Keep Fighting

𓊈卍 𝟐𝟔 卍𓊉

The school bell rings, indicating the end of the day. Students eagerly get up from their desks to go free after nearly seven hours of sitting and listening, and maybe a miniscule amount of learning.

Takemichi drags a sigh, having completely ignored the bell completely. All he can think about is the threat Mikey made last night. Bring Baji back to Toman, or he's gonna kill him.

Well, if Nakano doesn't beat him, that is.

"The bell rang." His sister stands from the desk next to him, having been in the same class for the last period.

"Oh, right..." Just as he's about to stand up, the sliding door rattles open.

"Takemichi!!"

Four familiar faces walk through the door, being his old school friends. They look lively, despite the long day they had.

"We heard! You became a member of Toman?!"

"Akkun..."

Takemichi is too tired to process what happened overnight. It's starting to make him hallucinate a bit. It's as if he's seeing Akkun sitting in the truck, fire threatening to engulf him once again.

"What's up with you?" said plum haired boy questions. "You don't look too happy."

He feels a nudge at his side when Nakano bumps him back to reality. "Uh- Th-That's right! We became members of Toman. Just turned out that way."

"We?" Takuya adds out of curiosity. "You mean both you and Nakano-san are in Toman?"

Takemichi nods as he turns towards Nakano to avoid Akkun's bright eyed gaze. After that night, he just can't face him.

"Well, the both of you are hella lucky," Yamagishi practically whines. "I wanna join too."

Letting out another sigh, Takemichi lets his head droop out of exhaustion. "It's not as awesome as you think..."

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"... I see." Akkun analyzes the story Takemichi had just told them. "If you can't get Baji-kun, the ex-first division captain, back from Vahlalla... Mikey's gonna kill you."

"Yeah..." Takemichi rests his head on his desk, as Nakano sits on the other side with her arms crossed. "And we've only got until the battle with Valhalla."

"But there's no telling when that'll happen," Makoto comments.

"To be honest though, I have no idea about the situation in Toman," the blonde Hanagaki confesses. "And I don't even know what 'Valhalla' is."

"Valhalla is a biker gang in Kanto that Hanma Shuji started." Nakano finally speaks after a long silence. "As of right now, it's Toman's greatest rival."

"Woah, how'd you know that, Nakano?" He asks, impressed that she knows all this.

"I thought I told you this already. I was with Manjiro when Hanma announced it to him."

"Oh, right. But that still doesn't explain everything."

"Oi, gang-dex." Akkun looks towards Yamagishi.

The boy with the bun pushes up his glasses and walks towards the chalkboard. He starts explaining how Toman is organized. Mikey is at the top as commander, while the number two is Draken, the vice-commander. There are five divisions with roughly twenty guys each, which makes for a hundred guys.