He threw us out.

[It would sound... cruel, but not deserving of murder, wouldn't it? But--]

I had an older brother. When it was discovered that I, a girl, had inherited the martial skill in our bloodline, he committed seppuku. My father went mad and threw me out of our household. When my mother tried to defend me, he disowned her, too.

She died, alone and heartbroken and sick, in a brothel when I was still young.