Last Night The Long Good-Bye

**Last Night The Long Good-Bye** is the fourteenth, and the penultimate chapter of Racing Lagoon.

Being the penultimate chapter, it is the last night where the player can roam freely (except the player is no longer allowed to go to the Bay Lagoon complex); however, the player can return to this chapter during Final Night The End of Sweet Dream to return to free roaming, should the player lost any of the story races there (or if the player has completed it, as loading a completed save returns the player to the final race).

Additionally, while Wangan and C1 is accessible in this chapter, it plays no role in the storyline, except for purposes of completing unofficial races as well to obtain high-rarity parts and items from racers there.

## Synopsis

### Opening and Hakone

The chapter opens with Kenzo Yamada being found injured after he was beaten up by WON-TEC personnel. Yamada had managed to deliver Akasaki's car to allow him to escape WON-TEC headquarters, and notified him that the organization had kidnapped everyone to the Bay Lagoon Tower for a new D-Project experiment, although they spared Yamada as he was deemed unworthy for their project. No longer having a phone of his own, he had to use Yamada's phone to call in ambulance for him, while he had to go to the tower as soon as possible. From outside, Won Lee and Heidel Schneider remarked that the company is still monitoring for Akasaki's tracks, having escaped from the headquarters after a long lecture about Diablo following the Darkness GP.

Heading to Hakone, he spotted the Hakone Drift Dancers hanging out at Heaven's Hill, where Genji Kato and Keiichi Kinoshita confronted Akasaki for a final battle:

* If the player chooses to call out Miharu Koguchi, Genji will first tell the player of the Scene Skip feature (accessible by pressing Start during repeatable cutscenes). Then, Koguchi will ask if he came here for a wisdom, as the two flee; Koguchi would then reveal that he has is in relationship with Kyoka Shiina, and will describe their interactions with each other, as well as professing his love for her to Akasaki. This continues even after Koguchi and Akasaki raced each other.
* If the player chooses to battle Kato and Kinoshita, the two will reveal that they likes to mess with Koguchi when they're not racing. After the race, they will welcome Akasaki to battle them as much as he wants.

Akasaki also made one more visit to Manabu Oda at the Holy Grounds, where Oda felt that every night or morning could be his final day of his life, using this as a justification for him to keep racing, having unable to quit it. He then Invites Akasaki to a race that, according to Oda, could be his last race. (Like the race against the Drift Dancers, this race is infinitely repeatable.) At Tuneshop Windy, Kuniteru Takahashi tells him about Oda's illness (hence why he felt his race could be his last) from his wife through a letter from her; Takahashi implied that Oda did not disclose this to him, with enraged him; nonetheless, he noted that he, at the very least, still has something for him, before asking Akasaki if he wants to race against him after the conversation drained his drunkenness.

At the Hashiriya's Village, a local street racer offered to trade decals against Akasaki, who asked for a race in order to do so. The racer expected to see him race as a crowd, showing that local racers at Hakone are starting to respect him. Although there was ultimately no race against each other, he noted that he would like to visit the village after he finished his struggle.

### Yokohama

Back at Yokohama, the new GS Milage employee mentions how her job allows her to met street racers in spite of poor pay. (If the player saves here, she will mention that she would like to take a ride with Sho someday.) At the Marine Tower, a WON-TEC limousine pulls by Akasaki and offers him races against John Truth or Forza Rush at the Bay Lagoon Short (the player can also race against the limo driver, named Shuei, instead; additionally, Get Rewards are enabled for these races).

Between races, Akasaki paid a visit to Johnny's, reflecting his times with Yoko Mihara, both at the restaurant and as racers, as well as how the place celebrated during the Yokohama GP races (despite what happened to him, as the race winner, following the Grand Prix, and with most of the visitors being unaware of the true nature of the event), and how the racers who were hanging out there were hunting for a dangerous game, the Diablo-Zeta, nights prior. At the hospital, he spotted Yamada's car being towed there and noted that he has his own decal that he would put on his car the day he leads BLR (this item can be claimed on the player's first visit there) - while noting that what he could do right now is to prevent the collapse of the team.

At the Cosmic Bigwheel, Akasaki reflects on his meetings with Yuka Suzuki here, as well it being the location where Fujisawa gave his 86-Lev to him, how the Yokohama GP allowed the team to move on from the Makoto Sawaki's eventually fatal accident, and how that he has dodged every attempt for a serious talk with her, as well as he describing the Ferris wheel as the city's guardian. At the Ancient Bay, to his non-surprise, he saw his past self against the backdrop of the city in the past, when Bay Lagoon was under construction; however, he noted that his past self acted unusually gentle as he described the past, including how and why he raced at the Bay Lagoon until the street racers called him "the fastest ever was", as well as telling him to believe that time could flow backwards and that reality could be transcended through memories.

Akasaki arrived at the Bay Lagoon Tower complex, where Nanako Aoyama tells her why there she is being surrounded by WON-TEC's men in black. Aoyama tells that she met the corporation's officials during the Yokohama GP afterparty, where she introduced to them as UOR organizer due to her team's money problems. During the encounter, she was given a business card by Truth, while also knowing the shady reputation surrounding the company; she was subsequently tasked to encourage Akasaki to win unofficial races until he was designated Yokohama's Fastest (the storyline explanation for the requirements to unlock the Final Night); she also tells that street racers around city loved and frenzied themselves into trying to beat him, while telling that the suits want to see Akasaki return to his "old" self.

* If the player has not met the ranking requirement, any further visit to Bay Lagoon will simply trigger the UOR menu.
* If the player has met the requirements and proceeds to the final chapter (Aoyama will warn the player to save the game before proceeding, while the game will give the player two chances for confirmation; the first chance is also a chance to enter the Bay Lagoon UOR menu), WON-TEC officials will kidnap Akasaki to the Bay Lagoon Tower as their final hope, while dismissing Aoyama from her job, ending the chapter. Rush will also tell a WON-TEC guard that he could take Akasaki's car as they confiscate it.