Everyone Deeply Agreed That Those Involved Could Not See Clearly, Yet Never Realized When They Had Entered the Game

Unfortunately, the world of martial artists was not all about fighting and killing; it was more about human relationships and worldly dealings... After Sougo left the Kondo Group and Hijikata took over its affairs, he too had been tempered by all that dross. He had learned to always leave some room for compromise... Setting everything else aside, if the Kondo Group were still led by Sougo, then Yoshida... Elisaki would never have run into yakuza trying to hit on her. No boss would dare risk losing his own head by letting his underlings run wild.

The violent groups that had once sworn to resist to the death—the Yama-x Group, the x-Dragon Association, and so on—had merely changed leaders a dozen or so times before they began keeping a respectful distance from the Kondo Group. It could not be helped. Back then, everyone wanted to be the boss, yet no one dared become one... It was hardly surprising. After the seventh or perhaps eighth boss had been replaced, every man pushed into the position of group leader wrote his will that very day. Fortunately, those wills had not gone to waste. Some took effect that same day; the slower ones took effect the next day!

Even the Yama-x Group and x-Dragon Association, who claimed to have hundreds of thousands of members, had ended up like that. There was even less need to mention the lesser violent groups. Some did not even need the Kondo Group to make a move—they left Kondo Group territory on their own and ordered their underlings not to set foot inside, even if it killed them... If things had returned to their former glory, how could Elisaki possibly have been hit on by yakuza?

The yakuza simply did not dare enter this area, okay? If some blind