Yakuza 7: Dragon of Judgement

Yakuza 7: Dragon of Judgement is a action role-playing game for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC and PlayStation 5.

The main protagonist of this story is Ichiban Kasuga and Takayuki Yagami.

## Synopsis

### Setting

Yakuza 7: Dragon of Judgement is base around Shinjuku Shibuya Yokohama and Osaka

#### Prologue

In 1971, the Araboshi-za traveling theatre troupe performs a show in Yokohama to rave reviews. The cast's young star, Masumi Arakawa, gets taken out to dinner at a Chinese restaurant by his father, Toshio Arakawa, in order to get away for a while from his adulterous, abusive wife, Yasuko Arakawa. However, when Masumi goes to the bathroom during the meal, Toshio is ambushed and killed by a yakuza assassin.

Years later In 2003 Ichiban Kasuga is a member of the Arakawa Family, a Tojo Clan subsidiary led by Masumi Arakawa; who is also like a father to Kasuga, since he raised him after his original foster father died. On New Year's Eve, Kasuga and his friend Mitsuo Yasumura are doing collections work in Kamurocho for the family and, despite collecting enough money to meet their quota from a con-artist and from an indebted construction worker, Kasuga's good nature compels him to give the money back to the con man's victims and to give the worker a loan extension.

The same evening, Kasuga takes his boss' son, Masato Arakawa, who uses a wheelchair, to a small party at the hostess club where his girlfriend Yumeno works. Masato and Kasuga had been close friends when they were younger, but Masato has grown distant in the past years and resents Kasuga having to chauffeur him around because of his disability. Nonetheless, the pair enjoy a good time at the New Year's Eve celebration, until the night's mood is soured when they discover that Yumeno is cheating on Masato with Juro Horinouchi; an older man who serves as a high-ranking officer in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

Later, Kasuga returns to the Arakawa Family office, where he's berated and beaten by the family Captain, Jo Sawashiro, for his failure to meet his collection quota. Ultimately Kasuga is spared punishment at Patriarch Arakawa's insistence; who decides to take him out for dinner to thank him for taking his son out earlier. During their night out, Arakawa tells Kasuga the story of how his son ended up disabled: In 1980, Arakawa was dating a soapland girl named Akane despite his patriarch's disapproval. The two had a son together but; on the night Akane gave birth, Arakawa's family found out and put out a kill order on both of them. Akane managed to flee the hospital with their child, but realized that she was being followed. She briefly shook off her pursuers and put her baby into a coin locker to keep him hidden, after which she called Arakawa and told him where to find him, so he could get their baby while she evaded the yakuza. Arakawa found their son in the coin locker, but not before he'd become ill from his time in the cold metal box. After getting him treatment, his son survived, but ended up disabled. Despite this, Arakawa's family captured and killed Akane, after which Arakawa massacred them in retaliation.

Kasuga and Arakawa spend the rest of the night together until the year ends, after which they go their separate ways. The following morning, when Kasuga goes to the family office, Patriarch Arakawa gives him some bad news: Apparently Captain Sawashiro has murdered a member of the rival Sakaki Family. Since the Sakaki hold a higher-rank within the Tojo Clan than the Arakawa, the murder of one of their officers by an Arakawa officer could mean the dissolution of the family. To prevent this, Arakawa begs Kasuga to take the blame for the murder and go to jail in Sawashiro's place. Though hesitant, Kasuga ultimately agrees. The following day, Kasuga turns himself into the police and confesses to the murder.

13 years later in 2016 lawyer Takayuki Yagami works at the Genda Law Office for his foster father, Ryuzo Genda. He has recently become a small-time celebrity in Tokyo after his successful defence of Shinpei Okubo at a criminal trial where he'd been accused of murdering senile hospital patient Koichi Waku. Unfortunately, a month after Okubo's acquittal, he is arrested once again, having apparently murdered his girlfriend, Emi Terasawa, and burnt down their apartment. Ashamed for having helped a murderer avoid prison, Yagami quits the legal profession.

#### Chapter 1

Three years later, in 2019, the Shinjuku District Kamurocho is terrorized by a serial killer who murders yakuza and gouges out their eyes, having already killed three men in said fashion. Yagami has started working as a private detective alongside his best friend; Masaharu Kaito, a former member of the Matsugane Family. Working on case collect debt from a horse racing detective.

Meanwhile Kasuga spends 15 years in prison for the murder and he gets expelled from the Arakawa Family on orders from Clan headquarters. In all those years he was behind bars, Patriarch Arakawa only got in contact once by sending him a letter in 2016. In 2019, Kasuga is released from prison and, much to his surprise, nobody from the family is there to greet him at the prison gates. Instead, the only person awaiting him is a Detective from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police named Koichi Adachi. The Detective requests Kasuga's help on an investigation, but the yakuza refuses.

Kasuga visits the grave of the man he allegedly killed to pay his respects, he happens to see Patriarch Arakawa arrive with a large retinue of men. Kasuga tries to get the patriarch's attention but Arakawa ignores him and his guards drive him away. Kasuga is then shocked to see that Arakawa is visiting the grave of a dead Omi Alliance chairman. He is even more shocked when Adachi; who had followed him, explains that a year prior the Arakawa Family had betrayed the Tojo Clan by informing on their businesses to the police; allowing the cops to essentially dismantle the Clan and either arrest or drive into exile most of its leaders or defected to the Omi while other switch side with the Shinryuji Clan after the Tojo collapsed. Once the Tojo had collapsed, the Arakawa Family and several others Tojo Clan members joined the Omi Alliance and the Omi took over Tokyo. The reason behind Arakawa's betrayal is unclear, but most people believe it is connected to the sudden death of his son Masato a few years prior. Kasuga initially does not believe Adachi but, after doing some digging around Kamurocho, he realizes that the Detective was telling him the truth.

Adachi tells Kasuga that he believes that his old boss and current Commissioner of the TMPD; Juro Horinouchi, took bribes to allow the Omi to move into Tokyo unhindered, so he wants Kasuga to help him investigate the Arakawa Family to find proof of this. Ichiban refused unable to contain shocked over revelations. Ichiban wandered around in Kamurocho where he encounter some Omi Yakuza harassingly the civilian Ichiban intervene where he encounter Takayuki Yagami. Eventually after dealt with the Yakuza Ichiban introduce himself Yagami. When Ichiban learned that Yagami is Detective.