I find this hard to believe.
This might sound funny to you, but I just learned that it was Chuuya who gave Akutagawa the task of killing Dazai in the movie Dead Apple. I don't know how I could have missed that. But this left me with some questions.
While I'm not someone who ships Chuuya and Dazai, the interesting bond between the two of them is my favorite part of the series. However, my surprise at his decision to kill isn't due to this connection. Rather, it's because Chuuya trusted Dazai's plan from the very beginning (even if he wasn't privy to every detail). So wouldn't this decision to kill, along with trusting Dazai's plan and using Corruption, be contradictory?
In the light novel, a conversation between Akutagawa and Chuuya shows Chuuya explicitly stating that he doesn't trust Dazai with protecting the city or anything like that because he could never understand him. However, at the end of the film, we clearly see that he believes there is a plan behind his summoning Shibusawa to the city. Despite tasking Akutagawa with killing him, he jumps down, trusting him in what was likely the case. Several possibilities come to mind in this situation.
- Chuuya himself doesn't even know what he thinks or feels about Dazai.
- Chuuya had understood Dazai's plan far better than anticipated and had sent Akutagawa to complete this strategy, which was based on Atsushi's development.
- He became aware of some things after Ango's call.
On the other hand, it doesn't make sense to me that Chuuya would perceive this as a direct betrayal and order his execution. If there's one thing he learned from partnering with Dazai for years, it's that he always has a different plan. So, like everyone else, did he initially interpret this incident as betrayal?
But even if we disregard everything else and assume Chuuya gave this order with genuine intentions, do you think he truly wanted it at that moment? So, was he able to make this decision with a certainty we could call blindfolded? Because that seems like a remote possibility to me.