Chapter 535 Kazama Ruri
“Junior sister, did you just hit someone with your marbles?”

“Really? Brother, you must have seen it wrong?”

“I saw it all.”

“Humph… who told him to tease us right in front of me just now? Don’t worry, senior brother, there won’t be any big problems. At most, he will have to lie in bed for half a year. But it’s hard to say whether there will be any sequelae.”

The two people spoke in voices as soft as mosquitoes’ buzz, so Aki and Zero behind them could not hear what they were saying. They could only hear the two people whispering in their ears in low voices.

Suddenly, the surroundings became quiet. The heavy carved copper door closed behind everyone, and the noisy sound of drums and gongs was instantly shut out, like a very noisy movie was suddenly muted.

The noise outside the door and the silence inside made Lu Mingfei feel a little dazed, as if he had traveled from one world to another.

The first thing in front of you is a long corridor connected by a dirt floor. The electric lights on both sides of the corridor are made into lanterns, illuminating the entire space. The wooden floor creaks when you step on it. The rooms on both sides are separated by simple wooden sliding doors.

Lu Mingfei took a quick look and saw that there were only seven rooms in total. Probably not many people could be invited into the VIP room, and there weren’t many VIP rooms in the entire underground casino. So maybe he should feel a little honored to be invited into the VIP room?

Kousaka Jinna walked to an eight-tatami room at the end of the corridor, opened the sliding door, and knelt in front of the door. She invited Lu Mingfei and the others to enter first in the posture of a gentleman.

The tatami floor made no sound when stepped on. In the middle of the room was a painted wooden table.

Lu Mingfei was a little uncomfortable kneeling on the soft round cushion beside the table. The kneeling postures of Aki, Xia Mi and Ling were natural and beautiful, the standard sitting posture in anime.

After entering the room, Kousaka Jinna poured tea for Lu Mingfei and the others one by one, then stepped back out the door and said:

“You are a distinguished guest. Miss Sakurai is bathing next door. Please have some tea and wait for a while.”

Taking a bath? Isn’t this a bit too grand?
Madam boss, if you had told me earlier that you wanted to take a shower and change clothes, I would not have brought a female comrade in. It is so inconvenient…

Lu Mingfei thought to himself as he took out his cell phone and turned it off. Aki and Ling also took out their cell phones. This was a habit that almost every specialist in the executive department had. Before carrying out tasks such as negotiations, they would turn off their cell phones or set them to silent mode to avoid someone calling in and affecting the negotiations.

Seeing this, Xia Mi also followed suit and turned off her phone.

Kousaka Jinna closed the wooden sliding door, and suddenly Lu Mingfei and his group of four were the only ones left in the huge room.

“Is this Miss Sakurai the owner of this casino? Is she pretty?” Xia Mi, who was sitting next to Lu Mingfei, asked in a low voice.

“It should be pretty good.” Lu Mingfei said. In fact, he only knew there was such a person, but had never seen Sakurai Kogure.

Xia Mi slapped Lu Mingfei’s thigh fiercely, with a vicious expression: “Good, Senior Brother, you finally got exposed! It turns out that you came all the way to Japan not to travel, but to find your other half!”

Xia Mi probably showed some mercy in this slap, otherwise, with the jealous attack from the King of Earth and Mountain, Lu Mingfei’s outcome probably wouldn’t be much better than that man who talked nonsense to them in the casino lobby just now.

Even so, Lu Mingfei still rubbed his leg in pain: “Junior sister, please stop slandering me. I have never met this Miss Sakurai before!”

As expected, girls in love are all famous detectives. Xia Mi actually guessed that Lu Mingfei’s purpose of coming to Japan was actually to find another girl…

But Lu Mingfei felt that he was not lying! He did not deny that he was looking for the other girl, he just said that he had never met Sakurai Kogure.

“So how did you find this place, brother?”

Xia Mi bit her lip with a suspicious expression on her face. It was obvious that she didn’t believe Lu Mingfei’s words so easily: “Not only do you know that there is an underground casino here, but you also know that the boss of the underground casino is a woman?”

“To be honest, I’m also curious about how Sakura-san knew me, and what Sakura-san wanted to talk to me about.”

The sound came from behind the white wooden door in front of them, and they were all stunned for a moment. Before Lu Mingfei could come to his senses, the wooden door in front was opened to both sides at the same time. The maid in plain clothes opened the door and nodded and retreated carefully.

Behind the door is another 8.5-tatami-mat Japanese-style room. Two white paper screens in the room cover most of the interior decoration, but you can still see that the interior decoration is quite exquisite. There are some small tables next to the screens, and on the small tables are white porcelain vases with various light-colored flowers.

A young girl wearing a solemn “Twelve-piece” kimono knelt at the door of the sliding door. Her long black hair was tied up behind her, with a mountain peach flower hairpin inserted diagonally. She bowed slightly to the people around the table and said, “Welcome. I’m Sakurai Kogure, the manager of this casino.”

The moment the girl appeared, Lu Mingfei knew in his heart that the girl in front of him was the female boss of “Ze” and the third-ranked figure of the ghost group, Sakurai Kogure. She was indeed a rare beauty.

It wasn’t that he recognized her, he had never seen Sakurai Kogure before; but the situation had reached this point, if the person who came was not Sakurai Kogure, it would be a bit unreasonable. Besides, the girl’s bright eyes flashed with a laziness and maturity that was not in line with her age. If she hadn’t been working in the dirty field for many years, she wouldn’t have such a look.

The girl knelt down beside the table where Lu Mingfei and the others were sitting, then knelt down and said, “I learned that you are coming to visit me suddenly, so I went to take a bath and spent some time. I am sorry to have kept you waiting for so long, which is really against the etiquette of hospitality.”

“It’s okay.” Xia Mi glanced at Lu Mingfei and spoke lightly. It can be seen that her attitude towards Sakurai Xiaomu was not that good: “It’s okay for you to wash a little longer. Anyway, Senior Brother didn’t make an appointment.”

Lu Mingfei was somewhat helpless. He could tell that Xia Mi was still angry… But he could understand it. After all, he was the one taking his girlfriend to meet another beautiful woman, so it was normal for her to be jealous.

But when Lu Mingfei raised his eyes, he found that Aki and Ling across the table were also looking at him with cold eyes.

Lu Mingfei: “…”

No… Ling is fine, after all, she always looks at others with such eyes, but Senior Sister Aki, why do you also stare at me with such contemptuous and cold eyes? Did I do something weird?

It is said that when you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also in your gaze. When Lu Mingfei and the others were looking at Sakurai Kogure, Sakurai Kogure was also observing them.

Although the size of the Fierce Ghost Clan is far smaller than that of the Eight Snake Clans, they are not a mob. They also have their own intelligence gathering network. Moreover, thanks to the fact that many members of the Fierce Ghost Clan are those with so-called “bloodline defects” absorbed from the Eight Snake Clans, the intelligence they have collected about the Eight Snake Clans is already quite comprehensive.

Naturally, they knew the intelligence on the heads of the eight Sheqi families and their cronies. They also had information on the heirs of the eight families, the outstanding newcomers who had emerged in recent years, and even the illegitimate children of the heads of the families who were left behind.

However, among the profile photos that Sakurai Kogure had seen, none of them could be matched with the people in front of him.

“Could it be that he is not a member of the main family… but someone invited from outside?” Sakurai Kogure speculated in his heart.

However, their style of doing things is indeed not like that of the Snake Qi Eight Clan. At least the Snake Qi Eight Clan would not send two stupid lovers to carry out the mission at the same time.

No, it looks like… three? Or four?

Sakurai Kogure’s carefully drawn eyebrows couldn’t help but frown slightly.

Obviously she had been in the world of romance for many years, but for a moment, she couldn’t tell the relationship between the people in front of her.

But Sakurai Kogure did not let down his guard. This kind of character is often the most dangerous and cunning. Someone who looks fierce or majestic may actually be a fool. And someone who looks a little silly and timid may actually have a lion hidden in his heart.

She coughed lightly, and felt that she should bring the topic back to the point: “Sakura-san, you haven’t answered my question yet. You went through so much trouble to come to me, you wouldn’t just want to have a cup of tea with me, right? I’m afraid your feat of almost blowing up all the pachinko machines in our store will be circulated in the industry for a while.”

Lu Mingfei scratched his head: “I heard that as long as you win enough steel balls, you can enter the second level of ‘Ze’…”

Sakurai Kogure smiled: “It’s an interesting rumor, but it’s false. There has never been such a rule here. But I didn’t expect that someone could almost win all the steel balls in our store. How did you do it? Did you use the word spirit?”

Sakurai Kogure did not pretend that she knew about the Word Spirit. In her opinion, if the other party was really sent by the Snake Eight Clan, it would be meaningless for her to play dumb. However, Aki’s eyebrows jumped unconsciously, realizing that this underground casino was not as simple as she imagined.

“Maybe I’m just luckier today?” Lu Mingfei said calmly.

“I am sorry for being so presumptuous.” Sakurai Kogure said with a smile. She thought Lu Mingfei was trying to conceal his words.

Lu Mingfei did not explain why he could always win. It was just that he was lucky today and Lu Mingze gave him a lucky enhancement buff.

He got straight to the point: “I heard that the boss lady of ‘Ze’ can help everyone realize their wishes. Is it true?”

“I’m not the genie in Aladdin’s lamp. How can I help everyone fulfill their wishes?”

Sakurai Kogure blinked her eyes: “Besides, the girls around Sakura-san are obviously prettier than me. Could it be that they are also coveting my body like those men outside?”

“?”

What is this… Miss Sakurai, you are indeed very beautiful, but I really don’t mean that, okay? You know that saying something like this can easily cause discord in other people’s families!

Noticing Xia Mi’s eager gaze, Lu Mingfei immediately clarified: “No… I just want to trouble Miss Sakurai to help me find someone.”

“Looking for someone? Who do you want to find, Sakura-san? Although I have some connections, I can’t guarantee that I can help Sakura-san find someone.”

“Kazama Ruri.”

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(End of this chapter)