Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

"So it's because of the legendary curse of Izanami that the bloodlines of you Japanese super hybrids are gradually becoming mottled, and the 'Emperor' is becoming increasingly rare?" Ange asked.

"Yes, Izanami, transformed into the God of the Underworld, hated herself and the humans Izanagi had created. Under her curse, one thousand people died every day. To prevent humanity from being destroyed, Izanagi created fifteen hundred people daily, which is how Japan's population continued to grow," Uesugi Yue explained. "However, only offspring created by the Father and Mother Gods working together possessed supreme bloodlines. The humans created by Izanagi alone could not inherit the power of the gods. Therefore, over time, the bloodlines of the ancient emperors were gradually diluted, evolving into the eight families of Snake and Ogi today."

"Perhaps due to the intercourse between those pure-blooded descendants and the humans created solely by Izanagi, many of their descendants, while inheriting power in their bloodlines, are too frail to bear the weight of that ancient bloodline. Therefore, bloodline runaways often occur within the family," said Uesugi Yue. "The family names descendants with dangerous bloodlines 'oni,' meaning they are underworld demons whose minds are controlled by the bloodline of the mother goddess Izanami. The family has set up a special enforcement bureau and law enforcement officers to closely monitor and punish each 'oni,' and will execute them on the spot if their bloodline gets out of control."

"However, these individuals with dangerous bloodlines don't consider themselves 'ghosts'; they've been like this since birth, a fate they can't resist." Uesugi Yue sighed, "But no one is willing to have their life and death controlled by others, like a pitiful puppet, without any control. So, in recent years, these 'ghosts' with dangerous bloodlines have begun to unite and rebel against the family, forming the fierce ghost group of today."

"I remember the demons seemed to be gathered in Osaka." Uesugi Yue scratched his head. "I've been away from the family for too long, so I'm not too sure about the current situation. This is all hearsay."

"It's not shameful to care about your family. There's no need to be so secretive about it."

"It's not that I'm concerned about my family. It's just that twenty years ago, news of the Oni Clan spread too quickly among the Japanese underworld," Uesugi Yue said truthfully. "Some gang members who had just finished a late-night street fight would come to my place for ramen and talk about this new major underworld family that seemed to have risen to fame overnight."

"Twenty years ago?" Ange was stunned, as if he suddenly thought of something. "You mean the Ghost Clan suddenly rose to prominence twenty years ago?"

"Yes, twenty years ago, that's when all news about the Sheqi Eight Families became strictly guarded. Since then, I've hardly heard any gang members discuss news about the family." Uesugi Yue looked at Angé, who was frowning. "Was there something wrong twenty years ago? Do you know what happened back then?"

"That's quite a coincidence," Ange said in a low voice. "Because the Lenin also happened to have sunk into the Japan Trench twenty years ago. This means that the person who sacrificed the ancient dragon embryo on the Lenin to 'God' is very likely related to the sudden rise of the Demon Clan!"

"I see." Uesugi Yue rolled his eyes.

"That guy from twenty years ago..." Ange muttered to himself. He suddenly looked up at Uesugi Yue, "Old friend, what do you think of Tachibana Masamune?"

"Who?" Uesugi Yue was stunned, his face full of confusion.

"Don't you know the former head of the Snake Eight Clan, Tachibana Masamune?" Ange frowned slightly. "Which branch of the Tachibana family is he descended from?"

"Tachibana Masamune?" Uesugi Yue was stunned for a moment before scoffing, "When did such a person appear in the Snake Eight Clan? How come I've never heard of him?"

"What do you mean?" This time it was Ange's turn to be stunned.

"You said that the man named Tachibana Masamune was the previous head of the family, then who is the current head of the family?" Uesugi Yue asked back.

"Genre Chisei, the head of the Minamoto family and also the director of the Executive Bureau," Ange said. "He just took over the position of head of the family from Tachibana Masamune a few days ago. He studied abroad at Kassel Academy. He left a deep impression on me. He is a very smart and capable young man."

"Genjiro..." Uesugi Yue chewed on the name several times, then calmly asked Ange, "What about the Uesugi family? Who is the head of the Uesugi family now?"

"The head of the Uesugi family is Eriya, Uesugi Eriya," Ange replied. "I haven't seen her in person, but I heard that she's a very young female head of the Uesugi family. She's also the most mysterious of the eight families, and she rarely shows up outside of the family."

Uesugi Yue stopped talking, just crossed his arms and sneered.

"If you have something to say, just say it. Don't keep us in suspense!" Ange scolded Uesugi Yue, "Is there something wrong with Tachibana Masamune, Minamoto no Chisei, and Uesugi Eri?"

"Of course there are problems, too many problems. Every one of these three has problems!" Uesugi sneered. "I've never heard of any of these three people's names... What I mean is that the Upper Three Families are called the Upper Three Families because their owners surpass the other five lower families because the 'Emperor' can only be born from the Upper Three Families, and I am the last 'Emperor' of the Eight Snake Families, the last emperor of the White King's bloodline."

"What!" Ange was shocked. "Speak more clearly!"

"The descendants of the upper three families are all dead, extinct. In my time, the population was already sparse, so I was invited back by my family from afar while studying in France, because I am the only remaining 'Emperor' of the Snake Eight Families. My mission is to reproduce desperately to prevent the 'Emperor' bloodline from being cut off." Uesugi Yue said, "The one you mentioned, Tachibana Masamune, that Minamoto no Chisei, including that Eri from the Uesugi family, are all fake descendants of the upper three families. It is estimated that some old guys in the family are afraid that the reputation of the Snake Eight Families will decline due to the extinction of the upper three families, so they found some children from the lower five families and nominally adopted them into the upper three families. Modifying the family tree is something they often do. For the benefit of the family, let alone forging a super hybrid, even forging a Super Mario is not surprising."

"So, that Tachibana Masamune might not be a member of the Yaki Eight Clan... Twenty years... He only has about twenty years of experience... The Lenin shipwreck also happened twenty years ago... The Oni Clan..."

Ange murmured, and his mind seemed to be stringing these fragmented and messy clues into a faint thread, and at the other end of the thread was the person behind the scenes who was about to attempt to resurrect the "God".

"Come with me quickly." Ange said to Uesugi Yue seriously.

"I'm selling my ramen well, why would I go with you?" Uesugi Yue said angrily, "I've told you everything you want to know. You said you wouldn't force me to cooperate if I shared all the information I know with you...Anger, you can't be dishonest!"

"It's not cooperation." Ange shook his head, his expression solemn. "You just said that ordinary hybrids can't bear the blood of 'God', so it's even more impossible for them to bear the bones of 'God'. If I were the person behind the scenes, I would definitely bring the 'holy bones' to you. As the emperor of hybrids, you are the best container. Your bloodline can well awaken the 'holy bones' and resist loss of control. Then, I can transfer your blood into my body, and the person behind the scenes can be reborn as the new White Emperor!"

Uesugi Yue's expression changed for a while and then returned to normal.

"You're overthinking it. Putting aside the possibility of such a method working, such technology is incredibly difficult to achieve. Even the professors at your Kassel Academy haven't reached this stage in their research on bloodlines, right?" Uesugi Yue looked at Ange. "Furthermore, I've disappeared from the family. According to you, the person behind the scenes has only been around for twenty years, right? He can't find any trace of me in the family. All my information has been completely erased from the family archives by my descendants. Everyone believes I'm dead."

"Besides, even if he's heard of 'Uesugi Yue', where would he find me?" Uesugi Yue sighed. "I've aged so much now, and I'm completely different from the brilliant underworld king of my youth. How could he possibly know that the former Shadow King is now just an unknown ramen chef? He won't be able to find me."

"I've told you everything I know. Don't waste your time on me, Ange." Uesugi Yue took the cup in front of Ange, pulled out a bottle of sake he had hidden from the compartment of the trolley, and poured it for Ange. "'God' may have been resurrected, but her memories and abilities haven't had time to awaken yet. What you should do now is to find the person behind this, then find 'God' and kill her, instead of trying to persuade a ramen chef to accompany you on a tour of Japan."

Uesugi Yue pushed the porcelain bone wine glass in front of Ange... This glass of wine meant farewell.

Ange looked at Uesugi Yue deeply. After a long silence, he picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all.

"You're right. We don't have time. I have to go to Osaka tonight to investigate something that concerns me." Ange slammed his glass on the table. "I'll come back to see you after I finish investigating those things."

After saying this, Ange opened a huge black umbrella, walked across the flooded road, and walked quickly towards the Maserati parked on the side of the road.

"You're going to have to pay for breaking my antique cup!" Uesugi Yue raised his cup and shouted angrily at Ange's departing back, "What the hell? I beg you, the plague god, to leave me alone!"

The black Maserati roared away and disappeared into the deep night.

Uesugi Yue lowered his head to wash the ramen bowls and cups used by Ange. Perhaps he was too busy, or perhaps he was thinking about something, but Uesugi Yue did not notice that four guests, three women and one man, were slowly walking towards them in the wind and rain in the distance, their steps, some fast, some slow, stepping over the puddles with cherry blossom petals floating on them.

"Master, four bowls of ramen, large portions please."

Chapter 354 The calm before the storm

Genji Heavy Industries, deeper than the Iron Dome Temple.

Yuan Zhisheng stood in a pitch-black dark room. Crow and Yaksha beside him swept the room inch by inch with a strong flashlight. Yuan Zhisheng's sight moved with the position illuminated by the pale light. The blue veins on both sides of his forehead twitched uncontrollably, and his back couldn't help but feel cold, as if countless centipedes were crawling across his back.

In the room, several steel operating tables were lined up in a row in the middle of the room. The length of these operating tables was oversized, probably specially prepared for dissecting Deadpool.

Bloodstained white sheets were piled up in the corner, rusty knives and medical gloves were placed on the operating table, giant boning knives and needles and thread for suturing bodies were tangled together, and thick steel cables hung from the ceiling one after another to a height of two meters from the ground. Black body parts, broken arms and scales were everywhere, and the air was filled with an extremely pungent smell of blood, making people dizzy... This room was like a combination of the headquarters of an organ trafficking organization and an ancient torture chamber.

This room is located below the other side of the Iron Dome Temple. Sakura used her ninja reconnaissance skills to find a hollow area behind the wall of the Iron Dome Temple. After passing through the secret door to the area only separated by a wall from the Ganliu Research Institute, she saw a huge hidden elevator. The elevator had no buttons and no signs. Genji Chisheng didn't even know that there was such an elevator under Genji Heavy Industries. After Genji Chisheng and the other three entered the elevator, the elevator began to descend and finally arrived at a reinforced and thickened airtight door.

The airtight door has been torn apart, and is covered with hideous claw marks and sticky liquid. It seems that it was forcibly broken open by the Deadpool group. The purpose of this airtight door may not be to trap Deadpool at all, but to prevent people from accidentally entering this area, so as to prevent someone from accidentally entering and seeing something they shouldn't see.

"I thought the darkroom where we interrogated people was bloody and violent enough, but now it seems that compared to the owner of this room, it's just middle school-level house-playing." Yasha sighed as he looked at the mess all over the room. "This is the real bloody hell."

"I never thought that among the family's upper echelons there were even more perverted perverts than us!" Crow couldn't help but sigh. "From now on, we won't have to do the interrogation and kidnapping. Let the owner of this room do it. Even if the devil comes, he'll have to tell the truth within half an hour!"

"Shut up!" Yuan Zhisheng shouted coldly. He squinted his eyes and looked deep into the dark room, pointing his finger. "Crow, point the flashlight at the back wall of the room."

"Okay, boss." Crow was not annoyed at all even though he was scolded by Yuan Zhisheng. He expanded the aperture of the flashlight to the widest and shone it in the direction of Yuan Zhisheng's finger.

The strong light hit something that could reflect light, and the dazzling light spots made people's eyes hurt, but Yuan Zhisheng looked straight ahead against the light, his eyes fixed.

It was a thick glass curtain wall with a huge hole in it. The entire glass curtain wall had almost collapsed. The water pouring out of the glass water tank flowed rapidly along the drain of the room, but there was still water on the ground that was over the soles of the shoes.

The transparent water was tinged with a faint scarlet hue, and several shredded remains of Deadpool were blocking the drain, preventing the accumulated water from draining out quickly... Yuan Zhisheng's eyelids twitched, because he saw that there seemed to be more than just debris piled up in the drain.

Gen Chisheng waved his hand, signaling Yasha and the others to follow. Ying supported his shoulders and walked to the drain.

This time everyone could see clearly that under the pale light of the flashlight, the long tail of a female Deadpool with a bloated belly was slowly twitching. Its limbs were missing, and it was obvious that it had been eaten. Perhaps because this Deadpool was pregnant, its belly, torso and head were left intact.

However, this is not the most terrifying thing. The most creepy thing is that the bulging skin on the belly of the pregnant female Deadpool is wriggling. Obviously, the thing in the Deadpool's belly is still alive and is about to hatch.

Under the gaze of Yuan Zhisheng and the other three, a pair of pitch-black claws tore open the belly of the pregnant Deadpool, like a caesarean section performed from the inside out, and a baby snake-like creature crawled out of the mother's belly.

Its body length is about three times that of a newborn human baby, and its body is covered with nascent light green scales. However, its bone claws are already extremely sharp, and its muscles have already developed into shape and its blood vessels are bulging. Its hissing sound is somewhere between the shrillness of a giant salamander and the angry roar of a beast. This snake-like creature uses its narrow eyes to survey the surrounding environment in the darkness. Through the slits in its eyelids, one can see that its pupils are an eerie dark gold…Then this newborn snake-like Deadpool made a move that made the scalps of the four Yuan Zhisheng tingle.

It grinned, revealing sharp teeth. The tips of its teeth were like saw teeth, tearing the belly of the mother that gave birth to it in circles along the position where it was wrapped. It chewed it a few times in its mouth and then swallowed it into its stomach.

As if it had tasted the deliciousness of blood, the newborn life attendant let out an excited roar, and its movements became faster and faster. Within a dozen seconds, it had eaten all the meat on the surface of the mother's abdomen. Then it put its head that had poked out of the mother's womb back in and began to eat something in the mother's abdomen. The sound of chewing the sticky and soft meat was like a huge worm rolling in the mud.

This newborn Deadpool was actually gnawing on the mother's internal organs, and it was extremely excited and didn't care at all about the painful screams of its dying mother.

Gen Chisei couldn't bear it any longer. He took the Spider Cut from Sakura's hand and pierced the inhuman monster along with the mother who gave birth to it.

"Crow, you have a gun, right?" Yuan Zhisheng suppressed the chill in his heart and ordered Crow, "You and Yasha will patrol this room together. If you find anyone alive, no need to report, just shoot them on the spot!"

"Yes!" The crow pulled Yaksha away.

Perhaps they noticed that Yuan Zhisheng was in a bad mood, so these two funny guys became unusually silent. They hardly said a word since entering this underground dark room.

The sound of gunfire rang out one after another in the distance. Crow and Yaksha began to shoot some of the Deadpool fetuses that were not yet dead with pistols. Judging from the frequency of their shooting, there were quite a few of these newborn Deadpools.

"That glass curtain wall is actually an oversized water tank. The material used is several times stronger than the ultra-clear, semi-tempered glass used in ordinary aquariums. It must be where these Deadpools are kept," Ying whispered. "At the bottom are the remains of some large animals: cow, sheep, and pig bones. But they've been completely gnawed clean, even the marrow has been sucked out. There are also Deadpool skeletons in there. It seems these guys, when extremely hungry, would even cannibalize their own kind."

Fortunately, Sakura had received high-intensity ninja training since childhood, and her psychological endurance was much stronger than that of ordinary people. If it were someone else, even vicious bastards like Yasha and Crow in the underworld, one look at the rotten meat and hideous broken bones at the bottom of the water tank would probably make them vomit out the wine and midnight snacks they drank last night.

"When was the Genji Heavy Industries Building completed?" Minamoto Chisei suddenly asked Sakura.

"At the end of 2004," Sakura thought for a moment and said, "I remember the exact date was December 24th. A month later, at the end of the year, the family business officially moved to Genji Heavy Industries. That day, you, the head of the family, were invited by Mr. Masamune to spend the entire night drinking with him at Shojin-ji Temple."

After a moment's silence, Minamoto Chisei lowered his voice and asked, "The entire Minamoto Heavy Industries Building, including the Iron Dome Temple and the Ganliu Research Institute, was designed and constructed by Maruyama Construction, right?"

"Yes, Maruyama Construction is the most reputable construction company in Japan, and it's also a family-owned company, so we didn't arrange for a supervisor, and everyone felt very relieved," Sakura said in a low voice. "As it turned out, Maruyama Construction's design and construction technology are truly second to none. After its completion, Genji Heavy Industries quickly became a landmark in the area and was even recognized by the Japanese government as the 'safest 100-meter building in the past 20 years.' The Iron Dome also solved Tokyo's urgent urban drainage problem."

"But Maruyama Construction has never made this area we're in public. Even our family didn't know there was such a large space beneath the Ganliu Research Institute," Sakura said. "But there's no doubt that this was built by Maruyama Construction, because every water pipe here is connected to the Iron Dome Temple's drainage system. This proves that this area wasn't a temporary construction; it could be said that it was already designed before construction of the Iron Dome Temple began."

"Sakura, tell me the truth, who do you think is keeping Deadpool in this area without telling the whole family?" Gen Chisheng suddenly turned his head and stared at Yabuki Sakura's beautiful eyes.

A trace of hesitation flashed across Sakura's eyes, a rare moment. She stole a glance at Gen Chisei's expressionless face and whispered, "Maybe... Mr. Masamune... but..."

"Enough." Yuan Zhisheng closed his eyes.

The gunshots in the distance also stopped. It was obvious that Yasha and Crow had been secretly paying attention to the conversation between Gen Chisheng and Sakura. After looking at each other, they secretly looked towards Gen Chisheng.

Yuan Zhisheng's expression was calm, but everyone knew that this was just the calm before the storm. They all knew Yuan Zhisheng very well. This man would calm down when he was extremely angry, and something big would happen next.

"Yaksha, go get some shochu, the strongest kind in the family... Sakura, go count how many people died tonight, and inform their families of their deaths early tomorrow morning. Take a portion of the family foundation as pensions to distribute to them. Remember to distribute it according to the family's highest standards." Yuan Zhisheng whispered.

"Yes." Yasha and Sakura both bowed.

"Crow, call Tachibana Masamune and tell him I want to see him," said Minamoto no Chisei.

"Meet here?" Crow asked uncertainly, looking at the messy room filled with the stench of blood.

"Yes, right here." Genji said expressionlessly, "Fifteen minutes, only fifteen minutes. Within fifteen minutes, Tachibana Masamune must appear in front of me."

Yasha, Crow, and Sakura all took their leave, each with a storm in their hearts. In the past, Minamoto no Chisei would only address Tachibana Masamune as "Dad" or "Mr. Masamune" with respect, and he had never called him by his name like he did now, his tone as hard as iron.

Before leaving through the dilapidated airtight door, the three of them simultaneously turned their heads to look at Yuan Zhisheng standing in the darkness. He stood there motionless, not knowing what he was thinking, but the three of them felt that the back of this man named Yuan Zhisheng had never been so straight as it was at this moment... as if he was going to pierce the sky above their heads.

……

Deep in the alleys behind the University of Tokyo.

Uesugi Yue's gaze swept over the three women and one man in front of him, the four young and unfamiliar diners. His gaze lingered on the girl with dark red hair and dark red pupils for a long time. After a moment, he forced himself to look away.

This was a very strange feeling, one that Uesugi Yue had never experienced before. He did not steal glances at this girl like he did at high school student Xiaolan or peeked at the beautiful legs wrapped in stockings of other young girls, but he could not help but want to look at her face more carefully.

It’s not because the girl is not pretty. On the contrary, this red-haired girl is almost one of the most beautiful young girls in terms of appearance and figure among all the beautiful girls that Uesugi Yue has ever seen. But Uesugi Yue just can’t think of anything dirty, as if he would become an unforgivable sinner if he thought of it that way.

"Sorry, everyone, we're closing today. If you want to eat ramen, you can come early tomorrow." Uesugi Yue put the washed dishes into the drawer of the van.

"No, no, Master. We came all the way from Yokohama just for this. If you close the stall at this time, where are we going to have a midnight snack?" Su Enxi spoke in a coquettish tone, but her hands were extremely domineering.

Su Enxi pulled out a blank check from somewhere and filled in a price that was enough to buy the entire trolley. She slapped the thin check in front of Uesugi Yue and said, "Master, I see you haven't sold all your ramen today. It won't take up much of your time to make us a pot of ramen. This is your reward. After making us four bowls, it should be enough for you to rest for several months. No one would refuse money, right?"

Uesugi Yue glanced at the number on Su Enxi's check and his eyelids couldn't help but twitch.

He hadn't seen such a large sum of money in ages since he left the Sheqi Eight Clan sixty years ago. The extremely generous girl in front of him was still being too conservative. This check could not only allow him to rest for several months...it would be enough to rest for a year or two and then buy a whole truck of pirated adult discs!

Chapter 355: Eri vs. Uesugi Yue

If it were any other customer, Uesugi Yue might have been unable to resist accepting the generous check in his hand.

But the customers in front of him gave him a very unusual feeling. There were too many people who shouldn't have shown up today. At this moment, Uesugi Yue just wanted to quickly close his stall, go home, watch an adult video, and have a good sleep, forgetting all those "gods", "ghosts", and that old bastard Ange.

"I'm sorry, miss. You may not believe this, but although I'm a ramen chef now, I used to be a worldly person. Money doesn't hold that much appeal to me." Uesugi Yue picked up the check and handed it back to Su Enxi. "With this money, you can eat anywhere easily. There's a high-end 24-hour pub two blocks away, and even further away is Kabukicho. You don't need to worry about not having places to spend money... I have to close today no matter what."

Uesugi Yue's tone was very stubborn. These diners did not look like good people. He had just received a troublesome and evil guest, and now his head was hurting from being cheated. He hid here to sell ramen to get away from all the troubles and find a quiet place. If he took on trouble for money, it would go against his original intention of running away from the family sixty years ago.

"What do you mean by 'closed'? Isn't your ramen stall open 24 hours a day?" Jude Mai took a half step forward and sat down in front of the food cart. Her beautiful, almost enchanting, eyes furrowed slightly. "I've eaten here before. I came even later than this time, and you started stretching the noodles without a word. I've never seen you close before."

Uesugi Yue was stunned for a moment, then began to look at this incredibly beautiful girl. When his eyes swept over her slender figure like a spring mountain and her plump and slender legs, Uesugi Yue finally realized.

He had indeed met this girl...about four years ago.

This girl is a student of the Tokyo National University behind this street. Every time the girl appears from the back door of Tokyo University, she is surrounded by boys and treated like a star. As soon as this girl appears, she is the undisputed focus of the crowd, because she has a charming temperament and proud long legs that people will never forget at first sight. Therefore, Uesugi Yue was deeply impressed by this girl with a good figure. He often admired the scene of the girl's unparalleled long legs walking gracefully across the street from his ramen stall. Uesugi Yue still remembers these beautiful scenes vividly.

Uesugi Yue remembered that the girl's name seemed to be Shude Mai, a celebrity-like figure at the University of Tokyo. Many scouts used to squat near his stall just to "accidentally meet" Shude Mai. Even when Shude Mai was at school, at least five or six out of ten boys who came to his ramen stall would talk about Mai, the fantasy object of all the Tokyo University boys during their adolescence.

However, what impressed Uesugi Yue more about Shude Mai was her unknown side. Shude Mai had indeed visited his ramen stall more than once, but Shude Mai never came to eat ramen during the day. Every time this girl came to the ramen stall, it was very late at night, when there was no one at the ramen stall, and every time she came, Shude Mai was alone.

Whenever he came to the ramen stall, Jude Mai would come from the darkness in the distance in a tight black combat suit. Her steps were so light that Uesugi Yue didn't even notice someone approaching him. When Uesugi Yue found Jude Mai, the girl was already sitting in front of the food counter, slapping two 1,000 yen and 500 yen bills on the table.

Jude Mai would always order a bowl of soy sauce ramen, a braised egg and a glass of sake, and eat the noodles silently without saying a word. Uesugi Yue would stir the soup pot with a colander while silently glancing at the girl's figure, which was clearly visible from the side due to the black tight combat uniform.

Jude Mai at night is completely different from the charming girl surrounded by the crowd during the day. She is like two different people. Uesugi Yue knows that night is the time when this girl is truly "alive". Every time she appears in front of his stall, the girl is like a blade hidden in a sheath that may be exposed at any time. She seems to be on guard against something all the time, and her expression is tired. Only when eating noodles, Jude Mai is very quiet, and her tired expression will ease a little, as if she has found a little bit of warm comfort in the bowl of steaming food.

Uesugi Yue also cooperated very well and never made a sound to disturb the girl. Sometimes he would "carelessly" put an extra boiled egg in her bowl, or "accidentally" give a 1,000 yen portion of sake instead of a 600 yen portion. He tacitly did not discuss with Shude Mai her work or career, or why she always wore a black combat uniform and went out late at night.

Because Uesugi Yue knew that everyone living in this world has a little bit of secrets hidden in their hearts. He chose to escape from the past that he didn't want anyone to mention and came to the depths of this alley. He didn't want to think about the old things he didn't want to recall, and didn't want to see the old friends he didn't want to see again... He wanted to escape but couldn't escape completely, so he could only stay in Tokyo, a cage without boundaries, living with the little peace and joy he had left, and dying with the little peace and joy he had left.

"Jiude-san, four years have passed. You've changed so much. No wonder I didn't recognize you at first sight." Uesugi Yue sighed as he looked at Jude Mai after four years, then shook his head gently. "Although I'm happy to see Jude-san again, you can't be so overbearing and tell me not to close the shop."

"This ramen stall was indeed open 24 hours a day before, but that doesn't mean it has to be open 24 hours a day today." Uesugi Yue coughed twice. "Four years have passed. You, Jude-san, have become more and more feminine, but I'm getting older. Unlike you young people who are full of energy and vitality, an old man's body can't withstand staying up all night without sleep!"

Su Enxi and Jiude Mai looked at each other, and both sneered in their hearts.

Ordinary old people really can't stay up all night and can't sleep, but Master Yue, an old man like you who watches at least three adult movies a day is obviously more energetic and strong than young people. Do you have the right to say that?