'After a few hours of hard work, I managed to raise her submission to 60. Not bad, not bad at all.' After sending Tsubaki back, Yusuke strolled around, thinking about his progress. He felt he'd done a good job today. 'But advancing further is going to get complicated. Tsubaki isn't as easy to handle as Aika and Murayama.'
After leaving the coffee shop, both of them went on a 'date'. They went to the arcade, played multiple games. Yusuke even used the cliché claw machine scene and got her a panda toy plush, which made her extremely happy; she tightly held that toy between her chest, making Yusuke feel jealous of the toy.
After the arcade, they went to the cinema to watch a movie, then grabbed something to eat at a restaurant. After that, Yusuke sent her back to her place. By all intents and purposes, it was a date. Both of them knew it was a date. But Yusuke never actually said it was a date.
It started like a date, went on like a date, ended like a date, but Yusuke would never admit it was a date.
He even flirted with her implicitly, making her flustered to raise her submission value. But he always acted like it was unintentional. He mainly did this because he knew it would boost her confidence and might push her to do something drastic if she thought he was attracted to her.
Especially since she knew he was in an unclear relationship with two other women. Yusuke was sure she knew this too because both women never hid their affection for him at school.
If Tsubaki thought she had a chance at Yusuke's heart, it was almost certain she would end up in direct conflict with the other two girls, or even worse, try to kidnap him.
'It's time for work. I spent way too much on that date today,' Yusuke thought, patting his pocket. He hadn't actually spent a huge amount compared to his past, but considering his current "wealth," it felt expensive. For now, he walked the streets searching for 'potential customers'.
Late evening was prime time for 'job hunting.' Yusuke didn't go back to the same area as last time. He didn't want to kill all the fish by overfishing. Instead, he randomly walked to another spot that looked promising for 'fish' to gather.
'Maybe this time, after taking my protection fees, I should ask if they know where the Yakuzas gather. Who knows, maybe they do,' Yusuke thought as he walked past neon-lit nightclubs and casinos. He went deeper into an alley and saw many girls in skimpy clothes lined up on both sides. Some were talking to middle-aged men, others smoked cigarettes while eyeing the passersby, and a few just stood scrolling on their phones.
These women were undoubtedly prostitutes. It seemed he had unknowingly wandered into some of the tachinbo spots.
Yusuke ignored the girls and walked quickly. He worried one of them might turn into a yandere and chase him, too. He was already overwhelmed dealing with five. After everything, Yusuke started fearing places with lots of women. Heck, he even regretted going to Kuoh Academy with its huge number of female students and teachers.
'Shit, never thought being around women could be this scary,' he thought, patting his chest in relief once he passed them.
Clang!
He walked over to a vending machine and grabbed a soft drink. One neat thing about Japan was how vending machines were everywhere, selling almost anything you could think of.
Unlike last time, it took Yusuke some actual effort to find any customers. He only spotted them after downing his drink. He squeezed the bottle flat and stuffed it into his pocket. One of the more annoying things about Japan was the lack of trash bins when you needed one.
Four yellow-haired men, all seemingly in their early twenties, were hanging around a bench. Two sat on it, one squatted on the ground, and the last leaned lazily against a lamppost. They were all smoking, and a few empty green bottles lay scattered on the ground in front of them.
Yusuke's eyes lit up, and a wide grin spread across his face. Without a moment's hesitation, he dashed forward and grabbed the man leaning against the wall by the back of the neck, hoisting him up like a sack of rice. He casually waved at the others. "Yo!"
"Ryuuji!" one of them shouted.
"The fuck?! Who the hell are you!?"
"Hands off Ryuuji, ya damn prick!"
"You got a death wish or somethin'?!"
The three men jumped to their feet, furious. The one who had been squatting snatched a bottle, smashed it against the ground, and pointed the jagged edge at Yusuke.
"I don't care who the fuck sent you, let go of Ryuuji, give us your fucking wallet, and maybe we'll let you leave this place with your limbs still attached!"
Clang!
Another one followed his buddy's lead, grabbed a bottle, and smashed it on the ground. He snarled at Yusuke, "The hell ya waitin' for, dumbass!? You wanna die!?"
"Oyaa! Quit yappin' already, let's just waste this bastard!" The last guy didn't mess around. He yanked out a butterfly knife from his belt, gave it a flashy spin, then dashed straight at Yusuke.
Yusuke casually tossed the man he was holding to the side. The guy hit the ground, rolled over, and stared at Yusuke in horror. Only he knew exactly how it felt to be grabbed by the back of the neck like a helpless cat, powerless to fight back or move.
He rushed at Yusuke with his knife. Gotta give him props, he was pretty fast. But to Yusuke's enhanced vision and reflexes, he looked like a slow turtle. Yusuke stepped to the side, reached out, and grabbed his wrist, squeezing tightly. The guy let out a painful cry and dropped the knife. Without missing a beat, Yusuke slammed his knee into the man's stomach.
"Agh!" The guy's eyes nearly popped out from the pain as he crumpled to the ground.
By the time he finished with the first, the other two were already on him, brandishing broken bottles, trying to stab with the sharp edges. Yusuke's body moved fluidly between them, and before they even realized what happened, both felt sharp pain in their chest and stomach and collapsed to the ground.
Yusuke moved over to the knife guy and started searching his clothes. He found the wallet, took out the money, and tossed it back at him. Then he went to the other three, fumbled through their pockets, grabbed their wallets, and took the cash.
"This is my fee for teaching you a lesson. Next time, don't pick a fight you can't win, alright, kids?" He threw a wallet at one of them and walked off.
The four men stared at his receding back, their faces flushed with anger. They wanted to scream, 'You're the one who started this fight, bastard!'
"The haul this time is decent," Yusuke said as he walked a bit, counting the money. It was over 95,000 yen(640$), not bad at all. Suddenly, he smacked his forehead and exclaimed, "Damn, I forgot to ask if they know any Yakuza!"
"Whatever, I'll ask next time," Yusuke shook his head and kept walking. He didn't want to go back and check on them because who knew if they would still be there. It had been a long day. Time to head home and maybe give Murayama or Aika a massage, or even better, have both of them come over to spend the night.
[Host, be careful! There is—]
Just as Yusuke pictured himself sleeping between two beauties with his cock buried inside one of them, the system started its warning. Before it could finish, a chuckle came from behind him. "Found you~!"
"Who?" Yusuke spun around and saw a blond woman looking down at him. She wore a goth outfit and was petite, almost like a loli, her black wings fluttering in the air. 'Bitch system, why didn't you warn me?!'
[I couldn't, she showed up too fast, no time to warn you.] The system threw out a lame excuse to cover its uselessness.
'Fucking useless. I'd trade you for a silent system any day, even if that's your only saving grace,' Yusuke cursed the bitch system in his mind as he stared at the blond loli.
'She's not a Yandere, right?' he asked.
[No.]
"Strong magic power, impressive physical strength, and reaction speed. Hmm, it must be you who killed Dohnaseek," Mittelt said with a smirk.
This was the area she had been assigned to search for the culprit behind Dohnaseek's death. Honestly, she was just like Kalawarna, too lazy to search properly. She lay on a high rooftop, watching the lowly humans go about their meaningless lives.
But Yusuke's sudden appearance caught her attention from afar. The high magic power radiating from him was impossible to miss. At first, she thought he looked interesting and wanted to have some fun with him before killing him. However, after seeing how easily he handled the mobs like they were children, she became suspicious.
His physical strength seemed far greater than even hers. Considering Dohnaseek's injuries, it had to be someone with immense physical power.
'How did she know!?' Yusuke's face twisted in shock at her words. The sadistic gothic loli caught the reaction and laughed obnoxiously, "Looks like my guess was right haha, but even if I was wrong, I would still kill you hahahaha."
"Kalawarna, Raynare, I found the killer," she laughed as she contacted her two fallen angel companions.
After all, this man had killed Dohnaseek alone. She wasn't about to be careless and get killed or let him escape.
"Try to stop him. I'm close by and will be there soon," Kalawarna's voice came through from the other side.
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