After dinner, Duanmu Huai called Tezuka Renichi and got in touch with that underling through him.
However... the situation was somewhat unexpected for Duanmu Huai.
The flyer hadn't been found on the underling's turf, but in the Gion geisha district in Kyoto. As for how the underling had gotten it, the reason was simple enough. He had gone to Gion on a job not long ago and had stopped for drinks at a nightclub. He didn't even know whether he'd picked up the flyer by accident, but he had only noticed it in his pocket after returning.
The underling naturally hadn't paid any attention to something like that. It wasn't until Tezuka Renichi gave the order that he remembered seeing something similar. He then went home, dug it out of his wardrobe, and handed it over.
There was no helping it. It seemed Duanmu Huai would have to investigate personally.
Of course, Tezuka Renichi also reminded Duanmu Huai that the area belonged to the Omi Alliance, the largest yakuza organization in Kansai, and told him to be careful. But Duanmu Huai didn't care in the slightest. This wasn't an investigator conducting an investigation for a tabletop game. It was an Inquisitor conducting a purge of a cult. If the Omi Alliance really had the bad luck to run into him, then however many came would die. They would all be treated as accomplices of the cult and purified!
After getting the information about the club where the underling had gone drinking, Duanmu Huai drove straight off toward Kyoto.
As Japan's largest and oldest geisha district, Gion was famous indeed. In fact, if Kamurocho was a purely modern urban landscape, then Gion was more like an old residence that had stepped out of history. Almost all the buildings here were in