2nd Generation

## 2nd Generation of Crews

The **Second Generation** is the current era of fighters and where most of the main characters come from. Almost all of the Second Generation are high schoolers, some are successors of 1st Generation Kings continuing their legacy. The majority of the Second Generation remains disunited and makes their money mostly through petty crimes committed by students, however, above all the disorganization and petty thief stood four gangs.

Unlike "Fists" and "Circles" of the past, they were called "Crews," The Four Major Crews were founded by Charles Choi and the Ten Geniuses to help Charles Choi kickstart his business. Four pre-established gangs would be chosen and tasked to make at least a hundred million won a month legally and 3 out of the 4 leaders became Gun's successors. Gun has offered any of his successors who can unite the four crews under their leadership immense money and status, but none have been able to do so yet. The second generation tends to fight less than previous generations.

## History

### Generation 1.5

This "generation" would take place after James Lee finished the First Generation but before the Second Generation's Major crews existed. Due to the fear of James Lee's actions, most gangs were terrified about what would happen if he found them out and most had to commit their misdeeds in more subtle ways. Not much is known about this era but three major characters would come out during this time: The Nurture Genius, Gun, The Weapon Genius, Goo, and The Boy of Promise, Sinu Han.

Gun was a young boy who traveled across the world learning all sorts of martial arts, this would lead him to meet the Magami clan who taught him Kyokushin karate which he mastered in a matter of weeks. After that, he would head to South Korea Seoul, and after some unknown crime, end up in juvenile prison. There he would meet Charles Choi, who was working as a janitor at the time, the two would agree to work together, and Gun would help form the 10 geniuses by searching for suitable members. He would once again travel the world and hear that many of the yakuza clans were being eradicated. Having a personal history with them, Gun took it upon himself to destroy the Magami clan, Kenta being the only one to survive.

Goo was around the same age, he was a local genius said to be unbeatable in combat. He took advantage of his talent and would start a bodyguard-for-hire business, where he would get paid to complete dirty jobs for people. After a fateful day of fulfilling a request from his cousin, indirectly saving and inspiring a young Euntae Lee, and after a canceled request from Eugene he headed home only to be confronted by Gun. Charles had heard the recent buzz surrounding Goo and sent Gun to test Goo in a duel. The two men got into an intense scuffle with the outcome remaining unclear, however, this performance was enough to impress Charles, and was taken as one of the Genius. Alongside Gun, they became students training under the Fighting Genius, Tom Lee, and eventually became known as The Nurture Genius and The Weapon Genius due to their skills.

Charles Choi, along with his Ten Geniuses, created the Four Major Crews. At the time he was still relatively poor and attempting to kickstart his business. With the help of James Lee, Tom Lee, and Jinyoung Park created a plan, that would recruit the biggest gangs of the four regions of Seoul: North, South, East, and West. Each one of them would rule over a part of Seoul and need to make at least a hundred million won a month legally. If they didn't, they would be eliminated, and another group in the area would take over to be a part of the Four Major Crews.

The legend of Generation 0, Gapryong Kim would die suddenly around this time as well, while the circumstances are still unknown, it's been confirmed that James Lee was the killer and Charles was the guy pulling the strings. He would use this as blackmail to keep James Lee under submission and after this James Lee would disappear without a trace, eventually resurfacing as the idol DG.

With the disappearance of James Lee, the fear of many gangs was eased, and the chaos of past Generations would start to resurface. Seeing this change in the tides, Charles would task the Gun, and Goo to scout out potential successors in the birth of this new Generation.

Around the same time, Jake, the second son of Gapryong carried his father's photo at his funeral. Jake was never close to his dad he very much hated his father due to his neglectful treatment of his family because of his crime empire. What he took away from his death wasn't tears or grief but rather a hatred toward thugs and gangs. He promised that he would never turn to the crime world and become like his dad, so it was to his surprise when he was confronted by a man who pulled up into his middle school driveway. Ever since he was a young boy, he lived in the streets, stealing bread to survive until a fateful day when a group of girls found him stealing their bread. Instead of punishing that boy for his crime like most people would, the girls took pity on the homeless boy and took him in with them. They treated him to food, a method of cleaning himself, and even fresh clothes. He was shocked that there were genuinely good people in this cruel world and was equally disgusted that people would come into this street to exploit these girls' good hearts. He would give that man a beating and ever since that day he had sworn to protect that certain street that showed him kindness. That boy became a man and stood before Jake, The Boy of Promise, Sinu Han. He sent his men to recruit another boy Samuel Seo but he wanted to meet Jake with a proposal, he wanted the son of Gapryong to join his gang, Big Deal.

### The Start of the Four Major Crews

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These would turn out to be North: God Dog, South: Il Workers, East: Hostel , and West: Big Deal. After this Charles would be able to start his business and rise the ranks in the world, he spent less and less attention to the Four Major Crews and Gun would take control. He would take the 3 out of the 4 crew heads and train them to become his successors. He wanted one of them to rise and give him an entertaining challenge and to motivate them, he would offer an immense amount of money and power if any of his candidates were able to unite the Four Major Crews under his leadership. While the Crews would usually kept to themselves, due to this newfound promise and the pressure of making the monthly quota, tensions would rise in Seoul as each crew leader vied for Gun's succession, and like the Generations before them, they soon began fighting for territory and this tension would last for 2 years.

### Daniel Park enters the picture

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The Workers have Hostal on their side, God Dog is gone, and Big Deal is on the brink of extinction. Currently, the Workers have managed to unify the four great teams. In response, Daniel created his Crew called "Allied" whose purpose is to stop the Workers, although Daniel is also interested in stopping Charles Choi.

## Synthesis

### Generation 1.5/"generation" of geniuses

This "generation" would take place after James Lee finished the First Generation. The legend of Generation 0, Gapryong Kim would die suddenly and no one knows how or why. And those of the Magami clan would be killed by Gun Park, Kenta being the only one to survive. In addition, Charles Choi (he was working as a janitor at the time) would meet Gun in a juvenile prison/juvenile detention center, a year after that meeting he would manage to form the 10 geniuses and with them, he would create the four main teams.

### Generation 2/generation of the 4 major crews

These crews which were created by Charles Choi are meant to make money for Charles Choi to start his own business with some criminal activities. These crews are Workers, Big Deal, Hostal and God Dog. They can only get money legally, but they can also get money illegally (not to be caught though, obviously). Charles still had 10 of his geniuses to help him with his business in different aspects and areas, that is, each genius has a responsibility to help him in a certain area in which his expertise lies. Of the ten geniuses, we know 7 of them: Crystal Choi, Gun Park, Goo Kim, Diego Kang(DG), Kouji, Tom Lee and Jinyoung Park (with the latter it is a surprise that he will help Charles).

### Conclusion:

The Workers were able to unite the four crews, they have Hostel on their side, God Dog is no more, they dominated the territory (Gangseo) of Big Deal. Daniel created his own crew to stop them, though upon learning of Charles Choi's misdeeds, he too is interested in stopping the latter.

## Mysteries

• One of the mysteries of this generation is the second body of Daniel. Apparently a perfected version of the protagonist (Daniel), his own fighting style was unknown until he entered the UI state. In this state, he showed that he knows all kinds of martial arts. For now, there is no clue to his identity. The alarming thing about the second body would be his resemblance to Daniel Park and Jinyoung Park.

• Another mystery is related to the second body of Daniel and James Lee. And this mystery would be why Daniel (big) has the identity of James Lee. If Charles Choi could create a false identity for James Lee (the false identity is Diego Kang) why didn't he do the same with Daniel (big)? He decided to give him an existing identity, instead of giving him a fake one like he did with James Lee.

• The true identity of Big Daniel is unknown, for a moment it was believed to be James Lee but it was confirmed that it was someone else. Therefore there is no clue who he could be, much less because he looks like "little" Daniel and Jinyoung Park.

• Somehow, Jinyoung Park was one of Charles Choi's 10 geniuses. This would clearly mean that he helped him in some way, the question is why would he do that? It was recently mentioned that there was a feud between Jinyoung Park and Elite/Charles, so it is unlikely that Jinyoung decided to help him. Possibly Jinyoung was threatened or his family was threatened.

• Another question would be what is Charles's weakness that Jinyoung knows? Most likely, he went after helping him as one of the 10 geniuses. Because if he really knew Charles Choi's weakness at that moment, the latter would try to kill him (of course).

• Apparently, Jinyoung has a memory that makes him want to die. One would think it was because of Gapryong's death, but in his fight against Tom Lee it was shown that Jinyoung already knew about Gapryong's death and believed that Tom Lee was his killer (for unknown reasons). But in the middle of the fight he remembered something that made him completely crazy.

• The last detail related to Jinyoung Park would be the comment he made when he discovered Daniel's secret. Jinyoung wondered if the same thing happened to Daniel. That dialogue can have two interpretations. First, the other person who also has a second body like Daniel could be Jinyoung Park (his second body of his or his original body would be a mystery). Second, Jinyoung knows another person who has two bodies (he possibly knows about Crystal's case because he is one of the ten geniuses or maybe he knows another character who had two bodies).

• James Lee's intentions to find Jinyoung Park are uncertain. In case he's an infiltrator working for Charles Choi in secret, he'll obviously kill Jinyoung or something. And in case he really did betray Charles Choi, there's no telling why James Lee is so sure that Jinyoung Park knows secrets that could hurt Charles. Daniel did well to continue to mistrust James Lee, he has no good reason to trust him.

• About the above unknown, we can also wonder about the comment Charles Choi makes in chapter 177. After Daniel asked him about the identity and origin of the perfect body, Charles says that he will tell him when he surpasses DG. Then Charles mentions that DG made him a lot of money but he became too important/big. Charles Choi probably already knew that DG would betray him at some point, that would explain why he wanted to recruit Jichang to his side. Although another reason why he did the latter could be due to the unpredictability in Goo's actions and what he intends to do. And if it was for both reasons, Charles would be losing two very important allies, but considering that Charles Choi has the power to destroy all four teams, it is very certain that he will have several people who are at the level of a King of First Generation or higher (which we currently don't know about). Which would not be unusual since Eugene himself has several allies of that caliber.

• Was the death of Daniel's father a murder? Daniel's grandmother went crazy when she saw the resemblance that the latter had with Jinyoung Park. She mistook him for Jinyoung and started saying that he killed Daniel's father, it seems Daniel's grandmother knew Jinyoung while the other relatives didn't.

• It is possible that Jinyoung Park is the real father of Daniel Park, which would be sad for Daniel since when he first met him (in his second body) he was tortured by Jinyoung Park. But considering that Noh Bakgu believes that Daniel is Jinyoung's son, there's no way to rule out the possibility. Although James Lee told Daniel that his mother knew Jinyoung when Daniel was little, but it was probably a lie so that he wouldn't find out that it is his father.

## Gallery

Most notable members of the second generation