"Oh?"
Fang Zheng's eyes lit up when he heard the girl speak.
"Can it really work?"
"..."
Facing Fang Zheng's question, the girl nodded vigorously, clenching her hands tightly. Fang Zheng gave a chuckle.
"Good. Come with me."
With that, Fang Zheng turned and walked ahead. The girl froze for a moment, but in the end, she followed him to his home.
"Make yourself comfortable."
Fang Zheng set the food in his hands on the table, opened a bottle of juice, and handed it to the girl. Then he sat across from her. She was obviously nervous, but she still accepted the drink.
"You're a high school student? Let me see your Student ID."
"O-okay..."
The girl nervously pulled a Student ID from her pocket and handed it over. Fang Zheng took it and glanced at it.
"Asahikawa Sixth Senior High School, second year... You're from Hokkaido? When did you run away from home?"
"...Three months ago. But I've run out of money, and working part-time... isn't enough to cover lodging..."
"So you were planning to do that kind of work? Hostessing... Oh, right, you're underage."
For a moment, Fang Zheng thought of the women soliciting customers in Kamurocho. But he quickly realized that, at the girl's age, even if she wanted to do that sort of work, she couldn't. Japan's sex industry was legal, which also meant it had rules. That was why the establishments in Kamurocho used female college students as a selling point.
Come to think of it, Japan's sex industry was an incredibly contradictory business. On one hand, it didn't prohibit pornography. On the other, it imposed extremely strict limits on it.
For example, in places like hostess clubs, you could drink with the girls, chat, get handsy, laugh and flirt, but you couldn't actually go