this is so much worse than the first few chapters
looks like I'll have to explain why I'm right so that you all see why you're wrong and agree with me.
1. the dramatic pull and emotional resonance has been lost. The opening few chapters were about a lone male protecting a little girl and her family being persecuted by bad guys. Classic. sympathy. Now it's about the main character saving some random yakuza initiate that's friends with some other random yakuza heir he started living with. What the hell is even that? who gives le fuck? I signed up to see a loner protecting children and their mother not protecting random teen thug criminals.
2. The protagonist has become too strong too quickly. It jumped the shark during the fight in the dockyard. Since then the action hasn't been as satisfying as the first chapter or the fight with the hitmen brothers because there isn't enough attachment to reality to increase the stakes. Also, the main character is already basically the greatest soldier in human history able to jump around killing a dozen armed men with just a knife faster than they can react that when they try to introduce a "boss " character like the older brother for the main character to fight one on one it doesn't really make sense. Either the main character should be able to stab him faster than he can react too or there needs to be some plausible reason why the boss character is on the same superhuman level.