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Feel the Heat!

  • At the end of Chapter 2, Hana proves herself to be every bit as good in a fight as Akiyama, by singlehandedly wiping the floor with three Shibata goons. Akiyama shows up just as she's tossing them out of the fire escape. Shortly after, Akiyama collapses on the couch and Hana returns to her work as if nothing happened.
  • Saejima's chapter has him fighting against non-other than Kiryu himself, who proves to still pack a punch. To his credit, Saejima appears to be one of the only few characters in the series to match Kiryu in strength and durability, and the fight ends in a tie.
  • Saejima channeling Maximus Decimus Meridius in a deathmatch arena.
    • For context: Saejima is forced to participate in a deathmatch in front of a crowd of cheering people. After he wins the match, the rowdy crowd is yelling at him to kill his beaten opponent. He is tossed a sword to kill the opponent with the audience egging him on, one guy asks him since he's killed eighteen people, and what's one more. At that Saejima snaps and yells at the crowd to shut up as detailed in the above entry. He then delivers a speech that is both Shaming the Mob and "The Reason You Suck" Speech as he tells them that none of them know what it's like to have killed someone before and to live with it; knowing that you have taken a life and scarred their families forever, all the while Manly Tears going down his face as he still has nightmares from that day 25 years ago and relives it every night, remembering their dead fearful faces. This silences the crowd, and he tells both them and the man who put him up to the match that this is bullshit and he's out of here.
  • Kiryu taking on both Akiyama and Tanimura at the same time and mopping the floor with them.
    • Not only does he handily beat them, he catches Tanimura WITH ONE ARM (while carrying Akiyama over his shoulder) and slams them to the ground when they double team him!
    • The dynamic intro of the fight is pretty cool too, with Kiryu blocking both their attacks simultaneously.
  • While most characters use their cellphones (or a handbook, in Tanimura's case) to record their Revelations, Saejima instead takes a wooden log out of Hammerspace and proceeds to carve a wood statue depicting his new Heat move.
  • The final chapter is full of this:
    • Arai gives Daigo a ruthless "The Reason You Suck" Speech for partnering with the Tokyo police and selling Majima out to the Big Bad.
    • The four protagonists, having come together, arrive on a helicopter to confront their opponents. They then casually pick their specific targets. Cue a four-part Boss Rush.
    • Arai serves as the Final Boss for Akiyama, and uses a similar kick-based fighting style. Right before the fight he does a Battle Strip, and once he charges to Akiyama, the latter grabs him and throws unto a lower platform. The fight ends in a brutal QTE sequence which climaxes in Akiyama crushingly kicking Arai to the ground if succeeded.
    • The boss fight against Kido, Saejima's Final Boss, is no slouch either. Despite being younger and less experienced than the physically imposing Saejima, Kido is an Almighty Janitor who can give the elder man a run for his money. The fight even starts with Saejima encouraging Kido to do his best and them headbutting each other. As with Arai, the fight finishes in a furious action sequence before Saejima delivers a devastating kick to Kido's face.
    • The fight against Daigo, who serves as Kiryu's Final Boss, doubles as a Tear Jerker given the two men's history. While Kiryu is... well, Kiryu, Daigo might be the strongest out of the four boss fights, and holds up well against his Big Brother Mentor. Their fight climaxes in an epic Punch Parry which can throw either of them to the ground.
    • Munakata himself is less impressive than his fellow antagonists, but his boss fight serves as one huge moment of Awesome to Tanimura, who proceeds to fight off his horde of highly-trained bodyguards all by himself before mopping the floor with Munakata. This also marks the first time in the series that the true Final Boss is not taken on by Kiryu.
      • Tanimura's dynamic intro with Munakata is also a pretty badass moment, with Tanimura jumping onto and over Munakata's bodyguards to get at the man, while Munakata can only watch with his jaw dropped in horror.
  • The Stinger is a Awesome Moment of Crowning, which shows Saejima getting re-inducted into the Tojo Clan while founding his own family.

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