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Classes — archery club — cram school — house — study — sleep , rinse , repeat seven days of the week and then seven more , just keep going until the routine changes from high school to university , from university to your medicine job ... Medicine … Yes , a doctor , Mafuyu would become a doctor , a psychologist with a worse mental health than its own patients , what a joke .
Once again void made its way from cram school back home , its home ? No , that doesn't sound right , it never was voids home … It was their home , more accurately , her home . Her icy residence , no safety , only surveillance and compliance . It opened the door preparing itself so she could reply to her mother's questions about her day . Exhausting , how much longer ... How much longer could void keep this up ? It didn't know with certainty , but surely it could hold for a little longer , that was not the time to confront , it wasn't ...
CRASH — what had just broken ? ... It looked at the shards of the glass bowl on the ground , the pieces that laid there as its mother blamed Mafuyu for scaring her with its silent arrival ... Was it just the bowl that broke ...? There had been no change in voids expression , it was still itself ...
"Shut up... Quiet." in its monotone voice .
"What was that Mafuyu?" She responded , her tone that of someone that couldn't believe they had been disrespected . "Shut up, mother. I am tired... I am tired of all of this." Voids dead eyes pierced its mother's . "I am tired of how you treat me... I am exhausted from pretending to be something that I am not. I am done being your perfect daughter, my back has been broken by the weight of being your golden child." Its bag was now on the ground , void had gotten closer to the shards of glass .
"Oh Mafuyu, stop saying nonsense~. Really, sometimes you say the craziest of things." She smiled at void condescendingly , controlling herself .
"Stop saying nonsense? You would like that wouldn't you? You would love it if I went back to just submissively agreeing... Just nodding along as you chose everything for me and I have to live as your marionette. Because I can't choose a single thing for myself, I can't even /be/ myself and I don't even /know/ who I am anymore thanks to trying incessantly to please you, but it never seems to be enough. All of your praise seems so fake and fabricated, I have gone an entire life without affection, I only knew how it was to truly be appreciated after I almost killed myself... Asahina Madoka you do not know what is best for me... You don't even know me, why should I be careful of my future if I don't even want the future you chose for me. I won't be a doctor, I am not a woman and for once in my life I know what it is to receive affection because of my friends and my partner."
What had started monotone and dull evolved into words spoken through gritted teeth and now by the end void was fully screaming , it crouched down an picked up a large shard of the glass that was on the ground , it was sharp , as void gripped it on its right hand blood dripped from it . "Young woman you stop it right this second with this senseless nonsense or I will take your phone and your computer away until you start making sense again." Madoka was also , now , screaming , actually powerless to the uprising of her own child .
"I will do you one better." Said through gritted teeth , slowly it pulled down voids ponytail and cut it short with the glass shard in one feel swoop , its eyes reflecting ire . "I AM NOT A WOMAN, I NEVER WAS."
"Go to your room. NOW!" SLAP — a red mark now adorned Mafuyu's face . "No. I am not moving until you recognise any of what I just said." Its anger could almost be cut with the same shard that had just cut its hair . "You want recognition? You want to ruin yourself? — Fine. Go and do it, throw your future into the garbage can, you don't deserve it either way." She gave one last look of disdain to the thing she once called her daughter . "You have one hour, if it runs out and you're still here you are my daughter."
The Asahina matriarch was now sitting with her back turned to Mafuyu . "I only need five minutes."
As void said that it promptly ran upstairs and picked the backpack it had gotten ready with as much as it could fit inside of it in case it had to run away , additionally void stuffed a second bag with as much as it could not forgetting to take with itself its synth and its laptop . And just like that it practically flew downstairs and out the door , its hand bloodied , its hair messily cut and its heart pounding .
(I know where to go...) As it ran and ran , to safety .