Chapter 128 Just Being Happy is Enough

The whole cabin was filled with soprano screams in American English. Ace, who didn't understand anything, tilted his head. Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who understood a little, frowned to hide his embarrassment. The instigator calmly returned to the computer and clicked pause. The air was filled with an indescribable atmosphere.

Of course, this atmosphere didn't last long. Ace had no idea what was in the computer. Lovecraft's pain points were different from those of ordinary people. He didn't care if others knew what he was reading. Akutagawa Ryunosuke never read this stuff. Even if the lines made him a little embarrassed, he was the kind of person who could just pretend he didn't hear it and ignore it.

Ace looked around and saw that neither of them was talking, so he repeated, "Let's go? Let's go eat?"

Lovecraft frowned a little reluctantly: "You guys go ahead, I don't really want to go out, I'm fine staying on the boat."

"Can we go out for a meal before coming back to the boat?"

Lovecraft had no intention of staying on the boat. After a few words, he followed obediently.

However, they did not go straight to the hotel at the beginning, but went to Akutagawa's house first.

The companions tidied up briefly, mainly putting things away. Zuo Jing wiped the sweat off his forehead, looked back at the three people who had just entered the house, and said loudly: "Are we going to expand our house? It seems that there are not enough rooms."

When they were young, this house was not divided into two rooms per person, but two rooms per person. Now they have grown up a little, and they brought a lot of things with them this time. Two rooms per person is not enough. And now there are two new people, and there may be other new companions in the future. After all, there should be enough rooms in Yokohama, the home of our family, right?

Besides, they had been sailing for two years and had made a lot of money, so it would be easy to upgrade the house.

Ace suggested, "Then you can buy the two houses next door and connect them together to build one house."

During the Mimic incident, those people directly attacked the Akutagawa residence with hot weapons. At that time, Akutagawa Ryunosuke used his supernatural powers to eliminate all the attackers. Now all the neighbors knew that the owner of this house was not an ordinary person. There was a powerful supernatural person in it, who was obviously a dangerous character. It was also quite dangerous to live around them, so the owners of the two neighboring houses quickly moved out.

Later, when they went out to sea, some people came to see the house, but when they asked around and heard about the situation here from people around them, the house viewing was immediately cancelled, and the real estate agent was even beaten up by the client - those who dare to live in Yokohama all the time have a tough temper. After all, if you are soft, you will easily be bullied by people in Yokohama who are good at observing people's words and expressions.

So until now, the two houses next door are still empty and cannot be sold.

"Then let's stay in Yokohama for a while. Mr. Howard doesn't like to go out, so we can just stay in the house next door." Reina said.

The renovation will still take some time. They brought a lot of valuable things into the house today. If there is no one to watch over it, there is no guarantee that the workers who come to do the renovation will not do a clean job.

As I said before, in Yokohama, you can't trust other people's conscience too much.

Akutagawa Gin said, "Then Asuka and I will go talk to the owners of these two houses."

The smartest person on their ship is Hisami, but he is not very good at talking business. After all, he knows too little about this area. Whenever there is something that requires talking, he is always pushed out. He just stands out among this group of short guys.

But after Fei Niao came, the job of negotiating business fell on her. She seemed to be born very sensitive in this aspect, even if she had lost her memory, she could easily find loopholes in the other party's words.

The first person who made Asuka one of them was Hisaya.

Originally, the Vermillion Pirates took her in temporarily because she had lost her memory and didn't know where to go. Since she was found in the waters near the United States, they should have sent her directly back to the United States to let her figure it out on her own. However, they had just robbed the goods of several American mafia gangs at the time and were on their way to escape when there was chaos among them. Of course, it was impossible for them to go back and deliver her to them, so they could only take her with them for the time being.

When they passed through Europe, they found that she was quite smart in economic issues, and soon they came up with the idea of ​​keeping her as a companion.

There was no other way. There weren't many smart people on the ship to begin with. When something happened, he, the tallest among the short ones, had to be forced to deal with things he was not good at. Of course, he wanted to find someone who was good at this to help him share the burden.

We had dinner in a private room in a restaurant. Ace had to leave in the evening, so we had to leave in the middle of the meal.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke sent Ace to the door of the restaurant. After much hesitation, he asked, "Mr. Ace, why don't you ask me... whether I have found the answer?"

He never forgot why he went to sea. After learning from Reina that the next stop was Yokohama, he had been simulating in his mind what would happen after meeting Ace. He even thought countless times about what answer he would give if Ace asked this question.

He tried hard to think about what the meaning of life was. Has he found it now? But why couldn't he describe it when he needed the answer? Did he not find it yet? What kind of answer should he give so as not to disappoint Mr. Ace? Should he make one up first? Or should he tell the truth?

There were many questions and he was very anxious. The closer he got to Yokohama Port, the more anxious he became.

Until now, as soon as he started talking, he knew what he was going to say.

"So did you find it?" Ace asked following up on his words.

"I don't know." Akutagawa Ryunosuke's eyes were confused for a moment, "What is the meaning of survival? I still haven't found the answer."

Ace smiled, "I guess so."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke's pupils twitched slightly, revealing a puzzled look.

"The meaning of life cannot be found by deliberately searching for it. Many people may not be able to find the meaning of their lives when death is approaching. Most people in the world don't even think about the meaning of their lives. You are only 19 years old now, and there is still time to find this meaning. There is no need to rush. If you care too much, you may not find it."

Ace put his hand on his head and rubbed it hard, causing his head to become frizzy.

After returning from the sea, Akutagawa Ryunosuke has grown a lot taller, but perhaps due to genetic problems or his poor physical condition, he is still half a head shorter than Ace.

The palm of his hand above his head felt hotter than his body temperature, and Akutagawa Ryunosuke pursed his lips and frowned.

"Don't think too much, Ryunosuke. Are you having fun out at sea? How is it compared to before?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was slightly startled, hesitated for a moment, and replied: "Probably... happy, right? I feel very relaxed, and sometimes I think it's not bad to continue like this..."

"Isn't that enough?"

"......?" Akutagawa Ryunosuke raised his head and met Ace's smiling eyes, and was stunned for a moment.

"The most important thing for a pirate is to have fun while you can. As long as you can say that you are happy now, then everything you do is meaningful." Ace's black pupils were as vast as the sea he had seen.

"Sometimes, people can only find the meaning of life when they look back on their lives at the moment of death," just like himself, "When you have seen more scenery, the answer will come to you one day. Before that, being too obsessed with pursuing the answer to this question is just embarrassing yourself. If you spend time thinking about this question, it will lose the so-called meaning."

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The Asuka Pirates have already completed their small goal of traveling around the world, and recently they plan to stay in Yokohama for a while longer, and have no plans to set sail again in the short term.

In the past two years, the Asuka Pirates have done this kind of gang-on-gang thing in most countries with mafia influence. Hisami has analyzed it for the people on the ship. Generally speaking, the special abilities controlled by the government are definitely stronger than the civilian forces. It is too dangerous for them to fight against the local government with their strength, but the government generally does not care about gang-on-gang things.

Of course, Italy is an exception. After all, the mafia there has more influence than the government. Most of the powerful people with special abilities are distributed among the mafia, and the official is quite weak. It is even worse than the current situation in Yokohama.

Therefore, the Stratos Pirates are a rare group in Italy that was put on the wanted list by the authorities due to conspiracy between two gangs.

Now, Yokohama is one of the few places where they have not caused any trouble. Of course, it is more comfortable to rest and recuperate in their hometown, and the environment is good for them.

——After all, if they were to rob other gangs in Yokohama, they would have to rob the port mafia.

Mr. Ace is an important figure in the port mafia, and Akutagawa Ryunosuke has also cooperated with the port mafia. This kind of black-eating-black thing is certainly unacceptable.

The expansion of Akutagawa's residence took two to three months. With the help of the Kuroda Group, Asuka Pirates upgraded all their own equipment and that of the cruise ship. They also re-established new cooperation with the port mafia in the name of Asuka Pirates.

Although the overall strength of the Asuka Pirates is not enough to establish diplomatic relations at the same level as the Port Mafia, the interests of both parties do not conflict, there is still the original basis for cooperation, as well as Ace's nepotism, the establishment of a new cooperative relationship is relatively smooth.

When he thought of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, whom he met again after two years, Mori Ogai couldn't help but sigh.

What a good diamond! After two years of drifting, the madness on her face has become more restrained, and her body looks much healthier...

Too bad it's not his.

It's really sad.

But it's not that nothing good happened.

Mori Ouwai held a photo of a young girl attached to the report, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

"A killing ability similar to Momiji's... It should be a good seedling. Maybe it can be cultivated into the next Momiji."

Take some time to meet him.