'The Killing Blow'

'Trouble in the Factory : Part 1'

Whilst saying this to her, I motioned my hand towards the chair across from me on my right, inviting her to take a seat. As she started walking over, she began talking as her bodyguards followed her to her chair.

"The male cutters in the Rover factory one and a half miles down the road are paid $75 more than the female wire cutters here." She said to me as she took a seat along the right side of the table from where I'm sitting.

On the exterior, I gave a little bit of a perplexed expression, a look of indifference on my face as I raised an eyebrow. Internally however, I facepalmed hard. Does she not know she's talking about two entirely different factories, or she just that fucking desperate?

Despite these internal thoughts, there was some mild confusion as I wondered what it was she was getting at specifically. Right now though, I had to make a response, so I calmly and politely told her this. "Well, they're two different factories, so there's obviously going to be different rates of pay."

A grin formed on her lips as she tatted her finger at me, gesturing to me that there was a much larger reason behind the huge difference in pay. "But both factories are owned by you Ms Midoriya."

Is she taking the piss? Seriously?

"Not in your own name of course, but in the name of Arrow House Holdings. Your mother owns the Lanchester car and van factory in the name of Tilton Company Limited, your brother Jason owns the billings machines and tools factory at Hay Mills and Greet in the name of Stetch Ford Engineering, the Bilston's forging and pressings factory in the name of Canal Side and the canal warehouses in Gas Street are under Genjiro's authority, and finally, Saltley and Cadbury in the name of Midoriya Company Limited being looked after by Akira, also, two hundred and fifty five streets of back to back houses are under Arthur's rule, right here in Kamino."

Was this bitch serious? All this is telling me is that she's got something against my family and not about the original point she was making about the differences in pay between the men in the Rover factory and the woman in this one.

As she was busy explaining all of this, I had gotten up from my chair and started looking out the window as I listened to all the nonsense coming from her flapping gob.

Exhaling the smoke from inside my lungs after taking a puff from my cigarette, tapping the small stick of paper to get rid of the ashes, I turned my eyes back to her and spoke to her, all with a straight and confident face. "Very good. Very good...So this isn't about women and men, it's about my family and I, aye?"

As these words left my lips, the woman scoffed and brushed them off as if they meant nothing to her, which is shocking given that long and contradictory statement she made about the factories we own. "Ada Midoriya, second daughter of the villainous queen Tatsumaki, the villainess with the OB, no it's not about you or your relatives. It's about disparities. It's about another $75 a week for working mothers to buy shoes for their kids."

"First four years of my brother's life, Izuku didn't have shoes himself." I said as I kept my gaze away from her and instead, focusing on my three remaining brothers talking below my office through the window.

And this is where the conversation started to go downhill, as what I said looked as though to set her off. "So now you deny others?" She asked me with a cold and blunt tone of voice.

And in asking me this question, she's set me off too. I turned my body around and leaned on the wall whilst I kept the look of uncaring indifference on my face. "And barefoot, he grew up mean."

Her eyes flared more with ever increasing hostility at her next response. "Oh I know, no need to worry about that."

"Oh yeah, you know lots of things don't you?"