Baki had pretty much fully recovered from his father's beating now. A group of small children approached him saying his muscular body and his scars looked cool, and that he looked strong. Baki was extremely flattered and offered to help them build a sandcastle.
After about thirty or so minutes, Baki and the children finished a large sandcastle. It wasn't as pretty as his father's, but it was just as big and he had fun making it. After he said his goodbyes to the children, he found a group of teens around his age playing volleyball.
"Hey! Come on!" one guy called out to him. They needed one more player on their team and they wanted him to play with them.
"Alllright!" The guy said. He went on about how Baki looked like he'd make it an easy win. Baki just nodded politely and joined them on the court. It was 2 on 2. The guys on the other side were very tall compared to Baki. His partner was also taller than him. "It's our serve," said Baki's partner, handing him the ball.
Baki had never really played any sports, but he had seen a couple volleyball games on television with his brother. He could remember Jack saying to him, "Those balls look wimpy. I would use metal". Baki had to make sure he held back his strength.
Baki threw the ball far into the air. Crap, he thought, I screwed up.
"What the hell," Baki's partner said in amazement. The other players were also surprised. Eventually the ball came back down and Baki struck it as soft as he could into the enemy courtside. The ball darted directly into the enemy sand and people all over the beach seemed to notice the awesome point.
"You're a natural!" said Baki's partner.
"Playtime is over, shithead." remarked someone out of view.
Baki turned around to see that he was surrounded by teenagers, a few of them seemed familiar, and beat up.
"You've got balls coming back here" the teen in the blue sweater continued.
"Because of you, Asashi got put in the hospital."
Baki had a puzzled look on his face. "Are you playing dumb? You were with that big guy when he got beat up ,weren't you?"
Big guy? Baki then realized they were talking about his father, Yujiro. Oops, he thought. He was going to get roped into his father's mess.
Upon further inspection, he realized that they all had melee weapons. There were guys with brass knuckles, others with longer metal chains, bats, knives, etc. A few had wooden bats covered in barbed wire. Some had metal bats. Security was surprisingly lax, almost like they got paid off.
Baki let out a soft sigh and began to grin.
"It isn't nice to pick a fight with strangers," Baki looked around. The guys playing volleyball were all gone.
Then the group of teens charged. One wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt swung a brass knuckle clad fist at Baki's temple. He missed by a long shot, stumbling and losing his balance. Another teen swung a barb covered bat. Baki stopped it by placing his index finger on the tip, causing the aggressor to dislocate his shoulder and fall to the ground in pain.
Seeing this, a lot of the group got a bit shaken up, but ultimately it didn't kill their resolve to get revenge.
"Oh come on. Is that all you've got?" Baki taunted.
Someone behind him tried to stab him in the neck with a hand knife. The rest of the group could hardly follow what happened next. They just saw that teen unconscious, with their arm placed deep in the sand.
One of them seemed to know martial arts and attempted a pretty good kick to Baki's head, but Baki dodged the kick like it was nothing, causing the groin of that teen to run into the fist of another one. What started as a sizable group of at least ten teenagers, quickly began to whittle down into just a small group of five. No one was able to hit him. A big guy tried punching Baki but he just caught the punch, throwing the guy into his colleage. Baki then kicked the metal bat of one of the teenagers, causing it to have a sharp bend. Baki then took the bat and flung it forward into the air, causing it to whir as it went away.
"Alright, this is getting boring." remarked Baki.
Baki then took out two of the teens behind him with a backfist. Now there was only one teen left.
"You're a joke, you know that? You're not going to get away with this!" Yelled the teen in anger.
"Yeah yeah yeah. Blah blah blah. Are you finished?" Baki was done playing around.
The final teen charged at Baki, but nearby was a loud whirring noise. Before the teen could strike, he was hit in the head with a large metal object. It was the bat that Baki threw. It became a sort of boomerang.
Baki caught the bat as it ricocheted off of the aggressive teen's head. The teen was knocked unconscious.
"I'm glad that's finally over. I'm hungry." Baki said.
He decided to stroll to a nearby ice cream stand.
"What will it be?" inquired the vendor.
"One scoop of chocolate, please." He replied.
Baki eventually got his ice cream and started licking away, enjoying his well deserved treat.