Chapter 368 - Meeting An Old Friend (1/2)

Chapter 368: Meeting An Old Friend

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Mitsui Yuto was the leader of the Mitsui Group and the backbone of the j.a.panese financial sector. He was much wealthier than the richest man in China, and only the Lee Family of the Samsung Group might be able to rival his family fortune.

His warning was a clear message to Chen Fan from the top dogs of j.a.pan: those who ruled the islands from behind the curtain, cautioning him that enough is enough.

“Mr. Chen Beixuan, we all have seen what you are capable of and we don’t hesitate a moment in believing that you are the most powerful man in East Asia. However, please also remember that we live in the 21st century and personal strength is not as important anymore.”

Mitsui Yuto bowed to Chen Fan and then left the room with a smug smile.

Mitsui Yuto’s att.i.tude didn’t sit well with Violet. She complained: “He is so full of himself. Master has killed Takemiya Hiro and rose to prominence in East Asia, even the family lord of the Mitsui family would have to speak respectfully to master. What makes Mitsui Yuto think he could use that smug tone of voice? He is nothing but a p.a.w.n of the Mitsui family.”

j.a.panese was a fiercely hieratical society and it was the case in both the prominent families and political system. Age dictates the authority one could wield in any group. Many retired seniors still had significant influence in society and they ruled the nation from behind the scenes, pulling the strings of their younger counterparts to run the third-largest economy in the world and a total population of well over a billion.

Chen Fan was quiet. He tapped the table with his finger thoughtfully.

A hint of concern surface on Red Sparrow’s face.

“Mitsui Yuto’s warning was a clear message to you from the real leaders of the nation. We should pack up and leave here before they resort to violence.”

Chen Fan reckoned that the “violence” Red Sparrow had mentioned was not the threat of Grandmasters, instead, it was the real “violence” of the 21st century.

These were the state violence apparatus such as Law Enforcement unit and the Police force, armed not with swords, but firearms.

“Do you think they will do that?” Violet was surprised by such a prospect.

Countries in the East Asia region had been in peace with each other for many decades. j.a.pan’s Self-Defense Forces had never been mobilized ever since the fifties during the Korean War. The rank of the j.a.pan Self-Defense Forces was only two hundred thousand strong and was mostly tasked with local peacekeeping missions. The real military missions in j.a.pan were carried out by the Americans. Years of peace and prosperity had made most j.a.panese citizens forget the existence of their military.

“It’s very likely. We need to be prepared.” Red Sparrow said with a solemn face.

She was a super soldier in the Special Case Department in China and knew how the militaries worked around the world. She knew that the j.a.panese military—however small it was— had never stopped sharpening its skills and modernizing its equipment. If Chen Fan finally got on the nerves of the leaders of j.a.pan, they would not hesitate a second to use the force at their disposal. Chen Fan was a powerful man, but no man could survive the attack of a fully armed army.

Chen Fan and Takemiya Hiro’s battle had destroyed half of the Tokyo Tower, but any missile could have completely wiped Tokyo Tower off the map.

“It’s also likely that Mitsui Yuto was simply bluffing. j.a.panese leaders were not as conspicuous as the American. Zeus had to kill an American General stationed in the Philippines, for the US government to mobilize all the American forces stationed in the pacific region to capture him.” Red Sparrow put in.

“I think the most likely reaction of the j.a.panese Government is to send a Law enforcement unit after you. There is a special unit under the j.a.panese military called the Harikēn, despite its small size of merely a hundred men, it is one of the most well equipped and well-drilled forces in j.a.pan. They served a very specific purpose in j.a.pan: to keep the Grandmasters in check.”

Red Sparrow was very familiar with the Special Law enforcement units all around the world.

To her surprise, the threat of the Huriken Unit didn’t have even the slightest effect on Chen Fan. He shook his head and said: “I still have some other matters to attend to. I can’t leave yet.”

“What are your other businesses? Takemiya Hiro is dead, who else could you be going after?” Red Sparrow was taken aback at first, but suddenly, she remembered something. She rounded her eyes in disbelief and asked: “Are you still thinking of going after those shrines?”

“Are you crazy? What you did to Susano Shrine has already stirred the ire of the entire j.a.panese Martial arts world. If you keep pressing on and destroy more shrines, they will finally retaliate with full force.”

Red Sparrow stomped the ground as she complained.

“Oh, how did you know my plan?” Chen Fan asked, slightly surprised.

“Humph! Do you think you are the first one who had vied for the power in the shrines? Mind you that those shrines have existed over hundreds of years.” Red Sparrow grunted and said

“Countless Overlords who dreamed of reaching the Immortal State attempted to steal, or rob those shrines of their secrets about immortality. However, each one of these shrines was deep-rooted in the j.a.panese power matrix and was well connected with all the powerful forces in j.a.pan. You have alarmed those forces by destroying one shrine, they would not let you so much as touch another. The leaders of the nation will get involved and things will become messy.”

Despite Red Sparrow’s warning, Chen Fan didn’t change his mind.

The six shrines in j.a.pan looked as tantalizing as a slab of meat would to a hungry wolf.

One Immortal Guardian might not be enough to awaken the full potential of the Summoning Flute of Demon G.o.d, but six Immortal Guardians would definitely do. Chen Fan wouldn’t even need to get his hands dirty and could let the Immortal Guardians do his bidding. Such was the power of these Immortal Guardians, that they could easily rip an Immortal State cultivator into pieces.

Red Sparrow’s face was contorted by anger after her words bounced off of Chen Fan’s stubborn mind. Her chest moved up and down as she took a deep breath to calm herself, making her bosom seem even fuller than it already was.

“Master, many family lords from Tokyo and Chinese Martial Artists also wanted your audience.” Violet opened a notebook with pages of names.

Chen Fan had killed Takemiya Hiro, he was the man of the hour, the new rising force in j.a.pan.

Although j.a.pan’s high-level leaders wanted Chen Fan out of their territory as quickly as possible, the j.a.panese citizens were enamored by Chen Fan’s strength and wanted him to stay so that they could know him better.

People such as Mitsui Yuto would never talk to Chen Fan as he did with such arrogance without the full support of the national leaders. Even a Kendo Master deserved an ordinary citizen’s utmost veneration, much less the one who had killed a Sword Sage.

“Oh? Who are they?” Chen Fan asked airily.

“Leaders of Mitsubis.h.i.+, Sharp, Sony, Astellas Pharma, Taōtsuka Pharma, and many other large corporations.” Violet readout aloud a slew of names.

Chen Fan reckoned that the link between large corporations and the Martial arts world in j.a.pan was much tighter than that in China.

However, Chen Fan was not surprised by his discovery. The Chinese government had a tight control in nearly every aspect of its citizens’ lives, stability and control was their ultimate goal. It was not in their interest to see an alliance between the martial artists and the businessmen since it would make managing either one of them difficult.