@ ENJAY
Even though you have failed to answer my question, I'll go ahead and answer yours.
Poison a child, break their bones, starve them and force them through all forms of pain to make them stronger.
And for what?
Only two of these things applies here. Don't throw in broken bones and starving him, neither of those are present, and that's a completely different discussion. You present a target that does not exist in this story. We are only talking about
1. Ain taking poison
and really only just barely
2. Ain throwing up from combat practice from strain
We have already established the point of why he is taking poison, to gain a tolerance so he doesn't get murdered by those methods later in life. What do you present as an alternative that does not involve him taking poisons to gain tolerance?
As for the training, you don't seem to take problem with that, even though it appears to be exhausting. Of course it's vague if the training is strenuous usually or if this particular training is just hampered from him fucking up his own dosage.
Tradition?
"Because that's how its always done?"
You are confusing which method is being used to accomplish something with what the method is trying to accomplish. Tradition refers to, in this case, the Duke and Ain both having experienced mithridatism to gain immunity to poisons. This is separate from, WHY they are undergoing mithridatism, which is because there's a high chance of murder by poison in Ain's future. MC is trying to change the method, without addressing why Ain's was undergoing the training in the first place. She needs to change the situation so that Ain's shouldn't even need to worry about getting poisoned in the first place, rather than just stop the training method.
The novel clearly states that he turns into a villain and kills his mother.
So what exactly was the point of all this 'training'.
According to his Father, to keep him alive when he is a villain, in order for Ain's to accomplish his personal goals as a villain. In the novel, the Step-Mother appears to have been very stupid and brutish, just recreationally abusing the child.
Because it's the 'norm' of this world?
I don't understand the question, what do you mean by "'norm' of this world"? If anything Ain's is anything but normal for this world.
And don't you think that if it's the 'norm' of this world that children are abused that it's up to the adults to change it?
Again I don't know why you say "'norm' of this world". I don't think everyone is a criminal family like the Chide's, Ain's future is going to involve all sorts of problems that aren't "normal". I don't know how widespread child abuse is in it, but I suppose I should clarify.
What do you think child abuse is? Is it, coming home drunk and beating your son black and blue because he looked at you funny? Or, would you consider spanking a child because he beat up another kid as child abuse too? Is forcing your child to go somewhere he doesn't want to child abuse? What if the place he doesn't want to go is school? What do you define as child abuse?
I would also like to state that, not once was it stated in the original novel that the Father abused the son. According to MC, all of the abuse was coming from the Step-Mother, why did she state it like this?