"Hiroki's" eyes open to the clear blue sky
while he lies stretched out on the rooftop floor of the "Casino"—that very floor stained with the blood of his heinous crime. He raises his hands toward the sky as the bright sunlight shines upon them, beholding the dried bloodstains on his palms in a state of absolute shock and bewilderment at what his hands had committed yesterday. He rises heavily and advances toward the rooftop stairs, descending straight into the main room to find himself in the bar area, where he reaches out and takes a bottle of red wine. The place was completely empty of patrons and workers alike; this was due to the owner's intense anxiety about the imminent arrival of the police and their meticulous search of the premises, given the suspicious gang movements, the activities of serial killers, and the drug dealers there. Hiroki enters the bathroom and washes his hands from the trace of blood, then dries paper towels with water to wipe away the remaining bloodstains clinging to his new clothes before exiting the bathroom. He begins pouring a glass of wine and drinks it all at once, liking the taste, as he suddenly notices the silence and disappearance of those annoying whispers and bloody hallucinations at the level of his hearing and imagination. He begins pouring another glass and drinks it anew, repeating the process several times until he grows weary of it, throwing the bottle forcefully, which in turn shatters the glass window adjacent to the intoxication booth and the drink counter. Suddenly, a beautiful-looking girl enters the tavern, and right here, "Hiroki's" turbulent emotions intertwine between love and absolute absurdity.
Hiroki sits watching every single movement coming from the girl, noticing that she possesses exquisite physical and aesthetic qualities, as if he were looking at an angel descending from heaven. While he watches her chest with his gaze, she pierces him with a sharp look from her eyes, as if she were a harlot looking for someone to practice sex with. In that provocative moment, she pulls a knife from her pocket and begins to glare at him with alluring glances carrying signs of admiration, also sticking out her tongue as if she craves something. "Hiroki" asks himself in wonder: «Could this girl have actually taken a liking to me at this moment? Impossible, no!». Suddenly, the girl rises from her chair, takes a glass of wine with her, and advances toward him, suddenly trying to stab him with that knife, only for it to turn out in the end to be just a fake knife made of rubber, whereupon she begins to laugh loudly. She holds her glass high, grabs "Hiroki's" arm, and forces him to make a toast together, so they drink together, then she pierces him with a mysterious look of admiration and love and leaves the tavern quickly. While he is deeply immersed in his shock from this strange event, he suddenly hears the sound of footsteps of people walking and talking in an overlapping manner, only for them to enter the tavern surreptitiously and covertly, and with them is "Togashi," "Hiroki's" childhood friend. Tatsuya says, lowering his head and speaking with clear hesitation, fear, and anxiety: «Are you sure... that the place is empty? I mean, we are sneaking into a casino just to swallow down some wine!!! You idiot, you aren't thinking at all, this is extremely stupid!!!».
Hikari replies sharply: «Shut up, you scoundrel! This shouting of yours will ruin our strategic plan, and of course, it is a good plan because I am the one who thought of it!!! Just shut up, what a stupid fool you are!!!». The friends move with complete quietness and stealth throughout the tavern until they find "Hiroki" standing in front of the liquor bar, imbibing wine, whereupon they look at his face in extreme astonishment. Hikari suddenly shouts: «Hey! Stop, police... the oil-drenched sandwich police... wait, what am I saying, damn you?! Who are you, mister???». Hiroki answers him coldly: «Wait, police of what? You are just friends sneaking in here, wait a moment!!!». Then he throws a quick glance at them to see among them his best friend, "Togashi," and shouts laughing: «Hahaha! What are you doing here, you???». Togashi is surprised and shouts: «Ah... my dear four-eyed friend! I can't believe it! What happened to the members of the "Skull Brotherhood"? Did their leader, I mean "Izana," forgive you?!!!». Here Tatsuya becomes flustered and says: «What!!! You idiot, you are joking, right?... The S-Skull Brotherhood? What do you mean, and what did this boy do with "Izana"???». Yuri asks in astonishment: «Wait, who do you mean by them? Who is the "Skull Brotherhood," and what does "Izana" have to do with all this conflict??!!».
Tatsuya throws an inquiring look at him and hurries to his pocket to pull out a small notebook, saying: «How stupid are you... don't you know the most dangerous gang in Japan, or perhaps in the entire world?... The "Yakuza"! You are joking, right? This brotherhood is an integral part of them, and their supreme leader is "Izana," but he is of a lower rank in the organization. Wait a moment, what am I saying? Is he here right now?.. Damn, maybe he will kill me if he sees me!!!». Hiroki reassures him, saying: «He left last night while I was here». Kizuka comments with a tone of boredom: «Oh, how very boring this is! But oh, how beautiful you are, especially that hairstyle of yours!!». Hiroki wonders and asks her: «Wait, do you mean me with those words??!!». Kizuka answers him: «Of course I mean you, mister four-eyes! But how did I get entangled with the "Yakuza," and specifically the "Skull Brotherhood" gang? "Ryoma" will be very angry when he finds out about this matter!!!». Hikari intervenes, saying: «Stop, you beauty with the blackish-red hair (he means Kizuka; because her hair is dyed with a messy mixture of black and red that gives her a special aesthetic with her sharp red eyes), do you mean that this boy has plunged himself into a dark predicament with the "Yakuza" and the Brotherhood, and that this matter will anger the supreme leader "Ryoma"?». Hiroki says in a calm tone: «All of you are talking about this topic, and this makes me feel extremely afraid, will they really kill me?». Then he says to himself: «Especially after I proceeded last night to kill his assistant... I am an idiot, how much of an idiot am I!!». Hikari turns to him and says: «You are handsome, but you are not as wonderful and attractive as me, for I am always the most wonderful and unique among these failures. By the way, my name is "Hikari Kakashi," what about you?». He answers him: «My name is "Hiroki Takashi," and I have never seen you before in this place, and I wonder what the reason is?».
On the other side, and inside one of the luxurious and dark nightclubs, appears a boy who looks to be around twenty-two years old, wearing a pig mask made of genuine leather. If you focus your sight well, you will find a tattoo of a hang glider drawn in black on his neck from the left side. This boy walks with complete luxury and arrogance throughout the place, to find one of his assistants to carry out the important work he entrusted him with, which is transporting a huge shipment of cocaine drugs, but instead, he finds him deeply engrossed in practicing sex with one of the club's harlots. Since he caught him in this state inside the bedroom, the owner of the pig mask approaches him slowly, grabbing him by his cheeks forcefully with his gloved hand intending to terrify him, and asks him with a horrifying hiss: «Hey! How much time do you have left until ejaculation? Isn't it better to kill this filthy harlot instead of copulating with her and wasting time!!!». The latter pulls a sharp dagger from his pocket, and while the harlot lies in a certain position, he sits directly in front of her, saying in cold blood: «This seems highly amusing, doesn't it??!!». Before the girl can utter a single word, he slaughters her from ear to ear in front of him, for the room to be splattered with copious amounts of blood, and his assistant is terrified by the horror of the sight. The pig turned to him and said: «Don't worry, it will end easily with you, you won't even feel any pain!!!». The treacherous assistant tries to flee in terror, so the pig grabs him forcefully by his hair and plunges the dagger directly into his eye, then grabs his head and begins slamming it against the width of the wall several consecutive times with excessive violence.
The blood splatters his leather mask, but he doesn't care at all; for in the end, the assistant's head has been completely shattered and crushed, so he drops him as a lifeless corpse on the floor and exits the room. Even though he wears an elegant black employee suit and black gloves on his hands, he sees no reason to clean up the remnants of his raging anger, but it seems that he enjoyed the crime very much. He goes out with complete luxury and prestige, carrying the bags of precious drugs with him, for one of his loyal assistants to come to him, informing him that the leader of the Skull gang, "Izana Katsheda," has arrived here and wants to speak with him regarding an extremely urgent matter. Izana enters upon him while walking with raging anger and quick steps, looking in awe at the magnificence of the palace; it is the private nightclub of the supreme "Yakuza" leader, and as long as the leader enjoys this power and influence, this palace will never fall despite all the threats. They call this sadist "The Pig," and he is a bloodthirsty leader standing at a height of one meter and eighty centimeters, carrying that dagger which is still dripping fresh blood. "Izana" looks at the dagger cautiously and calms his nerves; out of fear that he might find his body cast into the sea and his head hung in place of the water tap in the nightclub's washbasins if he provokes his anger.
Izana says in a sycophantic tone: «Like father, like son! I still remember this horrifying look very well when the leader of this organization was that vile father of yours; what was his name? "Hakashi" or "Takashi"? Right, "Kyogara"! He possessed that same piercing, lethal gaze. All this terror was enough just in these two eyes, as if I were standing in supplication to the devil himself. Who would have thought that your brother would bring about such a difficult and complex destiny? For in the end, you two are completely similar; how is it that you both are mentally deranged? Isn't the matter strange and astonishing! Your father told me that you were a gentle boy in your childhood, but after you entered your father's dark world, you changed behaviorally and psychologically in a radical way.. Did he make you a monster just like him!!!?? Look at this tape and be ready to see a carbon copy of yourself, marvelous! What a wonderful and amazing resemblance!!!». Izana puts the tape in and plays it on the big screen to display the content; the Pig appears in the video scratching his neck tattoo, and begins to laugh a maniacal, hysterical laugh, saying in the recording: «The bond of brotherhood! Despite all this constant strife and difference between us, all that truly binds us is this anger suppressed in our depths. Since I killed that scoundrel my father, I still keep his vocal cords in my drawer! They lied to everyone when it was said that his death was natural and normal; in fact, I am the one who killed him as an opportunistic chance to be the actual leader, for the business and the gang's condition were in a deplorable state, but thanks to me, everything changed, ahhhhh! I still remember that day very well; I took a sharp vegetable knife, for sometimes you must only use the faculty of the mind alone as it is a deadly weapon, and then I cut his head from ear to ear so he would suffer a little during the execution, and for this exact reason I kept his vocal cords in the drawer at my place!!!».
The latter stands and turns off the big screen coldly, advancing directly to the bedroom where that treacherous assistant was liquidated previously, entering inside with Izana. "Izana" looks in terror at that terrible, bloody sight before him, while "The Pig" lies down at complete ease on the blood-stained bed, describing his crime while waving that dagger: «Hahaha, do you know the phrase "from ear to ear"? It is the first crime I applied this term to literally; my father wanted to eliminate his son with hurtful words, so with that phrase, I have silenced him forever and ever! Oh, did I forget to tell you? I cooked his brain afterward and ate it entirely! It was delicious and amusing, exactly like the pleasure of practicing sex. I still remember myself carrying that electric drill, trying carefully to drill his head without touching his brain; I wanted it just as it is, to taste its fresh flavor, and to sip those dark crimson drops of blood dripping from it! You don't know that you are sitting now next to a mentally deranged person and a brutal killer who enjoys the brutality of the devil himself. Are my brother and I at this very moment making the angels weep in their heaven!!!?». The scene appears from a distant angle; "The Pig" is lying on the blood-soaked bed, and on his right side is the corpse of that harlot with her severed head dangling, where a vein is still pulsing, holding the head and pumping drops of blood, and her body is overturned so that her dead face looks into the face of "The Pig." And on the left side, the assistant's body is overturned upside down with a completely shattered and crushed head, and blood is flowing profusely from his face; a brutal and sadistic scene in every sense of the word.
On the other side, and in the pitch-black darkness, we see a very beautiful girl with provocative and fascinating physical attributes, dancing in the dead of night while blood explodes and drips from her hands; especially her right hand which holds the large slaughtering knife, with blood streaming from it. The girl wears clothes in the style of Goth girls; she is the exact same girl into whose pit of blood our hero fell previously, and she is in fact one of the dreaded serial killers. Her last crime on earth was in a narrow alleyway; where the corpse of a man appears who tried to flirt with her and provoke her, only to end up hung on the wall with severe wounds and deep cuts on his naked body, and his head driven forcefully onto the trunk of a tree, with blood dripping from it to pour into a bucket designated for jasmine flower plants. The girl appears dancing ballet gracefully under the heavy rain and torrents, jumping and bypassing puddles of water skillfully. In a sudden manner resembling a broken television scene, the scene changes to show a thirty-year-old woman dancing ballet with a single severed leg, a wide smile on her face, and blood flowing down her face from a violent accident to the head perhaps. The scene changes from one shot to another, creating an aura of mystery, as if this girl is a character of major importance in the upcoming events; the puddles of water are colored in dark crimson in the scene of the one-legged ballet dance, while the other girl dances madly to the tunes of the rain, a wicked smile painted on her face.
A faded memory in black and white suddenly appears; her mother calls her, so the girl rushes to her, and because she is still young, her mother carries her, appearing in the memory with a blurred and hidden face. The young girl was in her utmost joy and happiness, but the scene changes quickly and a young girl comes to this girl who was dancing ballet and tugs at her clothes, saying in innocence: «Big sister, are you hurt? There is a lot of blood falling from your hands!». The girl looks at her and lowers herself to her level, saying with a dark tenderness: «This is nothing, my little one, compared to the beauty of a small and sweet girl like you. What are you carrying in your arms? Are they cigarette packs? Do you sell them? You know what? I will buy the whole pack from you, in exchange for you coming to live with me in my house and treating my wounds with your hand, just as a kind lady used to treat them for me in the past». The young girl rejoices at her words and jumps with delight in the puddles of water, grabbing the other girl's hands, and they begin to dance together under the dim streetlights and the beautiful streets of Japan, in a scene carrying a carefully drawn dark aesthetic.
To be continued....