Chūya Nakahara/Relationships

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Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine and Chūya share a very complex relationship. Verlaine first met Chūya when Chūya was sixteen. He told Chūya that he is his older brother, before asking him to leave the Port Mafia to come with him. In a effort to convince Chūya to do this, the professional assassin begins to methodically kill anyone Chūya has a reason to stay in the Port Mafia or Yokohama for.

Ōgai Mori
"I've made my decision. I'm dedicating my life entirely to you, Boss. I will work to see that this organization is protected and decimate those who stand in our way. Our enemies will soon come to fear the crushing weight that my powers of gravity can inflict on them. They'll think twice about opposing us."

- Chūya pledges loyalty to Mori and the Port Mafia

Chūya, then a 15-year-old member of the Sheep, was asked by the new Port Mafia boss Mori to work alongside Osamu Dazai to investigate the alleged reappearance of his recently deceased predecessor and, along the way, the mysterious Arahabaki, although this choice was met with disagreement from both sides.

Towards the end of such events, Chūya questions Mori's perception of what it means to be a leader. Mori asserts that being a leader entails being both a king and a servant to their subjects, an answer that makes Chūya realize his shortcomings as one of Sheep's leaders, having earned him the alias of the Sheep King (羊の王,). Chūya ends up joining the Mafia and pledges his loyalty to Mori and the organization, vowing to use his capabilities to protect them.

Eventually, Mori promotes Chūya to an executive. With this position, Chūya appears headstrong and dedicated in doing whatever he can in his power to protect the Mafia and Mori as its boss. During the events of Cannibalism, Chūya did not hesitate to fight the Armed Detective Agency and kill their president, knowing that it is the only option given them in order to save Mori. Despite Kōyō Ozaki's reluctance in playing straight into their opponent's hands, Chūya nonetheless assembles and heads the Mafia to settle the issue in a blood feud with the armed detectives.

All in all, Chūya and Mori have mutual and professional rapport, with Chūya accepting Mori's assignments whenever possible out of trust in the boss' schemes and plans. Such include being sent as a personal envoy to deal with the Agency during the Guild war and aiding the Agency on the run from the Hunting Dogs.

Arthur Rimbaud
"Even in death, you're a real pain in the ass. Of course, Port Mafia confiscated all the records that you collected on Arahabaki. So I'm back to square one. Well, even if you were alive, you probably wouldn't have told anyone about that stuff anyway. I'll be back."

- Chūya visits Rimbaud's grave

Chūya first met the Mafia sub-executive Randō after a run-in with the "resurrected" previous Mafia boss and being brought to the Mafia. Initially aloof towards the man, Chūya later comes to know more about the European agent Rimbaud and develops a complex grasp on the latter's motives from eight years ago in the duration of their clash, ultimately understanding Rimbaud until his final moments.

Knowing the former sub-executive's influence on Chūya, Mori gives him Rimbaud's hat as a symbol of recruitment in the Mafia as tradition of being given something from the one who recruited the mafioso into the organization. Moreover, one month after Rimbaud's death, Chūya visited his grave and told him of the trouble regarding his confiscated Arahabaki records. Nevertheless, Chūya assured him that she shall return to the rural cemetery when he can.

Kōyō Ozaki
Kōyō was originally assigned as Chūya's overseer, and the two share a very familiar bond. Chūya refers to her as "big sis" (姐さん,), something that annoyed her at first since she didn't think she was old enough for that nickname. However, she later grew to accept it.

As fellow executives, Chūya holds Kōyō in high respect and appears to work together at times. For instance, Chūya and Kōyō deliberated on the optimal solution of saving the boss after getting afflicted with the Cannibalism virus. From a mere glance, Kōyō immediately knew that Chūya was willing to take on the Agency and kill their president, something Kōyō displayed reluctance in. However, they soon presumably saw eye to eye, as the Mafia soon ends up engaging the Agency.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Though Chūya and Akutagawa rarely interacted with each other, there are few instances of Chūya mentioning Akutagawa to others, including how he might have been fooled by Dazai after getting captured and asking Mori of Akutagawa's punishment for breaching the détente with the Agency during the Guild war after the mafioso infiltrated the Moby Dick by himself. Nevertheless, Chūya seemingly acknowledges Akutagawa as one of their valuable mafiosi, later working with him as part of a short-lived siege team to attack the Agency's primary members during the Cannibalism operation.

From the glimpses shown in the aftermath of the Yokohama fog incident, Chūya is highly knowledgeable of Akutagawa's perception of Dazai and therefore tells the mafioso right away that the latter has now fled. The executive also trusts him enough to lend him a shoulder afterwards in his post-Corruption state.

In other media, Chūya has shown concern and care towards Akutagawa when the Mafia heads to the on Mori's orders. Chūya acted as a caring and wise mentor towards Akutagawa and even gave him advice about the former's complicated relationship with Dazai.

Osamu Dazai
Dazai is Chūya's former partner back when Dazai was still a member of the Port Mafia. The pair make up Double Black, or otherwise known as "Soukoku", a name given to them by Ōgai Mori. The two harness a deep relationship with lots of history, involving their childhood. Both know each other well enough to easily percieve the way the other thinks, acts, and fights, creating a formidable duo. The two regularly say that they hate each other due to Dazai's teasing of Chūya's height and Chūya's aggressive temper. It's also known that Chūya trusts Dazai, enough to enable Corruption, which can only be nullified by No Longer Human. Despite this, Chūya activates corruption during Dead Apple, knowing that if he didn't get to Dazai in time, he would die.

The two took an instant disliking to each other the moment they met, and Dazai was responsible for extorting Chūya into joining the mafia by manipulating the Sheep into believing Chūya to be a traitor and threatening to kill the gang should he refuse to join. Later, as adults Dazai gets himself captured by the Port Mafia in order to both help Atsushi and utterly humiliate Chūya by forcing him to betray the mafia, whom he considers his family. The two also celebrated Dazai quitting the mafia, with Chūya opening up a bottle of exceedingly expensive wine and Dazai bombing his ex-partner's car. It's also shown they do not interact much unless forced to, though they are able to carry out missions without their mutual hatred getting in the way of their success.

In Storm Bringer, during Guivre the Beast's assault on Yokohama, Dazai is only motivated to fight when Mori points out he would technically be committing double suicide with his partner should he die. However, while explaining Corruption is their best bet for winning to Chūya, he adds on the fact that the logs containing the answers Chūya had been seeking his entire life would be erased and gives the other boy the genuine choice to use it or not without manipulation, in a rare act of kindness towards his partner. When Chūya decides to use Corruption and passes out in the sky after defeating the monster, Dazai is also there to catch him.

Akiko Yosano
When meeting her for the first time, Chūya gets excited to fight someone while Yosano only demonstrates her typical sadism for her opponents. Despite being enemies, Chūya does not seem to dislike Yosano or hold anything against her.

Kenji Miyazawa
"No blunt-force attack can faze him. They're playing their joker from the get-go..."

- Chūya acknowledges Kenji's skill.

During their first encounter,Chūya is taken back by Kenji's superhuman strength. After Chūya fought Kenji and Yosano, Chūya acknowledges that Kenji is strong and that physical attacks do almost nothing to him. When the Port Mafia is sent to kill the president of the Agency, Chūya scopes out the front door to Fukuzawa's hospital room; he sees Kenji guarding the door and calls him the joker of the agency.

Ranpo Edogawa
"You may be the Agency's linchpin, but you have zero fighting power."

- Chūya's view on Ranpo on their first confrontation.

Chūya is aware of how the Agency idolizes Ranpo. When the Armed Detective Agency went to attack the Port Mafia, Ranpo went to ocnfront Chūya. When Ranpo first challenged Chūya, he seemed merciful, giving Ranpo a chance to back down and walk away. Yet after Ranpo mocked him for losing to Dazai before, Chūya mercilessly attacks him with full force. Ranpo successfully traps Chūya a mystery novel written by Edgar Allan Poe, and manages to escape by identifying all the murderers. Despite this encounter, it doesn't seem like Chūya held it against him.

Shirase
Shirase was the first person to help Chūya in the Sheep, offering Chūya his bread when he was starving. The two of them were friends in the Sheep, but as with the rest of the members, Shirase relied to heavily on Chūya's ability and took advantage of him. Shirase and several other members of the Sheep met Chūya and Dazai in an arcade, where Dazai planted distrust of Chūya in their minds. Because of this, Shirase and the other Sheep chose to betray Chūya by stabbing him and joining forces with the GSS. Despite this Chūya ended up joining the Port Mafia and cutting a deal with the Port Mafia to save his and the rest of the Sheep's lives.

A year later, Shirase was still being used as a hostage to keep Chūya in the Mafia. When Shirase was under threat from Verlaine, Chūya went out of his way to protect him. Shirase ended up accompanying Chūya and Adam on their mission to stop Verlaine. During this time, Shirase learned of his mistake and what Chūya did to protect him. He also realized that Chūya was a child like him and risked his life to protect him. By the end, the two of them said goodbye to each other as friends when Shirase left to start his own organization in London.