Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Chapter 9

Feud of the Ages (, Kenka no Hanamichi) is the ninth chapter of Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin!.
==Plot==
Ryoma spends the next few nights drinking heavily to dull his pain about Takechi's death. While at a bar, a woman sits across him and starts flirting with him before inviting him to her home. Ryoma accompanies her, but when they get to her house, Ryoma finds that Katsura Kogoro is there waiting for him. The woman was his lover and accomplice, Ikumatsu, and he had her bring him there so they could talk. Katsura laments Takechi's death, since they'd both worked together as members of the Ishin Shishi, and he asks Ryoma to become his new mole within the Shinsengumi, so they can continue Takechi's work. However, Ryoma drunkenly rebuffs him and storms out.
Katsura follows the drunk Ryoma and the pair run into General Saigo, who'd just rescued a stray puppy from some thugs. Upon seeing each other, Saigo and Katsura get into a fight, since their respective provinces of Satsuma and Choshu have been rivals for centuries. Ryoma angrily puts a stop to the fight, chiding both men for feuding even though their political goals are the same, since both Satsuma and Choshu want to depose the Shogunate. Frustrated by their petty rivalry, Ryoma gets into a fistfight with both and defeats them. Afterwards, the three men go out drinking and, as Ryoma had indicated, Saigo and Katsura find they share very similar political beliefs. A drunk Ryoma ends up revealing his true identity to a confused Saigo, who admits that he actually had met with somebody claiming to be "Sakamoto Ryoma", who'd proposed an alliance between Satsuma and Tosa to go to war with the shogunate, aided by guns he would buy from the English. However, Saigo can't discuss this further, since Ryoma passes out from all the alcohol soon after.
The following morning, Ryoma awakens at his room in the Terada Inn, with Oryo sleeping beside him. The young woman had been concerned with the state he was in after Saigo and Katsura brought him in, so kept watch over him and ended up falling asleep. After Ryoma departs for the Shinsengumi base, Oryo is visited by a man who covertly delivers a note to her.
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