Maybe I didn’t start off to good today. First, the fact that
I am now the owner of this property, the dojo, and everything here in, I think
its bullshit that I don’t have access to the family accounts and must instead
live off of a daily allowance of 500¥. So I went snooping around the house
trying to find either a stash of cash left by dad, or wherever the hell Ine-san
keeps the cash she gives me everyday. I mean she can’t be going to the bank
every goddam day. I came up with nothing. I found a game system that Fuku-san
bought, naturally his ass its too dumb to buy any games for it. Clearly this
game system is intended for looking at and not actually playing with.
Speaking
of Fuku-san, I found him practicing in the dojo today, and the guy is so inept
that he injured himself while performing a hand strike… in the air. As if he
attacked the air, and the air got so pissed at him that it punched him in the
kidney, at least that’s what I figure based on how he reacted. So he said he
wants to start sparring with me. Sure, I guess I can knock him around every
once in a while, could be fun.
So I
kept exploring the house, said a prayer to dad at the shrine before searching
the shrine area for anything of value that wouldn’t be missed, came up with
candles and matches. What the fuck do I do with these? So going into my
father’s bedroom, I found the whole room to be rather Spartan compared to where
I sleep. I get a bed and a desk with a chair, he apparently slept on the floor
with a futon, and had a knee high table he sat in front of. Well while
pilfering through his things looking for a wad of cash or his will so I can
take over the family bank account, I discovered a letter from him which kind of
perplexed me. The jist of it was, “Find your own path, see it through to the
end, feel the force flow through you.” I dunno, to me it sounds like he was
expecting Lan Di and his goons and didn’t expect to come out alive.
Called
Nozomi today, dunno why just felt like it. Sure she has the personality of a
grape fruit but good god those legs in that tiny skirt, and a turtleneck
sweater… but she asked to meet me, and I’m like, “Whatever, your place or
mine?” So I’m making my way down the road that nobody drives on and as I round
a corner like 4 kids sit there and kick soccerballs at me. Thankfully years of
martial arts training in addition to just being a badass have given me catlike
reflexes, I dodged it easily, and threatened them to never do it again.
Pissed
away more money on the capsule machine today. I gotta stop doing it, but I just
can’t help it, the figures are so colorful and well detailed. Reminds me of the
plastic Gundam model kits dad used to get me, that Ine-san threw out. But
anyways I should probably start keeping track of how much money I have at the
start of each day vs what I finish out with. Maybe this will get my spending
habits under control.
I
continued asking about the black car that Lan Di was in, since it’s the only
piece of information I have at this point, and I finally got something else…
Nozomi was apparently splashed with mud by it as it sped by. Which is about as
useful as any of the other info I’ve acquired by this point, which is as follows:
Car sped off, recklessly, hit a cat, almost ran over old man Yamagishi, and
splashed mud on Nozomi, also it was black. I’ve got to be real honest, for 2
days of investigating I really expected to have more than “There was a black
car and it sped away.”
So I
finally get to the flourist shop where Nozomi works, she’s standing out front
in her tiny skirt, those sweet legs exposed to the world, and anyway I ask her
about the car, and I can’t believe what she tells me… “Well it was black, and
it looked like a car you typically don’t see around here. A luxury car.”
Holding back the frustration that I’m sure made an eye twitch as her
information is essentially useless and tells me that on top of having little
personality, she’s also dumb. Great, guess god had to compensate or something
to balance her out, hot but dumb. Whatever, she mentions that she saw the guys
in the car arguing with Tom. And I’m like hold the fuck up, Tom? That mother
fucker didn’t mention shit about this yesterday, so I went to go see Tom.
Tom
said they almost ran down one of his customers, to which I told him I didn’t
care, and needed to know about them. I didn’t ask why he didn’t tell me because
it wasn’t important, I figured this would be a lead. What was the great bit of
information that Tom gave me? The new bit of information about Lan Di, the man
with a Chinese name, wearing Chinese silk garb, mentioning a Chinese place by
name as a place he knew my father from… “I think they were Chinese.” So I
smashed my head into his hotdog cart a few times to regain my composure.
Probably not wise but it certainly made me feel better.
So Tom
points me across the street to a travel agency where Chinese people frequent,
says I might be able to find out more about Chinese there. This is only the
second day of my revenge quest and I am already questioning the worth of the
effort I’m putting out. Sorry dad, but now instead of no leads I got… next to
no leads. Well I went in the travel agency, and he told me that if I wanted to
know about Chinese people I should try going to the Chinese Restaurant. So
after I banged my head on his wall for a few minutes, I then left quickly
before he made me pay for the hole in his wall out of my revenge fund.
I did
better today. I went to You Arcade and only spent about 200¥ on 2 games of Hang
On. Did ok, not great. But it helped me recenter myself so I could focus on the
task at hand. I went to the Chinese Restaurant, and asked about Chinese people
in the area, maybe there is someone here who knows something that could point
me in the direction of Lan Di, who knows. Well the old man who runs the place,
who is the head of the Dobuita Chinese Society, tells me he doesn’t know a lot
of the Chinese people in the area. So after I finished banging my head on his
walls, he tells me I should pursue something called the “Three Blades.”
Apparently it refers to trades that Chinese immigrants learn before coming
here. It seems China has an excess of cooks, tailors, and barbers, as they keep
going everywhere else to set up shop.
I’m gonna
look into the Three Blades tomorrow. But in an unrelated note, the local girl
Megumi who was taking care of the stray cat, did not show up to take care of
the cat today, which means that since I’m the only other one who seems to know
about it, I’m stuck doing it. Wonderful. Now I gotta pay to feed it. I’m not
gonna let a kitten starve to death, sure I’m an asshole for making it sleep
outside in a box, but I’m not gonna let him starve. Well shit.
The
only other thing of note to mention from today is, while snooping around in my
dad’s room I found an old key I’ve never seen before. I looked around the
property and just before bed I found that it opens up a locked box in the dojo
containing an old Katana. Y’know Lan Di used hand to hand techniques, and his
goons were unarmed, maybe dad wouldn’t be dead if he had a fucking sword on him
when they showed up. But you know what they say about Hindsight.
At this
rate I’ll be broke by the end of the week, and my Revengence will be canceled
due to a lack of funds. Maybe I should get a job, I dunno.
Here’s
hoping this Three Blades thing pans out into something, anything.
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