The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 161: Contest
Some are happy while others are sad. While people are having a great time eating and drinking at Lingkong Office, someone in a certain bar is shrouded in a cloud of gloom. He is lying on the bar in depression, smelling of alcohol all over his body. He is looking at the wine cabinet drunkenly with a resentful look in his eyes.

Although it is somewhat incongruous for a monk to appear in a bar, people here are not surprised because this bar is opened by a monk. Japanese monks do not need to practice asceticism, so they are very secular. For the sake of their own temple's business, they will do all kinds of cross-border tricks, and opening a bar is just a very common example.

"Mr. Gui Teng, you've drunk too much, haven't you?" The monk bartender in a cassock advised, "If you drink any more, it will be very harmful to your health."

Gui Teng smiled bitterly and said, "Don't worry about me, let me be quiet for a while."

The bartender shook his head, poured Gui Teng a glass of lemonade, and walked away.

Listening to the Buddhist music playing in the bar, Gui Teng sighed heavily. Although it was only the first round, he had already lost his confidence. Originally, he just wanted to spread Qian Xiaoyi's information, and then use the atmosphere of Tokyo people to exclude him, so as to teach him a lesson.

But he didn't expect that after the information was spread, it would immediately attract the attention of the big guys, and the personal grudge immediately became the showdown between Tokyo... no, the Japanese exorcist and the Chinese exorcist. Everyone was watching them, which forced him to rack his brains to win, because he knew that the consequences of losing would be serious.

If he loses, he will be squeezed out of the circle like a stray dog. Those polite acquaintances in the past will gradually stay away from him, and he will not get any decent commissions. He will gradually become a marginal person, and the connections and career he has accumulated over the years will be destroyed. In the end, he can only become an ordinary monk who helps the surrounding residents hold funerals.

He doesn't want this.

But what can he do? The unmanned commissions picked out by Ashiya Jisuke are extremely difficult for an exorcist of his level. In the past, even if he accepted such commissions, he would only help other powerful exorcists and rarely take on commissions on his own.

Before the first competition, he could still rely on the connections he had accumulated over the years to find a few reliable acquaintances to help him. However, after what King Kong said, everyone now knew the opponent's strength and the danger of the commission, and even fewer people dared to help. The rest were just some money-grubbing guys with average strength.

All his former friends now said they were busy and were unwilling to help, which made him very desperate. If the next two commissions were as dangerous as the previous ones, it was hard to say whether he could win. The most important thing was whether he could save his life. Now he almost wanted to quit.

"What? Mr. Gui Teng, do you want to quit?" A voice sounded in his ear.

"Didn't you tell me to leave you alone for a while?" Gui Teng Long Guang turned around distractedly, and saw the gloomy man with long hair parted in the middle and a mole between his eyebrows.

Gui Teng Longguang's drunkenness suddenly disappeared. He asked in surprise: "Hiruda?! Why are you here?"

He didn't want to have anything to do with this guy at all. In the circle of exorcists, this guy was notorious.

Hiruda sat down next to him and said, "Why can't I be here? This is a bar, anyone who wants to drink can come, right?"

He reached out to the bartender for a glass of wine, then looked at Gui Teng Long Guang with contempt in his eyes: "Mr. Gui Teng, I heard that your competition with that foreign exorcist a few days ago didn't go well~"

Gui Teng Longguang's eyes dodged, not wanting to have too much contact with this person. He said, "You...whatever you say, that guy is very strong, it's normal for me to lose to him."

"That's true. It's perfectly normal." Hiruda shook the ice in his glass and said, "Kito, your ability is too poor."

Gui Teng Long Guang said angrily: "What do you mean! Are you here just to laugh at me? We are not familiar with each other." He was obviously just a junior in the industry, but he actually spoke to his senior like this. It was really outrageous. Even if he would fall into disgrace, at least not now. He should still have some face.

He was also very confused. He had only dealt with this guy a few times, and their business scope did not overlap. They were just acquaintances. Why would the other party come to him?

"Do you want to win?" Hiruda asked directly.

"What?" Gui Teng Longguang was stunned, not knowing what the other party meant.

"Hey, hey, are you drunk and can't hear clearly?" Hiruda asked again: "Do you want to win? That Chinese guy?"

Want to win! Gui Teng Longguang dreams of winning! This is related to his career!
But the other party was that Hiruda, so he asked cautiously: "What do you want to do?"

Hiruda took a sip of the amber liquid in the wine glass and said, "I'm here to help you. We are very curious about Qian Xiaoyi. If you just give up, we won't have a good show to watch. That's not good."

"You guys?" Gui Teng Longguang narrowed his eyes.

Hiruda said, "You should know that this is not just a grudge between the two of you, right? This is a matter of face for the Tokyo exorcist community, so I came to help you. Are you surprised?"

"How do you want to help?" asked Guifuji Ryuko. "This matter is handled by Lord Ashiya as a witness, so your methods may not be useful."

Hiruda smiled and said, "Of course I don't intend to break this kind of rule. After all, if there is a first time, there will definitely be a second and third time. No one wants to go back to the Warring States Period. You are short of help now, so I will let someone help you. It's easy to understand, right?"

Kifuji Ryuko was very hesitant. Although the other party had a bad reputation, he was powerful and also knew a group of people who were similar to him in the evil ways. They were considered the "inner circle" of Tokyo's exorcists. Originally, he didn't want to get involved with this group of people, as it would affect his reputation... However, now was an extraordinary period, so he had to use extraordinary means. He believed that with Lord Ashiya watching over him, he should be fine.

So Gui Teng Long Guang gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I promise you."

In this way, the two formed an alliance.

A few days later, Yoshisuke Ashiya finally sent the location and time of the second commission.

The client this time was a theater. After Qian Xiaoyi and Inuyama Heita arrived at the entrance of the theater, they found that Guido Ryuko had already arrived. However, Qian Xiaoyi did not see the tall figure of King Kong, but he was not surprised. This commission did not require a tough guy like King Kong. Then he saw a beautiful woman following Guido Ryuko.

A beautiful cheongsam girl is accompanied by a cameraman and posing in front of the camera.

"This is the beautiful exorcist Suzuna." The woman acted cute in front of the camera, made a "kung fu" gesture, and said:
"We received a special commission today. I heard that we are competing with an exorcist from China. I am really curious about what that person looks like. Are you the same? After hearing about this, Suzuna specially put on this Chinese-style clothes... Ah, it should be that person, right? Let's go say hello to him."

(End of this chapter)