“Woof!”
The orange puppy-like Devil seemed to notice Su Tang and barked at him.
“Pochita.”
Hearing the sound, the girl crouched down and picked the Devil up.
Seeing the Devil narrow its eyes and wag its tail in the girl’s arms, Su Tang withdrew his hand from his pocket.
Hmm.
So it was a domesticated Devil.
To be honest, this was the first time Su Tang had ever seen something like this.
In the past, he had heard rumors that some extremely weak Devils—weak enough to be crushed to death by a person’s bare hand—would choose to become human pets or collectibles in order to survive.
Some schools even used them as teaching tools.
But those had only been rumors.
Now that he was seeing it with his own eyes, he actually thought it looked rather nice.
For example, the Leg Devil he had killed that morning.
If it had not swallowed a piece of the Gun Devil’s flesh and mutated, perhaps it could have been kept as a collectible too.
After all, those various beautiful legs each had their own charm—full, slender, fair, dark-skinned…
Displaying them at home, or simply spreading them out across a bed, would definitely be heaven for someone with a leg fetish.
Similar examples would be the Breast Devil, Mouth Devil, Butt Devil, or something even more direct…
The Cock Devil?
Hmm…
Thinking about it that way, the Gun Devil really was pretty hateful.
Returning from his little fantasy, Su Tang realized he had already arrived beside the sedan.
“I’m here to collect—”
Before he could say the word “goods,” he was interrupted by the driver.
It was a squinty-eyed blond punk, a man whose entire appearance perfectly embodied the meaning of the words “small-time thug.”
“Hey, mangy dog.”
He was calling the blond girl.
Ignored, Su Tang stood to the side and raised an eyebrow.
“Haa.”
Exhaling a smoke ring, the blond punk lazily stuck his hand out the window and grinned at the girl.
“Come on.
Eat this cigarette for me, and I’ll give you a hundred yen.”
It looked like provocation, but his movements were more like he was teasing a dog.
Su Tang watched the scene with interest.
He was a little curious.
Was this blond punk not afraid that the girl might fly into a rage and have the Devil kill him on the spot?
After all, although that Devil looked like a dog, the chainsaw on its head was not just there for decoration.
Curiosity was curiosity, but Su Tang had no intention of continuing to watch.
He was not exactly petty, but he was certainly not magnanimous either.
Reaching out, he knocked on the hood of the sedan and said in an unfriendly tone, “I say, is this how you people do business?”
His “refined amusement” interrupted, the blond punk turned his head impatiently to look at Su Tang.
Su Tang, however, was not looking at him.
He was looking at the back seat of the car.
Sitting there was an old thing with white hair, a white beard, and glasses.
He was the boss of the local gang in this area, and the person Su Tang had come to trade with.
“Oh, Mr.
Su Tang.”
The gang boss sat in the back seat as steady as a mountain, too lazy even to roll down the window.
He merely spoke to himself.
“You arrived rather quickly.”
“Cut the crap.”
Su Tang frowned.
“As agreed, money in one hand, goods in the other.”
“Young people are always impatient.”
The gang boss’s tone remained calm.
“Very well.
Since that is the case, let us complete the transaction quickly.
That will be one million yen.”
“One million yen?”
Su Tang laughed from sheer anger.
“Wasn’t the agreed price two hundred thousand?
What, was this license made from your mother’s ashes?
Did it go out of print and quintuple in value?”
“Pfft—”
The girl nearby was amused.
The blond punk first glared at her, then glared at Su Tang and gritted his teeth.
“Kid, do you know who you’re talking to?”
“Your daddy.”
After casually tossing that line back, Su Tang had no interest in trading insults with a small-time punk.
He looked at the gang boss and said, “Two hundred thousand.
If you want the deal, take it.
If not, piss off.”
“Judging from the look of you, you must urgently need this license.”
The gang boss looked utterly confident.
“In this area, we are the only ones capable of making a license realistic enough to pass for genuine.
Young man, you should think carefully.”
Su Tang felt like he was trying to reason with a cow.
The original price of two hundred thousand yen was already high.
He had not expected the local gang to be so lacking in basic manners that they would raise the price at the last minute.
Even the Black Hand would not dare play games like this.
If word got out, their reputation in the underworld would be ruined.
Seeming to notice Su Tang’s intention to refuse, the gang boss spoke again.
“Wait.
I have another piece of business here.”
“Oh?”
Su Tang looked up and realized those words were not directed at him, but at the girl.
“Denjiko, kill him.
The reward is one hundred thousand yen,” the gang boss said flatly.
“You should not have much left from your last Devil-hunting payment, right?
Kill him, and you’ll be able to live comfortably for a while.”
Su Tang wondered if everyone in Tokyo had something wrong with their brains.
He was only worth a hundred thousand yen?!
No, wait.
That was not the point.
The gang boss had actually put a bounty on him?
Before Su Tang could say anything, he saw the girl named Denjiko shake her head and refuse.
“No.
He’s not a Devil.
I’ll just swallow that cigarette butt instead.
Remember to pay me the hundred yen.”
As she spoke, she reached toward the cigarette in the blond punk’s hand.
“You really are a damn idiot.”
The blond punk cursed, then pulled a black, hard object from under the seat with his right hand and pressed it against Denjiko’s forehead.
It was a gun.
“You think the boss was discussing this with you?
Don’t get cocky just because we gave you some face—ugh…”
He did not finish speaking.
Because he suddenly discovered that something cold had appeared against his own forehead as well.
Su Tang held up the gun in his hand and smiled.
“Using a gun to scare a poor underage girl?
So you’ve got a gun.
Who doesn’t?”
As he spoke, he glanced at Denjiko.
The girl’s eyes were wide, and her body was trembling slightly.
Su Tang could not tell whether that was from fear or excitement.
But he knew that the blond punk was definitely trembling from fear.
“Sigh.”
The gang boss sitting in the back seat sighed and shook his head.
“Young man, why go this far?”
The moment he finished speaking, it was as though some signal had been triggered.
Clatter, clatter, clatter—!
A rapid series of noises erupted.
The street, which had been empty moments earlier, suddenly had a large crowd of armed men with various hair colors pouring out from every corner, surrounding Su Tang and Denjiko completely.
“Heh heh.
Young man, you didn’t really think I couldn’t look into my transaction partner’s background, did you?”
The gang boss lit himself a cigarette and exhaled.
“Since we knew you came from San Francisco, how could we possibly have made no preparations at all?”
“Give up.
Hand over the gun, and perhaps you’ll still have a way out.”
Silence.
For about two seconds.
“Seriously…”
Su Tang shook his head and sighed.
“Is there not a single normal person in Tokyo?”
After that lament, Su Tang lowered his gaze to the ground.
He looked at the shadows that were constantly stirring, then smiled.
“So then, who has more people now?”
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55 Transmigrated as Sukuna 80 Checking In in Demon Slayer 85 The Reincarnating Trainer of Tracen Academy 100 I Refuse to Become a Heroic 85 My Best Friend Into a Slime?
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