Junky Scorpion

From Yu-Gi-Oh!

Junky Scorpion is a shoe shop in Domino City.

Even though the store is located in an impoverished neighborhood, the shop sells rare and limited sneakers, that can carry a high price tag. The store owner says that people have been killed for sneakers.

The owner is a crooked salesman, who would sell rare shoes to customers, only if they can prove their worth. After selling expensives shoes, the owner would pay a gang to steal them back, so he could sell them again.

[edit] Appearance

The shop appeared in Duel 8 of the manga.

Jonouchi once went to the shop, with Yugi and Honda to buy a pair of top of the range sneakers. The owner was unwilling to sell the shoes to Jonouchi, unles he could prove he was worthy. he set up a test for Jonouchi, where he was to put his foot in the shoe, while he said there was a scorpion inside. Jonouchi plucks up the courage and does it. The owner then reveals he didn't put the scorpion inside.

A hired gang attack Jonouchi, Yugi and Honda from behind, stealing the shoes. The boys later meet up the gang and beat them into telling them the owner had paid them to do it.

Dark Yugi meets up with the owner and plays a game, where they must pull coins out of one of the shoes, while the scorpion is inside. The owner got greedy and tried to kill the scorpion. He fails to do so and gets his hand stuck as he tries to grab all the coins at once, allowing to scorpion to badly sting him.