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Maybe you ended up moving to Kamurocho?

[ Which is fair, because Kiryu already kind of likes Kamurocho, it seems like a sweet place to live.

Kiryu of course writes this all down, along with "Ugly tattoo guy." And "Majima family?" as well. It's funny to hear Majima sound both insulting and fond of someone, but it's the kind of funny that makes Kiryu love him. ]

Another girl? Do you know why he was looking for her?

I think I sent him. Both he and the club owner called her Lily, but I called her "Yasuko-chan."

[ who....the fuck....he hasn't even figured out the deal with makoto come on. ]

I said she was my responsibility? 'cause of...'cause of something that happened in '85.

Maybe she was on the run, if she was using a fake name.

[ How many... years have they known each other... if something happened in '85? ]

'85... [ Damn, that's a long ways before either of them were born. ] You mentioned you had a pager, right? Could some of our memories be from back then?

[ They're gonna have to add a timeline to their notebook, damn. ]

Guess she must've been.

[ majima nods ]

Yeah, pagers were really big back then.

[ but that wasn't the important takeaway here, kiryu............. ]

[ Kiryu can relate, having the whole "Suzuki" memory hanging around in his head. ]

What do you think happened? Back in '85?

[ He caught the bit about her being Majima's responsibility, he's just trying to write things down in a way that'll still make sense later. ]

If she was on the run...

[ Well, Kiryu won't say it, but could she have been running from Majima? ]

[ it's not a terrible accusation, given the things majima has admitted he thinks he's done, but it leaves a bitter taste in his mouth. that kiryu's first reaction was that majima had been harassing some girl, not that there was something else. ]

I don't think it had to do with her.

[ he doesn't know how to explain this - only that the sadness with which he was explaining it to the club owner was as deep and infinite as his guilt over what happened with his brother and yet somehow worse still. he had almost cried, telling this guy he didn't know. ]

It seems more like I was looking out for her on account of somethin' else.

[ hey, it could have been some kind of misunderstanding! Kiryu knows Majima's on the protecting side here, but they're both kind of former(?) criminals so he could understand someone wanting to steer clear of them, too. Sometimes people get reputations whether they're good people or not. ]

She must not have known you were looking for her.

[ If Majima was looking out for her, then she could have easily come to him, couldn't she? Even if he was a yakuza, and with his own family... It couldn't have been that hard to find him in a city as small as Kamurocho. ]

You would have protected her otherwise.

I was tryin' to...

[ he understands that much, but pretty much only that. not who the girl was, not why he was looking for her. but for all that kiryu does relent on the point and go back to the idea that majima was trying to protect her, it reminds him of another situation, where kiryu was calling him out on something.

a resort deal? kiryu had mentioned that before, hadn't he? ]

Hey, when we were talkin' about Okinawa, ya mentioned a resort deal, right?

Yeah, before our cage fight.

[ Majima had said that he'd done it for Daigo, but he wouldn't give Kiryu the answers he wanted until they fought. Seems legit tbh. ]

The fuck do ya think that has to do with all of this?

It sounded like you were being set up or something. I don't know where the resort came into all this, but it sounded like I came to you looking for answers. Maybe you had some kind of stakes in the deal?

[ And, well. ]

Which is why we had to fight first.

Yeah, I remembered that.

Oh. You remembered it too?

[ Kiryu's in trouble...... ]

Yup.

[ yup ]

[ ...............Judging by. That response. Kiryu's, um. Yeah.

Awkward. ]

I shouldn't have doubted you. I wouldn't, now.

[ majima just shrugs. he had clearly been more upset that it was kiryu accusing him than the accusation itself. ]

Fuckin' weird that I'd do it for Daigo and then he got me arrested. He sounds like a real kick in the dick.

[ sorry daigo... one day he'll remember he actually likes you a lot. ]

Yeah, I wonder what his deal is.

[ His deal is his dad died and you were an absent father to him, Kiryu. ]

He must have been important, if you were doing all that for him. Maybe he was really high-ranked, but kind of a jerk?

[ Sorry, Daigo.... ]

I mean, ta get people arrested he must've been, right? 'cause anyone else pullin' that shit would've gotten in trouble.

[ or at least that's his assumption. ]

Yeah, he would've had to be at least your same rank, probably...

[ Assuming Majima is still the boss of his own family. Or that's what it would seem like, they're not exactly familiar with Tojo Clan politics yet. ]

But it's weird, because I'm pretty sure I asked you to take care of him when we fought on the roof. That was when you said you just wanted to have fun and run amok and beat up whoever you wanted to.

[ it's true - and it's what he was assuming too. he was definitely the boss of a family as far as he could tell with that memory. daigo really would have to be ranked higher than him. but at kiryu's explanation, majima barks out a laugh. ]

I said that, huh?

[ how irresponsible... it reminds him how he was when he was younger. ]

[ Kiryu nods. ]

I think you'd quit... the yakuza, or whatever family we were in. I asked you to come back.

[ And he did, just like that. ]

[ it's easy to imagine, because he knows how fiercely he felt about kiryu in memory he has of him. and it's easy for him to imagine himself fucking something up and quitting. ]

Maybe that's what happened to my eye. Pretty sure you don't just leave the yakuza.

[ you can quit the thug life but the thug life never quits you am i right kiryu ]

It's possible.

[ Kiryu nods. You don't just leave the yakuza... a lesson from every single Yakuza game. ]

But it must have happened before we first met. Seeing you with your eye-patch just feels natural.

This shit is all messy.

Yeah, I can't make any sense of it.

[ Like, what was the deal with Tachibana? When did Kaz quit being a real estate agent and join a gang? Now that he thinks about it, there's a lot he doesn't know. ]

...The only thing I know for sure is that we were close.

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