Chapter 126: B - Mayhem at the Moonlight Club
Chapter 126: B - Mayhem at the Moonlight Club
"Come on, Aoshi! Move your ass with those damn cocktails! Those three spoiled little brats at table twenty-one won’t stop screaming and bothering everyone. The sooner we serve them, the sooner they get the hell out of here. So get moving!" Gorō Tobita growls.
"Y-Yes, Mr. Tobita. I’m sorry, but I only have two hands, and both are full. Let me deliver these cocktails first, then I’ll deal with the pests at table twenty-one."
"If that’s your excuse, Eliss only has two hands too, yet she works twice as fast as you! Bringing that girl here was, without a doubt, the best thing you’ve done since I hired you. The only reason I haven’t fired you yet is because I’m afraid Eliss would get mad and quit out of spite. Seriously, couldn’t you have been born a beautiful, hardworking girl like her?"
If I’d been a beautiful girl, this would’ve been the last place in the world I’d choose to work...
"M-Mr. Tobita, I don’t mean to argue, but if I were a beautiful girl, I wouldn’t be dating Eliss... and she wouldn’t be working here either."
"Quit the philosophy and get back to work, slacker!"
"Y-Yes, right away, Mr. Tobita!"
At table twenty-one sit three boys dressed in the latest fashion from head to toe.
They’re screeching like monkeys and shouting crude comments at the top of their lungs.
At first, Aoshi thinks they’re talking about Eliss — he hears that kind of stuff about her every day — but once he gets close enough, he realizes their hungry stares aren’t directed at her.
They’re glued to a phone screen that two of them keep snatching from each other, while the third — Jiro, fourteen years old — nods proudly.
"Damn, Jiro, your sister is insanely hot! She’s seriously the most beautiful girl on the planet. I’d sell my soul just to sleep with a girl like her once in my life!" blurts out one of the three boys, Gaku.
"Seriously, how the hell do you live under the same roof as someone like her and keep your hands to yourself?! If she were my sister, she’d already be pregnant with my second kid by now!" adds another, Rikuto.
"Cut it out, Rikuto. You seriously watch way too much hentai for my taste," Jiro mutters, shaking his head in disgust. "Your mom’s a knockout too, and it’s not like you’re sleeping with her. Anyway, give me my phone back. If my sister finds out I took a picture of her without permission, she’ll seriously kill me. She’s not exactly right in the head."
So young and already this depraved? God, kids these days are a lost cause...
As Aoshi approaches their table with the cocktails, his eyes "accidentally" drift to the phone screen — still open on the photo.
Well... not completely by accident. After hearing all those excited comments about Jiro’s supposedly insanely sexy sister, Aoshi’s curiosity is through the roof.
The picture is surprisingly clear despite the dark blur around the edges, a sign it was taken through a keyhole.
Aoshi’s eyes widen the instant he sees it.
A girl with long black hair, an athletic and perfectly toned body, and a generous chest... completely naked.
But it isn’t the nudity or her beauty that shocks Aoshi.
It’s the fact that he knows her: Miori Yukinaga.
W-Why the hell does he have a nude picture of Miori on his phone?! Wait... does that mean this kid... is MIORI’S LITTLE BROTHER?!
"Hey, waiter, are you planning to stand there holding our food until the place closes?!" Jiro snaps at Aoshi.
"Y-Yeah, sorry. I got distracted..."
That brat... he really took a sneaky picture of his sister... and he’s actually bragging about it to his friends? Is there anyone normal in that family, or are they all completely insane?
"Come on, don’t be so hard on him, Jiro. He was probably mesmerized by your sister’s tits too. Just look at him. He has the face of a guy who’s never seen a pussy in his life, not even in a picture. It’s only natural his brain short-circuited when he saw one of that caliber," Gaku snickers.
"Here’s your order, and I apologize again for the delay," Aoshi says politely, ignoring Gaku’s insults.
"You’d better not tell anyone about that picture. I swear, if word gets out, not even your mother will recognize you anymore!" Jiro growls, visibly tense as he fixes Aoshi with an angry glare.
"Come on, Jiro, relax," Rikuto cuts in, patting him on the shoulder. "Besides, what could he possibly say? It’s not like a guy like him would know the girl in that picture."
"Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone you secretly took a picture of Miori," Aoshi replies, keeping a calm, composed expression.
Jiro goes pale the moment Aoshi recognizes Miori.
He freezes for a second, then explodes.
Jumping to his feet, he steps right up to Aoshi, face to face.
"You should’ve pretended you didn’t know her, you damn loser!"
"No, you should’ve known better than to secretly take a picture of your sister while she was naked in the bathroom! Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? What kind of brother takes nude pictures of his own sister and then shows them to his friends?! Didn’t your parents teach you any respect?!"
But despite his firm attitude, he’s full of doubts inside.
W-Why the hell am I defending Miori? Sure, someone had to teach these brats a lesson... but why does it have to be me? What’s happening to me?!
Miori is the last person in the world who deserves respect or protection. If anything, she deserves to be humiliated the same way she humiliates everyone else. And yet... I can’t shake the feeling that letting this slide would be deeply wrong, even if it’s her.
"Mind your own damn business, you loser!" Jiro screams.
Then he shoves Aoshi, sending him crashing into the table behind him.
"What I do is none of your business, and neither is what that whore of a sister of mine does! Since you don’t know how to keep your mouth shut, I’ll shut it for you —"
BAM!
Silence falls over the entire club as the sound of a punch echoes through the room, followed by a thud on the floor and a string of curses and cries of pain from Jiro, dropped by a straight punch to the face from Aoshi.
"You really screwed up, loser!" Rikuto snaps.
He and Gaku immediately jump to their feet, ready to avenge their friend.
Aoshi instinctively takes a step back, his fist still raised and his knuckles stained with Jiro’s blood.
He’s trembling in fear. It’s the first time in almost twenty years that he’s punched someone in the face.
W-What the hell... what did I just do? I... punched Miori’s little brother? Shit... shit... I’m dead! I mean, it was self-defense. Yeah, that brat had it coming! But that doesn’t change the fact that...
"Have you all lost your minds?! What the hell is going on here?!" Mr. Tobita roars, pushing his way through the tables.
"Your idiot waiter punched our friend!" Rikuto shoots back, helping Jiro to his feet.
He’s still dazed from the punch, and blood is pouring from his nose.
"Aoshi, did you really hit a customer?!" Mr. Tobita growls.
Aoshi lowers his head and silently nods. His face is red with shame, and his whole body is trembling.
"You three. Out. NOW!" Gorō Tobita roars, firmly pointing at the exit.
"Like I need you to tell me, you fat piece of shit!" Jiro spits back furiously. "You and that loser who hit me are both going to jail. Count on it!"
"Fat piece of shit?!" Gorō explodes, his face turning bright red. "Say that to my face, brat! Come on, say it again!"
Disaster is avoided only because Rikuto and Gaku drag Jiro out of the Moonlight Club by the arms.
"Aoshi. My office. NOW!"
Aoshi follows him without a word.
"Aoshi, losing your temper like that isn’t like you. What the hell got into you?"
"W-Well... those guys were drooling over a nude picture of one of their friend’s sister, and I just said it’s wrong to take pictures of people without their permission, especially a family member. One of them got angry and came at me, and I... reacted on instinct and hit him..."
"Let me get this straight... they were quietly looking at a nude picture of a girl and, instead of coming to get me so I could take a look too, you decided to lecture them? Are you stupid or what? Do you have any idea how much damage you’ve just done to this prestigious establishment? Not to mention the risk of a lawsuit? Aoshi, that’s enough. You’re fired!"
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