Elections, Part 3
Originally posted on October 3, 2005:
With yours truly in charge of the prostitution ring, the Family saw more carnage in the days leading up to the September 11th elections than it had in the years it was first establishing its presence in South Side Kyoto. Some policies changed, love hotels were seized, whores were beaten or killed, but never let go, customers with complaints were stabbed, pachinko parlors expanded, and the crippled arm of the prefectural law was beginning to trip us up--too many "implied agreements" with local enforcement, and not enough crooked cops. ("Love hotels" are cheap motel-like establishments, rentable by the hour.) ("Pachinko" is a game much like pinball, but played vertically, where the player pays for each ball and, depending on what obstacles the balls hit and where they settle, can win some money in return.) It was in the middle of all of this that I received the following letter from Boss Takeda on stationary from his personal stock:
With yours truly in charge of the prostitution ring, the Family saw more carnage in the days leading up to the September 11th elections than it had in the years it was first establishing its presence in South Side Kyoto. Some policies changed, love hotels were seized, whores were beaten or killed, but never let go, customers with complaints were stabbed, pachinko parlors expanded, and the crippled arm of the prefectural law was beginning to trip us up--too many "implied agreements" with local enforcement, and not enough crooked cops. ("Love hotels" are cheap motel-like establishments, rentable by the hour.) ("Pachinko" is a game much like pinball, but played vertically, where the player pays for each ball and, depending on what obstacles the balls hit and where they settle, can win some money in return.) It was in the middle of all of this that I received the following letter from Boss Takeda on stationary from his personal stock: