Sakoru Saike. Living in City 84 on the other side of the world.
As Sakoru walks into the kitchen. His alcoholic dad runs there in an angry mood. He grabs his shirt collar and flung him onto the ground.
Sakoru yells as loudly as he can as his mom starts sprinting, out of breath, into the kitchen. Sakoru is on the ground and his face is already bleeding. His dad is holding a bottle of alcohol and threw it across the room.
Sakoru's mom rushes in and grabs him and runs as fast as she can upstairs. His dad is screaming and yelling for no reason. Sakoru had no idea what was happening. Neither did anyone, even his father.
They hid upstairs in his dad's bedroom in a closet near the door. As they were hiding, Sakoru's dad walked in and vigorously opened the closet door. His dad slaps him and then throws him on the floor once again and then he stands on his right arm.
His mom begged him to stop, on her knees trying to hit him so he would stop. Neighbors, hearing the yelling from their house. As his dad kept stepping on Sakoru. A sudden crack in Sakoru's left arm was heard. His left arm bone cracked and broke. Sakoru, yelling in agony as his mom watches a drunk man do this, to their own kid.
The neighbors walked inside their house and, within a matter of minutes, they called the police to inform them of what was going on. As the neighbors walked upstairs they saw the incident. Shocked as the neighbors saw, they rushed in to try to help but the dad kept pushing and acted in front of them recklessly.
Sakoru is yelling while his dad is sitting on the bed still drinking his beer. Cops came quickly. In a rush. But before. His dad grabbed his empty bottle and smacked it so hard on Sakoru's mom's face. It may have ended her life, She passed out in a matter of seconds. With glass in her head. She's on the floor. Sakoru's casual Monday, wasn't casual.
Cops came running in with firearms and batons. Hitting the dad on sight.
His mom was rushed to the hospital aside from Sakoru. The cops finally got the dad under arrest and arrested him.
As they arrived at the hospital. They had realised Sakoru's mom had been pronounced dead after being killed in an accident. Sakoru's broken arm is now bandaged up and is gonna stay in the hospital for a while. The dad has just been sent to life imprisonment in City 84.
Appearing all around the world heard about this. These are humans. The broadcaster stated "A father of one has just broken an arm of his own child, and has killed his own wife by smashing a beer bottle at her head."
When a doctor came into the room to tell him. He broke down after hearing it. Not instantly but scared of where he will live now. Who will still love him? After staying a couple of months in the hospital.
Soon his birthday was coming up. He was about to turn 13. He had to celebrate in the hospital with the doctors acting as his parents. With a cut-out printed face of his parents on their faces.
Rushing in with a nice red velvet birthday cake. One doctor who is a man and a woman wearing his parents' faces. Sakoru had severe PTSD of that. He didn't tell anyone since It was just his birthday.
He blew out the candles and made his wish "To kill every shinjo" He thought he would rather have a better wish.
But after finding out the news that his dad was a secret shinjo. He cried.
After a few months at the hospital. He finally could leave the hospital and join a foster care. It was to at least make one friend. As he joined he was about 14 years old now. The other kids were at the range of 7-10 years old. No one actually talked to him much.
Just some kids asking if he could find their toy. Finally as he had just turned 15. One whole year of staying. A family finally picked him up. They had one mother, one father, 2 boys and 1 girl. The 2 boys were about 13-14 and the girl was 17. He had celebrated his life for the time being there.
After deciding, he secretly wanted to become a HAC member.
For multiple different reasons, to have fun fighting, to kill every single shinjo, to escape reality for a minute, and to be around people he can trust. His new parents didn't really take care of him much. Giving him a smaller amount of privilege of the other kids.
He finally decided to leave them when he was 19 after realising how much less he was than the other kids in his family. He had 0 to no training at all. Just heartless. To join the HAC, you must do a full scan and make sure you aren't a shinjo.
He got in the car to get ready to finally leave. He questioned himself on one thing. "If I leave to join the HAC, will it be better for me, or will it be regretful?" He didn't think of it too much since he didn't want to have any severe trauma alongside working there, he just wanted to have a bit of fun there.
No goodbyes or anything. He finally arrived after a 30-minute car ride. The building was absolutely huge.
It could fit millions of people. And it does. It looked to be as big as a whole country. The HAC building was bigger than any city. Held millions of people to be there and cooperate. He entered the building with multiple guards and he entered with the receptionist asking for his details and telling him to sign this form in the lounge area.
He sat in the lounge area with the papers and the first question asked "What is your name?". He answered "Sakoru Saike" The next question asked his gender. He answered Male. The next question asked "Why did you decide to join?" he answered "I want trusted people." The next question asked about his height, and he answered "6'1" he was pretty tall. His appearance was filled out as it is. Black hair, pretty skinny but a little in shape. Small eyes, and he described "Handsome".
Those were all the questions and he handed the paper back. He got called again and the receptionist said one question was missing at the bottom. Sakoru apologized and read "You will stay in the HAC till 60 or you will be killed" Sakoru was so surprised.
He instantly wanted to decline. But he has no other chance of living elsewhere. He finally signed the paper. He was accepted a few minutes later.
He walked into the HAC building. Observing what it felt like, he didn't expect it, but it felt like a prison, grey walls, no empathy in decoration, just a living hell here as well.
The first room is the cafeteria. A huge one. With multiple lunch ladies because of how far there is another one. He was told to just listen to everyone and stay silent.
He was accepted to the fighting group of the HAC. He had no idea what it even was. But he had to embrace it for the time being.
Apparently, he was in "Group 6" which consisted of thousands of fighters. It was the weakest group of all the others.
He couldn't find the place at first. He walked around for hours until he asked a guard where it was and he finally caught up. He walked into the locker room and saw jacked guys with scars and bruises.
Sakoru thought it was a sign of strength and bravery.
He sat down while the others laughed at how skinny he was.
Although he wants even that skinny.
How was the weakest team somehow perceived as the strongest?