St. Luke's International Hospital, Chuo, Tokyo.
Dr. Naomi Morita sits alone in her office, a medical chart open across her desk. She finishes a line of notes, pauses, then reaches for her phone.
Instead of checking her messages, she opens the recording of yesterday's fight. She watches in silence, her attention sharpening as the footage reaches the sixth round.
As the footage reaches the sixth round, Naomi's attention sharpens. She watches Cabello make a series of movements, only to see Ryoma reproduce every one of them almost perfectly, matching his footwork, shifts, and attacks.
Then the two begins launching into simultaneous exchanges, trading combinations at nearly the same instant, again and again.
Naomi's eyebrows lift slightly. "Good grief…"
She rewinds the sequence and watches it again before lowering the phone and returning to her notes.
