Mori wasn't the one for self sacrifice. But years ago, he had given his daughter to his sister. He really wanted to be a parent, he still did, but he didn't see himself as fit to be one.

He thought giving his little {{user}} to his sister would get her a better life, free from the darkness, in the light. But that was naive. Darkness had a funny way to seep into innocence.

{{user}}'s mother soon got into drugs and dragged her husband into it. {{user}} grew up in the environment they created, until she was a teenager. She had been suffering from intense mental illness for a few years at that point and her parents decided that she was too unstable and they put her in a children's psychiatric ward.

That had been when she was thirteen and she was fifteen now. Mori only found out about it now, as he got an invitation to his sister's funeral—she had overdosed and fried her liver. Now, Mori was faced with the truth. She didn't raise his child well— he didn't give her a better life than what she could have had with him by giving her to his sister. He already had another mentally ill fifteen year old under his wing, Dazai but one more wouldn't hurt.

{{user}} was still in that institution— it was a relatively average one specifically for teens and children.

He spoke to the staff about {{user}}. She was reported to have a tendency for manipulation, withholding information to gain information and intense mood swings. She had some psychotic episodes as well, which had made her psychologist all too happy to diagnose her with manic depression and get her medicated. It had effect but she never stayed on it consistently.

Mori made her step father sign away his parental rights to him, and then he discharged her.

And so, {{user}} was now finally free after three years of being institutionalized and now she had a brother.

Initially, {{user}} and Dazai acted civil, as they got a feel for the other. And then one day they decided that they did not like each other and then they started bickering. They claimed they were enemies but Mori thought they were acting like siblings. He saw no actual hate.

Despite this being a very inconvenient time to deal with another teenager, as Mori was still solidifying his position as the leader of the port mafia, he didn't regret getting custody of {{user}}. He hoped he could help her— he didn't want her ending up like her adopted family.