"Kidney?"
Hearing the other party's words, Fujiwara Shunsui fell into a brief silence.
In the back seat, Miya Harukiko subconsciously touched her lower back upon hearing this.
My kidney?
As a housewife,
she never imagined that someone would be interested in her kidney.
Of course, this wasn't the kind of thing she should ever have come into contact with.
On the contrary, Risho Taro frowned after hearing this information.
Organ trafficking—
this kind of business was a subject of constant debate even within the Sankou-gumi.
Many old-school big shots believed such behavior violated the spirit of Bushido and the emerging modern Yakuza spirit.
They wanted to be the heirs of a new Yakuza, breaking away from the path of the old Yakuza.
Only then could the Syndicate find new life.
Back then, as a rising star of the Sankou-gumi, Harumizu-sama even had the potential to be a candidate for the next Chairman while the old Chairman was still around.
However, things took a sharp turn for the worse.
Few could have expected the sudden changes that caused a massive upheaval within the Sankou-gumi.
But everyone had grown accustomed to it.
Changes at the top of the Syndicate didn't seem to affect those at the bottom.
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Fujiwara Shunsui had been too extreme back then.
He followed the "radical" policy set by the old Chairman to the letter. Combined with Shunsui's naturally ruthless personality, this led him to offend a large number of people.
Harumizu-sama was a core member of those who opposed the human organ trafficking business back then.
That was the main reason the Sankou-gumi had completely abandoned that trade at the time.
However,
all of that was in the past.
Thinking of this, Risho Taro gave Fujiwara Shunsui a meaningful look, his expression suggesting he was afraid Shunsui might be reminded of something unpleasant.
Clearly,
Risho Taro's concerns were not without reason.
*Crack!*
Another crisp sound rang out, accompanied by Ogawa Shun's miserable scream.
"Aaaah!!!"
Miya Harukiko looked at Fujiwara Shunsui with a sense of unfamiliarity; this was the first time she had seen him like this, and it felt strange.
But she vaguely remembered that Takahashi seemed to have made a similar sound before.
"Ah... ah!" Ogawa Shun gasped for breath, sounding like an old, dilapidated bellows.
"I already answered you! Why! Why are you still doing this to me? You have no honor!"
Ogawa Shun could be considered a "hero" in his own right; even facing such a situation, he used every last ounce of strength in his body to fiercely question Fujiwara Shunsui.
Harumizu looked at Ogawa Shun as if he were looking at a clown.
After taking a deep breath, he said to him with a slight smile, "What 'honor' are you referring to, sir?"
"Are you saying that after you kidnapped my girlfriend intending to harvest her kidney, you expect me to show you honor?"
"Or are you saying that despite knowing my girlfriend might be with the Sankou-gumi, you expect the Sankou-gumi to show you honor for doing this?"
Harumizu casually patted his face.
He released the man's hand. Although Ogawa Shun had no other obvious external injuries, having three fingers forcibly snapped
had caused enough immense pain to make him lose his basic ability to move.
Fujiwara Shunsui looked at Kojou Yuna sitting in the front seat.
Kojou Yuna understood instantly.
She responded to Fujiwara Shunsui, "We have information on him in our database. Records show he is the driver for the current leader of the Tanaka Family and has been active within the Tanaka Family for over a decade."
"The Tanaka Family?"
Fujiwara Shunsui began searching his mind for information regarding the Tanaka Family.
If he remembered correctly, this family was involved in real estate projects.
By now, they should be in their third generation.
Their family had amassed wealth frantically during the era when Japanese real estate was booming,
but they managed to pull out successfully just before the bubble burst. This move allowed the Tanaka Family to seize massive wealth during that economic crisis.
This incident also gave the Tanaka Family considerable prestige throughout the Shinjuku area.
Especially this ability to "predict the future"
made everyone hold the Tanaka Family in higher regard.
It had to be said that the knowledge Fujiwara Shunsui had crammed was very useful.
"This has nothing to do with the Tanaka Family! No one will take responsibility for this!"
Ogawa Shun hadn't expected that a single name would allow the other party to uncover his information so quickly,
even tracing it all the way back to the Tanaka Family.
At this moment, he began to regret it.
So the Sankou-gumi that everyone talked about really was this formidable.
He had always thought that the stories were just exaggerated praise for a Sankou-gumi that had long since passed its glory days.
But now it seemed
he was wrong.
Dead wrong.
Harumizu frowned as he looked at Ogawa Shun, seemingly unable to understand his logic, but it was at this moment that Fujiwara Shunsui realized he had overlooked something.
So he grabbed the man's hand again.
He gripped a finger on Ogawa Shun's hand and applied sudden force once more.
"Aaaaahhhh!!!"
To be honest,
none of them expected Fujiwara Shunsui to be so... so brutal?
They really didn't want to use the word 'brutal' to describe Fujiwara Shunsui,
because his actions made everyone feel incredibly vindicated.
Whether it was the badger game played on Risho Taro,
or Kojou Yuna's car accident,
and now the fact that they had even targeted Miya Harukiko's kidney.
These were things Fujiwara Shunsui could not accept.
Even if the first two incidents might not have been directly related to this man,
it could only be considered his bad luck
that he was being used as a punching bag.
Looking at Ogawa Shun, who had almost completely lost the ability to move,
Harumizu decided to say a few more things to him.
"You seem to have misunderstood a few things."
Harumizu released his hand. Because of the intense pain, Ogawa Shun was curled up in a ball in the back seat.
"First, you must understand that you don't just represent yourself; your identity, to some extent, represents the Tanaka Family."
"Second, regardless of what you do, I can treat it as a provocation by the Tanaka Family against me, or even against the Sankou-gumi."
"Finally, do you think the Sankou-gumi needs evidence to act?"
Harumizu's words were like a bolt of lightning striking Ogawa Shun's perception.
That's right.
They were the Sankou-gumi.
They were Tokyo's largest Yakuza organization.
Stories of their inhumanity had been passed down by the older generations.
Could it be,
could we really expect to reason with them?
Too much time had passed.
So much time that people had forgotten the consequences of provoking the Sankou-gumi, or even committing actual harm against its members.
But clearly,
people had only heard of these consequences in legends.
By their generation,
the Sankou-gumi's reputation was nowhere near what it once was.
It wasn't that these people weren't terrifying or that the past stories weren't thrilling,
but rather that everyone had forgotten the fear of being dominated by the Sankou-gumi.
Hearing Harumizu-sama speak like this,
Risho Taro felt his blood boil.
This was the primary reason he had wanted to join the Sankou-gumi back then.
Even the lowest pariahs of society had a chance to rise up,
to stand against these old-money families and fight back against exploitation,
relying solely on their own fists.
Harumizu looked at Risho Taro and said:
"Departure, Tanaka Family!"
PS: Adjustments finished, resuming tomorrow!