Inside the Tokyo University Medical School Hospital, Shimoe Akiba's arm had been reattached, and he now lay weakly on the hospital bed, his face pale.
Yet, more damaging than the physical weakness from his injury was the emotional shock from having his arm severed and the impact of being defeated by a girl in her twenties.
Imahon Okuyama was also in the hospital room taking care of him, but the shock he received from this incident was no less than Akiba's.
Kojo Kyoko's father and he were good friends, and he had watched Kyoko grow up since she was a child. Although in recent years he had been transferred to oversee a dojo in the United States and was not at home in Japan, seeing his friend's daughter reach heights he himself could not even aspire to was a colossal mental shock for Okuyama.
Ever since he had brought Akiba to the hospital, he had been somewhat lost in thought, seemingly preoccupied with other matters.
