Yakuza 4/Part 1 Chapter 4

The Promise (, Yakusoku) is the fourth and final chapter of Part 1 of Yakuza 4, and the fourth chapter overall.
==Plot==
Akiyama meets with Kido in his office, where he tells the young yakuza that he needs to find Arai and help him flee the city. When Kido asks why Akiyama is so invested in helping Arai, the moneylender explains how the two met: When he was younger, Akiyama was a financial prodigy with a lucrative job at Toto Bank, until he was framed for embezzlement and fired. He spent all his savings trying to prove his innocence, after he which he wound up homeless and his fiancee Eri broke up with him. Following three years of homelessness, the Millennium Tower explosion scattered ten billion yen onto Kamurocho, letting Akiyama pick up a million yen off the street. However, Akiyama's new chance at life was almost stolen from him when he was robbed by some street thugs. Luckily for him, Arai intervened and saved him, leading to the start of their friendship. Akiyama would go on to use those million yen to start Sky Finance and, out of gratitude to Arai, he started to support his career in the yakuza; believing that a benevolent man like him is what the Tokyo underworld needs to be stable once more.
Later, Akiyama is sent to collect money from a debtor in the Champion District, where he spots "Drama Queen", a bar which Lily claimed to work at. However, the place is a joso bar, which only hires trans-women as servers. When Akiyama goes inside to speak to the owner, he finds him dead in his office, having been killed a couple days prior. Moreover, the man was a member of the Shibata Family. Not wanting to be seen in the scene of a crime, Akiyama departs.
When he returns to Sky Finance, he finds Hana lying unconscious on the floor and the office in disarray. After he wakes her, Hana explains that thugs from the Hatsushiba Clanbroke into the office to steal their debtor ledger and, while they were there, they also kidnapped Kido. After calling Hana an ambulance, Akiyama sets out and manages to find the Hatsushiba Clan's offices in the Theater Square underground. With help from some homeless men who'd been kicked out of their refuge by the yakuza, Akiyama raids their offices and confronts Hatsushiba in his headquarters. After a fight against Hatsushiba's captain, Midorikawa, Akiyama recovers his ledger and frees Kido. When questioned, Hatsushiba reveals that his boss, Shibata, ordered him to steal the ledger, since he's trying to track down Lily and he hoped her information would be there.
The next night, after getting word from the shift manager at Elise that Lily has passed her test, Akiyama calls her and tells her to meet him atop Millennium Tower to collect her loan. At the meeting, Akiyama offers Lily the chance to not pay back the money if she tells him why she's been killing officers of the Shibata Family. Though Lily denies it at first, Akiyama tells her he figured it out because of her lie about working at Drama Queen and the fact that the Shibata Family had been trying to find her. Despite the chance to not pay back the money, Lily says she can't answer and departs, promising to pay back the money in full. Akiyama returns to Sky Finance and informs Hana that he gave Lily the loan, something Hana is enraged about, since she considers giving that amount of money to a stranger with barely any vetting to be irresponsible. She accuses Akiyama of only giving Lily that loan because she reminds him of his ex, Eri, and then quits, leaving the office in a fury.
Akiyama is soon called over to Elise, where some yakuza are making trouble. The rowdy yakuza are members of the Majima Family, led by its drunken lieutenant, Daisaku Minami, and they are looking for Lily. After Akiyama refuses to give up info on Lily, he has a fight with Minami, which he wins. The thugs are joined by their patriarch himself, Goro Majima, who tells Minami to stand down. Majima tells Akiyama that he needs to find Lily to protect her, to make up for how he failed her 25 years prior, back when he knew her by her real name: Yasuko Saejima.
==Tasks==
*Head to Marimba
==Related trophies/achievements==
===Remaster===
Icon	Name 	Description 	Trophy Status (PlayStation)	Gamerscore (Xbox)
 	The Plot Thickens	Clear Part 1 of the story.	Bronze 	15G
===Original===
Icon	Name 	Description 	Trophy Status
 	Part 1 Cleared	Clear Part 1 of the story.	Bronze
==Gallery==
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Category:Chapter Summaries
Category:Yakuza 4 Chapter Summaries