Today's Tokyo is a bit cold, and it seems that because of the cold rain, the ramen stalls, which have always been very lively at night, are rarely visited today.

After seeing the last wave of guests who came here to take shelter from the rain leave, Master Yue took off the black towel tied around his head, and after putting away the noodle bowl, he planned to leave.

"Master Yue, won't you collect the stall if it rains today?"

A student with black hair and black pupils with slender features like a girl's face put away the umbrella and walked in without a curtain.

"Isn't this a shelter for those who don't bring umbrellas, and if you don't come, I'm ready to close the stall."

Uesugi said with a smile.

Chef Yue is not young, his white hair is combed neatly parted, and he wears the white linen work uniform unique to ramen masters, and he looks as if he has dealt with ramen all his life.

"Well, as is customary, do you want a bowl of ramen with a lot of ingredients?"

"Then I'm sorry for you!"

Feeling the cold air around him, Kiritani and the people were not polite, rubbing their hands together and sitting on the wooden stool under the canopy.

"Speaking of which, the girl who came to eat noodles with you before, why hasn't she come recently?"

Uesugi asked with teasing eyes after putting down his face like an elder who likes gossip.

"Master Yue, are you talking about Naoba or Asuina, I have brought you both of them to eat ramen."

Kazuto Kiritani took the ramen bowl, thanked him, and asked.

"I don't remember the name, but I have the impression that she was a rich daughter, with brown hair, braided sideburns, and knee-high white stockings.

Oh, by the way, you still seem to call her Asuna at the time, but I don't feel like this is a name that Japanese girls would take. ”

"Master Yue, your memory is really good." Kiritani scratched his head, "The one you're talking about is Asuna, the reason why I called her Asuna is because we played a game, this is her game name, I didn't expect you to remember her after only coming to you to eat once."

By the way, one more thing, my game is called Kirito, and next time I'll bring her to dinner, don't be surprised that Master Yue hears her call me like this. ”

"Where can you not remember?" Uesugi raised his eyebrows and said, "That's a rich beautiful girl who is in the best class in terms of appearance and figure, what do you say, what is your progress now?" ”

"What's the progress." Kiritani buried his head in the ramen bowl and didn't let Uesugi see his expression, "We just met in the game, and then it happened to be the same school, and I also knew that there were many people chasing her in the school, but there was no way, who made her look good and have a rich family, I shouldn't be worthy of her." ”

"Haha." Looking at the young man's youthful appearance, Uesugi couldn't help but be happy, "As a person who has come over, let me tell you, once you make a decision, you have to pursue this kind of thing boldly, what family level gap is too big, the other party is too good-looking and many people are chasing, these are not reasons." ”

"If you think about it, if you didn't try to be with your favorite person when you were at your best, you will regret this period of youth in the future.

Not to mention that you are still a student of a prestigious school, but you haven't graduated yet, who knows what kind of life you will experience and what achievements you will achieve in the future? ”

Master Yue stirred the soup pot as he spoke, his expression was focused, just listening to his eloquent words, it made Kiritani and the people couldn't help but move in their hearts.

Kiritani put down his chopsticks, and his mind suddenly returned to the night when he sat here eating noodles side by side with Asukina.

He still remembers that it was the day when he and Assuna teamed up to raid the boss together.

Because Tomorrow Nai helped him win the first kill of the whole server, as soon as he was happy, he said to invite her out to dinner.

Although the other party quickly agreed, now that I think about it, I think that it is not good to invite girls to dinner to this kind of mobile ramen stall.

Of course, he didn't say that Master Yue's ramen was not delicious, he just felt that it always hurt to "date" a girl in this kind of scene.

But fortunately, although Asujina was a little surprised when she came over, she didn't say anything, and even said that the ramen was delicious when she went back, and she would treat her next time.

I just waited for half a month, and I didn't wait for the day she had a treat.

"It seems that the boss room strategy for the next floor is going to be early." Kiritani and Kazuto thought secretly.

As a strong player in the Raiders group, he is still very confident to win the first kill again.

The proprietor and the diners seemed to have their own thoughts, and the heavy rain crackled on the shed, but the two just remained silent and did not know what they were thinking.

"Kiritani-kun, do you have any plans for the future?"

I don't know what to remember, Uesugi asked suddenly.

"I don't have any plans, just study hard." Kiritani Kazuto came back to his senses and said embarrassedly, "Also, I heard that the game company I play next year, its chief planner and boss, Mr. Akihiko Kayaba, is going to launch a virtual stealth device that can allow people to enter the game world of large VRMMO." ”

"Although many players don't believe that he can make such an epoch-making device, from what I know about Mr. Akihiko Kayaba, he rarely talks empty words.

So, I'm looking forward to the game called "SAO" coming to the shelves, and I'll be calling out Assuna and Klein to try it out with them. ”

"You're really in the game." Uesugi shook his head and said.

"No way, who made my dream to be a researcher who can make cross-era games like Mr. Kayaba."

Kazuto Kiritani smiled brightly.

The black sports car appeared at the end of the long street, gliding through the stagnant water, like a panther running to its prey on a rainy night, the sports car quietly parked on the side of the road, and the windshield wipers swept the rain from the front window.

When the transparent fan-shaped area appeared, the boss saw the people in the car, and there was also a white-haired old man in the car, wearing a black suit and a rose-red bow tie, who didn't look like someone who would go to the ramen cart for supper late at night.

Kiritani was completely immersed in reverie, not noticing that from the moment the black Maserati appeared, Master Yue's expression changed, and although he was still wearing the clothes of the ramen master, he was as tall as if he was standing on the top of a distant mountain.

“kirito？”

Just when Master Yue's eyes gradually became solemn, another black sedan also appeared here.

Sitting in the back seat, wearing an off-white blouse and a short red skirt, the girl with brown hair lowered the window and shouted suspiciously to Kirito who was sitting in front of the ramen stall.

"Asuna?"

Kiritani and the people also turned their heads unexpectedly when they heard the voice.

"It's raining so hard outside, why are you still eating ramen here?" Yuuki Assuna asked with a frown.

"Because it was raining heavily, I thought about eating a bowl of ramen first and waiting for the rain to light up before leaving."

Seeing the heroine who was talking to Master Yue before appearing in front of him, Kirito couldn't help but feel empty for a while.

"Forget it, you get in the car, I'll send you back."

Kirito refused, Asuna forced him to come over with an oppressive look.

"Asuna worthy of the glitter." Although he complained in his heart, Kiritani and the people still picked up the umbrella with a sneer, "Master Yue, I'll go over first." ”

"Well, you go over and wish you success in your wishes." Master Yue said lightly, "I'll close now." ”

"Closing now?" Kirito wondered, "But isn't that guest here to eat noodles?" ”

Looking at the Maserati, who came around the same time as Asuna, I could see that the door was already open.

High-end custom-made leather shoes don't mind stepping on the rain, and the old man standing next to the Maserati holds up a black umbrella, and the rain pours down from all directions.

"I have to close if he is here to eat noodles, and there are all kinds of people who come out to run around at night, and it is difficult to say whether he came out for the funeral." Master Yue picked up Kiritani's schoolbag and handed it to him, and then whispered, "You can go back with Miss Asuina, I can see that she has feelings for you." ”

"Uh-oh." Glancing at Asukina, she found that she hadn't noticed what Uesugi Yue said, and Kiritani Kazuto breathed a sigh of relief and walked over with his umbrella.

In the lesson of not going out to run blindly on a rainy night, Kirito sat next to Asuna with his head down, and then left the place under the driver of Asuna.

After seeing off the handsome boy, Uesugi returned to the car and turned off the lights around the signboard without even looking at Ange, who was dressed in a black suit.

But Ange didn't care, he just sat under the shed with a smile and drank cheap sake from his glass.

"Boss, let's have a bowl of ramen, I want a full pot of beef." Ange said with a smile.

"Sorry, I'm closed." Uesugi just silently cleaned up the ramen stall.

"I don't pay, so it shouldn't be out of your business." Ange said with a shy face.

"You're as shameless as ever." Uesugi Yue, who knew what the character of this old man was, slapped the dough heavily on the board, "Say, what noodles to eat!" ”

"Didn't you just say, just your best beef ramen, put more chopped green onions and more beef."

"I haven't seen you for sixty years, and you're still so shameless." Uesugi said angrily after pulling the noodles well.

"Do you remember Aga?" For Uesugi Yue's complaints, Ange didn't take it to heart, "He's just a head of the Snake Eight Family, but the scene of greeting me, ho, it was full of style, dozens of girls coated with gold dust danced to show me, and beautiful girls from various industries poured me wine." ”

"And you, as Japan's underworld supreme, invited me to eat a bowl of noodles, you said that you are like this, I can't add more beef?"

"Shit underworld supreme, I'm just a ramen chef now, and at most I cover up the rain for customers on rainy nights." Uesugi angrily put the hot ramen in front of Ange, "Tell me, how did you find me, I remember that I've been buried for sixty years." ”

Looking around, walk out a few dozen steps out of the side street is the brightly lit high-rise buildings, but the side street is still the same as after World War II, on both sides of the road are old-fashioned Japanese houses, in front of the houses planted with sycamore and cherry trees, quiet and dilapidated.

"Didn't I just say that when I came to Japan, the first person to greet me was Aga." Ange said lightly, "As a person of that era, he knows where you are, but he hasn't come to harass you. ”

"Speaking of which, I didn't expect that 60 years ago you loved to fool around on this street, and 60 years later, you are still on this street, even though you are selling ramen.

But if you think about it, I can actually understand that after all, the land rights of this street have not changed since 60 years ago, and the landowner has always been you, and this is a street worth 1.2 billion dollars.

If I were you, I would also be willing to live a retirement life here. ”

"Aga." Uesugi frowned as he thought back to the kid back then, "Isn't he dead yet?" ”

"None of us died, what did he die to this young man." Ange said angrily, "But I was assassinated when I came, and if it weren't for the presence of one of my good students, he would have died as you wish." ”

"Is it, a fight between the underworlds?" Uesugi didn't even raise his head, and asked indifferently as he wiped the table.

"It could also be an intrigue between their own families."

Uesugi paused for a moment as he wiped the table:

"Yes, those guys are still so uncomfortable, but unfortunately, I'm not interested in such a thing as family infighting.

I'm just a retired yakuza now, a current ramen chef, if you can, you can talk to me today, and don't disturb my purity in the future. ”

"I want to think about what you said, too." Ange drank the noodle soup leisurely, "But there is no way, if you don't help me, things will be very big, your children are doing very dangerous things, and they have offended me, if it keeps going like this, I can only do what I didn't do sixty years ago, and destroy the Eight Snake Qi families." ”

"Hehe, sixty years ago, we fought to the death, and it was better to say that we were mortal enemies than friends, but now you are talking to me about these things that have nothing to do with me."

Uesugi was stunned for a moment, and then didn't care.

"This thing of the Eight Snake Families, if you destroy it, it's not a good thing to put it in those underworld elements, otherwise how could I not be my underworld supreme, but come here to make ramen."

"Tut, if I hadn't been able to think of what was going on in your heart, maybe I would have really believed what you said."

Looking at Uesugi Yue, who was humming a little song and sucking a bowl, Ange was not to be outdone and hummed a certain song from the United Kingdom.

On one side is a Japanese song, and on the other side is an English song, and in the crackling sound of rain falling on the canopy, the little song between the two actually produced a vision of the two emperors at war.

The momentum on both sides became more and more magnificent, and the rain around them was also blocked by the inexplicable barrier.

Eventually, as the English song gradually turned into an American folk song, Uesugi threw the bowl into the water with a thud.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on!"

"I knew you couldn't hold your breath." Looking at Uesugi's angry appearance, Ange smiled, "But what's going on, before that, let's wait for someone." ”

"Who?"

"I'm the best student right now." (End of chapter)