Hey guys ! Just here to say that i'm french and that i've translate this with « DeepL ». If you see any mistake, please, do not hesitate and tell me~~ !

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"What you're told to become, you become"

There is one thing that people with freedom cannot understand, such as what oppression really is. When we are told how to walk, where and with whom on the same path, it is almost impossible for us to change even if we wish to.

My first name is Tsubasa, Berisha is my last name. Where I come from, I was always taught that I was nothing and I always believed it was the truth. From a city wiped off the map that serves as a rubbish dump for humanity where I spent most of my childhood, to the great manor that my parents managed to get out of this continent, I have always lived in an atmosphere of oppression. I was told what to do, what to become, to whom to disobey and especially to whom to obey.

"That is why you will not leave this house, Tsubasa."

Today, I can't take it anymore. I always had a sense of the harm my family did to me, starting with both my parents but especially my older brother. Yet I kept looking down and nodding silently at everything they were just telling me, not today. Not any more.

"I will." I replied.

Daiki was my older brother. Much older than me, he had had this very important role in my life that had almost replaced that of my parents: that of my guardian. Since I was little, he taught me I wouldn't have the same childhood as the others. I should train tirelessly not to get my family name dirty.

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"I think about it all the time", I whispered with one hand to my face. "The way you let him go after yet another one of your fights, how happy he was to return to our hometown…"

My hand grabbed my arm with a red sweater and it tightened on itself. Daiki's gaze suddenly darkened as I deliberately fled from any eye contact with him. His strands of black hair, the ones that fell before his eyes, he cleverly chased away as his fingers passed through them.

"Feitan ?" he whispered.

He himself seemed shocked that I mentioned it. My parents hated to hear any anecdote about him and they would not hesitate to use violence to punish him and me if we broke the rules.

Daiki grabbed my collar in slow motion and brought me closer to him. I was quickly lifted off the ground to confront his hateful face. His grey eyes seemed to ask me what it had taken me to remind him of the existence of this person he hated so much, as much as his desire to hit me.

"I forbade you to say his first name," he said to me in a half voice. "You know you're not allowed to talk about it here."

His arm, which was not holding me, slowly straightened up and he gained momentum to hit me. I simply looked at his gesture, waiting for the last moment to intervene.

"Who said his first name between us, Dai-chan?"

His fist stopped a few millimeters from my cheek. I saw very well that he always wanted to put one on me but he also knew that if our parents found out that he had hit me for nothing, I would not be the one who would be punished but rather the one invited to watch my own brother be abused.

I just looked at him: I didn't cry, I didn't speak and my eyes didn't reflect any emotion, not even that of my smile which was obviously false. He always hated it when I stared at him like that. Disgusted, he decided to release me a little violently.

"You two"... he breathed. "I always said you weren't related for nothing."

I put my red sweater back on before I stared into hers. For a reason I've always ignored, Daiki used to hate Feitan as much as my eyes. Yet I've always loved them. I have never seen anyone own minnows: right yellow, left red.

"I'm leaving", I repeated. "You'll take care of telling Mom and Dad that you couldn't hold me later."

And as I expected, he just watched me sit on the couch, take a bag with me (very light by the way), then step out of the manor decidedly. I even saw him get his head in his hands. That day, I broke the oppression by going away and swore to myself that I would return here, when those who claimed to be my family would all be dead.

I traveled for a while. My only idea was to find Feitan but every time I came across a good information network, I was denied access because I wasn't Hunter. So, after several months, I decided to take the exam with the firm intention of passing it.