I suddenly became a yakuza boss.

In the darkness, the damp wind rustled the advertising banners on the railings, making a soft, slapping sound...

Damp and cold, lonely, all alone.

This feeling was something he couldn't share with others, but after experiencing loneliness, Li Xuan still hoped to share it with a suitable person.

"This sentence received a very high score from Komachi."

Komachi said with a smile.

Indeed, it's wonderful to have a "sister" under the same roof with whom you can share your life.

Li Xuan disappeared into the darkness.

About ten minutes later, Komachi successfully squeezed onto the train.

"Phew, we finally made it up."

Komachi breathed a sigh of relief.

The tram started moving, carrying a full load of people, and headed off in one direction through the darkness...

However, after passing through a dark urban area, the train sped along an elevated highway, and Komachi saw a figure holding a small pink umbrella, running at an unbelievable speed towards an urban area on an empty two-way pedestrian crossing...

The speed and agility of their running, as if they were rushing somewhere through the wind and rain, was so fast that Komachi, standing by the door and window, was almost dumbfounded to see it from inside the train.

Such superhuman physical strength... it's practically an urban legend.

Under the streetlights, a powerful figure running stood with both hands holding a small pink umbrella, which just covered half of his body...

But it was only a short stretch of running together. Soon, the tram headed off onto a side street, parting ways with that figure.

—【Miss Hina encountered Mizuno in the city. Mizuno knew that Miss Hina was your sister at your father's birthday party. After being kicked out of Ashikawa, he joined a local underground boxing business and was known as Boss Aizawa.】

—【It seems that because of your recent surge in fame, there's been someone in the underground boxing scene who wants to challenge you. Mizuno deceived Ms. Hina, though the specifics are unclear, but she's currently being held captive in an underground boxing ring. The political forces behind the underground boxing businessman, Aizawa, are very powerful, and our group is powerless to do anything about it.】

As the name of the War Demon grew more and more renowned, trouble began to constantly find him...

The station was about four kilometers away from the destination, so Li Xuan decided to come at full speed.

He needs to maintain his best condition and ideally, he shouldn't let the rain get on his head.

In the wind and rain, two factions stood on the road in a dirty and dilapidated old neighborhood.

Finally, a figure with leather shoes that were blackened and shiny from the rain, and a straight posture, came onto the street.

"coming."

A middle-aged gangster with long hair looked at the figure whose body was mostly soaked in the rain and said.

In the drizzling rain, the small umbrella, which seemed completely out of place in the underworld, was soaked and reflected the light. As the person slowed down, he came to a complete stop in the center of the Ashikawa group.

In the eerie environment, the umbrella was raised, and in the dark crowd opposite, a pair of blurry yet menacing eyes could be seen through transparent sunglasses.

This figure was furious beyond measure.

The air was thick with murderous intent, as if it could lower the street temperature to below zero...

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Chapter 041 A Demon Among Us (Revised)

Japanese underground boxing ring.

As the name suggests, it is a place where underground boxing matches are held, an illegal place that satisfies the most primitive and violent desires of mankind.

This is a place that "does not exist," a mysterious zone that the internet loves to speculate about, a purgatory on earth where there are no human rights or laws.

In the misty rain, the legendary Ashikawa group leader finally arrived.

The sixty or seventy operators present saw the straight and powerful slender body through the mist. When they first saw it, they did feel a chill run down their spines, as if they had encountered some terrifying monster.

As the man approached the entrance to the arena, the sixty or seventy employees of the boxing ring finally saw clearly that this legendary warrior who had defeated the famous Nagano, Ryu, and Yui in just a few months... actually looked to be only in his early twenties, with a handsome and refined appearance, a far cry from his usual description.

But the murderous glint in his eyes, hidden beneath those sunglasses that appeared transparent in the light, was indeed chilling to behold.

Of the more than sixty people in front, not a single one dared to utter a sound.

Rumor has it that this underground boxing ring is the largest in Chiba Prefecture, and even in several surrounding prefectures, second only to the underground boxing rings in Osaka. All of these rings are protected by families with extremely high political influence.

But Li Xuan ignored all that. He stared at the sea of ​​people in the boxing ring and asked, "Where is Chu?"

But none of the people on the other side responded to his question.

Cold raindrops fell on Li Xuan's leather shoes. He folded up his umbrella, took a step forward, and prepared to go ahead.

Just then, Bachang Qing reached out and pressed Li Xuan down, shouting, "Don't make a move yet! Didn't the text message say that their background is not simple? Consider the old man's position, calm down!"

Just then, with a creak, the huge, heavy iron gate of the warehouse at the entrance of the alley was opened.

"Welcome, Mr. War Demon." Azuma, the largest underground boxing dealer in Chiba Prefecture, stepped out from the crowd with a smile and said.

The man, dressed in a black suit and looking like a proper businessman, had a friendly face, long hair, and a rather burly build. His shrewd eyes were scrutinizing Li Xuan, but Li Xuan and Ba Changqing could tell at a glance that this man was extremely dangerous, a terrifying figure who possessed both intelligence and martial prowess.

Baba Kiyoshi came out, looked at him, and asked, "Aishan, what's wrong with you? You've broken the rules here."

“No, no, Mr. Baba, you’ve misunderstood.” The businessman, Azuma, waved his hand and said, “If it were a kidnapping of a gang member’s family, then it would indeed be necessary to fill the seabed with cement and sink it. But I did not force little sister Nitta to do anything. Show this copy of the contract to Mr. Zhan Gui, and let him see the terms and signature.”

Soon, an official from Xiangshan handed a photocopy of the document to the young master, Machang Qing.

Baba Kiyoshi examined the document carefully, his expression growing increasingly grim. After a while, he handed the document to Li Xuan and said, "Take a look. Is the handwriting that of that little girl?"

Li Xuan took the document and read it through.

This contract is a boxing ring agreement. The terms are simple: the challenger is responsible for his own safety in the ring, and he will receive a bonus of 150,000 yen for defeating the first boxer and 200,000 yen for defeating the second boxer. He will receive an additional 50,000 yen for each win, up to a maximum of 59 matches, and he must fight at least one match per day.

The document contains numerous quotations and descriptions, making it incomprehensible not only to Hina Nitta, but even to a typical first-year middle school student, who would likely only grasp a fraction of it. For Hina, it was practically a foreign language.

As a result, the signature of the family beneficiary was written in hiragana: 【新田雏】.

It is indeed Chu's handwriting.

Although Chu is a minor, the contracts in underground boxing rings don't follow the rule of law. The challengers in underground boxing rings have special identities and could die in the ring at any time, so there are various special circumstances and the conditions are relaxed a lot. So once the beneficiary receives the advance payment, the terms are basically valid.

Baba Kiyoshi stared at Aoyama, sneered, and said sarcastically, "Aoyama, you are a well-known figure in Chiba, yet you knew that the other party was just a child, and you actually used tricks to deceive the child into signing this contract."

Xiangshan smiled and said, "I admit that some deceptive tricks were used, but it wasn't me. I just paid a young man she trusted to help persuade her to sign the contract. This contract is illegal, but legal. Especially you people in the lending business, you understand this rule even better, right? The underworld doesn't care whether the borrower's family members are adults or not. In special circumstances, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child can continue to inherit, right, Mr. Baba, Mr. Zhan Gui..."

Kiyoshi Baba remained silent for a moment, then said nothing more.

"That traitor Mizuno is a compulsive gambler. Your sister probably met him a few times before. He always pretended to be a nice guy, but he was probably desperate because he was being chased by debt collectors. He just happened to run into your sister and tricked her into signing this contract. The whole thing that bastard Aizama did was to get you to fight in underground boxing matches. Although it's fraud, it does comply with the regulations..."

Baba Kiyoshi quietly told Li Xuan about these things.

"What are you going to do, Xuan?"

He glanced at Li Xuan with his wrinkled eyes and asked.

“…” Li Xuan held the contract, remained silent for a moment, rain soaking his entire body, water droplets dripping from his chin.

"It was indeed because she made another mistake that she signed it. No problem, I will take responsibility for her."

Li Xuan put the document in his pocket and said.

"But I'm not that easy to talk to. You also need to take responsibility, you know?"

Li Xuan turned his head, took off his sunglasses, and stared at Xiangshan with eyes full of fury, as if facing a storm, and said.

※※※※

Inside the warehouse gate, there is a long, narrow man-made passage that leads straight into the ground.

Li Xuan, Ma Changqing, and several others were led by Xiang Shan. Before heading to the meeting place, Xiang Shan allowed Li Xuan to visit his sister.

However, Li Xuan was quite concerned about the facilities of this underground boxing ring.

The workload is too large.

This is an area that is almost impossible for a private individual to create.

"Welcome to my underground boxing ring. By the way, this used to be an air-raid shelter."

Xiangshan, who was leading the way, introduced the place like a host.

I see, so theoretically it is indeed an air-raid shelter.

"But after the war ended, this huge underground facility was abandoned. Some of the families who invested in its construction wanted to recoup their investment and did not want this well-preserved defense facility to be directly exposed to the public. The best solution was to convert it into an entertainment facility, such as an underground boxing ring."

In the eerie atmosphere, Xiangshan seemed to be introducing someone else's underground boxing ring to Li Xuan.

"This place is for wealthy people and high-ranking officials who are eager to see real life-or-death battles. It's not the kind of fighting competition with all sorts of rules and regulations, but a revival of the kind of real combat that Japan used to have, where people fought like samurai, risking their lives and dignity—the most fundamental kind of human combat."

Xiangshan suddenly laughed, turned around, and said to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan's face grew even more gloomy.

"The ridiculous thing is that there are no samurai or warriors here, only a bunch of desperados, cowards... and demons on earth."

Xiangshan smiled at Li Xuan, made a pistol gesture with his fingers, and fired a shot at Li Xuan.

"..."

Li Xuan didn't utter a single word from beginning to end.

"Why did that guy Xiangshan tell you so many things he shouldn't have?" Maba Kiyoshi whispered to Li Xuan.

"Be careful, know when to quit while you're ahead. Did you hear what he said? The fighters you have to challenge in this boxing ring... are all vicious thugs from all over Japan who have committed murder. If you win, you live; if you lose, you go to the execution ground. Do you know how dangerous that is?"

As the two figures walked through the dark tunnel, Baba Kiyoshi gave Li Xuan his final words of advice before gradually disappearing into the darkness.

one room.

Li Xuan pushed open the door and saw Nitta Hina sitting on the sofa.

Nitta Hina was still drinking her beverage and eating snacks when she saw Li Xuan and showed a surprised expression.

"Ah... Ah Xuan."

Nitta Hina blinked, seemingly surprised that Li Xuan would come here.

Li Xuan finally found Chu. He looked her over carefully several times with concern, and only after confirming that she seemed alright did he ask, "Chu, are you alright?"

Hina Nitta reported, "It's nothing... Well, I was thinking I should probably go back soon, but I need to work here, so I plan to tell you about finding a job after I get back."

"work to earn a living?"