Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

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He could do that because he controlled most of Seoul and South Korea's military power, and he had the strength to force Choi Kyu-hah to resign.

Do you have that ability?

If I'm being polite, then you can accept it; if I'm not, you can't just offer yourself up and ask for it.

After scolding Yabuki Sakura, Takagi turned to Asou Makoto, his gaze softening: "Eat quickly, then we'll go to Shinjuku. A new arcade just opened there..."

Aso Makoto glanced at Yabuki Sakura, who was bent over. The important person in her mind, the assistant of the young master of the conglomerate, was being scolded by Gao Kui and didn't even dare to raise his head.

"I...I want to go home..." The girl looked at Gao Kui with some timidity.

Up to this point, Makoto Aso still doesn't know much about Gao Kui's identity. He only knows that Gao Kui comes from a prominent family in China, studied at an elite university in the United States, and came to Japan for a study tour, where he met some prominent figures in the Japanese business community.

They're mostly things from the surface world.

Sakura Yabuki kept saying it was for Takagi's safety, but Makoto Aso couldn't help but worry that those terrorists and turbulent gangs might be after Takagi.

Even if that's not the case, it's not good for Gao Kui, as a "friend" of Genji Heavy Industries, to be constantly showing his face in public during the turmoil at Genji Heavy Industries. He might be kidnapped by Genji Heavy Industries' rivals and used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Genji Heavy Industries.

This is not an unfounded worry. Similar cases abound in the history of countries around the world. Negotiation and fighting are essentially playing cards, and Gao Kui is clearly a card that can be used against Genji Heavy Industries.

Whether out of concern for Gao Kui's personal safety or to help Yabuki Sakura, Asou Makoto didn't want to continue shopping.

Gao Kui was slightly taken aback, then realized what he meant: "Are you worried about me? Don't overthink it. Even if Li Mei were to come back to life and launch several more attacks on Tokyo, I can hold out."

"No, it's not..."

Aso Makoto shook his head: "I'm not feeling well... and Grandma... yes, Grandma will be very worried about my safety, Tokyo isn't very safe right now..."

When Makoto Aso's grandmother was mentioned, Gao Kui immediately lost his temper. When it comes to "family ties," Gao Kui is very good at putting himself in others' shoes.

"never mind."

Gao Kui scratched his head, his enthusiasm waning, and said, "I'll take you home after we finish eating."

"We can still keep in touch by phone and text in a few days, and distance makes the heart grow fonder; a short separation will only deepen my longing for you..."

Aso Makoto spoke softly about the benefits of not being able to see each other for a few days. She had already tacitly accepted the fact that Gao Kui would stay at school and not go out for the next few days, and she persuaded Gao Kui to do so in a gentler manner.

Sakura Yabuki finally straightened up: "Thank you for your understanding."

After dinner, the two got into Sakura Yabuki's car and headed to the new house that the girl and her grandmother had rented in Bunkyo Ward.

As the black car drove past the intersection of an alley, Gao Kui saw two gangs fighting inside, armed with samurai swords, baseball bats, steel pipes, and other weapons.

Compared to the gang fights in "Yakuza" where most of the fighting is unarmed, the shootouts in the alleys are more like gang fights in Hong Kong movies, with a higher rate of weapon use.

Aso Shinya saw the gang fight in the alley and realized that what Yabuki Sakura said was true. He subconsciously leaned closer to Gao Kui's arms.

Sakura Yabuki remained unfazed and continued driving.

She recognized the identities of the two sides in the fight. One side was a C-rank guild under the Snake Clan, which was a third-generation guild, and the other side was probably a force under the Oni Clan.

Logically, she should have gotten off the bus to provide support, or at least made a call to the liaison department, but he had more important things to do: to take the Northern Qi prince and his girlfriend home.

From Sangenjaya to Makoto Aso's new home, it's only a half-hour bus ride. Takagi witnessed four gang fights, with local and foreign gangs battling it out, but he never saw any Tokyo police officers at the scene.

The widespread gang violence and the missile bombing of a building in Shinjuku Ward frightened many citizens and tourists, causing them to lose all interest in sightseeing and hurriedly return to their homes to stay indoors.

However, Tokyo did not become deserted as a result.

The streets were teeming with people, including many tourists and Tokyo residents who were eager to see what would happen. Some spontaneously organized to protest the inaction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's defense department, while others took out their phones to photograph the spectacular scene. Still others flocked to the Genji Heavy Industries building in an attempt to obtain new information to become social media influencers.

The black Maybach sped through the heavy traffic, first dropping Makoto Aso off at home, and then heading to the Kassel campus in Adachi Ward.

Compared to Setagaya Ward, where Sangenjaya is located, Adachi Ward is even worse. The area already has a poor security situation, and local gangs and outside gangs openly chase and fight each other in the streets.

It wasn't until the black Maybach was almost at the entrance of the Kassel campus that Gao Kui saw police cars driving out of the police station. The Tokyo police, known worldwide for their inefficiency and tax thieves, were finally getting to work.

It wasn't a crackdown on gangs, but rather a suppression of ordinary Tokyo residents marching to the city hall to demonstrate. The batons were wielded with force and precision, causing Tokyo residents and tourists who were taking advantage of the chaos to sneak in and film to flee in panic.

The Maybach drove into the Kassel campus, the gates closed, and after getting out of the car, Sakura Yabuki immediately went to Guderian's office to negotiate with him, while Kakui returned to his dormitory with little interest.

The Kassel campus was originally a church school. Since Christianity is not the mainstream religion in Japan, there were not many dormitory places in the school. There were only two dormitory buildings with a little over a hundred places, mostly double or triple rooms.

After the Sheqi family bought the place, they made some renovations to the school. The old dormitories were temporarily renovated and some modern appliances were added, but there was no expansion.

This resulted in even people of noble lineage, such as Gao Kui, Chu Zihang, and Caesar, not having any special privileges in terms of accommodation and having to live obediently in multi-person dormitory buildings.

The only saving grace is that this church school was established after World War II, when Japan was recovering from the devastation and prices were very low, so the various buildings in the school were relatively large.

When Gao Kui returned to the dormitory, Chu Zihang and Caesar were playing shogi. Each of them held an English version of "Introduction to Shogi," their brows furrowed as they learned and played. The LCD TV on the wall was on, showing a news program reporting on the Genji Heavy Industries missile incident.

Now, if you turn on the TV, apart from TV Tokyo which won't stop broadcasting unless the world is destroyed, every Japanese TV station is reporting on the Genji Heavy Industries incident.

Gao Kui lazily lay down on the sofa, picked up the TV and switched to TV Tokyo. Sure enough, the TV station was still broadcasting an entertainment talk show as usual, with the guest being Watanabe Mayu, a member of the currently popular idol group AKB48.

The world is finally quiet.

Putting down the remote, Gao Kui then turned his attention to the game between Chu Zihang and Caesar: "Have you two studied shogi? You're playing so enthusiastically?"

Caesar, without looking up, said, "Isn't this game fairer precisely because we both know nothing about shogi?"

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“Indeed.” Gao Kui had to admit that Caesar’s statement made a lot of sense.

Both Chu Zihang and Caesar are proficient in various board games, but they have different strengths. Chu Zihang is more skilled in Chinese Chess, Go, Thirteen Cards, and Dou Dizhu, while Caesar is more skilled in International Chess, Chinese Chess, Texas Hold'em, and Blackjack.

Only Japanese shogi is something neither of them is good at, so it's relatively fair.

Gao Kui pulled up a chair and sat down next to the two players' chess game, watching them play.

Chu Zihang was in an even more unfavorable situation. His jade generals were under fierce attack. Although his flying chariot was still intact, his horn formation was restricted, his gold and silver generals were scattered, his defense was weak, and his situation was quite passive.

Gao Kui hesitated, wanting to teach Chu Zihang how to move next, but remembering the old saying that a true gentleman does not speak while watching chess, he shut his mouth and just sighed as he looked at Chu Zihang's game.

"You know shogi?" Caesar, who had already secured victory, looked at Gao Kui in surprise.

Chu Zihang kept his head down, continuing to ponder the game, and explained, "He has a girlfriend named Togo Ichifumi, a Japanese shogi prodigy with professional-level skills."

Before his girlfriend became a professional Go player, they often played shogi in a small chapel, comparing their strategies.

Chu Zihang remembered clearly some of Gao Kui's initial ramblings and descriptions of his personal delusions. The Tokyo Phantom Thief and the Ten-Ship Jump were things Gao Kui said himself when he was still in the mental hospital.

Caesar suddenly realized that this made sense.

As for whether he really dated a genius shogi girl, or even whether the girl named Togo Ichifumi really existed.

I can only say, if there is.

You'd likely never find such a person if you actually went looking for him, but Gao Kui did have memories related to him and he really did understand shogi.

"Speaking of girlfriends..."

Chu Zihang suddenly changed the subject and started gossiping: "Didn't you go shopping with your girlfriend? Why are you back so early?"

Gao Kui pointed to the television: "You've seen the news reports too. The Snake Clan is in trouble. Tokyo is in chaos right now."

"Those troubles and chaos have nothing to do with us."

Caesar flipped a "pawn" and transformed it into a "gold" that directly challenged Chu Zihang's jade general, saying, "It was not caused by us, nor does it affect us, at least not you. You have no reason to come back at this time."

Who is Gao Kui?

That's another S-class player from Kassel in twenty years, a prince of Northern Qi, a true man who has been through countless battles. A mere gang riot shouldn't be a reason for him to turn back halfway.

"It's not as simple as just coming back. For the next few days, the Snake Clan advised me not to go out." Gao Kui sighed.

We're in the early stages of a relationship, and you're preventing us from going out right now? Aren't you deliberately making things difficult for us?

Just then, the loudspeaker in the teaching building suddenly blared. Guderian cleared his throat and used the broadcasting system to inform all teachers and students that the school would be conducting a closed training exercise on campus for several days. In principle, no teacher or student was allowed to leave the school, and all daily necessities would be provided by the Japanese branch.

"It's very wrong."

Caesar and Chu Zihang stopped playing chess at the same time: "If we are only worried about your unstable mental state, it will be enough to just confine you to your quarters."

Now the Snake Clan wants to confine all of us, which is very strange.

"There are some things that the Snake Clan doesn't want us to see."

Chu Zihang calmly analyzed: "This sudden riot by the Japanese underworld is definitely not as simple as the Hebi Hachike said. The Hebi Hachike, or Japan, must have many violations that cannot be known to outsiders."

From small company departments to large government agencies, strictly speaking, no department or agency can withstand rigorous investigation. When faced with inspections from superiors, everyone generally tries to cover up the problems immediately to prevent them from being discovered.

The Snake-Headed Eight Families are not an isolated case; everyone is well aware of this phenomenon. As long as you don't go too far astray, there won't be any problems.

To the Snake Clan, the Kassel teachers and students were like an inspection team sent by their superiors, or even imperial envoys who could reach the highest levels of government.

"The question is, what exactly is the Snake Clan trying to cover up?"

Caesar suddenly felt a strong urge to explore the secrets of the Snake-Headed Eight Families: "By indiscriminately confining all of us under the guise of closed training, they are trying to completely blind and deaf us. The Snake-Headed Eight Families must have a very serious problem."

"But it has nothing to do with us."

Gao Kui was uninterested: "It'll only be a few days anyway, and everything will be over in a few days. We're here to stay and study, not as special envoys investigating the internal affairs of the Snake Clan."

This is not our concern; it's Principal Angers' job.

"What if the Sheqi Eight Families' house arrest of us hasn't ended in a few days?"

Caesar put forward a very meaningful hypothesis: "The fact that the Hebi-Hachi family's opponents could openly fly armed helicopters into Shinjuku, Tokyo, launch missiles at Genji Heavy Industries, and simultaneously launch a general offensive against the Hebi-Hachi family's underworld forces suggests that their power is not weak."

So the question arises: why was the Snake-Headed Eight Family, the Japanese underworld tycoon whose members are all of mixed race, able to tolerate the existence of such an organized and powerful opposition for so long?

Is it that they don't want to completely eliminate this opponent, or that they can't?

"I'm more inclined to believe it's not possible."

Chu Zihang continued his analysis: "The Snake Clan has no reason not to eliminate this force that rivals them in Japan, but for various reasons, they have never been able to do so."

What is the reason that left the Snake Clan, composed of eight mixed-blood families, helpless?

The answer is obvious: this force opposing the Snake Clan is also backed by a hybrid power. Unless a certain degree of equality is achieved, it will be difficult for these two opposing forces to maintain a prolonged stalemate.

Finally, the Snake Clan had been unable to deal with this hostile force before, and now, having been caught off guard and suffering heavy losses, it will probably be even more difficult to wipe out or suppress this hostile force in a short period of time.

Therefore, after several days of closed training, it is highly likely that the Snake Clan will extend our house arrest under other pretexts.

In just a few words, Caesar and Chu Zihang had clearly analyzed the situation they were facing.

What should we do? Should we immediately break off relations and ignore the house arrest imposed on them by the Snake Clan, or should we take a longer approach?

"Five days."

Caesar raised his wrist and looked at the date on his watch: "Today is September 22nd, Tokyo time. If the confinement for us is not lifted after sunset on the 27th, I will immediately rush to Genji Heavy Industries and demand an explanation from Genji.