Chapter 26 Deliberate
Are you the leader of the Port Mafia?
If it was Mori Ogai himself, he might have tried to give a roundabout way to mislead Nakahara Chuuya, but now that it was Ace standing here, he would just answer frankly, "Yes."
Nakahara Chuuya's face instantly darkened, and Yuzuka shouted from the other side: "Look, Chuuya! He admitted it!"
"Have you been lying to me all along!?"
Ace looked at him in confusion: "I never lied to you."
"You obviously..." Nakahara Chuuya was speechless in the middle of his sentence, because he found that after only one day of getting along, everything the other party said was not a lie to him. Even when he met Dazai Osamu, he greeted him in front of him very frankly, admitted that he knew him, and did not hesitate to show the good relationship between them...
In the final analysis, the whole thing about the Port Mafia luring Mori Ougai was all his own conjecture, with the most part of it being Dazai Osamu's misleading information.
Hateful——
"Hey! You, are you working with that bastard Dazai Osamu to play a trick on me?!"
Once he knew that this man was actually the leader of the Port Mafia, Nakahara Naka had no way to convince himself that he was really stupid. How could a stupid person become the new leader of the Port Mafia? How could a stupid person fight back and forth with the Takase Society and the GSS at this critical juncture?
He doesn't believe it.
Rather than believing such outrageous things, he believed that Mori Ogai was cooperating with Dazai Osamu so that Mori Ogai could lurk around him and gain his trust.
But if that's the case, it doesn't make sense. As the leader of the Port Mafia, what reason does Mori Ogai have to lurk around him? Although he is indeed very strong, he also knows that the Sheep Organization alone is not enough to make the leader of the Port Mafia risk his life to lurk around him. Moreover, why would Dazai Osamu, who is also in the same group, reveal his identity?
The only thing that Nakahara Chuuya could think of was that although this guy became the leader, the control of the organization was not in his hands, so the people on Dazai Osamu's side wanted to use him to get rid of him!
"You mean cure? What kind of cooperation?"
Ace's bewildered look made Nakahara Chuuya even more furious. He was about to say, "Don't come here again, you bastard," but Shirase Fukaichiro on the other side spoke before him, "The leader of the Port Mafia has been handed over to us, Chuuya, kill him! We will swallow up the Port Mafia directly!"
Nakahara Chuuya turned around and looked at him in astonishment: "Hey, hey, are you kidding?"
The Port Mafia is such a huge beast, how can the sheep eat it? If they get rid of the leader, the most likely consequence is that the Port Mafia will retaliate wildly! He can't follow every member all the time, and the sheep will definitely suffer a devastating blow!
However, this did not make sense to Shirase Fuichiro. With Dazai Osamu's attempt to sow discord, they were already not so confident in Nakahara Chuuya, and now they heard that Nakahara Chuuya was suspected of speaking for the other party, and their suspicion deepened.
“Chuuya!” He shouted in a somewhat cowardly manner, “Are you really planning to abandon us and join the Port Mafia!?”
Nakahara Chuuya frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I do such a thing?"
"Isn't it——"
"Hey." Ace interrupted him with a frown, "Chuuya is your leader, right? Is that why you doubt your leader so much?"
“Huh? What does an outsider like you have to do with it!” Shirase Fukaichiro glared at him, then looked back at Nakahara Chuuya, “Chuuya! Aren’t you going to do it!?”
Ace simply couldn't bear to watch it anymore, he took two steps forward and stood in front of Nakahara Chuuya, "Hey, is he the leader or are you the leader? Are all you sheep like you?" As he said this, he shifted his gaze to look at the two people beside Shirase Fuichiro.
Although he didn't care about his companions speaking to him in an imperative tone, his situation was obviously different from that of Nakahara Chuuya.
They don't even have basic respect and trust for Nakahara Chuuya, they are simply using him as a tool!
Mori Ogaiya said in a strange tone: [This is the first time I have seen a leader ordering his subordinates around. What a failure, Chuuya-kun.]
The two people who were stared at by Ace shrank back and avoided his gaze at the same time.
But this actually has an implicit meaning of tacit consent, because someone has said what they were thinking, but they dare not face it, so they can only avoid it.
Ashton got even angrier.
Even though I have only known him for less than three days, I can sense how protective Chuuya Nakahara is of Sheep. However, the Sheep members who have been companions for many years are doubting his sincerity.
This is really worse than feeding the dog.
He had thought that the sheep that could be protected by Nakahara Chuuya would definitely be as good as his former companions, so Nakahara Chuuya had so firmly rejected his invitation. Now it seems that this is not the case at all!
"Can you still be considered as companions if you are like this!?"
Shirase Fuichiro couldn't help but retreat a step under his momentum, but he stood up again soon, "What does it have to do with you! What do you know about our business! Chuuya——"
Nakahara Chuuya grabbed Ace's wrist and pulled him behind him. He looked at Shirase Fuichiro with a serious look and said in a deep voice, "Shirase, I'm not going to attack him."
Shirase Fuichiro's face turned pale, and his attitude was not as tough as before, seeing the bad look on Nakahara's face, but he still insisted and asked: "So, you really want to betray us and join the Port Mafia!?"
"Shirase, he didn't do anything to us..." Nakahara Chuuya started to speak in distress, but was immediately interrupted by Ace, who said, "Chuuya, why don't you just give up these guys and follow me? What good are these guys!"
Nakahara Chuuya's expression froze on his face. He turned his head to look at Ace: "What are you talking about? Didn't I tell you before? It's impossible for me to join the Port Mafia." He turned cold and said, "If you don't want to die, you'd better leave now, otherwise I won't show mercy later."
Ace's eyes widened in exaggeration: "What! You're willing to listen to this kind of person and attack me!?" Amid Shirase's scolding of "What do you mean?", he showed an angry expression, "Nakahara Chuuya! I was wrong about you! I won't let you go next time we meet!"
After saying that, he turned and left.
Nakahara Chuuya frowned and opened his mouth slightly, but no sound came out.
Forget it, given their identities, they shouldn't have any contact with each other.
When the three sheep saw Ace leaving, two of them seemed to be breaking up and slowly came over.
"Chuya, why didn't you kill him just now!" Shirase Fuichiro was still a little resentful.
Yuxing glanced at him and said to Chuuya, "Chuuya, forget about that ungrateful guy, let's go back."
Another child also said: "Chu Ye just rejected him like that, he might retaliate against us later, should we go back and make some preparations?"
Nakahara Chuuya's eyes swept across the three people's different expressions, and his heart seemed to twitch suddenly.
Did that guy just say that on purpose...
He glanced inconspicuously in the direction where Ace left, then turned around and followed the other three people towards the base.
…
After leaving Raymond Street, Ace went to a secluded bar he had never been to before to drink.
It's not that I'm sad, I'm just a little angry.
People who are Sheep don't deserve to have a companion like Chuuya!
Phew, never mind. Maybe he just happened to run into someone he wasn't worthy of.
The bar was playing soothing blues music. Seeing him order a glass of whiskey, Mori Ogai casually sighed: "If you do this, the other party may not appreciate it. Maybe he doesn't even realize it."
Nakahara Chuuya could see it, and of course he could see it too. When Ace's behavior just became a little bit abnormal, he discovered Ace's purpose.
Ace may really want Chuuya Nakahara to choose his own path, but there is no way that Morioga would let Chuuya Nakahara go just like that. The only reason he lets Ace do that is because Dazai Osamu is there to back him up.
Now he has basically given up the idea of Ace absorbing the entire Sheep Organization. The next step is to separate Chuuya Nakahara from the Sheep Organization.
[It doesn't matter.] Ace poked the ice ball with his finger, which was slightly exposed to the surface of the drink, and said, [At worst, we can just be friends. I don't have to force him to join us.]
Mori Ogai: ...Unfortunately, I just want to force it, and even want to destroy it if I can't get it_(:зゝ∠)_
[But if one day he can't stay with the sheep anymore, I will still accept him, haha.] Ace laughed.
Mori Ogai: Well... then he will definitely not be able to stay here.
In this regard, Mori Ogai still has great faith in Dazai Osamu's ability.
After finishing the glass of whiskey, there was a half-melted ice ball left in the glass. Just as I was about to ask the bartender to add another glass, I heard people at the table not far away talking in low voices -
"The port is controlled by the port mafia, so the water route is blocked..."
"Well, the police are investigating very strictly. It's not a big deal in Yokohama, but once you leave Yokohama, you might be arrested soon. What's going on with Sugiura Yoshinaga? Didn't he say that it would be done this morning? Why is there still no news? Is he kidding us?"
"Not really. Don't we have leverage over him? If they play tricks on us, we will spread the information. I don't believe he won't be afraid!"
"Wait a little longer, maybe there will be news in the evening."
“…”
[Tsk tsk, corrupt upper class people.] Sen Ouwai commented coldly.
Ace didn't comment on this. He had seen many corrupt upper-class people, the most typical of which were the world's nobles, the Celestial Dragons, who didn't regard other people as human beings at all.
[Ace, find someone to keep an eye on that Sugiura Yoshinaga.]
【ah?】
Hearing Ace's confused voice, Mori Ogai couldn't help but sigh: "Ace, as the leader of the port mafia, you need to learn to use your brain occasionally."
Ace: [……]
Well-behaved, innocent, and afraid to speak.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Sen Ouwai sighed again, "Do you still remember the information of the Cang King we wanted to recruit before?"
[…Remember, right…? ]
Mori Ogai knew that his efforts were in vain when he heard his tone, so he sighed again and explained: "The King of the Blue became a terrorist for the sake of justice in his heart. Sugiura Yoshinaga meets his target conditions. If he is not exposed, the King of the Blue will probably target him, and then we will be able to capture his true whereabouts."