Strelkovaya Yacheyka

Front entrance

Strelkovaya Yacheyka (Russian: Стрелковая ячейка, lit. "rifle pit") is a Russian restaurant used by Vasili Laptev as a front business for Hotel Moscow in Tokyo, Japan.

Features

The restaurant serves steak, borscht, and vodka. Outside, the building has the business name on both glass entrance doors and above the entrance, and there are 8-panel windows and semi-circle windows adorning the exterior. In the interior, there are round tables with white tablecloths, red chairs, potted plants, and various paintings on the walls.

History

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After a sour meeting with Balalaika some days earlier, Vasili Laptev was eating some food inside the restaurant and asked Makarushka to contact Balalaika at her hotel. Dialing her number several times, Makarushka failed to reach her since she deliberately ignored Laptev's request to speak with her. Laptev then ordered him to call her again, but Makarushka elaborated that Balalaika and her men left the hotel without a trace. When the latter suggested calling Moscow for help, Laptev became enraged and stabbed his subordinate's left hand with his steak knife, angrily reminding him to follow his orders when he gave them. He reprimanded his men for not working hard enough, mentioning that Balalaika most likely sucked up to Slevinin because there would be no other reason as to why Slevinin would cut them loose. One of the Russians wondered why she hated them, prompting Laptev to explain that she hated anyone who was formerly affiliated with Soviet and Russian intelligence agencies as well as all the nomenklatura. At that point, Laptev noticed cars with several gunmen outside the window, reflexively ducking onto the ground and warning his men to take cover. Although no men were injured, the Washimine Group gangsters broke all the windows with their barrage of bullets.

As soon as the Japanese gangsters ceased firing, Ginji Matsuzaki entered the building and asked for the Russians' leader. Laptev frantically ordered his men to shoot since Ginji only had a sword, but the latter easily evaded their gunfire and sliced the men apart with his sword. Freaking out, Laptev stumbled onto the floor to escape the building, but Ginji held his sword to the side of Laptev's neck, telling the Russian that he was not going anywhere. When the Russian man tried to claim that he was framed, Ginji did not understand his Russian words and immediately beheaded and killed him for not providing any useful information. In the end, Laptev's death was part of Balalaika's plan to replace him with someone more capable of leading Hotel Moscow's Japanese branch, with Monk Burgashvili succeeding him.