Simply put, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s lungs utterly fail him.

For such a feared figure in the Port Mafia, his failing grace is his lungs. Everyday he coughs. Damned mold, he thinks. But it’s too late to cure it. And until the day he dies, Akutagawa will continue his work of doing the dirty work for the Port Mafia. Humanity had failed him, after all. Why not inflict the pain he suffered onto others?

Then they’ll know how he feels.

Oh, how he suffered.

But for now, he’ll work.