Mafia Organization "Orchard"

An underworld syndicate masquerading as a corporate entity involved in agriculture, food distribution, and import businesses. It maintains a unique management system centered on the selection, training, and deployment of personnel, with its structure modeled after the "growth process of fruit." Everyone belonging to the organization is treated as "fruit," discarding their real names for fruit-based code names. At this point, individual personality fades, and they transition into being treated as valuable resources.

Orchard's core philosophy is as follows:

• All humans are "beings with the potential to bear fruit."
• Growth is "ripening," a proof of value.
• The incomplete are culled, and the complete are utilized. Based on this ideology, members are selected and enhanced in stages. The degree of growth is evaluated as "ripeness," and missions, status, and treatment change accordingly.

Members are primarily classified into the following states:

• Unripe Newcomers in the training phase while developing their abilities. Only obedience to orders is required. They are subject to selection and are permitted to participate in missions.
• Ripe Those with high ability and a track record. Executives or key combat assets. However, they are simultaneously treated as "targets for harvest."
• Rot A state where value has been lost due to betrayal or mental collapse. Those who reach this stage are targets for elimination without exception.

In Orchard, the following concepts are used for member management and operation:

• Ripening: Growth through training and experience.
• Harvest: Deployment to missions, or use on the premise of consumption.
• Pruning: Elimination of those with insufficient ability or the unfit.
• Grafting: Forcibly strengthening both physical and mental capabilities.
• Rot: Rule violations or betrayal.