THANK YOU
thanks for the plotline. i also get confused. i thought shigure is still alive and was hiding. oh this is just breaking my heart. When Haru said " I love him so much" with tears, I cried too.
Thank you. I'm a bit confused though, how is Yukitaka the legitimate heir and biological son of the head, but Shigure is his older half brother but illegitimate? I thought the older brother who is also a biological son, would have been the heir?
Yeah, the older brother who died is the illegitimate and the younger (Yukitaka) is the heir.
what did they mean by dirty work?
probably killing people or selling drugs ?
In Haru's narration he said Shigure often appeared with darkened eyes, I think just selling drugs wouldn't make him feel like that, he probably killed some people too.
This totally helps explain the relationship between Shiro and Haru.
I have a doubt... Shigure tells Haru about his brother and then we see Haru looking at Shiro. But that doesn’t mean Shiro is Shigure’s brother, right?
Shiro is not Shigure's brother, they're not related in any way
I don't know if it was just me but I couldn't understand a thing about the last updates since I hadn't followed this for some time, I noticed other people couldn't understand either so I skimmed thorough this and MODS to make a guide with the characters and main events, I hope it can be of some help.
This obviously contains spoilers so don't read if you haven't reached chapter 6 yet
《Characters》
Haru: Was a simple lowlife who wanted to leech off a yakuza.
Yukitaka: Biological son of the Ichijou boss and legitimate heir of the group but isn't part of the group yet. Shigure's younger half-brother.
Shigure: Illegitimate son of the Ichijou boss but wasn't part of the group, rumors went around that he did the dirty work .
Shiro: MODS main character. He was working on a brothel as guarantee for his parents' debt but his father took the money he earned and ran away.
Yagami: Ichijou head.
Sasaki: Random yakuza, was Haru's lover.
《Storyline》
- Haru was a Sasaki's plaything and fell in love with Shigure.
- Sasaki got addicted to the drugs he was supposed to sell and ran away, but got caught and was banished.
- Haru joined the Ichijou group and started working under Yagami.
- Shigure was banished even though he wasn't supposed to be a yakuza. In the end, rumors of him doing dirty work were true, he didn't want to receive orders from his father anymore so he cut his own finger and left.
- Shigure started working at a mahjong parlor owned by Yagami.
*3 years later*
- Haru found Shiro (15) and asked Shigure to take care of him.
- Shigure started to get attached to Shiro so he made a promise with him to leave to a different town the next day and live a normal life but got run over by a car next to the meeting place, right before Shiro's eyes.
(It was said Shigure died because he knew too much so maybe he got killed because letting him escape to a different town was a risk to all that valuable information)
(But was it the Ichijou or a different group behind his death????? If it was the Ichijou then that means Shigure got killed by his own father)
- Haru felt guilty because he was the one who took Shiro to Shigure, he wouldn't have tried to run away and died if he never met Shiro and got attached to him.
- Shigure was the only person to ever show Shiro real kindness so his death scarred him deeply, he couldn't stop selling himself and went back to his old life.
(Haru was sleeping when Shigure left so maybe he got insomnia because he couldn't sleep thinking something bad would happen again or because it made him remember what happened and feel guilty)
- Haru saw Yukitaka (15) at Shigure's funeral.
*1 year later*
- Haru searched for Shiro who had disappeared after Shigure's death.
- The group offered Haru the management of a store where Shiro would work as a prostitute. Haru accepted because he couldn't save Shiro but being his pimp was a way to watch over him.
*9 years later*
MODS storyline
*1 year after*
- Yukitaka was required by the group to hide in a non-yakuza's house for a month after afight with another group. Yagami recommended Haru.
- Haru wanted to quit the store and break all ties with the yakuza so Yagami said between the lines that he could if he took Yukitaka in for a month.
- The month didn't end but Yagami said it was time for Yukitaka to return and broke the promise of letting Haru quit the shop and gave him another yakuza business to run instead.