Tokyo: Starting with taking on his wife's debts

Anyone who experiences unfair treatment at the company will be immediately offered cash compensation ranging from 100 million yen to 1000 million yen... We'll draft a detailed manual later; there's still a week before the official launch.

Xiuming suddenly raised his voice, startling everyone.

My first thought: Did I make some mistake?

Then I was completely dumbfounded: Overtime gets you docked pay?! Unheard of...

"So...so, what should we do now?"

Shota was also confused. They were having a good conversation, so why did it suddenly turn into a tantrum?

"Do whatever you want, go see a movie, pick up girls, go to a bubble bath... Start work at nine tomorrow," Xiuming said, glancing at a few programmers who were "experiencing technical stress." They looked flustered. Xiuming paused, then continued, "Never mind, you won't be able to adapt to a sudden reduction in efficiency in a short time. We'll gradually reduce working hours. Today, the latest you'll work is eight o'clock."

"Okay, okay," Shota replied blankly, then asked in a low voice, "Um, club president, about what we were talking about, could we have another guy deliver the food? I'm fine, it's just that they..."

“You don’t need to worry about it, I’ll go talk to them…” Xiuming said as he walked into the office of the Suwon group.

Just as Hideaki had guessed, several people in Mizuhara wanted to buy subsidized housing, but they were concerned about their sexual orientation, which prevented them from receiving dual-income housing benefits.

Xiuming has a very open mind. As long as it doesn't interfere with him, he respects everyone's wishes. He briefly explained the situation to them, and they were all beaming with joy.

“Mizuhara, now that you have no more concerns, how are you going to talk to Ai Iijima?” Hideaki asked.

"Uh..." Mizuhara looked conflicted and said softly, "Should I just tell her I have a boyfriend? Anyway, she said it's not that she likes me, she just wants to buy a house together..."

"Okay, whatever you want. I was just asking out of curiosity. Don't forget to leave the computer at eight o'clock; getting addicted to machines isn't good... I'm leaving now."

Xiuming returned to the supermarket at 7:30 pm, and the roller shutter was still closed.

Ai Iijima was still sitting at the door playing games.

Xiuming glanced at her, said nothing, walked past her, and opened the roller shutter.

Misako was already up and standing at the cashier, paying for the cup noodles she had bought.

Her expression was aloof and expressionless, but her complexion was radiant. The way she glanced at Xiuming, though trying to appear cold, couldn't hide the allure she exuded.

"Want to go out for dinner?" Xiuming said, extending his index finger and gently touching her fair chin with the pad of his finger. He continued, "If you act cute, I'll treat you to dinner."

The moment his fingers touched her chin, Misako's entire body stiffened abruptly. As if her weakness had been exploited, her face flushed crimson, her eyes narrowed almost instinctively, and she tilted her long neck back, her lips slightly parted, whispering, "You, let go... you childish rascal..."

"Couldn't you have dodged it yourself?"

“I…” Misako seemed to wake from a dream, abruptly turning her head, her white teeth clenched, and whispered, “Please don’t tease people like that in the future, it’s really embarrassing, childish…”

"Hey, are you guys going out to eat?" Ai Iijima jumped over. "Can I come along? Just pretend I don't exist, I'll just eat, okay?"

Just as Xiuming agreed, the phone at the cashier suddenly rang.

The phone call from Daisuke sounded very urgent: "Mr. Yamanaka, please come to Kabukicho Ichiban-gai, to the Night Paris Pachinko parlor. It's an emergency..."

The receiver was very noisy, with the sounds of game music effects, as well as shouting and fighting from many people.

He hung up the phone before he finished speaking.

Night Paris Pachinko Parlor is also a property under Ezaki's "Yamagai Gumi". I remember Ezaki saying that he arranged for Fukai Ichiro, the former head of "Yamagai Foreign Trade", to be the store manager.

What's going on? It sounds urgent, like a gang fight... Should we go? It's a desperate situation... and it's an Ezaki property.

Hideaki suddenly realized that his previous plan to avoid too much contact with the underworld had backfired because of Ezaki. After all, Ezaki was really capable and easy to manage.

Chapter 149 Even Gangs Have a Hard Time

It was clearly no longer appropriate to take Misako and Ai Iijima out for dinner.

"You guys go upstairs to eat! And tell Riko that I'm not coming home tonight."

Xiuming gave a brief instruction and, before the two could react, quickly ran out of the supermarket.

It was already 8 p.m., and the area between Shinjuku's West and East wards was a busy commercial district with severe traffic congestion.

Especially on sections of road with riot police vehicles, several riot police vehicles were seen to have been scratched, and almost all of them had scratched luxury cars.

Those driving luxury cars were all burly, tattooed men lying on the open ground in front of their cars, crying and demanding an explanation.

After the police dragged them away, several more people, men, women, children and the like, crawled out of the car and, like actors, continued to lie on the ground and throw a tantrum.

The entire road was completely jammed.

The horns of the cars behind were blaring incessantly, as if they were on steroids, while motorcycles were speeding past between the cars.

Some riot police officers were originally running to Kabukicho Ichiban-gai, but then the motorcycles that were revving up the street appeared.

Those young men on motorcycles, wearing helmets, seemed to know nothing of fear, repeatedly provoking SWAT officers armed with riot shields and even guns, throwing trash, vegetable leaves, and eggs at them...

Without orders, the special police could not fire their guns. They had to apprehend them one by one like rats, beating and kicking them before binding and handcuffing them. They couldn't catch them all, and the most difficult thing was that after they were caught, there was nowhere to store them.

A policeman who looked like a superior officer, with several sticky, rotten eggs smashed on his head, gripped a walkie-talkie and kicked and cursed at the delinquent youth.

On the pedestrian street by the roadside, a bunch of mountain bikes had fallen over, and a row of delinquent youths were squatting with their heads in their hands.

They were all smiles under the police's watch, even though they were beaten black and blue. They still looked very proud, as if they had completed a great mission. For example, they asked each other: How much money did we make on this job?

They perfectly exemplified the saying "money makes the world go round" and "the law does not punish the masses."

Xiuming also got out of the taxi early due to severe traffic congestion. When he passed through the pedestrian street, he was questioned by the special police.

It seems these delinquent youths are temporary part-time hires, there just to stop the riot police from heading to Kabukicho Ichiban-gai.

They didn't have any weapons, so they would suffer minor injuries, spend a few days in detention, and then get out, having already received hundreds of thousands or even millions of yen in allowances and rewards.

The biggest problem is that the officer could have taken a group of people to Kabukicho Ichiban-gai, but he chose not to go and instead had a large group of people guarding and causing trouble... Did he give any instructions beforehand?

Hideaki arrived at Kabukicho Ichiban-gai by running, thirty minutes later.

At the entrance to Kabukicho Ichiban-gai, two police cars with flashing red and blue lights were parked. Two policemen were pulling on yellow police tape and waving their arms to drive away the dense crowd that wanted to come forward to watch.

However, some young men in black carrying steel pipes or iron bars still rushed past the two young policemen and ignored them.

Occasionally, black minivans would drive straight towards them, and they would hurriedly dodge, letting the vehicles rush into the street.

With less than twenty days until the crackdown on organized crime, gang fights are at their most rampant and violent.

After all, during an economic downturn, with the decline in consumption, the various entertainment venues controlled by gangsters are losing money.

They either seize territory or engage in malicious business competition, resorting to poisoning, sabotage, assassination... one thing after another.

In the current social environment, this kind of thing is beyond the control of two junior police officers. No matter how strong their sense of justice is, it's useless. They can only try their best to call for backup while preventing irrelevant people from getting involved.

Xiuming squeezed into the crowd, found a high vantage point, stood on tiptoe, and peered inside.

The nearby streets were practically deserted, with shops on both sides closed. A few dozen meters away, several black vans blocked the middle of the road. Further in, there was a dense crowd of people shouting and yelling, making it impossible to tell who was who.

As they rushed through the streets, riot police cars dared to charge in, it was practically a direct assault. The police station must be furious. Could tonight be their most glorious brawl yet?

I don't recall ever seeing such a serious riot before... Could it be the butterfly effect?

It's definitely not a good time to get involved now; it's too chaotic. If a complete stranger goes in, they'll be attacked by both sides... We'll see how things go after they've finished fighting.

If something can be solved with money, don't risk your life.

Xiuming thought for a moment and decided to ask about the situation again. He then found a public phone booth and dialed Daisuke's mobile phone.

"Hello?" The call connected quickly. Daisuke was panting heavily. He could faintly hear the sounds of shattering glass, shouts of fighting, and arcade game sound effects coming from the receiver.

"I'm nearby. What's the situation where you are?" Xiuming asked him in a harsh tone.

After all, with so many people fighting and even attacking riot police, what am I supposed to do here? Are they trying to drag me down with them or send me to my doom? It's just malicious.

They shouldn't have called me, but since they did, I know what happened and can't just ignore it. It's so annoying!

"We've all taken refuge inside the shop, but they're still banging on the door..."

Then, Daisuke briefly and quickly explained the cause and effect.

They were fighting against a force called the "Eastern Continent Society," which had almost nationwide influence and even some business dealings with them.

However, after Ichiro Fukai took over the pachinko parlor, he felt that making money was too slow, so he raised the prices. As a result, customers all went to the pachinko parlor under the "Dongzhou Club" across the street. So Ichiro Fukai sent people there to discuss raising prices together.

But the other side wouldn't listen.

Tonight, Fukai Ichiro sent people to kidnap the manager of the pachinko parlor across the street. He's a young man who's not even twenty years old.

Fukai Ichiro had intended to discuss it with him properly, including raising prices.

But he still wouldn't listen, and he acted very tough, even mocking Fukai Ichiro for being brainless, saying that no wonder he was still a store manager at forty or fifty years old, he was simply a good-for-nothing.

Fukai Ichiro had spent most of his life smuggling organs and dealing in weapons and flour. He was already furious about being relegated to the position of shopkeeper, and when he heard such mockery, he jumped up and down on the spot. He stuffed a sock into the man's mouth and chopped off one of his little fingers as punishment.

They're all gangsters. Given Fukai Ichiro's seniority, if he suffers such humiliation, punishing a small shop manager, even if he's not a member of the organization, would be justifiable. After all, he has a foul mouth and disobeys his elders. It's acceptable anywhere, and he could even make the other party apologize and extort money from them.

But after letting the young man go, the Dongzhou Society was in an uproar. The young man was the next successor of the Dongzhou Society and was just here to experience life. The store manager was someone else.

The chairman personally led the team, demanding an explanation from Fukai Ichiro.

Fukai Ichiro was naturally not going to back down. He still had quite a few guns at hand, so he gathered his men and clashed with the other side.

However, because many members of the organization were taken away by Ezaki to join the fleet, there was a severe shortage of manpower. Furthermore, since shooting was inherently risky, after the initial brawl, they suffered repeated defeats and subsequently closed their shop doors to defend themselves.

Daisuke initially tried calling Ezaki, but the call didn't go through, and no one answered the hotel landline either. With no other option, he had to call Hideaki.

"Where is Fukai Ichiro?" Hideaki asked.

"Because he couldn't contact either Yoko or Mr. Kitaro, he went to the hospital to ask the old chairman for instructions."

That old chairman is Ezaki Yoko's uncle, Ezaki Kitaro's father, and Ezaki Sekikawa, the younger brother of Ezaki Sekiryu, who was shot in the back and is still in the ICU.

The guy lying in the ICU is practically in a vegetative state, how could we possibly give him any hints?

That guy clearly used an excuse to run away. Could he have done it on purpose?

"What about the other veterans of your organization?"

I remember Ezaki saying that there were four veterans in the "Yamagaigumi" and Fukai Ichiro was one of them.

"Mr. Tamamori and Ms. Hashigami went out on a ship with Boss Yoko, and Mr. Kunimi went on vacation..."

Therefore, Ezaki trusted Fukai Ichiro very much and entrusted the backyard to him...

"Find an opportunity to ask the leader on the other side what conditions they need for him to leave."

Xiuming was in a bad mood, but the situation didn't seem to be the worst yet. It was the "Dongzhou Association" that attacked the riot police team, not the "Yamaga Group".

On the way here, I saw at least fifty or sixty people, and there were no fewer than thirty or forty in the neighborhood.

With such a massive and powerful organization, revenge was merely a side effect!