During a neutralization reaction, an acid reacts with a base for producing the correspondent salt, and water.
The strong acids release all the protons avalaible when are dissolved, such as sulfuric acid. As you can see, sulfuric acid have 2 protons ready for being released (); and those places have to be occcupied for other ions equivalents to the H+: K+ from KOH in this case.
Reactants break bonds with consuming the energy and form the new bonds .
Explanation:
As the two molecules interacted with each other , the elements reshuffled the bonds and formed the new ones with shifting the energy and converting it into new products .