Mushoku Tensei ~Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu~ - Vol. 20 Ch. 92 - A Big Brother's Feelings

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How didn't he realise this?
Even when they were at home, she was angry at them for being "perfect."
She struggled because she was always compared to her brother and sister. It was stated multiple times...
Rudeus was thick and ignorant of the fact that him and his sister are the reasons she's fallen into such a state...
His other sister gets perfect marks and is praised at every turn. She makes a minor mistake and all hell breaks loose...
Time for a reality check Rudeus... she needs a better teacher. One that doesn't compare her to him.
 
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Not entirely Rudeus' fault. If anything the only other stake Rudeus has other than being family is being accomplished. If he's oblivious, we also need to bear in mind that they've been separated because of the teleportation incident for a long time. He wasn't even there when his sisters were born because he was sent away. He wasn't there to watch them grow up in any capacity before the incident, so he never got the chance to know any of them until now. (We could even say that this blunder was caused by Paul again.)

Norn herself was always compared to Aisha, which is what started that ball of insecurity rolling. This is how comparisons can become a bad thing, when using others as a measuring stick of what another person should be able to do by other people's reckoning. At some point, it begins to feel like everyone is sneering at any of the attempts you'd make at all. Because of how Aisha speaks to Norn, Norn may even see it as her half-sister is looking down on her for being inferior to her. Making her afraid of the scorn, and not willing to communicate because she's expecting scorn is all she'll get. Being compared to her older brother just makes matters worse. His own hardships don't mean anything to her because she feels isolated and alone as it is. Her feelings are what is currently right in her face, and her own emotions have her in a choke-hold.

The blame I assign to the students and their homeroom teacher is being thoughtless about making those comparisons, and not considering how many others around Norn were making similar comments, or how even a single one affects her. They only saw their own part, and until Rudeus called out to the class, probably didn't realize they were all doing it.

To Norn, the world has turned against her for not being as capable as her siblings, and that her own flesh and blood hate her for it.
 
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He wasn't even there when his sisters were born because he was sent away. He wasn't there to watch them grow up in any capacity before the incident, so he never got the chance to know any of them until now.
He was there for their birth and was there for them for a couple of months, Zenith POV chapter from the first volume of the light novel is about Rudeus being a bit too good at looking after babies (even better than her), that's because in his past life he helped with his two younger siblings too.
 
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Well, we got some color pages and those take time. No wonder the chapter was short.
 
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How didn't he realise this?
Even when they were at home, she was angry at them for being "perfect."
She struggled because she was always compared to her brother and sister. It was stated multiple times...
Rudeus was thick and ignorant of the fact that him and his sister are the reasons she's fallen into such a state...
His other sister gets perfect marks and is praised at every turn. She makes a minor mistake and all hell breaks loose...
Time for a reality check Rudeus... she needs a better teacher. One that doesn't compare her to him.
So Rudy has a dangerously low opinion of himself with his past life cementing that down and honestly never thought that he was all that powerful.

Rudy was always around prodigies and geniuses that can destroy him in their field of expertise such as Eris with Sword god style, Ruigurd being a bad ass, Gislaine being a sword king, and Rudy's most humbling experience his fight with Orsted who Absolutly destroyed him.

Ironically in a certain sense Norn is similar to Rudy except she didnt get the right people to support her. (Paul and Zenith aside)
 

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