Ōgai Mori/Relationships


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Elise
As the manifestation of his ability, Mori is very fond of Elise and has kept her alongside him since the Great War. Following the war, Mori still had Elise in his underground clinic near him at all times, though he grows considerably fawning towards her over time. For instance, one of his typical requests for her was to have her try on some dresses, even repetitively pleading her to do so given her constant refusal. In general, Mori is ardently attached to Elise and remarks that he would never grow tired of her feisty temperament.

Over the duo's shared lengthy history, Mori and Elise usually banter with each other over various and typically petty topics given Elise's "angry and cranky" attitude, a feat Mori himself apparently set up himself as his ability. For example, Mori once asked her not to eat too much sweets, reasoning that it is unhealthy, though Elise in turn promised to wear the "frilly dress" he bought, making Mori yield and even offer her seconds for dessert. Amidst Elise's brief insults, Mori merely takes it moderately or even ignores some of them.

In public, Mori poses as an ordinary doctor with Elise as his companion, albeit sometimes posing as his daughter. He usually buys her several clothes on a single trip, once reaching at least 15 clothing stores to buy from. Mori also grew desperately concerned with Elise's apparent disappearance along the streets during the Guild's arrival in Yokohama, hence staying behind in Lucy Maud Montgomery's dimension with the thought that Elise might have been captured inside. Nevertheless, Mori retains his doting stubbornness towards Elise and her defiant attitude.

On another note, Mori apparently does not mind voicing out his thoughts and heading operations in Elise's midst, making her one of the few people in the Port Mafia privy to his Mafia-related endeavors and schemes. Moreover, Mori's primary defense and support can be considered to be Elise, being the individual always close to him. As such, Mori can activate her at will anytime and configure her into a combatant, either as his main or assistive fighter. In dire situations, he can also have her save him almost instantaneously and seemingly without any spoken instruction.

Kōyō Ozaki
"Kōyō-kun, you're strong enough…… If you wanted to leave the Mafia, no one could ever pursue you now, could they?"

- Mori appraises Kōyō's prowess

Kōyō and Mori appear to be in good terms as fellow Mafia echelons. They seem to be occasionally with each other's company, once amidst the falling cherry blossom petals overlooking a distant pavilion. Moreover, Mori considers Kōyō to be a powerful ability user and skillful individual, confident that she could have easily escaped from the Armed Detective Agency's captivity or even leave the Mafia without too much struggle given her powers, though Kōyō assures him that she holds a grudge towards his predecessor and now prefers helping him as the Mafia boss.

Mori's ideas sometimes clash with Kōyō's, particularly regarding Mafia executive Ace. Though Kōyō personally disdained the former gambler and did not completely trust him, Mori nevertheless considered her claims, albeit proceeding with his own agenda of letting Ace handle Fyodor Dostoevsky rather than Kōyō's torture squad.

During Mori's virus affliction, he was saved by Kōyō from Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's assassination attempt, saying that she does not want the Mafia to return to its previous state without Mori's leadership.

Chūya Nakahara
"The leader of an organization is someone who acts as both its king and its servant. To protect the group, they gladly put themselves through all manner of filth and tribulation. They hone their subordinates and place them where they are best suited. Otherwise, if deemed necessary, they discard them. They must take on any act of barbarism without hesitation. That is a leader."

- Mori advises Chūya about leadership

Mori first met Chūya during the latter's time with the Sheep in the midst of the previous Mafia boss' seeming revival. Mori was unfazed towards Chūya's blackmails and knowledge of Mori's rumored assassination of the previous boss; he even admitted straightforwardly to Chūya that he indeed killed the boss himself. Nonetheless, Mori acknowledged Chūya's power and recognized that the latter knew about Arahabaki, hence partnering him with the young Osamu Dazai in their initial investigations.

Deep down, Mori apparently wished to test whether Sōseki Natsume's maxim that "only a diamond can polish another diamond" applied to the two adolescents, similar to what was taught to him and Yukichi Fukuzawa. Furthermore, Mori advised Chūya on the complex essence of leadership from his perspective, which made Chūya realize what he lacked in leading the Sheep. Upon earning Chūya's loyalty, Mori shortly welcomed him to the Mafia, handing him Randō's hat as a tradition in the organization.

Eventually, upon Chūya's rise as a Mafia executive, Mori entrusts him with various responsibilities and once assigned him alone to be his personal envoy to deal with the Agency during the Guild war, asserting that he has "more than firepower to smash the Detective Agency". In other circumstances, Mori would occasionally be updated by Chūya on intimate Mafia details, such as their casualties or losses, and would visit them personally to pay their respects when possible.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
"He deserves praise, I'd say. Besides, Akutagawa-kun has always been that way. Going rogue, destroying everything in his path, and contributing the most in the end. One could say he has a knack for it. There's no need to punish him as long as he keeps succeeding."

- Mori praises Akutagawa among his Mafia executives

Despite having rare interactions, Mori as the boss recognizes the valuable efforts of Akutagawa within the Mafia, having acknowledged his talents and considerable violent streak that outclasses almost anyone in the organization. Knowing that Akutagawa often operates alone, Mori sometimes implicitly dispatches Akutagawa in solo operations, including possibly bombing a police station; engaging Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Mitchell aboard S.S. Zelda, selecting him as the "kid who's aching the most to see some action"; and tracking down the masked assassin.

Moreover, as Mori firmly believes that efforts are comparably important than results, he dismisses the thoughts of his fellow Mafia higher-ups by the end of the Guild war regarding punishing Akutagawa for violating the erstwhile ceasefire agreement with the Agency, reasoning that he was able to succeed in the end anyway.

However, Akutagawa is not exempt from Mori's logical considerations, having once deemed him a liability in the face of a revenge plot on him by Karma Transit remnants' hired mercenaries. As such, Mori decidedly turned a blind eye on the then-incapacitated Akutagawa for the sake of preventing an all-out turf war, just as how Higuchi surmised.

Ryūrō Hirotsu
Mori has presumably known Hirotsu ever since the previous boss's time, considering him a veteran in the Mafia. The two seem to hold mutual respect towards each other, though Mori once briefly displayed a hint of ambiguous hostility towards Hirotsu's vague remarks pertaining to him killing his predecessor as Dazai exposed. Nonetheless, Hirotsu clearly expressed his thoughts to Mori, believing that Dazai back then also understood Mori's rationale for disposing the previous boss.

Arthur Rimbaud
"Believe it or not, he's a secondary executive and an excellent ability user."

- Mori introduces Randō to Chūya

In his early stages as Mafia boss, Mori regards Randō as an excellent ability user who was part of the Mafia's higher-ups. He occasionally asked about Randō's condition, once noticing how he looked "colder than usual", knowing that Randō was not physically sick or had no problems in his nervous system based on examinations and merely hated the cold. Nevertheless, despite after learning of his past operations as Arthur Rimbaud, Mori did not discard his belongings and kept some of his researches, investigations, and records, even handing out his hat to Chūya as customary of Mafia recruitments.

Sakunosuke Oda
Mori initially displayed subtle commendation towards Oda's infamous works as a low-ranking mafioso and claimed that the Mafia was full of people "only good at shooting, punching, and making threats", hence deeming him an asset to the Mafia. As such, he assigned Oda to find the missing Mafia informant Ango Sakaguchi, which Oda himself thought to fit him aptly as a mere "errand boy". He also showed knowledge of Oda's friendship with Dazai and curiosity towards Oda's no-kill policy, albeit never receiving the latter's reason behind it.

It may be possible, however, that Mori set up such events for Oda since the beginning, more so given the fact that Mori was instrumental in helping Mimic enter the country illegally all in pursuit of obtaining a Skilled Business Permit in his elaborate plot. In the middle of the war against them, Mori was shown to have utilized Oda and his ability as his trump card in defeating Mimic, even noting to Dazai that Oda risking his life to eliminate Mimic was a "win-win situation" for the Mafia alongside successfully acquiring a Skilled Business Permit from the Special Division for Unusual Powers, showcasing Mori's logic at play that sacrificed Oda and many others along the process for the sake of the Mafia.