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  1. Public Bookmark 15

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    “If you’re going to work for me, I’ll expect you to keep up,” Kiryu declared. “You’re a new recruit, and you’ll have to pull your weight just like everyone else. No special treatment.”

    “I’d never ask you for that,” Daigo protested. He hesitated for a second, then added tentatively, “Aniki.”

    Kiryu screwed his lips into a grimace and stiffened in discomfort at the title. Next to him, Yayoi took another drag in a vain effort to hide her amused smile. Daigo recalled, belatedly, the difficulty with which he’d persuaded the man to call him something other than young master.

    “You haven’t really sworn up yet, so I don’t think…” Kiryu started.

    “Okay, well, I’ll still take whatever jobs you give me, Kiryu-san,” Daigo said.

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    Fresh out of juvenile detention, Daigo Dojima joins the family business.

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    19 Oct 2025

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    It's a long story but here's the quick and dirty version: they have to convince pretty much the whole-ass Kamurocho criminal underworld they're in love and other than two very specific people nobody, absolutely fucking nobody, can know it’s just a bit till the job is done.

    You want the long version, including the part where this whole dumb stunt was Majima’s idea? Kiryu kind of insists that it be made real nice and clear that this was, in fact, Majima’s stupid idea and he just went along with it because he didn’t know what the hell else to try. Which, y’know. Fair enough.

    [In which Majima and Kiryu pretend to be a Thing for family business reasons. With these two, this is easier said than done.]

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    24 May 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 40

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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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    22 Apr 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 68

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    Byleth’s memories before the events of Imperial Year 1180 are vague at best and nonexistent at worse, but he does remember a few things. Once, when he was younger, he had been curious enough to poke around in Father’s things while he wasn’t looking; when Father suddenly called and asked what he was holding, Byleth replied, “A knife,” and then ran off before Father could grab it from him. He has no recollection of what happened after that, only that it probably hadn’t ended well for anyone involved.

    He’s reminded of this now as he holds the training lance behind him, backed up against the wall as he is. “I am not letting you train our child in the lance, for the love of—”

    Byleth, Jeritza, and life after the war.

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    08 Mar 2021

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    Grey Raven goes too far, and the worm turns.

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    04 Aug 2020