Listening through the screen [Hiatus] T.Shigaraki

10. Chrysanthemum White

My brother would be 24 right now if he wasn't dead. He was a tall, sweet and shy man. but he was not like my dad wanted him to be.

He wasn't smart, he was awkward, shy, he wasn't handy, and could not focus on anything.

My dad wanted him to become an engineer and become one of the next leaders of our family but my brother wasn't smart enough. he couldn't study without getting distracted and when my dad tried locking him in a room without any distraction he started to cry and beg to be let out.

I think my brother might have had a mental illness but my dad never wanted to get him checked because he didn't want people to think he had a disappointment of a son.

My brother ended up running away from my dad and our family to become a hero. He had saved a lot of money when he was in middle school and booked a flight to Japan where he went to the hero school UA for 3 years.

By then my dad had lost all hope in my brother and started to focus on me more than on him. In the 3 years of studying at UA, he made a bunch of friends and improved his quirk a lot.

His quirk is metal bending and he can bend metal to his will. If there is ever a villain around he has this silver chain he bends into any weapon he wishes.

but he died before he could truly become a hero. After he had graduated and started his own agency with his UA friend he was saving people in a fire but his iron shield was starting to melt and when he was trying to find a villain in the fire and he burned to death.

Now his friend who is the pro-hero Fatgum made a small statue to commemorate him inside their agency.

His ashes were sent back to us after he died and he is now buried in our family graveyard.

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After a few seconds, I processed what my dad just said in my head and I became furious.

My dad comparing me to my brother is just him calling me a failure.

"Why do you keep comparing us? It doesn't matter he's already dead! But you can't even respect him when he's already passed away..."

He was surprised hell I was too, I never talk back when he was angry with me or lectured me.

Then he started walking towards me, took my computer and turned it into some kind of rock.

That was his quirk, he can turn anything he wants into rock when he touches it with all 5 of his fingers, and if he wants he can turn it back in the 5 minutes after it becomes stone or it will stay rock forever. He usually wears gloves but right now he isn't.

I was so shocked, why would he do this to me?! He knows my computer is my most prized possession!

I jumped out of my bed and started screaming.

"I'm sorry dad please! PLEASE DON'T!"

But my cries were useless. He lifted my computer up in the air and threw it hard against the floor and it broke into a million small pieces and so did my heart.

"You disobedient child that computer was only making your attitude worse. Especially since you're always talking to that boy!"

I was terrified, my dad knew I was talking to Tomura?

"You're little boyfriend is in the way of our family prospering. He's turning you into a stupid Hikikomori (shut-in)!"

My father considering my only source of joy, my only friend someone who turns me into a stupid Hikikomori?

He looked down at my drained body and also snatched away my phone.

"I'm going to get you a computer with a big CPU to make sure you're not going to move it anywhere, I'm also going to put parental control on your computer AND phone to make sure you don't download anything I don't consent to unless its for school!"

I felt like crying but nothing came out of my eyes.

"Why...why would you do this to me...?"

"It's for our family y/n, be grateful I'm doing you a big favor. Do me one in return forget that boy and start behaving!"

"How annoying."