With You | Thoma x Ayaka | Genshin Impact

SPECIAL: Red Plum

"The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."

 - Sigmund Freud

(Editor's Note: Huge thanks to @Valerya080 for encouraging me to write this chapter! This was a part that was going to start the last chapter but I then decided to cut it. Also, this chapter will be a lot more adult than my other chapters so if you aren't comfortable, then please do not hesitate to stop reading!)

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    Five years ago, a baby from the Kamiyo clan, a branch family from the Kamisato clan, was born. Unlike the children of the Kamisato clan, this child was born with simple brown hair and bright red eyes.

   Due to her peculiar coloured eyes, she was given the name Akari (Editor's Note: 'Aka' means red in Japanese. The name Akari means 'Red Plum'). When she was born, her parents did not celebrate the birth of their child, instead, they celebrated the fact that they could use her to infiltrate the Kamisato estate.

  So, even though Akari was only a few months old, her parents began to drill into her young mind simple things like spelling and writing so that when she turned one, Akari was able to write simple sentences.

   After Akari mastered writing, she was taught Math and Science which she naturally excelled at. By the age of two, Akari was able to do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

  Growing up, Akari's parents set only one goal for her, to be perfect in every way imaginable. Manipulate others into doing your bidding and resort to whatever means possible to achieve your goals, even violence.

   Akari was never given a break, her parents pushed Akari to her very limits.

   "You must be perfect."

   "When the daughter of the Kamisato clan was your age, she was useless and was a complete dishonour to the Kamisato name."

   "Perfect."

   "Anything less is worthless."

   "Trash."

   "Worthless."

  "Useless."

  All those words from her parents led to Akari becoming mentally unstable.  She enjoyed it when she saw other people getting hurt, angry, or sad and hated watching people being happy. The way she saw it, the ones allowed to be happy were those like her. Perfect.

  The Kamiyo family lived in Liyue, but despite that, Akari's family sent her to Sumeru where she attended their school and was able to enhance her skills and continue becoming the perfect child. At the school, Akari continued to take pleasure while watching people break from the amount of work they were given.

   When Akari was three, her family sent her to Inazuma, completely alone. She was to get a job at the Kamisato estate or else she would be disowned. At such a young age, most children would cry or refuse to go but Akari wasn't like those children, she was ready to use whatever means necessary to enter the Kamisato estate and tear it from the inside out.

  To Akari, the Kamisato household was the reason why her family was so broken, therefore, she was going to break their family so it matched hers. 

  "Hm... I don't know..." Lady Kamisato put a hand on her cheek and glanced at her husband.

  "Akari... Kamiyo, was it?" Lord Kamisato asked, after Akari nodded, he said, "Ah, I see. That part of the family was always intelligent."