Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan!: Kinuyo and Suzukaze, complete relationship routes
Original PS3 release. Relationship-story spoilers appear in the final-request sections. Use the shared relationship-system guide for heart caps, fees, equipment and intoxication, and the four-minigame guide for the games themselves.
Normal topics appear in a varying order. The numbered lists below are reference entries, not menu positions. Match the current topic and the short Japanese cue within the correct answer. Each listed regular answer gives +1 heart unless a different gain is shown.
KINUYO AT YUMEJIYA
Her session fee is 2,500 Mon. A practical inexpensive order is Blackcurrant Orange Sake with Nori Wasabi Sea Bream Chazuke: 300 Mon in total and +1.5 hearts before conversation. The sake raises intoxication, so switch to neutral Green Tea when you need a sober visit rather than repeating alcohol automatically.
ALL ORDER REACTIONS
Drinks:
• +1: Sugoroku Unrefined Sake.
• +0.5: Blackcurrant Orange Sake, Flaming Shochu, Maiden's Amazake, Snowy Wind Refined Sake, Celebration Sake.
• No change: Green Tea, Orange Water.
• −0.25: Malt Sake.
• −0.5: Amber European Sake.
Food:
• +1: Nori Wasabi Sea Bream Chazuke.
• +0.5: Pickled Vegetables, Boiled Kyoto Vegetables.
• No change: Red and White Manju, Fresh Vegetables, Fruit Serving, Seafood Funamori.
• −0.25: Dried Squid, Broiled Tuna Head.
• −0.5: Sparrow Yakitori.
GIFTS
For +2: Gold Plate, Grid-Pattern Obi or Potted Chrysanthemum.
For +1: Red Hairpin, Princess Kaguya's Comb, Flower-Pattern Incense Burner, Kyoto Women's Sachet, Silver Plate, Gold Comb, Vermillion Hairpin, Rising Dragon Inro, European Cloth, Foreign Coin, Jade Obidome, Tortoiseshell Hairpin, Crane Kimono or Village Tribute.
These are session-gift values. Buying an item during the outing follows the separate date list below. Do not assume a +2 session gift also awards +2 on a shopping date.
ALL 21 REGULAR CONVERSATIONS
1. Being unable to leave Gion after entering its gates: choose the answer about a courtesan's fate. Cue: 宿命.
2. Whether visiting men feel guilty: say they want excitement. Cue: ときめき.
3. Not understanding why men spend money here: describe the district as a dream world. Cue: 夢の国.
4. Difficulty trusting men since her separation: say that discussion is premature. Cue: 気の早い.
5. Customers continually putting visits on their tab: say she is being deceived. Cue: 騙されてる.
6. Not knowing what sort of pretence to use with customers: choose pretending to be pleased. Cue: 喜んでいる.
7. The flat insect that scuttles around: comment on nature in the countryside. Cue: 自然.
8. Autumn leaves reminding her of home: tell her not to keep looking backward. Cue: 昔ばかり.
9. How to make customers happy: become a good listener. Cue: 聞き上手.
10. The kind of woman Kiryu likes: choose a modest woman. Cue: 謙虚.
11. A favourite festival: choose Gion Festival. Cue: 祇園祭り.
12. Kiryu's age: give the joking sixty-year-old answer. Cue: 六十歳.
13. How she should handle other male customers: say this is not a question for Kiryu. Cue: 俺に聞く.
14. A customer becoming angry after a meal: explain that the gesture meant he should leave. Cue: 帰れ.
15. Her family's small-goods business and upbringing: compliment her refined manner. Cue: 品がある.
16. Enjoying mushrooms that make her laugh: acknowledge how much she likes them. Cue: 本当に好き.
17. The verse about a wife's appeal: tell her to forget that verse. Cue: その句.
18. Losing her memory after too much alcohol: say she need not force herself to drink. Cue: 無理に.
19. Asking how to use an unfamiliar item given for lonely evenings: choose the training explanation. Cue: 鍛える.
20. Comparing herself unfavourably with other women: encourage confidence. Cue: 自信.
21. Being teased because she was married: tell her not to worry about it. Cue: 気にするな.
THE THREE MILESTONE CONVERSATIONS
At 11 hearts, she still hopes her former husband might return. Tell her to forget the cold-hearted man. Cue: 薄情. Gain: +1.
At 16, she discusses marrying as her father instructed. Choose the response calling the situation absurd. Cue: 馬鹿げた. Gain: +3. The apparently positive “that was good” response instead loses three hearts, so read this one carefully.
At 20, she reflects on becoming a courtesan because of her husband's behaviour. Choose the answer about irony. Cue: 皮肉. Gain: +2.
THE OUTING
Read the letter from her attendant outside Yumejiya and meet Kinuyo at Gion's main gate. Hatsukaze is a reliable choice: entering gives +1, then a liked meal gives another +1.
Every supported date option is listed here. The number after the venue is its arrival adjustment. Each listed meal or item then adds +1. Restaurant orders are the “for 2” versions.
• Hatsukaze, +1: Rikyu Egg, Egg Iridashi, Clam Meat Rice, Adzuki Rice or Boiled Tofu.
• Koyoro, +0.5: Yama no Sachi Banquet or Ume Banquet.
• Ginya, no change: Futomaki or Mackerel Oshizushi.
• Arigataya, −1: Princess Kaguya's Comb, Grid-Pattern Obi, European Cloth or Kyoto Women's Sachet.
Ginya is a cheaper alternative if you only need a positive meal result. Arigataya's penalty makes it less useful than the preferred dining route. If another woman interrupts, use the encounter list in the shared system guide rather than applying a normal conversation answer.
FINAL REQUEST 1: FIND HER FORMER HUSBAND
With the heart gauge full and the milestone conversations completed, meet Kinuyo at Gion Inari Shrine. She asks you to investigate a man resembling her former husband.
Go to Gion's main gate and approach Tsurumaru while he talks to another courtesan. After he leaves, report to Kinuyo at the shrine. Find him again in the small alley along Nakanomachi, parallel to Gion Street. Let the conversation with the other woman finish, then confront him.
Defeat him and return to Kinuyo. He is a weak opponent, so this is a short fight rather than a reason to buy an expensive combat loadout. The request ends with Complete and awards 2,000 EXP. Read her subsequent letter to finish the follow-up record.
SUZUKAZE AT YUMEJIYA
Her session also costs 2,500 Mon. Orange Water is a neutral nonalcoholic drink; Green Tea loses 0.25. For inexpensive positive orders, Blackcurrant Orange Sake and Red and White Manju total 150 Mon and give +1 heart together. The larger food gain comes from Fruit Serving.
ALL ORDER REACTIONS
Drinks:
• +1: Maiden's Amazake.
• +0.5: Blackcurrant Orange Sake.
• No change: Orange Water, Malt Sake, Amber European Sake, Snowy Wind Refined Sake, Sugoroku Unrefined Sake.
• −0.25: Green Tea.
• −0.5: Flaming Shochu, Celebration Sake.
Food:
• +1: Fruit Serving.
• +0.5: Red and White Manju, Boiled Kyoto Vegetables.
• No change: Pickled Vegetables, Fresh Vegetables, Nori Wasabi Sea Bream Chazuke, Sparrow Yakitori, Broiled Tuna Head.
• −0.25: Dried Squid.
• −0.5: Seafood Funamori.
GIFTS
For +2: Gold Plate or Gold Comb.
For +1: Red Hairpin, Castella, Mechanical Doll, Flower-Pattern Incense Burner, Kyoto Women's Sachet, Gold Candy, Golden Hairpin, Silver Plate, Konpeito, Cherry Blossom Kimono, Vermillion Hairpin, Rising Dragon Inro, Potted Chrysanthemum, Foreign Coin, Jade Obidome, Hina Doll Empress, Tortoiseshell Hairpin, Portuguese Hand Mirror or Village Tribute.
ALL 21 REGULAR CONVERSATIONS
1. Whether Kiryu prefers older women: say age does not decide a woman's appeal. Cue: 年齢. Gain: +2.
2. How often Kiryu visits such establishments: say frequently. Cue: しょっちゅう.
3. Asking for fruit during conversation: postpone it until another time. Cue: 次の機会. This answer differs from the food-menu preference.
4. Having no senior courtesan looking after her: offer to help. Cue: 何とか.
5. Accusing Kiryu of staring: compliment the elegant kimono. Cue: 艶やかな. Gain: +2.
6. The highest courtesan rank: Tayu. Cue: 太夫.
7. Wanting to surpass her mother: encourage further artistic training. Cue: 芸を磨く.
8. Whether Kiryu likes women like her: praise her education. Cue: 教養.
9. Wanting to try the food other customers describe: offer to make it. Cue: 俺が作. Gain: +2.
10. Customers failing to appreciate the arts: agree that few understand them. Cue: 芸を分かる. Gain: +2.
11. What to write in calligraphy: choose 朝雲暮雨. Gain: +2.
12. A wish at the shrine: wish for their connection to continue. Cue: 縁が続き.
13. Kiryu's occupation: ask whether she knows the House of the Dragon. Cue: 龍屋.
14. Thieves targeting courtesans: advise staying safely at the establishment. Cue: 店でおとなしく.
15. Being exhausted with no time to rest: let her sleep here. Cue: ここで寝. Gain: +2.
16. Ten crane-and-turtle heads with 32 legs: four cranes and six turtles. Cues: 四羽, 六匹.
17. Her fondness for roses: praise their soothing scent. Cue: 香り.
18. Kiryu looking tense: admit he is nervous because he is unused to this. Cue: 慣れない.
19. Questions about Kiryu's circumstances: choose being single with money. Cue: 独り身.
20. Bathing before work: say baths are good for health. Cue: 健康.
21. Worrying about a future outside the gates: say Kiryu would not give her that worry. Cue: 心配はさせない. Gain: +2.
THE THREE MILESTONE CONVERSATIONS
At 11 hearts, she describes the feeling she has when seeing Kiryu. Say the feeling is mutual. Cue: 同じ気持ち. Gain: +2.
At 16, she identifies Hinagiku at Azamiya as her sister. Say there must be a reason behind the situation. Cue: 訳がありそう. Gain: +2.
At 20, she asks for Kiryu's serious opinion. Choose the response expressing a wish to be with her. Cue: 俺の女. Gain: +2. Calling her ideal merely as a courtesan is the losing response.
THE OUTING
Receive and read her letter outside Yumejiya, then meet at Gion Inari Shrine. Koyoro is her preferred destination: +1 for entering and +1 for a liked meal. All meals below are for two.
• Koyoro, +1: Yama no Sachi, Ume, Take or Shiko no Zen Banquet.
• Hatsukaze, no change: Boiled Tofu only.
• Ginya, −1: Kabayaki or Steamed Sushi.
• Arigataya, −1: Golden Hairpin, Cherry Blossom Kimono, Portuguese Hand Mirror or Kyoto Women's Sachet.
Hatsukaze's boiled tofu offers a cheaper positive option. At either disliked venue, the listed item merely offsets the arrival penalty, so the preferred route makes progress more straightforward.
FINAL REQUEST 2: INVESTIGATE HER FATHER
After completing her heart and conversation requirements, speak to Yumejiya's owner outside the entrance. He asks about Suzukaze's recent behaviour.
Round the corner to see her giving money to a man. Speak to her after he leaves. Follow the lead to Azamiya, where her father is demanding to see Hinagiku. Confront and defeat him.
You do not need to gather the 100 Ryo he claims to owe. The quest advances through the investigation and fight. The ending gives Complete and 2,000 EXP. Read Suzukaze's follow-up letter, then check her remaining minigame opponents if pursuing those separate completion entries.
Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan!: Kinuyo and Suzukaze, complete relationship routes
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