Anyone who often watched Fujino beat people up knew that while he did beat people up, there was a very clear progression to it.
Those who were exposed, refused to kneel and admit their mistakes, and still tried to threaten him with weapons were usually knocked down first, then beaten with a Wooden Sword for quite a while.
Weapons were further divided into cold weapons and firearms. Cold weapons got the same treatment, while firearms meant having their hand bones crushed before a savage beating that could randomly leave them half-paralyzed.
As for brave souls who dared fire a gun in threat, or whose threats were especially severe, Fujino would not stop until he had legally beaten them into the intensive care unit.
The scene was so brutal that children cried at night, girls fell silent, and men wept.
They were all beatings, so what was the difference? The difference was enormous.
Fujino was extremely skilled with a Wooden Sword. He could beat someone so thoroughly that no injuries could even be detected, meaning he would not leave any visible damage on the person he beat.
A savage beating meant broken bones, fractured ribs, and the like. In any case, the victim could always be discharged from the hospital and it would not seem too serious—at most, they would lose a great deal of blood and shoulder medical debt.
That last category, where he would not stop until he put someone in the intensive care unit, was the truly terrifying one.
It was the kind where his passive legal resistance meant beating someone was neither illegal nor compensable. He could turn someone into a critically ill intensive care patient, leaving them either unable to pay their medical bills and doomed to lie in the intensive care unit for life, or