Tokyo Fall Guys beats up the supernatural

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Why do images of my past meetings with her keep flashing through my mind...? It's as if my memories have been reawakened by an external force the moment I see that face.

I have a feeling there's more to the story.

This feeling of being affected by something but being powerless to change it is infuriating.

Dou Tang clicked his tongue, left the balcony, and then walked downstairs.

By this time, there were hardly any people left in the building, and Dou Tang couldn't go to the first floor, as that would expose him to everyone. So he went to the third floor, which was easier to escape from, and hid in a toilet stall to call Tong Zizhen.

"Hey?"

"Yes, I'm here. What's up? Finished playing?" Lu Zizhen said with a smile.

In the background, the noisy chatter of the onlookers outside the building could be heard.

Dou Tang coldly replied, "How are the cleanup arrangements going?"

Lu Zizhen clicked her tongue and said, "I don't think there's any need to clean up the mess. There are only about a hundred people watching here anyway. Even if someone recorded it, it's not a big deal."

"A woman in gorgeous clothes leaps from a great height, then transforms into a cloud and drifts into the distance. Even if this scene were posted online..." Lu Zizhen shook her head, "it wouldn't attract any attention at all, not even..."

"Isn't this a good opportunity to further build momentum for us?"

Dou Tang suddenly raised his head, seemingly understanding Lu Zizhen's meaning, and said somewhat seriously, "Are you serious? Using the real Tamamo-no-Mae to continue building momentum?"

"If you continue to hype up the concept of 'Nikko City' by using the real Tamamo-no-Mae, and it backfires, you'll be the one to take the blame!"

Lu Zizhen scoffed, "No, if I had done this a few months ago, someone might have jumped out and said I was wrong."

"But now? Don't be ridiculous. It's only a matter of time before evil spirits are exposed to the public eye. Right now... more and more people believe that there are demons and monsters in the world."

"The legend of Fall Guys has been circulating for a year now, Dou Tang, you don't still think not many people believe it, do you?"

"From the mysterious events in Kamogawa City to the eerie storms in Tokyo, and then to the rampage of half-demons and the large-scale Fall Guys riots in Urayasu City."

"The gap between the supernatural and ordinary people has long since disappeared... Even in modern cities, ordinary people still yearn for mysterious things to happen in the world, and the existence of evil spirits caters to their curiosity."

"What we are doing now is simply going with the flow."

After listening to Lu Zizhen's words, Dou Tang remained silent for a moment and then said, "So you mean that no matter how the outside world views this matter, you are not going to clean up the mess?"

Lu Zizhen, who was watching the commotion outside, looked around and found that people had started to gather on the street. The hotel staff were also contacting the police, but even if the police came, they probably wouldn't get any results.

Lu Zizhen smiled and said, "Yes, rather... if we simply suppress such a big matter as Tamamo-no-Mae, wouldn't that be a bit disrespectful to her?"

"That's Tamamo-no-Mae, you know! You and that guy have made such a flamboyant appearance, yet you still want her affair to be suppressed. Girls hate being ignored the most!"

Dou Tang sighed and said, "I hope you don't mess things up and expose this to the public. Although it's only a matter of time, as you said, we have to be the first to take the first step... I bet a lot of people will dislike us."

He had already understood what Lu Zizhen meant. In the past year or so, exorcists had been deeply influenced by the so-called new era. The gap between evil spirits and the otherworld represented by exorcists and ordinary people was rapidly disappearing. Now, even ordinary people might encounter extremely powerful and terrible supernatural events, and people with exorcism abilities would often suddenly emerge from among ordinary people due to some kind of obsession.

This is a very serious incident.

There are too many incidents to suppress, too many people to hypnotize, and too many evil spirits to deal with... To make matters worse, Shui Tianjing Sanlang has led a large number of exorcists away, and the association is now on the verge of losing its current order.

And just at this moment, a powerful yokai like Tamamo-no-Mae appeared. If, according to legend, Tamamo-no-Mae was a terrifying yokai who single-handedly disrupted the entire country, then it would be acceptable to all parties to expose the existence of the otherworld to the world because of Tamamo-no-Mae.

Because of Tamamo-no-Mae, the general public in Japan now knows about the existence of evil spirits. It's better than waiting for some unknown exorcist to embarrass the association by failing to defeat an unknown evil spirit someday.

However... as the ones responsible for resolving this matter, Dou Tang and Lu Zizhen will inevitably face the accusations of the exorcists.

After all, in their view, they certainly couldn't beat Tamamo-no-Mae, but they wouldn't care whether you could or not.

Anyway, now that Tamamo-no-Mae's affair has been exposed, you'll have to take the blame.

This is a traditional skill. Even if Dou Tang didn't take responsibility for Tamamo-no-Mae's matter, other exorcists who failed would probably say things like, "Mr. Ren is so strong, why didn't you help? This is your fault for not coming to help!"

Dou Tang didn't care at all; if it weren't for Lu Zizhen's invitation, he wouldn't even have considered dealing with the association.

But what about Lu Zizhen?

After hearing Dou Tang's words, Lu Zizhen chuckled and said, "Don't worry, there's no problem within the association."

"Are Aida Gaku and his gang still around? With him causing trouble within the association, we're not in much danger."

"Everyone knows that ordinary people know about the existence of evil spirits; it was only a matter of time. They certainly want to find someone to take the blame, but we can take the blame too... The only question is, do they dare to say it?"

Lu Zizhen said with some disdain, "Those bunch of useless idiots, even if they wanted to shift the blame, they wouldn't dare to do it openly. At most, they would just say a few words in private."

"But how much influence can a coward who doesn't even dare to speak loudly have on us? He's nothing to worry about."

Dou Tang nodded and said, "Then remember to pick me up later and bring me a change of clothes. I'm in the men's restroom on the third floor."

"Pfft... You actually hid in the men's restroom?"

Chapter 240 Miss Kuroki, Strike!

Just as Dou Tang hid in the men's restroom, undercurrents were swirling in Tokyo.

Tonight is the first reunion of the headless dogs since the last incident.

The purpose of this gathering was simple: to clarify the issue of the fake Kiryu's identity and to decide the future direction of the headless dog.

As for the location of the gathering, it was chosen to be an underground dance hall, which Qianye Jiuciye booked out for the entire venue.

The dance hall had become a chaotic mess, with bikers bringing in case after case of beer, turning on all the spotlights, and haphazardly placing sofas on the dance floor, leaving it in complete disarray.

Such a celebration is rare, and it may be the headless dog's last celebration. Apart from Kenichi Mamiya, the captain of the Fifth Division, the leaders of the other four divisions all came.

Chifumi Asakura, Kujiro Senya, and the Eight-Eyed Brothers.

The four found a sofa and sat on the platform that originally belonged to the DJ. Yagino used his necklace to pry open a bottle of beer, handed it to Asakura Chio, and asked, "Asakura-kun, how's your injury?"

Chifumi Asakura took the beer, gulped down two mouthfuls, and snorted, "It'll still take a long time to recover, but don't worry, I'm still fine if you want to fight!"

Yagino burst into laughter.

Chiya Kyuuji stood to the side with his arms crossed and said, "You already know what happened today, right?"

Chifumi Asakura nodded, his eyes filled with disappointment: "I never imagined that we were completely abandoned... It was all a pretense by him to get close to Todo Kiryu."

"To this day, we still don't even know what his real name is!"

He slammed his fist on the table, knocking over several empty beer bottles.

“There’s no use worrying about that now.” Yagami Shin seemed to be the most rational of the group. He glanced at Asakura Chifu and continued, “The most important thing now is what we do next.”

"What do we do?!" Chifu Asakura clicked his tongue. Despite being covered in injuries, he still refused to give up. "Raid those bald monks! We must crush the bald group! We must teach them a lesson, and then go to Yiyan Private Academy to find that guy. We can't have come to Tokyo for nothing!"

Eight Eyes nodded and said, "That's what we think too, but the problem now is, what happens after that? What will become of the headless dog?"

Upon hearing this, the remaining three people fell silent.

Their eyes dimmed; they all understood that without "Kiryu Toudou" as a rallying cry, very few of the headless dogs would survive in the end.

Chiya Kyujino looked at the biker gang members who were partying below the platform and said, "Before that, we have one more thing to do, which is to catch Mamiya Kenichi."

"The fake Kiryu Toudou, and Mamiya Kenichi, in the end, the headless dog's biggest enemy is none other than these two."

"They gave us a false goal and then betrayed us... Unforgivable!"

Just as Chiya Kujino was saying this, Yamu Shin's phone rang.

He picked up the phone with some doubt and heard his underling's report on the other end.

"Brother Xin, a woman has come to the door... saying she's looking for our Headless Dog!"

Yamu frowned and asked, "Who is it? Iwabuchi Mei? What are you doing here?"

"No, no, she calls herself Kuroki, uh... Miss Kuroki, what brings you here again?"

"Idiot..." Yamu cursed inwardly, feeling a strange unease.

Kuroki... I feel like I've heard of him somewhere before, but I don't really remember.

What are you doing here?

The phone rang with the sounds of a man and a woman talking, and then there was even laughter. It seemed that the headless dog guard was having a very pleasant conversation with the woman named Kuroki.

Then, the younger brother reported to Yamu Shin, "Brother Shin, this Kuroki-san said he wants to talk business with the headless dog!"

"Let's talk business...please invite her in."

Despite being filled with doubt, Yamu Shin agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Hachimoku Shin still felt a throbbing in her heart, a sense of emptiness.

It's like... having done something very wrong and being afraid of being discovered, or... a bad feeling.

Yagino asked, "Big brother, what's wrong?"

Yamu Xin glanced at her younger brother and said, "A woman surnamed Kuroki came over and said she wanted to talk business with us, but I feel like something is not right."

"Anyone who goes after a headless dog at a time like this is probably not a friendly stalker."

He stood up, went to the mixing console, turned down the music volume, and picked up the microphone next to him.

He said, "Please make way, everyone. We have guests."

Hearing this, the biker gang members who were dancing were a little annoyed, but they still obeyed Hachimoku's words and obediently retreated to the edge of the dance floor, leaving only a few sofas in the center of the dance floor.

Just as they cleared the space, Ba Muxin saw the gate in the distance being pushed open.

Outside the gate stood a tall woman in a white dress, with long hair reaching her waist and skin so fair it seemed to glow.

The woman's first impression was... moist. For some reason, she seemed to have a damp aura around her, and her big eyes were shimmering with water. Every move she made was elegant and graceful.

She gives off a feeling of being a quiet, approachable older sister next door, radiating a reassuring aura.

At the same time, it is completely out of place in a place filled with the smoky atmosphere of biker gangs.

"Wow...who...who is this guy?"

"So beautiful... Is she Brother Yamu Shin's girlfriend?"

"Hey, why can't it be Asakura-nii's?"

Upon seeing the outstanding Kuroki Keisaki, the onlookers from the biker gang couldn't help but whisper among themselves, their gossips chattering incessantly.

Kuroki Keisaki looked around, frowned slightly, and a hint of disappointment appeared in her eyes.

Before coming, she thought these biker gangs might be simple-minded, hot-blooded teenagers like those little bald guys.

But now it seems she was too naive; these people weren't much different from the trash and scum she saw before she died.

From the murky eyes of those people, Kuroki Keisaki could see the humanity that had rotted away due to their self-degradation.

Eight Eyes Heart stepped down from the platform, followed by the other three. He acted like the eldest brother, and after the fake Kiryu left, he became the backbone of the headless dog.

The four walked to the center of the dance floor, each choosing a sofa to sit on. Yagami Shin sat in the frontmost seat, looked at Kuroki Keisaki, raised her hand to the sofa opposite her, and said, "Kuroki-san, please sit down."

Kuroki Keisaki, dressed in white, stepped forward onto the glowing dance floor and stood before Yagami Kokoro.

She gathered her skirt with both hands, sat down gracefully, and faced Hachimoku Shin.

Yagami spread his hands and said, "I wonder who Kuroki-san is representing? And what does he intend to talk to the headless dog about?"

Chapter 241 You're asking for it

Keisaki Kuroki sat demurely in the center of the brightly lit dance floor, surrounded by noisy biker gang members.

In response to Yagami's question, Kuroki Keisaki smiled and said, "The one who told me you were here... is the Morning Star Group."

Yamu Shin's expression immediately turned somewhat unpleasant.

The Morning Star Group is undoubtedly a behemoth in Ikebukuro. Among the various yakuza organizations still existing in Ikebukuro, the Morning Star Group is the largest.

They gained a lot of prestige because of the previous Baoyu Sugar Pill incident, and completed the transformation from specializing in the flesh business to being involved in all walks of life. Now, 50% of all the shops in Ikebukuro that are related to the Yakuza belong to the Morning Star Group.

Moreover, unlike the typical yakuza who only focus on business, the Morning Star Group is an extremely meddlesome organization.

Street women who have fallen into prostitution, teenagers who have been persecuted to the point of being burdened with high-interest loans, families who have lost hope due to domestic violence... as long as they ask for help and can provide collateral, the Morning Star Group will lend a helping hand in the name of "investment".

After all, they are yakuza, so they can't do everything for good. They will discuss with the person seeking help, and the Morning Star Group will help them resolve the issue, while the person seeking help will have to provide compensation to the Morning Star Group.

Compared to loan sharks who drive people to their deaths with exorbitant interest rates, the fees they demand are practically a mercy from heaven.

Teenagers who have paid off their high-interest loans can work in shops that offer room and board; prostitutes can find employment in shops invested in by the Morning Star Group; and men who commit domestic violence are threatened with divorce by the Morning Star Group…

In matters where the authorities are unable to intervene due to legal or personal reasons, the Morning Star Group does not hesitate to use means outside the law to uphold its own moral principles.

When the headless dog forcibly entered Tokyo, it had already clashed with the Morning Star Group many times.

It's funny, the reason the Morning Star team initially approached the Headless Dog was... because it was disturbing the peace.

It sounds unbelievable that a yakuza organization would advise a biker gang not to disturb the peace, but it actually happened.

After all, the Morning Star Group is in business. Who are the biggest customers in those red-light districts? Aren't they office workers under immense pressure or those who have to entertain clients with drinks and entertainment?