It was unbearable to see Kyou kai treated like that. First she is shown pushing herself to limits leading to veins popping up and blood from her eyes, that was already hard to watch and then Houken slamming her like that.
Houken is definitely going down this arc.
But putting aside my emotions Houken was still shown to be above Kyou kai ultimate breadth when he turned serious. However Kyoukai served her purpose, she cut off his fingers and stabbed his left hand, that might(most likely) play some factor if Shin is to finish off Houken, especially nw since Shin is already injured n exhausted so much.
Tho i personally would have preferred both going at each other in their best forms so we could have gotten a good fight, in this case i fear this might be somewhat a short one in comparison. Atleast Shin had to be in his best form , but i guess the recent death of his teammate and Kyoukai treatment might make up for that diff somewhat. I am looking fwd to a good fight next chapter..
Next chapter is gonna be dope.