didn't understand, so he looked at Sakura.

Sakura explained, "It's the kind of girl who often presents herself as a victim, and whose romantic history is messy and complicated."

"Oh……"

Yuan Zhisheng nodded, echoing Lu Mingfei's words: "Honest people are really pitiful."

*……*……*

Late at night, Genjiro led four students from the main campus of Kassel College onto the Moniach, which was disguised as a fishing boat.

The ship was disguised as a fishing boat but claimed to be a research vessel. They had sailed for more than three hours from Tokyo Port to get here.