Chapter 303 is now up for reading pleasure! It's these Sunday work day delays, but better than last week anyway. Though I still ended up in a place that I predicted, but still was not sure it'd happen. It's sort of funny. I wrote the ending to the last chapter first, because I was so excited to do the next part. Yet because Miyako's flashback is taking more time to develop and cover I had to move it off. And now I have to move it off again. Unless I'm really digging deep into this though, I should be moving on in the next chapter. But we'll see, I am enjoying writing this little story for Miyako.

Miyako was a new character for this arc. And it might seem a little strange the attention I'm giving her, but she is the only character, still alive and with a name that I haven't already giving a back story to. Even Tatsuya and Hiroshi have back stories already covered in the first arc for their characters. Miyako is going to be playing an important role in the future, so she is getting attention now to develop her so that when I do need her later it all makes sense for her character. There is a bit of a cliche in her back story, the whole in too deep to leave trope, but she managed to leave without the whole go through some horrible ordeal to do it. Helps when you own the gang and she's bad news enough that most just leave her alone.

Also keep in mind, she is wearing her school uniform through all of this. So she has a very unsuspecting appearance to those that don't know her personally. All of the ones dealing with her would know her name as anyone would, but they don't know what she looks like and since none of them are associating with any gang anymore, they have no markings. So they look like random hoodlums just out for trouble rather than part of a gang. Otherwise, they would have thought twice about messing with her or her men. But can't have a fight without misunderstandings.

Enjoy!