I Love This Post Sm Because I've Been Thinking The Same Thing But I Couldn't Put It Into Words😭

I love this post sm because I've been thinking the same thing but I couldn't put it into words😭

Port Mafia’s Second In Command: Nakahara Chuuya

(Contain 15-years old Novel excerpt spoiler )

Ever since the Rat’s arc I always wondered, why was Chuuya the one entrusted with the position of acting director in the wake of Mori’s infection by the virus? It’s not his skills that made me question it, just that there’s a lot of other candidates around him that seems like a better alternative at the time.

The level-headed, powerful (and arguably less drunk) Kouyou.

Or the veteran, well-respected Hirotsu.

(not Akutagawa, though. Definitely not Akutagawa. Ma boi’s not a good fit for leadership)

And in the new novel excerpt of soukoku’s first meeting (translated by the wonderful @looking-for-stray-dogs ) we finally found out the reason why.

Chuuya was not originally from the Mafia, rather he was a member of an organization known as the Sheep—and from the admission of a mafia member, the organization is a powerful one. And Chuuya? Chuuya is known as the King of Sheep, conceivably the leader of the said powerful organization that even a member of the mafia is afraid of.

And all of this happened when Chuuya was fourteen or fifteen. Younger than even Dazai when he was made Executive.

In hindsight, it’s clear why Chuuya was left with the Port Mafia in absence of the boss; he has experience, even more than that of Kouyou’s and (arguably) Dazai’s, in leading an organization. Seven years under Mori’s leadership and four to five as his right-hand man, Chuuya was a different beast altogether from the one that kicked in the window of an airplane for revenge.

We always hailed Dazai as the genius of the Port Mafia, but in actuality? The Mafia is in possession of two geniuses. If only Chuuya had joined the Port Mafia first and not the Sheep there’s not a single shred of doubt in my mind that he would be just as feared as Dazai, a true equal in every sense of word.

With the revelation I won’t even be surprised that, if Mori were to die before Dazai return to the Mafia, Chuuya would make a powerful new boss to the organization.