15 CHARM GHOST 1

"It's him again…" Ginnan mumbled in disbelief. Then touch the surface of the poster, which is still smooth, clean, very shiny. From the smell alone, you can tell that this poster is new. Even though this morning it was still decorated with the face of a popular anime among webbed.

When the last night's bus arrived, and an old woman called him in with a hand signal... Ginnan shook his head and looked up at the sky-dropping snowflakes.

Yuki's words for him used to be true. Exactly when they broke up, because the woman was unable to accept his new profession as a male prostitute.

"What do you know about hard work? You've never been successful, how can you feel other people's appreciation?"

Back then, when they were still living in the Himawari orphanage. Yuki was the first person to support his drawing talent since childhood. The woman even hugged him tightly when he won the annual comic strip competition in a senior school magazine. The two of them had made an acquaintance, became the most intimate couple in the school world, and often spent hot nights without caring.

With enthusiasm, Yuki even promised... to make a good plot specifically for Ginnan so that the man carved it in the illustration. They worked together before screening new talented novelists and comic artists until finally Yuki broke into a major publishing company and debuted with great success as a best-selling newcomer right under Renji Isamu. Unlike himself, who fell to the ground as a coward, and instead became a gigolo because he was very short of funds to survive.

It's not all that bad. On the way, Ginnan knew there was a fraud. Namely, among the 20 candidates for new comic artists who were screened, there was one named Rize Shunsuke who copied the draft before making a better outline.

Unfortunately, Shunsuke is too genius. He changed the draft into his drawing style and completed the file faster to the committee so that he was the one who was stamped with plagiarism.

It used to be messy, but not anymore.

After Ginnan relented, and Shunsuke debuted as the number one newcomer next to Yuki. Their ratings were catching up in publications even though they were still below Renji's as well.

"I want to curse you..." Ginnan said. He looked at Renji's face on the poster's sticker as if he was talking to him. "But if I did, it would only be out of envy. Isn't that right?"

Because Renji can still be that good at work, even though his life has been ruined. Unlike him, who was confused about starting a new draft to catch up with the filtering of comic artists the following year. And instead gave up ... chose to be sex peddlers.

"STOP! STOP!"

Yuka's voice.

"Yuka?" Ginnan thought. Reflexively he turned to a black Audi car that was driven recklessly from a bend in the road. There, the real Renji Isamu turned the wheel with emotion. The man ignored Yuka's shouting all the way and stopped suddenly after that.

Ckiiit

SRAAAAKH!

Smoke billows slowly from the car tires.

Yuka almost hit the glass, and Renji opened the driver's door. The man dragged Yuka out and threw her onto the highway.

BRAKE!

"Arrgh!"

Renji's face was very dark at that time. "I allowed you to rest until morning, but how dare you go too far!" he snapped in the silence of the night. "RUBBISH."

DEG

"Hey!" shouted Ginnan. He immediately ran there, swinging Yuka's arms to his feet and

facing Renji from eye to eye. "What do you think you do to girls, huh?!"

Yuka was already crying by then. Because he was even wearing Renji's shirt at random before being dragged out of here.

Renji's face was as hard as a rock. "Who are you trying to judge?" he asked rhetorically. "Me, or the bastard thief you helped?"

DEG

"WHAT?"

Renji hissed like a snake. The golden flash of his eyes even smoldered next to the street lamp. "No time for explanations. To be sure, tomorrow morning my lawyer will come to take care of your friend's lowly behavior."

"HEY!"

Ginnan shouted in annoyance that Renji immediately got into the car and just walked away. The man's engine sound wasn't even different from when he had just arrived.

Ginnan also turned to Yuka and asked. "What exactly did you steal from him, Yuka-chan?" he asked nicely.

Yuka shook her head and showed a shiny object in her hand. "This, but I-I... I didn't mean to steal it," she said trying to make an excuse. "At first I just wanted to take a shower. I mean, tomorrow morning I just wash my face and go straight home from the place. But when I looked for clothes in the wardrobe room, this thing fell and I picked up—"

"GOOD! I DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Ginnan screamed and immediately snatched up the luxurious pendant necklace. The strand breaks and splits in two, with the pendulum partially broken. Showing a portrait of a blonde-haired girl displayed in it. "HOW COULD A MISCONCEPTION LIKE THIS HAPPEN? HUH?"

Yuka just shook her head and looked weak. She's not like Yuka who was at the bar boasting about Renji Isamu being great.

Maybe Renji Isamu who is arrogant and arbitrarily. And what is certain is that now Ginnan must go after him before actually contacting a lawyer and bringing Yuka to court.

Because it's not just Yuka that he cares about, but all the gigolos and female prostitutes that Madam Shin takes care of in the flat.

This is bad. And Ginnan took off his outer jacket for Yuka before actually running after Renji.

"Listen, Yuka-chan. Wait for me at the bus stop and I'll follow that guy first. We can't let Madam Shin be threatened with his crazy plan, can we?"

Yuka just nodded. After that, Ginnan didn't care where to run first. What is certain is that Renji's car had turned this way before it disappeared.

Starting from the bend in the road, Ginnan was still running and immediately stopped at one point. Honestly, he didn't expect to find Renji's car parked in the middle of a deserted city park.

There were only the two of them in the place.

Ginnan gulped approaching.

"Sir..."

Renji was smoking at the time. And when Ginnan was next to him, he just looked away from the sky and turned his head expressionlessly.

"That's you."

To be honest, Ginnan was a little scared. Dealing with this man is like stripping his virginity. That is, to forget that he is a man who should also be able to intimidate back.

"Y-Yes, I..." Ginnan said. He rubbed the back of his neck and chuckled. "Hey, listen, sir—"

"Are you asking for mercy?" said Renji frontal. "If so, I'll tell you it was a wasted effort."