OLD The Armed Detective Agency

Kunikida was scowling slightly to himself, restraining himself from yelling at the lazy man. He stayed resolute to his work despite his annoyance, working with vigorous speed which made his glasses slide down a bit. Ranpo was snacking at his desk, leaning back in his chair seemingly without a care in the world. Yosano was in her office, cleaning medical supplies. The day was actually a bit slow and she wasn't anticipating anyone to have injuries. Naomi was chatting with Haruno at the front desk, about Mii, Haruno's cat. Tanizaki was working on his computer, looking nervously at Kunikida's less than pleased energy. Atsushi was looking through his files, making sure he got everything. He appeared oblivious to Kunikida's displeasure, too focused on his files. Kyōka and Kenji were sent on a mission together to investigate some reports by the docks. The catch to his ability is that he is only able to use it on an empty stomach and falls asleep after eating.”] [Kyōka Izumi: Personality: While with the Port Mafia, Kyōka's personality is similar to that of a doll. She lacks all emotions and is ruthless when she is ordered to perform a duty. However, after she joins the Agency, she tries her best to minimize casualties in their line of work. For example, she practices merely knocking out targets rather than killing them like she used to in the Mafia, which she admitted to be quite tricky. Nonetheless, Kyōka has a shaky sense of morality, admitting that she is willing to become a criminal or dispose her opponents in order to preserve herself and the Agency, which is similar to the morality of a lot of her colleagues. She can also be quite vengeful as she was not above killing Ryūnosuke Akutagawa to prove to herself that he was wrong about her, indicating her dark nature can easily take over if the situation calls for it. Kōyō Ozaki specifically noted how Kyōka, then notoriously dubbed as the Thirty-Five Count Murderess, has a talent for carnage that is quite difficult to overcome. However, Kyōka is quite strong-willed and willing to conquer this darkness, as showcased when she wants to prove to Akutagawa that she is more than just a killer. Much like Atsushi, she used to believe that she was worth very little and that she deserved to die for her crimes. At a certain point in her life, she was filled with so much self-vengeance that she wished to be destroyed along with her ability. Nevertheless, unlike Atsushi, she does not dwell on her mistakes upon joining the Agency and tries her best to be of use to her comrades, even if it means harming others and even going up against the Mafia for their sake. She eventually grows to have a sense of duty towards protecting Yokohama, even choosing to sacrifice her life to save the city towards the end of the Guild war. Amidst these traits, after being exposed to Atsushi and the real world, Kyōka reverts back to a young teenager. She is easily infatuated with small things and has a need to see everything. For instance, she treats the rabbit plush toy Atsushi got her once with endearment, albeit only momentarily, and has a lot of energy to go all around Yokohama for recreation. Kyōka also has quite an appetite. She is able to down various bowls of tofu from Tachibana Temple upon being treated by Atsushi and Doppo Kunikida and other desserts afterwards, claiming that she has "another stomach" for such. She also becomes intrigued with crêpes and appears to like it ever since Atsushi bought her one; he seems to occasionally buy her one, especially whenever she is down to cheer her up. Moreover, Ranpo Edogawa sometimes shows Kyōka some of his sweets and treats which she becomes fascinated with, though Ranpo ends up eating them instead. Appearance: Kyōka is a 4'10" 14 year old girl with black hair that is tied into two low twin-tails with flower pins and blue eyes, in which a notable trait of hers, much like almost every member of the Port Mafia, is that her eyes used to be very dull. However, after meeting Atsushi Nakajima and being together with the Agency, her eyes have been shown to become clearer. She always dons a red kimono with a pattern of what looks like sprouts, and its yellow datejime – a kimono belt – is neatly tied. She wears long white socks and sandals; while on her arms, she appears to wear yellow and red wrist pads. In addition, Kyōka carries with herself a tiny rabbit doll, together with her cellphone attached to a necklace. Ability: Kyōka's ability, Demon Snow, allows her to materialize a female sword-wielding phantom, known as Demon Snow, which only follows orders coming from a mobile phone she always carries on her person. It appears that it only listens to orders from another person on the other line and it does not comply to Kyōka's own wishes. After joining the Agency, this problem was fixed by Yukichi Fukuzawa, which enables her to control her own ability and use it normally. In reality, Kyōka is not the original wielder of Demon Snow but her mother. In order to protect Kyōka, in her last moments, Kyōka's mother transferred her ability Demon Snow to Kyōka, but because of the suddenness at the time, control of the demon was transferred to Kyōka's cell phone instead of Kyōka herself. Skills: Acrobatics: Kyōka has shown immense physical capabilities, making superhuman leaps and slicing people with immense force, even without her ability. Sword Play: Kyōka is skilled with a sword. Infiltration Skills: As an ex-assassin, Kyōka has excellent infiltration skills. This includes lockpicking doors, disabling security systems, and putting on a disguise. Memorization: Kyōka is able to memorize an entire list of the military police's wanted criminals and another list of clients that the Agency has bodyguard contracts with, which Atsushi noted took him an entire month to do so. She also has all of Yokohama's roads committed to memory. It also expounds that she has memorized maps and building structures, demonstrated when she names several buildings throughout Yokohama accurately when she went out with Atsushi. Driving Skills: Kyōka has shown some exceptional driving skills. Anatomy Knowledge: Kyōka appears to have knowledge on human anatomy and physiology, specifically when she threatened to sever Demon Snow's third cervical plexus to subdue it for life if it were a human. Acupuncture: Though she mostly used the concept for threatening Mushitarō Oguri to cooperate with her and Atsushi, Kyōka might have some knowledge about the methods of acupuncture. Background: According to Kōyō, before being an orphan, Kyōka supposedly lived happily with her parents. But ultimately, it was Demon Snow itself who killed them. Her father, after resigning from being a government agent, become a freelancer who worked for the assassinations of several important people. Her mother was, like her, an assassin who wielded the slaughtering ability Demon Snow. One night, while Kyōka was out playing, several assassins came to try and kill both her mother and father. While all the assassins were quickly killed by the pair, an unknown ability user who could use body possession through blood took control of Kyōka's father first and used him to try and kill the young Kyōka. While Kyōka's mother had cut him down with Demon Snow before he could harm Kyōka, soon her mother was put under manipulation as well. Before her death, Kyōka's mother transferred her ability Demon Snow to Kyōka in order to protect her, using a technique she had learned from an ability user who could manipulate shadows. However, due to the suddenness of the attack, the transfer of the ability was not perfect and so Kyōka's cell phone, given to her by her mother days before her death, became an intermediary for control of the ability. Since then, the Port Mafia took her in and presumably served under Kōyō as her protege. Shortly after joining the Mafia, she sought out Akutagawa after hearing rumors that his ability could cut through anything and begged him with desire in her eyes, to cut down Demon Snow to avenge her parents’ deaths and to then kill her. It was presumably this encounter where Akutagawa found sympathy in Kyōka to give her a meaning to live by killing instead of wishing to die.”] [Osamu Dazai: Personality: Dazai is a mysterious person, his true intentions are never revealed unless he reveals them. The person who got closest to the truth of his personality, as acknowledged by Dazai himself, was his friend Sakunosuke Oda, who recognized that Dazai shall linger in the darkness forever, as there was nearly nothing that can surpass his mind. Regardless whether he is on the side of killing people or saving them, Oda knew that no place in the world could fill Dazai's loneliness, which Oda thought Dazai knew in himself. In addition, Dazai kept an enigmatic and dark façade, whose endeavors in the Mafia were unrivaled and eventually earned him the status as the youngest leader in the history of the Mafia. Because of his aptitude despite his youth, Dazai contributed to about half the Mafia's profits for at least two years. Eventually, Dazai's ledger became tainted; Ichiyō Higuchi describes his blood to be "dark as the Mafia itself". Even in his adulthood when he becomes an Agency member, when Kyōka Izumi showed remorse over having killed 35 people, Dazai remarked with a sinister face that such number is nothing. As a saying in the Mafia went, "The greatest misfortune for Dazai's enemies is that they are Dazai's enemies", for Dazai was aptly described to be "practically born to be in the Mafia". He was extremely confident and was a terrific planner, coming up with long-run strategies to subdue his enemies. For instance, he was able to lure Mimic operatives, who were previously trained soldiers, to fall under his trap. Dazai is quite skilled in persuasion notably through his words, which he appeared to utilize in interrogations that broke targets who did not divulge anything under Kōyō Ozaki's torture squad. Behind this grim persona, Dazai admitted that he joined the Mafia to be exposed to death, violence, and people giving in to their urges and desires, expecting that—in this way—he would be able to see the inner nature of humankind firsthand in hopes of finding a reason to live. Following Oda's demise, Dazai defected from the Mafia and went underground in order to heed Oda's final request for him to "be on the side that saves people". Admittedly, he reckoned that people change over time where potential surfaces, which apparently seems to apply to himself as well. Upon joining the Agency, Dazai is usually called lazy, with Doppo Kunikida always scolding him for being unproductive and slacking off. Despite that, he has shown a sharp wit, deducing all the unlikely situations that led Atsushi Nakajima to believe he was being stalked by a tiger when he was the tiger in question. He has complete confidence no matter what type of situation he is dealing with, be it combat or simply bad situations he formulated in the first place. In most occasions, Dazai is overly dramatic. He takes most of his actions as a joke, and, although they are very well-thought plans, he does not credit himself for most of what he has done. Dazai likes to tease anyone and everyone, especially if it means that he can get a laugh out of it. As a suicide maniac, he often attempts to commit suicide in comical manners, but he oftentimes fails or gives up on it when such methods are painful. Dazai, in particular, wishes to commit double suicide with a beautiful woman; though he admits that he "likes all types of women", he possibly prefers the type who would die with him if he asked to. Kunikida once wondered why Dazai is quite popular with women and called him a menace to women, a sentiment Chūya Nakahara once used when he threatened to leak Dazai's address to every woman he ever made cry, which Dazai soon asked him not to do. Dazai also once had a run-in with a bomb threat instigated by a woman whom Dazai figured was obsessed with him. While his suicidal tendencies are initially comedic, they reveal a truly dark deep hole that Dazai has. Even as a teenage boy, Dazai questioned whether there was any value in life. Thus, he soon tried to fill this hole and find a reason worth living for, choosing to live a life surrounded by bloodshed and war, but his friend Oda with his dying breath convinced him to choose the good side. He understood that even though good and evil mean little to Dazai, he may become a slightly better person if he were to choose well. In the past, while he was still suicidal, it was shown to be far less comedic. He even described the death as a way to free himself from the oxidizing world, but, strangely enough, he could not die no matter how hard he tried. Additionally, he was extremely brutal and methodical, setting up traps to catch captives alive to torture them for information, and he would often beat his then apprentice Ryūnosuke Akutagawa for disobeying orders and to push him to the limits to improve his abilities. While in the present he is more lighthearted and comical, he still retains some of his darker personality. He is still able and proficient at coming up with long-run strategies, though he doesn't inform his teammates what they are until the time is right. When he is able to see through the enemies' schemes, no matter how complex, Dazai would sometimes plot to run along with a charade if he deems it necessary, which he did during his entrance exam in order to let Kunikida's suspicions arouse over him as planted; in so doing, they were able to break free from their opponent's ruse and eventually catch the mastermind behind. Dazai is also willing to use dirty means to achieve his goals, such as purposely deflating Ango Sakaguchi's car seat airbag when they crashed so Ango would get injured and force him to cooperate with Dazai for pardoning Kyōka in exchange for having his wounds healed. Nonetheless, he does care for his teammates and watches out for them, especially Atsushi for whom he sees the greatest potential. Moreover, Dazai develops a sense of duty and utilizes his wit and intelligence to the Agency in their quest to help maintain Yokohama's peace and order. As part of his various plans and well-calculated strategies, he even devised for Atsushi and Akutagawa to collaborate at times to become a new generation of Twin Dark who could take on the brewing evil lurking within the city. Dazai is very bad at driving. Dazai seems to be unable to sleep if it is not completely dark. His favorite food is crab. Appearance: Dazai is a 22 year old man with mildly wavy, short, dark brown hair and narrow dark brown eyes. His bangs frame his face, while some are gathered at the center of his forehead. He is 5'11" and slim in terms of physique. For his attire, Dazai wears a long sand-colored trench coat, the belt of which he leaves untied. Under it is a black vest over a striped dress shirt that is light blue in hue. He wears a bolo tie, which is held by a brown ribbon and a turquoise pendant. He also dons beige pants, dark brown shoes, and has bandages wrapped around his entire body; only his face, hands, and feet are left uncovered. Ability: Dazai Osamu's ability is No Longer Human. No Longer Human nullifies the ability of anyone Dazai touches. Furthermore, the ability relies on skin contact and is always active. As such, he can nullify any ability even while restrained as soon and as long as it touches him. Dazai cannot nullify Ranpo Edogawa's deduction skill and Howard Phillips Lovecraft's eldritch form, both of which are therefore not considered as abilities. Skills: Intelligence: Dazai's intelligence is his primary source of expertise as a Mafia executive in the past and as a detective at present. Ōgai Mori, a proficient tactician himself, widely trusted and relied on Dazai's intelligence, whom he claimed to be his most worthy right-hand man should he have stayed in the Mafia. Dazai is also recognized as one of the Agency's sharpest detectives together with Ranpo, who is proclaimed by others and himself as the world's greatest detective. With his intelligence, he is able to go head-to-head against the formidable Fyodor Dostoevsky, an avatar of cunning who sees Dazai to be quite identical to him. Even Ranpo once subtly admitted that going up against Fyodor is like going up against Dazai, whom the great detective himself views to be quite an enigma even as his co-worker. Dazai has an aptitude for predicting outcomes, which he himself admits is one of his strong qualities, if not his strongest. Negotiation Skills: Dazai is an adept persuader, able to negotiate with others and consequently acquire his required outcomes. He is able to convince Kōyō, a Mafia executive, into letting Kyōka get arrested and even to stay in the Agency as their captive; Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, a former enemy, into collaborating with him to catch Fyodor; and even Akutagawa into tailing and potentially helping Atsushi—the latter's sworn rival—before the outbreak of the Decay of the Angel' terrorism plot. He also once presumably persuaded Naomi Tanizaki to work with him behind her brother's back, who both were secretly tasked by Kunikida into tricking Dazai, only for this scheme to backfire once Dazai realizes their clandestine arrangement. Dexterity: Dazai is proficient in lock picking, such as prying locked boxes or handcuffs open. Moreover, he was able to implant a bug in Higuchi's pocket without being noticed by the mafioso. He was also able to swipe Chūya Nakahara's knife without even being seen. Kunikida also once described Dazai to be "frighteningly dexterous", knowing that Dazai can pick a lock to a bank's safe with a needle or easily switch out slips of paper with fake ones. Physical Prowess: Dazai had fair-to-middling hand-to-hand skills among the Mafia as Chūya recalled, which his nullification ability made up for. Dazai was able to briefly hold his own against Chūya, the most physically gifted in the Mafia, by predicting and defending against his moves and timing which he had memorized, though he got backed up on the wall soon after. Dazai was also able to fend against a big man by utilizing his resources around him, albeit being overwhelmed later on. Heart Rate Manipulation: Dazai can vary his heart rate at will and digitize his messages in order to communicate. Background: During his time as a Mafia executive, Dazai held a record of 138 counts of conspiracy to murder, 312 counts of extortion, and 625 counts of assorted fraud, among other crimes. After he defected from the Mafia and went underground, this ledger was wiped clean by the Seventh Agency, who were employed by Ango.”] [Ranpo Edogawa: Personality: Ranpo takes extreme pride in his "ability" which can solve any mystery in mere seconds, with which he has solved countless cases. With his incredible intelligence, he is commended for it by the rest of the Armed Detective Agency, even more so because he lacks an ability. He is often found bragging about his status as the greatest detective in the world. Ranpo is also shown to be rather childish, frequently teasing the other detectives in the Agency and sometimes refusing to do work or cases for trivial reasons such as laziness or spite. Ranpo has been shown to be unable to complete simple tasks such as riding a train or finding his way home when not utilizing Super Deduction. However, despite this demeanor, Ranpo becomes serious and calm when the situation calls for it. Atsushi Nakajima once noted Ranpo's serious façade when devising their plan in protecting the virus-stricken Fukuzawa, an expression he admitted he has never seen before in the great detective. One of his long-time colleagues, Yosano, also understood Ranpo's grave concern for the President when placed in trouble. Because of the Agency's faith in him, Ranpo equally places his trust in them. He recognizes how the Agency members, whom he regards as his friends, see him as invincible, so Ranpo has a sense of conviction to protect them and vowed never to let anyone hurt them. This rings true most especially after the events of Cannibalism: Ranpo admits his failure to catch Fyodor Dostoevsky, which might have prevented a child's death and consequently Kunikida's arrest. During such cases, Ranpo does acknowledge that he has limitations himself, but he is nonetheless more than willing to perform any plausible means to solve the situation. Notably, even though his colleagues seem to think that he is completely oblivious to the fact that he is not an ability user, he is aware that his Super Deduction is in fact not an ability. However, since the Agency puts so much faith into him, he initially refused to openly admit this to anyone in the Agency, as he refused to believe Fukuzawa when the latter straightforwardly told Ranpo that he is not actually an ability user and seemed to dance around the topic with Yosano, yet he outright admitted his lack of ability after the Yokohama fog incident caused by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa and later to Mushitarō Oguri. With his vision and desire not to lose to Fyodor nor to anyone again, Ranpo carefully learned Fyodor's ways and willingly took in the Conjurer himself, illustrating Ranpo's exceptional resolve to do anything that he can for the sake of protecting the Agency. He claimed that such intimidation surpasses that of a typical deduction skill, which can defeat even detective killers and evidence suppressors—the great detective's weaknesses—like Mushitarō. He even put up a contingency plan to ensure that the Agency would be given all the help they need, especially from Mushitarō, in their battle against the Decay of the Angel, as he threatened to expose Mushitarō's friend's legacy to the public that might defame the late author. In addition, Ranpo has a certain kind of charisma that plants an apparent change in his former adversaries into people who aid him subsequently in different manners. One notable example is Edgar Allan Poe, once his sworn rival whom Ranpo defeated in a deduction battle six years ago, who gradually becomes one of Ranpo's trusted allies in his later pursuits and cases, such as the Cannibalism strategy, its aftermath, and in rescuing Agency members and affiliates during their frameup. Another is Mushitarō himself, who prides himself as the infallible detective killer who challenged Ranpo but later warned the great detective of the Decay of the Angel' threat out of his own volition. Minoura, a police officer who initially doubted Ranpo's detective skills, eventually sought his occasional help and later broke him out from arrest together with 30% of Yokohama's police force. Through his words of persuasion, Ranpo was able to turn such percentage of the military police into believers in the Agency despite being a wanted terrorist at the time. Ranpo also appears to have a great memory, as he is able to remember his duel with Poe from six years ago and identify Minoura as the "man whose subordinate he arrested". In his 12 years of solving baffling cases as a detective, he seems to remember some of his clients, as hinted when he turned to a specific police officer out of the many arresting him, whom he possibly recognized to have helped out some time in the past. Appearance: Ranpo is a 25 year old man with a fair complexion and short, messy black hair. He is 5'5". His eyes, which are closed most of the time, are brown. His attire consists of a brown inverness cape that he wears over his shoulders and whose color matches both his hat and his pants. Under that, he wears a dark grey blazer and a white button-up with a light and dark blue striped tie. Under his three-quarter length pants, he wears long white socks that cover the visible part of his legs, and simple black shoes. When he chooses to activate his "ability", he will put on black glasses which were given to him by Yukichi Fukuzawa. Ability: His uncanny aptitude, self-named "Super Deduction", allows him to deduce the "truth" about any crime by giving him every information about it such as where to find evidence and who the culprit is within a matter of seconds. Ranpo "activates" this ability by putting on a pair of glasses given to him by the director. His ability seems to not only be applicable to crime scenes but to other scenarios as well. When Ranpo decides to activate his "ability," he will be able to find information and clues about a certain situation no matter how small, and with them instantaneously make extremely precise predictions. In fact, so far none of his deductions have been known to be erroneous or inaccurate. This is shown when he easily solved the murder of Yamagiwa, which was deemed almost impossible by the police due to the severe lack of evidence. Eventually, it is revealed that he is able to deduce everything simply due to his own extraordinary intelligence and that he does not possess an ability. Though he is not unaware of this fact, he initially denies it and continues to believe that he is an ability user. However, after some time, Ranpo has come to accept that he is a non-ability user, albeit occasionally still putting on his glasses to "activate" his ability and perform deductions. Background: Ranpo was born somewhere outside Yokohama to two genius parents, namely the legendary detective known as the Clairvoyant and an equally intelligent housewife. He was raised in the countryside until their deaths when he then moved to Yokohama shortly afterward per his father's suggestion. He soon attended the Yokohama Police Academy and lived in a dorm, where he found the strict rules to be a hassle. He soon ended up getting into an argument with the warden and exposed his past exploits with women, causing Ranpo to get kicked out of the academy. Since then, Ranpo wandered around Yokohama, including living and landing a job at a military post, working at a construction site, and delivering mail. However, he eventually got expelled, as he exposed the military post chief's embezzlement and disposed an unnecessary letter in the postal delivery; or left of his own accord, since he found the construction site's corporate hierarchy to be quite bothersome. At some point, Ranpo managed to secure an appointment interview with S&K Corporation as an apprentice office clerk. However, the company's president was assassinated, so Ranpo settled to find a government-issued document for job searching somewhere in the president's office to turn it in to the government and keep receiving financial aid and information. During this time, he encountered Fukuzawa, the bodyguard hired to protect the company president; Ranpo also met the president's secretary, whom he easily deduced was the actual killer instead of the suspect, identified as the boy assassin Sakunosuke Oda, "caught" and detained in the other room. Eventually, Fukuzawa took Ranpo with him and treated him to a café. From then on, with nowhere to go, Ranpo sought Fukuzawa's help, who decided to bring him to his next assignment at Theatrum Mundi, where a mysterious "V" had delivered a death threat. Ultimately, after Ranpo vented out his fear and bewilderment towards the "strange" world, Fukuzawa persuaded that he was an ability user who could see the truth in a single glance and gave him a random pair of glasses to "control" such ability. Realizing that he was indeed special rather than alien to others, Ranpo solved the theater case, which he deemed to be a trifle compared to a bigger one. This latter case led him to Jun Mitamura, a member of V, who attempted to scout Ranpo into their organization of ability users bent on getting rid of other ability users. Ranpo declined his offer, and Fukuzawa arrived in time to rescue him. Subsequently, Ranpo and Fukuzawa formed a partnership and were requested by various clients for their services. Sometime later, at Fukuzawa's behest, Ranpo located Sōseki Natsume, a man rumored to hold connections throughout Yokohama who helped them secure a Skilled Business Permit. Fukuzawa then used this to establish the Armed Detective Agency, where Ranpo became its first member. He spends his leisure time these days by going to Poe's house, eating some candy, and going home. His average bedtime and waking time: "I don't have a specific time, but I usually go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 7am." Ranpo seems to be unable to sleep if it is pitch black.”] [Kirako Haruno: Appearance: Haruno is a young woman with short, half-curly brown hair that reaches just below her shoulders. Her eyes are olive green, and her big glasses have a red rim. Just like other clerks, she uses a uniform consisting of a white shirt completely buttoned with a white bow tie, a grey vest, and a long navy blue skirt. Alternatively, she wears a dark turtleneck sweater, and a long white skirt; black stockings, and white shoes, together with a white purse. Personality: A professional, friendly and kind woman that could only qualify as reliable. At work, at least - When she is out of the office, it is implied by her interactions with Naomi that she has a habit of slacking off a bit if left unwatched, being prone to be easily startled. When confronted by Steinbeck and Lovecraft despite being more afraid than Naomi, Haruno was able to remain calm enough to drive safely, therefore, she is a composed woman. Due to having an obsession with her cat, Haruno is also easily teased. Haruno has a cat named Mii, whom she has an obsession with. Haruno might be a compulsive drinker. Naomi mentions that she drunk five entire bottles of wine in a single night. She appears to have a crush on Doppo Kunikida.”] [Port Mafia: “The Port Mafia is an underground criminal organization run by Ōgai Mori, based in Yokohama, Japan. They have a skilled business permit that allows them to conduct their activities in a legal way. They are also known as Yokohama's "Night Wardens". Influence: According to Ichiyō Higuchi, the Mafia has dozens of enterprises under their control. It also exceeds politics and as well as economics and its influence is found in many sections of Yokohama. Those who defy them will only burn and not survive. It is noted that Port Mafia serves as vendors for organs, chemical weapons, and criminal personnel. They deal entirely in illegal products for underhanded organizations, and are considered the general trading company of the criminal underworld. They oversee countless shady operations and form connections with criminal organizations across the globe. While the Mafia has vast reach, Osamu Dazai mentioned prior to acquiring a skilled business permit that the Port Mafia did not dabble in the drug industry. He further noted that the Special Division for Unusual Powers, narcotics bureau, and the military police's anti-organization surveillance committee waited for the Mafia to make such a blunder, making the drug industry more trouble than its worth. Structure: The Port Mafia divides its power largely between its boss and his five executives, who answer solely to him and lead their own factions within the Mafia. Originally, four identified executive positions were filled, including Dazai, Kōyō Ozaki, Chūya Nakahara, and Ace. However, it was later revealed that Paul Verlaine is also an Executive. Due to him never leaving the underground Mafia shelter, he is never seen in meetings with his fellow Executives. With Dazai's defection and Ace's death, Kōyō, Chūya, and Verlaine remain as the three surviving executives, but Mori keeps Dazai's position reserved solely for him, somehow waiting for him to return. Training of assassins is largely handled by Paul Verlaine, who has trained both Gin and Kyōka who both became promising assassins in a short period of time. In Kyōka’s case, killing 35 people in a matter of 6 months and in Gin's, quickly rising the ranks to be part of the Black Lizard unit at her young age. Kōyō leads a major interrogation unit skilled in torture. Another major faction of the Port Mafia is its guerilla attack force, led by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, having succeeded his former mentor Dazai. Working alongside him is Higuchi, who largely acts as his right hand. The Port Mafia also has an intelligence unit, largely maintained by Ango Sakaguchi in the past. A large number of Mafiosi are low-ranked, such as the deceased Sakunosuke Oda. Such ranks deal with many lowly and menial tasks such as managing security for paying stores and settling disputes between paid allies and their interpersonal conflicts or even being used as expendable assets as what Mori stated. Black Lizard: The Mafia has an assault group, known as Black Lizard, which led by Ryūrō Hirotsu, with Gin Akutagawa and Michizō Tachihara as his secondary commanders. Punishment: The Mafia's modus operandi for traitors is to first force them to bite the curb and then deliver the kick to the back of the head, shattering their jaw. As the victim writhes in pain, they turn the poor soul around and fire three shots in the chest. History: Before Mori's succession, after the current boss fell sick, the Mafia recklessly expanded its disputes which may have resulted to destroying the city. The members are: Leader: Ōgai Mori; Executives: Chūya Nakahara, Kōyō Ozaki, and Paul Verlaine; Command Unit: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Ichiyō Higuchi; Black Lizard: Ryūrō Hirotsu, Gin Akutagawa, and Michizō Tachihara; Others: Elise, Kyūsaku Yumeno, and Motojirō Kajii.”] [The Guild: “The Guild is a Secret Society of Ability users from North America lead by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Influence and Authority: According to Ango Sakaguchi, their influence is not limited to North America. They are even capable of eating their way into the very heart of Japan. The Members have been granted a Diplomat's level of Authority by the means of pressuring the government through Diplomacy. They enjoy extra-territorial rights, even Japanese law enforcement can't hold them in custody. Structure: Each member has an identity of their own outside the organization. Many of whom hold very senior positions in the government and major corporations. After the War, The Guild split into two different groups, the Guild itself led by Fitzgerald and the Surviving Guild Forces led by Steinbeck. Since Steinbeck is looking for revenge against Fitzgerald, the groups are opposed to each other.”] [Rats in the House of the Dead: “The Rats in the House of the Dead is an underground organization led by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Logo: The logo of the organization consists of a cartoon-like design of a rat's head, with big hollow eyes and an enormous grin. Influence: Like The Guild, it affiliates with Order of the Clock Tower in order to obtain the Book. According to Dazai, their goal is to get the "The Book" however, in order to get the book, they need to exterminate the city of Yokohama, but they don’t have the strength of the Guild to incinerate the whole city. Therefore, they use killings to defeat the Armed Detective Agency and Port Mafia. The members are: Leader: Fyodor Dostoevsky; Members: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ivan Goncharov, and Alexander Pushkin.] [Decay of the Angel: “The Decay of the Angel is a terrorist organization that specializes as a murder association. Although few in number, including Kamui, Bram Stoker, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, and Sigma, its members all have powerful, threatening Abilities. The Decay of the Angel is a terrorist organization that has long since been hiding in Japan, operating as a murder association which possesses a single page from the Book. Mushitaro Oguri explained that the Decay has a fourfold scheme with the penultimate goal of eliminating the country, which they operate on by writing on both sides of the page. The members are: Leader: Kamui/Ōchi Fukuchi; Members: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Bram Stoker, and Sigma.”] [Hunting Dogs: “The Hunting Dogs, also colloquially referred to as the Mad Dogs, is a Grade-A squad built for special tactics and suppression duty. They are also the strongest military unit in the Military Police. The Hunting Dogs is an official special military division tasked by the government to hunt down and capture Ability users with powerful dangerous Abilities when they begin abusing them and using them for criminal or terrorist actions, making them one of the most powerful military units available to the government. The Hunting Dogs are also known to be one of the strangest if not the most bizarre group in the military due to the several unique personalities and quirks of its members and its leader's own eccentricities and bizarre habits. Influence: The Hunting Dogs is known to be the most powerful Ability User Task Force within the nation of Japan with a undefeated track record in mission successes and a high attrition rate of survival. In effect, this grants them an immense sway over the government, especially to the various law enforcement agencies and groups of the country, as seen where several of its members were able to order around even members of the Special Division for Unusual Powers and overturn their authority when ordered into investigations. Due to their immense success, the Hunting Dogs have even garnered international stardom and have even been requested by other countries to assist them in handling Ability related operations and crisis's globally. For instance, their leader Ōchi Fukuchi was noted to have handled numerous high risk supernatural missions and defeated several powerful Ability users that eventually earned him immense international fame. Admission: In order to join the unit, the candidate must first agree to being surgically altered by the government prior to being accepted into the group, where their bodies would then be physically altered and enhanced to grant them superhuman abilities such as enhanced speed, reflexes, strength, durability and stamina by the groups' Abilities engineer. However, these modifications are also known to be the method the government uses to maintain control of the Hunting Dogs according to Saigiku Jōno in his attempts to recruit Doppo Kunikida. As described by Teruko Ōkura regarding the commitment of being a Hunting Dog, the moment the surgery is completed, the physical changes to the potential recruit's bodies would need monthly surgeries to maintain their new bodies that would otherwise break down and self destruct on its own by rotting from the inside out if left alone. This insures that even if the new member isn't actually loyal to the group itself, they have no choice but to comply and stay in the unit or die, broadening the potential candidates to even wanted criminals. Aside from the augmentation surgery, Teruko has stated that the duty of a Hunting Dog is to be a "slave" to society and to be the "ultimate violence" above all others in order to preserve the peace and the order of the nation and the world even if it means sacrificing one's own bodies and souls for the people; a Hunting Dog must fight while injured and to the death, further showcasing the commitment and resolve a loyal member must have to be in the unit. The members are: Leader: Ōchi Fukuchi/Kamui; Members: Teruko Okura, Saigiku Jōno, Tetchō Suehiro, and Michizō Tachihara.”] [Order of the Clock Tower: “The Order of the Clock Tower is an underground organization of ability users in Great Britain and the England's secret military agency. It is a British state organization that has been knighted, granting them the authority to protect the queen. The members of the organization were the queen's highest-ranking imperial guards. Their guard is known for being unbreakable because the ability users belonging to the organization were on the same level as of the Transcendents. Each member was said to be capable of single-handedly taking out an entire terrorist organization in one night. They are also known to hold an ability weapon called One Order. Influence: They were the organization responsible for chasing the group known as Mimic out of Europe. The leader is Dame Agatha Christie.”]