A couple days passed and now it's April.
Aito was jogging right after he had a terrible dream where he punched someone in the head and they bursted into blood.
Aito: "just some bad dream..."
Aito said as he kept jogging.
Me while Aito's next opponent for the ROTY was sitting in the cafeteria on a date with this girl.
Hayabashi: "Hey. Do you think I'll win this next match? So far My 7-0-0 record says I do."
Hayabashi said laughing.
Mito: "actually that's why I wanted to meet up with you. You don't take boxing seriously just because of your hand speed. Doesn't mean you shouldn't train seriously."
Mito said getting fed up.
Hayabashi: "what do you mean?"
Hayabashi asked.
Mito: "what I'm trying to say is train as hard as you can for this match. Or I'll break up with you."
Mito said walking away.
Hayabashi: "what... no you can't. We're a perfect match!"
Hayabashi said now confused.
Mito: "my dad will tell me whether or not your actually training."
Mito said walking away.
Hayabashi: "Dang it!"
Hayabashi slammed his fist on the table.
Later at the Fumio gym.
Coach fumio: "Aito! I wanna work on your skills as a boxer! You need to use that anger as a weapon not a bomb. It needs to be controlled and used in short bursts. Not long uncontrollable bursts. You'll tire out against a smart opponent and lose."
Coach fumio Said as he set up a new training method.
Coach fumio: "you'll hit the bag with your best combinations that you use when angered. BUT! When you do hit it make sure it's 7 seconds of powerful. Basically no more then 5 hit combinations on the bag. Any more and you'll be leaning into the anger range. And less and you can't get the last two sweet spot of power."
Coach fumio said to the now focused aito.
Lucas: "so your essentially sealing off his power?"
Lucas asked.
Coach fumio: "in a way. But his combos might sound like this. The first punch is the starter- then the second is the power on- then the third is the lunching and finally the last two are just full power."
Coach fumio explained.
Renjiro: "what if they dodge the last two?"
Renjiro asked.
Coach fumio: "then they dodged it."
Coach fumio laughed.
Naoki: "guess what? Just yesterday I won another match making me! 22-0-0!"
Naoki laughed as he flexed.
Lucas: "we know. KO in round one."
Lucas yawned.
Aito: "that happend last night?"
Aito asked.
Naoki: "yep. But thing is you didn't know because after a couple minutes you were asleep."
Naoki laughed.
Aito: "oh. I feel so silly. I missed you Match."
Aito grinned.
Renjiro: "And yoten had a fight just a couple weeks ago."
Renjiro said shocking most of the gym.
Aito: "really? Did he win?"
Aito asked.
Renjiro: "yeah. He's been on a grind of 10-0-1 but only 3 KO's."
Aito: "and here I am happy about my 2-0-1 with 2 KO's."
Aito laughed.
Renjiro: "but here's the thing. People say he carrys them through out the match. And only dishes pure punishment to those who taunt him. And yet he's this powerful within three months."
Renjiro said laughing.
Naoki: "and all of those matches were against higher ranked boxers. C-2 class and C-1 class boxers."
Naoki said as Aito got nervous.
Aito: "my rival. Is this strong."
Aito said slowly getting fired up.
Naoki: "and if you win this tournament then you'll be able to challenge Yoten if he becomes champion!"
Naoki said making Aito excited.
Coach fumio: "Exactly. Then you can show Yoten your power as a Hammer/Shell style mix. And hopefully you'll win this time."
Coach fumio said making Aito feel excited.
Aito: "alright! I'll train even harder for this tournament!"
Aito yelled.