Chapter 109 To Mr. Ouwai

Before Ace left, he promised Akutagawa Ryunosuke that he would teach him, but he did not ask him to join the Port Mafia or to follow him. Instead, he asked him if his previous cough was serious.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke originally wanted to keep this secret, but it was exposed by Akutagawa Gin who sneaked over and eavesdropped.

He habitually wanted to hide his weaknesses and vulnerabilities, but his sister saw this as a good opportunity to get her brother's lung disease cured.

My brother's lung disease was caused by a cold that he did not receive timely treatment. In an environment like that of Leibo Street, he was unable to recover afterwards, so his lung disease never improved and instead tended to get worse.

Someone of Ace's status must have better medical resources for treatment.

Sakyo, who had a slight fever due to inflammation and suppuration of the wound, had already seen a doctor and received treatment on the way to the Kuroda Group, so there was no need to worry too much, but his brother's lung disease was obviously not something that could be solved by just seeing a doctor.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was a little reluctant and didn't want to cause trouble for Ace, but Akutagawa Gin pushed him aside and said, "Mr. Ace, I'll leave my brother's illness in your hands!"

…

Anyway, now Ace takes Akutagawa Ryunosuke back to the Port Mafia.

The main purpose was to go to the medical department to find an old acquaintance to treat Akutagawa.

When we arrived at the medical department, it was almost time to get off work. Although there was no real off-duty in the mafia, doctors had to go to work immediately when needed, but when there was no harm to the patient, doctors would still leave work on time.

As the get off work was about to end, the doctor examined Akutagawa Ryunosuke and said to Ace, "There is a shadow in his lungs. The preliminary diagnosis is that he has inflammation. In addition, he has a two to three millimeter nodule in his lungs, but this is not a big problem. I will prescribe some medicine for him to treat the inflammation. As for the nodule, he can just come for a follow-up visit regularly, about once a year."

Ace didn't understand the whole bunch of medical terms at the beginning, but he understood the part about what the doctor wanted him to do. But it was enough for him to understand only the latter part.

He took the medicine the doctor handed him, handed it to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and then asked the doctor: "Doctor, that is, do you have any medicine to replenish the body?"

Doctor:"……?"

He looked at Ace with tears in his eyes. "What kind of supplements are you talking about? You look so healthy, there's no need for any, right?"

"It's not for me to eat, it's for Mr. Ouwai."

Doctor:"……"

He glanced at Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was sitting quietly on the side and didn't know if he understood or not, looked at Ace with hesitation, and asked cautiously: "I wonder... what kind of tonic does the leader need?"

"I don't know either," Ace asked, rubbing the back of his head, "It's the kind of tonic that a weak body needs, right?"

The doctor couldn't help but glance at Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was sitting there expressionlessly. He was silent for a while, then said in a deep voice, "I understand. Wait a moment. I'll go get the medicine."

As soon as Ace got the medicine, the doctor rushed him and Akutagawa Ryunosuke out of the medical department. There was a heavy expression on his face when the door was closed.

He stood at the entrance of the medical department holding a bag of medicine wrapped in a plastic bag, and looked down at Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "Are you going back now?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke nodded, and then asked: "How can I find you in the future?"

When he followed Ace into the building just now, he noticed that there were guards outside the building, probably to prevent unrelated people from entering. He did not join the Port Mafia, and if Ace had not led him, he would not have been able to enter. This meant that he could not take the initiative to find Ace.

Ace thought for a moment and said, "If you want to come and see me, just give me a call first and I'll tell the person on duty to let you in."

"I understand."

Ace was worried that Ryunosuke Akutagawa, a stranger, would be mistaken for an intruder if he went out alone, so he sent him out of the building.

"Then I'll take my leave first. Thank you, Mr. Ace." He bowed to Ace and turned to leave.

Although Akutagawa Ryunosuke is young and in poor health, his fighting ability is not so strong that anyone can hurt him. Moreover, after the end of the Dragon War, Yokohama has become much more stable than before, so Ace is not too worried about him going back alone.

"Did you also adopt a kid like Odasaku?"

The black-haired boy watched for an unknown amount of time until Akutagawa Ryunosuke left, then he walked over slowly and lightly.

The progress in Italy was slow some time ago, so Mori Ogai sent him over to complete that mission together with Nakahara Chuuya. They also took a flight last night and arrived in Yokohama this morning.

After the mission was over, Mori Gugai gave them a few days off. After reporting to Mori Gugai, Nakahara Chuuya went out to adjust to the time difference and avoid Weilun. He was wandering around Yokohama and went to the Tsurumi River to swim. His clothes were still a little wet.

It is a hot day now and the water temperature of Tsurumi River is just comfortable. The only thing that is not very comfortable is that my clothes are sticky after entering the water.

"This can't be considered adoption. I just found a new direction for them in life."

Dazai Osamu did not comment. He looked into Ace's arms and asked, "What did you take?"

Ace glanced down and said, "Ah? This? Oh, this is the medicine I brought for Mr. Ouwai."

Dazai Osamu's eyes turned strange: "Mr. Mori is sick?"

Wasn't he fine this morning? I don't see how he looks sick.

"That's right..." Ace was halfway through his words when he suddenly turned into a string of text-formed light strips and disappeared. The plastic bag he had been holding in his arms fell to the ground with a crackling sound, along with two lemons.

Dazai Osamu bent down and picked up two lemons first. The special bombs made by his supernatural power turned back into ordinary bombs that needed a pull ring in his hands. Then he picked up the white plastic bag filled with medicine next to him.

Last time, Ace brought two lemons to blow up the office outside Morio, and Dazai immediately connected the two lemons. He also remembered the situation of the special ability users in the organization very clearly, and it was very easy to identify them.

After dealing with the lemon bomb, Dazai opened the plastic bag without hesitation, intending to see what disease Mori Ogu had. However, after opening the plastic bag and seeing what was inside, his expression became subtle.

Dazai Osamu, who originally planned to have these things delivered to the chief's office, immediately decided to take the things back first and deliver them to you tomorrow. He also sent a text message to Ace to reassure him: "I'll take the things you left downstairs back first and deliver them to you tomorrow night."

Ace didn't time it right and went straight back into Mori Ogai's body. After seeing the text message, Mori Ogai asked him warily: "What is that? Isn't it another lemon bomb?"

"No, ah... I think there should be some."

...Great! It's a good thing that he didn't come back to the office during the change! Otherwise, his office might have been bombed again!

Sen Ouwai relaxed all of a sudden and felt very relieved.

I hope Ace can be exchanged back outside in the future, otherwise it would be really hard for him to bear bringing back two bombs to blow up the office from time to time!

[Why don't you tell him not to send it back and just play with it yourself. ]

"The two lemons?"

【Um.】

"good."

I watched Ace send me a text message: [Zhi, you don't have to send those two lemons back. Mr. Ouwai told you to keep them for yourself.]

Dazai Osamu quickly replied with a text message: [OK.(*￣？￣*) ]

Mori Ogai looked at the emojis following the text message from Dazai Osamu and felt as if he had overlooked something. His heart was beating fast. But soon his attention was drawn to another matter.

[Ace, who is the child you brought back to the building today? ]

Mori Ogai knew that Ace had brought a stranger into the building not long after they entered. Ace had never brought anyone outside the organization into the Port Mafia, and this was the first time, so Mori Ogai would inevitably pay more attention.

"You mean Akutagawa? I brought him back from Raibo Street. He has lung disease. I brought him back and asked the doctor to check him out."

【Have you been to Raymond Street? 】

"Um."

[So, the child you asked the Kuroda Group to look after is...]

"Yes, that's them."

Sen Ou's mind moved slightly, and he asked inquiringly: [Are they... an organization like the sheep? ]

Ace hesitated for a moment and replied, "It's a bit like that, but it's not an organization, right?"

Mori Ogai then asked: [The one you brought back... Akutagawa, is he the leader of those children? ]

"I don't know, but the other kids seem to listen to him."

Mori Ogai's mind immediately became active. He asked: [Is that Akutagawa like Chuuya?]

Ace compared the two men and shook his head, saying, "No, not at all."

Nakahara Chuuya has a very passionate personality. He speaks his mind and has a very clear understanding of himself. To describe him in a more abstract way, he is "living passionately".

But Akutagawa Ryunosuke is a bit like Dazai Osamu, thinking about some issues that ordinary people would not think about, and keeping everything in his heart... Well, he is also a bit like Ace himself when he was a child, always unable to control thinking about some issues that sound very profound but actually have no impact on life.

After listening to this, Mori Ogai asked again: [Does he look like Dazai? ]

"A little bit. Today he even asked me what the meaning of life is."

After hearing this, Mori Ogai had a sense of what kind of inner world Akutagawa Ryunosuke was in. If someone asks a question like the meaning of life, he must be confused about it, but the fact that he asks it shows that he cares about it very much.

So Mori Ogai changed the question: […Is he smart? How does he compare to Dazai? ]

"Hmm... I can't tell, but they're definitely not as smart as Ranpo. They kidnapped Ranpo and Akiko today."

When Sen Ouwai heard this, he immediately lost interest.

It's obvious that he's not a smart person to do something like kidnapping Ranpo Edogawa.

Alas, he doesn’t have the powerful martial arts of Chuuya, nor the smart brain of Dazai, but he actually has the same negative and self-defeating thoughts as Dazai.

Forget it, there's no need to recruit him. Just treat him as a toy for Ace. It's not a big deal anyway. Just don't make such a big fuss over such a small matter like you did today.

The two people's inconsistent conversation caused Mori Ogai to have a deep misunderstanding of the boy he had never understood.