Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Chapter 2

The Man Named Saito Hajime (, Saitō Hajime to Iu Otoko) is the second chapter of Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin!.
==Plot==
A year later, Ryoma is living in Kyoto under the alias of Saito Hajime. He resides in the Terada Inn, run by a woman called Otose and her apprentice Oryo, and he spends his days trying to find leads on Toyo's assassin. Sakamoto's only clue is that the killer used an unusual fighting style called "Tennen-Rishin", which was taught in a single dojo in Edo, which then moved to Kyoto and then closed. Sakamoto has spent the year searching through dojos in Kyoto in search of practitioners of this rare style. After one of these dojo visits (which ends in a large brawl), a strange man calling himself "Niibori Matsusuke" tells Sakamoto that a local gangster called the The Bathkeeper of Sai could have information on Tennen-Rishin users. When Sakamoto asks why he's helping him, "Niibori" says he was impressed by his fighting, so he wanted to do something which would make Sakamoto owe him a favor.
Sakamoto goes to the bathhouse run by the Bathkeeper, who agrees to help because he's an acquaintance of "Niibori". The Bathkeeper tells Sakamoto the only practitioners of Tennen-Rishin in Kyoto are part of the leadership of the Shinsengumi, the special police created by the Tokugawa to put down anti-shogunate rebel groups. The meeting is interrupted when a large man barges in and demands to use the thermal bath Sakamoto is using, resulting in a fight. After the fight, the man apologizes and introduces himself as General Saigo Kichinosuke of the Satsuma Domain. Since Sakamoto impressed him with his fighting prowess, Saigo offers to take him out for drinks. During their night out, Sakamoto takes advantage of Saigo's military knowledge to ask about the Shinsengumi. Through him, Sakamoto learns the only way he could meet with the leadership would be to join the group.
On his way back to the Terada Inn, Sakamoto is approached by a masked man who tells him "an old friend" wants to meet him that night at the slum district of Mukurogai. Sakamoto goes there at the appointed time and meets the masked man again, who turns out to be Okada Izo of the Tosa Loyalist Party, and Takechi Hanpeita is the "old friend" who wanted to meet him. Takechi tells Sakamoto that, in the aftermath of Toyo's death, he's taken over as leader of the Tosa Loyalists and he's negotiated a secret alliance with Lord Yamauchi Yodo, whereby they'll work with him to overthrow the Shogunate and abolish the class system nationwide, in exchange for Yamauchi having a high-position in the government they'll establish afterwards. Takechi asks Sakamoto to come back to Tosa so they can work on their plans for rebellion together, but Sakamoto refuses, saying he can't go back until he's caught Toyo's killer.
==Objectives==
==Trophies and Achievements==
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Category:Chapter Summaries
Category:Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin! Chapter Summaries
Category:Like a Dragon: Ishin! Chapter Summaries