Flags

The Flags, initially referred to as the Young Bloods (若手会,), were a peer support group within the Port Mafia.

Description
The Flags were a group of young mafiosi aged 25 years old and below who held relatively high ranks within the Mafia. The group originally didn't have a name until Lippmann decided to call them the "Flags", borrowing from the metaphor of a flag being used in Ancient Rome as a beacon of announcing its bearer's presence. Founded and led by Piano Man, its members included Lippmann, Albatross, Doc, Iceman, and Chūya Nakahara. Each member had his own responsibility in the Mafia:


 * Piano Man: A craftsman of supernotes or counterfeit money. He was also the closest to the position of being a Mafia executive.
 * Albatross: In charge of the transportation aspect in the Mafia.
 * Doc: A doctor and the Mafia's medical supervisor.
 * Lippmann: In charge of public relations, including negotiating deals with enterprises or having meetings with the government.
 * Iceman: A hit man.
 * Chūya Nakahara: In charge of the gemstone black market.

Background
After Chūya was invited and joined the Flags, Mafia boss Ōgai Mori assigned Piano Man to look after him in case he would come to know about the secrets of his existence encoded in confidential Mafia files that could only be accessed by executives. Piano Man and the rest of the Flags, however, found no issue in keeping said secret from Chūya and gave him various documents related to his past on his first-year Mafia anniversary.

At the onset of the King of Assassins Incident, assassin Paul Verlaine ambushed the Flags sans Chūya in their usual gathering place and massacred all five of them. A funeral was held the day after, taking a mortician eight whole hours to make their maimed corpses look presentable. They were buried in a well-kept graveyard near the mountains, which Chūya frequently visited.