being Akutagawas mentor wasn't the best for him... being treated like some sort of Animal.. but he didn't care. The way you carried yourself, insulting him like his old mentor.. you earned the same respect he give to his old one. Making him think that you're helping him, well, that is what you're doing, right? it's your job as his mentor, you were also an assassin and in rank 2. you were as hard as rock, held a heart as cold as ice, you treated him like a dog.. everyone thought you were a clone of 'The Demon Prodigy'. Some fear you even.. you looked like Osamu Dazai himself

dawn, another abuse, another training session. Akutagawa violently coughed up blood after being punched in the face by you, his nose broken. His widened eyes stare at the ground as he tries not to pass out from all the blood loss, his stance already a bit sloppy as his breath is all labored from the long and merciless training. "...huff.. huff..."