Yakuza 4/Part 2 Chapter 1

To the Truth (, Shinjitsu e no Tōbō, Lit. "Escape to the Truth"), known as Flight for the Truth in the original localization, is the first chapter of Part 2 of Yakuza 4, and the fifth chapter overall.
==Plot==
In 1985, Taiga Saejima is a 20 year-old enforcer for the Sasai Family, living in Kamurocho with his younger sister, Yasuko. He and his oath brother, Goro Majima, are tasked by the Tojo Clan's leadership with assassinating Yoshiharu Ueno, the Chairman of the Ueno Seiwa Clan, which has recently been encroaching on Tojo Clan turf. On the day of the assassination, Majima fails to show up, so Saejima carries out the hit by himself, bursting into the ramen shop where Ueno and 19 of his officers are going to eat. Saejima manages to kill 18 out of the 20 men present but, unfortunately, Ueno is one of the two survivors, along with a young officer of his, Isao Katsuragi. For his crime, Saejima is sentenced to death.
In 2010, Saejima has spent 25 years awaiting his execution when he is suddenly transferred from Tokyo Penitentiary to the Okinawa Penitentiary No. 2. Upon arrival, he gets into a fight with some inmates who used to be part of the Ueno Seiwa Clan and who still hate him for the hit from 1985. As a result, he is taken to solitary confinement and severely beaten by the prison's guard-captain, Saito. However, he is saved by Goh Hamazaki, who was sent to this prison after stabbing Kazuma Kiryu at the end of the previous game, and who bribes the warden to spare Saejima's life. Hamazaki approaches Saejima and requests his help for a prison break, since a man of his brute strength is just what he needs to escape. Saejima initially refuses, but changes his mind when Hamazaki informs him that the Sasai Family was disbanded after his hit and that its patriarch, Hideki Sasai, mysteriously disappeared soon after. Saejima decides to join in on the escape in order to find his old boss and to discover why his oath brother Majima failed to appear on the day of the hit.
Hamazaki and Saejima spend the next couple of days gathering what they need for their plot. Once they have all the materials, they stage their escape at night time. During the breakout, Hamazaki sneaks into the warden's office to search for incriminating evidence he needs to bargain for having their sentences commuted once they're on the outside, while Saejima fights several guards to cause a distraction and buy him time. Eventually, both men make it to the prison courtyard and use a grappling hook to climb over the wall, but they are confronted by Saito and several guards. Saejima allows Hamazaki to climb first while he holds off the guards, greatly impressing his co-conspirator. After beating Saito, Saejima climbs over the wall with Hamazaki's help. However, while Saejima starts his descent to the outside, Saito re-awakens and shoot Hamazaki in the chest. A wounded Hamazaki tells Saejima to seek out Kazuma Kiryu once he's made it to the Okinawan mainland and then tackles Saito over the edge of the wall and into the water below in order to keep him from shooting Saejima as well. Not wanting to let Hamazaki drown, Saejima dives in after him.
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