Jigoku Shoujo...
Hearing Inoue's conversation with the shop owner, the sultry beauty felt a little uneasy.
"Boss, one copy of Weekly Shonen Sunday!"
After paying, she took Weekly Shonen Sunday from the owner's hand, tore open the packaging... and flipped to the Jigoku Shoujo page, looking at the image of Enma Ai...
"Miss..."
Chapter 26: Enma Ai (2-in-1)
Adachi Ward, Tokyo, lay at the northernmost edge of Tokyo's twenty-three wards.
Although Japan had poured the strength of the entire nation into developing Tokyo Metropolis, giving this premier city a dazzling veneer of wealth, with every beautiful element gathering here and drawing countless young people to the capital—
Even Tokyo had poor areas, though only relatively speaking. As the poorest and most chaotic ward in all of Tokyo, Adachi Ward's sole advantage was its cheap rent, land prices, and cost of living.
Adachi Ward was a suburb of Tokyo, and transportation was not particularly convenient. As Tokyo's poorest and most chaotic ward, it did not merely have low incomes and poor public security. In a past social survey asking which of Tokyo's twenty-three wards had the worst public safety, Adachi Ward ranked first with over sixty percent of the vote—after all, it was a historic downtown area that had carried over poverty and chaos since the Edo Period.
Not only were its public security and economy poor, Adachi Ward's educational standards also ranked near the bottom in all of eastern Japan... even the entire country. Its elementary school students had only barely reached the national average last year, while its middle school students remained far below it.
It could be said that aside from low rent and cheap land, living in Adachi Ward was worse than living in neighboring Chiba Prefecture to the east—and Chiba residents truly looked down on Adachi