Dragon 3: Tide of the Black Moon (1)

Sakura, who hadn't been drinking, drove, with Genchiyo in the passenger seat and the Caesar team in the back. Sakura looks like such a gentle and low-key girl, but her driving style is like a race car driver, the Ferrari weaving in and out of traffic, leaving one car after another behind.

"Your assistant is great!" Caesar exclaimed. He admired all girls who drove fast because every girl who drove fast reminded him of Nono.

Genchiyo handed a dart from the front row that Sakura had taken from the map of the liaison department, each dart signifying trouble that needed to be dealt with. This dart was stuck in Kabukicho, the most prestigious red-light district in Tokyo, the place where the most friction was likely to occur.

"A store in Shinjuku Ward asked us for help, saying that the gangsters on the street suddenly demanded a 15 percent increase in protection fees and would smash up the store if they didn't agree and that the gangsters had been sitting in the store for three days, scaring no customers into visiting," Genchiyo said.

"Such a small thing?" Caesar was a little disappointed, "It's just a rate change. I was expecting a big scene with the heads negotiating in the shrine and the black-clad bodyguards standing outside the shrine."

"It's not as simple as smashing a convenience store," said Genwakio, "Shinjuku-ku is a bumper crop of protection fees, and many of the nightclubs and bars near Kabukicho pay protection fees on schedule at a rate of 20 percent of their profits, with strip clubs and those with women in the bar paying even more. If the entire Shinjuku district protection fee rate is adjusted upwards, the club will have to collect tens of billions of dollars more each year, and this kind of thing cannot be ignored by the family. And strip clubs and other venues will have their bodyguards, and if the bodyguards and the gangs clash, there may be deaths and injuries. This is not considered a small matter."

"You mean we would storm into the kind of nightclub that puts eyes on short skirts and thighs? Gangsters sitting on couches, weapons on tables? Sounds a lot more interesting." Caesar snapped his fingers, "Should we point a gun at the ringleader's head, hand him a cigarette and say smoke this one and leave through the front door and don't let me see you in Shinjuku district in the future or I'll cut off one of your fingers once I see you?"

"That's the middle-aged stage of the yakuza," said Genchiyo, "usually there's no need to have any overtures, we just sit down on the couch across the street and they see our uniforms and understand who we are. Then shake hands and exchange pleasantries, read the book, tell them that according to the rules if they want to change the rates the family will meet at the annual meeting in the New Year to discuss, its business hours, and ask them to take care of it and not to cause trouble in a public place."

"Is this accent a yakuza? Rather like a bank in the financial management." Lu Mingfei said.

"But after I say this if he has any untamed place I will draw my gun and shoot him in the foot, the bank in the financial management probably will not do so." Jensen said, "But it's rare when you need to use a gun, once they understand who you are they get up in droves and say they have to go to the bathroom and you don't even get to finish three sentences with them. There is one thing I have to warn you all, please be sure to move with me, because unfortunately, the Numazukai and the Fire Hall group are clashing in Kabukicho, these two gangs control the logistics system in and out of Kabukicho, and the Fire Hall group is getting more and more powerful while the old gang Numazukai refuses to give up their territory easily, both sides have gathered hundreds of people in Kabukicho. An emissary from the Honkai has stepped in to mediate and the police department is keeping a close watch on that area."

"We are at your disposal in these clothes, young master." Caesar held his cigar, "We're on our way to deal with the trouble at the strip club, who has the heart to control a bunch of logistics workers?"

"How dare you, you're much more like the young master than I am, and you smoke such manly cigarettes." Genchisei teased.

At 7:30 p.m., True glanced at the small LCD alarm clock on the shelf. Every night the gangster who collects protection money comes, on time and on time, rain or shine, for a week now.

Tonight's rain is particularly heavy, the water on the street can not reach the back of the feet, maybe that fierce guy will not come? Makoto prayed secretly.

Aso Makoto was eighteen years old, and after graduating from high school, she didn't go to college and got a job as a toy store clerk. She couldn't afford to continue her education, and after her parents divorced she stayed with her grandmother, living on her grandmother's pension. She was determined to work hard and save money for school. She hadn't fallen in love yet and didn't know what kind of boy would be waiting for her in college. But luck is really bad, the toy store will be blackmailed by gangs, the street gang non-say this store used to pay them protection money, now changed to a toy store also have to continue to pay. If you do not pay, they will smash the store, before smashing the store they will send people to sit in the store every night. What customers would dare to visit a store selling toys and comics with scary-looking gangsters?

For the past few weeks, she had been working the late shift, and every night she stayed behind to face the thugs alone. She hid behind the counter and stared at the cash register while the punk sat in the middle of the store playing with a bat. The store couldn't even call the police because it's not illegal to play with a bat in a toy store.

"The little bronze bell on the door rang with a jingle. The guy came in, wearing his usual fancy long white trench coat, with a large bat hanging from his waist that didn't match his height.

"You're on duty again tonight." He greeted me as if I knew him well.

"Welcome," Shin said in a faltering voice.

She felt that she was finished. With a high school education, she could only find unskilled jobs like clerking, and with the recent job market in the doldrums, the job she had managed to find must be ruined.

Noda took a chair and sat down in the middle of the store, taking off his long white trench coat and sliding it over the back of the chair, the back of which was his family crest, "Arcturus".

Noda had grown up watching his brothers with the tattoo of the dragon snake on their sleeves, and wherever they went, people gave way to them, their backs as hard as the rocks in a big river. Noda felt that the most handsome man in the world was a man in the yakuza, so he dropped out of school to follow Kozan, the leader of the Noda group, who was his cousin. Kozan admired his cousin's ambition and gave him all seven stores in his territory to take care of, the job was not complicated, just collecting protection money. From that day on, when they saw Nodasu's long white trench coat, the shopkeepers would bow deeply and say, "You're here, please take care of your business, which has increased recently and send the protection money to Nodasu's apartment every month without any orders. The former classmates all take Nodasu as their backer and often introduce the most adorable girl in the class to Noda. Some say that Kozo intends to let Noda Shou take over the Noda group because he thinks his cousin is so driven at a young age.

But as the saying goes, men are destined to take the rough road, and the original one of the seven stores that sold sex toys suddenly withdrew, so Noda Shou's territory was suddenly reduced to six stores, and the amount of protection money shrank. The newest store was a toy store, which refused to pay the protection fee because the toy store's profits were limited and it was a new business that was still losing money, and it had never heard of a kid's store paying protection fees. Noda is determined to use this opportunity to establish a reputation and let the owner know the price of rudeness to the Noda group.