July 23rd

Thinking fast, the soldier throws down a smoke grenade between herself and the mafiosos. Before departing from the island, Mukuro warns Johnathan Lane that his girlfriend will die if she returns to the island. Right now, she was being shown mercy. If he's truly a man of his word, she won't come back, says Mukuro right before jumping back onto her jet-ski and zipping away. After reaching a safe distance away from Fort Knox, Mukuro tends to her wounds, pulling out the bullet that Clair had shot into her. She treats it medically the best she can with her first aid skills, bandaging it afterwards. She then continued her ride back to the Graduation Hall.
Back at Fort Knox, Komaru Naegi tells Clair that she got "rekt". Not taking kindly to that, a line of grunts aim their firearms at her. Clair suggests for Komaru to run. The normal girl tells her she isn't there to fight her grunts, and asks if she's too scared to fight her with Big Bang Monokuma that she has to send grunts after her. With a snicker, Clair crawls back into the fort, responding "just you wait". Komaru tries warning the others to leave because they may get hurt in the process of her trying to take down BBM.

Taking her to the infirmary first, Clair reiterates how she's stubborn and he knows it. He replies with a "do I ever". Probably having to undress her a little, he tends to her wounds, telling her to stay still and commenting how he had to learn how to do first aid. Clair comments how it's unlike him and he explains he had to patch himself up when he was working alone. He didn't have the mafia to turn to for help so he had to learn how to care for himself medically. Clair reckons he has plenty of stories to tell from all the time he spent as a mercenary. Johnny remarks that he many, possibly enough to write a book. However, he'd have to get somebody else to write it since he's not great with words. His girlfriend tells him to just hit her with some of the stories, suggesting some about the Despairs.
Johnny tells a tale about how he had to hunt down gigantic animals, sent by a freak called "Gun-ham", that were damaging a Puerto Rican town. Asked by Clair what animals he was dealing with, he lists snakes, lions, and some kind of bigfoot/monkey looking thing he's never seen before. Stating how he couldn't bring himself to snipe any of them, he says he managed to set up a bunch of traps instead. Now finished with patching Clair up, they take off to Clever Bobby's Speakeasy. Sat at the bar, Johnny inquires what Clair wants, to which she says "anything". Immediately, Johnny turns to the bartender and orders two Monokumas. Not certain she heard right, she comes to realize that Johnny had ordered them both a cocktail that was black at the bottom, and white at the top with red syrup mixed around. Johnny assures Clair that they're good. She states that it's likely the closest thing to an actual liquified Monokuma.
Johnny comes to find that Clair finished hers off in a jiffy. He suggests that she should have savored it. She states she's thirsty, asking if he could blame her for doing so. Laughing a little, Johnny says she shouldn't have had alcohol then, ordering a cola for her. As soon as the bartender provides it to her, the two mobsters take notice of somebody in the bar singing a pirate's sea shanty. Turns out it's coming from a guy dressed as a Caribbean pirate, James McCarthy, better known as Bones. According to Johnny, he was the Ultimate Pirate but is a fellow mercenary these days. He recalls that Bones and his crew were surrounded by Novoselic ships and McCarthy ended up the only one to escape. Sipping her cola, Clair remarks that "they'll take anyone these days, won't they?". Johnny justifies it with the fact that when Bones was scouted, he had already gathered an entire armada and was basically the most successful known marine criminal. Clair asks Johnny why she couldn't find him when she was looking for goons back in the day. He asks if she went out to sea a lot. She merely taps her feet, getting a "That'll prolly be why" out of Johnny.
Johnny informs her that Bones comes to the bar now and then to get drunk. Clair seems a bit surprised to learn that he gets drunk often. Johnny points out that rum's a big part to being a pirate. Having finished their drinks, the two silently sit and stare at the bar for a short while until Johnny breaks the silence. He points out that she didn't respond to him earlier and she simply says she was lost in thought. He clarifies he's talking about what he happened to confess when they were arguing some time ago. Her face reddens, giving the go ahead for them to return to Fort Know, leaving Johnny without a response still. He helps her back into the car and starts driving back home. Getting reminded that she needs crutches, Johnny immediately reroutes to a hospital and it is there that he packs the car with crutches and a wheelchair for Clair.

Juzo angrily remarks that he did trust him and this is what happened. If Clair's his boss, that's all the more reason for them to take her down. Johnny apologizes for not having it taken care of, thinking he did beforehand. Clair points a gun at Juzo, giving him the opportunity to leave now, stating she'd rather take the aggressive route than Johnny's chit-chat. Johnny argues that talking can work, it just takes more time, and that Clair's messing things up further this way. He doesn't want themselves in battle in a constant losing effort like this. Clair figures that threatening them and fighting is the next best thing to work. Juzo essentially tells her to bring it on, talking won't work with him anymore. Johnny warns him to stay away. Komaru threatens to destroy Big Bang Monokuma. Not caring about it, Johnny basically tells her to go for it but to leave Clair alone. Challenged by Juzo to try stopping him, Johnny goes to the back of the car and pulls out a mini-gun, stating how he hasn't used it since the assault on his place. Komaru argues that they really don't want her to break the giant robot, so she tries encouraging them to operate it to make the battle more interesting.
Johnny says he really doesn't want to escalate things but will do so if it means protecting Clair. A bunch of mobsters on the wall have their guns trained on Juzo and Komaru. Clair loads her rifle, Juzo states that this fight is going to be fun, Johnny utters "Probably" with a smirk, and Komaru simply goes "Yup". Suddenly, Johnny calls out to Taro, a random grunt, ordering him to take the Big Bang Monokuma. Right at that moment, Komaru whips out a pistol and shoots Johnny's arm, grazing it. Grunting and loudly shouting "Bitch!", he unloads his minigun at her as Clair shoots at Juzo, nearly falling over backwards from the kickback. The boxer makes a run for the mafioso, heading straight for him. Komaru, on the other hand, has been riddled with holes, dropping to the ground injured but not dead.
Noting aloud how there was one down, one to go, Johnny turns to realize Juzo charging him, trying to leap aside at the last moment. Colliding full force with Johnny, Clair's rifle cracking out in the background, Juzo feels a searing pain. Getting ran into and taking the shot, Johnny falls to the ground with Juzo, the former Ultimate Boxer falling on top of him. Clair reloads. Digging into his coat, Juzo pulls out brass knuckles and arms himself with them, stating he was going to make them both wish he had killed them. At full force, he soars a punch into Johnny's face. Reeling from getting his face caved in, Johnny tries to shake off the figurative cobwebs. He angrily informs Juzo that Clair Moretti is the name of "that bitch". Juzo reiterates that she's a little bitch not deserving of a name. With newfound strength, Johnny shoves him off, shouting at him to shut the fuck up. With Juzo in her sights, Clair aims at him, saying he had the chance to run away and that the Moretti family doesn't forget. Johnny gets up, pulling his Tommy-gun out from behind his back, while Juzo has him grabbed by the collar, snarling angrily. Failing to deliver a swift kick to Juzo's crotch, Johnny instead resorts to grabbing his sidearm and putting it against Juzo's chest.
What follows is Johnny unloading the entire clip into Juzo. The big man hisses and releases the mafioso, throwing a punch his way. Despite ducking, Johnny gets hit anyway, stumbling to the side but quickly gets on his feet again. Having ran out of rifle ammo, Clair swears and switches to her revolver, continuing her assault upon Juzo. Johnny remarks that it's a shame Juzo isn't on their side considering how killer of a hook he has. In astonishment, he mentions how the man managed to take an entire clip and, all hostilities aside, is a beast in a good way. Chuckling, Juzo sends a punch at Johnny's abdomen, talking about how he's willing to die for the Graduation Hall and the Future Foundation. Johnny remarks how he and Juzo are both guys willing to die for those they care about, with the exception that he's not trying to kill anybody Juzo cares about anymore unless they attack him and his loved ones. Juzo's punch connected despite Johnny leaping backward, keeling him over and winding him. He coughs, noting aloud how he's going to feel that tomorrow.

Addressing Clair now, he tells her how they aren't freaks any more, or at the very least, are under control now. Komaru points out that he could've just came in and targeted Mukuro with a gun, and she wouldn't have come to Knox if he didn't endanger unrelated people. Juzo agrees with what she's saying. Johnny says he knows, repeating that it was the dumbest decision he made. He then recalls how Ryoko Otonashi, back at Graduation Hall, had stood there in place, ready to accept what was coming her way. He adds on that he doesn't want to keep fighting them due to how it'll end in a cycle of vengeance that'll ultimately lead to nowhere. He then offers to patch them up before sending them on their way, suggesting they leave each other alone for the rest of the foreseeable future. Juzo voices his doubt that Clair's going to be so willing.
Johnny tries convincing Clair that they can't keep doing this anymore and that they need to stop. Begrudgingly, Clair says she gave them the chance to run. For Juzo, that settles it - he'll spare Johnny but not Clair. Naturally, the mafioso puts his boss behind himself, shielding her. He tells Juzo that he'll have to go through him to do so. Juzo says he'll do so, with Johnny pleading him to let him talk her out of it. Juzo warns that if they fire a single bullet at him, he'll kill them both. Komaru tries compromising with Juzo, stating that he doesn't need to kill Clair and that he can instead knock her out, possibly even torture her at Grad Hall if he wishes. Johnny tells Juzo to head inside Knox to patch up Komaru as he does his damnedest to talk Clair out of killing anybody. He holds his bullet wound.
Juzo mutters about not wanting to torture Clair, but rather desiring to snap her scrawny neck. He takes Komaru on inside to patch up both her and himself. Johnny begs Clair to not screw this up for them, giving her multiple pointers on why they wouldn't win this fight against Grad Hall and Future Foundation. Ultimately, he states that they'd win by not fighting them any longer. She reluctantly says fine, to which Johnny sternly warns her to not go behind his back or else she'd be killing them both. Again, she complies. Taro is then commanded by Johnny to shut down BBM. He then suggests an idea to Clair to where they let the others take their frustrations out on BBM. That way, they don't get killed and neither would they if they do it right. Then and there, the mobster's body gives out from going too long without tending to his wounds. He is bleeding both internally and externally, has broken bones, and a gunshot wound. Alarmed from the sudden collapse, Clair orders the goons to take him to the infirmary. They descend from the wall and do as ordered, leaving a worried Clair to roll around in her wheelchair outside the infirmary.
Glaring at her, Juzo walks up, pouring a little figurative salt in the wound by asking if it felt good watching him nearly die due to her ego. She says he's wrong and to fuck off if he's trying to get the higher moral ground. Juzo denies trying to do anything here. Clair assures him that if he gets his off his high horse and goes back to Graduation Hall, she promises to not kill anybody from his "sad excuse of an organization". This includes anybody directly involved with Juzo as well. The boxer states that they already have killed somebody directly involved with him, saying he's been missing. Mutters that he's unconfirmed to be dead but is missing nonetheless. Clair doesn't recall killing anybody directly recently. Juzo says she probably didn't but he had the person's trail and it led to the Moretti Mafia. Clair inquires who this 'someone' is and Juzo answers 'Kyosuke Munakata', explaining he was sent to Knox to talk to and investigate both Johnny and Clair. Confused, Clair discloses that a Kyosuke Munakata has never approached Knox. Juzo describes him as having silver hair and carrying a sword, suggesting to Clair that he may have used an alias. Again, she declines having ever seen somebody like that.
Remarking that to be weird, Sakakura suggests the possibility that one of Clair's goons got to Kyosuke first. She turns that down, saying her goons always report to her when they've killed somebody. Says it helps her maintain a tight ship when running the mafia. Juzo remarks how this matter is even more confusing now. Double checking with him that Munakata had went missing between wherever the Future Foundation is and Fort Knox, Clair tells him to not ask or accuse them because they have nothing to do with it. The boxer remarks it seemed fishy when they had taken down the HQ, asking if she could really blame him. Clair says excuse her for attacking the Foundation that had saved the freaks responsible for killing her father and anybody she cared about. Komaru argues for Future Foundation, stating how they're trying to rebuild the world. The mob boss believes that it'll be done in their image, asking if they seriously expect a mafia to trust an organization trying to establish a New World Order. She explains how mob families function; they try taking control, claiming it to be for protection, only to extort you for all you're worth. If you don't comply, they'll break your legs, for example.
Juzo reminds her that she's been attacking the one organization that's undoing the damage caused by despair and reviving the dead. As Johnny sits up coughing, Juzo gestures at him, telling Clair that she'd be thinking differently if he had died and she needed the Foundation's help. Real quick, she turns down that notion, stating they'd never need their help. Johnny makes a callback to when he said he'd feel that tomorrow, referring to the gut-shot he took from Juzo. He chuckles, stating that he's feeling it a lot sooner. The chuckling quickly turns into a coughing fit, leading him to believe he may have a broken rib. Juzo guesses it's probably more than one, to which Johnny agrees. The mafioso is glad they've agreed to give each other shit instead of more injuries. Juzo brings up how he'd offer to team up with them but assumes Clair has her own ideas. Johnny doesn't blame her for not trusting them, but is also down to team up with them as long as they are all equals, stating the mafias don't do well with higher authorities. Komaru states she can't speak for then entire Foundation but she won't hurt them. She also expresses her discomfort with BBM still existing, suggesting to get rid of it in case somebody sneaks into it or it malfunctions, implying it'd move and act on its own. Johnny dismisses the idea, saying that goons guard it 24/7.
The mafioso asks his boss if she's okay and if she's hurt. She simply answers "no". Komaru amuses the chances of a goon going rogue, killing the others guarding BBM, and then jumping into it. Clair states that if one of them does do that, they'll have to deal with the entire family. Komaru questions if they even know how to take out the giant robot. Clair asks if she thinks they don't have fail-safes for their plans, revealing that BBM won't activate without the use of a passcode only she and a few trusted goons know. Komaru won't drop the idea of a mobster in the group going rogue, stating that it happens faster than they think and to trust her on that. Again, the mob boss states that a mob family is far more concrete than the Future Foundation is, informing her that a betrayer in the group would immediately be filled with lead. The normal high school girl poses the question of whether or not they have a fail-safe for when Big Bang Monokuma is already running and goes haywire. Disclosing that the word "explosion" is closely related to their family, Clair tells Komaru to take a guess. She then asks Johnny about how he blew up an entire building to make sure one person was dead. Johnny answers that it was probably more than just that one guy that had been killed.