Cruel world

My father is not a kind man, he is the empires strongest knight and a hero to the people but he's nothing more than a demon who's obsessed with strength, since I was 4 he began to train me although it was more like torture he would teach me the way of the sword but whenever I made a mistake he would punish me and being 4 and holding a sword for the first time I made a lot of mistakes and so each mistake I made he would whip me once for the first month I pleaded and cried for him to stop but he threatened to go after my mother if I didn't do it so I continued for 4 years.

I learned to stop begging as it would just make it worse I mastered the sword enough so that I made fewer mistakes this overjoyed my father but the torture didn't end it got worse while I rarely made mistakes in my swordsmanship my father continued to push me making my exercise regiment a living hell 1000 push-ups,1000 sit-ups,1000 squats,1000 overhead swings and a 20-mile run then I would hone my sword skills every day without rest, if I failed to miss one exercise within 12 hours I would be punished but even I had joy in my life I had my mother and a few hobbies but that didn't last long I liked to sing to my mother but when my father found out he cut my tongue out he viewed it as a weakness telling me that I should only care about being strong.

And the days went on I became mute thanks to my father my mother was heartbroken but she couldn't do anything my mother has been bedridden most of her life and my father is the strongest knight I thought about telling people outside the mansion but I've seen what happens when you tell. The people in the mansion are well aware of what's going on my father doesn't need to hide it because if you tell you disappear in the most painful way possible I've had knights try to help with my wounds but the next day they would be found mutilated and so the people began to avoid me in fear of my father.

When I turned 12 I found an interest in drawing I liked to draw the landscape I tried to hide it from my father but he had people search my room during training and found my pictures I tried to lie in hopes I would avoid punishment but my father through me in the dungeon for 3 days without out food or water telling me he was thinking of a punishment and so on the third day he returned with a spoon with a pointed edge and took my eyes.