Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Chapter 1

Escaping Home (, Tosa, Dappan) is the first chapter of Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin!.
==Plot==
The year is 1866. Ten years prior, American military ships landed in Edo Bay and, using the threat of their superior weapons, they coerced Japan's ruling dynasty, the Tokugawa Bakufu, to sign an unequal trade agreement. This agreement granted many concessions to American merchants and ended Japan's isolationist policies, which had kept them cut off from the rest of the world for 250 years. The imposition has been devastating for the Tokugawa Bakufu's authority and movements have sprung up throughout the country demanding reformation of Japan's feudal system or the outright abolition of the Tokugawa government.
At the start of 1866, Sakamoto Ryoma returns to his home province of Tosa after a year studying swordsmanship in Edo. Within minutes of arriving he is arrested after he beats up a pair of higher-ranking samurai who'd threatened a peasant woman for not bowing while they passed, since she was trying to get her sick daughter to a doctor. Ryoma is bailed out of jail by his foster father, the province's governor, Yoshida Toyo. Toyo is a leading member of the Tosa Loyalist Party, a recently-formed alliance of Tosa samurai who want to end the Tokugawa's rigid social class hierarchy. Toyo invites Ryoma to join the group, which he readily accepts. After catching up with Toyo, Ryoma goes to visit his childhood best friend and fellow member of the Tosa Loyalists, Takechi Hanpeita. Takechi introduces Ryoma to the Loyalist Party's members and causes conflict by promoting him to his second-in-command despite having been away for so long. One of Takechi's most-devoted followers, Okada Izo, disagrees vehemently and gets into a fight with Ryoma.
A few nights later, Toyo meets Ryoma and Takechi in his study and tells them of his plan for forcing Tosa's lord, Yamauchi Yodo, to institute his Party's reforms. However, the meeting is interrupted by a masked assassin, who kills Toyo and flees. Takechi pursues the killer while Ryoma tries to tend to Toyo's wounds, but the governor is too badly injured and dies. Soon after, guards enter and mistakenly believe Ryoma killed Toyo, forcing him to run away. Outside Toyo's home, Ryoma finds Takechi dueling the assassin, who uses an unusual fighting style. Takechi is wounded and Ryoma proceeds to fight the killer himself, but is unable to stop him from escaping. After the fight, Ryoma flees as well, insisting to Takechi that he must track down the real killer to prove his innocence.
==Objectives==
==Trophies and Achievements==
Icon	Name 	Description 	Trophy Status (PlayStation)	Gamerscore (Xbox)
 	Home, Sweet Home	Set foot in Tosa.	 	
==Gallery==
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Category:Like a Dragon: Ishin! Chapter Summaries