Act XXV: The Code of Being a Man
It's really pale, there are already two people moving one after another, and the girl in front of me who looks very sharp is even more like the real thing, the short knife has fallen into the back of Noda Shou's neck, and as long as you use more force, you will see blood.
And Zhen's original idea was to scare away the thug who came to harass him every day, and at most to give him some punishment like scolding.
She didn't expect a phone call to lead to such a terrible outcome, and making that deadly call was like a desperate girl in a comic book who made some kind of pact with a demon and summoned some terrible guys, but she forgot to think about the price she couldn't afford.
Sakura's breath as she said this was black, like dried blood.
"Please...... Please forgive this gentleman, he hasn't done anything these days when he came to the store, he just flipped through the comics and was very polite to me! I didn't use violence or use my hands and feet, and I paid for coffee when I bought it! I...... I didn't expect it to be like this, this gentleman really ...... Really just come here and sit, please give him a chance! He shivered and bowed deeply.
"I ...... I didn't expect it to be like this! If I hadn't called, he wouldn't have gotten into trouble! Blame me for everything! Please, please give him a chance! Sakura had expected this, and this was also a scare to give her a little punishment, telling her that her family's hotline was not used like this.
"Although there is a plea from the owner, it can't be so easy to forget it." Sakura threw the dagger on the table,
"For the sake of your youth, let me apologize. As for you, Shin Aso, you will also have punishment for exaggerating on the phone. Noda stared at the blued edge of the dagger, a weapon that was actually used to kill people, not the toy that street thugs tossed around in their hands.
This was the first time that Noda Shou had faced a real murder weapon, and he breathed in the cruel aura in it. Aso really regretted it, she closed her eyes and squatted on the counter shivering, compared to these real gangsters, Noda Shou was just a high school student on the street, she was the one who led the wolf into the house, everything was her fault.
"How to choose?" Sakura asked, she thought it was almost time to do it, and planned to withdraw the knife in a few seconds and teach the kid a lesson.
"It's all my fault! It has nothing to do with Miss Zhen! Noda raised his head and yelled,
"I asked for protection money, and I did say that the rate would go up! Miss Zhen just said what I said! I do...... Apologize to my family! He grabbed the dagger and slashed it down at his little finger.
"That's it!" Sakura reacted and snatched the knife from Noda Shou's hand.
"Why?" Noda Shou looked up blankly at the woman who was not very old.
"Even if you cut your fingers, the traces of your mistakes are still there, and in the eyes of my family, you are still a person who made mistakes," Sakura said coldly.
"Got it?"
"Got it! It's nothing for a man to make mistakes in this world! The key is to be responsible! I was able to hold a bat without a tail finger, and the man who held the bat would be able to stand up straight on the streets of Kabukicho! Noda Shou looked resolute.
"Standing up straight on the streets of Kabukicho? It's hard to say whether someone who has made a mistake can still be the third generation of the Noda gumi. Noda Shou's cheek muscles twitched slightly: "A man who doesn't dare to admit his mistake is even less worthy of being the third generation of the Noda group!" ”
"You said Miss Zhen didn't exaggerate, it was you who threatened her to increase the protection fee?"
"It's all my fault! Every word comes out of my mouth, and every word that a man says is ironclad and cannot be swallowed back when he says it! ”
"The so-called Extreme Culture." Chu Zihang leaned against the bookcase with a knife and watched this scene.
"Strong logic?" Caesar lowered his voice and said.
"Japanese yakuza prefer to refer to themselves as extreme ways, because it shows that they don't believe in pure violence, they also preach morality, but these morals are often extreme." Chu Zihang explained in a low voice,
"For example, a person who violates morality will cut off his tail finger to apologize, a person who cuts off his tail finger will not be able to hold a sword steadily, and more seriously, we often hear about suicide by seppuku. In their culture, it is an honor to dare to apologize, probably as 'even if my body dies, my spirit will be remembered forever'. ”
"It's probably 'weakness is a sin,' 'even if I die, my soul will hold me on the battlefield,' and 'a man's friendship is as strong as King Kong.'"
"I quite agree with the last sentence...... It sounds very emotional. Caesar said. Yuan Zhisheng on the bookshelf couldn't listen to it anymore, and in front of the guests of the department, any underworld gangster preached the extreme Taoist culture, so naïve that even he, the head of the family, couldn't raise his head.
But the family can't teach these gangsters at the bottom what the underworld is, just like the nobles can't explain to the commoners how luxurious their lives are...... They haven't experienced it, so they can only let themselves fantasize.
Therefore, whenever the family annual meeting is held, Tachibana Masamune will ask Gen Zhisheng to observe, as the young head of the Snake Eight Family, not only to master the basic aristocratic etiquette, but also to understand
"A man's bones are bloody that never bows his head",
"How can a man who can't even abide by loyalty conquer the world?" and so on. Yuan Zhisheng thought to himself that it was fortunate that he had received so many years of low-intelligence culture, and his patience was doubled, otherwise he couldn't help but want to cut them down at the first sight of those neuropathies, right?
"So now that the punishment of the family is officially announced, are you Noda Shou of the Noda Group?" Sakura asked.
"Yes! Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Kabukicho, Noda Group, Noda Kotobuki, follow the leader Kozo to do things! Noda Shou held his head up stiffly.
"Eighteen, right?"
"Yes!" Noda Shou clenched the hilt of his sword, and the hot blood washed in his chest.
"You have a crush on Miss Zhen?" Lu Mingfei suddenly interjected. In fact, he has always seen that Noda Shou really has the belief to die with kindness.
In order not to be implicated in Aso, the boy gambled all his life's courage...... It's really embarrassing, losing his life for a certain girl or something, which made Lu Mingfei think of Chen Motong and the cowardly him in the story for no reason.
The Noda Shou in front of him is indeed naïve enough and middle two, he is afraid and scared at this moment, but he does not regret it, and what is rippling in his chest is the blood of men.
Noda Shou raised his head suddenly, his eyes showed a fierce light after being frightened, and the hot blood in his chest was suddenly extinguished, like a small animal that had been stepped on its tail, and after a short period of confusion, he stiffened his face to prevent his momentum from collapsing.
"No, no...... No! He stammered.
"How do you tell?" Xia Mi asked with interest.
"It's very simple, he's a candidate for the third generation of the Noda group, and he reads comics in the toy store where the little girl reads at night, and he has watched Miss Zhen for more than 20 hours in a week, not only that, but every time you come, you actually spend your own money to buy coffee, and your clothes are very neat, which is not in line with the identity of a person like you, obviously you deliberately changed your clothes before you came, and you also made a haircut."
"Because I'm ...... I'm a comic book fan, and I came to see JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Men love to read hot-blooded comics.,I'm not here for Miss Zhen.,I'm here for comics.,The comics here are very complete! Noda Shou stubbornly argued,
"Miss Zhen can testify for me!"
"It's true that men love to watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but the most important thing is ......" Lu Mingfei picked up the aluminum bat and threw it in his hand.
"How do you explain that Miss Zhen's name is engraved on it?"
"Show me." Natsumi snatched the bat.
"Oh! Carved very carefully! She was full of praise, and then gave Noda Shou a thumbs up,
"I admire you, young man!"
"Ah...... For...... Why? ”
"It's a courageous thing to love someone." Xia Mi winked at Chu Zihang,
"You said yes, senior brother?" After seeing the words on the handle of the bat, I really covered my face.
"We men ......" Noda Shou still wants to struggle.
"Middle school students shut up!" Sakura's knife slammed into the middle of Noda's head, leaving a mark on the carefully blown hairstyle.
"A man's rule is not to cower in front of the girl he likes." Lu Mingfei shrugged and returned the bat to Noda Shou.
Noda Shou was slapped by Sakura and tilted his head, his hair was unkempt and fell, and his face was like a gray wild dog.
"You see it all, huh? Am I acting obviously? ”
"It's not all...... For example, I didn't pay attention to it, and I didn't see it. Nono said that it was only then that Noda Shou noticed the red-haired girl, who had just been quietly reading a book and drinking coffee.
"The most important thing is women's intuition." Sakura said,
"There have been people who have paid so much attention to me before, and then I found out, so I can feel it." Yuan Zhisheng's heart moved slightly.
Although he had worked with Yaksha, Raven, and Sakura for a long time, and could see the three of them around him every day, he remembered that he didn't really know the three of them, and he didn't know anything about their past, for example, he never thought that anyone would have a crush on Sakura.
He was too accustomed to Sakura's low-key and agileness, and gradually it was even difficult to perceive Sakura's beauty, thinking that she was like a faceless ninja who was always shrouded in black, only needed a code name and no identity, and only now remembered that his assistant would still be attractive to men.
And the attraction seems to be quite large.
"Apologize to Miss Zhen, remember to be sincere, and then help in this shop for three months."
"If the rules of the house do not pay for the care of the toy store, this fee is exempted, and the rules of the store are obeyed during the helper." Sakura announced to Noda Shou,
"That's the punishment, go for it." Makoru had already covered her face and trotted back to the counter, Sakura lowered her voice and asked Noda Shou, "Shouldn't people like you like the glamorous type?" Why did you fall in love with her? ”
"A man needs to marry a good wife and mother to be at ease in the world!" Another hand knife.
"There's something wrong with the information, I'm sorry to get you involved in such a farce." Yuan Zhisheng said,
"Kabukicho is a city full of facilities, with nightclubs, casinos, and custom shops...... What kind of stores are nearby, why don't you change stores and sit down? ”
"Forget about the custom shop, uh, they are all family people, if I am the only one, I don't mind going to the custom shop with you, I should see it...... Well...... The most prestigious thing in Japan. Caesar said.
"It's better to sit here in such a heavy rain," Chu Zihang said suddenly,
"Wait for the rain to lighten up." I really came here with a cherry blossom cake.
"Let's talk." Caesar put the cherry blossom cake in his pocket,
"I'm curious why you were so strict with this kid before, Miss Sakura."
"If you don't give the thugs on the street a little face, they won't know how to respect their family." Sakura whispered, using Chinese that neither Shin nor Noda did understand.
"One day some of them will rise to the position of gang leader, and then they will really face the bloody and cruel side of the underworld, and it is for their future to scare them into fear and not abuse violence."
"It's like when I was a child, my mother taught you that if you do something bad, you will be arrested by the police and taken to prison." Caesar smiled.
He looked at Sakura's side face in amazement, and then he realized that there was some tenderness in this girl's fierceness, and he originally thought that the members of the Eight Snake Clans were all very fierce, like Yaksha and Crow.
And Sakura, a ninja-trained woman who mingles in the underworld, always wraps herself tightly in an inconspicuous black suit, like a black poisonous flower.
But she said it like a sister. Lu Mingfei couldn't help but think of Nuo Nuo, her expensive suit was ironed and given to him, Lu Mingfei looked at the price tag and didn't dare to accept it and said that I can't wear such expensive clothes, Nuo Nuo casually said that every boy will wear a valuable formal suit to do important things one day, and it is always good to practice early to prepare for that day.
Thinking about it, the strict family rules of the Eight Snake Families are probably not lacking in gentleness.
"Sakura-chan is so gentle!" Fingal was amazed and almost wanted to applaud. Rarely, Sakura's fair-skinned almost bloodless face showed an embarrassed look, and she had to divert the topic,
"Please cooperate with you, your expressions now seem to be watching comedy." Several people quickly changed the subject, and Caesar pointed to the model on the shelf and asked the truth,
“Ihavealook? Abelul! Abelul! "It's incredible, this guy hair
"Aberul" is actually a fairly standard Japanese pronunciation. On the shelf is Aberol from Star Ocean 3.
Sakura suddenly answered the phone, and after hanging up, she leaned close to Gen Zhisheng's ear,
"The people from the Swamp Raven Society and the Fire Hall Group are coming towards this side, and there may be a conflict, so let's go first in order not to disturb the VIPs."
"It's really a conflict." Yuan Zhisheng frowned,
"I'd like to ask all of you for your opinions."
"Aberul," Caesar shook the model at Gen Zhisheng,
"I'm playing Aberul, this kind of trivial thing can be handled by the family, right?"
"No problem," Gen Zhisheng handed the saber to Sakura,
"Go and tell the Swamp Raven Society and the Fire Hall Group that I will chat with the VIPs in this shop, and ask them to restrain themselves."