Remember, love is the greatest curse.

That day, when Hiroshi became unconscious, he saw a dream. Well, actually, it was more like a remembrance of the past then his dreams. Previously, he didn't remember it all to what happened or why he ended up like that. But now, he knows it all...

It all started when his mother fell in love with his father when they were in high school. It was his mother who confessed to his father. He doesn't know why or how she fell for him first. He thinks it was something that changed her to like him. But Hiroshi hates him wholeheartedly because of what he had done.

After graduation, they decided to get married. His father went on to become a businessman, while his mother took on household work. Their lives went on happily, until Hiroshi was born to this world.

Everything was fine until Hiroshi was born. After his birth, his father became abusive to his mother. That abuse turned into torture. Hiroshi didn't remember at that time, but his father threatened to kill Hiroshi when he was just learning to stand up. But his mother protected him.

The thing Hiroshi also didn't remember is the time when his father almost killed his mother over such a silly matter. It was the time when Hiroshi could walk on his own. He was helping his mom and was taking a glass of water to the living room, when he fell and broke the glass. Not only that, the water fell on his dad's pants. To which he went on and picked up Hiroshi with the intention of slamming him into the wall and killing him, to which his mother responded quickly and took Hiroshi from his hands forcefully.

But this time, his dad didn't even hesitate to beat up his mother. He grabbed her by her hair, kicked her legs so that she can't walk and took her to another room. To where screams were heard for the whole day before his dad left the house. When Hiroshi entered the room, he saw the horrifying picture of his mother lying unconscious in the floor, having bruises all over her body. Those bruises were so bad that it turned black because of the constant beating done by his dad. She was bleeding in some places too. But she wasn't dead.

Hiroshi was smart back then. He noticed that whenever he got bruises, his mom would always put an ice pack there. So he went to the fridge and took an ice pack and placed it to the bruised areas. She hadn't woken up until the next day. She woke up to see Hiroshi sleeping on top of her, with his eyes being wet because of hunger and a pack of ice in his hands. Seeing this, his mother started crying.

"I'm sorry Hiroshi. I am such a terrible mother. I didn't even give you food yesterday. What the heck am I doing sleeping around like this and make my baby worry? Thank you for helping mother. You will grow up to be a fine man. I'm sure of it."

She picked up Hiroshi and put him to bed. Then she went up and did cooking for him. She wasn't fine. Her whole body was aching from the pain. There were times when she almost fell unconscious again. But she refused to fall unconscious. Maybe this is called mothers love? After cooking the food, she went to the room where Hiroshi was asleep. She decided to wait for Hiroshi to wake up automatically. He must've had a very hard time last night staying awake. In his sleep, he said is first words,

"Mama..."

His mom was shocked to hear this. She was amazed. Her child uttered his first word! She was happy, very happy. She even started crying again.

A day later, her mother fell sick. She had a fever because of the pain. It was very bad, but she recovered from it. Their family was deteriorating quickly. Soon enough, his father took up the habit of smoking. He also started cheating on his wife in front of her. But she couldn't do anything about it. Because she was too weak to protest. He would often bring women to his house at night and go to the bedroom, while his wife was watching him. He was rich so he could just pay some money to do these acts. At first, Hiroshi's mom cried because of it. She cried her eyeballs out. Which was normal. Because the guy she loved in high school ended up cheating on her in front of her. But then she decided to focus on her child and silently abandoned him. To her, her child was more important. But it wasn't like his dad didn't sleep with his mom at all. He did, only when he had no women to bring home. I think the word 'tyrant' won't fit him because he is more than that.

Another such incident happened when Hiroshi was five. He was a young boy and was growing up quickly. It was when his father was home. He took some days off to cool down. He still had the habit of smoking and drinking. His mom was cautious of his father's action. He might end up killing Hiroshi any day. But one thing concerned her. That is his father was smoking in the living room. This made the living room cloudy and because of this, Hiroshi was coughing badly. She thought that if this continues, her child might get lung cancer and when he grows up, he might take on this bad habit too. So she decided to build up her courage and confront this issue. To which his father didn't cooperate at all. He started torturing her in front of Hiroshi. Hiroshi was shocked at what was happening before his very eyes. Remember, he was just five at the time.

"Dear, I need to tell you something.", said his mother, to which she got no reply.

"Dear, could you please stop smoking in the living room?", she muttered.

"Huh, what the heck did you say?"

"C-could you please stop smoking in the living room?", she was trembling with fear.

"Oh, now you are teaching me what to do? This is my house. I can do what ever I want. Oh don't tell me you are worrying about this little brat that is here? Wait,let me teach him a lesson."

Hiroshi's mother knew what was going to happen and protected Hiroshi without hesitation. The situation escalated very quickly. Soon enough, his father decided to do the unthinkable. He pulled out a gun. He didn't use it to threaten her. He just straight up shot her. Not once, but twice. And five year old Hiroshi witnessed all of it...

His mother was lying in the floor. Her eyes were soggy from overwork, her whole body was slender from the lack of nutrition. There are 2 bullet marks in her belly, from where blood is flowing out like a stream of river. The smell of burnt skin from the cigarette marks from her hands. And on the other end, there was the five year old Hiroshi, terrified of what he is seeing. Her mother told her last words to him before she died, those word that he will forever remember in his heart. Before she died, she said with a smile,

"Don't make the same mistake as me. Live on to have a happy life. Remember, love is the greatest curse."

Heres the reason to why his father became the way he is after Hiroshi's birth. He didn't marry Hiroshi's mother out of love. Rather, it was out of lust. Her mother was good looking, and she confessed to him first. So he decided to build up a wicked plan to blatantly use Hiroshi's mom. His plan was to use Hiroshi's mom as just a pleasure partner. He never loved her even once. He was just using her as a toy. His plan was that after a year or two, he would divorce Hiroshi's mom and would go away. But his whole plan was ruined after Hiroshi's birth.

Well, after he shot down his own wife in front of his own child, he just decided to walk away as if nothing had happened. He decided to go out after all that happened. Hiroshi was terrified, but his anger was also burning. His anger was burning to the point where it became his dark side or split personality. In the moment of his burning anger, he took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed his father from his back as he was wearing his shoes, not once, not twice, but twenty times. He stabbed him twenty times. He stabbed him at every possible places he could stab him. From that point onwards, whenever he sees a couple, his dark side activates remembering those past, which drives him to kill people.