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Chapter 1447 Gion (I will always be seventeen years old!)

After dinner, Duanmu Huai called Tezuka Lianyi and contacted the younger brother through him.

However...the situation was somewhat surprising to Duanmu Huai.

Because this flyer was not found in the brother's territory, but in the flower street of Gion in Kyoto. As for how the brother got this flyer, the reason is very simple. He went to Gion for a mission not long ago and drank wine. I don't know if he picked up this flyer casually. Anyway, he found it in his pocket after he came back.

However, I naturally never paid attention to this kind of thing until I received an order from Tezuka Renichi. Then I remembered that I seemed to have seen something similar. So I went home, took it out of the closet, and handed it in.

There is no other way. It seems that Duanmu Huai has to investigate it himself.

Of course, Tezuka Lianyi also reminded Duanmu Huai that that was the territory of the largest underworld organization in Kansai, Omi United, and asked him to be careful. But Duanmu Huai didn't care. Now it was not the investigators conducting a group investigation, but the judges conducting a cult crackdown. If the Omi United really didn't have eyes and ran into him, then no matter how many came, they would be killed and all regarded as accomplices of the cult and purified!

After getting the information about the club where he had gone to drink from his younger brother, Duanmu Huai drove straight away to Kyoto.

As the largest and oldest flower street in Japan, Gion is well-known. In fact, if Kamurocho is a pure modern urban style, then Gion is more like an old residence that has walked out of history. The buildings here are almost all old-fashioned Japanese style, and high-rise buildings are rare. Not only that, among the people coming and going on the street, in addition to ordinary men, women, young and old and foreign tourists, you can often see women holding paper umbrellas and wearing kimonos, who look like they have traveled from ancient Japan.

Needless to say, this is naturally the famous Japanese geisha.

Walking here, you can often see geishas in kimonos and wooden clogs hurrying along the way, while next to them are a group of foreigners taking photos with their mobile phones or tablets in amazement - well, for Westerners, this is obviously the most oriental expression of the culture.

Duanmu Huai also looked at these geishas carefully, but to be honest, he could not see any beauty in these women at all.

The reason is very simple. Apart from their facial features and body shapes, all geishas will put on makeup on their bodies and faces, paint their faces and bodies pale, and paint their lips blood red. This is simply the standard image of a female ghost in China. If this thing lets its hair down and walks towards you in a kimono at night, it would scare you to death... Duanmu Huai watched for a long time anyway, and didn't know what was so good about these geishas.

It's quite fresh.

You really can’t tell that it’s beautiful.

So Duanmu Huai just watched the excitement for a while, then turned around and went to the club, planning to have some drinks first.

When Chinese people talk about drinking wine, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a dark karaoke box, where the boss brings out a group of princesses and orders whichever one they like. Then the guests drink and sing karaoke with the princesses, and there are even group drug-taking and group exercise. A more upscale one is Tian Shang Ren Jian, which is just a karaoke box replaced with a magnificent private room.

However, Japanese nightclubs are more like ancient brothels. Sex trade is not the main business of nightclubs. Of course, if it were a brothel, the madam would invite scholars and their favorite women to spend the night in the brothel. But clubs do not have this function.

This is actually part of Japan's "there are policies above and countermeasures below". After all, legalization of O transactions is strictly prohibited. You say I drink, chat, sing and brag, and move my hands, touch and rub during the period. As long as I don't go in, it is not considered O transactions.

But if you want to stay here overnight, it's hard to say.

So Japanese clubs basically let the girls drink and chat with customers. If the two parties are attracted to each other, they can go to the hotel to make a private appointment. The nightclub will never intervene. Because this is the private personal behavior of the girls. If they are caught, it is the girls' own problem and has nothing to do with the club.

Therefore, this kind of club feels more like a platform for introducing girls to customers, and the main source of income is the alcohol fee, rather than the flesh trade. Because of this, how to make customers happy and let them open their wallets to order and contribute to the club (while also increasing their own commission) has become the most important job of these girls working in the club.

As a matter of course, the drinks charges in this kind of club are ridiculously high, and they all use famous liquors. Don't expect to see Erguotou here.

After all, the lady has been chatting with you for a long time and her mouth is dry. If you order Jiang Xiaobai, her face might turn pale.

You're not here to drink, you're here to mess things up.

For many people, this kind of behavior may be incomprehensible. Why would I spend tens of thousands of dollars just to chat and drink with you? But in fact, there are quite a few people like this. Some even get deeply involved and even borrow high-interest loans from gangs. They can be said to be pure bootlickers.

But this is not discrimination against men, because Japan is very equal, not only there are clubs, but also host clubs. The latter also accompany customers to drink and chat, of course, it is men who accompany women. And those women are willing to borrow high-interest loans for the sake of the host, and there are many who are even unable to pay off their debts and make small movies.

So you see, men will borrow money from loan sharks to become bootlickers for the sake of prostitutes, and when they run out of money, they will be sent to fish on fishing boats.

Women will also borrow money from loan sharks to work as bootlickers for their gigolos, and when they run out of money they will make pornographic films to pay off their debts.

Look at what equality means.

It's the same whether you are a man or a woman.

There are clubs in Kamurocho, but Duanmu Huai has never been there. On the one hand, he is the kind of person who cannot understand the meaning of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars chatting and drinking with women. On the other hand...

"Please, what can I do for you?"

Looking at Duanmu Huai standing at the door of the store, the boss's face turned pale and his voice trembled.

"We are really short of money at the moment, so we only have these... just a small token of our appreciation, no respect..."

As he spoke, the boss took out an envelope with trembling hands and handed it over.

"…………………"

Duanmu Huai looked at the envelope in front of him speechlessly. You see, I knew it would be like this.

"Don't be nervous."

Duanmu Huai waved his hand and pushed open the boss's envelope.

"I'm not from the underworld, nor am I from any group. I'm here to consume! Why, you won't let customers into the store?!"

"Ah, is that so? No, of course not, please come in!" Hearing that Duanmu Huai was not here to collect protection money, the boss became even more nervous. He respectfully invited Duanmu Huai into the VIP area, then said he was going to find a lady and left. Duanmu Huai was bored, so he sat on the sofa and looked around.

Duanmu Huai’s first impression of this place was that it was... deserted.

Duanmu Huai arrived at Gion in the evening. Most people were off work at this time, but for these sex workers, it was a good time to open their doors for business. Logically, this was the time when business was most prosperous. At least in Kamurocho, sex clubs were usually crowded and bustling at this time.

But it was deserted here, with only two guests, and the atmosphere didn't seem very lively.

  Hmm...isn't this place that good?

Just like in a restaurant, if there are not many people in the restaurant at mealtime, people will wonder if the food in this restaurant is not tasty.

"Da da da………"

Just as Duanmu Huai was thinking, he heard footsteps, and then a fashionably dressed PR lady came over and lowered her head to Duanmu Huai.

"My name is Lina, nice to meet you, Mr. Duanmu."

"Oh? You know me?"

Hearing the other party call out his name, Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows, while Lina chuckled.

"Of course, I like watching those detective shows. Besides, you are so outstanding as to be called the ultimate detective. It's hard for people not to recognize you."

That's true. With Duanmu Huai's appearance and body shape, it would be impossible to fail to recognize him no matter where he is.

"That's it..."

"Yes, in fact, I have always admired you."

As she spoke, Lina sat down next to Duanmu Huai and brought the menu.

"What would you like to drink?"

"Give me a bottle of the most expensive wine you have here."

Duanmu Huai was not short of money, but unfortunately the club was not an inn after all, otherwise he would have come up and said directly, "Waiter, cut two or three pounds of cooked beef for us to drink with the wine."

"Okay, Mr. Duanmu is really generous."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, Lina also smiled, after all, this also concerned her share.

Soon, the drinks came and the two of them clinked their glasses, drank, and started chatting.

I have to say that the club's PR lady is really good at what she does. Two out of three sentences she says are meant to make the guests happy, but they are not particularly flattering. The two chatted while drinking, and the atmosphere soon became warm. After the two sides became more or less familiar with each other, Duanmu Huai also began to investigate.

"By the way, your store doesn't seem to have much business?"

"Hey, Mr. Duanmu, you don't know something."

When it comes to this topic, Lina seems a little dissatisfied.

"In fact, our top customer Saya was poached by someone else. Originally, many customers came for her, but now she is not here, so many regular customers have stopped coming during this period."

"Dig it away?"

"Yes, the other party proposed a very high salary and commission standard. Several sisters here were tempted, so when Saya left, they followed Saya."

"Then why didn't you go?"

Duanmu Huai took a look at Linai. At least in Duanmu Huai's opinion, Linai had good qualities. She was beautiful and lively and cheerful. She could be considered a popular character.

"Well... to be honest, I was a little tempted, but to be honest, the other person felt very strange, so I didn't dare to go."

"Weird?"

What's so weird about poaching people?

"Because they put forward many requirements, one of which is that if you want to join their club, you must have a flame tattoo on your body. I am afraid of pain, so I don't even dare to get a normal tattoo. And those people seem a little weird, it doesn't feel like an ordinary club..."

"Flame pattern?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Can you elaborate?"

(End of this chapter)