It was pouring rain outside the store, and Aso in the store glanced at the small alarm clock on the shelf.

"It's half past seven again...... It's raining so hard outside today, that guy won't come, right? "She prayed in her heart,

"It's best not to come back again." Shin Aso, eighteen years old this year, his parents divorced, he has been living with his grandmother, and after graduating from high school, he suspended his studies because he had no money to go to college, and is currently a clerk in a toy store.

But she didn't give up on the idea of going to college, so she was determined to work hard and save money to go to college. But Aso may have been unlucky, as the toy store she works for was approached by a gang on the street just a few days after it opened, claiming that the previous store had paid protection money, and now that it was them, they had to continue to pay it.

The shopkeeper refused, so the gang threatened to smash their shop, and sent people to guard the store every night before smashing it, but there was a thug sitting in the store selling toys and comics, who would dare to come in and consume?

And Aso is really ...... It's been a night shift for the past few weeks, so she has to sit alone in front of that guy in the store every night playing with a baseball bat, and can only hide behind the counter and stare at the cash register in a daze, hoping that the time will pass quickly.

Just then, the small bronze bell on the door

"Jingle", the guy walked into the store again, for a week, on time, rain or shine.

"You're still on duty tonight." The guy greeted him as if he were an acquaintance, dressed as usual in a long fancy white trench coat and with a large bat at his waist that was not commensurate with his height.

Aso was really a little panicked, he didn't expect such a heavy rain from the other party to come, and replied tremblingly, "Welcome." She felt a little miserable in her heart, feeling that she was finished, that the toy store would definitely close if she went on like this, that the job she had finally found would be lost, that she couldn't save money to go to college, not to mention, and that her grandmother had to start painstakingly calculating her monthly pension because she wanted to send her to college.

Noda Kotoshi didn't notice the girl's state, he took a chair and sat down in the center of the store, the long white trench coat on the back of the chair, and he felt very good.

In Kabukicho's gangs, the Noda gumi can only be regarded as the size of the middle and lower reaches, but they are known for their bravery, and Noda Shou's brothers and uncles are the backbone and leaders of this gang, and he has watched them since he was a child

The "men of the Noda family" are dashing and adore them. So he stood in front of his father on an ordinary afternoon, saying that he was going to drop out of school and follow his cousin to play the underworld!

Then Daddy waved his belt to whip him. It's just that my dad has bad legs and feet, so in order to prevent him from irritating his dad because he can't catch up with him, Noda Shou can't run, so he can only keep his face

"Even if you kill me, I won't give up my ideals!" 's stubborn expression, and then iron-clad ...... Stand still and be beaten.

Fortunately, although the father scolded fiercely, the force of waving the belt in his hand was not heavy, so Noda Shou just grinned in pain for a while, and soon felt nothing.

Then he brought it up again the next day, and this time brought in his cousin Kozo Noda, who was the eldest son of the Uncle family and the current boss of the Noda group.

The sky is not afraid of the earth, but Noda Shou, who is afraid of his father, hides behind his cousin and proposes to join the Noda group again.

Then the cousin smiled and let Noda Shou out, saying that he was asking him to persuade the sixth uncle. I don't know what the cousin and my dad talked about, but my father, who has always been very resistant to the underworld, really agreed to this matter and said something that Noda Shou felt he understood.

"The underworld isn't that cool, it's a dangerous path, and it's not just for you, it's for your family...... For example, the loved one you will have in the future. At that moment, Noda Shou thought he had come to his senses and made up his mind to become a real man so that he could protect the girl he would like in the future. Daddy is reminding himself to remember to protect the people around him. That's how Noda Shou interprets his father's words.

After joining the Noda group, he was ranked last in the brother rankings

"Little brother", Noda Shou, who was watched by his cousin and grew up, received preferential treatment from his cousin. He was given a leisurely job of collecting protection money, and there were seven shops in his jurisdiction, and the owner of each shop would bow when he saw him and say, "Here you are again, thanks to your blessing, the business has been going well in the store lately." "How laid-back is this errand?

Those seven stores actually don't need him to go over to collect protection money at all, and after the fixed time of each month is up, the cash will be consciously sent to the apartment by them, which means that except for the occasional patrol with a few younger brothers, Noda Shou doesn't have to do anything.

Those former classmates also stammered with him, regarded him as a backer, and helped him match, allowing him to get acquainted with several cute girls at the class flower level.

Noda Shou was very happy at first, but over time he gradually began to feel bored, which was completely different from the underworld life he fantasized, Noda Shou felt that he was more of a rent-collecting old man than a majestic underworld figure, but this old man was followed by several other old men with colorful hair.

But he didn't expect the new toy store owner to refuse to pay the protection money. The other party said that the toy store has low profits, and the reason that it has just opened and has not started to make money, Noda Shou can barely understand, but the other party even said that he has never heard of a toy store having to pay a protection fee, which makes Noda Shou feel that the other party is perfunctory.

So he decided to do the only serious thing he could do in the long time he had joined the Noda group - to get the toy store owner to pay the protection money.

In order to achieve this goal, Noda Shou learned the underworld on TV, threatening the other party to smash your store if he didn't pay the protection money, and threatened to send someone to guard the toy store every night before smashing the store to prevent the other party from doubting his determination.

As for why Noda Shou himself came to guard it...... At first, it was because he was really bored, and since he was a fan of manga, he thought it would be nice to read manga.

When he first joined the Noda group, Noda Toshiya went to the bar in his jurisdiction and pretended to ask the bar's red-card escort to accompany him for a drink.

But there are a lot of guests, and they often can't sit for long before they are summoned by other guests, and Noda Shou can't disturb people's business if he collects the protection fee, so he can only say that it's hard work, hurry up and get busy.

Because of this, and the novelty wore off, Noda Shou stopped drinking at bars, he didn't understand what was so fun about it, and he didn't understand why those people were willing to spend so much money on it.

In Noda's opinion, bars are not as fun as manga shops.