𝘽𝘼𝘽𝙔𝙇𝙊𝙉 / 𝙅𝙅𝙆 𝙭 𝙏𝙍 / ᵒⁿ ʰⁱᵃᵗᵘˢ

XVIII.

_Six years ago_

<Yes, father>

A red haired child answered while bowing and obeying the man's order. They were panting, their lip bruised, their nose dripping with blood and one of their blue eyes turned purple.

They felt so weak.

But it wasn't their fault. They were only 11 years old after all. They were just a kid. It wasn't their fault they were born in a family of assassins, the best one for that. The Ackerman clan.

The clan lived on a mountain, no one really knew the exact location. It said their house was a fortress, it had gates, but weren't locked. The only way to open them was by brute force, because each of them weighted more than 10 quintals and only the members of the clan had that much strength to be able to move them.

The head of the clan was Enji Ackerman. A ruthless and heartless man who held no love for his wife nor children. Rei Todoroki was the woman he was married to and with her had two children: the second youngest, Shoto Ackerman, and the second oldest, Touya Ackerman.

But they weren't the only children. Before he married Rei, he had a son with another woman: Illumi Zoldyck and Alluka Zoldyck, the oldest and the youngest.

Both women had their fate already written, because it was tradition to have women of the Ackerman clan who weren't daughters of an Ackerman killed after 5 years of no birth to children. That's why right after Alluka's fifth birthday, hers and Illumi's mother was killed. Just like what happened to Rei at Shoto's fifth birthday.

But let's concentrate on the protagonist of this story, Touya Ackerman.

Enji thought of them as a useless child with no talent at all. They were the only one born without cursed energy between their siblings. Therefore they couldn't see cursed spirits or had a technique. The only thing peculiar of them was the high sensitivity of their sense to detect cursed energy. They could feel, no, see it with their eyes. A flow of colorful particulars floating in the air. And they were the best with weapons, wether they were spears, swords, daggers... They excelled it, but for their father wasn't enough.

To him they were nothing in confront of their big brother Illumi, little brother Shoto and little sister Alluka.

Illumi had a cursed technique of pins, Shoto had both fire and ice, Alluka hosts in her body a cursed spirit. But Touya was just a powerless kid who was working their ass off to please their shitty father.

But a couple of years ago Enji decided to perfected them. So he began doing experiments on his own offspring, trying to make them absorb cursed energy, trying to build a perfect assassin. To create a literal whole 'nother person, careless of their wishes, wants and pain they had suffered during the process.