Yakuza 7 Chapter 1

[Reuquen Boyett]

Thegame was developed and published by SEGAWP as the sixth main installment (eleventh overall) of the Yakuza series. The game is a prequel to the rest of the series, because it is set in 1988, 7 years prior to the events of the first chapter of the first game. Continuing the tradition brought about by its two predecessors in the mainline series, Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5, Yakuza 0 features multiple playable characters; these include series staple Kazuma Kiryu, and the recurring character Goro Majima.

Yakuza 0 is set in Japan's bubble eraWP, a period of extremely high property prices in Japan during the second half of the 1980s; it takes place from December 1988 to January 1989. The game's two principal locations are Kamurocho, Tokyo, and Sotenbori, Osaka. These locations are fictionalized versions of Kabukicho, TokyoWP and Dotonbori, OsakaWP, respectively.

Kamurocho, Tokyo. A low-ranking member of the Dojima Family, Kazuma Kiryu, roughs up a salaryman to collect a debt. However, Kiryu finds himself in trouble as the news reports the salaryman's murder. The murder site is an Empty Lot which is a cornerstone of a redevelopment project that would give the Dojima Family immense power. Suspecting he was framed by one of the three Dojima lieutenants, Kiryu aims to leave the family to prevent the lieutenants' target - his incarcerated foster father Shintaro Kazama - from being sanctioned as a result of the murder. Though he is successful in leaving, Kazama is still primed to take the fall.

Now a civilian, Kiryu is approached by Tetsu Tachibana, who also seeks the empty lot and claims to want to help him, astonishing Kiryu with his wealth of information. Through some investigating, Kiryu learns that Tachibana's agency has been acquiring land throughout Kamurocho. Tachibana's subordinate Jun Oda tests Kiryu's combat prowess, after which Tachibana reveals he is acting as Kazama's proxy, as the latter wants to prevent Sohei Dojima from becoming too powerful. With that, Kiryu officially allies with Tachibana.

Sotenbori, Osaka. Goro Majima runs the Cabaret Grand as punishment for his role in a failed assassination three years prior. He is under orders from his boss, Tsukasa Sagawa, to deliver increasingly higher profits every month in exchange for being allowed back into his former organization, the Shimano Family. After dealing with an unruly patron who groped one of the club's hostesses and poaching the top-earning hostess from a rival club, Majima returns to his tiny apartment, where he is reminded that Sagawa's underlings are always watching him.

Sagawa makes Majima an offer: He can be immediately reinstated to his former position within the Shimano Family if he carries out a hit for them. The target is Makoto Makimura. Majima accepts the job in spite of his reservations against killing, tracking down the target to a massage parlor, where a blind masseuse tends to him. A massive man - who Majima believes is his target - fights him, but they are interrupted by yakuza looking for Makoto - who is in fact the blind masseuse. Majima escapes with her to an isolated place, contemplating on killing her.

As part of his initiation to Tachibana Real Estate, Oda has Kiryu accompany him in a job where they must remove a squatter from a building. The squatter is backed by yakuza, but the squatter leaves after the thugs' defeat. To celebrate, Oda invites Kiryu to Serena, but when Oda arrives, he is bloodied and bruised. The yakuza were the underlings of Dojima lieutenant Hiroki Awano, and he has arrived alongside them to give Kiryu an ultimatum: sell out Tachibana, or face the wrath of the Dojima Family.

Kiryu learns that Tachibana has discovered the identity of the Empty Lot's owner, but Kiryu has no time to rest. WIth him refusing Awano's ultimatum, he is hunted by the Dojima Family across Kamurocho. Kuze attempts to regain his pride defeating Kiryu, Awano tries to make Kiryu betray Kazama, but they both fail. Nishikiyama helps Kiryu escape, only to reveal he intends to kill him to spare him from the Dojima Family's horrific torture. Deciding to push onward alone after Nishikiyama is unable to kill him, Kiryu returns to Kamurocho.

In Kamurocho, dozens of Dojima Family thugs prowl the streets searching for Kiryu, who is trying to keep a low profile after seeing his apartment get firebombed by Kuze's thugs. While making his way through a park, Kiryu runs into Reina. Feeling sympathy for his plight, Reina offers to let him hide at Serena for the time being.

Unfortunately for Kiryu, since the Dojima Family knew that this was Nishiki's favorite bar, they'd been keeping an eye on it. Kiryu is attacked by Awano's thugs and forced to flee to keep them from attacking Reina. In the street outside the bar, he finds Kuze, Awano, and Shibusawa already waiting for him with dozens of their goons. Kuze and his men descend on Kiryu, but he once again fails to beat him. Awano pulls a gun on Kiryu but, before he can kill him, Tachibana speeds down the street in a sports car, forcing the Dojima Family thugs to get out of the way. Kiryu hastily gets in the car and Tachibana drives them both away, taking refuge in an underground parking lot.

While they wait for Oda to pick them up in a more inconspicuous car, Tachibana expresses admiration for how much Kiryu is willing to risk for the people he cares about, lamenting that he's never been able to do the same. Just as Oda arrives in his own car, Tachibana loses consciousness. Oda tells Kiryu that Tachibana needs emergency dialysis, so they need to get him to their safe house immediately. The two men load Tachibana into Oda's car and drive away.

Oda and Kiryu take Tachibana to an underground clinic in Little Asia, where Tachibana is given dialysis. Oda tells Kiryu that Tachibana requires this treatment daily due to the blood loss he suffered after losing his arm. He also says that Tachibana lost his arm defending him from Omi Alliance thugs he'd infuriated, back when they led a gang together in Osaka. Both men are then called into a meeting with Little Asia's local triad leader, Elder Chen. The Elder informs them that Tachibana and Oda will be granted refuge because Tachibana is part Chinese and because of all the help they've provided to Little Asia's people. Kiryu, however, will not be granted sanctuary since he is an outsider, and harboring him would bring the Dojima Family's wrath down on Little Asia.

With no other place to go, Kiryu takes shelter with the homeless of to West Park, who also owe Tachibana a favor. The next day, Oda picks up Kiryu from the park and takes him to the Tojo Clan Headquarters, where Tachibana has arranged for them to meet with the Clan's Second Chairman, Takashi Nihara. Tachibana requests that the Chairman pardon Kiryu's life, offering one billion yen in recompense. Nihara is skeptical, questioning why he should spare the life of a yakuza who flagrantly acted against his own boss. Tachibana argues that Kiryu only acted to stop the uncontrollable expansion of Sohei Dojima's power, which he knows the Chairman is also interested in stopping. Tachibana promises that, if Kiryu is spared, all three of them will carry out Tachibana's plan to stop Dojima's power grab. Swayed, Nihara agrees to pardon Kiryu. However, as the three men leave, the Chairman sends dozens of his men to attack them as a test to see whether they have the might to face off against Dojima. Despite heavy resistance, the three men manage to escape with their lives.

In Little Asia, Tachibana tells Kiryu and Oda that he has confirmed the identity and location of the Empty Lot's owner, claiming that they live in Sotenbori. However, he warns that the third Dojima lieutenant, Keiji Shibusawa, has been sending men to Sotenbori, so he may know as well. Faced with this, Kiryu and Oda decide to go to Sotenbori to fetch the owner and escort them to safety. Satisfied with this plan, Tachibana tells Kiryu that the Empty Lot's owner is Makoto Makimura.

In Sotenbori, Sagawa has taken Majima captive and has spent the night torturing him in retaliation for his betrayal. However, after realizing that he has no leads about the identity of the man in the white suit who took Makimura, he releases Majima and tells him to find out where the woman is.

Since Nishitani was the only other person who'd demonstrated interest in capturing Makimura, Majima concludes the man in the suit could be working for him. After roughing up some Kijin thugs for info, Majima learns that Nishitani is still in jail after their fight and that the only man who can help him get into said jail is Nishitani's uncle, a corrupt cop named Detective Billiken. Majima gets in contact with Billiken, who agrees to take Majima to Nishitani, but only if Majima participates in three fights in the Bed of Styx, an underground fighting arena that Billiken operates. Majima handily defeats his three opponents and Billiken takes him to the jail where Nishitani is being held.

As it turns out, Nishitani has the entire jail on his payroll and uses it as his headquarters. After another fight between the two, which Majima wins again, Nishitani agrees to tell him everything he knows. Nishitani and the man in the white suit weren't working together, but based on his description, Nishitani tells Majima that the man is Masaru Sera; patriarch of the Nikkyo Consortium, a dangerous and secretive Tojo Clan family. Nishitani also tells Majima that he only tried to kidnap Makimura because lieutenant Shibusawa of the Dojima Family paid him to do so.

Nishitani offers Majima a position within his family because he's impressed by his fighting skills, but Majima refuses, since insisting he has a duty to remain in the Tojo in case his imprisoned oath brother, Taiga Saejima, is ever released. Nishitani tells Majima that he needs to start living for himself instead of others and proceeds to open the jail cell where both had been locked up. Before the pair leave, however, one of the jail's guards guns down Billiken in front of a horrified Nishitani. The guard tells Nishitani that Shibusawa ordered his death for his failure to capture Makimura and then shoots him repeatedly. However, Nishitani doesn't immediately die from the gunshots and beats the treacherous guard to death before succumbing to his wounds.

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