"What the fuck is this shit?!"
Jack cursed when he saw the store. It wasn't because it was run down or anything. Actually, the store looked quite nice. The only issue was...the things the store was selling. Turns out, this was a sex toy store. ToyVentures was the name.
When Jack entered inside, he was greeted by the sight of a fat man molesting an unwilling female participant.
'You have got to be kidding me.' The fat man stopped upon hearing the bell by the door ring.
"Hmm? Oi kid, we don't sell men's clothing." The fat man spoke and then continued to fondle the breasts of the young woman.
"Come on Elena, if you want a raise, you have to work for it!"
"Boss Fu, please stop." the young woman spoke with a bitter smile.
"Oi. Leave her alone." Jack spoke. The maid also entered the store at this moment and frowned upon seeing the fat man's actions.
"Hmph. Who the hell do you think you are? Hmm? A maid? Oh! Wait! Are you the new boss, Mr. Jack? Hmm, you're a lot younger than I thought." The fat man grinned and stopped his actions of molesting the poor girl, and instead went up to Jack to shake his hand. Jack was a bit unwilling since he wasn't sure what that hand has touched, but still shook it nonetheless.
"Yes I am Jack. Jack Turoa."
"Nice to meet ya, boss. I'm Fu. Fu Yung. Well, I was told that today you will be taking over this shop. I don't plan to leave my shop, so I just demoted myself to manager before you came here. I hope you don't mind.
'What.' Jack was speechless. Demoted himself to manager?
"That young lady there is a worker of this shop. Her name is Elena." Fu Yung said, pointing at the poor lady in question.
"Umm."
Jack felt awkward, however, he still walked over to her and shook her hand.
"Nice to meet you, Elena.
"H-hi." She spoke timidly
"She takes care of the 8 daily customers this shop seems to have."
"8?" Jack was once again left speechless. "How is this shop even open??" He couldn't help but ask, to which, Fu Yung smiled mysteriously.
"Why, it's because it doesn't rely on selling sex toys to stay open, of course!" When Jack heard this, he realized what was happening. Turns out, this is merely a money-laundering shop. The real business must come from elsewhere.
"What does this shop produce? Drugs?" Jack asked.
"Pfft." Fu Yung bursted out in laughter, startling Jack a little. "That's a good one, boss! Drugs. Haha! As if we'd sell something so dangerous!" Fu Yung started laughing, but after seeing he was the only one who found the joke funny, he awkwardly stopped and spoke. "Yeah it's drugs."
"The inventory?" Fu Yung's smile slightly stiffened. "The inventory is in a safe place. Boss, I'm sorry, but you can't access the inventory yet. You are still too young, I can't put you at risk. Maybe in a few years you'll be ready." Fu Yung spoke this apologetically.
"Fine. Where is the accounting documents then?" Jack was a little annoyed that he was treated like a child, but ultimately didn't do anything, understanding the danger that comes with this job.
"They are in the office." Fu Yung led Jack and the maid to a door, which he then opened to reveal a small room with a small table and a few accounting books. Jack grabbed them and started to go through them. After some time, Jack furrowed his eyebrows.
"Hey, Fu Yung, where do these numbers come from?"
"Hmm? Oh! That's the income!" Fu Yung was startled when he was suddenly called out to, however he quickly replied.
"And what is the spending?"
"Oh, the spending? Hehe. Those are the business expenses."
"And how much of that is really spending on business expenses?
"...none."
Jack slammed the accounting book on the table as he got angry.
"What the fuck is this supposed to be?! Business expenses my ass. This shop doesn't even seem to make any business expenses!"
"Well...actually we do...well...used to." Fu Yung seemed to sweat a little as he replied, before opening another accounting book, pointing to an expenditure of $500 dollars.
"500? On fucking what?"
"Ah, uhh.." Fu Yung seemed to hesitate on how to reply. "It was a business expense on business."
"Cut the shit." Jack spoke angrily. "What's going on with this store?"
Fu Yung sighed.
"Actually, this store used to do pretty well, until about a month ago, when our warehouse, the one where we would have the workers got raided and most of our personnel was killed." Fu Yung spoke.
"Raided? By who?" Jack asked. Fu Yung sighed before answering.
"By the mafia."
"..."
"You know. Those people that do illegal jobs." Fu Yung said.
"You don't need to explain that." Jack muttered.
"Anyway, without anyone to process the drugs, this shop is pretty much useless. Boss, you can't go around trying to make new connections. This shop is now basically dead." Fu Yung sighed.
"Can't we just establish a new warehouse?" Now that he was an heir of the Turoa family, he would be getting a monthly allowance from the family. Although it was not a crazy amount of money, it should still be enough to fund some stuff short term, until they get on their feet at least.
"Hmm. Not possible. The mafia basically fully control the entire Zone. Even thought they are currently busy at war, once they catch wind of our operations, they will definitely move in to wipe us out before we become a threat to them."
"How about fighting them and reclaiming the warehouse?" Suddenly, Jack asked. this question left Fu Yung speechless.
"Fight back? Against an army of gun men?" Fu Yung laughed bitterly. "Boss, please be realistic. Are you superman and I wasn't aware by any chance?"
"Forget it. Just leave it to me. For now, I'm going to need a quiet, soundproof room and some alone time." Jack said. He needed the soundproof room as he was supposed to keep cultivation a secret from common people. Only members of hidden families and their direct subordinates were allowed to know about something like cultivation. And Fu Yung wasn't a direct subordinate, just a pawn.
"Hmm? Alone time? Soundproof room? Hehe, boss Turoa, do you want me to send the young girl to your room? I think she's still a virgin!" Jack's expression froze when he heard that.
"No. That...won't be necessary. And, leave the damn girl alone." Jack shook his head as he followed Fu Yung to the room.
Once there, Jack locked the door and pulled the drapes over the windows, making the room nearly pitch black. The maid stood outside the door, guarding to make sure no one comes in.
Jack then opened a book the family gave him before leaving. It was a book that detailed the cultivation method the family practices, the Turoa method.
As Jack was cultivating, something was happening in a police station.
A group of policemen and policewomen were intensely staring at another man wearing a white lab coat and blue gloves pry open a giant purple dildo, about 10 inches in length. The man held the dildo, as he cut a hole in it. A stream of white soon came out of it.
"Cocaine." The lead policewoman grabbed a hold of some of the white stuff and brought it close to her face to inspect.
"There were 6 of these in a box, 10 boxes in total. Considering each...toy...is about 7 kilograms in weight, there are about 420 kilos of cocaine." One of the male officers spoke.
"Have the interrogations proven successful?" The lead policewoman asked.
"Yes. They talked about selling them to some sex toy shop downtown. ToyVenture is the name." the male officer spoke.
"I see. Then how about we pay this ToyVentures a little visit?" The woman smirked.