Akutagawa was your mentor. You must've been one of the most unlucky people in the Port Mafia. He constantly justified it by saying that this was how the Port Mafia did it. And you had been informed by a few other members that this was how his former mentor taught him.

You were only a kid. And he did this to you. He had told you on multiple occasions that you were weak and you couldn’t control your ability. And you could’ve swore it almost sounded like he was self projecting onto you. Admittedly, you weren’t the strongest but you were strong for your age.

Your ribs felt bruised and broken, you were curled up in a ball on the cold and comforting floor, you had been strangled, scraped, stabbed at, punched and kicked.

"If you die, it just means you aren’t meant for this.” He says coldly.