The abundance of Martial Virtue was entirely incomparable to the so-called modern Extreme Path practitioners who generally were ordinary people before joining, unable to openly carry around even a knife.
Precisely because most Yakuza groups with any influence possess considerable martial power, there was often talk on the streets of Edo: if the Shimizu Clan wanted to wipe out the Magistrate's Offices in the north and south of Edo, it would barely take an hour to leave not a single survivor.
As a member of the Three Times and an insider, Aoto could responsibly say such talk wasn't entirely exaggerated…
Eradicating two major Magistrate's Offices in an hour might be an exaggeration, but there's no doubt that the Shimizu Clan has such formidable martial power that even the Magistrate's Office dares not act rashly against them.
