At that moment, a loud thud of dumbbells and other heavy gym equipment hitting the floor could be heard; bouncing and finally resting on their own accord, then the entrance door was kicked open.

  The whole ruckus made Kenzo turn his head slowly but crookedly, to see what the sudden fuss was about.

  Beside Kenzo, Saburo and rest, the entire gym stopped doing whatever they were, all staring daggers at the Kenzo and Hida, ready to dice them up.

  The ones that just burst into the gym pulled out their guns, cocking and pointing slanting at Kenzo and Hida, while those without cannon picked up anything around them that they could use as a weapon and those that could find a weapon cracked their hands or neck, ready to use their bare hands to tear through Kenzo and his crew.

  Razor coldly ordered Kenzo “Get your fuckin' away from him, dickhead!” pointing his gun directly at Kenzo’s head.

  Saburo and Hoshi already knew the stunt the Black Birds pulled with the Sinners was far from innocent, and holding a meeting with a lieutenant like Kenzo in a private space like their office, will just be making their asses more appealing to get smoked. No matter the good history Kenzo has either of them, he's stone cold killer whose loyalty lies in his own ambitions. He would kill them without wasting a thought.

  Kenzo and Hida weren’t alone; some of Kenzo’s subordinates followed him to this meeting.

  They pulled out their tantō, waiting for the order of their bosses.

  The room was clouded with the intent of blood and murder, so dense that would need a chainsaw to cut through the tension.

  While the bosses of both camps were still locked in stalement silence; which can’t really be called that because Kenzo had Saburo’s face in his palm, prepared to turn his face to moosh if he doesn't get answer he wants while the muzzle of Hida’s gun is still caressing Hoshi’s forehead.

  “Saburo… Chill… Let's just play along with 'em for now” Hoshi spoke in broken South-Korean, a bit calmly.

  “We outnumber them; five to one… We can fuckin' take them” Saburo replied in fluent South-Korea, which was muffled due to Kenzo’s grip on his lower jaw.

  “Why won't you fuckin' listen?!… Some of 'em are Evolves, besides the two fuckers holding us.

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  We won't walk out of this alive... So will any of our guys in here!” Hoshi strongly rebuked Saburo’s rash thinking.

  “Can you speak in Japanese for the rest of us to hear” Kenzo broke in and said as he smiled like a maniac.

  “Say ‘Yes’ and I will tell my guys to put down their weapons… please” Hoshi ignored Kenzo and said softly to Saburo, who was still fuming but resisted the urge to yell for his men to cut down every one of Black Birds in his gym but knew that all what Hoshi said in his terrible South-Korean was in fact true.

  “Yes” Saburo whispered softly in Japanese, extremely reluctant to let Kenzo’s obnoxious provocation slide but he knew better.

  “Huh? Yes to what exactly?” Kenzo responded putting his ear closer to Saburo’s lips.

  Saburo clarified with weakly mutter, but Kenzo was satisfied and yelled in jest “What was that? Not should those guys by the entrance can hear you. Fuck, even I can’t hear you”

  “Let go of my fuc… mouth… if you …ant hear me, mother…ker” Saburo responded in hatefully muffles, giving Kenzo a raging yet defeated stare.

  Kenzo roughly let go of Saburo’s lower, allowing him to speak clearer.

  Saburo redrew back a bit from the relief of Kenzo letting go of his mouth, then said in emotional pain “We work for the Black Birds”

  As he did, Hoshi raised up left hand and waved it down gently, repeating this hand wave three time; a gesture to sign his guys to pull back their weapons and seize their aggressive manner.

  They all responded surely but slowly, still staring at the Black Birds who didn’t retreat back since Kenzo didn’t order them to.

  Kenzo looked to right and nodded slightly at Hida, who immediately pulled his gun from Hoshi’s head and his subordinate behind him followed suit.

  Hida stepped back while Kenzo gently slapped Saburo’s face two times and asked rhetorically “Does it feel good to be a bitch?”

  Saburo didn’t respond, crooking his head a bit to the side as he stared hatefully at Kenzo and his mind boiling with unquenchable rage, while Hoshi stood up and softly placing his hand on Saburo’s left shoulder – a gesture for him to calm down, who still sat still.

  “I think we are done here, let’s allow Hoshi and Saburo clean themselves up… They have a lot to think about” Kenzo announced loudly as he stood up straight, dusted the left-breast area of his suit, then gave a nod to Hida and the rest of his crew for them to take their leave.

  As they got close to the door, Kenzo suddenly turned around and said "Hey..." nodding his Hoshi, who just stare back without saying anything.

  "Take very good care of some guys still healing up here. If one of 'em die, I personally don't mind one person running this joint" Kenzo warned sternly, with a bit of humour.

  They all took their leave after that.

  As the last of them exited the gym, Saburo immediately stood up, raised his right hand to his face, to massage the numbing pain Kenzo’s small but strong grip left on his face, before yelling “Fuck!” at the top of his lung with unbounded vexation, kicking the crate he sat on.

  The crate skipped a few feet, with the area of the box Saburo kick spattering all over.

  He yelled out the same word repeatedly, as he swung his arm around aimlessly with intensified annoyance and anger like a mad person fighting the ghosts only he can see.

  “Show’s over, everyone get back to whatever the fuck you were doing” Hoshi said aloud to everyone that continued to stare at them; at Saburo to be exact, he stormed around in circles.

  The Razor and everyone reacted slowly to Hoshi’s words; many started moving while other moved their gaze to Hoshi with different expressions written all over their face – curiosity, a bit of vexation, aloofness etc; nothing to intense though.

  “I ain’t speaking motherfuckin' Chinese” Hoshi yelled out again with zero will to sound soft this time, prompting those that moved slowly to move much faster and those that continued staring despite his initial order, quickly pick themselves up and started moving too.

  “Let’s talk in the office…” Hoshi said calmly to Saburo, who already stopped yelling and pacing around, massaging his face and the back of his neck as he stood still.

  Then Hoshi turned to face Ayaka and said “Go tend those fuckin' Black Birds still here. That mother fucker ain't kidding around ”

  He instructed Ayaka, who replied simply with a quick nod and left to the back room.

  Hoshi turned to face Saburo again, slightly but noticeably nudge his head a bit to his left – a gesture for them to go to their office.