James O’Brien, Crackling Mountain and Other Stories Introduction This discovery occurred less than a mile from where the couple had evidently entered the water. It was almost a week later - on June 19, the author’s thirty-ninth birthday - that a passer-by happened to notice two waterlogged corpses in the canal tied together with a red cord. Despite these ominous signs, an intensive search along the canal failed to turn up anything more. A little ways downstream, two pairs of wooden clogs were found against the lock of a dam. The ground nearby was strewn with several objects - a small bottle or two, a glass plate, a pair of scissors, and a compact. A strip of wet grass lay flattened from the top to the bottom of the bank, as if something heavy had slid down into the water. After the police began an intensive search for the couple’s whereabouts, they eventually found a suspicious-looking place along the Tamagawa Canal, midway between Dazai’s own home and Tomie’s residence. Also, nearby was a small pile of ashes, all that remained of the incense that the lovers had lit before departing. Photographs of Dazai and Tomie stood next to one another in Tomie’s lodging in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka, along with the traditional water offering to the deceased. Dazai and his companion, Tomie Yamazaki, left behind a series of farewell notes to friends and kin, the author conscientiously composing his last will and testament for his wife, Michiko. But when he disappeared with his mistress on a rainy night in mid-June of 1948, the signs that he was thoroughly prepared to die were unmistakable. Furthermore, it is unknown what he was doing during that time, but it is mentioned by Dazai himself that before meeting the Armed Detective Company, he was an unemployed and unmotivated drunk in a bar that he used to frequent.Osamu Dazai had tried to take his own life on a number of occasions, two of these attempts assuming the form of shinjuu, the traditional Japanese suicide pact entered into by a pair of lovers. Later, it was his friend, Ango Sakaguchi who assisted him with that. Taneda recommended the Armed Detective Company to Dazai, on the condition that he'll need at least two years to cleanse his past. Dazai later tracked down a man named Taneda, who was the acting commander for the Japanese ministry's supernatural division, and requested to work in a place where he can help people. It is stated by Akutagawa that, during a mission, he suddenly aborted it and supposedly, defected from The Mafia. I suppose you don't care for either justice or evil.but striving to be a better person is a wonderful thing" - and decided to leave the mafia. Already distraught from the knowledge that Ougai intentionally drove Oda Sakunosuke into a suicidal attack against the enemy commander, Dazai took Oda's last words to heart - "I know it makes no difference to you, but please become a good human being. The trigger for Dazai leaving the mafia was his old friend Oda Sakunosuke, a low-ranked mafia member who was killed in the conflict between Port Mafia and Mimic orchestrated by Ougai Mori to obtain an official license from the government expressing silent consent of Port Mafia's existence and its activities as an organization. In the years he was an executive, roughly half of the mafia's overall profits could be solely attributed to him, to the extent that Ougai Mori mentioned that "Given another four or five years, I wouldn't be surprised if Dazai killed me and took over my position." He was also a specialist at torturing people for information claiming to Kouyou Ozaki that, "There hasn't been a single prisoner, who hasn't spilled everything under my interrogation." He even gave Akutagawaspartan training in using his ability. ![]() He was the youngest person to become an executive in history, and a living legend within the mafia as well. Dazai appears to be part of the Mafia prior to the story, and he was once one of the five great Mafia Executives.
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