In the year **2030**, a delivery company appears in Japan, specifically its own building named **"Saiko."** A 25-year-old person emerges from this company; he stands with the company door behind him, possessing a gloomy face and hair dyed in white and black. Heavy rain falls upon the strange youth, ruining his hairstyle, and his "fringe" hides his eyes, so nothing appears of his face except a mouth, a nose, and deep sadness. Suddenly, from your perspective as a reader, the screen appears as if it is a broken television; this is part of the art of cinematography. Then, the screen fixes itself and returns to normal, changing the location to a towering skyscraper. On its roof, there is something resembling the roof of a small house built in a Western style. It was that same person you saw, leaning against the wall of that house; some of his white hair strands are stained with blood, and there is a 20 cm knife plunged into his forehead. Blood flows down his face, and he looks as if he is dying. Then the screen glitches again... and here the story begins.
The boy named **"Hiroki Takashi"** appears; he is a boy of decent height (**1.68 m**), with smooth black hair and optical glasses. He stands in front of his family's house door, opens it, and enters, saying with extreme coldness: «I'm back.» His mother answers him from the kitchen while preparing lunch, saying: «Welcome, my big youth!» He enters with full energy despite this being his first day in the "Second Baccalaureate" year. This activity and vitality, not to mention the smile on his face, have been part of his nature since he was born; despite the circumstances, you find him happy. Especially since he could not find a job due to his height, but according to his personal opinion, he does not want to live that "life of slavery"; rather, he wants to achieve his dreams of being a painter and a **"Mangaka."** But luck was not on his side this time; because he was born into a poor family, and he is also not smart enough to finish his studies; rather, his intelligence is limited to literary subjects only. Hiroki sits before his family at the lunch table, and his family consists of one brother and two parents. Hiroki said: «No need to ask about the day, it's very good anyway!!!» The mother: «How cold your heart and voice are! Don't you hear yourself while you speak?» Hiroki (with energy and laughter): «I hear nothing but voices all talking at once!!!»
He finishes his talk and his food as well and leaves for his room, where he isolates himself from the world with headphones in his ears playing calm melodies. He holds his phone and sits on his bed to draw in one of the drawing apps. His parents forbid him from drawing because when he was nineteen, he used to draw terrifying drawings, so they thought their son suffered from autism. Therefore, they banned drawing for him, and his father used to abuse him if he found one of his drawings in his room. But when he got a phone, he settled for digital drawing and locks it when leaving so that neither of his parents can carry it. The next day, he leaves for school early in the morning. Hiroki found himself in an arrogant class, where there was only him and his childhood friend **"Tokashi Hikaru,"** the only ones who could graduate from this class with a "Baccalaureate" degree with full success. But no classroom can exist without bullies; a group of street youths or what are called "thugs," obsessed with all kinds of addiction and drugs. Hiroki was fed up with these thugs, and with the silence of the class, the mental illness he suffers from begins to appear. A strange state begins as if he only wants to torture or shed the blood of someone, or perhaps hurt himself. This disease, called **"Acute Social Psychological Disorder,"** is a very dangerous disease, and who would have thought that Hiroki suffers from it?
The latter began to tremble, and hallucinations began to appear within his consciousness: people dying, places stained with blood, blood flying with human limbs. While he was in this state, these thugs began touching the boy and provoking him. Suddenly, Hiroki Takashi closes his eyes and finds himself in a completely black world. Before him is a white table with at least two chairs around it. Then he hears the sound of walking footsteps, and a person who looks exactly like him enters, but he is different; his hair is dyed white and black, he has tattoos on his neck and a wound beside his mouth, and his hands are tied with iron shackles. It seems that this person is the personality that loves killing and torture, and all those hallucinations stem from him. The latter sits in front of the table and Hiroki sits in front of him, realizing that this person is one of his imagination's characters, but this character is different from the others. To avoid repetition, let's choose a name for him: **"Akami."** Hiroki: «Ah.. where am I? And who are you? And what is this place?!!».
(Akami starts laughing): «Hahaha oh well, welcome, my old self! Oh.. I missed those happy days.» While he speaks, a terrifying feeling appears on Hiroki as if he is listening to a monster speaking; the happy place fills with blood, and all the walls are stained with it.
Akami: «Are you still wearing the smile mask? Hiding your sadness with laughter and smiles of lying to yourself and those around you? "Don't take off the mask".. is that what you hear? Rather take it off, take it off, take it off! Those are nothing but my whispers. Oh yes, look over there, a drawing canvas waiting for someone to draw on it, do you love drawing?!!».
Hiroki: «Oh.. yes, I love drawing very much!!!!».
Akami: «Of course, for despite everything you are me, especially if you decide to strip the smile mask off your face. Wait, let me see...» The latter puts his hand in his pocket and pulls out a red pen: «Oh unfortunately, I don't have enough colors for drawing, what do you think of the color red? Good for you, right?!!» Akami breaks the shackles off his hand and climbs onto the table; he puts his knees on the table and looks at Hiroki with a look of hatred, placing his hands on the latter's cheeks, telling him: «Take the pen and draw an artistic painting.. that painting behind you, my friend?!!!» Hiroki takes the pen and steps toward the painting and stands before it, then looks behind him to find that everything has disappeared and nothing remains but him and the painting. He takes the red pen and touches the canvas with it, and then he returns to his consciousness. Apparently, all of this was just a daydream.
Suddenly, he stands up and turns in front of the bully leader's seat with a ballpoint pen in his hand. Here, Hiroki's pupils contract, and without any prior warning, he stabs the leader in his neck from the right side. Before his assistants can move, Hiroki pushes the table, knocking them down, then he descends upon the leader with consecutive punches; the adrenaline reaches its maximum limit, punch after punch in a fraction of a second until the leader loses consciousness and falls fainted. Hiroki raises his head while sitting on the leader's body and begins to breathe rapidly and gasp; he looks at his hands and finds them stained with blood. Here, he wakes up from the "savage" state he was in and moves away, terrified of the leader's body. Hiroki closes his eyes to find the ambulance taking the leader, and from his condition, it seems he is fine because the pen wound was not deep enough to kill the victim. While the police talk to Hiroki and he is uninterested, Akami appears from among the crowd of people and policemen, right behind them, sitting on a chair before a white table, clapping with a smile, then leaving the place. Hiroki returns home, and the problem is that the news reached his family. Hiroki appears with cold emotional features while hearing his father shower him with insults and negative words that could break anyone's heart, but not Hiroki's; because he has become a cold person. At this moment, he was thinking about his father, whom he knows is narcissistic by nature, bragging about himself even if he made a mistake, blaming physics and natural things, to the point that if he accidentally dropped money, he would not admit it.
Hiroki says to himself: «In my whole life, I never heard a single word of pride despite my good grades.. my good deeds are nothing, only insults and negative expressions "You did nothing, you are just a failure..". I always defeated him in any discussion and it ended with violence or threatening with silence and bringing up past mistakes; this is the weakness of narcissistic people, when they are defeated, they start belittling the person who defeated them or changing the subject.» Hiroki enters his room, ignoring his parents, and falls onto his bed. Because of all this, and because he does not want to enter a state of depression, he holds his phone and thinks: "What if phones didn't exist?". Hiroki always felt a state of bloodlust, and he used to calm himself by watching videos about bloody crimes just to entertain himself without thinking about hurting others.
To be continued...