Yakuza 5/Part 4 Chapter 1

Abandoned Glory (, Suteta Eikō) is the first chapter of Part 4 of Yakuza 5, and the 13th chapter overall.
==Plot==
In 1997, Tatsuo Shinada makes his debut as a major league baseball player for the Nagoya Wyverns, playing against the Tokyo Gigants. He is placed up to bat against his long time minor league rival, Yuki Sawada. Against all odds, Shinada hits a homerun on Sawada's last pitch, winning the game for his team. The next day, however, while Shinada signs autographs for fans, he is arrested on suspicion of being involved in game fixing and illegal gambling. Though he is eventually cleared of all charges, he is banned for life from professional baseball and his mentor, Coach Fujita, is forced to resign in shame as the team's manager.
In 2012, Shinada barely scrapes by a living as an adult entertainment writer in Nagoya and is heavily in debt to multiple people; including Koichi Takasugi, a loanshark with connections to the mysterious yakuza who run the city, the Nagoya Family. The only people from his baseball days whom he still keeps in touch with are his teammate, Atsushi Sakai, and the team's massage therapist, Uno, whom Shinada is also indebted to. Coach Fujita refused to ever see him again after the scandal and retired from baseball altogether until recently, when he was suddenly made the new manager of the Tokyo Gigants.
On collection day, Shinada desperately needs money. He gets an interview out of his on-again off-again girlfriend; local sex worker Milky, after he helps her brother get out of trouble with Kubota; his boss in Kubota Security. However, the money he gets for publishing the interview is immediately confiscated by Takasugi, who'd been following Shinada to get his interest payments. Desperate for food, Shinada turns to his friend, restaurant owner Fumiya Ushijima. Ushijima offers to give Shinada some leftovers, but only if he can get a prize voucher from the local batting center for him. Though Shinada manages to win the prize vouchers, Takasugi confiscates those as well, threatening Shinada with sending Nagoya Family goons after him.
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