Yakuza 4/Part 1 Chapter 1

The Infamous Loan Shark (, Nazo no Kanekashi, Lit. "The Mysterious Moneylender"), known as The Mysterious Loan Shark in the original localization, is the first chapter of Part 1 of Yakuza 4, and the first chapter overall.
==Plot==
In 2010, Shun Akiyama, the owner of moneylending company Sky Finance, goes on a collection run at the behest of his beleaguered assistant and business partner, Hana. He visits the offices of Kanemura Enterprises, a subsidiary of the Tojo Clan's Shibata Family, since he lent money to its patriarch, Hiroshi Kanemura, at the request of Kanemura's right-hand man and Akiyama's longtime friend, Hiroaki Arai. While waiting for Kanemura at his offices, Akiyama talks with one of Kanemura's soldiers and Arai's oath brother, Takeshi Kido, about a problem they're facing: Some goons from the Tojo Clan's rivals, the Ueno Seiwa Clan, are causing trouble at a club run by Kanemura. If Kanemura's boys intervene, it could escalate the already tense relations between the Tojo and the Ueno, but if they don't, it could cost Kanemura their reputation.
Since Arai was assigned the task of handling the problem; Akiyama decides to help out, as his intervention as a civilian wouldn't implicate Kanemura. The moneylender goes to the club in question and picks a fight with the Ueno men there, Masaru Ihara and Yutaka Mishima. Akiyama beats both men in a fight right before Arai arrives. Upon seeing Arai, Ihara believes Akiyama is with the Tojo and draws a gun. Arai tries to defuse the situation, but Ihara shoots him and flees with Mishima. The shot turns out to only be a grazing wound, so Arai follows his attackers to stop them from causing any more trouble.
Akiyama returns to Sky Finance's offices but, as he's entering the building, he hears a gunshot in the alley behind it. There he finds Arai standing over the body of Ihara, whom he's just killed. Arai leaves without explaining the murder to his friend, right before the police arrive, including a strange, young detective. Since Akiyama was the only person on scene, he is taken into custody by the officers, who mistake him for the murderer.
==Tasks==
*Head for Sky Finance.
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Category:Chapter Summaries
Category:Yakuza 4 Chapter Summaries