Yuki Higashi

일본 최대의 관동 야쿠자 조직 천도회. 천도회 6대 회장으로 추대 된 카즈마는 중진 다테와 쿠라타로 하여금 관료에게 로비하도록 해 카지노 유치에 박차를 가하지만, 관료는 갑작스런 암살로 살해당하고, 다테가 그 누명까지 쓰게 된다. 사건의 배후에 과거 숙적이었던 묘진의 동생 아키나리라는 소문이 돌고, 더불어 판왕회라는 조직은 틈을 타 경찰과 정치인까지 매수해 카지노 이권을 빼앗으려 한다. 살인자라는 오명을 씻고 이권을 되찾기 위한 천도회의 처절한 항쟁이 시작된다.

Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.