Just one week after accepting the Shinjuku Challenge

Saji Tanaka arrived in Roppongi with the manpower Narita Katsu needed. At this time, Narita Katsu was looking for a new band to fill the vacancy.

Ten groups of candidates had originally been decided, but not long ago a rock band suddenly withdrew from the performance. The reason was that there were many conflicts within the team and inconsistent ideas, so they unanimously decided to terminate the activity. Whether it is in the entertainment industry or the underground music industry, there is a strong relationship among the band members.

The conflicts are all topics worth talking about, which is also one of the important reasons for the disbandment of the band.

But Narita Katsu didn’t think that the band’s withdrawal was an accident. On the contrary, his intuition told him that this was something that East Asia Hall could do. Fortunately, when formulating the performance plan, he deliberately prepared another replacement plan.

.When encountering such an "emergency situation", I won't be in a hurry. It's just that the process of looking for people everywhere will inevitably take more time and energy.

He didn't know what conditions the East Asia Club offered as compensation. In short, they would not exchange their performance slots. Maybe they bribed some members of the band, making it impossible for them to perform as a whole team.

Activities.

Young people who are involved in the music industry with only their passion think that they are talented and will not be polluted by celebrities. They think that they are the darlings of Roppongi. In fact, they are very naive and naive in their behavior.

They suddenly broke the contract and left, offending the king and ruining their reputation. No one in Roppongi would hire such a band that broke their promises, and there would be no place for them in the underground music industry in the future. Where should they go in the future?

?

Maybe the "activities" will be suspended indefinitely.

Tanaka Saji is indifferent to the band's withdrawal. He knows that Narita Katsu will have a perfect plan, and he doesn't have to worry about what kind of trouble such a band will cause. Now he is more focused on how to fill the talent pool for Dajun.

Things.

Next to him stood a thin and frail man. His lips were chapped and black, and his face was criss-crossed with grooves. His face looked like it had been used as a cutting board and was scarred. But the man's eyes were fierce and transparent.

He has perseverance and righteousness, unlike those in the extreme realm.

"Tanaka-san, you look very anxious."

Tanaka Saji turned back, looked at the man, and said slowly: "Narita-san is not the kind of person who makes mistakes easily. There is a reason for this incident."

"I know, that's why I stayed and didn't leave," the man said and suddenly laughed, as if he was relieved, "Speaking of which, I know Narita-san better than you do."

"That's true..." Hearing this, Saji Tanaka recalled the past events about this man.

Things start from half a month ago

Just after Tanaka Saji and Narita Masaru participated in the industry networking event, he started running around. According to the list he made in his notebook, he walked into an old and dilapidated izakaya, which was very hidden in Asakusa and surrounded by many love hotels.

Asakusa has completely declined. In the Edo period, it was once known as the "No. 1 downtown", full of traffic and hustle and bustle.

From the end of Meiji to the beginning of Showa, new-style musical theaters were located here one after another. Sumako, the most dazzling actress in the drama world at that time, also built her own theater here.

However, after the war, the entire city went into depression, with desolate scenes everywhere. The economic bubble in the late 1980s failed to bring a new atmosphere to Asakusa. Now it is only a civilian area of ​​​​the old city, and is a new urban area.

A place for abandoned people.

Tanaka Saji has not passed the Sixth District Street for many years, and the degree of depression here has exceeded his expectation. The unemployed and vagrants wandering on the street are everywhere, and he even saw the original deployment of Morishita and his colleagues.<

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Asakusa is not a holy place to remember the Edo style, Tanaka suddenly realized, and then remembered the purpose of this trip.

He walked into the izakaya, and a waiter came over and asked him what he wanted to eat.

"I'm asking someone, does Masi Ishibashi work here?"

When the waiter heard that he was looking for someone, he was a little impatient, but thinking that he would be scolded by the president for being rude, he tried his best to say as gently as possible: "Sorry, I don't know."

Before that, Tanaka went to the place where Masi Ishibashi used to work. People from the Metropolitan Police said that he worked in this store in Asakusa, but why did the waiter say there was no one there?

"Wait a minute, his left ear has been injured." Tanaka stopped the waiter.

"Left ear? Ah, the deaf man you mentioned. He is helping in the kitchen, maybe washing the dishes."

"Thank you," Saji Tanaka stuffed a bill into the waiter's pocket.

"Okay, I'll call him out." The waiter who received the tip beamed with joy and became more efficient in his work.

The famous Masi Ishibashi of the Metropolitan Police Department is called deaf here. It seems that he has not had an easy life after being expelled from the police and is not respected by others.

However, it is not surprising that he ended up like this. A person who is so upright in the officialdom is like an all-pervasive sharp knife. Sooner or later, he will be too sharp and worn out, and will eventually be discarded.

He was too obsessed with handling the case and obsessed with giving an explanation to the victim’s family, but he ignored who he should really be responsible for.

Insisting on a thorough investigation of the murder of Takenaka Masahisa, the fourth member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, he did not hesitate to violate professional ethics and leak internal information to the media to put pressure on the Metropolitan Police Department. Naturally, the Metropolitan Police Department, which had made money, regarded Masi Ishibashi as a thorn in its side, and soon he

He was dismissed from the police because of the murder of Takenaka.

As soon as Saji Tanaka smoked a cigarette, the waiter found Ishibashi.

"You said someone is looking for me?" Shi Qiao wiped his hands with a puzzled look on his face.

"I don't know who it is, but he said he is your friend." The waiter left after saying that

Masi Ishibashi took off his scarf and came to the bar of the izakaya. When he saw Saji Tanaka, he showed a brief excitement.

"Old classmate, I didn't expect it was you."

Tanaka put out his cigarette and filled Ishibashi with beer with a smile.

The two were classmates at the Police Academy, and after graduation they were assigned to work as cross officers at a local police station. Later, Tanaka went through a dark road due to an accident, while Ishibashi rose up the ranks and became the section chief of the Criminal Division, and they parted ways from then on.
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At the beginning of 1985, Ishibashi even personally participated in a fight between violent gangs in order to catch criminals. While performing his mission to secretly protect Takenaka, his position was exposed and his ears were chopped off by members of the First Peace Association. Although he

Not dead, but missed the best opportunity to move Zhuzhong.

The fourth generation member of the Yamaguchi-gumi Takenaka Masahisa died, but he was left with an eternal scar and was permanently expelled from the police.

Masi Ishibashi's left ear was seriously injured and has not yet fully recovered. He needs continuous treatment. After he spent all his severance pay, he had no choice but to endure the pain and go out to work.

A person who has been expelled from the Metropolitan Police Department, a person who has been blacklisted and is still penniless cannot do a regular job, but can only do the most obscene jobs, earning the lowest hourly wage.

It's hard for Saji Tanaka to imagine how Masi Ishibashi, a person with such a strong self-esteem, could endure it.

"Masi-kun, come with me."

"Follow you? Become a lackey of the Matsuba Society?"

Tanaka sighed slightly, "I don't have much to do with the Matsuba Society now."

Masi Ishibashi looked at Tanaka curiously, and said in a playful tone, "After Morichi was killed, you changed the owner? I guess it was Narita Masaru from Roppongi."

"Sure enough, nothing can escape your eyes." Tanaka Saji talked about his experience after Morishita's downfall. Ishibashi listened with interest and curiosity.

"Having said all that, aren't you and I both losers? We are just tools for the big shot. We can throw them away when we are done with them. If we don't use them smoothly, we can also replace them with new ones."

Tanaka smiled bitterly, "Old classmate, you said you wanted to stay in Asakusa and not go anywhere, but you are not blind. You know what happened among the violent gangs. Do you still want to do something and return to the Metropolitan Police Department?

?"

Ishibashi clenched his fists and looked confused, "At first I wanted to find a formal job, but the people above put me on the blacklist. Where else can I go, I can only earn some pocket money in Asakusa. If

If I follow you and stand on the opposite side of the Metropolitan Police Department, I’m afraid I won’t live for a few more years.”

"But if you don't follow me, you won't be able to clear your name just by relying on your methods."

"I just want money now."

Saji Tanaka nodded.

"Because of money, Narita-san in Roppongi is currently short of manpower, so I came here to ask you if you would like to come with us? However, one thing you can rest assured is that we are not a violent group or a Yakuza. Of course,

Me neither."

"I know."

"Old classmate, if you think the risk is too great and you don't want to, that's okay."

Masi Ishibashi hesitated.

Saji Tanaka patted him on the shoulder, "In order to implement justice, you have to sacrifice your future, and in order to uphold your principles, you have to betray your kindness. What will happen to a man in the future if he has no future and kindness?"

The words were heartbreaking, and the two fell into silence for a while.
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