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Yui's birth
Yui Tachibana is born. -
Ichiro Vitalis' birth
Ichiro Vitalis Sana is born.
Son of the yakuza leader and an italian beauty, his mother has a rough character contrasting his father.
Both parents were 24 at the time of his birth, combined with the rising of the yakuza against the Japponese Empire, he had no one to raise him.
He inherited his father's personality and character and his mother's crushing presence alongside her morals. -
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Ichiro and Kenji
Kenji is Ichiro's younger brother, with a 8 year age gap, Vitalis has to raise him. He couldn't give him a proper life but at least he gave him clothes, a home and food. The kid lived with Vitalis in a abandoned house.
Vitalis joined the yakuza at the age of 15, aiming for the Gambler's Dice. During a dispute between groups, one of the opposite group went and killed Kenji.
Vitalis' mental health was already at the lowest, his now dead brother made him a resentful person.
Kenji was very sweet. -
Eiko
Eiko Song is born.
Orphan. -
Ryoma's birth
Ryoma Tachibana is born within the Tachibana Household, alongside his twin, Kohaku Tachibana.
Yui keeps Ryoma and accepts his middle name Durante.
Kohaku is given up to their father Vitalis, since twins are bad luck and Vitalis isn't married to Yui.
Kohaku adopts the new name given by Vitalis as Kohaku Donatello Sana.
Ryoma inherits Vitalis' character, personality and crushing presence. Only inherited the face from Yui,
Kohaku inherited Yui's character and faint presence. Looks like Vitalis. -
Vitalis becomes The Gambler's Dice chief
Every 7 years there's a competition for the ownership of the yakuza gambling and prostitution spot The Gambler's Dice.
It lasts 4 weeks and the last one standing is the winner.
After this victory, Vitalis achieved 2 (1988 and 1995) more victories, becoming the chief who has lasted the longest on the seat. -
Yanshi's birth
Hua Yanshi is born, how? Who? No one knows.
The birth date was inscribed on the sheets.
Probably born on a brothel and given up by the lady. -
Akira "Father" comes
Yui marries Akira Tokugawa (a prince of the Japanese empire), ever since he met Ryoma, became very attentive of him, taught him various things and gifted him books.
He seemed like a good man. -
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Akira's abuse
Akira starts harassing Ryoma, after some time he goes beyond the line and eventually rapes him.
This goes on until Ryoma gets taken away by Vitalis after Yui's death.
Only Kohaku and Kigiku knew about it. -
Kigiku's birth
Ryoma and Kohaku's younger half sister.
Daughter of Boogie Man and Yui.
Has the same peaceful presence as her father, a copy of her mother. -
Vitalis again is the chief of the Gambler's Dice
No explanation needed.
This GDSC ended earlier than expected. -
Yui's death
During Vitalis visit to the Tachibana Household after participating on the GDSC (which finished on 12/8/95), Yui Tachibana gets killed in front of Ryoma and Vitalis.
Vitalis takes full custody of Ryoma, then he learns what Akira has been doing to the kid. Death threatens him. -
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Gambler's Dice
Ryoma works here, meets Yanshi who just came.
Also meets Eiko.
Yanshi and Ryoma were taken care by Vitalis. -
Ryoma goes to Shooto
After disappearing for nearly a month, Ryoma is taken to the Shooto by a friend of his father.
He participates on the Sword Demo and Judo Classifications.
Second and Fourth place. -
Ryoma dies on the Tachibana Clan's Castle.
Ryoma goes to the biannual Tachibana Clan ability showcase to participate.
Grappling with Akira, he gets killed due to the fracture of the C-5 to C-7 vertebrae.
Ryoma had signed a contract in which he was able to gain a partially physical body if he was willing to keep on living.
Akira and Kigiku dismember Ryoma's body to hide evidence, this results as Ryoma having the marks on his new body, similar to a Edo criminal punishment tattoos (but on neck, ankles, wrists and other joints). -
New York's Auction Event
Ryoma goes to New York as Vitalis' son, a high-relevance guest.
Meets some politicians and mafia members. -
Ryoma disappears
Ryoma went to an auction with Eiko, she mentally tortures him, managing to have non-consensual sex with him (he was the one who paid everything). He ran away totally drunk. While running away meets Yanshi.
Yanshi couldn't take him to where he was staying so he left him at a hotel. -
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Yu Hua Shichang
Ryoma and Yanshi stay at Yu Hua four months.
Yanshi is a disciple of the Yu Hua Palace.
Yu Hua Shichang is China's number one commercial island, widely known for its refined jade and spiritual stuff.
Ruled by the Yu Hua Palace, who instructed Taoist nen users (known on Yu Hua as Daoshi).
Yu Hua Shichang translates as Jade Flower Market and it's an unrecognized country from Azian Continent.
Technically, it is impossible to enter legally Yu Hua Market. -
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Ryoma and Yanshi living together
They began living together, Ryoma lived during night and Yanshi during day.
This didn't stop them from spending their entire free time together.
Ryoma was awake from 6 p.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Yanshi was from 7 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Ryoma usually came home at 9 a.m. to go and do groceries with Yanshi, before 12 a.m. they would spend time together and then do their stuff (like going to work and sleeping). -
Ryoma and Yanshi's marriage
After arriving to Yanshi's country, Ryoma is curious about marrying.
Yanshi arranges a marriage for both of them, the two benefit.
Ryoma tells Yanshi he is his everything (literally or figuratively?) , it is pretty convenient for the both of them to share goods since Ryoma doesn't plan on living much.
A small and private wedding. -
Ryoma is chosen Wakagashira
Ryoma eventually returns to Japan to take his place on the Yakuza. He actually returns by the time the Kira (where Vitalis is the now Oyabun [boss]) family are making the Lieutenants elections. He is chosen as the Wakagashira [First Lieutenant] due to his reliability.
He now has to do dirty jobs such as manage the drug traffic, extortion and criminal execution.
He's also the one who has the meetings with the Saiko-komon, Shingiin and Kaikei [administrator(s), law advisor(s) and accountants]. -
Vitalis gets beheaded, Ryoma "dies"
During the Gambler's Dice's Septenium Competition (GDSC), a fire breaks, killing nearly everyone, Ryoma beheads Vitalis and dies on the spot. -
Keigo is born
As a result from the trauma, Keigo is born.
Keigo (aka K) is another personality that lives in Ryoma's body.
As he hooks up with Yanshi, Ryoma re awakens.
He gets furious with Keigo. -
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Eiko kidnaps Ryoma and Keigo
She passes as Keigo's lover and takes him to live with her, she doesn't control him completely so Keigo hooks up with Yanshi. Ryoma re awakens and threatens Eiko, making her run away. -
Yanshi returns to Yu Hua Shichang
40 days pass by after Ryoma's death, Yanshi arranged all of the paperwork left by Ryoma and decides to go back to his country.
During this 40 days, Yanshi hooks up with a guy named Keigo, who looks just like Ryoma, but has an opposite personality. -
Yanshi returns to Japan to recover Ryoma's corpse.
The news about Ryoma's death spread like hot oil. This eventually leads to the place Ryoma's body is. The Kira family doesn't wait and go to the Tachibana Clan's Castle to recover Ryoma. From the pressure Kigiku admits what happened and Akira is executed by the Kira family.
Yanshi was with the Kira family and he silently retreats with Ryoma as the other two parties were arguing.
He takes back the body to Yu Hua. -
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Ryoma is brought back to life on Yu Hua Shichang
Yanshi in despair brings back Ryoma to Yu Hua, his soul and body (he convinced Keigo when he was about to leave). The two of them arrive and immediately go to the Yu Hua Temple. Yanshi's elder takes care of it. "I can do it, but I need Keigo to come in with me, he will dissipate". Keigo says goodbye to Yanshi and the elder alongside Keigo go into the Hall of Life and Death.
They don't come out until august 2004. -
Ryoma breathe life into
After being practically a ghost for nearly four years, Ryoma is brought back to life by Yanshi's elder.
"Your neck is broken, please don't move" says Yanshi as he laughs and lays his head on Ryoma's chest "I've missed you, a lot."
After Ryoma recovered, they sold their penthouse and vacation home to buy another one in Japan.
Ryoma eventually returns to his old work to keep up on with Yanshi's spoiled lifestyle.
Before Ryoma didn't spent that much time with Yanshi, now he does. -
Ryoma meets Sook-Yong
Ryoma is commissioned to kill a certain target: Eiko Song. He massacres her (and an article about it is written later [The most violent murder of the decade]).
Eiko on her deathbed asks Ryoma to sign papers for Sook-Yong, as she is their biological daughter.
Ryoma signs and is now Sook-Young's tutor. -
Tachibana's Hall Massacre
Ryoma, Kigiku and Yasunari reunite to formally dismember the Tachibana Clan. During a hall dance, in which the host is the infamous Kentaro Tachibana, to greet some new members and create new bonds with companies or important people.
At 4:00 AM, Ryoma enters the room, being followed by Kigiku and Yasunari. He raises a toast in the name of the Tachibana Clan.
Yasunari jumps in and beheads Kentaro.
The three of them kill every single person on that room. -
Roma retires from the Yakuza
After committing a genocide, Ryoma stops to think what he should do with a daughter. He decides to buy a land back in Japan's south, moving in with his daughter and Yanshi shortly after quitting the yakuza.
He works with the rice field ladies, helping them to sell, after a while the government asks him if he would like to work with them as a hitman, very good payment, Ryoma agrees. Yanshi is living between the city and the rice fields, he makes his comeback onto the martial art association. -
Incrocio
The storyline involving Kigiku and Kohaku called Incrocio takes place here.
During Kigiku's 19th birthday celebration she is taken to one of the most famous Host Club in Japan. She is taken by a masked man (around 25 years old).
The rest is history.