Chapter 536 Come one by one

“Kazama Ruri.”

Lu Mingfei’s voice landed peacefully in the 8.5-tatami-sized Japanese-style room. However, the moment he heard the name, Sakurai Kogure’s pupils shrank sharply, as if he was very surprised to hear the name from Lu Mingfei’s mouth.

Naturally, this micro-expression did not escape Lu Mingfei’s eyes.

It was normal for Sakurai Kogure to be shocked. Even among the demons, very few people knew the name “Kazama Ruri”.

Because she was in charge of most of the gang’s affairs, the actual leader of the Ghost Clan, “Wang Jiang”, and the second-in-command, “Dragon King”, rarely showed up in the gang. Even in some occasions when they had to show up, they wore masks.

People know the name “Kazama Ruri” only because of the legend of him blooming like a spring flower and then disappearing in the Japanese gigolo world. Few people would associate the name “Kazama Ruri” with the “Dragon King”, the second-in-command of the fierce ghost group.

However, Lu Mingfei came straight to the point and stated the name, and also asked to meet him.

This made Sakurai Kogure feel terrified, wondering if the Snake Eight Clan already knew the true identity of the “Dragon King” of the Ghost Clan? And they also knew that he was the mouthpiece of the “Dragon King” and could find him through him.

Seeing the hesitation on Sakurai Kogure’s face, Lu Mingfei added: “Please rest assured. I want to meet Fengjian Liuli on my own behalf, not on behalf of anyone or any group, including his brother.”

“…”

After hearing what Lu Mingfei said, Sakurai Kogure was almost certain that Lu Mingfei must have known that the little girl was Kazama Ruri, also known as “Ryoma” of the Demon Clan.

Although Aki and the others didn’t know who the “Kazama Ruri” mentioned by Lu Mingfei and Sakurai Kogure was, they also heard that finding Kazama Ruri was the purpose of Lu Mingfei’s visit. And it seemed that Sakurai Kogure could help Lu Mingfei find this person.

Sakurai Kogure’s cold voice rose slightly and said, “How can I trust you?”

Lu Mingfei replied: “Ms. Sakurai, you should be able to feel my kindness. You know how they act. If they knew his identity, they would not send just one person. I’m afraid they would send a fully armed underworld army to surround the entire casino, right?”

Sakurai Kogure responded indifferently without saying a word. Her beautiful eyes calmly stared at Lu Mingfei, as if she was wondering how credible Lu Mingfei’s words were.

Lu Mingfei also met those bright eyes without hesitation. The two of them communicated silently with simple glances.

The seemingly long silence lasted only a minute or two. The warm mist in the teacup floated gently in the Japanese style, and finally, the tea surface rippled. Sakurai Kogure sighed and spoke again:
“I can’t guarantee that I can help you contact him. Sakura-san, you should know that he is a man who comes and goes without a trace. Many girls want to run into him on the streets of Tokyo, but very few are so lucky.”

Lu Mingfei smiled and replied: “I believe you have such luck, Miss Sakurai. You just need to help me hand this thing to him, and he will understand my intentions.”

As Lu Mingfei spoke, he took out an exquisite wooden box from his pocket. Xia Mi recognized that it was something Lu Mingfei had bought at a stationery store on the roadside of the station before coming to this casino.

Lu Mingfei pushed the wooden box from the table to Sakurai Kogure. Sakurai Kogure curiously reached out to pick it up. It turned out to be a horse box for shogi chess pieces.

After a pause of several seconds, Sakurai Kogure nodded calmly: “I understand. I will deliver Sakura-san’s gift to him intact. It may take some time to contact him. I don’t know if Sakura-san is not convenient to leave your contact information. I will contact you by phone if there is any news.”

“Do you have a pen and paper?”

“Have.”

Sakurai Kogure turned around, took out a pen and paper from the room he had just come out of, and walked over slowly.

Aki was still a little worried whether it was inappropriate for Lu Mingfei to leave his phone number like this, but then she saw Lu Mingfei write down the contact information without hesitation.

Sakurai Kogure folded the paper in half and put it in his arms: “At the earliest, it may be useful tonight, so please keep your phone open by then. Or if you don’t mind, I can prepare the best rooms for you on the third floor of Ze. You can wait here and experience the features of the second floor of our store.”

“No. I’m not very interested in these things.” Lu Mingfei waved his hand to refuse.

In fact, Lu Mingfei was thinking that if he stayed here, he might really want to kill someone with the look in his junior sister’s eyes…

……

After letting Kousaka Jinna see Lu Mingfei and the others off, Sakurai Kogure clenched the shogi box with her slender fingers, stood up slowly with the help of her legs, and walked back to the adjacent room with graceful steps.

“Has everyone left?” a man’s voice asked.

Sakurai Kogure leaned forward, leaning against the screen: “They’ve all left. I asked Niina to see them off.”

“Well, I trust Renai to do things.” The man smiled and said, “What did he leave for me?”

“A box of chess.” Sakurai Kogure held the box to the side of the screen with both hands: “A box of shogi.”

A white and transparent hand stretched out from behind the screen and took the box from Sakurai Kogure. Sakurai Kogure was very sensible and stepped back a little, lit the lantern in the room, so that the man could see clearly what was in the box.

The swaying light illuminated the figure behind the screen. His waist was thin and his shoulders were slender. It was hard to believe that this was a male figure.

He opened the shogi box, and the whole room suddenly fell silent.

Sakurai Kogure waited quietly by the side, without saying a word for a long time. “Interesting.” After a long while, the man laughed and said softly, “Do you want to know what’s in the box?”

Sakurai Kogure naturally wanted to know, but she also followed the rules and did not ask. It was not until the man brought it up himself that she answered softly, “What is it?”

The man would naturally let her know many things that she could know, and would naturally not tell her things that she could not know. This was not out of contempt for her, but out of protection for her.

“It’s nothing, just like you said, it’s just a box of shogi.” The man said, “but this box of shogi doesn’t have a king or general.”

“No king general?” Sakurai Kogure’s eyebrows couldn’t help but twitch.

There have always been two theories about the origin of Japanese shogi. One theory is that shogi was introduced to Japan from Chaturanga in India via Southeast Asia, and then gradually evolved into the current Japanese shogi game. Another theory is that it evolved from Chinese chess during the Tang and Song dynasties.

The position of the king in shogi is equivalent to the general and king in chess. Once the king is killed or trapped by the opponent, it means that the opponent has won the game.

In the organization of the Ghost Clan, “Wangjiang” is also a nickname for the leader of the Ghost Clan. The man is the “Dragon King” and she is the “Dragon Horse”.

The man named Sakura obviously knew the internal organizational structure of the Oni Clan, but he presented a set of chess without a king or general…

“No matter what his intention in giving me this chess set is,” the man said calmly, “it seems I have to meet Sakura-san.”

……

The process of meeting Sakurai Kogure went smoother than Lu Mingfei had expected. When Lu Mingfei and his group returned to the hotel, Liu Miaomiao and the others had not returned yet.

After leaving “Ze”, Lu Mingfei turned on his mobile phone, opened the text message mailbox and call records to see if he had missed any important calls or text messages during the time when the phone was turned off.

As expected, I saw the phone calls of several girls and a text message from Chen Wenwen. The text message said that there was a special show at Universal Studios Osaka this afternoon, and they were so busy watching the show that they forgot the time, so they would be back later.

Fortunately, when they parted at Shin-Osaka Station, Lu Mingfei had the foresight to ask Su Xiaoqiang for her room card. Therefore, when Lu Mingfei and his friends returned to the hotel, they did not have nowhere to go and could sit in the little angel’s room for a while.

However, when Lu Mingfei closed the door of the room and turned around, he saw the three girls looking at him naked.

Lu Mingfei subconsciously felt a little guilty: “What, what happened?”

Aki, who was sitting on a chair, patted the seat next to her. It was a bit cold today, and she was wearing a pair of black stockings under her skirt to keep warm. At this moment, her slender legs wrapped in black stockings were crossed and swaying gently, just like an elementary school English teacher who had just graduated from college.

She patted the edge of the bed and said in a slightly cold voice: “Junior brother, please sit down.”

Xia Mi, who was wearing a white silk JK suit, bent her legs and knelt on the bed. She also looked at Lu Mingfei and said, “Senior Brother, sit down.”

Ling looked at Lu Mingfei with his icy blue eyes: “…”

“I understand! Zero, you don’t have to say anything!”

Lu Mingfei walked to the bed with a sullen expression and sat down, his seat just surrounded by Aki, Xia Mi and Ling.

——A trial by three judges?
“anything?”

Feeling the gazes coming from three directions, Lu Mingfei spoke with some trepidation.

“Brother Lu, you should tell us now what you are planning, right?”

Yaji stared at Lu Mingfei with energetic eyes: “Junior brother, why do you know about that casino? What do you want to find that man named Fengjian Liuli?”

Xia Mi moved her legs aggressively and crawled over, throwing herself at Lu Mingfei from behind: “And what’s going on with that woman named Sakurai Kogure! It looks like this isn’t the first time you’ve seen her, Senior Brother!”

Ling said calmly, “Lu Mingfei said that he had a girl he liked in Neon before, and he even went to Tokyo Disneyland with her.”

Lu Mingfei: “…”

Xia Mi glared: “Is there such a thing? Tell the truth quickly, or I won’t let you sleep tonight!”

Xiao Long Nu said she would not let him sleep, so she really would not let him sleep. As for what he would do when he was not sleeping, of course he could only do…

“Etc., etc!”

Lu Mingfei quickly raised his hands in surrender, his expression somewhat helpless: “That’s what I said… What do you want to know? Come one by one…”

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(End of this chapter)