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"I’m Yamcha, and I’m the king of this desert. Tell all your friends. Tell them if they enter my kingdom, they’re gonna meet me – and they’re gonna end up just like you. If you’re calling for some backup, have them bring their own body bags." |
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| ヤムチャ, Yamucha | |
| Detailed Information: | |
| Appearances: | Chasing Oblivion Bonetown Blues |
| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | Male |
| Birthplace: | South City |
| Birthdate: | Age 733 |
| Date of Death: | n/a |
| Birth Power Level: | 0.0001 |
| Maximum Power Level: | 9 |
| Personal Pronouns: | 俺 |
| Height: | 5'11" |
| Weight: | 150 lbs |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Eye Color: | Black |
| Rank: | Bandit, King of the Desert (self-proclaimed) |
| Organizations: | Wolfe's Wings (Age 747-748) |
| Favorite Food: | Hard-baked soba |
| Favorite Vehicle: | Mighty Mouse |
| Hobbies: | Grappling, baseball |
| Family: | Puar (best friend) Junichi (friend) Lychrel (friend) Wolfe (boss) |
Yamcha (ヤムチャ, Yamucha) is a human bandit living in the Diablo Desert. He is the protagonist of Chasing Oblivion.
History[]
Yamcha's father was a famous baseball player. He carried around a ball he watched his father hit a home run with throughout Chasing Oblivion. He was raised by his mother, though she spent most of her time earning a living in a South City whorehouse. At some point, he met Junichi and Lychrel, becoming a petty criminal in their small group.
Chasing Oblivion[]
In chapter 1, Yamcha was introduced as a bandit working with Junichi and Lychrel in Diablo Desert. The three of them attacked a hovervan full of expensive saké with rocket launchers. After confronting the deliveryman, Junichi killed the man and stole all the saké. The three of them spent the afternoon getting wasted before Wolfe and his Wings showed up, claiming the rare haul for themselves. Wolfe offered to let them join his bandit gang, and while Yamcha and Lychrel were quick to do so, Junichi only reluctantly agreed to, though he grew angry at his friends' betrayal. Wolfe, seeing no other recourse, then performed a Wolf Fang Fist on Junichi, killing him, and leaving his body for the vultures.
Yamcha was later part of the group led by Sallow Saul who went on a bandit raid, looking to shoot down a plane full of treasure and other assorted valuables. Before the plane arrived, Saul questioned Yamcha about his origins, but the boy only gave him vague replies. The group shot down the wrong plane. The plane had been carrying members of a rival gang. Fearing Wolfe's reaction to what they had accidentally done, two bandits committed suicide, and another pair fled, though they were shot down by Sallow Saul before they could escape. The rest, including Yamcha, bravely returned to Wolfe's hideout to tell him what had happened. Before he followed the rest back, however, Yamcha found an ornate sword amongst the plane wreckage and decided to bring it back with him.
In chapter 2, Yamcha, along with Akkan, Saul, and the unnamed necrophile, was brought before Wolfe to relay the information about what had happened to the Night Snakes' plane. Wolfe then became visibly enraged and killed Saul, Akkan, and the unnamed necrophile with a pistol. Yamcha pleaded for his life, but when that didn't work, he showed the man the sword he had found amongst the wreckage of the Night Snakes' plane. A visibly gleeful Wolfe took the blade, telling Yamcha that it was the Azure Dragon Sword and had belonged to Jorack, one of the Night Snakes bosses. He told Yamcha that the blade was worth more than anything in his hideout and that he had always wanted it. As a result of bringing him the blade, Yamcha was spared and allowed leave.
Fearful and not sure what had just happened, Yamcha ran out, eventually running into Lychrel in her room. He became visibly distraught at the sight of her near-naked body (she was in the process of changing clothes). Lychrel then gave Yamcha advice, telling him to hide his fear from the others lest they prey on him. She also told him he needed to start acting tougher if he wanted to survive. At the end of the first scene, Yamcha thought back to his memories of Junichi and Lychrel with melancholy, and decided he would have to become more selfish if he wanted to survive.
Later, Yamcha was part of the detachment with Silver Snead sent to patrol the Diablo Desert. They stole goods and valuables from several travelers in the desert. After stealing a diamond necklace from a poor passerby, Jess kissed Yamcha on the lips (much to the boy's astonishment). Afterwards, he participated in the battle against the Chàoxing Gon yakuza. Yamcha mostly cowered in the car as the rest of the bandits fought the yakuza, however. He was one of eight bandits to survive firefight though, and later helped Silver Snead, Wheatty, and Rico dig up the yakuza's buried money. When one yakuza they had assumed was dead suddenly attacked them, shooting Wheatty and taking Yamcha hostage, Snead calmly killed the man with a sniper shot to the back of the head (though the man's dying shot took Rico in the neck, killing him too). He and Yamcha were the only two thought to have survived the encounter, and thus it was up to them and them alone to load the money onto the truck.
Later in the chapter, Ren visited Yamcha while he was doing the dishes, and the two discussed baseball after the girl found Yamcha's own baseball. He revealed to her that his father had once been a professional baseball player and had hit that ball out of the park in a home run to win a game several years ago. Ren told him about the time she had caught a foul ball at a game. The two had fun sharing stories until Silver Snead appeared and demanded Yamcha follow him to Wolfe's quarters. On the way over, Snead told Yamcha that Wheatty would live (having only sustained moderate bullet damage from the yakuza) much to Yamcha's relief. Wolfe then told the group of bandits he had assembled - Snead, Yamcha, Lychrel, Pacheko, and Rheems - that they were going to assassinate King Furry's Captain of the Guard by blowing up the House of the Blue Lotus. Snead questioned Wolfe, but Wolfe threatened to kill him if he said another word, so everyone then agreed to perform the mission to their best ability.
In chapter 3, Yamcha went to South City with Silver Snead, Lychrel, Pacheko, and Rheems to assassinate King Furry's Captain of the Guard. On the street, he was given a flier for the Shapeshifting Academy by a strange leprechaun-looking man. When Yamcha began to freak out upon noticing the topless dancers inside the House of the Blue Lotus, Snead ordered Lychrel to get the boy under control or he would kill him. While this was happening, Yamcha revealed that he had once lived with his mother in a whorehouse like the House of the Blue Lotus for four years. Lychrel was barely able to calm him down eventually, though she refused to give the boy a handjob, which was Snead's recommendation for calming him down.
Snead then instructed Lychrel and Yamcha to help Pacheko arm the explosives. On his way over to the man, he whispered to one of the dancers that there was a bomb inside the whorehouse, allowing all of the girls to flee before it went off. Later on, after killing the One-Eyed Jackalope leaders, Wolfe thought about how much potential Yamcha was showing and how he'd grow to be a fine bandit someday. Afterwards, Yamcha helped the others set the explosives up. Lychrel and Rheems began flirting, which annoyed Yamcha, though Snead soon shut them. As he placed the bombs across the walls, Yamcha daydreamed about becoming a popular baseball player, winning championships, hitting home runs, and living the good life in a huge house with servants and a smoking-hot wife. Soon after, Pacheko accidentally set off one wall of explosives, killing himself and damaging the whorehouse significantly. In the explosion, Lychrel's right eye burst and much of her face and body was burnt. Snead and Yamcha helped carry her out of the building where they ran into a crowd of people and a host of cops. The cops arrested the four of them soon thereafter. Yamcha was surprised that Snead was not able to save them from the cops. Feeling shame at the blood on his hands, the boy began to cry. He spotted Hasky in the crowd outside the House of the Blue Lotus (though he knew not who she was), being entranced by her beauty and desperately wishing that someone like her could save him, but in the next moment, she disappeared.
In chapter 4, Yamcha was interrogated by a policeman with a huge chin about the bombing of the House of the Blue Lotus. Yamcha, in his thoughts, blamed Silver Snead and Wolfe for what had happened at the House of the Blue Lotus. The boy refused to claim responsibility or say much of anything to the man, even though he tried to get Yamcha to confess by scaring him and lying to him that Snead had already confessed. However, that lie was so outlandish that Yamcha realized the man had nothing on him. Soon after, a policeman entered Yamcha's interrogation room and informed the other policeman that Yamcha was no longer a suspect in the House of the Blue Lotus' bombing. Without wasting any more time, the interrogator let Yamcha go.
Outside, he met up with Rheems, who was demanding to know what had happened to Lychrel, but the woman in charge refused to answer him, forcing two guards to physically remove him from the building. While Yamcha assumed Lychrel had been taken to the hospital, Rheems was decidedly more cynical and believed she had been left to die by the police. Afterwards, the fox man told Yamcha that Snead had confessed to bombing the whorehouse and was taking full blame. When Yamcha questioned why he would do this, Rheems simply stated that Snead had a plan to free himself as well.
Then a hover limousine filled with yakuza pulled up next to them on the street. Two Chàoxing Gon members jumped out, aiming pistols at the bandits, and forced them inside the limo. When this happened, Yamcha was shocked that nobody tried to stop them from being taken. Later on, Wolfe asked Thoras if the man had heard anything from Snead and the gang. When Thoras said he had not, Wolfe thought to himself that there was a good chance they were all dead, but he couldn't give into fear yet. Later, while Yamcha and Rheems were riding in the hover limo with the yakuza, Rheems recounted a story of how he had hot-wired an expensive-looking motorcycle one time while its owner was in a store. He described this man as being dressed in yellow leather and having a look of wealth about him, which is why he targeted the man in the first place. However, the cops eventually caught Rheems after he ran out of gas and were able to return the bike to its owner.
Then, the yakuza in the limo took Yamcha and Rheems to Koicharu Mazuchiru in an abandoned parking lot where he questioned the bandits for a short while about Wolfe's recent financial boon. When the two denied any knowledge about where the bandit leader had gotten all the new money from (he had taken it in a battle against the yakuza, of course), Mazuchiru relented. He then took Yamcha, Rheems, his personal chef Jiro, and his guards to see a Noh play. Afterwards, he asked the bandits what they thought of the play, but neither one of them had understood it (though of course they would never say that to Mazuchiru's face).
On their way to dinner, when Rheems made a clever remark, one yakuza punched him in the jaw to shut him up. Many yakuza later attended a sushi dinner with Mazuchiru, Yamcha, and Rheems. While everyone was waiting for the food, Yamcha overheard some yakuza discussing whether they should replace the mayor of South City with someone they controlled. One many even offered Yunwu as an alternative, but most of the yakuza responded with distaste upon hearing her name. Then, they were served fresh sushi by Jiro.
During the dinner, Mazuchiru asked Rheems and Yamcha to kill Wolfe. When Rheems refused, Mazuchiru came up behind him and cut his throat with a large knife, killing the fox man. His yakuza guards did not react to Rheems' death. Yamcha, making sure not to let his sushi spoil at Jiro's behest, eventually agreed to kill Wolfe if it meant he would be spared. He briefly thought back to Junichi telling him once that he needs to take his life into his own hands, because no one else will care enough about it to keep him safe. The boy heeded this advice by agreeing to kill Wolfe on Mazuchiru's orders. Later on, Jiro and two guards escorted Yamcha out of Mazuchiru's tower.
When Jiro began explaining his plan to help the boy kill Wolfe and escape before he could be murdered by Wolfe's Wings, Yamcha bolted, stealing a golden motorcycle. The three yakuza pursued him in their hover car. Yet, being far less maneuverable in a car, they were barely able to keep up with the boy. They fired their pistols and machine guns at him, killing several pedestrians accidentally. When Yamcha saw this, he decided to make sure they ended up dead, so he spun around in oncoming traffic and flew off down the other road. As the hover car attempted to pursue, they were sideswiped and crashed into a building, killing Jiro and his men. Yamcha then raced back to Wolfe's hideout, intent on leaving the bandit gang as soon as he gathered up his stuff and figured out some place to go.
In chapter 5, upon returning to Wolfe's hideout, Yamcha recalled that Ruthy Badales had immediately ordered him to go to Wolfe's secondary hideout. Once he got there, Rosey told Yamcha that they were going to raid the Diablo Desert express in order to steal zeni bound for Central City. So Yamcha accompanied Wolfe and his Wings on the train heist, riding in Wolfe's Mighty Mouse on the way over.
Once on board, he realized he didn't know what he was supposed to do. He met up with another bandit who quickly found a pair of female passengers he wanted to see naked. When Yamcha tried to stop him, the two got in an argument that ended with the train guard entering the far side of the train car and shooting the bandit in the throat. Though he was bleeding profusely, the bandit retaliated by gunning the guard down with a machine gun before collapsing dead himself. When Yamcha let the other passengers flee, a curious blue-furred floating cat named Puar remained glued in place, perhaps too scared to move.
Then Rosey and Daisey, Yamcha's fellow bandits, entered the train car. When Daisey noticed Puar, he became interested in the floating blue cat, leading Puar to bite him on the hand in self defense. Then, Puar transformed into a floating mallet and hit Daisey in the side of the head, sending him flying. Rosey attempted to attack Puar, but was stopped by Yamcha, who knocked the man over and pummeled him, breaking his nose. When Rosey pulled his gun on Yamcha, the boy was only saved by Puar, still a mallet, hitting the bandit hard upside the head. After Puar knocked out Rosey, Wolfe and some bandits reached Yamcha's train car and found both Daisey and Rosey unconscious on the ground. Yamcha blamed it all on the dead train guard. Puar hid in Yamcha's jacket and remained hidden there as the boy left the train car with the others.
Outside, Wolfe revealed to his gang that the zeni had been marked and was thus useless. He lit the pile of zeni on fire. Then, he passed around bottles of saké, letting each man take a shot for their part in the train heist. Yamcha, however, poured his saké out on the sand. It was around this time that he thought to himself how much he missed Lychrel. Finding Yamcha again, Wolfe asked how he was, and asked him what he thought of Mighty Mouse. He told the boy that he had won the Mighty Mouse off of another gang leader around thirty years ago in a game of poker. Before Yamcha could say much of anything, Wolfe gave the boy the old car for all the good work he had done. He thanked the man immensely for the gift. When Yamcha asked him to teach him the Wolf Fang Fist, Wolfe cautioned him by revealing that he had once broken Snead's arm trying to teach him the Wolf Fang Fist. Naturally, that had been the end of Snead's training with the technique. Nevertheless, Yamcha declared he wasn't scared, and that he wanted to begin the training anyways. While thinking about how badly he wanted to learn the Wolf Fang Fist, Yamcha thought back to his father's prowess as a baseball player and his mother's confinement in the brothel to motivate himself further.
Yamcha and Puar then returned with the rest of the Wings to Wolfe's secret hideout. The two of them sat on the balcony of the second floor, away from the others, giving Yamcha privacy to talk with Puar. The boy was confused as to why Puar had remained with him, but Puar assured him that he had not been going anywhere in particular on that train and that he had no family to return to anyways. As he had just graduated from the Shapeshifting Academy, he now had nowhere to go. At that moment, Ren came to see Yamcha on the balcony. Puar introduced himself wildly to Ren, who seemed to like him. Still, Yamcha cautioned Puar for being so hasty. When Yamcha asked if she was feeling better, the girl said that she had slept through most of the pain. She then pissed off the balcony. After Yamcha told Ren that he had burnt the ramen he had cooked everyone for lunch, she warned him that if he messed up dinner, Wolfe would be furious.
He decided to use a steak sauce recipe Jiro had told him about for dinner that night. As he cooked and ate dinner, Puar hid in his jacket. During dinner, Wolfe praised Yamcha's cooking, declaring him his new chef and giving the boy the Azure Dragon Sword as a token of his appreciation. He stated that he no longer needed Thoras to cook for him. Due to all the gifts and praise he was receiving, Yamcha was no longer sure if he should flee the Wings. Later on, Yamcha brought down a bowl of milk to the garage, where Puar was hiding. He told Puar that Daisey had died. Puar seemed relieved to hear that Daisey had been a bad guy, so he didn't seem to regret killing him. He also told Puar that Rosey was still alive. He swore to himself that he would not end up like Junichi or Rheems. Yamcha was worried that if Rosey woke up, he would want to kill both the boy and the kitty, so he knew they would have to run off before that happened.
Puar then complained about not getting to be a bandit like Yamcha. He mentioned that one of his classmates at the Shapeshifting Academy named Oolong had declared himself a pirate after booty. Then he got expelled. Nevertheless, Puar too wanted the booty - and the only way to get the booty was to become a bandit, of course. Yamcha relented, agreeing to let him go out on a bandit run with him, but he was still concerned over what would happen if Rosey woke up and saw Puar.
Anyways, soon after, Bingo, Brady McGangeree, Yamcha, and Puar went out banditing. Puar told the other bandits that his best friend Wilbur Jim-carrion had once called him a pendejo at the Shapeshifting Academy. They eventually encountered Master Shen (though they knew not who he was). When Bingo demanded he hand over his valuables, the man punched the dingo in the face, killing him. Brady then tried to attack, but he was taken out with an uppercut. Yamcha and Puar surrendered, but the annoyed Shen attacked them nonetheless. When the boy was able to dodge several of the man's attacks, Shen grew impressed, asking him who his teacher was. Yamcha had no teacher, however. Shen eventually hit Yamcha's leg, shattering it. The boy, in immense pain, fired his pistol at Shen, and Puar soon joined in. Unwilling to power up (he really had to get going!), Shen merely jumped in the air and slammed his foot down upon a nearby dune, sending sand flying everywhere. Blinded, the bandits were unable to continue their attack, allowing Shen to drive off in peace.
After surviving their encounter with Master Shen, Yamcha and Puar were able to steal some petty items from a few hapless travelers in the Diablo Desert, though they didn't find much of value. Later, Yamcha and Puar saw Hasky (though they knew not her name) drive by in a hovercar, leaving Yamcha speechless and acting weird. He knew he had seen her before, and that made him blush even harder, but he didn't much pay attention to the thing under the tarp in the back seat she was transporting. Puar tried to bring him back to his senses, but was unable to for a good long while. Eventually, the two returned back to the secret hideout. After Yamcha returned from banditing, Wolfe began training him to master the Wolf Fang Fist technique. Despite Yamcha's leg having been broken by the man who had killed Bingo and Brady, he was still willing to face Wolfe, who promised not to go easy on the boy. The boy promised to show no fear.
In chapter 6, Yamcha was seen inside Wolfe's elite hideout, along with Puar, Olivia, Miroslav, the dog-faced bandit, and several others. Yamcha was disappointed to be left behind on the Wolfe's bandit raid, but due to his broken leg, it was only fair. He played cards with the bandits to pass the day, and Puar brought him ice packs for his leg. The dog-faced bandit taught Yamcha how to pickpocket, but in the process, he stole Yamcha's treasured baseball (the home run he dad had hit). After the man refused to return it, Yamcha confronted him, and it soon came to blows. Taking the bandit by surprise, Yamcha was able to land a good punch and daze the man, giving him time to retrieve his ball. Then, Olivia cautioned the boy to remain cool and to not reveal to the dog-faced bandit what else he was going to do to him.
Around noon, Yamcha made lunch for all of the bandits. After lunch, the dog-faced bandit got drunk enough to forget his argument with Yamcha and taught the boy how to count cards. Later, a bandit reported to Miroslav that Rosey had woken up, greatly frightening Yamcha and Puar. Before they could escape, Wolfe and the rest of his Wings returned from their banditing. One of the bandits told Wolfe that Rosey was awake as soon as the man stepped inside the base, with everyone else watching this from their seats.
After waking from his coma, Rosey told Wolfe that it had been Puar who had transformed into a mallet and attacked Daisey on the train. Wolfe later confirmed to Rosey that Daisey had been killed during the attack. He also stated that he knew that Yamcha knew what had happened. Then, Wolfe went to see Yamcha and Puar on the second story of the hideout, where they were eating a fine dinner of ham sandwiches with the rest of the gang. He demanded that Yamcha hand over Puar, as the floating kitty had killed Daisey. Yamcha refused, and so they began to fight. Eventually, the man used a Wolf Fang Fist to knock Yamcha out of a window. Wolfe followed, and the two exchanged blows on the way down. Outside, Wolfe began to dominate Yamcha until Snead told him that the yakuza were almost to their location. This distracted the man, allowing Yamcha to pounce on him and break his nose with a flurry of punches. While Yamcha was able to get many good hits in, Wolfe eventually stopped him with a brutal headbutt. Soon after, the Night Snakes were spotted approaching them in the distance. Wolfe spared Yamcha and Puar's lives and ran back inside the hideout with the rest of his bandits to prepare for the swiftly-approaching Night Snakes.
Later, Yamcha regained consciousness and saw Wolfe and his Wings exiting the hideout in all their vehicles, preparing to charge at the incoming army of Night Snakes. He called out for Puar, but there was no sign of the floating cat. As Wolfe and his forces prepared to charge the Night Snakes, Olivia told Yamcha, who had just woken up from having been knocked unconscious in the sand, to get in her car, which was being driven by Miroslav. If he did not, she was going to shoot him, so he had no choice. As she was riding shotgun, she reminded Yamcha of Jess. He was given a small submachine gun as his only weapon.
Then, led by Wolfe, the bandits charged the Night Snakes and the battle began. Yamcha shot his submachine gun out of the window timidly, not sure if he ever hit anyone until a grenade killed Miroslav and their truck crashed. Olivia helped the shell-shocked boy out of the wreck and escorted him to an area with more cover, killing several Night Snakes on the way. She promised to give him a blowjob if he covered her back and kissed him, which caused the boy to go into another fit. Olivia had to slap him to get him to calm down. Soon the rest of the Wings showed up and mopped up most of the Night Snakes, severely reducing the pressure on Olivia and Yamcha. However, they were still pinned down by half a dozen Night Snakes, and during the exchange of gunfire, Olivia took a bullet to the belly. She instructed Yamcha to abandon her, but he did not. A Night Snake charged him with a pistol and a knife, forcing the two do battle at close range. Yamcha's submachine gun was out of ammo, so he had to use his fists to kill the man who was waving a knife furiously at him. Indeed, after throwing sand into the man's face, Yamcha was able to get close enough to grab him by the wrist, snapping it back, and forcing the Snake to drop his knife. As Yamcha looked for the knife, he was headbutted by his opponent, which dazed him and allowed the Night Snake to pick up the knife with his other hand. As the Night Snake approached him, Olivia shot him in the back with her shotgun, killing the man. Then, she tossed the shotgun to Yamcha, ordering him to kill as many of the Night Snakes who remained before collapsing in pain.
After the Night Snakes were routed, Wolfe noticed that Yamcha was trying to flee the battlefield. He did not allow the boy to get away, stating that he hadn't forgotten about Daisey. Yamcha called Daisey an asshole and noted that Puar had only attacked him in self-defense. Wolfe fired at him, but Yamcha ducked into cover. Wolfe charged him, but slipped on the blood-soaked sand. Unable to bring himself to shoot back at the man, he instead attacked him with his fists, the two exchanging blows as they rolled around in the sand. Exhausted, they were unable to put up any defenses, each of them taking an onslaught of punches and kicks. Eventually, Yamcha got the better of Wolfe, throwing his pistol aside, but showing the man mercy. Wolfe promised to kill Yamcha if he ever saw him again, but the boy did not believe him. Then, with no other Wings nearby to stop him, he started limping off towards the hideout.
It was precisely at that moment that he noticed dozens of hovercars approaching them. Mazuchiru and his remaining Chàoxing Gon members, their numbers having been reduced from the fight against Makare and Naigo, had finally arrived. After telling the Wings that he knew they were the ones who had killed his men several weeks ago and stolen billions of zeni they had hidden in the desert, he shot one bandit, his men attacking the remainder of them soon after. Wolfe managed to shoot Mazuchiru three times, but his bulletproof vest saved him. A huge battle then ensued, though most of it was not seen, as Yamcha fled before he could be butchered like the rest of the Wings. However, as Yamcha fled amidst the chaos, Wolfe reached him and tried to stop him once and for all. The boy, however, pulled the flare the yakuza had given him out from his pocket and shot Wolfe in the face with it, causing the man to fall over screaming, his beard on fire, and allowing Yamcha to finally escape.
He returned to Wolfe's elite hideout, grabbing his pack and the Azure Dragon Sword. Rosey confronted him inside, demanding to know what had happened to everyone else. Yamcha told him he was lucky not to end up like Daisey and walked out on the man, not telling him anything. As he prepared to leave, Yamcha found Puar sleeping inside Mighty Mouse, which was a great relief to both of them. They resolved to go to South City to get away from the horrors of Diablo Desert. While driving, he remembered his father hitting that home run with the baseball he had in his pocket. Yamcha wondered what had become of his parents, Lychrel, and that blonde-haired woman (Hasky). Still, he knew the past was the past and the future was not yet set in stone, and that gave him some modicum of hope.
In chapter 7, Yamcha and Puar returned to South City. There, they heard of the rumor of Yunwu having died. This made their pickpocketing easier. The two of them continued pickpocketing for a while. Yamcha noticed during that time, that there were posters asking for information about Junichi's whereabouts. Feeling guilty, he visited the South City Itteki, the saké store owned by Tonji Masamune. Without giving her his name, he told the secretary what had happened to Jun. She promised to inform Tonji about his nephew's death.
Several days later, Yamcha ran into Ren, who was selling mangoes on the street. The girl told him that Yunwu had died (after having suffered an accident), although Yamcha had not known the deputy mayor. He told her about the fight in the desert between the Night Snakes and Wolfe's Wings, which had been followed by the Chàoxing Gon ambushing the survivors, resulting in hundreds of deaths. He did not know who had ultimately won the battle, as he had fled before it had concluded. He ended up buying a mango from her. That night, his baseball coach informed him that he hadn't been chosen for the team. The next morning, he and Puar visited the skate part near Junichi's house. Several of his old friends - including Murdotraine, Whipple, Billy-dog Thorton, Sr., and Theodosius XII - were there. Billy-dog asked him where Junichi and Lychrel were, but he had nothing to tell the man. Theodosius taught him some new pickpocketing techniques, while Whipple promised to hook him up with a work contact - his uncle, Ji Sul Nim. During that time, he told them all about what had really happened to Junichi and Lychrel, and the group fleeced him for what zeni he was carrying.
That night, he met with Whipple's uncle, Ji Sul Nim, who offered him work. Despite the man giving him a warning about how difficult and dangerous the work would be, Yamcha took the job without hesitation. The next day, Yamcha, Puar, and Mike held up a gas station, taking all of its beef jerky. That was the fourth store they had held up that night. However, during the scuffle, Mike killed the cashier, prompting them to flee to the car, where Ji Sul Nim awaited them. Soon the police were on them, which started a frantic chase through South City. Although Mike shot a few times at the pursuing police, neither Puar nor Yamcha aided him.
After a harrowing police chase through the city, Ji Sul Nim drove the crew to the docks on the northern side of the island containing South City, leading them to an escape boat. The police followed them there, forcing the four of them to take cover behind the ruinous buildings. During the struggle, Ji Sul shot two of the police, wounded a third with his fists, and wrestled the gun away from the fourth, though he was gunned down by her last remaining ally. Nonetheless, this allowed Yamcha, Puar, and Mike to flee. They resolved to go to the boat only after they had dealt with the police pursuit. During the attempt, however, Mike was killed and Yamcha and Puar fled down the dock. One policeman caught up with Yamcha and Puar, provoking a stand-off. Yamcha recognized him as the man who had interrogated him after the incident in the Blue Lotus. Regardless, he did not listen to the man, eventually shooting him and fleeing from the city along with Puar on Ji Sul Nim's boat. While the policeman threatened Yamcha, the boy did not care. He and Puar sailed back to Diablo Desert, knowing that their only hope lay there.
Soon after, they returned to Wolfe's elite hideout, finding the place abandoned. When Yamcha parked Mighty Mouse in its garage, that alerted a group of three Children of Chaos soldiers who were nearby of bandit activity in the region. They demanded he remove himself from the garage and accused him of being a bandit, raising their weapons at the boy. He attacked them with breathtaking speed, knocking them unconscious with a few well-timed blows. He sent them back to their transport vehicle, where they eventually woke up and fled back to Bonetown. After retaking Wolfe's elite hideout, Yamcha thought of his father. He soon returned to doing the dishes, while Puar watched television. He speculated that Wolfe and his Wings had been wiped out by the yakuza. He did the dishes and then found a bottle of whiskey and Masamune saké on the table. He took the whiskey and had some of it.
In chapter 8, while banditing, Yamcha and Puar happened upon a poor old lady. They tried to steal from her, but she didn't have much, so all they were able to grab was one pink stuffed animal cat, which Puar promptly announced as his girlfriend. They continued hiding on the side of the road, waiting for another victim to appear. Eventually, a car did appear, which allowed Yamcha and Puar to run out onto the road and stop it. Yamcha held up the car at gunpoint, causing the man, a fine hooligan named J'charmalagne, to retaliate by shooting back at the boy with his own gun. While one shot grazed Yamcha on the chin, he did not take serious damage. In contrast, Yamcha was able to get a good shot on the driver. The man tried to drive off before crashing off the road into a billboard. Feeling emotional over killing his first man, Yamcha decided not to raid the car for loot, and ignored Puar's insistence that he go to the hospital for his gunshot wound. However, before they could leave, J'charmalagne's friend got out of the passenger's seat of the car and confronted Yamcha about the murder. After a brief fight in which the boy dominated the angry man, Yamcha told him that he was the King of the Desert, and dared the man to come back with some friends to challenge him. Instead, he fled, allowing Yamcha and Puar to return to their hideout.
Arriving back home, they noticed a squad of five soldiers waiting for them. After getting Puar to hide under Mighty Mouse's seat, Yamcha confronted them alone. The officer, Lieutenant Rui Yang, asked him for identification. When Yamcha refused, he told the boy to leave if this was not his residence. Instead, Yamcha parked Mighty Mouse, grabbed Puar from under the seat and stuffed him into his shirt, and then casually, in front of the troops, unlocked the door to his hideout, letting himself and Puar in, and slammed the door behind them. The lieutenant, flanked by two of his men, soon knocked at the door, and Yamcha did not hesitate to open it for him. The soldier told Yamcha that he was indeed the bandit they were looking for. Without hesitating, Yamcha punched him in the nose, knocking him out cold. He followed that up by throwing an apple at one man, stunning him long enough for Yamcha to knee the other soldier in the groin before punching the third soldier across the jaw so severely that the bone snapped.
One soldier was ranging far out in the dunes with his back to the hideout, and the other was unloading a box from the soldiers' jeep, so neither saw this confrontation go down, allowing Yamcha to swiftly approach the latter and knock him out with an elbow to the back of the head. However, the ranging soldier had noticed Yamcha by that point, and came running at him, shooting his rifle. Yamcha hid behind the jeep, firing back with his pistol. Both of them missed all of their shots. Before Yamcha could reload, the soldier reached him and tackled him to the ground, where they rolled around for a bit in the sand before the boy got a good headbutt in on the guy, which was enough to sway their fight fully in his favor. He took the rifle, pointing it at the man, and began babbling guiltily about murdering J'charmalagne. When the soldier said the dead guy had it coming, Yamcha fired the rifle into the dirt in order to make him shut up.
Later in the chapter, Yamcha took Lieutenant Yang and his detachment back to Bonetown, where they saw firsthand the carnage of the battle between the Children of Chaos and the Chàoxing Gon. He questioned Yang about whose bodies those were, and after the man speculated that they were Mazuchiru's gang (as well as his own comrades), Yamcha came to believe that the yakuza had totally destroyed Wolfe and his gang. He questioned the lieutenant about the Children of Chaos, leading to the man to tell him that they had 127 members and they were led by Colonel Violet and the mayor of South City. When Yamcha noticed the chained yakuza slaves amongst the people in Bonetown, he grew furious with Yang, who did not know who they were. Believing the man, Yamcha let him and his team go, promising vengeance upon them if they ever attacked him again. He ordered Yang to tell Violet not to assault his hideout. The lieutenant said he could whistle for the entire army to attack Yamcha in that moment, but Yamcha just turned around and left, calling his bluff. Of course, Yang did no such thing, for he feared for his life.
On his way out of Bonetown, Yamcha once again noticed the chained men and boys, though most of them ran from him when he got close. One boy with long black hair did not, however. He begged for the bandit to free him, and Yamcha, still holding the key to the handcuffs he'd used on Lieutenant Yang, was able to. He introduced himself as Sammy, stating that he had been captured by the yakuza in the past and been forced to work as their slave laborer. He said that a man named Higataro once beat him so bad with a whip that he passed out. Sammy then told Yamcha that Mazuchiru had successfully fled from the firefight and that there were more of his kind out there. The boy also said that his brother was in "the army" (the Red Ribbon Army) and that his parents lived in North City. He requested that Yamcha take him there, but before Yamcha could answer, Nathaniel came running down the street covered in blood, howling.
As his organs began slipping out of his body, Yamcha pegged him in the head with his baseball, knocking the man out cold. Four Children of Chaos who were nearby retaliated by shooting at the boy, but he ran for cover, finding a yakuza's pistol, and shot all of them from under a parked hovercar, wounding them enough so that they wouldn't be able to chase him any further. Then, Yamcha gave Samuel a capsule filled with money and supplies - enough to buy him a ticket to North City. Samuel thanked him, weeping, and ran off to the Bonetown station to return home. Then, Colonel Violet appeared, confronting Yamcha over him throwing the baseball at the mayor. She shot the baseball out of his hand, causing the boy to nearly burst into tears. He thought back to his father hitting that ball out of the park, and grew enraged at what she had done. Then, the mayor convulsed and screamed from the ground, which distracted her. While Yamcha looked for a weapon, however, a surviving yakuza, who looked to be near death himself, stumbled from around the corner of a building, and shot at Violet, hitting her once in the shoulder, dropping her. Medics and more Children of Chaos were rushing towards the mayor, and they soon killed the last living yakuza, but Yamcha didn't care about any of that. He got up and left.
Noticing more slaves lurking about and watching him, he unlocked the handcuffs of one older man, gave him a capsule full of loot he had stolen from somebody earlier that day, and handed over the key so that the man could unlock the handcuffs on all the other former slaves. Then, he left Bonetown and returned to his bandit hideout.
Some days later, Yamcha and Puar continued their banditing practices by setting up a 'Free Lemonade' stand on the side of the road going through Diablo Desert. When a Ferrari Pininfarina Sergio hovercar came down the road, Yamcha decided he wanted it, and so stopped it from going by by jumping in the middle of the road. This forced the driver to slow to a halt; the man grew enraged at the bandit for stopping him. When Yamcha told him about the free lemonade, however, his female companion got out of the car and demanded, in baby talk, a glass. The man, Didier, relented and took two. He spit his out, as he did not find it to be tasty in the slightest. The woman, Mayflower, very much adored her glass and praised Yamcha to an extreme extent that bordered on flirtation. He berated Puar and Yamcha for their pisswater lemonade, then bragged about his companion's body before driving off. Puar got mad at Yamcha for not robbing the couple, but Yamcha had been too enamored by the woman to care. Mayflower's fruity, robust perfume reminded him of the kind his mother had used to wear.
Hours later, a man hauling saké for Masamune/Masamune stopped for a glass of free lemonade. Yamcha was going to rob him until the man revealed where he worked. Upon hearing that he was one of Tonji Masamune's employees, Yamcha let him go on his way. Puar asked him why he let the man go, but Yamcha refused to answer, instead telling the floating cat to go home, as he planned to make a trip to the city. Puar begged to go with him, and Yamcha relented. They sped off on Mighty Mouse towards the big city soon after.
Upon reaching South City, Yamcha and Puar searched for Didier and Mayflower. At long last, Yamcha found Didier's car at a gas station in the red-light district. The bandit ran over to the car, hoping to woo Mayflower. However, the woman was not with Didier, who had gone into the gas station to procure several slim jims for his ride. When the man returned to his car, the boy confronted him, and he revealed that he was indeed not married to that woman, and that he had only been with her for a short while (Yamcha correctly surmised that she was one of the ladies of the evening from the red-light district). This prompted the man to laugh at Yamcha and mock him. Enraged, the bandit performed a Wolf Fang Fist on the guy's Ferrari, but he only managed to hurt his wrist in the process. Then, Puar showed up with stolen ice cream for the two of them. Didier drove off angrily, leaving them behind. Yamcha told Puar the bad news about Mayflower, threw his ice cream in the trash, and set off back to the desert with his best friend.
Thereafter, he and Puar continued banditing for many months. Yamcha noted that he liked to watch Silver Snead's old karate tapes during that time, using them to train and perfect his fighting form. He became a pro at sudoku while Puar mastered Rosey's old Dance Dance Revolution game. During the late summer of Age 749, Yamcha and Puar hijacked a caravan transporting silver ore to South City, dispossessing the anthropomorphic cat driver from his haul and leaving him in the desert. They took the ore to Bonetown with hopes of selling it there, but found the place lying in ruins, bodies strewn about. Yamcha noted that the bodies were of the Children of Chaos and of soldiers wearing white-and-black armor from an organization he did not recognize. He and Puar returned home, leaving the caravan in the ghost town. There, he proceeded to drink the last of the saké (one final cup of Junmai Daiginjo) he and Junichi and Lychrel had stolen from that Masamune/Masamune truck so long ago.
The next morning, he woke up late, eating breakfast past noon, and was practicing pick up lines when Puar alerted him that two travelers had entered the desert - Goku and Oolong (Puar had not spotted Bulma with them). Eager to confront them, Yamcha grabbed the Azure Dragon Sword and beckoned his friend to follow him down to where they were resting.
Bonetown Blues[]
At the start of this story, Yamcha drove into Diablo Desert to visit his own home. After Yamcha returned to his house, he found his old Azure Dragon Sword amongst the wreckage, something he found strange, since the rest of the home seemed to have been ransacked. Soon a man named Wolfe confronted the warrior. Wolfe revealed that he had once been the leader of Yamcha's bandit group until the two had had a falling out and fought one another. Neither Wolfe nor Yamcha had won the battle and both parted ways. At that time, Wolfe had promised to kill Yamcha if he ever saw him again. He didn't care about that anymore in this story, considering the past to be the past. He wanted Yamcha to join his new bandit crew, though Yamcha rejected that. Yamcha hated Wolfe and came very close to killing the man after he asked about Yamcha's love life. Yamcha took his Azure Dragon Sword and pointed it right at Wolfe. He soon withdrew the blade, but it was not made clear in this story if Yamcha killed Wolfe after the end of the first section.
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- Despite not having a driver's license, Yamcha is fully capable of driving hovercars and regular vehicles. At some point in his past, one of his friends, presumably Lychrel or Junichi, must have taught him how to drive.