Akutagawa didn't recruit Kyouka into the port mafia. He did not do that. And also I feel like strapping a bomb to a child and telling her to not 'take iff the bomb off so she can take the passengers with her to show how formidable the mafia is' is abuse. And no it wasn't Verlain. It was Akutagawa, he told her to do that.
"Akutagawa didn't recruit Kyouka into the Mafia," here you can see their first meeting.
Now, Akutagawa could have killed her, but instead he brought her into the Mafia, because he related to her.
Also, I never said Akutagawa wasn't abusive. I said his abuse stemmed from the Mafia environment, and wasn't directed towards Kyouka personally, the way Dazai's was towards Akutagawa. My take is that the whole, "abuse cycle" thing is fanon and the most surface-level read on these relationships.
Akutagawa is treating Kyouka with the same respect as he would himself. He experienced lonliness, starvation, freezing in the streets, being attacked and pursued by criminals who'd want nothing more than to exploit children (re: Beast Akutagawa's experiences, safe to assume shared across timelines) he knows what's out there.
Akutagawa took Kyouka into the Mafia, because he believes it's better than the slums, which is what he (reasonably) believes awaits an orphaned 14 year old girl with no support system whatsoever. Meanwhile, Dazai took Akutagawa into the Mafia, fully planning to groom him into a personal pawn. Weapon. Chess piece in the fight against Fyodor.
Lastly, I don't have a screenshot of it, but Verlaine teaching Kyouka was mentioned in Stormbringer. Akutagawa is not a PM executive, he cannot have his own subordinate the way Dazai did, he has people he works with and whom work under him, but he's not directly responsible for them.
This really isn't that hard to grasp, guys, please just read the manga and maybe a light novel or two.












