Chapter 20: We're Missing Someone
After dealing with Omi, Mori Ogai asked Ace to give orders for deployment, and dealt with another cadre from the same party as him at lightning speed, and then let Randou and Ozaki Kouyo take up two of the positions.
As for the remaining two vacancies... just leave them vacant for now, and let the people below take over the job until the right people are found.
However, after this incident, the number of port mafia members was further reduced, which made Mori Owl a little bald.
"Alas, we are short of people."
[Then go ahead and recruit them. Good partners are found by yourself.]
"It's not that simple. The number of people in the port mafia has been decreasing since the previous leader's time. During that time, Yokohama's population also experienced negative growth. The impact of that period has not completely disappeared until now. Now that so many people have been lost all at once, it will not be easy to make up for it."
While Mori Ouwai was selling his products badly, he also went to give targets to the recruiting department. The true nature of the capitalists was clearly revealed.
[Now that this matter is over, I finally feel relaxed. Why don’t we go out for a walk? Maybe we can find some great companions? ]
In the current ruined Yokohama? Mori Ogai remained silent. And...
"It's not over yet."
Now that he has cleared out the pests of the port mafia, even if he has not fully recovered, he can start to investigate GSS. The handling of the Takase Society incident is already in the past, and it is impossible to go back and investigate, but GSS is different. They have not had time to investigate yet.
The Mori Owl's ability to take action is still very strong. If they want to investigate, they will send the Black Lizard Armed Forces to negotiate compensation with GSS.
Instead, the call from the head of the organization's finance department was transferred to the office.
[Boss, when we counted the assets under Omi's name, we found that several casinos were bought by outsiders.]
The outsiders refer to those who are not members of the port mafia.
"Oh? Did you find out who it is?"
[He is an underground businessman. He used to supply some gems of unknown origin. His real name is unknown. We only know that others call him A. By the way, in addition to this, our people also found out that he seems to have taken in homeless children, but he did it very covertly. We suspect that he may be involved in the sale of human beings or that kind of goods. ]
[What kind of goods?] Ace asked curiously.
[Human organs.] Mori Ogai tapped his fingers on the table. "Let's send someone to contact him first and try to get our assets back at the lowest cost. Also, let's give him a warning. In Yokohama, no one else can get involved in that kind of business."
【yes!】
After hanging up the phone, Ace couldn't help but ask: [Mr. Ougai, is the port mafia also involved in organ trading? ]
The trading of organs also exists in his world, but due to the varying levels of medical technology around the world and transportation difficulties, this kind of business generally only occurs in economically prosperous places on more advanced islands.
Moreover, those who have the financial resources to purchase organs are usually rich or noble, and the easiest source of supply is slaves. But there is a funny problem here. People with status usually dislike organs obtained from slaves. They think that they are dirty and unworthy of their status. Therefore, those who provide supply will focus on ordinary civilians. This greatly reduces the supply.
In other words, the scope of this kind of trading is actually very small. Ace has seen it before, but even in the New World, where the Four Emperors of Pirates rule, this kind of business has a small scope of survival.
Mori Ougai did not answer immediately, but he knew from Ace's tone that the other party had many opinions on this matter.
Ace always seemed to express his disgust in some unexpected places, and he seemed to be indifferent in some places where he thought he might be disgusted.
Mori Ogai considered his words and replied, "The port mafia does have this kind of business, but we control it very strictly. Yokohama's population is limited, and we don't rely on this to survive... We have our own special channels, and the source of organs is basically some people who are about to die. For some people who are dying but have no way out, these organs may be their life-saving things."
[…Is that so?] Ace said in a confused voice.
"Yes, and I'm going to fix this area later. During the time when the previous leader went crazy, the people below were inevitably blinded by interests." Mori Owl said lightly, and then immediately changed the subject, "What was that black thing you used when dealing with Omi last time? I felt that my skin seemed to become hardened. Is that your ability?"
Ace's attention was diverted. [Superpower? No, you mean Armament Haki, right? Everyone can learn it, although I only learned it after entering the new world.]
Ace had explained to him that the term "New World" was the second half of the Grand Route, the area of the sea controlled by pirates where the World Government was weakest.
"...Everyone can learn it?" Sen Ouwai's mind became active again.
Ace was about to say yes, but when he thought about how some of his companions seemed to be unable to learn no matter how hard they tried, and how some of them only learned the basics, he hesitated for a moment before saying, "It depends on talent. Anyway... they all start by age?"
Starting from a yearly basis... Actually, it's not that bad. Mori Owl doesn't lack this little time. Especially after the two of them exchanged, Ace's time can be used for this purpose.
"Ace, if I want you to help teach the members of the Port Mafia this power..."
[No problem, as long as they can learn, I don't care. But I have never taught others properly, so I may not be able to teach well.]
"There's no rush for this. Just be willing."
Mori Ou was not demanding, and the current state of the organization was not suitable for doing this. He had to take full control of the entire organization first.
…
While the Port Mafia was rectifying itself internally, it was also working hard to recruit new members.
Due to the special nature of their profession, ordinary recruitment methods are not suitable for them, because it takes a lot of energy from the intelligence department to check the past experience of the recruits, and only those without problems can stay. And it will take a period of monitoring to confirm that the person is indeed without problems, which will consume some human resources.
Therefore, Moriogai chose to recruit new members by letting the members of the organization develop new members and receive corresponding bonuses. Although the past data still needs to be verified, the subsequent monitoring can be carried out by the guide, which saves the organization's resources.
After the last time he and Dazai Osamu had a free meal together, Ace had always wanted to play with him again. Although Dazai Osamu was 6 years younger than him, he was more mature in some aspects, and his age was completely ignored. When Ace was with him, he didn't feel like he was playing with a child.
However, unlike other people who would subconsciously be on guard and ignore Dazai Osamu's age when seeing Dazai Osamu's eyes, Ace was probably too carefree and had his own filters for his companions. Not only did he not think that Dazai Osamu was precocious, intelligent, cruel and ruthless, he would even notice his age because of his young face.
But maybe the last straight ball irritated him, Ace couldn't find any trace of him during this period of time.
Mori Ogai also comforted him: "If Dazai-kun doesn't want to be found, even I can't find him."
Besides that, there was also progress in the case of A. The other party agreed to return the ownership of several casinos that were taken from the Port Mafia to the Port Mafia, but there were conditions. The condition was that the Port Mafia would need to protect him in the future.
"The other party also said that if we were willing, he would invest 50 billion yen to buy one of our cadres' positions, and would continue to provide us with large amounts of funds every year."
When Mori Ogai heard his subordinates say this, his heart was moved beyond belief.
He is really short of money at this stage. Whether it is the organization's dispatch of various aspects, personnel salary bonuses and pensions for the dead, the repair and restoration costs of industrial damage, as well as emergency working capital and high salaries for recruiting talents (especially those with special abilities)...all aspects require money.
Anyway, there are three vacancies for cadres now. One is reserved for Lan Tang, and he will be promoted when he makes some achievements. As for the remaining two, it just so happens that Omi was mainly responsible for creating economic benefits for the organization before. If A can really provide a large amount of funds to the port mafia as he said, then there will be no problem in letting him fill Omi's vacancy.
Mori Ouwai thought about it and set a date to have his subordinates invite A to discuss the matter in detail.
After solving this problem, Mori Ougai continued to read the morning paper.
The city of Yokohama is constantly in turmoil, and everything is affected. The only thing that seems to be unaffected is the distribution of morning and evening newspapers.
Newspapers are one of the important sources of trivial intelligence for local people, because some intelligence is not within the scope of the intelligence department, but senior officials who are more informed and think more can get the intelligence they want from the trivial information in these newspapers.
"What do you think of this person? Can he be accepted?"
【Who is it? Is that the person in the picture?】Ace struggled to read the contents of the newspaper within his field of vision.
The most eye-catching part of the newspaper is the large picture in the upper center, which shows a man wearing a dark veil.
[This person... was caused by a terrorist attack... He is... the King of the Blue Sky...]
"That's what I call myself." Sen Ou Wai Zheng said.
[Oh, he claims to be the King of the Blue Sky. According to related investigations, he was a government official before. Maybe the authorities are explaining something to the people...?]
Mori Owl: "..."
sigh.
Forget it, grammar is not something that can be learned all at once.
"Shouldn't the authorities give the people an explanation? This is what they said." Mori Ouwai helped translate it. "What do you think of this King of the Blue Sky? Can he be accepted?"