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Dragon 3: Tide of the Black Moon (1)

Chapter 47: Every elephant turtle has a warm puddle in its heart (4)

By Carmen W KeithPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Dragon 3: Tide of the Black Moon (1)
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Lu Mingfei took a fond look at the shelves full of comics. When he was in high school at Shilan High School, there was a small comic book store at the back of the school, selling mostly pirated comics, but there were a few genuine ones from Taiwan, all translated from the original Japanese version, which were far more beautiful than the pirated ones. There are separate rows of bookshelves at the back of the comic store, on which there are high-class genuine comics. Only those guys who always go to the store and spend money can get a solemn invitation from the boss to go to the back to see the new arrivals, and pure losers like Lu Mingfei can only look at the bookshelves at the back from afar with envy. Real handsome rich people like Zhao Menghua never waste time on the pirated shelves in front of the store and go straight to the back to buy genuine ones.

Nowadays, genuine comics are so neatly arranged that you can touch the back of your hand and be happy, so Lu Mingfei wants to stay in this store for a while longer. But he had no place in the group, so he could only wait for Caesar to say something.

"So heavy rain why not sit here," Chu Zhang suddenly said, "the rain less before."

Genchiyo looked to Caesar.

"Isn't tonight our yakuza night? But we're in a toy store drinking coffee, instant, is this what they call plebeian coffee?" Caesar sipped the instant coffee that Mak had made.

Shin came over with a cherry blossom cake.

"Ariadne! good coffee!" Caesar smiles and raises his coffee cup at the girl, anyway, true does not understand his Chinese, but for a male son like him, he will never show his disdain for plebeian coffee in front of the plebeian girl who makes it.

"Changing face becomes fast." Lu Mingfei muttered. He tucked the cherry blossom cake in his pocket and prepared to go out.

"Then it's better to drink plebeian coffee over here." Caesar went on to say, "Although the taste is thin and overly sugary, it's quite relaxing to drink plebeian coffee and chat on a rainy day."

Lu Mingfei froze for a moment, not understanding why Caesar was willing to spend time in this kind of plebeian toy store.

"can have look? Abel! Abel!" Caesar asked True, pointing to the model on the shelf. It's amazing, this guy pronounced "Abelur" in quite standard Japanese pronunciation.

On the shelf was Abelur from "Star Ocean 3", Lu Mingfei did not expect Caesar to recognize such a cold character.

Sakura came in from outside and came close to Genchiyo's ear: "The people from the Swamp Crow Society and the Fire Hall group are coming this way and may clash, so it's better to leave first in order not to disturb the VIPs."

"There's a conflict." Genchiyo frowned, "Ask your VIPs for their opinions."

"Abel," Caesar waved the model at Genchisei, "I'm playing Abelur, this kind of small thing the family can handle, right?"

"No problem," Minamoto Wakizashi handed Sakura his saber, "go tell the Numakura Club and the Fire Hall group that I'm accompanying the VIP in this store for a chat, so they can restrain themselves."

"In the name of the head of the Genji family?"

"In the name of the head of the Genji family." Genchiyo took off the ring with the gentian pattern on his hand and handed it to Sakura as well.

"Understood." Sakura carried the spider cut and went out.

"No more questions, your safety within Japan is the sole responsibility of the Serpentine Eight Family, and I'll be responsible for taking you all for your amusement tonight," said Genchiyo, "feel free to do whatever you want."

"Is that a good idea?" Lu Mingfei was still a little uneasy.

"I promise."

Sure enough those noisy people outside suddenly disappeared, and only the sound of rain hitting the roof could be heard.

"Boss, you know Abelur?" Lu Mingfei said.

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Carmen W Keith

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