"Hisashi?" Asō Makoto asked, her face pale and devastated. "How can this be? How were you captured by them too?"
"Alas, it all started with that damned blackout," Noda Hisashi said bitterly. "We were staying in our original seats and didn't move around. Then a man in waiter's uniform rushed over to us and loudly asked who Noda Koji of the Noda-gumi was. Koji-kumicho acknowledged it, and then they suddenly turned violent. Without a second word, they grabbed my cousin, pressed a gun to his head, and forced the rest of us from the Noda-gumi to stay put and surrender without a fight."
"But how could we possibly surrender without a fight? A man's dictionary doesn't even contain the option of surrendering without a fight!" Noda Hisashi continued, his voice full of indignation. "Even with a gun aimed directly at his temple, Koji-kumicho told us we must never abandon the dignity of the Noda-gumi! So we swung our baseball bats and bayonets and charged like true warriors..."
Chapter 248