Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth/Chapter 1

Doin' the Best I Can (白日, Hakujitsu, Lit. "Daytime") is the first chapter of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
==Plot==
In 2022, three years after the Great Dissolution of the Tojo Clan and Omi Alliance, ex-yakuza Ichiban Kasuga is now an employee at Hello Work employment agency, determined to carry on his father Masumi Arakawa's legacy by helping fellow ex-yakuza find legitimate work. His friends have also all moved up from their former lives; Koichi Adachi runs a security consultant company, Yu Nanba became a medical equipment inspector, Saeko Mukoda is now the co-owner of Club Silky, taking over from her deceased boss Isao Nonomiya. Tianyou Zhao has retired from the Yokohama Liumang to be a chef and Seonhee, leader of the Geomijul, has taken up his place as Liumang leader, with Joongi Han continuing acting as her second-in-command. After a hangout with his friends, Kasuga attempts to ask Saeko out on a date and later proposes to her during the date. However, Saeko gently rejects Kasuga and proceeds to ignore him for a year.
In 2023, VTuber Hisoka Tatara spreads false rumors of Kasuga building his own crime ring from ex-yakuza members, which gets Kasuga and Nanba fired from their jobs, and Adachi unable to take loans from the bank. A month later, the three would learn that the Seiryu Clan has been recruiting ex-yakuza en masse. The three infiltrate the Seiryu Clan HQ and eventually meet up with their Acting Chairman, Masataka Ebina, filling in after the Chairman Mamoru Takabe was arrested. He reveals that he is hiring ex-yakuza into a legitimate waste management business in a secure holding facility on the docks and that he is organizing a "Second Great Dissolution" to disband the remaining yakuza clans. Ebina informs them that he is working with Jo Sawashiro.
==Trivia==
* The Japanese title of the chapter is taken from a King Gnu song.
* The English title of the chapter is taken from a song written for the Elvis Presley film, G.I. Blues.