(dazai refrains from touching, although his hand is strategically positioned so that the boy might take it any time he wishes. it's a matter of allowing Scott time to think, space to feel. there's a sigh from him as he nods his head.)

That isn't incorrect. From the time I was a little younger than you all the way to my late teens, I was part of an organization called Port Mafia. I hold the title of the youngest Boss in history. If you hadn't hear it from me, you would have heard it either way. Chuuya, unlike me, hasn't left the mafia, and he's disgustingly attached.