Chapter 526, Aso Makoto, Noda Hisashi
I came to Kabukicho with a nervous mood.

Although she has not been to college yet, she is not stupid. She did not choose to go there at night when there are bright lights and wine, but chose the time around six o'clock in the evening. At this time, the adult world has not yet unfolded, but most shops open during the day will have a short break.

Although I was a little nervous because the location was in a remote road in Akihabara, I was really willing to miss such an opportunity.

When Zhen was in school, she heard from her friends that the nightlife in Akihabara was not much worse than that in Shinjuku. Although it was hard to meet a generous uncle, there was no need to worry about being forced to do something she didn't like... Zhen just nodded in approval at the time. She knew what her friends were discussing. JKs of her age had been engaging in compensated dating for several years, but she was the only layman who pretended to be knowledgeable and just made up the numbers.

Shin kept confirming the address transmitted on his phone, looking up and down repeatedly, pretending that he had something to do.

It's not like she hasn't been here before, but she usually goes to Shinjuku, which is suitable for high school girls, while Akihabara is mostly for boys. Even so, even when she goes to Shinjuku with her friends, she rarely buys things. As a high school student, she can't find a job with high social activities, so she can only use her time after school to do unskilled jobs such as store clerks. In recent years, the job market has been sluggish, and she has been fired from the jobs she finally found several times.

In order to save money for her college education, my grandmother has to work hard to calculate her monthly pension every month.

Walking on the street, I couldn't help but hunch my shoulders. Everywhere on the roadside, I could see cute girls in cosplay and over-the-knee socks.

Zhen is over 1.7 meters tall, which is a tall figure for a teenager in Japan. However, this figure did not bring her confidence but made Zhen feel even more inferior during her student life. Boys all like petite and cute girls, but inconspicuous and "big" girls like her will make boys feel pressured.

While cheering myself up in my heart, I finally turned into the last intersection. I looked up at a store with pink lights flashing 24 hours a day, and my face suddenly blushed and I lowered my head.

Although it is a sex toy store, there is indeed a sublease notice hanging on the transparent glass door, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the store is not located on the main road, it is within the business district, so I think it should be doing good business...even if it is a sex toy store.

Although Zhen has never had a boyfriend, she knows that boys will buy some magazines and toys. It is indeed more appropriate to set up such stores in the side streets rather than on the main streets.

Besides, the rents of shops on the main roads are shockingly expensive. Even if the shop owners are eager to sublet and lower the price, it is still not something that my grandmother’s pension can afford.

Thinking of this, Zhen clenched her fists in front of her chest to cheer herself up. Even if it was a sex toy store, it was no big deal. She was already an adult and had to face it. She couldn't let an elderly grandmother come to a sex toy store to discuss business with others.

After convincing himself, he looked up and walked towards the store again.

"Welcome~"

"babble--"

Zhen was almost frightened by the sudden sound beside her. After a start, she looked over and happened to see a little girl sitting in front of the door of the next store. Because a customer came in, the little girl quickly stood up and made such a sound, which scared her.

You can really tell this is probably a recording or something. I don't know why the girl chose this way of receiving guests.

But I think no one would be angry even if a recording was made for such a cute and beautiful girl.

I walked into the store with even more trepidation.

……

The conversation went smoothly. The store was really going to be sublet, and the price was just one tenth of what we had agreed upon before.

Zhen was very curious why the boss was in such a hurry to leave. The boss hesitated for a while, and seemed to think that there was no way to hide this matter any longer, so he told Zhen the matter.

There were deaths in the streets.

Many, many people died.

The boss said that when he came to take over that day, the store door was already covered with corpses. Men in shamanic uniforms were lying outside, their white windbreakers stained black by the mud and then covered with a dark red from the air. The smell of blood could be smelled hundreds of meters away, and the ground seemed to be covered with a layer of dark red scabs.

Zhen also realized that it was not just this one store that wanted to abandon this place, but several. Influenced by that day, customers dared not come in, and if he continued to stay here, he would be worried, so he might as well leave quickly.

I was really scared, but thinking about my grandmother at home and the unknown college tuition, I signed my name anyway.

With only a high school education, she really can't do any big business, but she really likes flowers. Her grandmother said that she is still the same little girl who loves flowers when she was a child.

Grandma took out the last of her pension and finally helped her open a flower shop of her own.

Business in the store is not good, and many times there is no customer all day.

No one dared to come near here.

As time went by, she gradually felt the pressure of life.

But even so, she still did not give up the store.

Later, before I knew it, the street had become lively again. I really knew that this was all thanks to the girl next door, a red-haired girl with a face and figure that I envied. I often saw her sitting at the intersection holding a billboard, and no boy could escape her attraction.

I am really grateful to her because sometimes couples passing by will visit this flower shop and buy a rose for their girlfriend.

Even if business is still bad, it is enough to keep going.

Every night when I get home, my grandma always asks me with a smile how business was that day, whether I was tired, and whether I wanted to take a rest. Grandma knows that you want to save money to go to college, but your health is more important.

I can really say that I'm not tired, I'm just a little busy. There are too many people in Akihabara, and sometimes I can't handle it all by myself. When I go to university, I will find a boyfriend who is good at math to help me manage the flower shop.

She carefully cared for each bouquet of flowers and felt that she was blessed by God to own her own flower shop. Everyone was helping her, whether it was the subletting boss or the little girl next door.

There is really no way to repay you, so I put this affection on the bouquets and take care of them as if they were my own children.

I really hope that every bouquet of flowers I send can make the other person feel my love.

As the days passed, she sold the bunches of flowers that she had carefully nurtured.

She blindly believed that her flowers would be treated well, just like herself, and the seller's kindness would definitely be conveyed.

Until one day, it was drizzling and the fine raindrops merged into one. She held up a transparent folding umbrella and walked out of the store.

Suddenly her pupils shrank, and she caught a glimpse of a bunch of flowers dropped into the mud on the ground next to the trash can. Even in the rain, it was hard to hide her brightness, and the raindrops were pounding her petals.

Some petals have detached from the main stem, some petals are covered with mud, and some petals have become broken.

The person who abandoned 'her' didn't even seriously throw her into the trash can.

She didn't dare admit that those were the flowers she had carefully cared for.

The umbrella turned several times on the ground and gradually rolled to her side, just shielding her from the wind and rain. Zhen slowly walked to the front of the bouquet, squatted down, carefully stretched out his hand, and picked up the ruined "her".

Zhen looked at the gift box that fell beside him, squatted in the rain for a long time, and finally returned home with the bouquet of flowers.

……

"It's still warmer here."

The guy's voice woke Zhen from her memories, and she looked up at the man, who was wearing a fancy white trench coat as always.

Shin suddenly returned to reality and replied in a trembling voice:

"Thank you for the compliment."

The man sat with his back to this side, his long white windbreaker almost dragging on the ground, and on the back of the windbreaker was his family crest, the 'Teng Snake'.

The man hummed lightly and began to stare at the cactus at his feet again. He shrank behind the counter to settle the bill. Since the afternoon, there was only one clerk and one gangster left in the store. Passers-by also tacitly avoided this place, and the store remained eerily quiet.

The man's name was Noda Hisashi, a child who idolized the underworld. He grew up watching his brothers with viper patterns embroidered on their cuffs roaming the streets. Wherever they went, people would naturally make way for them, and their backs were as solid as reefs in a river.

Noda Shou thought that the most heroic men in the world were those who were involved in gangsters, so he dropped out of school and followed the leader of the Noda Group, Kozo, who was his cousin.

Not long ago, Noda Hisashi was a new member of the gang. His cousin admired his ambition and handed over the seven stores in his territory to him. The job was not complicated, just collecting protection fees.

From that day on, shop owners who saw Noda Hisashi in his long white windbreaker would bow to him and say, "Hello, everyone. Please take care of us as our business has grown recently." Every month, they would send protection money to Noda Hisashi's apartment without him being asked.

When his former classmates found out, they all regarded him as a supporter and introduced the cutest girl in the class to Noda Shou.

There is a saying that goes, 'Men are destined to take a rough and detour path.'

It all started when a new coffee shop opened on their territory, which should have been nothing to do with them. After all, the protection fees of the underworld did not involve the catering industry, they were only responsible for nightclubs and bars.

The new store manager has a very lovely wife.

Noda Hisaya thinks that the other person is very cute, and he always has a cold face, which makes people feel cool.

But Noda felt that a cute girl could not become a good wife and mother at home.

When he first started out, he would sometimes be called to drink at the bar he protected, and the owner would ask them to find a top-notch hostess to drink with him. However, the top-notch hostesses had a lot of customers, and they could not sit with Noda Shou for long before new customers came calling. Since Noda Shou had received protection money from them, he could no longer be a stumbling block in their work, so he could only say things like, "Thank you for your hard work, get back to work."

Noda Shou felt that his wife should look for an ordinary and virtuous girl, as such a girl would be too conspicuous.

But he was the only one who thought so.

The Noda Group was not a large gang in Kabukicho, but was known for its bravery. The leader had no intention of causing trouble for the store, and he told Noda Shou that he was just going there to establish his authority and let the store manager know that this street was the Noda Group's territory.

Somehow it turned into a situation where a fight was about to break out.

The team leader was beaten by a woman, and everyone in the Noda team was outraged. Noda Shou also planned to use this to make a name for himself and let the store manager know the price of being rude to the Noda team.

When he saw his teammate raise the bat first, Noda felt that his training was far from enough. If he was in a battle, he might have been clamped around his neck by the enemy's bat.

When he raised his bat, the store manager had already stood in front of his woman and received two blows. Noda Hisashi knew how powerful the Noda Group's batons were, and this store manager who was able to stand up for the woman won his recognition.

But he was disgusted by the store manager's subsequent servility.

How can a man bow his head to others so easily? A man should stand up and conquer the world. Bowing your head like this is tantamount to admitting the mistakes of himself and his wife, which is a complete loss of face.

Noda Shou, who was determined to travel the world, disdained to fight with such a man.

Put away the sticks.

...

...

The brake sound was harsh. Just by listening to the sound, you could imagine how fast the car was coming and how hard it braked.

"Boss, calm down. Accelerator is not a name he gave himself, but one given to him by Academy City! We have no conflicts with him at all, there is really no need to provoke him." The black-haired man was anxious, "Young Master, are you really not going to persuade them?"

"If you are really interested, you can investigate in a farther place. The nearby businesses all moved away after that incident, and the stores here are all new." Yuan Zhisheng was fearless.

"We have limited time. We may not be able to come back tomorrow. How can we have the time to help you solve your problems?" Caesar said after getting off the car and looking over there.

Chu Zihang was the last one to get off the car. He looked around and said nothing.

"Would you like to go over there for a cup of tea?"

"No, Boss, are you really planning to visit with flowers in your hands? Besides, even if you want to drink tea, you should go to an izakaya. What are you going to drink at a flower shop? Reed juice?"

"Drinking tea is just superficial. Caesar wants to ask that person."

"Fuck, why is this guy staring at a pot of cactus in the middle of the night? Does he have such a strong taste? You gangsters are really not doing your job properly."

Yuan Zhisheng thought that since you can associate so many things with others, you are basically not much better. Can you just be the eldest brother and not talk about the second brother?
The group did not stay at the entrance of the coffee shop, but turned and went to the flower shop next door.

There is a striking sign at the door of this flower shop, decorated with bright flowers and colorful balloons.

The large, artistic Chinese characters "好きな花" (good flower) were repainted in neon lights.

It is night now, and with the lights flickering, this flower shop is particularly eye-catching.

Having said that, the flower shop seemed deserted because, apart from the staff, there was only one customer who looked difficult to get along with.

A group of people pushed open the door and walked into the store noisily. They smelled a refreshing fragrance and had a warm and comfortable feeling that made people stop and appreciate it unconsciously.

(End of this chapter)