Like a Dragon: Ishin! (2023): The Rest of Rakunai's Substories

Like a Dragon: Ishin! (2023): The Rest of Rakunai's Substories This finishes Rakunai's substory list: 8–17, plus 67 and 68. Some of these introduce friendships. The first encounter completes the substory, but filling the bond afterward is a separate job. 8. THE UNWILLING COURIER Chapter 5. Cross Shijo Bridge toward Gion to collide with the courier. Agree to help and deliver six letters to the marked people before the timer expires. Open the map to plan your next destination instead of running back and forth blindly. Reward: a Gold Seal and 300 Virtue. 9. ENTER THE BLACK PANTHER COURIERS After 8, return to Shijo Bridge. This time you're racing another courier to deliver ten letters around Rakunai. Use the markers and keep moving between nearby recipients rather than crossing the same street repeatedly. Sprint upgrades from the shrine help with these races. Reward: 300 Virtue. 10. THE PANTHERS' LEADING MAN After 9, speak to Makino and Kiyokawa at the northern end of Teramachi Street. Beat Makino in the twelve-letter delivery race. A marker disappears when its delivery is done, so check the remaining markers before doubling back. Reward: 340 Virtue. The courier storyline continues outside Rakunai with substory 24, then 49. Those aren't missing entries in this district's numbering. 11. GLOBAL FRAUD Chapter 3. Talk to the teacher on the road south of Don Quijote in Teramachi and agree to help with the globe lesson. The answers, in order, are: • Japan. • The Great Qing. • Country 4. Correct answers earn European Fabric and 300 Virtue. Repeated wrong guesses can cost the fabric, so save beforehand if you're trying to collect every reward. 12. THE HUNGRY SUMO WRESTLER Chapter 5. Find the wrestler on the ground along South Teramachi Street. Give him food from your inventory. That's the substory finished for 150 Virtue, and his bond begins. Keep food available for later visits if you're also completing friendships. 13. THE LOVE-STARVED HUSBAND Chapter 4, after Another Life opens. Find the man looking out over the river in Teramachi. Bring a meal you cooked at your house and share it with him. A shop-bought meal isn't the homemade food he's asking for. This gives 150 Virtue and opens the bond. Cook several spare dishes while you're home so you don't have to make a separate trip for every visit. 14. THE OBLIVIOUS WOMAN Chapter 4, after Another Life. Look near the palanquin stop on northern Karasuma Street. Talk about her missing purse, then give her a vegetable. You receive a Vitality Pill and 150 Virtue and begin her friendship. Keep returning with vegetables for the bond. 15. THE INJURED GRANDMA From Chapter 3, look along the riverbank in Teramachi near the Rakunai/Rakugai boundary. Help the elderly woman get home. That finishes the substory and gives 150 Virtue. Continue visiting her and helping with her errands for the friendship; you aren't done with the bond just because the quest ended. 16. THE BARKING DOG Chapter 4, after Another Life. Find the dog in the Teramachi alley near Ebisu Pawn Rakunai. Give it a Bone, sold at that nearby pawnshop for 100 mon. The first gift completes the substory for 150 Virtue. Continue the encounters with more bones, then finish the final event to adopt it. 17. THE LUCKY CAT Chapter 4, after Another Life. Check the corner near the Rakunai shrine, just east of its entrance, for a man speaking to a cat. Interact with the cat and give it 1,000 mon to finish the first encounter and begin the bond. Reward: 150 Virtue. The later requests become more expensive, so don't assume that first payment covers the whole adoption. The full pet guide covers the remaining payments and final event. 67. THE SPITFIRE DEBT COLLECTOR Chapter 4, after The Spitfire Town Protector, substory 69. Find Yae outside Kurogane Smithing. Speak to her, watch the scene, then speak again to agree to help. Defeat the six men in the resulting fight. Reward: 3 ryo and 300 Virtue. 68. THE SPITFIRE LIE DETECTOR After 67, leave the area and return to Yae outside Kurogane Smithing. Speak to her and agree to help again. This leads to fights at the gate and inside the building. Bring healing before committing, since the stronger enemies can make this a rougher outing than her previous quest. Reward: 3 ryo and 300 Virtue. The Spitfire order is 69, then 67, then 68. Following the numbers in ascending order won't start her storyline. With these and substories 1–7 finished, all 19 Rakunai entries are covered. The friendships introduced here still need their own follow-up visits for full friendship completion.