When the last light of dawn disappears into the sky, the streets of Shinjuku are lit up with street lights, and the shops turn on the colorful neon lights and start their night business.

If you want to say that the store with the most profit every day in Shinjuku, it is not a red light street, nor a large shopping mall, but ....

Located in front of the station, it is a two-storey game hall with brilliant light walls.

Although it is called a game hall, it is strictly forbidden for minors.

The machines in the arcade are not games like The King of Fighters, but....

Sparrow table, horse betting machine, pachinko.

The so-called mahjong table is actually a mahjong machine, but the player has to play against the computer.

Horse betting machines originated from a popular entertainment project: horse racing.

For the convenience of those who can't go to the racecourse, horse betting machines have come into being.

But the hottest thing in the game hall is not the sparrow table, nor the horse gambling machine, but....

Pachinko.

It is commonly known as playing small steel balls.

This is a very simple way to gamble, and the game machine is a rectangular machine, similar to the King of Fighters machine.

There are many small holes on it, and there are various "iron hits" that act as obstacles around the small holes.

Players sit in front of the machine and manage to shoot the ball into the hole by controlling the firing force through the joystick.

It's like the well-known three-dimensional pinball game, except that three-dimensional pinball requires the ball not to fall into the hole, which is the opposite of the victory requirement of pachinko.

After the ball enters the hole, three numbers will be shaken on the machine screen, and the same number will win the lottery, and the machine will open an additional winning hole after winning.

Take advantage of this moment and constantly drive the balls into the hole, and for each shot of the balls, the machine will reward you with more than a dozen balls.

The gameplay is very simple and approachable.

In the 90s, the popularity of pachinko in this book can be described as in the sky.

Of course, gambling is strictly prohibited, and money can buy small steel balls, but the small steel balls obtained after winning playing pachinko cannot be exchanged for cash at the bar, and can only be used to exchange for rewards.

Until....

Shinichiro Akuzu came up with a solution.

He placed flakes of 18-karat gold in a plastic box as a reward.

The winners exchanged small steel balls for plastic boxes, took out the gold inside, and came to the nearby exchange place, where they could successfully exchange them for yuan, forming a transfer of gambling funds.

Merely...

The price of the exchange will be lower than the normal purchase.

And....

The exchange hall was also opened by Shinichiro Akutsu.

In this game, he is the dealer and takes it all on both sides.

As soon as this initiative came out, it was extremely popular among players.

Shinichiro Akuzu also took advantage of this to sit in the position of the head of the king in just a few years.

It's "entertainment" for adults.

Today is the day when Shinichiro Akutsu inspects the game hall at Shinjuku Station.

As soon as it was nightfall, he arrived at the game hall.

"Brother Akutsu!"

Shinichiro Akutsu was wearing a black suit, his figure was thin, his eyes were cold, and his pale face was covered with a scar that was pulled from his left cheekbone to his chin.

It was the scar he had left from his early years as a ruffian, and he considered it an honor.

"Hmm."

A hoarse voice came out of his mouth, and Shinichiro Akutsu looked at the hot store and asked:

"How's the flow in the store today?"

"Report Big Brother!"

The janitor was very excited:

"Because the racecourse was unpopular, our business is extremely hot today!"

"It's just night, and the turnover in the store has reached 10 million yuan!"

"Ten million, hehe..."

Shinichiro Akutsu shook his head and smiled encouragingly:

"It's not bad, come on."

"At the end of the year, I'll give you a year-end bonus."

The little brother suddenly looked excited:

"Yes!"

"I must be born and die for my eldest brother!"

The game hall, although the day is making money, but in the eyes of Akuzu Shinichiro....

It's all small money.

On the surface, this is a two-story game hall with 300 seats, and business is booming.

But actually....

The real money is made in the underground of the game hall.

There, it's the entertainment of the rich.

Shinichiro Akutsu's means of buying people's hearts is by money.

Having climbed from the bottom, he unswervingly believed:

Money is people's friend, money can make the ghost grind, if you can't push, then double.

Unbelief...

You put 300 pounds of gold bars worth 10 million US dollars on the street, and say that whoever can lift them up and run a hundred meters will try these gold bars?

He dared to guarantee that even the weak scholar who was powerless could turn into a Super Saiyan at that moment, let alone a hundred meters, and even most people could race with the plane with gold bars and break through the limits of their bodies.

Akutsu Shinichiro, relying on this means, successfully bought a large number of loyal younger brothers.

Especially in today's economic downturn, many people want to sell their lives to him.

Surrounded by a group of younger brothers, Shinichiro Akutsu walked through the small door of the game hall and went down the stone path to the underground casino.

Looking at the back of Shinichiro Akutsu's disappearance, outside the game hall, a red dot suddenly went out.

The cold wind blew, the coat danced, and Sakaki Makoto approached the game hall with a long box on his back.

The younger brother who had just talked to Shinichiro Akutsu, after seeing Sakaki Makoto, bowed his head vaguely.

The moment he staggered, he whispered:

"Machine 99, Pachinko."

As if he hadn't heard, Sakaki walked into the store.

At this time, the little brother suddenly covered his stomach and said to his companion on the side:

"Ouch..."

"No, no, no..."

"My stomach hurts so much that I can't stand it...."

The companion sneered:

"You have to eat three bowls of eel rice at noon, okay, I'll keep an eye on it for you here."

"You go quickly."

The younger brother held his buttocks and limped across the corner, his waist slowly straightened.

He pulled out his phone and dialed a number:

"Brother Ishikawa, Brother Sakaki Makoto has already entered."

..............

"Here's a little ball."

In front of the overcrowded exchange counter, Sakaki slowly discharged four large coins.

"How much?"

At the exchange desk, the uniformed female employee plucked her ears, thinking that she must have misheard.

But the four 1 yuan coins made of aluminum were shiny and a little dazzling.

"A little steel ball."

Sakaki repeated it again in a calm tone.

The originally noisy game hall suddenly fell silent at this moment.

Everyone, all staring, looked like they had seen a ghost.

You must know that pachinko can hit 7 or 80 capsules a minute....

What is the operation of buying a small steel ball?

Planning to play standing up?

"What, not for sale?"

Sakaki raised his eyebrows.

When opening a store to do business, there is no reason to refuse customers.

So, under the disdainful gaze of everyone, Sakaki Cheng held a green box bigger than his face, listened to the lonely sliding sound of the small steel ball, and walked to the No. 99 machine in a grand manner.

On machine 99, there was already a person sitting.

When he saw Sakaki, he immediately got up, put his hands in his pockets, lowered the brim of his hat, and walked out of the store in silence.

Sakaki sat down on machine 99 and threw in the only small steel ball.

Boom!

That little steel ball, like a meteorite falling from a distant starry sky...

It slammed into the machine.