Port Mafia

The Port Mafia (ポートマフィア,) 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 "Wardens of the Night".

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 the Port Mafia serves as vendors for organs, chemical weapons, and criminal personnel. They deal entirely in illegal products for underhanded organizations, and is 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 Kyoka who both became promising assassins in a short period of time. In Kyoka’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 Ryunosuke 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 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.

Flags
The Flags are a group of young mafiosi aged 25 years old and below. The group originally don't have a name until  Chūya suggested to name the group as "Flags". Its members include Lippmann, Piano Man, Albatross, Doc and Ice Man. Each of the members have its own responsbility in the mafia.

Black Lizard
The Mafia has an assault group, namely Black Lizard, 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.

Atsushi's Bounty Approach
The Port Mafia takes part in capturing Atsushi Nakajima in order obtain a 7 billion yen on the black market to be used to control the underground. The mafia takes on four attempts on the mantiger's capture: including Higuchi and Akutagawa's joint operation, succeeded by the Black Lizard's infiltration of the agency office with the goal of eliminating all the agency members , Kyōka and Motojirō's bomb threat scheme which eventually results to the former's defeat and the latter's split from the mafia. , and finally with the help of the organization Karma Transit to kidnap Atsushi and transport him to a foreign nation.

All of which four attempts fail with lastly Atsushi fighting and defeating Akutagawa on a ship going to a foreign nation, making the bounty approach a failure. It was revealed that an organization by the name of Guild is responsible for the 7 billion bounty on Atsushi.

Declaration of the Three-Way Battle
After the failed bounty approach, the Guild arrives at Yokohama with the goal to obtain the book by eradicating both the mafia and the agency. With the Guild taking action to execute their plan, Port Mafia also launches their own attack to crush the Guild and the agency firstly by killing the Guild assassin and the eradication of every member of the agency. During the beginning of three-way battle, Port Mafia's executive Kōyō, was captured by the agency. This event led to Mori's decision to kill the president of the agency with the plan of focusing to resist the Guild after he was eliminated. The mafia hired some outsider assassins to kill Fukuzawa but the pursuit failed however they successfully get hold of the agency's hideout and declares a three-way war to both the Guild and the agency.

Attack on the Guild and the Armed Detective Agency
The mafia sends out Motojirō Kajii and Akutagawa to eliminate Guild's luxury liner and kill Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Mitchell. Motojirō successfully destroyed the Guild's frontline base and restricted the Guild's escape ruotes by setting lemon bomb traps. Akutagawa engages in a battle with Hawthorne and Margaret, seriously injuring both by the end of the battle.

The Mafia manages to find the agency's hideout during the war thanks to their plan of ambushing Fukuzawa. Chūya is sent out to the agency's hideout to propose an offer to them by leaking the Guild's location and place as a result of the Mafia succesfully giving a bait to the enemy organization. At the same time, the mafia releases Q, exercising all their options to win the battle. However, the Guild manages to get hold of Q - using Q for their next emergency plan.

Members
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