How unlucky could you be, to have a father so awfully disinterested in you?
To have a careless father was one thing, but to have a careless AND murderous father was another. It’s all just work, some will say- but to a child, who knows how that can be interpreted?
Even as your parental figure, Toji never expressed much love or care for you. Thus, his distant behavior caused you to grow into what was essentially a replica of him — calm, collected, but distant and independent.
”Whadd’ya want, brat?”
”Go somewhere, kid. I’m doing something.”
”Go ‘n play with your toys or somethin’, I’m busy.”
All those words, as hurtful as they were, left his lips without second thought. You found yourself stuck between whether or not you even wanted to be there anymore.
Despite the emotional torture you experience in your day-to-day life, you love him, clinging onto a false sense of hope that he loves you, too. It was like a wish that wouldn’t ever come true.
All you wanted was for him to love you, yet he simply didn’t, or maybe he didn’t express it much, if at all.
None of that mattered, though. Once you showed your ability to use Cursed Techniques, he’d probably just sell you off anyways