The sun has settled down, Go Hibiki returns to the Pha-Yak school area. He hides in the foliage of the bushy surroundings, getting near to the school building. He eavesdrops to listen what's going on in the school. The first things he hears is something getting smashed.
"DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH OF A FOOL YOU MADE US LOOK TODAY!?" Ukrit shouted.
Go gets up and tries to peer through at one of the windows. He sees Sagat sitting in front of a circle of students, as Ukrit is standing up next to a broken table.
"How could you…!?" Ukrit continued. "How could you lose to that…!? That…!? That clown!? What do you think our rivals are going think of us!? What do you think the WORLD is going to think of us!?" Sagat doesn't answer and is breathing through his nose heavily, looking down at the ground. Ukrit grabs Sagat's jaw to have him stare right into his eyes. "ANSWER ME!"
"I don't know!" Sagat answered hysterically. "I don't know, okay!" Ukrit lets go of him and turns his back toward him.
"This will not go unpunished. The whole world will know of this." Ukrit turns back to Sagat, grabs his neck and drags Sagat outside. The students follow, and Go goes back to hiding in the bush. Ukrit tosses Sagat across the ring and points at him. "Stay down!" Ukrit turns to his students. "Boys, we need to teach our little disappointment a lesson. I want you to give him hell! Our little praises got over his head! Let him feel our pain! Remind him of what happens when you bring back failure!"
The students walk onto the ring, and start stomping, dropping their knees, punching, on Sagat. This goes on for five minutes. When the students are done, they spat on him. Ukrit walks up to Sagat and stomps on his head with all his might. Sagat screams in pain, and Ukrit twists his foot, adding extra pressure.
"You will not be given food and water for a week!" Ukrit told Sagat. He lets his foot go of him. Two older students pick him up. "In addition, notice how those reckless Ansatsuken fighters messed up our ring!" The ring has cracks and chunks broken off. "You're the one going to fix it!" Ukrit points to buckets of cement nearby. "You will use cement to remedy it! But get it done quickly! If the cement dries up! That's an extra week without food and water!" The older students tie up two blades on the upper arms of Sagat that point do his armpits. "You will carry two buckets at a time, and yes. That includes carrying the trowel too! Get it done before sunrise, or I'll outright disown you!" The older students let Sagat go who drops to his knees while carefully getting his arms spread out. "NOW GET TO IT!" Ukrit and the students walk back into the building.
Go could not believe what just happened. He has seen strict teachers before, including Goutetsu, but never anything of this extreme. Even in the dim lighting of the evening, Go can identify the blood and bruises that were caused by the students and Ukrit. He felt bad for the poor kid, wanting to help him right away. He logically can't, it would escalate matters even worse.
Sagat starts doing the chore, picking up the trowel and two buckets. When Sagat tried to carry two buckets with one hand, the blade was poking his armpit a bit, causing irritation. He had to carry the buckets with both hands instead. Trying to pave cement was an awkward feat. Sagat must spread his free arm straight up as he tries to intricately spread the cement. No matter how careful Sagat is, eventually both blades pierce his armpits causing him to screech in pain. Go cringes at the sight, already being uncomfortable with what's going on as is. Sagat notices the cement in the buckets are getting dry and tries to get the job done faster. He brings two other buckets along running up to the ring. not caring that the blades are dipping into his skin again. Sagat must do a lot of fast movements: crouching down, getting up to one place to another, and crouching down again, spread the cement quickly. Within a few hours, Sagat is almost done, but he can't complete it. He fainted due to fatigue and blood loss. Go peaked inside the building and sees that everyone is asleep. Go rushes to the ring and finishes Sagat's chore and drags him deeper into the jungle.
The next morning, Sagat wakes up and notices there's an assortment of fruit in front of him. He looks around to see if anyone's watching and quickly munches on the fruit. Sagat gets hit in the head by a chico fruit, and he looks up sees Go sitting on a tree.
"Good morning!" greeted Go. He slides down on the tree. "How you like the breakfast in bed?" Sagat is enraged at the sight of Go and immediately attempts to roundhouse kick him. Go ducks and picks up the chico fruit he threw. "Hey, are you going to eat this?" Sagat attempts to kick him again, but Go swiftly dodges it causing Sagat to chop down a tree. He chases Go across the short open area, constantly missing Go and chopping down trees. When Sagat chopped down another tree he got hit by it, and a monkey landed on him punching his head. Sagat tosses the monkey aside. "Come on kid! I gave you food and I finished the job for you, why do you hate me?"
"Because my problems aren't your business!" Sagat responded and throws a punch at Go of which he just grabs it and holds on to it.
"Uh, yeah. I'm not taking that as an answer." Go releases Sagat's fist.
"Just leave me alone!" Sagat tries to hit the side of Go's neck with his shin, but Go also grabs that as well.
"No."
"Don't you start that again!"
"Well elaborate boy! Then I'll leave you be!" Go pushes Sagat's shin to the side. Sagat groans.
"Just ever since you came here, you ruined everything! I was loved by my peers! But then you defeated me! Not even a proper warrior's defeat! A humiliating defeat! You made a mockery of me and my school!"
"It's not my fault." Go said in a serious tone. "No matter what kind of defeat you receive, they'll treat you like trash no matter what. But, you did give a clearer explanation. I'll leave you alone." Go walks away from the school area.
Sagat stares at Go briefly and punches a tree next to him, which causes three chico fruits to fall, hit his head, and moments after, another monkey landed on his head. Sagat angrily moved his eyes looking at the monkey, and the monkey crawls off Sagat with a nervous smirk. Sagat walks back to his school and an older student approaches him.
"Good work on fixing the ring Sagat." The older student congratulated as he unties the blades around Sagat's upper arms. "But you cannot enter the building."
"What!? Why?" Sagat asked in surprise.
"Ukrit is still very angry with you. He even changed his mind. You will get not get food and water for a month."
"Are you kidding me!? This is insane!"
"He felt he spoiled you too much. He did train you for ten years and yet you failed to defeat a clown." Sagat got enraged and pushed the older student to a tree nearby.
"Well! Let's you see you take on the damn clown then!"
"I-it was not my words! It was Ukrit's!" Sagat lets go of him.
"You talk about me not progressing? This school hasn't progressed in the last ten years…"
Sagat leaves the school area, and Go Hibiki is still spying on him within the bushes. Sagat walked for a good mile (an estimated kilometer and a half) entering a Buddhist temple, that has a large statue of Buddha laying on his side. Sagat sits in front of a large statue and meditates. Go is pleased on what Sagat is doing, seeing a more peaceful and calm side of him. Go has hope in the young fighter. He decides to really leave Sagat alone this time, giving respect to his peace of mind and to the temple.
Go enters the school area again. All the students are sparring outside, however, Ukrit isn't there, which gives Go the idea to sneak into the building. Go notices that the building has a bit of an age to it, with plants and roots went through the walls and floors everywhere. In addition of the lack of proper lighting, this gives plenty of places for Go to hide in and decides to hide behind a gigantic root. Go sees Ukrit is sitting with a couple of men in business suits, all gambling and playing mahjong.
"Sakda!" Ukrit said to one of the men. "That disappointment of an adopted son of mine was facing a couple of Japanese nobodies yesterday. At first, he was doing amazing! He kicked their asses like it was nothing. BUT the worst possible thing happened! He lost to a despicable clown who was late on purpose! HELL, he wasn't even late! He was sleeping! Wasting our damn time! If I wasn't infertile I'd birth a real man I'm telling you!"
Sakda takes his Cuban cigar out of his mouth and puffs out smoke. He's a short overweight man, wearing a white business suit, and aviator sunglasses. He has black hair with a large bald spot and a thick mustache. Wears many golden necklaces, and has rings of many different pieces of jewelry on every single finger, including his thumbs.
"Ukrit," said Sakda, "it's time to get with the times. He was likely taking some of that uh, L.S.D." Go silently chuckled at that accusation. "These days, everyone's doing drugs. Here's what I don't get. I don't see why you care so much about this fight between your adopted boy and a couple of hippy foreigners. You got on top while you were in your prime. When you die, nobody's going to remember of you as the loser that got his ass kicked by a clown druggie. You see, I constantly know what's going down in this country, and my friend, no way in hell people aren't going to see you in a bad light. At least not in a way where I can't take care of them personally, you know what I'm saying?"
"I know people are going to always love me in Thailand!" said Ukrit. "But I want the world to love me, and that clown is going to spread it to all his butt buddies in Japan about how he kicked my best student's ass!"
"Alright, alright. I get your point. Listen up, the boys at the chem-lab are cooking up some experimental stuff to compete against rival Muay Thai schools, and believe me. I'm sparing no expense. This the highest quality available. In addition, how you like this? I'm going to find that clown, arrange a rematch between him and your boy, but this time, we're going to inject him with the stuff we're cooking. Anabolic Steroids."
"Hmm… That's a great idea Sakda! Is that the same stuff those bodybuilders are using these days?"
"Exactly that stuff."
"Hahahaa! Oh, this is going to be good. But, there is one simple problem. Sagat is still kind of on that whole Buddhist nonsense. He might not take the drugs."
"Well if he isn't going to take them, he's a worthless little runt that should be disposed of. Don't even worry about getting your hands dirty." The other men in business suits bring out revolvers. "We'll take care of it."
"Ahahahahaaa! This is why I love doing business with you!"
Go is shocked to hear all of this. In fact, he is appalled, enraged.
"What a bunch of heartless bastards!" Go said in his thoughts in utter disgust. "Sagat has to know about this, one way or the other." Go peaks through the window above him and sees the sun is setting. "I'll have to put that on hold temporarily. I got some other important business to take care of personally."
A few hours later, Go is in Nonthaburi by a payphone going to call his wife. Go is trying to get change out of his pocket but he realized none of his currency isn't going to work on a Thai payphone. As Go is looking at his coins on his palm, a man added a few satangs on it. Go looks at the man who gave him the satangs, and it was a man with black mullet and goatee in a red business suit with round sunglasses.
"Danny Masters!" Go is overjoyed to see the man in the suit, hugging him. Danny hugged Go back. "What are you doing here you nut?" The two let go of the hugging embrace.
"I should be asking that to you." said Danny. "But, Gouken filled me in what's going on. He knew you'd be missing something important, and ya can't get back to Hong Kong with a couple of coins y'know."
"Hahaha! Yeah, that's true. He's one caring cousin. Well, uh, anyway how's your boy Ken doing?"
"He's doing fine. I just sent him off to Japan to train under Gouken. Giving that boy proper discipline and not be exposed to crap like Dim Mak."
"You care about proper discipline?"
"Yeah, he ain't going to get inherit my business that easily. That boy's gotta know what hardship is or he'll truly be exploited by a bunch of chumps."
"I guess Ansatsuken can help on that. An odd thing to do so.
"WELLL, it's also to give the boy a little culture and that all good stuff. Anyway, enough of me dude, how are ya doing training that Muay Thai punk?"
"Not well Danny. His school is evil! All those students who whine and complain about their masters are truly taking it for granted."
"Whoa, whoa, what's going on over there?" Go explains Danny everything. "Damn, that Arjan jerk is a real bitch."
"His name isn't Arjan, that's his title, like sensei."
"Well, whatever. This Ukrap guy is a real bastard."
"Yeah! It's one thing to punish your students! I still feel grandpa's tough love." Go shudders as he rubs his butt. "It's not how you treat a student who fails! Sagat truly did his best to kick my ass, and not once did they explain to him why he failed and how he can improve!"
"In addition to working with the mob and consider killing him."
"Right! I really got to warn Sagat about what his Arjan is planning. It's just that he won't believe me! he really thinks I'm the cause for all of his problems."
"Hm… I think I got an idea." Danny whispers into Go's ear, telling him of his plan.
"Why are you whispering in my ear? None of his students are here! But that is a great idea! I'm going to try that!"
The next morning at the Pha-Yak school. Sagat wakes up from his slumber on the stone ring. A student walks up to him.
"Sagat," said the student, "you're allowed to enter in the building now."
"Is it true?" asked Sagat.
"Yeah, Ukrit calmed down."
Sagat enters the school building and-
"GOOD MORNING SAGAT!" greeted Go dressed in the school's uniform