Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Chapter 4

Joint Struggle (, Kyōtō) is the fourth chapter of Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin!.
==Plot==
A few days later, Ryoma (under his alias of Saito Hajime) is initiated as Captain of the Shinsengumi's 3rd Unit at a meeting with the rest of the group's leadership. Many of the other Unit Captains voice their displeasure at a new recruit being promoted so quickly, but Hijikata, Nagakura and Okita vouch for his great skill. Hijikata instructs the Captain of the 8th Unit, Todo Heisuke, to show Ryoma around the group's headquarters. Before the meeting ends, Military Advisor Ito Kashitaro complains about the continued absence of Commander Kondo, who hasn't attended a meeting in months.
Ryoma returns to the Terada Inn, where he asks Oryo to help him wash his new Shinsengumi Captain's uniform. However, she angrily refuses, calling him a murderer for the joining the group. After the woman storms out, Otose tells Ryoma that Oryo's father had been killed by the Shinsengumi a few years prior because he'd been part of the Ishin Shishi, an alliance of samurai who want to overthrow the Tokugawa Clan and return direct ruler of the country to the Emperor. Ryoma seeks out Oryo after she left and tells that he's actually joined the Shinsengumi in search of his own father's killer. Though Oryo is unsure, she chooses to believe him for the time being.
After Ryoma returns home, Otose tells him a man from Tosa left a message saying to meet him at Kiyomizu Temple. Ryoma meets the man and he introduces himself as Nakaoka Shintaro, the late Toyo's secretary. Nakaoka says he's been investigating Toyo's murder and he believes that Takechi may have arranged it to supplant Toyo as leader of the Tosa Loyalists and then form an alliance with Lord Yamauchi. Since Nakaoka learned Ryoma was also looking into the murder, he proposes they collaborate. Ryoma disagrees with Nakaoka, saying Takechi was loyal to Toyo and also arguing that the killer must be in the Shinsengumi and thus ideologically opposed to Takechi. The pair's meeting is interrupted by Tosa Loyalists, who've come to kill Nakaoka. Ryoma and Nakaoka defeat the assassins and, after the battle, Nakaoka insists that the attack lends credence to his suspicion of Takechi. Though Ryoma disagrees, he partners with Nakaoka to investigate the killing.
==Objectives==
==Trivia==
*"Escape from Kiyomizu Temple" from this chapter was featured in the combat demo for Like a Dragon: Ishin!.
==Trophies and Achievements==
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==Gallery==
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