I’m honestly glad hatsumi got destroyed. Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. Hatsumi is just too inconsistent, too unmotivated, and too lackadaisical to breach the highest echelon of fighters. He’s still a threat to anyone because of just how much sheer talent he has, but being SHARP and refined from consistent training, sparring and fighting is what creates the gap between the great and the best. The fact that hatsumi thought he could just come back and beat Agito after still being lazy just shows how arrogant and misguided he was, sure, he had gotten stronger since their last fight, but not nearly as much as he could have. Evidenced by him saying something along the lines of “damnit, and I even worked kinda hard too” before he lost lmao.