Kiyomi Kasahara

Kiyomi Kasahara (, Kasahara Kiyomi) is a supporting character in Yakuza 6. She is the proprietress of Snack Kiyomi, a snack bar in Onomichi, Hiroshima.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Kiyomi has a youthful appearance despite her age. She has a slight frame and a round face with short hair.
==== Attire ====
Kiyomi wears a purple patterned medium length dress with a necklace.
=== Personality ===
Kiyomi is warm and friendly, always eager to assist those in need. She helps a stowaway Haruka get back on her feet when she arrives in Onomichi, giving her a part-time job and somewhere to stay while she works. Kiyomi is also a good caretaker, lending Kiryu a hand with Haruto during the former's own trip to Hiroshima. She is rather level-headed, and is capable of handling rowdy customers largely on her own.
Although Kiyomi is on good terms with the local Hirose Family, in particular Nagumo, she disapproves of most yakuza activity. This can be linked to her relationship with Someya, which appears to have left her traumatized. She is visibly distressed when recalling memories of her marriage, and becomes nervous whenever Someya is nearby.
Kiyomi developed a Tokyo accent while living there, which she retains after returning to Hiroshima.
== Background ==
Originally from Hiroshima, Kiyomi was classmates with Kazuaki Ino and Tsuyoshi Nagumo in high school. Due to the small size of Hiroshima, Kiyomi left for Tokyo searching for her identity there. She got a job as hostess, and became rich from the bubble economy. When Kiyomi turned 30, she met a customer who tricked her into debt, but was saved by Takumi Someya. Seeing Someya risk his life for her, she entered a relationship with him, and later married him and had their daughter, Hiromi together.
However, Kiyomi was terrified of Someya's status as a yakuza, and asked him countless times to quit for their daughter's sake. One day, Kiyomi was washing Someya's bloodstained clothing, and witnessed him using those same hands to play with their 3-year-old daughter. That night, Kiyomi attempted to run away with their daughter, but was caught by one of Someya's subordinates. Afterwards, she faced physical abuse from Someya, and eventually fled back to Hiroshima by herself, opening up Snack Kiyomi at an unknown point.
== Involvement ==
=== Yakuza 6: 2013-2017 ===
Kiyomi is the first to approach Haruka Sawamura when she arrives in Onomichi. She gives her a place to stay and a part-time job to support herself, and the two build a good friendship. One day, Haruka arrives for work teary-eyed and disappears the next day.
During Kiryu's journey in Hiroshima, Kiyomi meets him when he is looking for a bar to find information on Haruka. She helps him by having Kazuaki Ino give him a place to stay and lending a hand in taking care of Haruto Sawamura, but initially denies knowing Haruka.
Following another of Tsuyoshi Nagumo's confrontations with Kiryu, Koji Masuzoe arrives at the bar demanding Nagumo collect the bar's payment. When he refuses, Kiyomi offers the money but Nagumo tells her not to. Kiryu saves Nagumo, who later reveals Haruka was in Onomichi and directs him to Kiyomi for more information. At the top of the ropeway station, she tells him how she was involved with her, but they are interrupted by Someya's arrival and stop their conversation before they can talk about the identity of Haruto's father.
Later, she is brought to the hotel where the Tojo Clan is staying to lure Kiryu, prompting him and the Hirose Family to stage a rescue. Kiryu and Nagumo enter the room and Someya reveals they were previously married. They return and Kiyomi tells Kiryu she suspects Shu Tatsukawa is Haruto's father because she overheard a phone call where he talked about aborting a child around the timeframe of Haruka's disappearance. Kiryu also informs them that Haruka had fallen into a coma following a hit-and-run a few days prior.
Haruto was left in her care when Kiryu, Yuta Usami, and Nagumo traveled to Kamurocho to look for Tatsukawa. Toru Hirose stopped by her bar and baited her into letting him kidnap the baby. When the trio returns, she explains the situation and dismisses Kiryu's encounter with Someya when he brings up the topic. She recounts their history together and regrets leaving Hiromi with Someya, feeling she failed as a parent, but Nagumo assures her she did the right thing.
She is present during Hirose's funeral and expresses her relief when Kiryu informs them he received news of Haruka regaining consciousness.
After Kiryu confronts Someya in the Millennium Tower, he finds out she is being held hostage by Tsuneo Iwami, Katsumi Sugai, and Kanji Koshimizu. When Kiryu and later Nagumo learn of this via videolink, Sugai orders Kiryu to kill Someya. Someya sacrifices himself to stop Koshimizu from shooting her, leaving Kiyomi shocked. He tells her he never raised his hand on their daughter, and Kiyomi gives him a forgiving nod. Tsuneo sarcastically commends the saddening scene, before leaving with Sugai, leaving Koshimizu and a distraught Kiyomi, who shoots her regardless.
It is revealed that Kiyomi is in fact still alive: Koshimizu had loaded his gun with blanks behind Tsuneo's back, perhaps after Someya's sacrifice as speculated by the Hirose Family men. She then sees Hiromi after years of absence, to raise her presumably with Nagumo's help.
== Gallery ==
=== Yakuza 6 ===
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=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Online ===
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==Notes==
==References==
Category:Yakuza 6 Characters
Category:Business Owners
Category:Snack Kiyomi
Category:Yakuza 6 Supporting Characters
Category:Ryu Ga Gotoku Online Characters