The player takes control of Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima, alternating between the two every two chapters as their stories unfold. His supervisor offers him the chance to return if he assasinates a horrific thug target by the name of Makoto which Majima accepts.but soon discovers Makoto isn't quite the person he was told they were. Whilst he's extremely skilled at it, he wishes to return to the Shimano Family as a Yakuza instead of merely working in one of their businesses. Goro Majima meanwhile, having survived being tortured for a year, is placed in charge of a caberet club run by the Tojo Clan. Kiryu begins to suspect that one of them is behind his framing, allowing them to also pin the blame of Kiryu's foster father, the current Family Captain Shintaro Kazama and sets out to get to the bottom of the situation. Kiryu also discovers that the lieutenants of the Dojima family have been promised by the Patriarch of the Dojima the position of Family Captain to whichever one gets him that lot. The Dojima family had been trying to acquire that land for the Tojo Clan with plans to sell it on to the city at a massively inflated price, and the murder has complicated the obtainment. The heads of the Dojima Family call him in, and demand he hand himself in to the police as Yakuza killing civilians like this is an unacceptable act, although Kiryu insists he has been framed for murder.ДЄs Kiryu attempts to prove his innocence he discovers that the lot is part of a major redevelopment project by the city and the last untapped piece of land. The man's cause of death was a gunshot to the head.something Kiryu never used in his collection.

After Kazuma Kiryu is requested to collect a debt from a salaryman in an abandoned lot by roughing him up, he wakes up the following day to discover the man who he beat up has died and Kiryu's wanted for murder.

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