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Chu Zihang and Gu Ran spoke at the same time.
According to Genjiro, this sword is a famous and ancient sword, stained with a lot of blood.
At this moment, Chu Zihang took out his broken Murasame sword, hoping that Genji could help find out the origin of the sword, because Japanese swordsmiths have a clear lineage.
Chu Zihang said that the knife was left to him by his father, and then asked if the knife belonging to Qi Yuanzhisheng was a family heirloom.
Yuan Zhisheng said that his parents died and he and his younger brother were adopted by others. It wasn't until he grew up that he realized he had the blood of the Yuan family.
Genjiro likened himself to George, a lonely giant tortoise. George was the last known Pinta Island giant tortoise in the world, living in a zoo, while Genjiro himself was the last member of the Genji family.
But Gu Ran knew very well that Genjiro was not a member of the Genji family at all; if he had to be identified, he should be a descendant of the Uesugi family.
At this moment, Lu Mingfei took a couple of sips of sake and began to sigh, saying that everyone has their own difficulties, and his parents had gone abroad and stopped caring about him since junior high school.
Caesar said, "I think I can join your group of orphans as well."
Chu Zihang's face darkened because his mother was still alive.
When he talks about his father and mother, his cold exterior suddenly softens.
Gu Ran said, "My mom recently came back to life, so I still have a mom."
He didn't mention this to anyone at the school, except for a brief mention to the principal during afternoon tea.
"I'm not an orphan, hey! My parents are just not around, they're not dead yet!" Lu Mingfei asked. "Boss Caesar, don't you have a father?"
Caesar said that he had long ago assumed that father who only knew how to breed was dead.
Gu Ran laughed and said, "The advantage of a human-shaped stallion over a real stallion is that a human-shaped stallion can go around and breed everywhere, while a real stallion can only live in the stable and wait to be bred, just like the special week of horse racing we watched today."
“I’ve heard that horse racing is a game that places great emphasis on pedigree, so stallions with good bloodlines have more mating rights.” Caesar also took a sip of sake and chuckled, “My father was the same way.”
It was rather indecent for several grown men to be discussing mating at an elegant dinner table, so Chu Zihang didn't bother joining their conversation. Instead, he chatted with Yuan Zhisheng, asking him if he really enjoyed traveling.
Yuan Zhisheng said he likes to travel, but doesn't have time to go. What he most wants to do is go to a famous nudist beach in France to sell sunscreen.
Caesar, as the group leader, didn't want to be left out, so he rejoined the conversation with Genji: "A yakuza patriarch selling sunscreen? Like... Zhang Fei doing embroidery? Neglecting his proper duties?"
He meant that Zhang Fei's embroidery was a cross-disciplinary job, but he didn't understand the meaning of the Chinese proverb.
"Boss, Zhang Fei's embroidery was rough but meticulous," Lu Mingfei, the student council's good-natured lackey, corrected. "The correct way to say it should be Tang Sanzang paying homage to Laozi!"
Caesar did not banter with Lu Mingfei.
Yuan Zhisheng said that he couldn't put down the burden on his shoulders to do what he liked to do.
Caesar said that the only thing that can hold a man captive is the woman he loves.
“That statement makes some sense.” Gu Ran looked around at everyone present; they were all men trapped by women, except for Yuan Zhisheng.
Caesar then recounted a funny story about him and Nono from back then. When Nono first came to school, one rainy night, she drove her convertible downstairs and shouted, "Who wants to go to Chicago?" which attracted a lot of attention, especially from the boys.
So, in order to secure the first spot, Caesar took out his Desert Eagle and fired three shots at the gun, scaring the people away, before jumping from the third floor.
Then, as soon as he landed, he was apprehended by the school's disciplinary committee, which was led by the disciplinary officer, Manstein.
The professor gave him a lecture.
Caesar told Genjiro that if you like a woman, you should pursue her; if you want to do something, you should do it.
Genjiro thought Caesar was right and suggested that everyone have a drink.
After several people clinked glasses, Genji said that he couldn't let go of his position as the head of the Genji family, not because of power, but because he couldn't let go of the lower-class people who made a living under the protection of the Genji family.
He said that many of the gangsters in Japan are children who grew up in single-parent families or have lived in domestic violence since childhood. Some girls are harassed by their stepfathers from a young age and start working as escorts when they are sixteen or seventeen. These kids don't think about the future; they just want to make a living now.
Japan has over 100,000 registered gang members, and millions of people associated with them, accounting for more than one-third of the entire Japanese population. These people all speak with violence, and the Snake Eight uses the greatest violence to manage this group.
If the Snake-Headed Eight Families hadn't been in charge of these matters, many people would have died in street fights, many stepfathers would have forced their stepdaughters into prostitution, and the entire underworld would have descended into chaos.
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This is the problem in countries where organized crime and the sex industry are legalized. Once the gray industries are no longer controlled by a boss, these people will inevitably descend into chaos as they fight for profits.
In general, Genji believed that in the Japanese underworld, those involved in the underworld were all weak, and the Snake-Headed Eight Families were the leaders of the weak. If he left, it would shake the foundation of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, so he could not sell sunscreen oil at will.
Yuan Zhisheng also cited Cao Cao from the Three Kingdoms period as an example, saying that Cao Cao was the biggest warlord at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He said, "If there were no me in the world, I wonder how many people would claim to be kings and how many would claim to be emperors?"
Gu Ran smiled and said, "Actually, without the Imperial Seal, no one would have declared themselves emperor. Anyone with a brain knows the principle of 'build high walls, store up grain, and delay declaring oneself king.' Only that fool Yuan Shu declared himself emperor without thinking, which made everyone unhappy."
Yuan Zhisheng frowned and looked at Gu Ran: "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that, according to historical materialism, the economic base determines the superstructure. Your Sheqi Eight Families have accumulated huge wealth through the underworld and climbed to the top of the underworld, but the lives of those who work in shady businesses at the bottom have not changed much. They can only barely make ends meet."
Therefore, your purchase of social security, distribution of welfare, and maintenance of public order for gangsters are all merely to maintain your own rule. The distribution remains unequal, and even without the Snake Clan, other underworld organizations or other powerful entities will still intervene.
And you gangsters claim to be the weak, yet you wield violence and use it to bully the even weaker… It's like school bullying, where thugs often prey on honest students, but the thugs claim to be the weak. I cannot understand or empathize with that.”
Yuan Zhisheng remained silent for a while. He was a science student, majoring in physics, and didn't know much about humanities subjects.
Finally, he simply said, "You may have misunderstood. Small-time thugs are just low-class people, not part of the underworld. We in the underworld are not such low-level things."
"Maybe so, but a lot of gangsters started out as petty thugs, right? Or do you gangsters run youth training camps like football to select the best candidates?"
Gu Ran's words were very sarcastic, and Yuan Zhisheng was not good at arguing, so he didn't know how to refute them.
From a standpoint of justice, Gu Ran is right, but besides those who stand in the light, there are many others in this world struggling in darkness and grayness.
Gu Ran chuckled and shook his head, saying, "I didn't mean to discriminate against or look down on you underworld figures. Japan has its own national conditions. After all, gambling and prostitution are legal in Japan, so perhaps the underworld really is needed to manage it."
In the old society, people at the bottom of society often regarded their daughters as a way to get rich, teaching them to play the piano and sing, just so that they could be sold for a good price. This was a bad custom of the old society, only this bad custom exists in a different form in Japan.
Many girls like to sing, dance, and rap in order to become idols. However, the goal of idols in anime is to avoid their schools being shut down, while idols in reality are just trying to make a living.
Perhaps because he had a few drinks today, Gu Ran said some things he shouldn't have. He doesn't like lecturing, and the reason he said those things today was simply because he felt that Genjiro might have been brainwashed too much by Tachibana Masamune.
The world will keep turning even without him. Anyway, you're the only one in the Yuan family. Without you, the other families can just take your share and they might be even happier.
However, Tachibana Masamune, for his own purposes, would use the so-called righteousness to trick him back, and Genjiro would willingly be deceived because of his sense of righteousness and responsibility.
What a foolish tortoise.
"How about you take us to see the real underworld tonight?" Caesar suggested.
Chu Zihang also said that he had nothing to do and might as well watch. As for Lu Mingfei, he was a follower and would just go with the flow.
Gu Ran naturally didn't care.
After a moment's thought, Genji agreed and told Sakura to get the darts and stick them in Shinjuku.
Sakura Yabuki replied that the Fire Gang and the Numa Crows are going to have a fight tonight in Shinjuku Ward, and the situation is not optimistic; they could start fighting at any time.
Genjiro said it was perfect, let the ace of headquarters see what he was made of, so he had Sakura take the uniform and went with the four of them.
*……*……*
Soon, Genjiro and Sakura Yabuki flew together, bringing these elites from headquarters to a... toy store!
They originally thought they were going to a strip club because Sakura said she had received a tip that a gang was demanding a 15% increase in protection money.
Shinjuku Ward is a notorious red-light district, so Genjiro and Sakura naturally assumed that the place where thugs collected protection money was some kind of disreputable place, such as a nightclub.
To my surprise, it turned out to be just a toy store...
This is clearly thugs extorting money from ordinary businesses!
Yuan Zhisheng felt a little embarrassed because he remembered Gu Ran's previous example of 'thugs bullying honest people'.
What I'm seeing right now is just thugs bullying honest people.
The Caesar quartet, along with Genjiro and Sakura, a total of six people, all dressed in their own black family uniforms, entered the toy store.
Caesar, mimicking a scene from a gangster movie, threw his hunting knife onto the table, startling the protection money collector, Noda Hisashi, so much that he didn't dare breathe.
Noda Hisashi was a thug who came to collect protection money. He recognized the uniform of the family's law enforcement officer and saw that Caesar was a blond, blue-eyed foreigner, so he assumed that he was a mercenary recruited by the family from abroad.
"Hey, you're reading JOJO!" Gu Ran snatched the manga from Noda Hisashi's hand; it was actually the first part of JOJO.
"Just as humans don't remember how many slices of bread they've eaten, our family's enforcement team doesn't remember how many people they've killed." Gu Ran said a famous line from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in Japanese, then gently patted Noda Hisashi on the shoulder.
Noda Hisashi was already taken aback when he saw the main family's enforcement team appear, and he was even more shocked when he saw Caesar stupidly throw his sword on the table.
Upon hearing Gu Ran's words and being patted on the shoulder, Noda Hisashi felt as if all the weight of his body was pressing down on him. His knees buckled, and he involuntarily knelt on the ground.
With a 'thump', a heavy sound came from the ground.
"Damn, bro, you're awesome! Are anime lines really that powerful?" Lu Mingfei stared in disbelief, though his mediocre Japanese was enough to understand Gu Ran's famous line.
Caesar and Chu Zihang were completely bewildered. Lu Mingfei came over and explained it to them, which helped them understand.
Yuan Zhisheng turned his face away, not really wanting to deal with the situation, and let the group do as they pleased.
He felt that the head of the Yuan family had completely lost face tonight.
"Everyone...please have some coffee..." At this moment, Makoto Aso, a clerk at the toy store, came over trembling with fear, carrying coffee over her.
She seemed to have just heard Gu Ran's words, so her hands, which were holding the tray, were trembling, and the glasses made a muffled sound as they clinked together.
Gu Ran, carrying Asou Nozomi and Noda Hisashi on his back, stuck out his tongue at everyone, his mischievous appearance amusing Caesar and Lu Mingfei.
"Alalala, I'll do it, I'll do it." Lu Mingfei had been working as a servant since high school, and was often asked by Nuonuo to do this and that in the student council, so he reflexively took the tray from Asou Makoto's hands.
Then Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered that he wasn't here to be a servant today; he was here with a gangster boss to experience life, and he was a VIP.
He then slammed the teacup he was holding down next to Noda Hisashi: "What are you doing?"
Yuan Zhisheng reminded Lu Mingfei from the side that the tea was for him, not for Yuan Zhisheng.
Lu Mingfei said "oh" a few times, then, adopting the demeanor of the head of the political education department at Shilan High School, began to lecture Noda Hisashi: "Why are you trying to act like a gangster at such a young age? Do you think you're cool, flashy, or attractive to girls? Have you not graduated from your 'chuunibyou' (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur)?"
Sakura translated Lu Mingfei's words to Noda Hisashi. Noda Hisashi didn't dare to talk back, thinking that even though he was in the underworld, he still had to be lectured by the main enforcement team. He thought he might as well go back to high school.
Of course, he only turned to organized crime because he couldn't get into high school.
Caesar teased Lu Mingfei about his severe case of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome), and then deliberately showed off the Yaksha pattern on his family uniform because he thought it was cool.
Then, Caesar looked down at Noda Hisashi with a majestic expression: "What is your name?"
Genjiro didn't want to stay there anymore and decided to let Sakura handle it, so he got up and wandered around.
As for Gu Ran, who had scared Noda Hisashi to his knees at the beginning, he was looking at comic books on the shelf, and was currently reading a copy of "YuruYuri"...
Genji was amused by this scene. Just moments ago, he had been imitating the villain Dio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, saying such harsh things, and now he was reading a yuri manga. Genji found himself increasingly unable to understand this person.
Yuan Zhisheng felt he could see through Caesar, Lu Mingfei, and even Chu Zihang to some extent, but he could never understand Gu Ran's thoughts.