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  1. Public Bookmark 37

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    The one where Nishiki goes to jail instead of Kiryu, and nothing was the same.

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    08 Mar 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 22

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    In 2016, a legendary ex-yakuza left his life and his legacy behind and sought to disappear. But what happens when he attracts the interest of three very different, but equally determined, investigators?

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    05 Aug 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    “And here he is,” the priest said cheerfully. “Hanawa-san, allow me to introduce you to—”

    Kazuma Kiryu. Dead in Onomichi with his ashes interred in Naha and his ghost lingering in a temple garden on the outskirts of Yokohama. Darker beneath his eyes, more creased above his brow, brushed with stray hints of white around his temples and down his thick sideburns, clad in a samue instead of a suit, but still unmistakably himself.

    Hanawa took a breath. “Why on earth are you dressed like that?” he demanded.

    “I’m here to free myself from worldly desires,” Kiryu said, turning his gaze back to the garden.

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    A story about a dead man and the ghost in his care.

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    16 Jul 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 39

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    (Major spoilers for the whole mainline series, up to and including Infinite Wealth)

    He thought he knew what a good death looked like. What it was to go out with honor and dignity. It was Kazama on the docks, protecting a child he barely knew with his life. Somewhere deep down, Kiryu had always thought that was how he’d go, too.
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    For a man whose reputation has always been defined by his strength, learning to live without it is its own kind of hell.

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    08 Jul 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 63

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    Spoilers for the entirety of Gaiden and Infinite Wealth

    It had just been back pain, Kiryu thought. Just a weak muscle, expected from all the years of abuse he’d endured. The cough had just been evidence of his bad habit, typical. All old men had back pain; all smokers had a cough. It wasn’t fair that it was anything more than that.

    He briefly thought he should tell someone. That was what people did, right? He didn’t know who he’d tell, and stranger still, he couldn’t ignore the impulse to hoard this death sentence, to keep it all to himself. This was what he’d hoped for more than anything: a way out of limbo. An exit. He’d wanted this — somehow in some form — and yet a small part of him raged against it, furious and afraid of the shape it’d taken.

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    06 Jul 2024