Meet Akatsuki Ken

Sometime in the distant future, where humans who received the Daemons’ powers began to surface one after the other in different countries of the world. The cause of this was buried deep within the human history as time passes by without them even knowing about it. Somewhere in the country of Japan, there were certain students who unknowingly received the very power that could destroy godlike beings at such a young age.

In the hallway of a school named Zero Nana School (Japanese for Seven) during dismissal time, the sunset made the halls as orange as a tangerine. From the distance, there was a couple who linked arms and flirt with each other as they talked.

The teenage girl asked with a smile on her face, “Where should we hang out with today’s date?”

“Let’s see… How about going to the movies? I heard there was a really good horror movie that’s going to be released today”, the teenage boy replied with a smile in return.

“That’s a great idea!”, the girl giggled as her eyes twinkled brightly in excitement.

A teenage boy with a spiky hair who looked like he was one year younger than the couple walked through the couple and bumped into the boy. The boy looked furious as he asked, “What the—!? Are you looking for a fight, you bastard?!”

The spiked hair teen responded nothing. “Stop ignoring me, you little sh*t!”, the boy infuriatedly said as he was about to pull the first punch, but the spiked hair teen effortlessly dodged it and punched the boy's chin using an uppercut with his right fist.

The boy knelt down due to the pain and dizziness. “Please… spare me and my boyfriend. W--We promise to never bother you again. I beg of you…” The girl, who witnessed everything, shivered in fear as she begged, and tears started to flow from her eyes. The spiked hair teen stood in silence and when the boy slowly raised his head, he pulled off a straight punch towards his victim’s nose and nosebleed flowed out of it. He then replied to the girl with bloodlust in his eyes,

“I won't torture the boy for now since you begged for him. Leave before I change my mind!”

“Thank you…”, the girl replied as she supported her boyfriend with her shoulders.

When the two teens hurriedly left, he just laughed wickedly said to himself,

"Hurting people is fun after all!" The spiked hair teen was silent for a while. "I hate couples", he mumbled to himself as he clenched both of his fists.

This teen, who had black spiky hair that was identical to a sea urchin, had eyes as red as a ruby and long lash that someone could almost mistake him for a girl, and loosely worn his uniform with black vest, pants, and a blue tie, was Akatsuki Ken.

Inside Ken's bedroom, he lied down to his bed with his chest to his comfortable bed and his head lied to his pillow. He thought to himself as he faced towards the curtained window, "I’ve been hurting people for two years now and still never regret of doing it since I never realized it until now that it was a great feeling. Being a sadist is the greatest thing I’ve accomplished in my whole existence. Tomorrow is another a great day for new victims."

Without warning, Ken suddenly went to sleep. Within his subconscious, he dreamt about himself bleeding from his chest and was lying on the floor, lifeless. He instantly woke up from his pillow with a devastated expression as he mumbled to himself while catching his breath, "TCH! That stupid dream again."

While the class was in session early in the morning, Ken, who was sitting near the window, stared at the window as he was completely lost in thought,

"It's been a week since I first had that dream."

Ken reminisced his memory from last week when he was back home from school. He walked towards his bedroom as he thought to himself,

"Another couple has been punished by yours truly. Not so shabby if I do say so myself. Heheheh…" He dropped and lied down to his bed with his face buried under his fluffy pillow and instantly dozed off.

In the dream, Ken was happily walking and talking together with someone's silhouette on the sidewalk. Ken looks down and observed that he was bringing four large-sized plastic bags using both of his hands while the person who was with him brought two medium-sized black paper shopping bags as they crossed the street.

All of a sudden, there was a loud sound of three gunshots echoing from all directions and he looked at his surroundings in worry as he thought to himself, "Where did that gunshot come from?" As Ken saw that among the people who were panicking on the streets, fortunately no one was shot, and he sighed in relief. "It looks like it didn’t reach this place since no one was hurt. Are you alri—" As he looked to his partner, he gasped as his reaction was filled with despair when he saw that his partner was dropped dead on the floor with a blood stain on their head.

Ken squatted beside his partner and said in panic, "No! This can’t be happening. Hold out for a bit longer, ●●●●. Somebody help—" He grunted in pain as he tried to stand up. He placed his right hand to his chest and felt something wet and cold. He then hovered his palm in front of him and saw that it was covered with blood.

As Ken was slowly walking around while bearing and ignoring the pain on his chest, he looked around his surroundings and thought to himself," I was also shot, huh? How come I didn’t realize the pain earlier? That gunshot must’ve come from a sniper and even a pro one. What’s that bastard’s motive for shooting us?" He saw that the streets were completely void of people. "How can everyone be so fast at evacuating after that gunshot anyway?"

"Somebody, help us! Is there still anyone around?", Ken crossed the road as he called for help, but a truck was suddenly headed towards his way at high speed.

"I can’t move my body at all! Come on! Move, you useless body!" Ken thought to himself in panic as he saw from a distance that the lifeless driver was already shot in the head. "The driver was also shot from earlier like us, huh? Just how rotten is my luck today? Man, I’m gonna die. I know this is lame for me to say to my first friend but sorry that I let you get involved with my troubles, ●●●●."

The truck crashed towards Ken's immobile body and his bleeding chest and body were lying on the ground, lifeless. As soon as he saw the person with him was still lying lifeless in front of him, he said in a hoarse voice as he tried to reach his right hand to them, "●●●●. I can’t… give up yet…" He tried his best, but he completely lost consciousness and his hand landed on the cold, hard ground dyed with a pool of his own blood.

The ringing of the bell made Ken snap out of it and woke up in surprise. He clicked his tongue in anger and sighed as he walked out of the classroom door and went up the stairs.

The sun shone brightly on the rooftop as Ken was eating his lunch in silence. As he gazed towards the blue sky, he thought to himself,

"Oh, yeah. For some reason, I only have that dream whenever I injured other people. There was a time when I didn't have time to do it since there was a big test coming up and I need to study. If memory serve right, I didn’t have that dream at that time and that other one time as well. What did I do to have such dreams anyway? Do I feel guilty when I hurt people? Nah, no way that’s happening." He just smiled to himself in denial afterwards.

When the sun had set, Ken immediately ran out of the school gates and into the sidewalks hastily while catching his breath as he thought to himself, "Damn it! I almost forgot that I have a shift on Friday. I’ll just forget about hurting another couple for now. Just you wait, you dirty couples! I’ll get my hands on you after I’m finish with my shift and I’m going to enjoy my life again by beating the crap out of you..." He ran towards the stop light and saw that the light had changed.

"Lucky! The pedestrian’s light is green."

“Oh, yeah. The reason that I hate couples so much is because of my stupid pa—", Ken mumbled to himself as he crossed the road along through the pedestrian line, but a huge truck ran over him in a blink of an eye.

Ken rolled to the ground due to the impact as his head was bleeding really badly while his body collapsed. He struggled to try and get up, but his body won't move at all.

"My body won’t listen to what I wanted it to do. Wow… my annoying dream came true. Man, this life sucks. I’m dying without being able to do anything satisfying..."

During the last of his breath, Ken thought to himself as his consciousness began to fade away and his life disappeared from his wounded body.