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Is He Wearing Moon Boots? - Yakuza Kiwami - Part 4 · Replay Reviews

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at a context summary?
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Thanks for the reminder, I was just gonna launch into the game.
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Another slap is dealt out.
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Kiryu gets acupuncture, emphasis on the puncture.
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And Haruka goes gambling.
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I'm not surprised about Haruka. At first she hits up three different bars and now she's gambling.
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What's next? She's gonna take down a drug lord.
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Time will tell.
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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews. My name is Leah.
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And my name is Kathy.
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We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
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And since Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,
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almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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We hope it'll be a similar experience for you.
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So I test the hidden Majima's out on you.
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Mmhmm.
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It took you a while in this week's.
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I'm gonna say that it's the blurry screen from our screen share, and that's the reason why I could find it.
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Yeah. It's definitely easier to see in the program I create them with.
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That's getting trickier.
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We bought ourselves some Majima everywhere t-shirts.
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Yes!
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And we're thinking that'll be part of the prize, right Kathy?
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Mmhmm.
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It's a very fitting prize.
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We'll probably add something else to it, but if you want an adorable Majima t-shirt,
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tell us where he is and you might win.
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That sounded like a threat, but it was supposed to be an invitation.
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Should we jump into scene one?
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Yes.
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So we're back in time again, back to Nishiki.
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He runs into none other than Big Baby Shimano.
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He provides another perspective on Kazuma, telling Nishiki,
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if he really meant to help you come up, then why'd he give you men you can't control?
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Does he have a point?
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I was just about to say he has a point!
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Okay.
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But at the same time, Shimano just lowering it up to manipulate the situation,
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and trying to get Nishiki to go up against Kazuma and hitting the two brothers against each other.
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He's really catching Nishiki at a really bad time.
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He's just not in the right mindset.
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His sister's dying, his brother's in jail, and Yumi's missing.
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I definitely think he's trying to stir the pot.
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I mean, it's Shimano. He's always up to something.
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But he does kind of have a point at the same time.
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And so he might be stirring the pot, but the ingredients, they're already in there.
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Do you think Nishiki knows subconsciously that this has been happening?
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He's kind of being used by Kazuma.
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And then when Shimano says that he sort of has to face the facts and he can't ignore it anymore?
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I don't think so, because Nishiki looks shocked as if he's hearing it for the first time.
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I don't think this is something that he's already been contemplating.
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Shimano is really going at him, though.
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He says that he's worthless, that nobody knows what to do with him.
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Well, he's just trying to piss him off enough to really stir the pot.
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So what is the motive, you think, just to not cause him off?
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It caused a civil war to have Kazuma to have one less person.
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Because besides Kashiwaki, he knows that the next two most loyal people is Kiryu and Nishiki.
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And Kiryu's in jail, so it's a great opportunity to separate Nishiki.
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That's another point, because he says that because of killing Dojima,
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Kiryu has more street cred than he ever has.
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And then he tells Nishiki that he's useless because he can't pull the trigger.
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But we know, and Nishiki knows, that he's actually the one that killed Dojima.
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Kiryu's being praised for something that Nishiki actually did.
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Do you think Shimano knows and is just trying to piss Nishiki enough to say that
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I'm the one who actually pulled the trigger? What are you talking about?
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And then Shimano's gonna like, aha, you fessed up the truth, and now I'm gonna hold this over your head.
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I don't think he knows, but either way, it's a win-win.
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If he does think so and he's wrong, he can still make Nishiki angry with Kiryu.
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And if he's right, then he out's Nishiki, so it's a win-win.
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Even if it's just a hunch, he has no reason to not explore that.
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Date shows Kiryu a picture of a tattoo that was on the body of a woman the police discovered murdered.
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The tattoo appears to be Mizuki's, and Kiryu recognizes the tattoo artist's signature,
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so he goes to pay him a visit.
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I really thought that that tattoo would be a sunflower,
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and I'm disappointed to see it wasn't a sunflower.
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So at the tattoo shop, the owner says that the tattoo that Kiryu has a picture of
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was not done by him, but it was one of his designs.
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The tattoo shop owner then gets a call. Turns out it's Nishiki on the other end wanting to talk to Kiryu.
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He mentions Mizuki as if he knows what's going on,
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and then he wants to meet Kiryu at Serena tomorrow at 10pm, man to man, because they need to talk.
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What are you feeling? You just made a face.
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I'm like, can you just see it over the phone? I feel like at that time period,
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they didn't really tap phone lines. They could have just got it over with. Why do you need to talk in person?
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I don't know.
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Well, I get it, but I get it. It's like there's nothing- it's different.
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They have to size each other up. It's been 10 years.
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Yeah, but it's also like, how does Nishiki know? I feel like we're not really
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getting the full story about how he knows. Yeah, he just alludes like, oh, I'm super powerful, so information
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just swirls all around me basically, but
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yeah, that's kind of a vague- a vague reason.
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Sorry, I should not have just yawned right into the mic.
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It's all good.
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So then they start talking about Kiryu Nishiki's tattoos, and the shop owner tells the same story that we discussed
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in our tattoo analysis of these two characters last season in Yakuza 0.
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The koi swims up the river
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to eventually ascend into becoming the dragon. And I think I might have talked about this when we were discussing their tattoos,
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but it's almost like they- they need each other
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to be who they are because the koi turns into the dragon, so it's like Nishiki
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turns into Kiryu. So Kiryu couldn't be the dragon,
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without first being involved with the koi.
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So it's almost like they need each other
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to become who they are, these top tier Yakuza.
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Their connection seems deep, I guess, is what I'm trying to get at. But the question is why didn't they both
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start as
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dragons? You know what I mean? Like, I know the koi turns into it, but if Giryu started as
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having the dragon tattoo,
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doesn't that put him a leg up above Nishiki since the beginning of time? You would think they were both equal,
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but it almost sounds like it wasn't. And I understand that he does- the koi does turn into the dragon,
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but it's like five steps behind the dragon.
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I even think in Y0 they talk about like only so many people can have the dragon tattoo, or maybe it's even in this game.
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And so what is so special about Kiryu?
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Back in 89 or whatever year that was, where he gets that tattoo.
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What's so special about him at that point? Because that's even like his origin story.
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What did he do to deserve that? And what did Nishiki not do to deserve
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starting at the bottom?
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What if it was just a simple game of rock-paper-scissors?
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I'm going to the Japanese dictionary
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to google their names.
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Because I think Nishiki is like- Anishiki koi is a thing.
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And I think that might be why he went with the koi, perhaps?
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Colored carp, yeah. So Anishiki is a koi. Or a splendid garden eel.
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That's what we talked about when we did Yakuza Zero's tattoo analysis.
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That might be the reason why, because our big question is why is Nishiki not getting any of the credit?
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And why is he the one who has to start at the bottom?
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But I think it's just because it relates to his name. I think that's the theory we're going to go to.
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And I mean, part of Kiryu's name has dragon in it. Isn't Ryu dragon?
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Do you ever know about Nishiki and Kiryu's parents? I'm wondering if their parents had any Yakuza ties?
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I'm going to ask you to not ask me that question right now.
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Because I don't want you looking at my face.
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I did see something change, which is really funny because you have a poker face most of the time when you're in meetings and everything.
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Oh yeah.
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Alright, we're back at Serena.
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Haruka makes it clear to Kiryu that she thinks he doesn't care about her.
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He just wants the pendant that she has.
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Because it can lead him to the temple.
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And that's why he's the one who has to start at the bottom.
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And that's why he's the one who has to start at the bottom.
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And that's why he's the one who has to start at the bottom.
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And that's why he's the one who has to start at the bottom.
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And that's why he's the one who has to start at the bottom.
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And that's why she doesn't care about him, volumes data.
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I mean he doesn't care about him at all.
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But Luis wants Umakee to haveل
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But Luis wants Umakee to have
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Umakee to have
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Umakee to have
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Umakee to have
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Umakee to have
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Umakee to have
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Umakee to have
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Umakee to have
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Umakee to have
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quick like, sorry, but like, does that really count?
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Similar reaction as I had, but kind of worse than when Nishiki slapped Reina.
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Because first of all, she's a child.
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Control your temper.
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Not even your child, someone else's child.
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Yeah.
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And the child just lost her mom.
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Right.
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Right?
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Well, she doesn't know that yet, but.
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I don't even know how to verbalize how I'm feeling with this one.
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The reaction I had was pretty darn similar to when Nishiki slapped Reina.
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And they're like, they're cut from the same cloth.
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Like, what were they putting in the water at Senpai Orphanage?
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Or what were they teaching the boys there?
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I just watching that scene and maybe we'll cut the audio in.
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No!
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No.
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Okay.
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What is wrong with these two?
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What is wrong with them?
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No.
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No!
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I feel like Michael Scott's screaming no right now.
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I will say, if I can compare your reactions from memory, you were more
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surprised and shocked at Nishiki.
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Yeah.
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Um, and here you were more just mad.
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It was like, I had a character from what I thought of Nishiki and Yakuza Zero.
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So I was shocked.
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Here's my biggest issue with this.
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He didn't hit Majima who berated his noggin with an umbrella until he drew blood.
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Right?
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You're staying calm in that situation.
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And in all these situations in Y Zero, you restrain yourself only to slap
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a child across the face.
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I get that Jill changes you after a decade.
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Once you get attacked with a fork, you're changed forever.
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Right?
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But she's a child.
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My goodness.
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Okay. So let's talk about this though, because we are, at this point,
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seven chapters into the game.
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We've already seen three times where a man slaps a woman in the face.
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Not okay.
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So let's discuss.
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Let's discuss.
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In two situations, it's a, well, one literal father and one like father figure,
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protector, guardian type situation.
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And then with Nishiki, that's different.
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That's like a friend.
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So here's why I get confused because I'm like, oh, is slapping your child just a
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normal form of discipline at this time in Japan?
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But then that's where I get confused because the Nishiki slap is not about discipline.
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He's upset.
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He's angry.
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He's emotional.
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I want to add to that.
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It's not about like anger, frustration.
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It's about that they feel like the other person is disrespecting them.
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He feels like she's impulsive.
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He feels like she's implying that he's useless and that's disrespect.
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Kiri probably thinks that Haruka isn't respecting his authority.
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Did you say it's happened three times already?
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What was the third time?
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Yeah, we saw Date slap his daughter.
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But again, that's out of discipline, control.
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Like how stupid are you?
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That's maybe the most understandable one.
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But that's where I get confused because we've seen three slaps and so we're like,
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okay, what's the game adding these in here for?
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But there's not really a connection.
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I will say it's ironic that he thinks that Haruka doesn't believe him when he says that he cares for him.
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And so he slaps him, which obviously shows that you really don't care for her.
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It was the wrong move.
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He does apologize.
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A useless apology.
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Yeah, it was too late.
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It was very bad.
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There are a few things in the series that you're just like, what the hell?
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But I think we've, we've beat this.
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We've slapped this horse to death.
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Oh god.
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Haruka's had enough.
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Fair enough.
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And she runs out of the bar leaving the pendant and then they just sit there and watch her run away.
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And then they're surprised when they slowly saunter out into the street and don't see her.
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Why didn't you run after her immediately?
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Why did you just watch her leave?
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Worst fathers ever, those two.
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Anything before they start tracking her down?
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Well, okay.
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I will say that out of the three of them, she is the most mature.
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What did she say?
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I didn't come to play.
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And then later she slaps a pendant onto the counter like a boss.
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And I'm calling it.
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She's going to be a Yakuza boss in the future.
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She does have a more level head.
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And I don't know if it's because as a child, she doesn't have the full scope of everything
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that's happening.
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And if she's just so single-minded on finding her mother that she's not having to consider
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all these other aspects that Kiryu and Date are, I think that might be part of it.
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But I also think that she's just really cool.
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A child that can take a slap and not immediately cry.
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That's a win.
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That's a good kid.
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So Kiryu and Date track down Haruka's last known location.
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And when they arrive, a man is waiting for them.
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So he takes them to Stardust where more men are waiting.
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And they refuse to say what organization they're with, but they want to exchange Haruka for
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the pendant that Kiryu now has.
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They make the exchange.
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It doesn't quite go as planned.
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He tosses the pendant over Haruka's head, who is halfway down the stairs to him.
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Date runs because I guess he knows that they're going to shoot her.
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The bullet grazes her arm, but she's otherwise okay.
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And then, of course, Kiryu has to fight off a small army.
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It's a bit frustrating because Date knows that they're going to shoot Haruka, yet they
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still proceed with it.
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There's so many ways this could have gone differently, yet they continue going the path
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knowing that they're going to get shot at.
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I shouldn't have thought they have a gun as a detective.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So many other issues there, too.
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Well, I think they told him at the end of last episode to stop working on the case.
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So maybe now he has to sort of step away from some of his resources, but he should still
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have a gun, right?
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Kiryu's got one guy still conscious and he tries to get the name of their organization
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out of them.
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And all we hear is, Jin.
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But it's cut off, so we don't know the rest of the word.
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And then one of his brothers in arms just shoots him in the head.
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So a secret is safe for now.
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Do you have any theories on who these people are?
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Probably not Tojo Clean, but another clean that's probably trying to take over.
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It's my guess for now.
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Or Shimano's people.
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I feel like Shimano has spies everywhere.
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I believe all we were told at this point is that they're not Yakuza.
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Kiryu says you're not Yakuza.
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Who are you with?
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So that's interesting.
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Why is another organization getting involved?
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I do want to say that if it's not Yakuza and they know about the pendant, then it can only
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lead to Mizuki or Yumi having some kind of ties or getting into some kind of relationship.
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Or getting into some kind of trouble with another organization.
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And they're here to take that 10 million or 10 billion.
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At this point, Haruka realizes that Kiryu really does care about her.
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And Kiryu breaks the news to Haruka that her mother is already dead.
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And then Haruka, like, it's pretty cute.
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Touches his face and he looks over her.
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But then she shakes her head.
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What is that about?
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She knows something.
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That's what I was thinking too.
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I don't know what kind of theories I was talking about in the previous parts.
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But I do insist on Mizuki not being dead.
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It's probably some kind of news that just got out there just so that people aren't looking
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for dead people and it's her way of getting around.
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It's weird.
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It seems like she knows that her mother is not dead.
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But we could also just be completely misreading that.
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Anyway, Kiryu and Date hide Haruka with a florist.
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So that she will be safe from further kidnappings.
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We'll see about that.
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Alright, so at the start of scene three, we see a quick moment between Date and Sudo,
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who again, tries to get Date to step away from the Sarah investigation.
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But Date implies that Sudo doesn't know what the truth is.
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What do you think of this dynamic so far?
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It's almost like the same kind of political dynamics within their organization is similar to
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how the Kusa is.
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It's that you're constantly trying to have more power than someone else.
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And so it's like a funny parallel that you can be on the wrong side of the law or on
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the right side of the law.
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Yet things you are feeling and doing and competing with everyone is going to be the same no matter
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what industry you're in.
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And so I feel like...
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Well, because it's about people, right?
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Like you could be a copper Yakuza, like there's decent individuals in any organization, and
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there's not so decent individuals in any organization, generally speaking.
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I did notice though, Sudo said that he was going to keep his eye on Date.
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So I don't know what to think of when Majima said eye, because Sudo has two eyes.
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So I don't know if that was a joke at the beginning or not.
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We'll let you all decide.
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Back to purgatory, Date suggests that Kiryu take Hark out for some fun, because laughter
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is the best medicine for a bullet wound.
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And naturally he takes her gambling, and the night ends in a brawl.
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First of all, if they're trying to hide, why the heck are you dragging her all through
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the streets?
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Are you putting her in more danger?
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Yeah, and a shady secret back door gambling hall does not seem like the best location.
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Seriously.
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After that, it's time for Kiryu to go meet Nishiki.
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So he leaves Haruka with Date in the forest and heads to Serena.
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Nishiki asks Kiryu to hand over Haruka and the pendant.
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He wants the 10 billion, but Kiryu slightly changes the subject and asks Nishiki why he
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killed Mizuki.
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And Nishiki responds that he didn't mean to.
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And then we see a flashback, and it turns out that some of his men killed her on accident
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while torturing her.
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And Nishiki is not happy about it.
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Well, he shoots one of them in the face, okay, that's bad enough, and then he just unloads
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into the other guy.
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Would we ever have seen Y-Zero Nishiki do anything like this?
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No, this is an older Nishiki, but this is also Nishiki who's experienced a lot of loss,
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betrayal, anger, and frustration.
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A lot has evolved.
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We don't really know what he's gone through since then.
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And why he was even okay with torturing the sister of his childhood friend and potential
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crush.
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It seems like he did like Yumi, but Yumi liked Kiryu, so I feel like it's jealousy.
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But he also doesn't clarify that it wasn't him who killed Mizuki.
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I think he told the story that we see just based off of Reina's reaction.
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So I'm assuming that he sort of told that story.
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I mean, he still had his men torturing her.
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So he's not in the clear.
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Even if he didn't pull the trigger.
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Nishiki then says that he's betrayed Kiryu and Kazuma and he can't go back now.
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And this is when Kiryu learns that Nishiki, who confirms it, is the one who shot Kazuma.
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Kiryu punches the daylight out of Nishiki to the floor.
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Full strength.
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He deserved it.
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He did.
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He deserved it.
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But then he just gets up off the floor and continues the conversation.
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Unfazed.
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But Kiryu refuses to betray Haruka and he and Nishiki are at an impasse.
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And this is when Nishiki says that Kiryu is no longer a brother of mine.
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Every time we've been in this bar, the door is closed.
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In this scene, it's open.
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Why is the door open in this one scene?
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Here's my theory, if we can dive into some symbolism here.
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Before this, their old relationship, the old Kiryu and Nishiki, they were comfortable,
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secure, you know, with one another, but now they're not.
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So this door, we have to assume Nishiki leaves it open because he walks in and doesn't close it.
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So he left it open.
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So it's almost like leaving the door open is showing that that security is no longer here
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between them because now we have an escape route.
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We have a way to leave the situation.
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I was also thinking that, do you think it's just the door open is
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do you think it's just the door open is whatever's happening is open for discussion?
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Maybe, except that it never really was.
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But no, is it?
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Because in the next scene, Nishiki, what does Nishiki say?
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But Nishiki pretty much is implying that there's more to the story than what we know.
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Well, let's back up a little bit, sorry.
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Some details from the scene that we've not yet discussed.
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After he reveals that he shot Kazuma, he says he's not dead.
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Like maybe he didn't even intend to kill him.
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And he had planted a bug on Shinji and is tracking them.
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So he knows where they are, but he's not going after them.
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So what are his intentions?
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If Nishiki really wanted to betray Kazuma and kill him, he would have done so.
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Nishiki doesn't strike me as a type after going for 10 years.
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His hands were shaking so bad that he missed the shot.
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It's not quite a good reason to say that your hands were shaking a lot and then you just missed him instead of headshot.
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Because why didn't you take the second shot?
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Kazuma was just laying there.
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You could have had like 10 minutes worth of time to re-aim, reload or whatever.
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It was open season.
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Right? And so I feel like Nishiki is just telling a story and purposely aimed to not kill Kazuma.
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Yeah, you make a good point.
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And to connect that back to the door.
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Maybe it's a bit more literal symbolism of the door is open because he says that he can't go back.
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But he also didn't shoot to kill and he doesn't fight Kiryu physically here.
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So is the door open, leaving the door open for him to go back?
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Is that more symbolic of like hope?
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I think so.
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That theory might get destroyed when Nishiki immediately sticks his men on Kiryu.
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But yeah, Nishiki leaves and it sounds like the plan was if negotiations fell through as they did,
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then it would be attack Kiryu time.
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And that's what we see.
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I feel like when Nishiki is interacting with the other guy, there's like another side plan going on.
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And I'm even wondering if this is Nishiki being misunderstood and he's just trying to
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be the bad guy and force Kiryu into either stepping up and become even more angry and
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aggressive and everything to get him to pave his own way into defeating the top and solving the
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crimes and everything.
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Like backing him into a corner so he learns how to fight back.
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Because maybe Kiryu would have just stayed as a civilian and not want to go back to the Yakuza
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after that 10 years.
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I think my theory includes yours.
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So here, I think the two options going into this bar from Nishiki would be if Kiryu does not accept,
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we attack.
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But if Kiryu does accept, he joins our family.
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We're still sworn brothers.
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We do this together.
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But he never clarifies what accepting means.
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Well, but I mean, not punching him in the face to start.
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That was a pretty clear answer.
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But I hear you.
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There was never really much of an invitation.
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Well, it's just like, give me Haruka, but it wasn't like a, enjoy my family.
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There wasn't that.
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And knowing Kiryu, he needs someone to spell it out for him.
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Yeah.
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We're not sure quite what Nishiki's up to yet.
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But there's two parallels in the scene.
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So the first parallel is like no more bromance.
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And that's very similar to, was it chapter six of Yakuza Zero?
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The drive.
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Yeah, the drive.
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I think the parallel is that there's no more brotherhood and like, you're not my brother anymore.
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Isn't that pretty much the flip side of Kiryu telling Nishiki to like just leave and-
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Yeah, because they sort of disband their brotherhood there too.
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But that's protection to protect Nishiki.
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And now Nishiki is doing it, seemingly just out of disagreement.
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I think it's just Nishiki trying to push Kiryu to get that anger and use that anger to
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kick everyone's butts.
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We are back in time again with Nishiki.
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Matsushige has the money that he needs for the doctor to pay for the black market organ for his sister.
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But unfortunately that 30 million was from the doctor who I believe borrowed money from the
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Yakuza for gambling and used this money that Nishiki paid him to pay them back.
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Pretty slick move, let's be honest, but tragic.
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Nishiki figures it out and runs to the hospital.
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The doctor's gone.
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He booked it.
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He skipped town.
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Back to present timeline, Haruka.
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She gets kidnapped again.
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The one place we put her to not be kidnapped, she gets kidnapped.
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To be fair, they came in with full force.
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They used bombs.
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I can't really blame Date this time around though.
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He tried his best.
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That's true.
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This time was not his fault.
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But the building like freaking exploded, so yeah, it really truly isn't his fault.
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They tell Kiryu that it was carried out by a gang who often do dirty work for the Yakuza.
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While he's tracking down the gang though, Kiryu gets a call from Date
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who tells him that something fishy is going on at the police station
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because Haruka is listed as a kidnapping victim.
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But the question is who reported her as the missing persons
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and how did they know she is missing?
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Yeah, that's what we don't know.
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We got that little clip in the last episode,
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but someone is either trying to frame Kiryu or is just really looking for Haruka.
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Kiryu does track down the gang and they tell him
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that they were hired by the Snake Flower Triad and someone named Lao Kaolong
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who has her in Chinatown.
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Kiryu seems to recognize his name and we see a flashback to 12 years ago.
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Kiryu's being tortured, but he's rescued by Kazuma.
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That torture scene was too much for me.
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I didn't like that.
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Why did that scene have to be so long?
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I will say it was so cool Kazuma to just come flying in.
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That jump was crazy though.
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He practically hit his head on the ceiling.
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What was that?
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Was he wearing moon boots?
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And the thing is that he has a leg that's shot and bleeding
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and he's probably going to lose his leg.
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So it seemed more impressive when you know that.
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It's kind of funny that you say that because last episode you asked me
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if we know what happened to his leg and why he's limping
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and this is exactly what happened.
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And now you're like, is he going to lose the leg?
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No, it's just a limp.
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Why did Kiryu get captured and tortured?
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Was it for a fake passport? I didn't really quite get that.
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Yeah, so from context it sounds like the Yakuza were running fake passports
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and maybe this was the Triads business and they sort of took it over.
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Well it sucks to be Kiryu to be the one who gets captured and tortured.
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That was painful.
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Yeah.
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Real painful.
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I didn't like that.
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The whole needle, it's like-
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That's pretty gross.
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It's like the same kind of needle you stick in a turkey to get the temperature.
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A thermometer.
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All right, wrapping up this gameplay episode, Kiryu and Date are going to head out to Yokohama
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to find Haruka in Chinatown.
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And then we see a very interesting meeting between Shimonoh and Lau.
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It sounds like they have some kind of arrangement regarding obtaining Haruka.
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Let's pause real quick because they're talking about cuts.
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Who gets a cut of what?
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And so Shimonoh says that Lau gets three, I believe, and Shimonoh himself would get five.
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And then Lau says, so who gets the other two?
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Three, five, and two make up ten.
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Are we discussing the missing ten billion right now?
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I think so.
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So does Shimonoh have it?
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No, but he knows that by having Haruka he'll get the ten billion.
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Or ten billion.
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Okay.
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So that's what I think it means.
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So this is an in-progress negotiation.
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This isn't a divvying out of the negotiation.
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Okay.
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So then in walks Tarada of the Omi Alliance, and he is the one who will be getting the other two.
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It sounds like he's working with Shimonoh, but we also know that Nishiki has been working
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with the Omi Alliance, which Shimonoh alludes to.
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Is Shimonoh just trying to use Nishiki to get to the Haruka and the ten billion?
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Is Tarada playing both sides of Shimonoh and Nishiki?
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First of all, I think Tarada is just doing whoever pays him more.
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He's like a LauGrey situation.
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For Nishiki, I don't think that he's going to sell Haruka.
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The fact that he probably, I hope he feels guilty that Mizuki is dead.
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I feel like he's going to try to protect Haruka.
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We don't know when he was asking Kiryu to hand her over if he was going to
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sell her or protect her and the ten billion.
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Yeah, we know he wants it, but was he also going to try to protect Haruka while he was at it?
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And so I don't feel like Nishiki is going to give up Haruka to Shimonoh.
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I think he was using Tarada to help him gather intel first,
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but I don't think they're working together.
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Okay, so we think Nishiki and the Omi Alliance used each other to get where they are.
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And now the Omi Alliance, Shimonoh, and Lau have an agreement,
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but Nishiki is flying solo, doing his own strategy.
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Okay, I think you're right.
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But I have a gut feeling that Tarada is going to betray Shimonoh.
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Well, he's already betrayed Nishiki, sort of, by doing this, so why wouldn't he do it again?
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But again with the ten billion, so we have these people discussing how they're going to distribute it,
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but we still don't know where it is.
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Can you have these discussions without having knowledge of where the ten billion is,
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or would that be premature if you still don't know where it's at?
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Well, I think you have to have it, because once you have it, then there's no need to negotiate.
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Or even the location-wise, like you have that piece of intel that they don't know.
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So I feel like it's only okay to negotiate, and I'm even surprised that Lau and Tarada
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are okay with Shimonoh having 50% of it.
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So I don't know what pieces of intel Shimonoh has to be able to leverage that amount.
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These are all good questions, and I don't know if we have any information to really speculate,
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but I think it sounds like they at least have a buyer lined up.
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So I think that's really all we know so far, is that they definitely know more than we know,
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but is what they know correct?
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All right.
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