Does Kiryu die in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth?

Kazuma Kiryu is the long-running protagonist of the Yakuza / Like a Dragon series, and while developers Ryu Ga Gotoku tried to kill him off before, the Dragon of Dojima keeps showing up as the protagonist in games. He shares the protagonist roles with Ichiban Kasuga in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth with his own story that puts his life in jeopardy. Read on to find out what happens to Kazuma Kiryu in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. As you might expect, this article contains heavy spoilers for Infinite Wealth, so read at your own risk. We found out from the trailers that in the story of Infinite Wealth Kiryu has cancer. When Kiryu tells Ichiban and Tomizawa about this, he explains that he has been diagnosed by a doctor, but he is refusing treatment. His reasoning is that he wants to spend the rest of his life fighting, and worries about the side effects of treatment. Despite his refusal of treatment, there are certain big fights throughout the story where we see Kiryu’s health decline. While he can participat