Gangsters Don't "Love"

Past Meets Present

Tetsu smilied as he watch Kirinji welcome his customers with enthusiasm a big smile on his face. He was, however, still suspicious of him. How a person can suddenly turn from an evil bastard to a gentle and bright person within a short amount of time made him look very suspicious. But Kirinji did say he wanted to change for the better. Tetsu just didn't know if he was speaking the truth.

Tetsu was too busy thinking about those things that he didn't realize Kirinji was smiling back at him, "Tetsu-san, the customers have been checked in. I'll go and restock the towels now."

"H-Huh?" Oh, yeah, I'll watch the front."

Geez, what is he doing? He needs to get it together!

So far, Kirinji has actually been making good progress, much different than what Tetsu thought. On his first day, Tetsu had to scold him privately many times because the poor man looked like he was always forcing a smile, making it seem as if he didn't want to work there. But after a few days, Tetsu witnessed Kirinji slowly warming up to customers. And that forced smile now came out naturally and effortlessly. Maybe he has changed.

"Tetsu-san, what should I do next?"

Kirinji had finished restocking the towels and had a soft smile on his lips as he came up to him.

He found it quite charming.

"Dammit, Tetsu! Get ahold of yourself!"

"Uh, there's nothing much to do right now. You can watch the front, I'll go check to see if the pipes are working well."

"Okay."

Tetsu shook his head as he tried to get Kirinji's flower boy face out of his mind.

Throwing the matter aside, Tetsu left to go do what he said he would and Kirinji quickly moved behind the front desk because another cutsomer had came in. The man looked oddly familiar, but he didn't question it. "Welcome! Just one person for today?"

"Ah, no, three people. Aniki! Hurry up!"

The man's brother, who also looked very familiar, came in with a goofy grin, "Sorry, I was helping Kenchi-nii with parking. He's coming."

Kirinji could've sworn he'd seen the man's brother at the White Rascals club.

"I'm here, I'm here! Parallel parking isnt't my specialty, you know?"

No.

Fucking.

Way.

"Nikaido...san?"

The Nikaido look-a-like smiled at him, making him blush. "That can't be him. Nikaido-san is already dead."

Then, when Kirinji thought back, the second man looks exactly like White Rascal's deceased leader: Rocky. And the first man that came in looks exactly like that guy Dan from the Sannoh Rengokai that passed away from liver cancer.

These three have somehow been reincarnated as brothers?!

But that can't be possible. They would've been kids because the three had just died recently. Then, is it true that there are other people in the world that look exactly like you?

Kirinji didn't have time to ask that question to himself when the Nikaido look-a-like waved a hand in front of him. "Are you okay?"

"Y-Yes! Three people?"

"Yup."

"Here are your locker keys. The changing room is to the left and from there you can enter the baths."