Chapter 111 Teachers and Students

Ryunosuke Akutagawa came to see Ace quite frequently in the first few months after his life got back on track. After receiving instruction from Ace, he went back to train other minors.

After the first few months, although Akutagawa still came to Ace for special training, the intervals were longer. He was diligent in another aspect - he took more orders, and somehow he got in touch with the Port Mafia. The orders he received from the Port Mafia were more than those from the Kuroda Group, and the missions were of higher quality than those from the Kuroda Group. Most importantly, the settlement amount of the missions was much higher.

Ace did not ask about this. After all, it was Akutagawa's own decision, and Ace never interfered with other people's decisions.

In order not to cause more trouble for Ace and leave a bad impression on him, Akutagawa Ryunosuke followed his past habits and did not tell Ace that the leader of the Port Mafia had met with him privately.

Mori Ogai openly acknowledged the rumor that Ace was his son, so Akutagawa Ryunosuke met Mori Ogai with the attitude of treating the father of a respected person.

After learning that he had no intention of joining any organization, Mori Ouwai prepared to take a roundabout way to save the country.

He told Akutagawa that if he wanted to become stronger, simply practicing against others would not produce much effect after reaching a certain level. The truly strong were forged through battle after battle. Only by facing true murderous intent and real death could one truly become stronger at the fastest speed.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke agrees with this, and so does Ace, so he didn't ask after seeing the mission Akutagawa took on by the Port Mafia. He himself had fought his way out of battles, and he knew better than anyone that only when a person is pushed to the limit can he break that limit and become stronger.

Then Mori Gugai revealed his purpose in a very tortuous and obscure way: he told Akutagawa that the Port Mafia also had a lot of things to do, and if Akutagawa was willing, he could also accept tasks from the Port Mafia. Of course, the commission was not comparable to that of other organizations.

——As the biggest winner of the Dragon War, although the aftermath work was very expensive, the Port Mafia still gained a lot of property, so he could still afford this commission generously.

"After all, you are also a student brought back by Ace." Mori Ogai said meaningfully.

As long as Akutagawa actively does the Port Mafia's tasks, even if he clearly says that he is not a member of the Port Mafia, who would believe that he is not closely related to the Port Mafia? Moreover, his relationship with Ace is here, and they are definitely teacher and student. Even if he does not admit that he is a member of the Port Mafia, outsiders will automatically regard him as a member of the Port Mafia.

But after hearing this, Akutagawa Ryunosuke was silent for a moment, and whispered: "Mr. Ace...didn't accept me as a student."

Mori Ouwai looked at him speechlessly.

He really wanted to pry open the kid's brain and see what was inside.

Ace has spent so much time teaching you how to fight, doesn't that mean he treats you as his student!? Look at it yourself, apart from the lack of a ceremony of becoming a disciple, is there anything else that doesn't conform to the relationship between teacher and student!?

He only gave Dazai Osamu some pointers occasionally, and that was considered a teacher-student relationship, so why aren't yours considered such?!

Moriu paused for a moment, then half-complained and half-jokingly said, "Why don't you go and ask him if he's willing to take you in as a student?"

...So Akutagawa Ryunosuke, the honest child, actually went to Ace and asked this question.

Ace had never thought about the issue of student-teacher. The only person in his life who could be positioned as a teacher was probably Miss Makino. The little cultural knowledge he had, basic manners, and so on, were all taught by Makino. However, Miss Makino was more concerned about their lives. She was more like a relative than a teacher.

As for the others...

His foster mother Dadan raised him in a free-range manner, usually providing him with food and lodging; Grandpa Karp let him do whatever he wanted, only seeing him one, two or three times a year, and staying for a few days at most each time. He would always give him a good beating every time he came! In short, he was never taught anything culturally. The most his grandpa would say to him when he beat him was, "You little bastard! At least show some respect to your grandpa! Call me grandpa!"

Although he had never had a proper teacher, he knew that teachers were a role that needed to be treated seriously. Many of his former companions had their own teachers before joining the Pirates, and most of them respected their teachers very much. A few of them had some resentment towards their teachers because they had been treated badly, but it was a mixture of resentment and respect, and the emotions were quite complicated when they talked about it.

He intuitively felt that this request could not be easily granted.

It is not easy to be a teacher to others, and he does not think he is suitable for this role.

But Akutagawa Ryunosuke was sincere when he said, "Mr. Ace has opened a new path for me. I think Mr. Ace is fully qualified to be my teacher. Moreover, Mr. Ace is really teaching me now and has become my teacher. Without Mr. Ace's guidance, I would be a stray dog ​​now and in the future. Mr. Ace really underestimates himself."

Although Ace was confused, he felt relieved to hear these words. He was relieved and all his worries were thrown out of his mind. He slapped Akutagawa on the shoulder, smiled and said, "In that case, I will accept you as my student. I will protect you as a teacher in the future!"

But after calming down, Ace became anxious again. He sat beside Mori Ogai's desk, resting his head on the table with his arms, and asked Mori Ogai, who was reading a document, in a distressed manner: "Mr. Ogai, what do you think the teacher should do?"

Mori Ogai, who was behind the scenes and caused the current situation, said: "..."

"I see that my former classmates all admired their teachers. Their teachers must be very good." He tilted his head and looked at Mori Ogai. "Mr. Ogai, I heard that you were also Zhi's teacher. Do you have any good suggestions?"

Although Mori Ogai knew what a proper teacher was like, he also knew that the teacher Ace was talking about was closer to a traditional master, the kind who taught the successor one-on-one.

But the problem is, he didn't teach Dazai Osamu much. Dazai Osamu was extremely intelligent, which meant that he couldn't be treated like an ordinary child. Ordinary disciples needed to be taught by words and deeds, but with Mori Ogai, there was no need to tell him why, just let him do it, and he would be able to see and understand the rest by himself.

After all, Mori Ogai never taught him properly, and the little bit of teaching he did give was basically in the form of "See, as long as...you do this, you will be able to..." He directly used the results to tell Dazai what he wanted him to understand, omitting many steps in between.

But not all children are Dazai Osamu, or rather, children like Dazai Osamu are the extremely rare type that can only be found by chance. Therefore, this teaching method is definitely not suitable for Ace and Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

Mori Ogai thought about it and thought that since Ace was teaching him physical skills, he might as well develop in this way, and he could also use the person after training him. He was about to make this suggestion when he heard Ace asking again: "Do you need to know a lot to be someone's teacher? It seems to me that you, Mr. Ogai, know everything."

...The suggestion that slipped to his lips was swallowed back by Mori Ouwai. He changed the topic and said, "Indeed, as a teacher, you really need to know more. Students may have various questions. If you can't answer any of them, it's a bit embarrassing."

"Yeah..." Ace's arms fell down and his head fell on the table.

Seeing that Ace agreed with him, Sen Ouwai immediately said, "So, do you want to learn more? If necessary, I can also arrange courses for you, and guarantee high quality."

Hurry up and agree! Stay and study! Stop causing trouble!!

Sen Ou really doesn't want to live the life where there is a small thing every two days and a big thing every now and then!

However, when Ace heard about the course, he immediately thought of Nakahara Chuuya, who was so stressed out by Verlaine's urging that he always wanted to go abroad on business trips to avoid Verlaine. His scalp suddenly went numb.

"Well, let me think about it..."

Ace thought about it and went to look for Weilun the next day.

Verlaine started studying hard in order to teach his younger brother. Ace thought that this seemed to be similar to his own situation, so he ran directly to Verlaine's house.

Verlaine was preparing for the new round of college entrance examinations, and even reduced his own orders to review at home. He woke up early in the morning and hadn’t been doing the questions for long when he heard someone knocking on the door: “Verlaine, are you home? Verlaine?”

Weilun, who was working hard on his homework, didn't want to pay attention to him, but the other party seemed to know that he was at home and kept knocking on the door even though he didn't say anything.

Verlaine, wearing only a shirt and trousers, opened the door with a sullen look on his face. "What do you want?"

Ace, who used his Observation Haki to cheat, smiled brightly: "Weilun, I recently accepted a student, but I feel that there are still many things I need to learn. I want to consult you, that is, is there any way to learn a lot of things quickly? Oh, by the way, how do you teach Chuuya, please share with me?"

Weilun originally didn't want to pay attention to him and just closed the door, but when he heard the last sentence, his hand stopped trying to close the door.

He stared at Ace for a while, then said slowly, "Come in first."

As Ace followed Weilun into the house, he listened to him say, "If I want to teach Chuuya, I must first know more than him and give him the best educational resources."

He simply ignored Ace's first question and answered his second one: "To give him the best educational resources, he must first get into an excellent university and prove his ability."

Ace: “…”

He recalled the last time he saw a question from Chuuya Nakahara, where he couldn't even understand the title, and immediately backed off: "Well, there's no need to do it to that extent, right? I don't have such high requirements..."

However, Weilun ignored him and continued to talk about what happened when he was lecturing to Nakahara Chuuya, and went on to talk about what efforts he had made to be able to guide him in cultural subjects... He said he was sharing, but in fact he was just showing off the harmony between him and his younger brother.

Ace's scalp was tingling and he wanted to run away halfway, but Verlaine didn't finish talking and used his supernatural power to pin him down in his house to listen to him. By the time Verlaine finished talking and let him go, Ace was almost exhausted.

He went to Nakahara Chuuya to complain about his brother, and then he sighed, "It's really not easy for you."

Nakahara Chuuya sighed.

Who says it isn't?