Mayuri Kurotsuchi's words were the greatest terror Yoshida Tomoya had ever faced—and his greatest motivation.
It was precisely because he himself would endure such pain that he refused to let his children suffer it.
Before he killed anyone, he had already prepared himself to sacrifice everything. Before joining that place, he had already made every preparation.
By building connections with the nobles, he became the Chief Kido Master, something he had never even dared to dream of before. Through those connections, he gave both himself and his family a life they had never known in all the decades before.
Before becoming Chief Kido Master, no one had ever paid him any attention. The same went for his children. Because of their withdrawn nature, they were excluded and isolated by the other students.
Though he possessed decent strength, the Kidō Corps occupied an awkward position. His status within the Kidō Corps could not win his children any special care at all.
His wife, too, had become physically and mentally exhausted because of the children, her health visibly worsening by the day.
Watching it all, he felt as though his heart were being scorched by fire. He lived in pain and anxiety every moment of every day.
His children's withdrawn personalities grew more severe, and the other students, who had initially merely ignored them, began to bully them.
At some point, his child had begun coming home with minor wounds on her face or body.
He and his wife had asked her about it, but she only remained silent, without saying a word.
Until one day, he and his wife secretly followed their child to the academy and witnessed those students splashing foul-smelling blood all over their daughter's chair right in front of her.
His daughter looked at those classmates, her body