Date Hattori was gaining wealth beyond his wildest dreams. In less than nine months he established a thriving business selling his cloaking device. Gangsters, revolutionaries, and assorted other criminal groups were his primary customers. A considerable number of common folks also contacted Date to buy a cloaking device. How they found out about the device was a mystery. The only theory which made any sense was that average people learned of the device from seedy, lowlife members of society. Date accepted this explanation because he knew every town and village had its gangster element. And everyone in the town knew who the gangsters were and what crimes they excelled at.
Making the first sale of the cloaking device was difficult and took longer than he expected. At first, he approached se
