Before Fujino and Sonoko could recover, Ran had already lost her patience and ripped the mask off her face.
With a shout of "Ha!", she launched straight into a karate absorption technique, delivering a flying side kick right at the dark-skinned man sitting opposite Eri Kisaki.
"Smack!"
Fujino reacted in time, stepping right up and blocking Ran's big flying leg with his forearm, instantly feeling a sharp sting in his arm.
A furious Ran truly had peerless combat prowess.
Fujino slightly dissipated the force, pushing her long leg upward to keep her maintaining a pose where one leg was raised high and the other stayed on the ground in a similar stance.
"Senior?" Ran looked at the Fujino before her with a face full of cluelessness.
"Ran, you're too impulsive."
Fujino applied a little force, pushing Ran's long leg up a bit more, and meeting her puzzled gaze, he continued:
"If you kicked him like this, he'd be dead straight away."
As he spoke, he began educating her in legal common sense: "Beating him to a disability is at most intentional injury, but killing people is intentional homicide, and the prison sentences are different."
"Grievous harm starts at three years and goes up to fifteen at most, but murder is thirteen years to life—can't you weigh that out?"
"Going in for a trivial matter like this isn't worth it."
While speaking, Fujino lowered Ran's leg: "Besides, why did you take off your mask?"
With that, his expression turned slightly heartbroken: "If you kick someone to death, nobody knows it's you while you're wearing a mask, but once you take it off, everyone becomes a witness!"
"Are you out of your mind?"
"..."
Upon hearing this, Ran put her foot back on the ground, lowered her head, and said, "I get