THE LEGEND OF THE YOSHIMI

» How the Manji clan got its grove

Joseph Astana
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As the Mishima Zaibatsu had hosted it, they

were enjoying the most prominent windfalls.

However, all of the fighters who participate
were enjoying various gains as well. For the
Manji clan and their leader, Yoshimitsu, this
meant a temporary reprieve from the life of
international thievery. But the clan didn’t
rest, instead, they quickly found themselves
engaged in debauchery and chicanery.
What had become a favorite party trick
of the leader—drunkenly flying around
using the high rotation speed of his robotic
hand—quickly became a problem when
he began to use it to escape bar tabs and
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and several tickets made it so that few bars
would even seat the clan, let alone serve
them drinks. Yoshimitsu and the Manji clan
needed a new way to party.

So as any good band of thieves would
do, they began hatching a plan. They
needed a place where they wouldn't get
caught or kicked out of, and it had to be
somewhere so unlikely that the place would
forever be remembered in connection to
them. They settled on the ruins of the
Mishima Dojo after much deliberation;
who could expect such a place would be
desecrated by the Manji’s?

But they had to do something about
Heihachi who, paranoid at both his son
and his grandson's attempts to kill him,
had taken to sleeping there. And so, the
plot thickened; Heihachi, would have to be
removed, but how? He would not rise toa
bump in the night without preparing for a

fight, and he wouldnt likely be lured out
using a honeypot either. It would take both
cunning and ingenuity.

So, drawing on their decades of
experience breaking into the most tightly
guarded places, a plan was hatched. A hole
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missing pieces were carefully reassembled so
that they could quickly and quietly removed
by the ninja group. Also, his tatami mat was
laid over a net; when the hour struck, the
Manjji’s would lift the roof out of the way,
close the net, and hand it to Yoshimitsu who
would fly off with the struggling Zaibatsu
head before depositing him in the bed of a
truck to be driven even further still.

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To be continued...

They needed a place where they wouldn't get caught or kicked out of, and it had to be
somewhere so unlikely that the place would forever be remembered in connection to them.