Yakuza 5/Part 1 Chapter 3

The Plot Unfolds (, Shikakerareta Ezu, Lit. "The Picture Set-up") is the third chapter of Part 1 of Yakuza 5, and the third chapter overall.
==Plot==
A flashback to early summer 2011 shows the events leading to Kiryu's departure: a woman named Park, who discovered Haruka in a bookstore, wanted to sign her onto her talent agency. However, since Kiryu's past could be detrimental to Haruka's career, she insisted that Kiryu must distance himself from her and the orphanage. In exchange, Park offered to take care of the financially troubled Morning Glory Orphanage. Despite Haruka not wanting either of them to leave, Kiryu accepted Park's terms so as to not hold back his children.
In the present, Kiryu is stopped in the street by Detective Kazuhiko Serizawa of the Osaka Prefectural Police. Serizawa claims to be in town to keep tabs on Masaru Watase, Patriarch of the Omi Alliance's Watase Family, who inexplicably travelled to Fukuoka a few days before Daigo's disappearance. He suspects that Watase may have kidnapped Daigo to sabotage the Tojo's alliance with the Yamagasa so he can court the Yamagasa into joining forces with the Omi instead. He warns him that two Tojo soldiers, Morinaga and Aizawa, suspect the same and may make a move on Watase, which could spark a war.
Despite hesitating in intervening, Kiryu seeks out Watase at a local hostess club and confronts him about Daigo's vanishing. Watase recognizes Kiryu and claims that he came to Fukuoka to seek him, not Daigo. Watase is certain that he will be the next chairman of the Omi Alliance and wants to go to war with the Tojo Clan, but he wants the Tojo to be led by somebody he considers a worthy rival: Kiryu. Watase tries to goad Kiryu into a fight, but Kiryu refuses and departs. Outside the club, Kiryu is confronted by Morinaga and Aizawa, who were also seeking Watase. Kiryu tells them that he does not believe Watase is responsible for Daigo's disappearance, but instead that interim Chairman Aoyama is probably behind it, since Watase also revealed that Aoyama had been secretly feeding him information on Kiryu and Daigo's movements prior to his arrival.
The trio travel to the Yamagasa Family headquarters, where Aoyama is meeting with Patriarch Madarame. As it turns out, Kiryu's suspicion was correct. When the group arrives to the meeting room, Aoyama shoots Madarame, his guards and Morinaga. He reveals that he intends to take over the Tojo Clan, go to war with the Yamagasa and take all their territory so they can have enough resources to defeat the Omi Alliance. When more Yamagasa men arrive, Aoyama frames Kiryu for Madarame's shooting and uses this as an opportunity to escape. Kiryu fights the Yamagasa Captain, Yahata, along with all his men, while Aizawa gets Morinaga to the hospital. After escaping from the Yamagasa headquarters, Aoyama sets off a bomb he'd left behind, destroying the building but failing to kill Kiryu, since he'd already escaped.
==Tasks==
*Head for Nagasu Taxi.
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