I went to Japan once and was staying very close to a nice bar. My Japanese was atrocious, but the girl that worked there was always super nice and she knew how to speak English.

One day this guy came out of nowhere and started talking to her. She was always nice, but with the guy, I could see that she was uncomfortable. She wasn't saying anything back and although my Japanese was weak and he wasn't really speaking in a way I could understand well, I understood that he was harassing her. It was this very skinny dude with a very ghost look, like he was about to die at any second just because he tried to breathe too hard. With my very poor Japanese I asked him to leave her alone. He came at trying to act menacing and I just couldn't hold myself, I laughed right at his face.

Then he pulled a gun while calling me names. I grew up in a favela, I'm used to that type of shit. I took the gun out of his hand, punched him and then heard a shot come from outside. He had another few dudes - probably three, but I'm not sure - outside, waiting, I think, next to a car. They started shooting and I hid. I thought they were going to come in, but they all left.

The girl that worked on the bar got shot on the arm and it got out her back and another person had a flesh wound. She spent a lot of time in the hospital because of that. I paid for everything and apologized a million times. They were very nice and understanding about the whole thing, but I felt really bad, because her parents were terrified. The girl eventually got better.

Then I was told by a few of her friends that I had to go away, because the guys were looking for me - don't know if it's true. They informed be that the guy was part of the Inagawa-kai. Everybody agreed that I had been very lucky, because they usually don't let people get away with that.

In any case, I left the country two weeks after the investigation.