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BBC: Bald by Choice - Yakuza Kiwami - Part 2 · Replay Reviews

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Are you ready for the out of context summary?
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Let's hear it.
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Are you ever not though?
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I don't know why I ask you every time.
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I have no choice.
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Okay, here we go.
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In this episode, Shimano gets a haircut, and I think most of us thought that was impossible.
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Nishiki is accused of smooching some tushy, and Kiryu walks the line between helping and
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kidnapping.
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Which sounds pretty bad, you got all the characters involved, but let's go back to Shimano.
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We all know he's bald.
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Does he really need a haircut?
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Or are we talking like a leg haircut, an armpit haircut?
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I'm kind of curious what kind of hair we're talking about.
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He's Cathy, he's BBC.
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And that's not what you're thinking.
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He's bald by choice.
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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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My name is Leah.
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And my name is Cathy.
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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 Cathy 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 will be a similar experience for you.
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Well if you are participating in the Majima Everywhere Thumbnail Competition, don't
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forget to comment on our Instagram post or send us an email through our website.
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There might be a prize involved if you can find all of them.
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Are you ready to just jump into Chapter 3?
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Yeah, I'm ready.
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We temporarily go back in time to see what Nishiki was up to, and we see an intense side
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of Shimano.
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We're back to 1996, which is a pretty important year for you and I, Cathy.
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Kashiwagi is informing Nishiki that he is getting his own family.
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At first he says that it should be no surprise after all the hard work Nishiki has done,
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but then he kind of says that Kiryu is going to need a place to land after he gets out
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of prison.
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So is he getting this family because he's earned it or because they need someone to
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take Kiryu in?
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Is this about Nishiki or is it about Kiryu?
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That's a really good question, but I think we're going to need to take a step back and
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recognize the fact that Kazama probably wouldn't set Nishiki up if he wasn't ready for it.
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So I think it's about both of them.
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That if Nishiki wasn't able to handle his own family, they probably would have waited
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a bit more and it seemed like he was ready.
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But with that said, it does kind of sound like he didn't earn it.
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On the back of their minds, they realize that it's a matter of time that Nishiki is going
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to get his own family and he's going to do whatever he can to help Kiryu out.
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Well that could almost even be worse though because then it's like he deserves his own
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family but he's getting it to benefit Kiryu.
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You know what I mean?
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Like it depends.
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Like how does he see it?
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I think because I think you could see it from either way.
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I think it's a matter of mindset because otherwise it would be it's not like it's to benefit
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Kiryu.
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It's that a benefit is that Kiryu can join the family but that's not the main thing.
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So I think it's just the perspective and I'm genuinely curious what Nishiki is going to
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feel like and this is just only the very tip of the iceberg.
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We don't really know what happens years after 1996.
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Going back to the timeline of Nishiki and getting his family, there's four years in
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between and my first initial reaction was like oh Nishiki's leaving not because he
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was forced to or because of anything but it's because Kazama is letting him go and Nishiki
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agrees but we also don't really know the time period.
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What happened between him saying that?
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Oh you're raising your hand.
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I think you just answered a question for us.
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I think what we're seeing in 1996 is him getting his own family within the Kazuma family.
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The 2000 that we see at the funeral is when he split from the Kazuma family and started
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his own.
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I think that's the difference and that's why we're confused.
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So I think four years went by where he was in the family and then split and turned his
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sub family into a major family we'll call it.
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Yeah a minor family and a major family.
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And so I guess that's the thing is that we see that the minor family of Nishiki's is
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something that everyone agrees and is happy with but him becoming a major family is what
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starts to upset them and we don't know what happened to push them but we know that initially
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the minor family was created under happy terms.
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Well I still don't fully trust Kazuma.
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But for some reason Kashiwaki Uzu's trust like I trust him.
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Yeah.
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I know he's under Kazuma so then I start to have some doubts and stuff.
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But overall I feel like Kashiwaki does try to do what's best for Kiryu and Nishiki.
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Well yeah he's the one in Yakuza 0 who showed up with the Kazuma family to help the two
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of them going at like 200 people by themselves.
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But Kazuma's plan was to be in jail during all of it.
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Kazuma is a great Yakuza but I don't think he's as good of a mentor as Kiryu thinks
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he is.
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But yes going back to the current timeline, Shimano learns of Kiryu's reappearance and
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punishes the men who were defeated by him.
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Shimano does not mess around.
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I mean we see his head get cut.
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I think you had the same thought I did like oh no this poor woman shaving his head is
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gonna get it.
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She's gonna get her kid cut off.
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Thankfully not but someone does lose two fingers.
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So Kiryu attends Sarah's funeral.
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Things get a little hairy so he manages to sneak into HQ but is somehow spotted by an
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Omi member.
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So I guess he didn't really sneak in.
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This Omi member reveals that Nishiki has ordered Kiryu to be captured but Kiryu is able to
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defeat him and then meets up with Shinji who takes him up to see Kazuma.
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When Kazuma arrives he tells Kiryu that Nishiki changed after the Dojima incident especially
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after losing Kiryu, Yumi and his sister.
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So yeah she didn't make it.
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The last surgery didn't work.
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But at the same time though I'm assuming that the surgery was relatively soon after the
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death of Dojima so that doesn't really fall into the timeline because in 1996 towards
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the end of the year which is after the death of Dojima Nishiki seemed very happy to get
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the family and then from what it says that shortly after I'm assuming even a year or
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two after the surgery which by then we would have already known that it didn't work and
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his sister probably already died.
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How is it that he like that quickly changes and wants to leave their family?
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To build off what you said we will learn more.
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Things will be explained a little bit more.
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I believe this is part of what was added in in the Kiwami remake but yes like you said
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Kazuma mentioned that all he really cared about since losing all of them was the Yakuza.
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I mean that's kind of fair what else do you have left at that point pretty much everyone
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that you've known and cared about is gone.
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But he also is about to tell Kiryu something about Yumi and I don't know it sounded like
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maybe he knows where she is or something about her but he can't finish the sentence because
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he gets shot in the shoulder through a window by someone in a building across from HQ.
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And then of course Shimano arrives and assumes that Kiryu shot him.
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After a brief scuffle Kazuma tells Kiryu to run and take care of Yumi and the missing
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10 billion yen.
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Well first of all someone needs to put pressure on Kazuma's wound or maybe Shimano wants
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Kazuma to bleed out and die.
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Who knows but this entire scene is a bit crazy because you would think that a Tojo clan with
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so many Yakuza there would be better security guards and staffing but I'm also starting
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to question the motives of shooting Kazuma because here's the thing if you wanted to
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kill someone like that you're gonna hire an expert right?
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Allow Gui perhaps?
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Yeah yeah the equivalent of him but the thing is that this person obviously did not go for
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a headshot or maybe they did and they missed but I don't think so.
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If this guy missed was it an accident or did he intentionally miss to keep Kazuma alive
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and to make it so Kiryu is caught and everyone tries to kill Kiryu?
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Well it's a good question because you made me realize if we can go back just a little
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bit not only does nobody help Kazuma, Kazuma doesn't bother to say it wasn't Kiryu he
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didn't shoot me someone sniped me from across like why does he not clear the air?
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I think Kazuma is the one who ordered someone to shoot him that Kiryu gets caught.
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Make sure you don't kill me.
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Yeah but enough to frame Kiryu who I treat like my son.
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Right because why would he not I mean it seems like a far-fetched theory but based off of
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what we know from Yakuza 0 not so much because why would you not say Kiryu didn't shoot
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me stop attacking him?
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Or you point to the window to show that the bullet went through there and it's obviously
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not Kiryu who has no gun in hand.
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There's a few things that raise some red flags in this whole incident.
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Kazuma himself is a red flag.
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He is a red flag.
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So at one point during his escape he runs into Majima and wins although Majima hints
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that he let him win.
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Suddenly he was sent here to like hey everybody needs to try to stop Kiryu and Majima's like
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okay we're gonna have a little fight because I like that but then he just lets him go.
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And he turns around and has his back towards him so he's not even afraid that Kiryu is
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gonna pull something.
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Not afraid at all.
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Majima says at the end of Yakuza 0 like I'm a family man he seems pretty loyal to Shimano
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and even in this scene he says something along the lines of like when the boss says jump
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I say how high.
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But it kind of feels like he's on his own team because he lets Kiryu leave here.
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He's just really good at being neutral.
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If it's not affecting him he probably is gonna let it slide.
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But Majima also hints that there's someone very eager to fight him waiting outside and
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of course it's Shimano.
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He's the final obstacle before reaching the exit.
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He does defeat him.
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Kiryu is running to escape when he turns back to see an unbothered Nishiki looking back
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at him before turning to walk away with a little sly smile on his face.
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What did you make of that?
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I feel like Nishiki is trying to piss Kiryu off enough to force him to keep fighting,
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keep getting stronger to find who he was prior to being in jail which is reasonable to understand
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that I will want to say that I think Shimano's abs are the first set of abs we see in this
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game.
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No Majima, Majima, Majima, Majima.
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Yeah that makes sense.
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I mean the full on naked upper body though.
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The whole shebang.
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The half shebang compared to the full shebang would be completely naked.
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Like the diaper dude.
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What did we call that guy?
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We had a name for him.
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Fair enough, fair enough.
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I feel like we had a name for him though but I don't remember what it was.
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We'll have to go back and listen to her podcast.
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I can't remember either.
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I will say that during this fight scene with Kiryu and Shimano, all these low level crews
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are just like swaying like they're seaweed in the middle of the ocean just moving left
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and wide, unbothered.
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Yeah, seaweed and water is the most accurate description.
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And also during this entire scene though, do we even see Sarah's dead body?
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And that's where my theory comes to place.
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So we did run into this building which Leah mentioned that it looked like a church but
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we were confused.
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I was so confused.
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Like how did I not see the coffin though?
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Yeah, but the coffin is a closed casket.
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And so that brings me to my wild theory is that maybe Sarah isn't dead.
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Maybe he spread this rumor around so he's truly a ghost in the night and able to navigate
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in good places without really being worried that his identity is revealed.
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And I'm also curious to think that maybe because no one really talks about seeing him or there's
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not much that really indicates that he's truly dead and there's no witnesses and stuff that
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we know about.
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I'm starting to think that Sarah's not dead.
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I want your theory to be true because this man deserved a better funeral than this.
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Yeah, what a shitty funeral.
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And the fact that Kiryu had so much respect for Sarah and then immediately starts to ruin
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his entire funeral.
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Ruin his funeral.
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He deserved better.
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So I hope you're right.
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I hope he did.
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He pulled a fast one, just got out of town.
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So we are back in time again and we see Nishiki struggling to control his men.
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This one guy especially, I think his name was Matsushige?
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I should have written it down.
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I think it's Matsushige.
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This one guy especially is just trampling him, walking all over him.
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He makes it pretty plain even that he kind of wished Kiryu was the boss.
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He says something along the lines of if Kiryu was here, it'd be different.
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And this is when he accuses him of just being a kiss ass.
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But do you think that this guy has a little bit of a point?
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Do you think Nishiki knows what he's doing?
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He's still young.
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It's 96.
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He's also younger than this other dude.
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So I feel like it isn't about if he knows what he's doing.
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It's about a different way of ruling these people than what those guys are used to and
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they see that as something that they can take advantage of Nishiki.
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I'm also slightly mad that he didn't fight them.
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I think he was caught a little bit off guard.
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I think he maybe got a little bit insecure off of those comments and was like, did I
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earn my place here?
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Do I actually have the merit?
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So I think there's just a lot swirling in his brain, but I agree I would have loved
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to see him just headbutt that guy across the desk.
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Backhand slapping.
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We have to have a backhand slap so that it makes the Reina slap seem less intense.
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Oh god, I'm still not over that.
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I know.
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How do you slap her?
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She's amazing.
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She's let him crash that place so many times and made it his safe haven and he goes ahead
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and slaps her.
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Come on.
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You don't do that.
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You could do better.
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Reina is a treasure.
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So we are back again to present day.
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Kiryu is being chased out of Tojo HQ when he is rescued by none other than Date.
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We'll soon learn that Date is now in the organized crime division and he is investigating
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Sarah's murder and he'd like Kiryu's help to which Kiryu agrees.
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But it kind of hints that it's Kiryu's fault that he got demoted essentially.
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I don't know.
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What do you make of where Date is at right now?
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I'm kind of irritated that Date is going to blame him.
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You could have chosen to set up boundaries and not be freaking obsessed with Kiryu and
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everything in his world.
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You could have just said, you know, it's 5 p.m.
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I'm going to go home and spend time with my family.
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No one told you to go and spend all your time chasing after every lead that you get.
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But I almost feel like he's, I don't know if he's blaming Kiryu because I think Date
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knows that he did what he wanted to do and that it was against what the department wanted
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him to do.
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I think what he's saying from my perspective is he's more just trying to guilt Kiryu into
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helping him with this investigation.
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So that's one potential motive.
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But maybe he is kind of blaming him.
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Like if you had just come clean and told me it wasn't you in that interrogation, like
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neither of us would be here right now.
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But I will say that there is a parallel of him coming to save Kiryu similar to when Tachibana
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came in with his red car and just drifted over and it was really cool.
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I will say Tachibana did it better.
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But there is a parallel of both Date and Tachibana going to save Kiryu from a massive fight.
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There's nothing cooler than a guy who doesn't know how to drive showing up in a sports car.
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Date gives him a phone and I have to say that Kiryu's hands are massive compared to this
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tiny phone.
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Everybody's hands are too big.
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Yes, but like come on.
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What's up with the scale of his hand to phone ratio?
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You also commented, I don't know if you're going to say this later, but you talked about
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Kiryu's hair looks like asparagus.
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Yes.
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In the earlier scenes when we get close up, you'll see the way that they paint on his
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hair.
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It's like in little flakes and it just looks like an artichoke heart or an asparagus.
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You made the comment saying that it's VeggieTale inspired.
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They need to cast him in the next VeggieTales when they have to.
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Date says that he's going to start looking for the 10 billion if Kiryu will start looking
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for Yumi.
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Kiryu decides that his first stop will be Serena.
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Ten years later and that welcome mat is still askew.
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Serena is still working there.
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All she really has to offer is that a woman named Mizuki stopped in about five years ago
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claiming to be Yumi's long lost sister and that she worked at Serena for about four years
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before leaving to open up her own bar, Aris.
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She dropped off the mat after that.
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How did Serena not age a single day in the ten years that we know her?
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She's still wearing the same outfit and everything?
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Because she's a gem.
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She's a treasure.
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I was just about to say that!
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You took that out of my- I was about to say that!
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She's a gem!
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She's amazing!
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She is.
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My other question is do you think Yumi is pretending to be Mizuki?
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I don't know.
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We never see them both at the same time so it could be she's playing as two different
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people.
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Well to be fair we haven't seen either one of them.
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I mean obviously I know what happens.
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But just hold on to your theories.
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I'm not gonna give anything away.
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But Reina does mention that the bartender at Bacchus will probably know where Aris is
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but we just left this bar.
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How many times is this game gonna send us back and forth running around town?
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It's a little much.
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But on his way out Reina says are you not gonna ask about Nishiki?
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And Kiyuu kinda just pauses and she says did you hear from somebody else?
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But Kiyuu says that no matter what he's heard he needs to see for himself.
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Which I respect.
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Do you think Kiyuu is being too optimistic?
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Is he not being realistic enough or do you think that he's right?
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Nishiki's misunderstood.
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I don't think that Nishiki is misunderstood.
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I feel like Kiyuu thinks that no one really understands the real Nishiki besides me.
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We've been through so much together at the orphanage and everything and therefore he
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wants to see with his own eyes.
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But for Marvel fans out there this is the same as when-
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Sorry you launched into that so fast.
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I was about to jump in early so I had this in my mind.
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But for Marvel fans this is very similar to Steve Rogers not really believing that Bucky
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is the Winter Soldier in terms of the brainwashed version of him.
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He wants to see with his own eyes despite what everyone's telling him.
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So I think that's the same thing.
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It's the whole trust but verify of I'll take your word for it in a way but I'm going to
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check for myself to really make sure that Nishiki is who he said he is.
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Because I know the real Nishiki and I'm going to double check for myself.
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I wish I could build off of that but I do not watch Marvel.
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I'm sorry.
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I don't love them you guys.
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I'm sorry.
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Don't hate me.
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Some of the first ones it takes a while to get into.
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So I think it also depends on which movies you see but that's a day for another.
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Just conversation for another day.
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Also you have to live to be 400 years old to have enough time to see them all now.
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So Kiryu heads back to Bacchus but when he arrives he finds a very different scene than
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what he left.
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I mean let's just cut to it.
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There's dead bodies everywhere.
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The bartender is dead.
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There's blood everywhere.
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So how long was Kiryu gone for for spending people to have blood out and everything?
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Feels like maybe 10 minutes but maybe it's more like half an hour or an hour.
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I don't know.
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What motives are there to kill all these people?
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Let's talk about that because they would have to know if they're trying to stop Kiryu.
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Is that the motive?
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Because if that's the motive then they have to know he's trying to get information out
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of the bartender, right?
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To try to stop Kiryu the best way is to just kill him.
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You're not wrong.
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I can't argue with that.
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But maybe Kiryu is a pawn.
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Maybe this is like a Cosmo plan and Kiryu is his pawn again like in Y0.
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I know Kiryu loves Cosmo.
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I just don't.
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I think he used Kiryu.
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We've been over this so I won't say anything more but could it be part of like a Cosmo
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plan of like I need Kiryu to be where I need him and I don't need him to find this bar
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so I'm gonna kill these people.
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With that being said though, with the next scene of a little girl just hiding there,
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that means that Kazama either A. didn't plan for this little girl to be showing up there
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or B. did plan for this girl to show up there and make sure everyone's dead before she gets
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there and make sure she survives so Kiryu can find her and spend his time being a somewhat
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father to her?
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That's a- that's a- that's a- That's a good question.
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We've been drinking.
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Cut me some slack please people.
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Hold on to that question because yeah, could Haruka be a pawn?
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We'll soon find out that that is her name but this poor girl is traumatized.
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She's holding a gun, cowering behind the bar.
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She says that when she arrived there was a bunch of dead people.
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That's a lot to take in.
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I applaud her instincts for survival and grabbing that gun and hiding though.
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Good for you Haruka.
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But at the same time is that really good because Kiryu just popped around the corner and she
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didn't shoot him so what if Kiryu was a bad person?
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So what if you have the gun?
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She didn't shoot him.
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Not that we wanted her to shoot him but- Well there's a difference between instincts and
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freezing I think.
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She has the right idea but maybe she just can't act on it.
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I don't blame her though.
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She's like not even 10 years old.
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She's yeah, she's young.
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This is a lot to take in.
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But Kiryu asks what she's doing here and she said that she was searching for her mom which
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led her to Bacchus.
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This is also the same girl that we saw watching the news report about Kiryu's fight at Tojo
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HQ so maybe she recognized him and wasn't afraid of him?
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I mean she says that she showed up and everyone was dead but you know-
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She's too calm for that.
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She's holding the gun.
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It doesn't- She's awfully calm for someone who has seen
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all that stuff but if she killed them all though at the same time she would be covered
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in blood and she's not.
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Kiryu leaves with Haruka and he soon finds out that she lives in an orphanage, more specifically
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Sunflower and she also mentions that her aunt Yumi would often bring her letters.
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So that's a lot of coincidences right?
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So is she a pawn?
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Is she part of a Kazuma plan?
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Or is this all just crazy coincidences?
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There's no such thing as that many coincidences but also Kazuma pretty much owns the Sunflower
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orphanage in a way that seems like he goes there and finds people quite frequently so
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I would be surprised.
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Finds people, what does that mean?
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Well I feel like he didn't adopt Kiryu and Nishiki out of love for these two boys and
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out of just wanting to be a father.
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Oh my gosh.
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What?
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That was brutal.
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Oh god.
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Yes.
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But here's the thing though, it's not Kazuma's fault or anyone's fault that he just doesn't
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have the capacity to love anyone.
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That's true.
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I feel like he went there to find these two as a pawn and I wouldn't be surprised if he
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went back there to see.
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Let's see who else I can use as a pawn in my game.
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After saving a dog and watching a very satisfying rock hit to the face of an a**hole, Kiryu and
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Haruka go to Serena and they're kind of talking a bit with Serena and this is when Haruka
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reveals that she knows where Aris is and Kiryu has no choice but to let her tag along.
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And Kiryu just strikes me as the type who becomes this very reluctant father figure.
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She looks at him like he's a superhero, especially when he threw the rock back at those thugs
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who totally deserved getting the rock to their faces.
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Well I mean let's think about it.
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She saw him demolish like 80 people single-handedly on TV and then she sees him defeat these dog
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abusers.
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She probably does think he's a superhero.
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I mean that's pretty much as close as you can get, right?
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I don't blame her, but it is adorable.
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So we know that Misuki has a tattoo and we're curious if that's gonna be a sunflower.
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But also, how is Haruka going to three different bars within one day and she's not even like
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10 years old?
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That's a good question.
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What?
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I've never had my words get just caught on my throat like that before.
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That's a good question.
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As I was trying to say, that's a good question because we also see she passes out during
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their stroll and so Kiryu runs through the streets with a passed out seven-year-old in
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his arms in the red light district.
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Nobody stops him.
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But speaking of that, they do head to Ares and they eventually do get stopped by a cop
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at some point who questions their relationship.
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But Haruka handles that like a champ.
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Kiryu freezes but she gets him out of it.
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You wonder who taught her all these skills that she learned from being at the Sunflower
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Orphanage?
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But just before that, while they're walking in the street, Haruka asks Kiryu if he knows
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about the Millennium Tower and he responds, crazy to think they'd build that there of
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all places.
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And then she kind of asks why and he says that things happened there a long time ago.
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So is this the empty lot?
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Was this built on the empty lot?
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At first that's what I thought so too.
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But later when Haruka makes the comment saying that, oh I've never been to the top I wonder
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how much you can see, he then goes to say that you can see all of Kamurocho.
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That sentence made me think it's the same building where Tachibana's headquarters were.
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Do you want the answer?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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There's a word in here I've never seen before so if I pronounce it wrong, please don't make
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fun of me everyone.
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Sometimes you just don't know things.
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In the After Credits of Yakuza 0, I didn't let you watch this because it has a lot of
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spoilers in it.
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I didn't know that when I played the game and I had something spoiled for me unfortunately.
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But there is a blurb in the After Credits and it says under the…
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I?
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Aigis?
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It's A-E-G-I-S.
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I don't know what the hell that word is but under the Aigis of Sarah and the Tojo Clan,
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the area around the empty lot underwent a dramatic revitalization.
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So that would be the Kamurocho revitalization project that we heard so much about in Yakuza
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0.
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And it continues to say, today a new emblem of Kamurocho stands proudly upon that storied
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lot, the Millennium Tower.
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Oh.
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Wow.
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I wonder who made the prophets then?
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Where did the prophets go?
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It's kind of poetic that this is now becoming a central point in this storyline.
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It's the same plot of land.
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It's just above it now.
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We're going to this bar.
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We'll talk more about this later but Kiryu and Haruka do arrive at the Millennium Tower.
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And the bar is on the top floor.
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Haruka knows how to get to the top.
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You need a special code.
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And so my first question is do you think that whoever was telling her about all this, I
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think it was Yumi who was telling her about everything, wanted Haruka to end up here?
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Because why else would she give her the code?
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I'm wondering what other codes does she know.
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Right.
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And I feel like this is just more evidence that Haruka is a pawn in somebody's plan.
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And why would she even want Haruka in this area?
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The elevators are awfully high.
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Even Kiryu has to reach up to press that button.
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So say that you're in a wheelchair.
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How are you going to touch that top button?
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You're not going to the top floor.
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You're going to floor five and you're going to like it.
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As far as you're getting in a wheelchair.
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Now inside the bar Kiryu asks Haruka why she was placed at an orphanage.
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And she says she doesn't know.
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But she shows Kiryu a locket that she was given by Yumi.
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What do you think that's about?
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What's with the locket?
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I think it's part of a code but I want to save for a later part.
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Okay.
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Inside the bar they find a portrait of Mizuki and Kiryu comments that Rin was right.
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She does kind of look like Yumi.
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Now this is when we see a little bit of the tattoo that you're referencing but we don't
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get a close-up look.
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But while they're looking at this some goons from the Omi Alliance show up led by the Lieutenant
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Advisor Hayashi.
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Right as the confrontation is beginning Kiryu's phone rings.
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It seems kind of weird to me that Hayashi was like go ahead and answer it.
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That's not your standard villain behavior.
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He probably wants to know who's calling him.
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It turns out that it is Date calling him and he tells Kiryu that he believes Yumi stole
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the 10 billion yen because her ring was found at the crime scene.
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So I have a question for you.
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Do you think that she left the ring on purpose?
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Because her name is on it.
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I don't wear a lot of jewelry but do rings just fall off your finger like that?
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I don't think so.
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I'm sure they're really big on your finger but we also do know that she was in a scuffle
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when Dojima was pretty much trying to force himself on her and so I can see a ring being
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lost because of that.
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But I don't think it normally falls off.
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Well yeah because does that happen twice?
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Because if it came off in a struggle with Dojima it also came off in a struggle when
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the 10 billion yen was stolen?
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That seems just kind of...
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I don't know.
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But I also think we both had a question about this bar.
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There's like a semi-enclosed water pool.
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Do you swim in that?
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What is that?
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Is it just to look at?
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It seems like a pretty bad idea when you have a bunch of drunk people because they're either
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going to go in the water and just pass out and drown themselves or they're going to just
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like puke or pee or poop in the water.
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Either way it's just a bad idea and it's like a...
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It's an interesting choice.
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Not one that I would have made.
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After Date's call Kiryu assumes that the Omi wants Yumi and Mizuki as they are connected
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to the missing 10 billion but Hayashi says that they're after Haruka but he doesn't
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tell them why.
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So my first thought is that why do they want Haruka?
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Is it because of some kind of other code that she knows that they need or is it something
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that she knows from a letter?
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They need her DNA or maybe they need the locket from her.
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So I do want to circle back to everything we've learned.
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So this is what my theory is that Yumi and Mizuki are siblings and they were separated
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at birth.
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Something happened and they can only keep one and move the other one into orphanage.
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So this is where my theory kind of splits into two different potential things.
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Is that one, the Tojo Clan is responsible for killing Yumi and Mizuki's parents and
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Mizuki's back here to seek revenge and to cause civil war within the Tojo Clan to break
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it from the inside and she's going to do that by having Yumi steal the 10 billion yen.
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The other theory is that Mizuki is reuniting with Yumi so they can be one of the first
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few leaders in the Tojo Clan and find their own place within the family by either stealing
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the same money and then demonstrating their innocence and then providing it back or even
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use it as a bargaining chip.
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Yeah.
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And maybe Nishiki knows because they're part of the Sunflower Orphanage and he's just here
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supporting them and that's why he has his own family and he's totally backed by their
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capital.
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Alright.
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Well, the next gameplay is out so go give it a watch or if you're playing along go play
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chapters 5 and 6 and we'll be back next week and I guess we will roll our outro.
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