Chapter 13

Kenzou was in the ring under the Tokyo Dome, he had on his signature mask and he was dressed in a black t-shirt, black shorts and black loafers.

In front of him was a short man with dark red hair, a feminine face and very muscular body, he was muscular and lean at the same time.

The arena was full of people and between them was Izana and Chisato who had masks on their faces.

Kenzou looked straight at Baki and said. "I have to say that I underestimated you in our last meeting and I had to pay the price.

But I don't understand how you managed to come out unscathed out of there, I surely damaged you in the back of the head."

Baki smiled and said. "It isn't that easy to kill me, you know?"

"Yeah, I get it. You have the Hanma blood going through your veins."

Baki said nothing and he assumed a stance.

Kenzou too assumed a stance, he leaned his whole body backwards and waited for the attack to come with his hands near his body.

*BOOM*

Baki launched his body faster than in his last fight towards Kenzou, Kenzou moved his head and watched as the fist goes past him.

*HIT* *HIT* (I'm going to use this instead of *BAM* since his attacks now produce no sound whatsoever.)

He kicked and punched him with all of his strength in the chin and face.

The attacks were faster and quieter compared to the ones from last week, he didn't sit on his ass all day since he knows that one day his teacher will come and 'collect' him.

*HIT*

Baki again tried to attack him but he just got hit again in the chin.

Baki jumped back two meters and his whole body started to relax, he was turning whole body into liquid so he can get more explosive force.

*BOOM*

Baki launched himself like a rocket and aimed a punch towards Kenzou's stomach.

Kenzou's leg met his punch but instead of him trying to match the punch with strength, he left his body go limp and span around once.

*BAM*

While he span around at high speeds he raised his leg and kicked Baki in the face.

*BOOM*

Baki was launched tens of meters away and crashed into the arena's walls.

Kenzou stopped spinning midair and landed on the ground after he sent him away with that kick.

What he did was he used Baki's power to spin around for his own attack.

He went towards Baki who was on the ground and put his hands on his neck.

He started strangling him aiming to knock him out for good.

The audience started to murmur and whisper. "Hey, isn't that too far?" "He's going to kill him!"

As he saw Baki's eyes roll into the back of his head he witnessed something weird. His sclera started turning black and his pupils turned white. Baki lifted his head up and looked at Kenzou with no expression.

!!!!

*BAM*

Kenzou got kicked in the stomach and was launched up in the air.

*BAM*

Baki got up from the ground and punched a falling Kenzou with a right hook.

Kenzou flew away like 10 meters and crashed to the ground, his mask was nowhere to be seen and there was blood coming out of his mouth.

Everyone was shocked by this development, no one expected something like this to happen. Up until now the one who had total advantage was Kenzou, but out of nowhere Baki got up and proceeded to hit him with newfound strength.

Kenzou couldn't believe it either, he was the one who was the most in a state in shock. This was what he was talking about one week ago when Baki was about to get up, it looked like that single interaction with Baki made him even stronger.

Baki wasted no time and jumped in the air, he aimed a kick exactly at Kenzou's face.

*BAM*

Kenzou rotated on the ground and kicked him in the face.

He looked at where the kick landed and saw that Baki blocked with his hands and was launched two meters but he landed on his feet.

Kenzou got up on his feet fast and waited for the upcoming attack.

Baki jumped in the air and launched a kick towards Kenzou's face.

*BAM*

Kenzou dropped himself to the ground, launched himself towards Baki and sent a kick towards his stomach.

Baki had his arms crossed and he blocked the kick, he got sent up more up in the air since he wasn't on the ground.

Baki positioned himself and put his leg down facing the ground, coming towards Kenzou with high speeds.

Kenzou decided to risk it this time and see what happens.

*BAM*

Kenzou got kicked in the face but at the same time he thrusted his foot exactly into his liver.

Even though Kenzou's nose got broken the damage he did to Baki was more potent.

Baki jumped backwards and blood started to come out of his mouth.

*CRACK*

Kenzou got up on his feet and fixed his nose with his hand.

Kenzou looked at Baki who had blood coming out of his mouth and nose and said. "The left lobe of your liver should in a pretty bad shape right now. If you have any consciousness left I suggest you listen to me carefully and stop this fight right away. You might die."

Baki raised his hands upwards and flexed his back very hard.

His muscles formed the face of a demon on his back and he launched an uppercut towards Kenzou's stomach.

*BAM* *BAM*

Kenzou couldn't get out of the way due to the speed that the fist was coming at, so he used both of his hands to block and kick Baki in the stomach at the same time.

Kenzou was sent flying high into the air and he landed on the side of the arena.

Before he could regain his balance Baki was already in front of Kenzou.

*BAM*

Baki punched Kenzou again in the stomach but this time Kenzou used his feet to kick Baki in the throat.

Baki fell on his knees trying to regain his breath while Kenzou got up on his feet and coughed out blood.

Kenzou had a smile on his face looking down at Baki who was gasping for air. No, that couldn't even be called Baki anymore. It was just a fighting machine without consciousness.

Kenzou was enjoying this situation where he was the underdog, he wasn't a masochist. He is a battle junkie that doesn't want to admit it since he's an introvert, he enjoys the situations where he doesn't have the advantage at all.

He loves to struggle and get on top without ever giving up.

Kenzou's eyes went back to their normal green color and he said. "Didn't expect that did you? But I guess that losing you consciousness made you unable to counter attacks that you can't see. That just makes you my worst matchup."

Baki regained his footing and he started running towards Kenzou who was just standing there waiting for him.

*HIT*

Baki threw a punch towards Kenzou who dodged by leaning to the side and then he threw an unseen kick to his chin.

Kenzou's attack was blocked by Baki's palm.

*BOOM*

Kenzou's eyes widened but it was too late, he got hit with an uppercut directly in the stomach.

Kenzou coughed blood and was sent flying in the air.

*BAM* *BOOM*

Baki jumped with all of his force and kicked Kenzou in the back.

Kenzou was sent flying to the ground and a cloud of dust raised up.

Despite his assumption of Baki not being able to sense the attacks was wrong he wasn't mad.

He had a smile on his face.

While Baki was up in the air, about to stomp Kenzou on the head, Kenzou punched Baki's leg to the side.

*BOOM*

His stomp had so much force in it that it buried in the sand a little.

*BAM* *CRACK*

Kenzou turned his body on the ground facing his foot and punched him in the knee.

*BAM*

He heard the sound of a bone breaking but as he was about to punch it again he got kicked on the side of his face.

His face was pushed against the ground with Baki's other foot but it was useless.

*BAM*

Kenzou used his other hand and performed uppercut to his balls.

The muscles on his thighs weakened due to the pain and he struggled to stay on his feet.

Kenzou took advantage of this situation and got up on his feet.

He smiled maliciously and said. "Say goodbye to your nuts."

*BAM* *CRUNCH*

He soccer kicked him in the balls with all of his strength, and this time Baki dropped to the ground foaming from the mouth for good.

Kenzou's smile disappeared, his eyes went back to pitch black and he said with an apathetic face. "That was a good fight, I don't know who suffered more damage, me or him.

But one thing is for sure...

And that is that I won in the end."

The announcer declared that Kenzou was the winner. Now the other professional fighters saw Kenzou's true power, and if that wasn't scary enough they looked at his body which was very lean for someone with that much power.

What Kenzou didn't know was that his body started getting bigger and the same could be said about his muscles, the change was so small that you had to look closely to see the difference.

That meant that Kenzou could finally gain more brute strength, since his fighting ability is heavily based on speed.

Kenzou started walking away, while he was walking he saw that his shirt was fucked up so he threw it away.

He sat down on a chair and started feeling his body with his hands to check for any internal injuries.

"Yup, my stomach's messed up a bit but that can heal overnight even if I don't go to a doctor."

He looked at his arms and saw that he had a little problem moving them. "My arms are sore, I tanked too many heavy hits."

He heard footsteps so he looked at the people who were coming towards him, they were Chisato and Izana still wearing their masks.

Chisato hugged Kenzou and said. "I was worried there for a second."

She stopped hugging him and said. "But that made me happy, I never saw you have so much fun while fighting somebody."

Kenzou smirked and said. "What can I say, Baki was a strong opponent. Of course I had my fun fighting him."

Izana was looking absentmindedly at Kezou and said nothing.

Even though his face was hidden Kenzou could tell that there was something on Izana's mind.

Kenzou waved his hand in front of Izana's face and said. "What's wrong."

"Nothing, I was just thinking that seeing a fight on this level is different then seeing it through a screen."

"Yea, but this is near the peak of strength, if you improve like I want you to you can play with the big boys too. Then conquering Japan's underworld will be easy. The only reason I'm not using the same method teacher used to gain political power and money is because there can't be two people sitting on the same throne."

"What do you mean."

"I mean that there can't be two people being the strongest in the world."

Izana's eyes widened and he said. "I see."

Kenzou's turned stoic and he said. "What do you say, when is your fight with Mikey taking place?"

"We agreed upon doing it in one month, both gangs will be there engaging in an all-out war."

"That's enough time."

After that he sent them away so he can have some time for himself.

He crossed his legs and thought. 'When I first came here I had no goal, my only goal in life was to take revenge on my two brothers myself.

I mean big bro was tortured to the point of breaking down by the leader of Kilhito but I wasn't the one to do it. So after that I focused on making money while protecting my men.

And now all I'm doing is letting loose and doing whatever I please. Even though I still couldn't get my revenge I still am more satisfied with the life in this world.

I can finally test out all of my theories regarding human nature and see how far the mind can go.'

Kenzou was even thinking of recreating what happened to him to see what other people would do in his stead.

Someone's life only needs one push and it can become ruined.

For example if a single mother whose man abandoned starts doing drugs and neglecting her child due to depression, what will happen to the child?

Most of the times the child will grow up as a violent kid with a fucked up sense of morality, that's how most delinquents and gangsters are born.

A kid's upbringing molds their way of thinking and everything about them, if a child is treated with care and love his whole life when he meets adversity he will most likely complain, give up or even break down because things don't go their way.

But what about a child who was neglected and abused? He will grow up thinking that that's the norm and he will start inflicting violence on others sooner or later.

Most of the times it's not the kid's fault for being violent, it's the fault of the parents who didn't know how to properly raise their child.

But there are cases when the kid grows up in a normal family and associates himself with the 'wrong' group.

And the rarest cases are the kids who are just born that way, the people who are born just so they can inflict violence on others and oppress them. Those that live only for themselves with no regard of others.

The human mind is such a fascinating thing and Kenzou knows that.

That's why he considers to start spreading his seed around the world like his teacher did and make each one live different lives.

But that's a thing for later, now he has to deal with the current matters. Becoming a successful and influential person.