Yakuza 5/Part 4 Chapter 2

Confronting the Past (, Kako e no Chōsen, Lit. "Challenging the Past") is the second chapter of Part 2 of Yakuza 5, and the 14th chapter overall.
==Plot==
When he returns home, Shinada is confronted by a mysterious Masked Man. The Masked Man tells Shinada that he knows about him and that somebody framed him for game fixing 15 years prior. The Masked Man says he has a vested interest in discovering who was behind Shinada's framing and offers to pay him 20 million yen if he uncovers the truth. Though Shinada wants to move on from his past, he is forced to agree by Takasugi, who was still following him to collect his money. Shinada initially refuses and tries to convince Milky to flee from Nagoya with him. However, she convinces him that he can't run away from his troubles and Shinada ultimately accepts the offer.
Having no better leads, Shinada and Takasugi seek out Uno at his massage parlor and ask him if he knew anything about the game fixing. Though Uno doesn't know anything, he says that right before Shinada's scandal broke, another one of the team's players, Kanji Manabe, had been acting very suspiciously. Shinada and Takasugi seek out Manabe at his restaurant and he admits that he was involved with game fixing and illegal gambling back when he was in the Wyverns. Apparently, the Omi Alliance and the Tojo Clan both participated in baseball gambling back in the 90's and would frequently bribe and coerce players into sabotaging their own teams to fix games. However, after Shinada was expelled the game fixing became too risky and both yakuza clans had to stop it, eventually leaving Nagoya when their business there became unprofitable without it.
Regrouping in Uno's massage parlor, Shinada determines that the Nagoya Family must have been behind framing him, since they swept in and became the leading yakuza in town after the Tojo and Omi left. Shinada and Uno try to convince Takasugi to take them to the Nagoya Family's patriarch to confirm the truth, but Takasugi admits that he isn't actually a part of the Nagoya Family and had only been pretending to intimidate defaulting debtors.
The group is interrupted when somebody tries to set Uno's clinic on fire. Shinada chases down the arsonist and, after catching up with him, he's surprised to see that it's his only remaining friend from the Wyverns, Sakai. Sakai apologizes and says that he was only trying to injure him and his friends so they would stop their investigation. He admits that the Nagoya Family was behind framing Shinada but insists that they only did it for the good of the city. Shinada fights Sakai to force him to reveal who's in charge of the Nagoya Family, but the fight is cut short when an unknown party tries to push a cement mixer onto Shinada from a nearby rooftop. Sakai saves Shinada from the falling mixer but get himself killed in the process.
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