Episode 20: PIT VIPER | DURRUN by Aito Kitazaki　

Episode 20

The Mamushi-gumi empty the restaurant row and set a single table in the square. Gejirow has called a meeting and does not like being kept waiting by a gang he thinks lives off protection money, until Southern corrects him: the fishing trade in CHOFU bay is theirs now, and it pays. Business, not a hobby. Try learning some. Gejirow swings a pipe at him for that. Then the young head arrives barefoot with a sword in his hand, tells them the price for interrupting a sacred rite is enormous, sits down and asks what all this is about a Fuser. That the man is not excited insults Gejirow, who wants a monster on their side so that Yamori’s dogs stop mattering, and swears this one is stronger than Abarashi — he has fought it. Nishiki saves his heat for the day he trades lives with a Fuser. He also names the wound underneath: everything Abarashi took, now aimed at Abarashi’s old boss. The age of the yakuza is over, he says; only the GEJI-GUMI are still haunting it. Join the Tousei-kai. Gejirow breaks the table instead. Nishiki points out that Janga has already been excommunicated, that touching the chairman makes it a political crime, and that he would then have to move himself. Turn back while you can. Elsewhere Soujun is disappointed by how safe CHOFU looks, and Yu-ri remembers being forbidden to come here at all. Later, smoke rises over the restaurant row.