Rubik's Cube World

ps: Thanks to "Light of Darkness" for the valuable monthly ticket, and thanks to "nxcx" for the reward.

The wine is not big, at least not very big compared to the surrounding buildings, but it can be regarded as a single-family house with a double-layer structure. The surface of the mud paint on the outer wall is covered with traces of wind and frost. A wooden plaque with several characters of 'Phantom Wine' hangs above the door frame.

Ito Cheng turned over and got off the motorcycle, parked it on the side of the road, and walked towards the wine.

"Squeak..."

There was a weird rubbing sound of wooden shafts, and Ito Cheng entered the wine.

In an instant, a wine space with an area of ​​about [-] square meters and a decoration very close to the western style of the United States came into Ito Cheng's eyes. There were dozens of well-dressed people who were not serious at first glance. Sitting together around wooden round tables, drinking wine, chatting wantonly, the two looks exactly the same, but the hair style is slightly different, and the same blonde young woman with black and white maid uniform is passing through. The guests are served drinks.

And behind the wine stand, a young man who was dressed similarly to a bartender, with short blond hair and a heroic look that made it difficult to distinguish between male and female, was quietly wiping the empty wine glass in his hand.

He is the owner of this wine, a fighter, and the evergreen tree of the kof series -- king (gold)!

Hearing the sound of the door, King looked up at Cheng Ito.

Ito Cheng let go of the arm supporting the door panel and let it close by itself.Walked straight to the stage.

Along the way, other people in the wine also cast curious eyes on him.

"A glass of Bloody Mary." Ito Cheng, who sat down on the high chair in front of him, put his hands on the table and said, looking at the blond king in front of him.

"Okay." King agreed, put down the shiny wine glass in his hand, turned around and took out the required wine from the wine storage compartment under the countertop, and made the so-called Bloody Mary for Ito Cheng.

In less than a minute, a glass of bright red wine was pushed in front of Ito Cheng.

"Please use it slowly." King said softly.Then he picked up another cup and lowered his head to wipe it there.

Itocheng picked up the wine glass, brought it to his mouth and took a sip.

"I heard that you sell information?" Itocheng put down his wine glass, looked up, looked at the king in front of him and said softly.

The king who wiped the wine glass paused.He looked up at Ito Cheng.Then he lowered his head and wiped the wine glass again and said, "Occasionally, I will make an order."

"I want to know the information about one." Itocheng said, looking at King with burning eyes.

King didn't speak, nor did he stop what he was doing, but it unexpectedly gave the impression that she was listening.

"A young female private investigator named Mary." Ito Cheng continued.

"She's not from Nanzhen." King asked without raising his head.

"Yes, but I heard that he has a grudge against Keith." Ito Cheng nodded.Then a new piece of information was sent.

"This is very dangerous." King put down his glass.He picked up a new wine glass and wiped it again.

"It's easy to talk about the price." Ito Cheng said with a smile.

for money.Ito Cheng, who has alchemy, has never been short of it. As long as he has paper, he can make it on the spot.And the only troublesome thing to say.That is, the certification label of the coin needs to be distracted.

What's more, he can also hypnotize the bank staff, and directly use the bad and dead debts in the bank for his own use, which is even more worry-free.

"I can give you news in five days." King said softly.

Ito Cheng nodded, and quietly drank the wine in the glass.

"I still have a job, I don't know if you are willing to do it." After a moment of silence, Ito Cheng said again.

"Celebrity bodyguard." Without waiting for King to ask, Ito Cheng said it directly.

"Tell me in detail." King raised his head, looked at Ito Cheng and asked.

Ito Cheng did not explain immediately, but reached into his pocket, took out a business card from his pocket, put it on the desk of the stage, and pushed it in front of King.

"Show Time Entertainment Co., Ltd., Cheng Ito."

A paragraph of jet-black text caught King's eyes.

"I'm the boss of an entertainment company. I have so many stars under my management, and I plan to promote one of them to become a superstar recently, so the security force is a bit insufficient, so I want to hire you as a bodyguard for a period of time. What do you think?" Ito Cheng raised his glass and took another sip of wine, smiling.

"Why me?" King frowned.

"Because I only trust fighters, and the star under me is a woman." Ito Cheng said softly.

"How long?" King asked a little excitedly.

Compared with selling information dangerously, and opening a tavern in a place like Nanzhen where dragons and snakes are mixed, being a bodyguard for a period of time can be regarded as an extremely easy job for her, and it depends on the situation. Less, why not do it?After all, she owed a huge foreign debt now, and was worried about how to make money to pay back the money.

"The time is uncertain." Ito Cheng replied.

"..." King hesitated.

Although she wants to take this comfortable job, this wine is her property after all. If it's just a short-term bodyguard job, then it's no problem, as long as the wine is temporarily handed over to Sari and Elizabeth. It's fine for people to take care of it, but in the long run, the wine will need to be temporarily closed, which is not in her interest.

"One month at most." King said after thinking for a while.

"Okay." Ito Cheng nodded and agreed.

Then there was another period of silence.

"I'll come to you for news in five days." Cheng Ito, who raised his head and drank all the wine in his glass, flipped his hands over and took out a [-]-yuan dollar bill and put it on the table, stood up and said.

"Okay." King quickly reached out to hold the dollar, and retracted his wine glass.

It's just that her movements are fast.But some people who had been paying attention to Ito Cheng and King in the wine still saw the face value of the dollar, their eyes lit up, and a greedy look flashed in their eyes.

Then, those people looked at each other, got up together, and left Phantom Wine behind Ito Cheng.

Although they became greedy, they were not stupid. People who knew that they could open wine in a place like Nanzhen, but were not afraid of being smashed by others, either had connections behind them or were very strong themselves.I have laid a foundation for myself.It's not something they bastards can compare to, and naturally they won't put their greedy thoughts on the boss, so it's very simple, Ito, who spends a lot of money, has become a fat sheep in their eyes.

not to mention.Ito Cheng looks like an Asian again.The figure is not necessarily big and round.Looks like a soft persimmon, who else to look for?

Regarding the actions of those people, King naturally had his eyes on it.His brows were slightly wrinkled.Then he put down the wine glass, turned around, left the wine through the back door, quickened his pace, and drove forward in a detour.

It's just that although her speed is fast, it can't match the speed of Ito Cheng's thought power, so when she rushed to the front, the figure of the bastard with broken hands and feet and howling on the ground came into her eyes.

Seeing this, King's pupils shrank slightly, and he secretly said in his heart, "You are a master!"

"Surprisingly, I missed it. I didn't expect the boss of an entertainment company to have such great skills." Then, King turned and left, secretly saying with a self-deprecating face.

On the other side, Ito Cheng, who had left King's Phantom Wine, disappeared from the streets of Nanzhen in a flash, and returned to the villa he bought in the suburbs of Tokyo.

Then, Ito Cheng left the house again and drove to the location of the Shiranui Dojo.

This time, he was going to use the same reason to fool Mai Shiranui, the beautiful woman.

After counting for 10 minutes, Ito Cheng came to Shiranui Rudokan and stopped the car.

The Shiranui Dojo is the same as other Japanese-style gymnasiums. The dojos are all built in the suburbs some distance away from the urban area. There are few vehicles around and rich vegetation, which is very peaceful and quiet.

A white wall with double wooden gates only in the middle surrounds Shiranui's dojo.

Cheng Ito got out of the car and walked slowly into the dojo with the open gate.

In an instant, a piece of wooden buildings from the Edo period appeared in front of Ito Cheng.

Ito Cheng stopped and shouted, "Is anyone there? Is anyone at home?"

"Hey, here we come, here we come." Almost at the moment the words fell, a crisp and lively voice echoed in the dojo.

"Dengdengdengdeng..."

Then, accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps, a beautiful woman with a height of about 1.6 meters [-], wearing a pair of black home trousers, a beige short-sleeved shirt, and a long black hair tied into a high ponytail behind her head with a special hairpin The woman ran out from the verandah of the house on the side.

"Hello, I'm the owner of the Shiranui Dojo, Shiranui Mai, I don't know why this gentleman is here..." Mai Shiranui, who walked quickly to Ito Cheng, bowed politely to Ito Cheng, softly asked.

"You're so beautiful, I wonder if I can call you Mai?" Ito Cheng first praised, and then asked shamelessly.

"Eh... this gentleman, we are not familiar yet, you still call me by my surname." A look of astonishment flashed across Mai Shiranui's face, and then politely declined.

"Mr. I don't know why..." Then Mai Shiranui asked again without giving Ito Cheng a chance to refute.

"It's like this, I have a job here and I want to invite Miss Mai to perform it." Ito Cheng still cheekily called Mai Shiranui as Mai.

"Work?" Mai Shiranui asked doubtfully.

And because of the doubts in his heart, even Ito Cheng didn't care about her cheeky title.

"Yes, work." Ito Cheng smiled and said, "I am talking here?"

"I'm sorry, sir, please follow me." After this reminder, Mai Shiranui who suddenly came to her senses hurriedly saluted Ito Cheng again, and invited sideways.

Ito Cheng was also polite, and followed behind Mai Shiranui to the guest room of the dojo.

After a while, Ito Cheng and Shiranui Mai both came to the guest room.

Mai Shiranui asked Ito Cheng to sit down on the tatami first, then turned around and left the guest room again. It was not until a few minutes later that she came back with a round wooden tray with two porcelain tea cups on it, and knelt down opposite Ito Cheng And down.

"Tea, please." Mai Shiranui put one of the cups in front of Ito Cheng and said politely.

"Thank you." Ito Cheng picked up the teacup, put it in his mouth and took a sip.

"Great tea art." Ito Cheng praised.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am Ito Cheng, and I am the president of Showtime Entertainment Co., Ltd." Ito Cheng put down his teacup, took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Shiranui Mai, introducing himself.

Mai Shiranui leaned forward, took Mingping with both hands, held it in front of her, and looked down.

"This presumptuous visit is because there is a job I want to hand over to Miss Mai, who is a well-known fighter." Itocheng continued.

"What job?" Mai Shiranui, who put down her business card, wondered.

"Artist bodyguard." Ito Cheng said with a smile.

"Artist bodyguard?" Mai Shiranui frowned.

"Yes, our company recently plans to vigorously promote an artist under our banner to help her advance to the ranks of top stars, but due to the hasty planning, we have not found suitable security personnel. This has caused loopholes in our original publicity plan. So in order to avoid any danger, I thought of you." Ito Cheng made it up casually.

"To tell the truth, Miss Wu, I am also a fighting enthusiast. I was also fortunate to watch the King of Fighters tournament held not long ago. It was at that time that I saw Miss Wu's heroic appearance, and I was instantly fascinated by you."

"Ha, haha..." Mai Shiranui smiled awkwardly.

"We're still talking about work."

Mai Shiranui who didn't want to continue the topic quickly brought the topic back to the main topic.

"Miss Mai's job is very simple. Before we find suitable security personnel, she will act as the bodyguard of our company's artist Athena Asamiya to ensure her personal safety during the promotion process." Ito Cheng nodded and said seriously .

"Uh... who did you just mention?" Mai Shiranui asked with surprise on her face.

"Athena Asamiya." Ito Cheng repeated.

Of course Ito Cheng understood why Shiranui Mai was surprised, because in the 94 King of Fighters Contest, Asamiya Athena had already participated in the competition with Shii Kentaka and Zhen Yuansai, and had a photo with her female fighter team. Although they are not considered familiar, they still know each other, so naturally they will feel a little surprised when they hear the names of acquaintances from other people's mouths.

"Mr. Ito, since you have watched the King of Fighters tournament, you should know that Athena is also a fighter?" Mai Shiranui said involuntarily.

"Of course." Ito Cheng nodded in confirmation.

"Then why..." Mai Shiranui wondered.

"In the King of Fighters Tournament, she is naturally a fighter, but in private, she is just an ordinary artist under my company, and I naturally need to consider her safety. I can't let her do it personally when there is an accident during the promotion, then It will damage her artist image." Ito Cheng explained very patiently.

"That's it." Mai Shiranui suddenly said, then nodded, and agreed, "Okay, I will take this job." (To be continued...)