Chapter 101: The Convoy
On a bustling night in Tokyo, the black Mercedes-Benz motorcade shuttles under the elevated road under the protection of the night, and several black trailers are lined up on the left and right of the motorcade like big wings, and passers-by on the street raise their mobile phones to take pictures when they see this momentum.
Mercedes-Benz team knives are generally cut on the road, any rushing traffic has to be avoided, motorcyclists have flashing lights and faces reflected on their black helmets, and every ten seconds they will keep an eye out for crowds and buildings on the street to prevent any accidents.
In the Mercedes-Benz sedan in the second row of the convoy, Ryoichi Okubo silently looked at the envious eyes of passers-by outside the peep-proof window, not knowing what he was thinking, his hands on his waist and fingers touching the hilt of the gun protruding under the suit, as if this was the only way to make him feel some peace of mind.
"Ryoichi, you look nervous tonight." The old man in black Haori, who was beside Ryoichi Okubo, said with a smile.
"I'm sorry, it's just the first time I've been in a team of this level, and I wasn't qualified to go to a party of this level before." Ryoichi Okubo withdrew his gaze, and the flashing lights, noise, and chatter outside the window were soon left behind in the noise of the wind and the noise of the horn.
"The people at this party are all high-ranking and powerful old people of the Inuyama family, and the old people value the 'scene' that shows their status the most, don't young people like you have the luxury of hoping that one day you can sit at the top of the convoy and pick the good and bad of the city with a scrutinizing eye through the window glass?" The old man smiled lightly.
Ryoichi Okubo was silent for a while and said, "Team leader, you are also one of the old people, did you also have such a brilliant dream when you were young?" β
Yoshitaka Hasegawa calmly looked out the window at the soft red and fragrant city and said: "Of course I did, and now I am doing it, we old people are just old young people, we use a lot of life to chase our ideals, and now we have finally achieved the dream that we once had when we stood on the side of the road and looked at it, shouldn't we go to the 'scene' a few times, otherwise what are we trying to live all our lives for?" β
"But that's not what I want." Ryoichi Okubo said.
"Life has dreams, each is wonderful, you are the younger generation, of course the dream you should have is bigger than our old antiques." Yoshitaka Hasegawa smiled and patted the young man in the group who was his favorite, on the shoulder.
"I heard that the meeting place is the Tamamo former club?" Ryoichi Okubo pulled away from the topic.
"Yes, whenever the Inuyama family has a big matter to discuss, they will choose this place, and the head of the house will empty all the guests, push off all the reservations of celebrities and dignitaries, and vacate the club for a whole day just for a family party in the evening." Yoshitaka Hasegawa bowed.
"Is it to prevent someone from setting up an ambush?"
"It's not very peaceful in Japan right now." Yoshitaka Hasegawa said softly: "There are many enemies hidden in the open and in the dark, and the family stands on the table, among which the eight heads of the family are the most eye-catching, in the eyes of the enemy, they are thorns in the eyes and thorns in the flesh, haven't you noticed that in recent years, several parents of the family have gathered together less and less?" Even if they get together occasionally, they must be in the Kengamiji Temple of the Genji Building, and the security and defense are seamless. β
"Then is this incident really worth gathering for the old people in the Inuyama family?" Okubo Liang paused for a moment, and his face showed a strange color: "Just for a person who has visited Japan... 16-year-olds? β
"Not an ordinary child." Yoshitaka Hasegawa said: "This involves some old things that are related to the past, you are too junior in the family to be exposed to it for the time being, only a very few people can smell more intriguing meanings from the arrival of this 16-year-old child, and the head of the Inuyama family was the first to notice, so a party was held tonight." β
"Because of a 16-year-old child, the elderly of the Inuyama family gathered together to discuss countermeasures, and I was stealing from Shinjuku commercial streets when I was 16 years old." Ryoichi Okubo smiled self-deprecatingly.
"People and people cannot be generalized." Yoshitaka Hasegawa said, "Some people are born as children of destiny with missions that are unimaginable to ordinary people, such as the adult Amaterasu. β
Hearing the word Amaterasu, Ryoichi Okubo was in awe, and an expectation appeared in his eyes: "Will that adult appear at this party?" β
"I don't think so, the affairs of receiving foreign guests this time were assigned to our Inuyama family by the patriarch with full authority, and the other seven families will not interfere, which is considered the 'internal affairs' of the Inuyama family." Yoshitaka Hasegawa said: "At the same time, this is also an opportunity, a chance for you to get ahead. β
"By way of taking children." Ryoichi Okubo said, "When you told me about it on the phone, I thought you were joking, and I thought I was getting ahead with knives and scars on the street. β
"Old-school underworld style." Yoshitaka Hasegawa shook his head: "It's not like before now, if you pick up a knife on the street, people from the Metropolitan Police Department will come to you in less than five minutes, now it's a society governed by law, and young people don't even think that the hard-fought underworld has a future." Now everyone popularizes the law and understands the law, has gone to university, and can earn 250,000 yen a month by opening a small oden shop, the market has changed, young people are reluctant to join the underworld, and the number of new blood has become less and many groups are facing a situation where no one can recruit and no one is available. β
"Is it so serious?" Ryoichi Okubo was a little surprised.
"Even you were picked up by me on the streets of Shinjuku, if you hadn't stolen the Inuyama family cadre by mistake, would you have embarked on this road of no return?" Yoshitaka Hasegawa asked.
"I don't regret embarking on this road, if it weren't for the team leader, I would still be stealing or pimping by now." Ryoichi Okubo said.
"But others don't think so, now that the underworld career is getting sluggish day by day, I heard that many old people in the underworld club are struggling to recruit young members, so they really have no choice but to teach themselves the computer, wearing reading glasses and poking the keyboard finger by finger, and posting posts on the recruitment website that the club recruits new members." Yoshitaka Hasegawa smiled bitterly.
"This is reallyβ" Ryoichi Okubo was a little speechless.
"But this is only limited to those small clubs under the control of the family, the lack of people is not missing from the head of the family for the time being, with the leadership of the patriarch, the family has been thriving all these years." Yoshitaka Hasegawa shook his head and rounded the scene: "It's better to say less of these frustrating words, the old people in the family don't like to hear them." β
"Let's get back to the original topic, the 16-year-old from the headquarters." Ryo Okubo nodded.
"That 16-year-old kid, don't look at him much younger than you, it's not surprising that he can cause such a big commotion in the family, he has the capital and strength." Yoshitaka Hasegawa said.
"What strength and capital does a 16-year-old have?" Ryoichi Okubo didn't understand: "Aren't the people who came from the headquarters in the past also being abused by the people of the Executive Directorate?" I heard that the last head office commissioner who came to Japan was taken a nude photo by them as a souvenir..."
"Is there such a thing?" Yoshitaka Hasegawa raised his eyebrows: "Male and female? β
"Male."
"Oh." Yoshitaka Hasegawa's eyebrows loosened.
"But the person who took the nude picture of him was a woman."
Yoshitaka Hasegawa frowned again, and sighed helplessly: "It seems that there have been some problems with the guidelines for the family's attitude towards the headquarters in recent years, and probably this led to this visit by foreign guests..."
"Team leader, what do you mean..."Ryoichi Okubo seemed to understand something.
"If you think of it, don't ask. Guessed, don't say. Hasegawa Yoshitaka shook his head and became serious: "These things will be picked out by someone at the party for a while, and now we can't discuss them privately, and your specific task will be personally ordered by the Inuyama family master." β
"Hey!" Ryoichi Okubo bowed his head.
It was at this moment that the Mercedes convoy on the street slowly stopped and arrived at its destination, where a dark crystal-like building stood tall on the side of the road, unique among all the buildings, with a huge neon sign shining brightly to illuminate the night, and several large characters of 'Tamamo former club' were shining.