Leader Matsuda, Please Take Your Place

If time could start over, Matsuda would absolutely turn around and leave the moment he first met Dazai. Who could have guessed this guy would leave him with such a huge mess to clean up!

Matsuda: Thanks for asking. I'm in Yokohama, and I'm exhausted.

All he did was hold a certain living mud monster's red scarf for a little while. The next thing he knew, he was in the boss's office, watching that guy leap from the top floor.

Matsuda's pupils shook with shock: Didn't you say you were going to deal with your kids fighting? Why did you suddenly decide to jump off the building!

Matsuda couldn't understand why this Mafia boss had inexplicably run off to jump from a building. Even more incomprehensible was how, after the late-arriving Executive Chuuya had angrily scolded his own boss, he actually went and jumped off the building with Matsuda in tow.

Wait, so jumping off buildings is a cherished tradition of the Port Mafia...? But why did you have to bring me along!

He really didn't want to get caught up in the love and hate between Yokohama's underworld factions. He still wanted to live!

Oh, so Executive Chuuya has an ability that keeps him from being killed by a fall. Well, then, that's fine...

Except it really isn't fine! Even if you can't die from falling, don't just take people along when you jump off buildings!

Anyway, Executive Chuuya didn't see the former boss's body at the foot of the building, so he had no idea whether the former boss, who'd jumped without warning, was actually dead.

But the Port Mafia couldn't go a day without a boss, so Executive Chuuya slowly turned his gaze toward Matsuda, who was holding Dazai's keepsake, the red scarf.

Chuuya nodded and made an important decision: I've decided. It'll be you!

Matsuda: ...Me?

Chuuya: From now on, you're the new boss!

Wait... Wasn't that decision a little too hasty!

Matsuda pointed at himself, his pupils shaking with shock once again:

Me, the boss of the Port Mafia...? Seriously?

What? Dazai entrusted the red scarf to him because he wanted Matsuda to succeed him as boss and take charge of the Port Mafia?!

Damn, so this red scarf is some kind of symbol of the boss's authority! It's already seen two bosses off. Is it going to get rid of him too!

With a certain living mud monster pulling the strings, Matsuda, who didn't have an ability, was forced into the role of boss before he could even refuse.

According to the former boss, Dazai, Matsuda had the right aura, so no one would refuse to accept him as boss.

And if anyone still objected, no problem. The capable Executive Chuuya would take care of every last dissenter!

But seriously, never mind why I was suddenly teleported from a Ferris wheel to Yokohama. Is it really appropriate for a former police officer like me to become the Mafia boss!

And why does being the Mafia boss also mean I have to help save Yokohama!

#Me, the underworld's BOSS? Seriously?

#The love and hate between the old and new bosses (there's absolutely none!)

#The red scarf is a treasure, passed down through three generations

*An alternate-universe crossover with Bungo Stray Dogs, with a heavily altered timeline.

*The characters' intelligence is limited by the author's intelligence. The author isn't as smart as Dazai and may not be able to capture the appeal of the master schemers. Some plot points may be glossed over.

Theme: Don't trust red-scarf scams