(5 Years Ago) Hiro walks with his father to a street market, buying groceries for Mai. Hiro, confused as to why his father took him to the street market, asked him, "Hey Dad... Why am I here again? It's not that I'm complaining, but I have some homework to complete by the end of the week..." Kousuke responds to Hiro, "Well, I know what you have been through the past week, so I decided to bring you along just to get your mind off things for a bit... And maybe you can buy something that catches your eye." Hiro was now understanding, said his father. "Oh ok sounds good." They shopped for a few hours and got groceries and some other Items. Suddenly, Kousuke eyes catch something of interest. It was an emerald ring. He approaches the guy who is selling the ring and says to him. "How much for the emerald ring?"
The guy looks at Kousuke weirdly. He replies, "500 dollars." Kousuke, shocked, says to him, "Never mind then..." Suddenly Kousuke gets down on his knee to tie his shoe. When he went to get up, he hit his head on the table, causing all of the guy's jewelry to fall to the floor. Kousuke starts apologizing, "I'm so sorry... I didn't realize I was too close to the table." The guy annoyed at Kousuke said to him "It's alright, just watch what you are doing." Kousuke nodded and Immediately noticed the emerald ring. He looked around quickly, but nobody was looking. He grabbed it and stood up. He puts the ring in the lower pocket of his jacket near his stomach. He then grabs Hiro's hand, and they go to a different place in the street market. After shopping for a bit and carrying many items, they decided to head home. Hiro and Kousuke start to chat on the way to their house, talking about school and work. They eventually reach their house.
Out of nowhere, both notice a motorcycle with two guys wearing full-covered masks approaching them. Hiro immediately noticed the masks but was too slow to do anything. Suddenly, one of them shoots Kousuke in the stomach, making him fall to the ground. Hiro, seeing this, immediately goes to his father and tries to help heal the injury as much as possible until he looks up and sees the two masked people stopping in the middle of the road. One of them yells "THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR MESSING WITH THE ORGANIZATION". Out of nowhere, one of the guys hops off the bike and approaches Hiro slowly. The other masked guy was confused at what was going on and asked his partner, "What the hell are you doing!.. This wasn't part of the plan!". The guy responds, "I know... But let me just finish the job!" Suddenly, the masked guy nods and leaves his partner to finish the rest. Hiro, in anger, asked, "WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM!!! HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!!! HE WAS RETIRED FROM THE ORGANIZATION!!!" The masked guy started to laugh at Hiro and said to him. "You don't get it, do you... You are the one who caused this to happen..." Hiro, confused, said, "What are you talking about?". The masked guy replies to him, "You really are a dumbass, huh?". He then removed his mask, saying, "I'm sorry, Hiro... It's just the boss's orders." The masked guy revealed to be Aidan. In utter shock, Hiro started to get angered and said to him with a clenched fist. "Aidan? Why are you doing this?... I thought the boss didn't mind me leaving the organization... He said everything will be fine... WHY AIDAN?" Aidan stays quiet and doesn't respond to him. Hiro then yells, "ANSWER ME WHEN I ASK YOU SOMETHING AIDAN!!! THAT'S THE LEAST YOU COULD DO!!!" Aidan sighs and responds to him. "I don't know, maybe he changed his mind... But the original plan was just to kill your father... But I'm going to take revenge on what you did to me last time... and kill you." Aidan starts to approach Hiro with a murder eye on his face, Hiro notices this and Immediately gets up, he then gets into a fighting pose and approaches Aidan. They start to fight, dodging and trading blows with each other. Both of them seem not to show any mercy. But seems that Hiro is still holding his punches, he isn't going for any lethal blows. Aidan starts to see through Hiro's moves and counters him with a nasty gut punch, followed by a roundhouse kick to the stomach. Making him back off Aidan and stay far away from him. Making him weak from his knees. Hiro doesn't know what to do. He feels weak. Aidan then approaches Hiro again, saying, "Well... It's been fun, Hiro... But you are done. You can't fight more..." Aidan goes for an uppercut. Still, suddenly, Hiro dodges the uppercut and goes for an uppercut of his own, sending Aidan a few feet off of him and making him stumble a bit. Hiro says, "You really think I've gotten soft to the point that I can't fight anymore... Please, that move is predictable." Aidan, more pissed than ever, rushes at Hiro. Hiro does the same, and Aidan says the same to him. "Predict this then!!!" He suddenly pulls out a switchblade. Hiro noticed it in time, but he couldn't dodge it. Aidan managed to slash Hiro's chest. Making him bleed. "Hiro backs off Aidan and looks at the slash. He sees the blood in his hand and gets angry at Aidan, saying to him. "Using a weapon in a hand-to-hand combat fight... How much of a coward do you have to be!" Aidan responds, "Who said this was gonna be a clean fight..." Aidan rushes at Hiro again, starting to slash Hiro, but he's able to dodge them all. Hiro is trying to see for an opening but can't find anything. Suddenly, he saw Aidan starting to get tired and used this to get a blow in. He blocks one of Aidan's slashes and gets a right hook in, but a massive left uppercut knocks Aidan down. Hiro, finally able to rest, immediately goes to his father, screaming, "DAD!!!!" He immediately gets down onto his knees and sees that his father is still alive. Kousuke says to Hiro. "Hiro... I... Am... Proud of you... You have become such a good gentleman... I'm glad that you are my son..." Hiro responds in tears, saying, "I'm sorry, Dad... I didn't mean for the organization to do this." Kousuke responds saying "It's fine son... It's not your fault... Just promise me this... You will not get revenge on the organization... Please... They will kill you if you get near them..." Hiro didn't want to agree with that but didn't want to disobey his father. He said, "Fine, Dad... I promise..." Kousuke, in his final breaths, said to his son, "I love... you... Son... Thank you... for not... going down the same... path as... me". Suddenly he stops moving, and Hiro starts to panic he grabs out his phone but as he is dialing 911, but suddenly a random guy just neck chops Hiro, making him go unconscious. A few hours go by, and Hiro wakes up and sees he's in his bed. He tries to get up. But sees his mother entering his room. He sees his mom, and she breaks down into tears. He suddenly gets up and hugs her, saying, "I'm Sorry, Mom, I couldn't save him..." Mai, seeing her son breaking down in tears, says to him, "It's not your fault... Everything will be alright." (End of Chapter)