yakuza is funny
I've been playing 4, just got to the Taiga Saejima part. His whole backstory is that he murdered 18 goons from a rival yakuza family in a ramen shop in order to secure the future of his boss. Seemingly abandoned by his friend Goro Majima, he does it all alone. Goes to jail for 20 years for it.
Anyway he busts out of a secret private prison off the coast of Okinawa and makes his way back to Tokyo to find his old boss. He manages to find his way to the secret underground red light district run by The Florist. Florist says he'll tell you where your old boss is but only if you fight in a brutal deathmatch, which you do but then refuse to actually finish the job and then break down crying in front Tokyo's elite class.
Afterwards the Florist tells you that actually it was a test and you weren't supposed to kill the other guy, meaning that he was totally willing to let you kill another man just so he could call you a psycho. Then he brings in your old boss, who has been homeless for 15-20 years and is, as they describe, lacking all consciousness. However, Saejima is overjoyed to seem him anyway and cries his eyes out again, which manages to make his old boss recognize him and they embrace.
One of the many heartwarming tales in Yakuza. Comitting the worst mass shooting in modern Japanese history for nothing because you really believe in your crime boss.