Nakagawa Ichiro was still stunned from being beaten when he heard that. His eyes widened.
If this had been a cartoon, his jaw would have hit the floor.
It was as if he'd seen Sadako crawl out of the TV;
or Toshio Saeki hiding under the covers.
"Uncle, have you gone crazy? That guy ambushed me! Why would the Yamaguchi-gumi let me off the hook just because something happened to him? Shouldn't the Yamaguchi-gumi help me get revenge?"
Nakagawa Tetsuya saw that this guy seemed not to have grown up at all.
He shook his head helplessly. "This is my fault. After you lost your father, your grandfather and I felt sorry for you, so we spoiled you too much. That made you arrogant and overbearing. But you haven't learned a thing about how the world works."
"You're too naïve, too immature!"
Nakagawa Ichiro was about to say something, but Nakagawa Tetsuya cut him off. "Shut up! Listen carefully. That man is with the Rothschild family!"
Nakagawa Ichiro's eyes bulged like a bull's.
"Uncle, how is that possible?!"
Nakagawa Ichiro was utterly shocked.
He was even more shocked than he'd been when his uncle not only refused to take his side but had hit him, too.
The Rothschild family was someone even the Yamaguchi-gumi had to curry favor with.
The Yamaguchi-gumi might sound powerful, and it certainly held a lot of sway in Japan.
But it was no match for the powers in Europe and America.
The Yamaguchi-gumi could influence Japan's economic lifeline, while one word from the Rothschilds could send the entire Western economy into turmoil.
If the Yamaguchi-gumi wanted to expand into Europe and America, it had to stay on the Rothschilds' good side.
One word from the Rothschilds could easily wipe out all the Yamaguchi-gumi's branches in