[ Sitting here with one Sakamoto Ryouma is getting more surreal by the moment. Nothing could have prepared Akiyama for the reality of how ... interesting ... he is. He leans back, his eyebrow quirked. ]

I'm always here to talk business if you need it. I usually need some help running the kind of projects I do. [ Read: he cannot be arsed to do anything unless he's literally forced to do it. ] And as far as the yakuza go, I'm familiar.

[ He shrugs. ]

I live and work around them all the time. Not a part of them, but I know how to make peace with them and work on their terms. If you don't work on their terms, you should be ready for a nasty end...Can't imagine that's different here.