Every organization's rise was never accidental. From an outsider's perspective, the Kondo Group's ascent probably went something like this:
Yama-X Group members: "..."
They swore they had never seen such vicious bastards before—people who dared to fire rocket launchers straight at others, with no one even visible on the surveillance footage. Damn it! They were just in the yakuza—did they really need to act like they were going to war every single day?
X Dragon Society members: "..."
Wasn't there supposed to be a gun ban? A gun ban! Could someone get a cop over here and ask where those guys carrying AKs, with a whole pile of Gatling guns behind them, came from? High school students? If those bastards were students, they'd eat shit collectively... though that might be a little hard on the throat.
Ju-X Society members: "..."
Forget the guns—those bulletproof vests were cheating! Did they think no one here had ever been on a battlefield? Fine, bullets hitting faces and bouncing off glass was one thing, but what the hell were those metallic clanging sounds from their limbs? Tell them, where were they supposed to shoot? No, where was the side fighting them supposed to shoot? All they could do was watch. Who could withstand this kind of suicidal assault? This kind of crushing assault?
With such a vast disparity in strength, the Kondo Group had still expended quite a bit of effort purging the surrounding factions. Sogo Doma had initially thought it was some inexplicable samurai spirit at work, but after hearing Katsura explain it...
Uh, no wonder that whenever he led the team in clearing out the surrounding area, he would often encounter strange people shouting, "Bastards, don't get too cocky! You're just a yakuza group that only recently emerged! The power behind