The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

"Not here? What are you doing?" Keiko Yamada pressed.

"Then I don't know."

"Does anyone have her phone number? Call her and tell her the boss needs to see her and she needs to come back right away," Keiko Yamada said, somewhat dissatisfied.

"Boss... let me ask first." The waiter's expression changed slightly upon hearing this, and he forced a dry laugh.

She then walked to the side, called over the bartender, and pointed twice towards Yamada Keiko's location. The bartender frowned, took out his phone, and then suddenly realized what was going on...

Clearly, he remembered who Keiko Yamada was.

Without further hesitation, he found the bar manager's number on his phone and called him.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the office to sit for a while." Keiko Yamada wasn't interested in seeing how the bar was doing. She called Ishihara Akira and the others and went to the back of the bar. They found a room that could be opened directly, which was probably the staff lounge, and sat down inside.

"How are you feeling?" Keiko Yamada asked Sho Ishihara, who was standing next to her.

"It's a bit noisy. But young people should like it. However, places like this are prone to disorder, so we'll probably have to put more effort into security in the future," Ishihara Akira replied after a moment's thought.

"By the way, does your Yamada-gumi own a security company?"

“You were here yesterday when I asked Big Brother about the organization, so you should know that the group is basically still using the traditional methods of laundering money, using construction companies to house and maintain the thugs within the organization. But if you need it, it's not difficult. Just have someone set up a security company. That would also solve the problem of the construction company having too many people, as well as the security issues of the various branches.” Thinking this through, Keiko Yamada didn't hesitate and immediately instructed the lawyer beside her, “Remember to have someone register a security company later.”

“Okay,” the lawyer replied.

"And what about you? What are your thoughts?" Ishihara Akira asked Sato Haruka beside him, unconcerned about Yamada Keiko's arrangements.

"Let's wait until the handover procedures are completed and Kyoko has checked the bar's financial records before we talk about this," said Haruka Sato, speaking rather conservatively or rather cautiously.

“Alright.” Ishihara Akira nodded.

Then the group started chatting about other things—

For example, have you ever been to a bar? And what kind of bars have you been to?

The prices of drinks at the bar.

How much alcohol do you drink? What interesting things did you encounter or see at the bar?

In short, they chatted for almost half an hour before the bar manager, a woman named Mayumi Esumi, came running in breathlessly and greeted everyone apologetically: "Sorry, sorry to have kept you all waiting."

"What were you doing before?" Keiko Yamada questioned the newcomer, still dissatisfied.

“Excuse me, Ms. Takagi, I…” But before she could finish speaking, Keiko Yamada interrupted her: “I’m divorced from that guy, Haruo Takagi. Now my surname is Yamada.”

"I'm sorry, Ms. Yamada," Mayumi Esumi immediately bowed and apologized.

“Never mind. It’s normal that you didn’t know since we just got divorced today. But just because we’re divorced doesn’t mean this bar isn’t mine anymore.” She then gestured to Ishihara Akira, who took out the ownership transfer agreement he had just put away and handed it to Esumi Mayumi: “As you can see, this bar has now been transferred to Mr. Ishihara Akira. From now on, Mr. Ishihara Akira is the owner of the bar. Call all the employees over to meet him, and then we can talk about other things.”

“Okay. Please wait a moment, I’ll arrange for an employee to meet with you, Boss.” Mayumi Esumi didn’t hesitate and immediately bowed in response after handing the transfer document back to Akira Ishihara.

He then turned and left the staff lounge, calling over everyone except for a few waiters who were attending to customers, including the bartenders, and introducing them to Ishihara Akira.

After that, they switched places; these people went out, and the waiters who had originally stayed outside came in and got to know Ishihara Akira.

Only after everyone remembered him did Keiko Yamada stand up and have Mayumi Esumi lead them to the bar manager's office.

"You can arrange the rest," Keiko Yamada said to Akira Ishihara.

Ishihara Akira nodded and turned to Ezumi Mayumi: "Let me introduce you. This is Sato Haruka. Unless there are special circumstances, she will be in charge of the management and operation of the bar. Of course, you will still be the manager, but you will only need to be responsible for the specific execution and management of the bar staff. Sato Haruka will be in charge of strategic adjustments."

"Of course, if you have any good suggestions, you can give them to her, and she will decide whether to implement them or how to implement them based on the specific circumstances."

"Hello, Ms. Sato, I'm Mayumi Esumi. Please take care of me from now on." Mayumi Esumi breathed a slight sigh of relief upon hearing that she was still the manager, and quickly greeted Haruka Sato.

"Are the accounts still there?" Sato Haruka asked Esumi Mayumi without any ceremony, immediately taking the power of the power.

“Yes, they’re all in the safe,” Mayumi Esumi replied.

"Then bring them all out. I'll have Ms. Kyoko review them to see if there are any problems. We'll try to resolve any potential issues within the next day or two to avoid affecting our future cooperation due to accounting problems."

“Okay, okay,” Mayumi Esumi replied.

He then walked to the side, took out a strangely shaped key from his pocket, went to the safe, opened it, and took out several ledgers from inside.

“The ledgers are all here,” Mayumi Esumi said.

"Thank you for your help, Kyoko," Sato Haruka said to Iwase Kyoko beside her.

Kyoko Iwase nodded, walked to the front of the ledger, and sat down in the chair behind the desk, pretending to audit the ledger in front of her to see if there were any issues such as fictitious inflows and outflows, or false invoicing and reporting.

They began verifying the bar's information and the health of its operating water.

Chapter 150 Enemies Meet Again

"Let's go outside and not disturb Kyoko's audit," Haruka Sato suggested.

"Alright."

Afterwards, the group quietly left the manager's office and went to the bar outside, where they found a relatively quiet corner to sit down.

Drinking, snacking, playing games, and taking advantage of others.

Time quickly passed and the bar began to fill up. One by one, brightly dressed, trendy young men and women, either alone or in small groups, entered the bar, ordered drinks, and started shouting and making a ruckus.

However, it didn't affect anyone. After all, with the influx of people, the music in the bar changed from the original soothing style to DJ dance music and heavy metal. Even the originally empty stage was filled with scantily clad young girls dressed in a sultry style dancing, swaying their hips and making all sorts of extremely seductive or vulgar gestures, attracting the young men and women in the bar to make a lively noise and spend money.

In short, it's all about chaos and extravagance.

But the atmosphere was also getting lively. Watching the waiters getting busier, one could vaguely deduce that the average spending per person and the daily revenue here must be quite substantial...

However, the good times didn't last long. Soon after the bar became lively, a man who was probably a security guard approached Mayumi Esumi, who was sitting with him, and whispered something in her ear.

"What happened?" Keiko Yamada asked habitually.

"Someone selling medicine has come in." Mayumi Ezuka hesitated for a moment, but still truthfully explained the situation.

"Selling medicine? I remember one of the store's rules is that you're not allowed to touch these things, so what's going on?" Upon hearing this, Keiko Yamada's face darkened, and she questioned Mayumi Esumi in a deep voice with an unfriendly expression.

“We are indeed operating in accordance with the regulations, but we can’t stop them.” Mayumi Egaki explained with a bitter expression, “They usually come in groups of one or two, disguised as ordinary customers, and order drinks. They only reveal their identities as drug dealers after finding a suitable target, and then actively approach the target. Moreover, they are very secretive in their actions. Unless we keep an eye on them, there will always be customers who are fooled by them and buy contraband from them.”

"Then why didn't you just kick them out when you first discovered them?" Sato Haruka asked curiously.

"We've tried chasing them away, and even had the previous owner contact the Yamada Group to warn them, but they wouldn't listen. Besides, these people buying medicine are members of various yakuza groups, so they might not give the Yamada Group any face. Once, we chased them away too hard and angered them. They organized their men to cause trouble and almost got into a fight with the Yamada Group members who were guarding the area! It was only thanks to the timely arrival of the patrolling police that things were calmed down. So we've stopped chasing them away. We usually just remind customers not to buy things from unknown sources when they ask, and then we ignore them."

"After all, we're not the guests' parents. We have no right to interfere with what they want to do, right?"

"Do you know which group these drug dealers belong to?" Ishihara Akira asked.

“At first there were three or four groups, but after the Yamada group stepped in, only the Kigurashi group was still buying medicine in the arena. Oh, right, the time we almost got into a fight was also with the Kigurashi group,” Mayumi Esumi explained.

"Heh, it really is true that enemies are destined to meet." Keiko Yamada sneered.

"What are you going to do?" Ishihara Akira asked Yamada Keiko curiously.

"What are your thoughts?" Keiko Yamada asked in return, knowing that Ishihara Sho might have other plans.

“Anyway, you’ll be targeting a group later, so let’s start with the Ghost Car Group.” After saying that, Ishihara Akira stood up and said to the security guard who had come to report earlier, “Take me to see those people who sell medicine.”

“Okay.” The security guard did not hesitate, because he knew that the person in front of him was now his boss, so he agreed and led Ishihara Akira over.

Soon, the two spotted a blond-haired, frivolous-looking drug addict at the bar counter, flirting with a scantily clad young woman.

"Boss, that's the guy."

"Is he the only one?" Ishihara Sho asked.

"There's another one over there," the security guard said, pointing to a young man who was loitering on the dance floor not far away, taking advantage of a girl who had gotten drunk.

"Okay, you can go back."

"Boss, are you sure you don't need my help?"

"No need, they're just two little brats, I can handle them."

"Alright then." The security guard glanced at Ishihara Akira, then turned and walked back to his post.

Then Ishihara Akira took a step forward, walked up to the blond-haired man, and said directly, "Come with me."

The blond-haired man paused for a moment, stood up, and followed Ishihara like a fool. Then the two of them found another guy who was partying on the dance floor and brought him out in the same way.

"Find me a quiet room," Ishihara Akira said as he returned to where Yamada Keiko and the others were sitting.

"Let's go backstage," Mayumi Esumi said, quickly standing up.

Then, the others stood up and followed Ishihara Akira to the backstage of the bar, where they stood in another room that was hard to tell whether it was a lounge or an office.

“This is where the staff on duty sleep. Usually no one comes here. Boss, is this place okay?” Mayumi Ezuka asked.

"That's fine," Ishihara Akira replied nonchalantly.

"Tell me, what are your names, your backgrounds, and why you're selling drugs in this bar?" Ishihara Akira pulled up a chair, sat down, and casually glanced at the two idiots in front of him, asking them questions.

Then, like prisoners in some science fiction movies who have been given a truth serum, the two of them told everything about themselves.

The blond-haired guy is named Junichi Watsuji and Kuniaki Sagara. Just as Mayumi Esumi said, they are from the Ghost Car Group and are direct members of their group. The head of the group is a guy named Susumu Sunaga, who is a henchman who is responsible for selling drugs in various venues.

The reason they sell here is not only because this is their pharmaceutical area, but also because this area is under the protection of the Yamada Group.

According to their boss, since the Yamada Group doesn't give the Ghost Car Group any face, then the Ghost Car Group doesn't need to give the Yamada Group any face either, and will just sell medicine to the places they protect.

If you're not satisfied, you can go and reason with their boss, Guiche Dashi...

Therefore, as long as they have goods, they will inevitably visit the various venues operated and protected by the Yamada Group to sell contraband. They will even proactively report to the police afterward, allowing the police to investigate the venues, thus disrupting the Yamada Group's business atmosphere and gradually weakening the Yamada Group's economic power.

It can be described as ruthless.

"Ghost Cart Oishi, I'll remember this. He'll get what's coming to him sooner or later!" Yamada Keiko said with a sneer after listening to the two henchmen's account.

Chapter 151 Countermeasures

"Don't worry, you'll teach him a lesson soon enough," Ishihara Akira chuckled. Without further ado, he pointed at one of the blond-haired men and ordered, "You, go to the police station and the drug administration right now and report the Ghost Car Gang for purchasing and selling contraband. Also, state your willingness to act as a witness and reveal everything you know so the police can investigate!"

"Yes." The blond-haired man agreed and immediately turned and left the room, disappearing from Ishihara and the others' sight.

As for you...

"Do you know Kayako?" Ishihara Sho asked the others with a smile.

"Boss, are you talking about the female ghost in Ju-on, the horror movie that was as famous as Ring more than ten years ago?" Mayumi Esumi asked hesitantly.