Murai (村井), born Hoejong Park (박회종, Bak Hoe-jong/朴 会宗, Paku Fejon), is a character featured in Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2. He is a former member of the Jingweon Mafia.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
As an aging person, Murai has a wrinkly face with a large boil on his forehead, graying hair and wearing a pair of glasses. He wears a worn-out vest similar to those worn by the Jingweon agents over a worn-out sweater and a pair of blue track pants.
During his days as a Jingweon agent, he wears an all-black uniform and was bald.
Personality[]
Murai appears as a person who is heavily guilt-ridden, mainly due to him surviving the attack and laying low under a new identity, whilst the other survivors had to fend for themselves, which he considered as a violation to the mafia's "death before dishonor" creed.
Background[]
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Murai was present during the 1980 Jingweon massacre. Originally a Korean named Park Hoejong, he survived after getting shot by Shimano. Some time after the massacre, Kawara and Bessho brought him out of Kamurocho to Osaka following their transfer to the Kansai region, where Bessho changed his name to Murai and became a Japanese citizen.
Involvement[]
Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006[]
Sitting alone in shogi parlor Keima, Murai is greeted by Kaoru Sayama and Kazuma Kiryu. Unpromptedly, Murai begins recounting the story of the 1984 Meijin Match, however begins listening to the two after hearing Tsutomu Bessho's name.
Murai starts recounting the Jingweon massacre after Kaoru questioned about her being a possible child survivor. He tells Kaoru and Kiryu that the massacre happened on Christmas night. At that time, the mafia was celebrating Christmas when Dojima Family launched the attack and left three people including Murai himself. Some time after Kawara and Bessho fled him to Kansai, the Koreans managed to track him and living the rest of his life as a sell-out. Further on, he also told that there were two more survivors: the boss' wife and her child, and that both escaped with Kawara. Kaoru also asks about the person who murdered his then-boss, to which he answers a man who had a moustache, which Kiryu figured it was Kazama, his adoptive father.
Their conversation is cut short after Jingweon mafia operatives raided the place and decided to seek revenge for Murai, whose considered as a deserter to the mafia, leading to a fight between Kiryu and the mafia. After the fight ended, a Jingweon operative threw his combat knife at him, causing abdominal injury. In his final words, Murai revealed about the mafia's "creed" and that he should've followed it before stabbing the knife deeper to his abdomen.
Notes[]
- ↑ The given height of 160 cm (5′ 3″) is based on the character model's scaling factor within Yakuza Kiwami 2's data.[1] For Dragon Engine games, this method is believed to be very accurate (±2 cm). However, this is intended as an estimate, not a substitute for an official statistic.