"You want their stories?" Ichiban shouted, his aura flaring into a vibrant blue. "You gotta win 'em in the dirt! If my 'Dragon-Mobile' beats your 'Oni-Speeder,' you let these uncles go home and finish their shogi games!"

They followed the grunt to a hidden basement beneath an old Mahjong parlor. Inside, they found a room filled with old men—former Yakuza who had retired to the "Gray Zone" of Ijincho. They weren't being tortured; they were being forced to play a high-stakes game of

It turned out "The Collector" was a former Tojo Clan captain who had lost his mind after the Great Dissolution. He couldn't handle a world without ranks and Oykabun, so he was "collecting" the stories of the old guard to write a manual on how to restart the Yakuza from scratch.