Thursday December 15, 2005 - 7:43 pm, On the streets
If one was to think Sai was street smart they were sadly mistaken. Sure he fared well in the matter of handling himself but he didn't have the years of experience that the Nakamura's and Sakurai showed. The best he could do was pick up a stranger, and pick a few pockets.
His lack of knowledge he made up with creativity. If he didn't know it than he just stole that information as well. He observed others from the street watching and learning. He figured out who worked for who, which ones where on their side and those that were not. He picked up that many of the drug peddlers were jealous of Sakurai, with reason too for being so young and have so much skill.
He also had names of those that disagreed and talked badly of his boss. Sai liked working for Sakurai and enjoyed handing in the names of those that needed to be taken care off. As he crouched down by the wall in sort of a beggars stance many didn't give him a second glance. Little did they know he was listening in on a group of thugs that thought they were better then Nakamura and Sakurai combined.
The thought alone amused Sai as he put his hands into the pocket of his old trench coat. The group had the gall to even boast about possibly jumping Sakurai as the rumor had spread of one of Lucifer's Reckoning's top dog had fell under the hands of another. It was funny how the rumor forgot to mention what Sakurai had done to the punk in retaliation. They would learn soon enough with the King came after them as well.
Sai looked up in surprise as someone dropped a few yen to the ground. Apparently taking his stance for real, he was just about to leave having heard enough but this could really benefit for him. After all he still had to buy Sachiko a Christmas gift.