I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 196 Trouble breaks out
At 21:33, the foot traffic in Kabukicho, Satoku Ward, had not yet reached its peak. But Captain Sarutobi had lost count of how many times he had checked the detector in his hand. Looking at the still unmoved zero on the device, he couldn't help but spit out his saliva and walked toward the next shop.

"Captain, is this thing reliable? It just jumps around randomly, but the key position never changes..." The soldier who spoke had a hint of resentment on his face. Other squads were either making a killing or had already started a party. There were quite a few who were both making money and having a party. But they had managed to walk for two hours in this place with the most beautiful women and the most money in the entire concession.

"Idiot, don't think I don't know what you're thinking. Blame it on us being assigned to this area! This lousy place is full of foreigners or aliens. You dare to touch me, but I wouldn't dare! Hurry up and finish clearing out the bustling eastern market, then we can go to the west and have fun however we want!"

The captain glared at his subordinate. If the two weren't related, he would have slapped him long ago. However, considering morale, he still spoke up to give everyone a pep talk.

"That's great, now we should..."

Just as the soldiers regained their spirits and began to check how much further they had to go, the detector in Sarutobi's hand suddenly vibrated twice, and the reading, which had been zero, suddenly jumped to two words!

"Chao! You jinx!" Sarutobi finally couldn't hold back and slapped his brother-in-law across the face, making him spin around seven or eight times, leaving a shallow mark on the blast visor of his helmet.

Seeing this, the brother-in-law didn't dare to speak, shrinking his head like a quail, and none of the team members behind him dared to say a word.

Just kidding, they're afraid of dying too!
"What are you looking at? The numbers have already jumped, and you still want to back down?" Seeing his subordinate's expression, Sarutobi's face grew increasingly grim, but he still had no choice but to take a step forward and follow the instructions on the equipment.

Having managed to secure the position of squad leader, he knew, of course, that the new equipment he received for this mission wasn't just for them to bully. He had no doubt that these monitoring devices contained recording devices. If they couldn't find the target, they could just take the opportunity to have some fun, but if they found it and deliberately avoided it, he didn't want to test whether naturalized soldiers were any different from civilians in the eyes of aliens.

Walking a dozen meters forward, a high-end bar with a sign that read "Alien Culture Experience Hall" came into view. Sato's face twitched. In this kind of run-down place, where most people were foreigners, it was perfectly normal for them to have some kind of divine aura. But he couldn't not check. He took a breath and gritted his teeth as he went in.

"Sirs, this is the Fujita family's property. We are on the right..." Seeing several men who looked like troublemakers barge into the store, the security guard at the door immediately stepped forward. But before he could finish speaking, a hand encased in metal armor grabbed his head. Luckily, he spoke quickly; otherwise, it would have been questionable whether he would have kept his head.

"The Governor-General's Office has issued a special order for me to call Fujita Masaki?" Although he spoke with a tough tone, considering that the Fujita family could not be offended, he still pulled up the Governor-General's Office's crest.

"Oh, sir, just say what you need. Why resort to violence? We, the Fujita family, are all naturalized citizens! We are all honorary members of the Heroic Star! Why wouldn't we cooperate if you want to investigate us? Where do you want to investigate? Just investigate!"

The store manager, dressed in a Hexagonal-style outfit, rushed over rather clumsily, bowing and fawning as he spoke. At the same time, he subtly handed over a gold card. Sarutobi glanced at it through his glasses, immediately recognizing the account balance. He released his grip on the security guard's hand, coldly accepting the gold card and saying:
"We have to give face to the Fujita family, but you'd better be fine here. Brothers, be careful!"

"Understood!" Knowing that their boss had taken a cut, the subordinates didn't go too far. Although most of the customers had been scared away, at least nothing was broken. However...

"Is this it?" Sarutobi looked at the gourd ornament in front of him, then at the detector that was still flashing its reading, and looked at the shopkeeper with a strange expression: "What's inside?"

"It's just a pendant! How could it possibly hold anything!" The shop manager's face turned ashen. Looking at the device, he understood that they had probably really found something, but the problem was, he really didn't know anything about it!
"Really?" Sarutobi took off the gourd and looked at the character "寿" (longevity) on it. He scanned it suspiciously, but apart from the reading, there was nothing unusual at all. In fact, the thing was solid.

"Where did this come from?" Sarutobi gestured to his subordinates to bring a storage box and pack the item away, his tone still serious. The shopkeeper shook his head vigorously and said:

"This is just a regular pendant. The Hexing people have a habit of hanging gourd-shaped things in their houses, but the demand is relatively low. Making them from scratch is too expensive, so we just bought gourds..."

"..." Sarutobi saw that the shopkeeper didn't seem to be lying, but he didn't want to take the man back. After thinking for a moment, he finally said:
“Call Fujita Masaki now and explain the situation clearly. Tell him I’m here waiting for him to send someone to take over. My dashcam is on, you can’t escape, understand?”

"Understood, understood!" Upon hearing this, the shop manager felt as if he had been granted a pardon. He immediately dialed the number of the master and informed the family. In less than a minute, the young master of the Fujita family personally arrived at the shop with his men. After a brief handover, Sarutobi left the shop with two gold cards and a gourd in his pocket.

"Alright, let's continue!" With his gains, Sarutobi's steps became much lighter. If he weren't worried about being checked on his records later, he would have liked to leave this troublesome place immediately.

However, the more you try to avoid trouble, the more likely it is to happen. In the area with the most foreign tourists in Tokyo, he encountered the word "jumping" seven or eight times on just one short street.

Fortunately, the readings were never high, and everything was found. Apart from being a bit troublesome, it wasn't a big deal. But let alone his younger brother, even Sarutobi himself started to find it unbearable to hear his colleagues playing their voices on the public channel!
However, this was not intentional on their part. Even though they were having fun, the soldiers still didn't dare to take off their equipment. With the equipment still on and the computers still running, the sounds continued to echo in the team channel.

"Baka!" he cursed inwardly. Seeing that they were almost at the edge of Kabukicho, Sarutobi finally breathed a sigh of relief. He waved and headed towards a pub that looked rather poor.

The girls in these places are generally not very good, but if you can catch a few office ladies at company parties (Note ①), that's not a bad thing.

Just as he was pondering whether to find an excuse or simply kick down the door, the equipment in his hand began to shake again.

"Not again!" Sarutobi stared at the device, thinking it was some kind of gourd or lucky cat again, but his eyes suddenly went blank...

"Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands... how much is this?"

(End of this chapter)