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Redemption: A Leader is Born
Today is Ogata Yamato's birthday. Today, for the first time, he exhibits leadership skills. Perhaps he is ready to lead 3D.
Like Yankumi he works the streets looking for the culprit. He encounters all sorts of disreputable people who shouldn’t ever have contact with teenagers, but Yamato already knows something about the ugly side of life.
His teacher is more determined than ever and now she has taken her quest to a pachinko parlor.
Yamato accidentally runs into someone in a club and almost gets into a fight when he realizes that guy is the mugger. The necklace and the tattoo match. The establishment serves alcohol. The legal drinking age is 20. Yamato is 18. I wonder why they let him enter. Hmmm...
He follows the guy into an alley. The guy confronts him. They face off and when Yamato thinks about leaving, other men appear. Knowing he can’t get away, he demands verification. “You’re that serial mugger, aren’t you?” The guy admits it.
Yankumi is still on the streets when she encounters two men who marvel that she’s looking for “Hiro,” too. His partner says that a kid from Akadou was looking for Hiro earlier. He wonders if she knows the kid.
She’s stunned and then remembers the look on Ogata’s face earlier at the police station. She asks the guys where Ogata was, but they say that by now he’s probably being “entertained” by Hiro. They suggest she stay out of it. She asks where Ogata is, but they wave her off.
She half turns into Wonder!Woman, grabs them by the clothes, throws them against the wall and demands to know where her student went. The answer secured, she takes off running. Superheroes don’t take taxis.
In the meantime, Hiro and company are beating Yamato in an abandoned warehouse. At one point when he goes down, Hiro asks Yamato if hhas hade enough yet. Defiant, the younger boy grabs Hiro's color and tells him that someone else is taking the heat for the crime and he plans to turn Hiro into the police. The beating resumes.
Page 1 - Hell is an
Page 2 - The Return of Yamaguchi Kumiko
Page 4 - Don’t Turn Your Back on Them
Page 6 - Cheers, Crime and Boyz on the Loose
Page 8 - Misconduct, Punishment and a Lie
Page 12 - The Fight to Save an Innocent
Page 13 - Redemption: A Leader is Born
Page 14 - To Protect What is Important