Marui

Marui (; Marui) is a character featured in the substory The Tax Lady from Yakuza 0. 
She is an agent for the Japanese National Taxation Agency's Criminal Investigation Bureau, colloquially known as the "Marusa".
== Profile ==
=== Personality ===
Marui is a tenacious tax investigator whose career revolves around trying to catch businessmen defrauding the government's taxation bureau. She is committed to her mission, willing to go undercover and put herself at risk to catch tax cheats.
She is also very good at doing complicated maths calculations on the fly, as shown by an incident where she quickly calculates how long it'll take one of her investigation targets to make tea for three people in order to gauge how much time she has to search his office while he's distracted.
=== Appearance ===
Marui wears her jet black hair in a distinctive black bob haircut. She wears a red suit blazer with a blue dress shirt and grey slacks. She also always has a pair of aviator sunglasses on, even when in-doors.
==Involvement==
=== Yakuza 0: 1988 ===
In 1988, Marui begins to investigate Maguro Enterprises, a real estate firm, for possible income concealment and tax evasion. In order to further her inquiry, she decides she must infiltrate Maguro's office to search it for income records that prove falsehoods in his tax statements. Since she can't simply break into the office, she instead contacts Maguro's downstairs office neighbour, Kazuma Kiryu, to ask for his help.
By posing as Kiryu's secretary, Marui manages to gain access to Maguro's office when he invites them over for tea. While the business owner is distracted making the tea, Marui and Kiryu search the office, eventually finding a stack of VHS tapes which seem out of place due to the lack of a VCR player or TV in the room. Marui prepares to search the stack of tapes, but Maguro returns before she can. At Marui's behest Kiryu distracts Maguro with banal conversation about his clothes and his business and eventually by shaking his hand for an uncomfortably long time while the tax agent searches the VHS tapes for concealed records inside them. Marui eventually does discover a ledger hidden inside one of the tapes, which she pulls out and reads, finding it contains Maguro's true business records which are inconsistent with his tax filings.
Armed with this evidence, the tax woman reveals her true intent and confronts Maguro. The tax evader prepares to attack the tax agent, but she dissuades him from it by listing all the charges he would face for assaulting a government agent and the reasons why avoiding prosecution would be unlikely. Intimidated by her, Maguro agrees to be arrested without incident.
After taking Maguro into custody, Marui thanks Kiryu for his help and offers to work part-time at his Real Estate firm to aid in his mission to take down the Five Billionaires, a syndicate of criminal real estate moguls who'd been monopolizing the Kamurocho real estate market.
== Trivia ==
* Marui's character is heavily based on Agent Ryoko Itakura, the character played by actress Nobuko Miyamoto in the 1987 film A Taxing Woman, which tells the story of a Marusa Agent investigating a love hotel empresario for tax evasion.
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