Neon, Kyoto shopping street.

Kotaro wrapped himself in a warm coat and looked at the Toma toy store with excitement on his face in the cold wind.

"Official experience store, Si Guoyi!"

This is not a licensed store!

If he's not mistaken, PD has only opened three experience stores in Neon, located in Kyoto, Tokyo, and Hokkaido.

The only experience shop in Kyoto!

Because of Uncle Doma, Kotaro is well aware of the difference between a PD authorized store and a PD experience store. It is no exaggeration to say that one day and one earth!

Authorized stores, including various types of "flagship stores". That's all franchises, as long as you have money, you can open it. As long as there is no "channeling and dumping", PD companies rarely participate in management.

And the experience store belongs to PD direct sales!

The so-called direct sales are well understood, and the property, personnel, and goods of the store are all managed by PD. It can be said that this store is the store opened by PD.

Then here's the problem!

Uncle Doma's shop, which has been open for decades since his father's generation, has become a PD store?

It's very simple, it's been acquired!

After inspecting the surrounding area and the traffic of the store, the PD agency has done so. It was decided to acquire the Tsuchima Toy Store and transform it into the only official experience store in Kyoto, and hired Tsuchima as the store manager.

It is said that PD spent a lot of money!

The exact number is not clear even to Kotaro. Anyway, he knew that Uncle Doma had just bought a house for 50 million yen.

Different from authorized stores, since the word "experience" is hung on the experience store, the specific layout is naturally different.

When Kotaro entered the store, his first thought was, "Did I enter the wrong store?"

Gone are the shelves of the past, replaced by solid wood tables and fabric sofas. On the table, which is one meter long and half a meter wide, there are only 2-3 exhibits, and it does not look like a toy store at all.

"Hey, Kotaro, long time no see!"

After the redecoration, the wind chimes at the entrance of the store were removed, and Uncle Doma also changed into a set of "panda man" overalls, which made him look more vigorous.

Even so, he could still hear who the guests were based on the sound of footsteps.

Seeing Kotaro who hadn't seen him for a long time, Doma seemed very happy. Wrapping his shoulders, he squeezed his eyebrows and said, "How is it?"

"Hi Yi!"

Kotaro nodded, looked around at the decorations, and said to himself, "Unbelievable, this is actually a toy store!"

"Haha! You're wrong!"

Tsuchima shook his head and smiled, "Our job is not to sell toys, but to show everyone the latest and most complete PD products." ”

"How's that? Kotaro interested?"

"Follow me!"

Led by Uncle Doma, Kotaro sees an exhibit that is being played with by customers. At a cursory glance, a bit like Kamen Rider?

"That's amazing!"

On this table, there are a total of three exhibits. Aside from the most obvious colors, there doesn't seem to be much difference.

Doma picked up the white knight doll and explained to Kotaro: "This is a new product that just arrived today, Xin Chou Niu limited edition empty my nascent form, I guarantee that all neon is only this one!"

Xin Chou Cow?

The 12 zodiac series under the PD club?

Hearing this, Kotaro suddenly opened his mouth wide. Unexpectedly, Uncle Doma could even get this kind of rare thing that was sold in limited quantities.

"Can I touch it?"

"Of course!"

The first time I got my hands on the Zodiac series, Kotaro couldn't be more excited. He cautiously reached out to take the doll, carefully examining the details of each part, his eyes full of longing.

Si Guoyi, Si Guoyi!

The workmanship is fantastic!

Kotaro, who was about to ask the price, suddenly caught a glimpse of the brochure on the side and saw the dazzling five-digit figure on the marked price, and immediately gasped.

It's too expensive, next one!

Reluctantly leaving the Xin Chouniu booth, on the next wooden table, there is a "Big Bird Intelligence" chessboard, on which there are many chess pieces similar to "chess".

The difference is that the images of these chess pieces are actually familiar PD characters, such as Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Armored Warriors, and Idol Warriors.

Two customers are playing against each other!

One of the customers was very young, looking no more than fifteen or sixteen years old. Beside him, there stood an eight- or nine-year-old Lori, who was looking at the chessboard with her hands clenched and her face nervous.

"Is that his sister?"

Kotaro muttered and looked at another gray-haired old man playing chess.

I saw the old man pick up a Meng Black Pig, move three squares horizontally, and the soldier pointed directly at the young man's Demon Fairy Meiqi on the opposite side.

"Black pig Ketaomi, wonderful!"

Tsuchima watched it with relish, and explained to Kotaro out loud: "This is the big bird chess launched by the PD Society, which contains the theory of mutual growth and mutual restraint in ancient China, and the rules are quite complicated......"

See!

Kotaro nodded, his eyes glancing at the boy, wondering how he could break the game and rescue Taumi who was threatened by the black pig.

The boy didn't move for a long time, and his expression was serious.

The old man, who had the chance to win, took a sip of the hot tea on the table and said with a smile: "Young man, you are very powerful, worthy of being the youngest dragon king in the shogi world." I'll admit it, I can't beat you in shogi!"

"But it's the big birdie ......"

"You're talking too much nonsense!"

"What?"

Under the surprised eyes of everyone, the young man's eyes lit up with flames, he held a chess piece in his right hand, and said confidently: "The real battle has just begun! It's my turn......

"Vietnamese killer!"

"Vietnamese killer Ke Meng Black Pig, due to the presence of the Demon Fairy Maggie to trigger the effect of the triangular ghost animal, I can act again! This time it's the Prince of Pleasure ......"

"You can't kill the Prince of Amusement!"

The old man put away his shocked expression and said calmly: "The Prince of Pleasure has a scumbag effect and is immune to male character attacks, so the Vietnamese killer is not ...... Wait!"

As the old man spoke, he seemed to think of something, looked at the forgotten Demon Fairy Meiqi, and glared at the avenue: "Demon Fairy Meiqi!"

"Congratulations, you got it right!"

"You've lost!"

When the Demon Fairy Maggie pushed down the Prince of Pleasure, broke through the old man's carefully arranged defense line, and won the game, the scene resounded with extremely warm applause.

"Yay, Master is awesome!"

Little Lori grabbed the boy's sleeve and jumped and jumped up and down to look very happy.

"That's what it is...... The strength of the Dragon King?"

Kotaro doesn't understand what it means to be a dragon king in the shogi world. But the young man in front of him defeated a gray-haired old man at the age of a weak crown, which shows the strength of his strength.

"yes!"

"He's really good!"

Kotaro just wanted to agree, but suddenly realized that something was wrong. Turning his head, Uncle Doma was long gone, and standing beside him at the moment was a young man with messy hair and dark circles under his eyes.

His smile is contagious!

Seeing Kotaro looking at him stupidly, the young man smiled and raised his right hand, giving a thumbs up and making a gesture of thumbs up.

"Are you going to buy toys too?"

"Bear on me!"

"Forehead ......"

When the man turned to leave, Kotaro froze in place, and said uncertainly, "What do you mean by being bearish on me?"