Joy turned as the crowd began to whistle and cheer and then blinked in shock as she saw Aika in the arms of one of the drivers, their lips together in a heated kiss.  Then she gasped when he reached down and gave her plush ass a squeeze.  In clear view of everyone!  The crowd roared when that happened and how knows what would have happened next, had one of the driver's crew not honked his car horn and caused the two to separate.  Aika was blushing as she strutted away, strutted!  Aika!  She wasn't the type at all!  But damned if she didn't look confident, and even pleased at what had just happened.  "Qualities are serious stuff, huh?"<br/><br/>She walked up to one of the crews that had finished working on their car before the next race.  One of them walked around to the side of where the rest of them were talking and wiped his brow with his forearm.  He was close to middle age, she'd guess, with a blocky build.  "Hey," she said as she approached.  He blinked and then realized she was talking to him and grinned.  His eyes dipped down to her tits as she got closer, then to her face.  Then back to her tits again.  "You guys had a good run there."<br/><br/>He grinned, still staring at her tits, "Y-yeah!  But with the tweaks we just did, we're going to wipe 'em out in this one!"<br/><br/>She chuckled, "I hope you do!  Say, I heard that there were some assholes who would bust up the races and steal the cars?  Is that true?"  She leaned in, bending forward slightly to give him a better view of her goods.<br/><br/>He blushed and nodded, "Oh, yeah, those guys.  Ain't seen a sign of 'em tonight, which is good...yeah, they're not far though.  Way I hear it is that they've got a chop shop at the edge of the island off that way," he gestured in a general direction, "Not too far from that unfinished casino."<br/><br/>"Mm, that so?  Well."  She smiled a little at the man in front of her, "Good to know.  If they show up, will you guys fight 'em?"<br/><br/>"Us?"  A new voice but in, both of them looking towards it.  Another man was approaching; he wore slightly dirty coveralls and had a Hisashiro Tigers baseball cap on his head.  "Ha!  We don't need to with you around!"  He was beaming and was probably of a similar age to the first guy.  "I never thought I'd see you in a place like this.  And a race queen!  Did the tournament circle dry up?"<br/><br/>The first man blinked, "What are you talking about?"<br/><br/>"This girl!"  The man with the ballcap nodded, "She's a prize fighter."  The first man blinked and looked at Joy again in stunned disbelief.  "I saw her fight that time I went to Bangkok for a vacation a few years ago.  Cleaned the clock of a guy almost three times her size!  The Alabaster Princess of Muay Thai, Joy Armstrong!"<br/><br/>Joy beamed, "That was my match against Chaiya, wasn't it?"  She loved being recognized.<em>Loved it</em>.  "You saw one of my best!  Well, my best in a ring," she added with a wink.<br/><br/>The man with the cap was grinning too.  He was ogling her too, if not as openly as the first man had been.  The first guy was now looking nervous, possibly worried me might have offended some girl who could kick his ass.  Which she could, sure, but he didn't need to worry.  "I heard this lunkhead telling you about the chop shop, right?  Well, he's<em>wrong</em>."  The man shook his head, "One of my younger, dumber cousins is in a flunky in one of the gangs.  The chop shop's in another district, not even on the island.  Yamashita just spreads that rumor so gullible folks," he pointed at the other man, "will pass it along and the cops won't know where to look."<br/><br/>"That's smart." Joy turned to face him, largely ignoring the first guy now.  "It seemed a little too pat to have it right around the corner.  You know anything else, buddy?"<br/><br/>He nodded and then blushed, "I do but...it'll cost you."<br/><br/>She shifted her weight, "Oh?  What exactly?"  If this guy thought he was going to get something like Aika gave that driver he's got another thing coming.<br/><br/>"A selfie with me!  And sign something for me, please!"<br/><br/>Joy blinked and then laughed, "You got it, Ojisan."<br/><br/>She posed with him for three selfies, actually, and ended up signing his race logbook.  He was over the moon looking at it, "I'll put this with the souvenirs I brought back from Thailand.  I can't wait to show the guys!  And my son, he's a fan of yours too!"<br/><br/>"Always happy to meet a fan."  The blonde beamed.  "Now...you had something else?"<br/><br/>"Yeah."  He beckoned for her to follow him and then walked over to the stands where the crowed was cheering as the second race took place.  With the noise of them, there was no way someone could overhear them.  "There's a police detective who's undercover in the Soul Stealers, she's trying to find the chop shop too.  She's a friend of a friend of another younger cousin.  A smart one this time.  Her name is Honda Kyoko.  She could tell you more, I bet."<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">RUMORS ACQUIRED: SOUL STEALERS ; HONDA KYOKO</tt><br/><br/>"I bet.  Thanks, Ojisan.  I better get back."  She gave him a thumbs up and then turned to move at a fast walk back to where the race queens were hanging out.  She grinned at Aika, "Hey!  Hell of a show you put on, hot stuff.  If I get another shot, I'll have to really step it up," she teased.  Then she licked her lips and leaned closer, "I found out the chop shop's on the mainland in one of the other Districts.  There's an undercover cop trying to find it by infiltrating the Soul Stealers gang.  I got her name."