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Akutagawa hates his student. This is not an impediment to his teaching Akutagawa is full of hate.
He hates Kyoko for being a girl in the port mafia when gin was not allowed to be herself. He hates her for asking him to kill him. This is only further motivation to push her.
He hates Koyo for playing house with this other little girl, and failing to keep her out of his arms, and for complaining to him about his training of her student, and for letting any girl be seen by Mori, instead of covered up in man’s clothes and given quiet lessons about how to scrub blood out of fabric for weeks before anyone thought to get her pads.
He hates Mori, for being a pedophile, and making Gin-chan hide.
He hates Elise for being the perfect combination of traits from every girl Mori has ever lusted over, and because she’s a little brat and because she hates him too.
He hates Higuchi, for being so useless, and for daring to want love from him and for working closely with him when his sister cannot.
He hates Tachihara for his quickness to anger and for not even knowing his sister, when they spend so much time together.
He hates Verlaine, some, for being chained up in the basement and being the one who trains little girls into assassins and for not leaving and for being an executive when he can’t even leave the building and because Akutagawa never will.
He hates Dazai for being changed by Odasaku’s death, and for leaving him behind, and all the stupid games he plays now and taking on a new student, a weak one, and for treating him so much nicer and Akutagawa knows he will never be enough, and even if he was, even if Dazai said he was proud of him now, he still wouldn’t be the man Akutagawa who’s approval motivated him
He hates Chuya, a little, for not being enough to keep Dazai from leaving, and yelling at Dazai, but not stopping him beating Akutagawa harder afterwards. He hates that he can’t use Arabaki without Dazai to calm him down.
He hates that woman, for being prideful enough to think he's never known the feeling of defeat. Maybe he ought to be proud, but she doesn't mean anything to him.
He hates the weretiger, for being useless and so much worse at everything than Akutagawa used to be, and his brainless cruelties and for awakening something in Dazai that Ryunosuki never could.
He doesn't hate Hirotsu, because he's the man who's kept his sister safe all these years, even if he wishes he could
He can almost hate his sister, late at night and staring at the wall, for asking him to leave with him, and never leaving by herself. But she's never left him behind, so he can’t hate her.
He hated Odasaku, even a little after his death, for being so kind-hearted and for making Dazai leave and for taking in so many children, but too late for his sister, and him, and for complaining how Dazai treated him, but never hitting Dazai, not even once.
He doesn’t hate Ango. He might have, once, squatting at Dazai’s side while the patrons looked on, but he’s gone now.
Hatred is what sustains men, when pride and desperation falter, and if the girl needs to learn that, he will teach her.