It's currently afternoon and the school just ended.

"Alright!!! We're heading to our base now!" One member shouted.

"Keep it down, guys. We're still at the schoolyard." Satoshi Matsumoto replied. A high ranking member of Iron Fists.

Iron Fists is a crew which Ukyo and Toshiro who were childhood best friends established ever since their first year in junior high school. They gathered members by saving those being bullied and their main objective—even though seems childish—is to serve justice and protect those who are weak.

Their members joined by either being saved by them, or because of their trust and admiration towards the crew. They help each other and goes up together and even though there is a hierarchy. Each of them are equal.

They got out of school and all of them walk in one extremely huge group. As all members of their crew on the same and higher grade since junior high had moved to K High. Which counts to more than a hundred. And soon. Maybe all male students will eventually join them including the seniors.

After a few minutes. They are halfway towards their destination.

"Wait guys." Toshiro halt.

"What is it, boss?"

"I'll get us cigarettes. Ukyo. Want some?"

"Sure." Ukyo answered.

"Alright. You guys go first.."

"Boss! I'll just get it for you. Or I'll follow you!" A member proposed.

"No need. I'll go alone."

"But boss! What if there are people who ambush you!?"

"It's alright. What do you think to one of your two bosses?" He said arrogantly

"Don't get in trouble Toshiro. Contact us immediately if there's a crew who ambushed you. We'll immediately come." Ukyo said.

"Yeah. Toshiro. We have a tracking app in each of our phones after all." Satoshi also replied

"No need to worry about me guys. Don't need to overreact so much. I'm just buying stuff."

"Toshiro. How many cigarettes will you buy?" Satoshi asked.

"Just maybe for ten people. I hope most of you guys have and already bought for yourselves."

"Of course we have, boss!" The crowd replied.

"Alright. I'll be off."

Toshiro then moved as the crew does so too towards their respective destinations.

"It's nice to be alone for a while…"

As he crossed the alleyway. He saw an unconscious and beaten student from the same school as him and another one student from a different school. But there is someone shouting towards that student.

"Huh!? Don't give that bullshit! Do you want me to do that to you too!? Huh?"

"Uh… I'm sorry. Please let me go. Please forgive me!" The student pleaded.

"Oi!" Toshiro shouted.

"Huh? Who are you?"

"P-please! Help me! He wanted to beat me up!"

"Huh!? You little bastard. You really pisses me off."

He then punched the student straight to the face and immediately fall on the ground half-conscious.

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"Hey! Why did you do that!?"

"So what? He pisses me off. I hadn't been pissed for a long time as he did right now."

"Answer me. Why do you have to do that?"

"Because he's been a bad guy."

"Bad guy, huh? I don't think so."

Toshiro walks towards him and immediately threw a punch as soon as he arrives in front of him. But dodged it.

"What a short-tempered guy. I think you should know what the situation is first. But alright. Lemme entertain you."

"Hmph!"

The opponent too threw a punch but Toshiro deflected it by rolling his left shoulder and then threw a jab—something ordinary people could have an extremely hard time dodging or blocking—straight towards his nose.

"Ugh… boxing…"

He once again threw a punch but Toshiro uppercuts it during its action and sent his opponent's punch back towards his own face.

They halted for a second as his enemy stumbles a little.

"I felt dizzy. My punch truly is powerful."

What the? Don't he felt those punches? Especially his own punch?

"Kekekeke… I guess this will be a little more fun than I expected. So let's play a game. Whoever gets knocked down first will give the winner 10k. Sounds great isn't it?" He lunges towards Toshiro. But his enemy is a boxer.

There are many types of boxers. An infighter who pressures opponents and would always aim for a knockout, a slugger who lacks speed and technique but compensates in its ability to take hits and in its few but devastatingly powerful punches, lastly. An out-boxer who has speed and often would try distancing from an opponent while punching as soon as the opponent closes in.

Out of all these three. Toshiro could be counted as an out-boxer.

Every time his enemy closes in like a wild beast. He would throw a jab to keep a distance. Out-boxers would always go on wearing their opponents down as time goes on while dealing pain using jabs and straights to further do it over time. But what if his enemy not only could not feel the pain that much but also have many times more stamina than him?

This guy is crazy. Can't he really feel pain!? I'm starting to get tired too. I'll have to finish this guy off.

After a while of keeping him away using jabs. He finally found an opening.

Gotcha!

He threw a powerful right straight which lands successfully onto the target's face.

"Kah…"

"I guess I won."

"Hah… hahahahahaha...! Hahaha…!"

"You… are crazy."

"Am I? Well. This is the last time I had felt so much fun since you actually manage to beat me up a lot. So tell me. That wasn't still your best, right? So please…. Please… do your best and make my body ache a lot. Please. It's been years since that last happened. So I completely have forgotten how it felt like to be beaten to a pulp and have your body ache of days. Please..."

"You really are crazy, but fine. I'll do my best."

This time. Toshiro gets aggressive despite being an out-boxer.

Just one clear hit. If he can't feel pain that much. Then It's no use wearing him down. Just one hit and it's gonna be over.

He started to release a lot of powerful combination of punches but his enemy is facing it head-on and is even returning the favor back at him.

Why!? These are good punches. Even though lots of them go towards his face. He's still not getting knocked out! Why is that!? This is so unfair!

Toshiro retreats as he can no longer bear the pain during the exchange of punches between them.

"Che... you're actually no fun after all."

"What?"

"You can't make me feel a thing after all those. I'm disappointed."

"You're mocking me?"

"Hah. Yeah. I am."

Both of them pants as they are both tired by now. Especially Toshiro

"Grr… be ready to pay 10k."

"You too."

This time however. Both of them are determined to finish it once and for all.

His enemy threw a punch towards his face but dodges it somehow a few inches away to the left and then delivered an explosive straight as a counter.

But as if it was nothing. His enemy then using this window delivered a punch on the gut.

"Gah…"

Toshiro persists on finishing this. So during that. He uppercuts him right on the jaw.

Both of them back off as Toshiro feels extreme pain by now and his enemy on the verge of fainting.

The unconscious K high student wakes up and gets startled.

"Wahh! Ouch... my body."

Isn't that Toshiro of Iron Fists? Why is he fighting that guy? He shouldn't be fighting him.

At that moment. As they both recovered. They would have ended it but the student shouted.

"Please stop fighting!"

Both of them stopped suddenly as if an unknown force keeps them from moving. But in reality. It's just only because of those three words.

"Why is that? Didn't this guy bullied you and even beat you up like that?"

"Please! You're wrong! He actually helped me!"

"Heh. Told ya. You should know the situation first before being so short-tempered. There no more fun continuing this. I'm going. Also. The real culprit had already escaped."

As Toshiro looked. The other student is nowhere to be found.

"Is that true?" He questioned.

"Yes! It's true! That guy is simply taking revenge for me!"

"Hehe." The man laughs with a grin on his face.

"Oh… then… it's my bad… wasn't it?"

"Alright... I'll be going. I had fun for you beating me up. But I'm upset and disappointed for not feeling a thing. Take that guy with you he has injuries as that other student beats him up."

"Who is that student!? I know that school... Also… you also have injuries. Don't you need treatment too?"

"Mind your own business. Someone who has more injuries dares to offer help. I'll hunt that guy down. I know his name."

"Then tell me!"

"Eh… No need."

"Then. Tell me your name."

"Are you gay? Haha just kidding. It's Renzo."

"I'm Toshiro. I hope we meet again."

"Yeah. I guess it was a draw after all."

Renzo then walks away as if nothing happened and Toshiro called Ukyo for help.