Disclaimer: Spoiler ahead, this will be mostly my opinion regarding the anime and theories as well as it will contain information from the episode per se.
WARNING: Violence theme, mention of beating, prostitution, stabbing, death.
This episode begins with Draken telling us about his life. He never met his father, his mother was a prostitute, that abandoned him when he was just two years old, and left him to live in the place she used to work. He was very tall from a young age, so he used to beat high schoolers when he was in primary school. When he was in 5th grade, he got his dragon tattoo in the temple, since he liked to be called Draken and not Ken Ryuguji.
A little gang that was controlling a nearby neighborhood would talk to him, and one day, they asked him to go looking for another primary schooler which name was being heard for the same reason as Draken's. They both were beating people way older than them, a guy named Mikey. Draken completely amused by the idea when to find him right away, expecting to find a huge buff kid, and instead finding a petite, thin and tiny blonde, that talked nonsense, as if people had to understand what he was talking about.
Draken, letting Mikey know why he had come looking for him, tells him how a group of high schoolers want to fight him, to what Mikey responds to yes and goes to leave his belongings back to his school locker before following Draken to what Draken thought, would be a beating to the little guy.
Once they arrived, Draken let know the older guys that the kid accompanying him was Mikey. While Mikey, without a second of hesitation, began running towards the guy at the center which was the leader, just to jump and land in the guy's face with his foot, landing a strong kick and leaving him unconscious, turning back to face the rest of the people, that were terrified to see how easily Mikey had taken their leader and leaving immediately. Mikey, then talked directly to Draken, to let him know that he had heard about him, and that he couldn't understand how someone so cool as Draken was with guys so low and stupid as the ones behind him, also asking him to be friends and calling him "Kenchin", giving a nickname just as he had done with Takemichi when they first met.
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After Takemichi comes back to the future, he and Naoto are looking for Osanai, the leader of Moebius that begins the confrontation with ToMan after what he did to a guy, his girlfriend and his family. It does not take long for them to find him, since they arrive at his workplace and listed while Osanai is being scolded, coming to find a poor old man that looks tousled and messy.
They ask Osanai to join them on a meal, so they can ask him about the fight that took place 12 years in the past with ToMan and Draken's death, but he seems disturbed by the topic and lets them know that Draken was not killed by the fight itself, but it was just the trigger that made those things happen, since that fight was the reason there were internal issues with ToMan later on. Osanai speaks about how all of it was someone's plan, but he does not say who's plan since he is terrified he will be in trouble, and he fears ToMan too much to say more, leaving just after that.
Takemichi decides the way to go is to prevent the fight for happening and takes Naoto's hand to go back in time again. He wakes up sitting on a bike with Akkun. Takemichi realized that this is the first time he sees Akkun in the past after he killed himself in the future, so Takemichi asks Akkun if he has any dream or anything he would like to be when older, Akkun replies that maybe a stylist, and Takemichi swears to support him, then telling him he needs to leave and heading to meet Mikey and ask him not to fight with Moebius.
When he arrives, Mikey is surrounded by Draken, Pachin and Peyan, this last two being the 3rd division captains and high commands. Takemichi tells Mikey how they should not fight against Moebius and this makes Pachin angry, since the people that were hurt by the gang where his friends, so he starts beating Takemichi for saying they should avenge his people. Takemichi shouts to Mikey that it is a trap, and that a bad thing will happen if they fight Moebius, but Mikey lets him know that he already gave the order to fight, so he won't change his mind.
Desperate to prevent this, Takemichi kneels in front of Mikey, and bows his head, asking him not to fight. In response, Pachin is about to hit him again, but Draken steps in and tells Mikey that since Takemichi is so persistent, maybe they should research Moebius more before doing something they might regret. Mikey sees this a Draken challenging or refusing to follow the orders Mikey has given, and both Mikey and Draken seem to be displeased with what the other is implying.
Just when things are tense enough, Osanai appear and challenges ToMan, even when only 4 members are there. Osanai, looking completely different from what he looked in the future when Takemichi met him, hits Pachin right away when he tries to go forward and confront him. And just after landing the hit, he makes the signal for all of his followers to appear behind him, outnumbering Takemichi and his friends, and like this the episode ends, keeping us expecting for what comes next and how they are going to come out of this situation that seems pretty bad.
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