"Actually, there's something I've wanted to ask you for a long time..." Laxus stared expressionlessly at Achill, who sat dozing on Minazuki's back, and began in a low voice, "So..."
"Why the hell am I tied to this unidentified creature's tail?!" Dangling from Minazuki's long tail and swaying wildly in the wind, Laxus shouted furiously. Not a trace of an enlightened monk's dignity remained—well, he had never been an enlightened monk in the first place.
"Huh? What? What?" Startled awake, Achill immediately looked around before turning toward Laxus, who was tied to Minazuki's tail. He asked blankly, "Did you say something just now, Jiesè?"
"You bastard... are you deliberately trying to piss me off?" His teeth grinding audibly, Laxus threw back his head and roared, his face contorted. "Or do you just want me to kill you?! You goddamn bastard!"
"Jiesè, what am I supposed to do with you? A monk mustn't give in to anger so easily..." Achill sighed softly and scolded him with the disappointed air of a master whose disciple refused to improve. "Although I gave you the religious name Jiesè to remind you to abstain from lust, there are also greed, anger, delusion, hatred, love, aversion, and desire! You've followed your master for so long now. Even if you can't learn my ocean-deep, surging wisdom and knowledge, you should at least have learned to apply a lesson to other things, shouldn't you? Why can't you take that meaningful, refined name of yours and abstain from a few other things while you're at it? Like stupidity— ahem, no, anger. Surely you could exercise just a little restraint? Otherwise, if this keeps up, your master will have to take drastic measures and eliminate the root of your lust once and for all~"
"What do you mean?!" Laxus's expression