Mike Leonard is a high-ranking member of the formalin-soaked president, but he is known among those who are registered as members of the formalin-soaked president because he himself appears in the show for fun.
Even though it's called a show, the show in which Leonard appears is a completely one-sided massacre show. People who watch Leonard's shows are also there to enjoy watching Leonard kill people.
"Come on, wait a minute. Here comes Mike Leonard, the hero of our formalin-soaked president! 』
In the center of the ring, a woman in a tuxedo spoke loudly into the microphone, and the lights dimmed, and the audience heated up. Along with the scary entrance theme song, Leonard appears on the runway with a shirtless clown mask and slowly heads for the ring.
By the way, people other than those in the organization don't know that he is one of the organization's top executives. He is believed to be either a strong man within the organization or someone hired by the organization.
In addition to the female ring announcer in a tuxedo, there are already eight men and women in the ring. Their ages range from late teens to thirties. There are some Japanese, but there are clearly more people who are not Japanese.
All of them are dressed in helmets, shoulder pads, corselet, etc., and have special items such as nail bats, Japanese swords, morning stars, spears, and flails.
Standing facing them armed, Leonard waited in the ring for an announcement call.
"Red corner, 8 NEETs who turned their backs on society and refused to work, finally got sold by their parents to human trafficking!" 』
The audience was filled with laughter at the announcement that clearly understood who the eight armed men were.
``Blue corner, I'll be fascinated by you today too. 』
A loud cheer erupts from the audience. Eight men and women are drawn to the excitement. Judging from the reaction of the audience, I can tell that the opponent I will fight from now on will be a regular here.
They were told in advance that eight armed men would defeat the person in front of them. His body, which was covered with supple muscles all over his body, certainly gave the impression that he was quite strong, but with common sense, there was no way he could win against the eight armed men with his bare hands. Hence the confusion.
A gong rings. At the same time, the eight men and women felt an unknown chill.
The chill was emanating from Leonard. An indescribable ominous aura emanates from the masked man standing calmly. I soon found out who it was.
On Leonard's chest and stomach, countless human faces filled with anguish appeared and wriggled.
Among the eight, the one who had the strongest inspiration saw through them that they were evil spirits and felt more fear than the other seven, turning pale and trembling all over.
With his mouth exposed from under the mask, a smile as if ridiculing the trembling eight people appeared. I thrust it toward my throat.
The man's neck splits from his torso and springs up, spinning violently in the air and falling onto the ring. Two seconds after his head fell, his body collapsed. The spectators cheered when they saw the scene.
For a moment, the other seven didn't know what had happened. Even when I witnessed the fact that I had decapitated someone with my bare hands, my brain couldn't accept the scene as a real event.
Leonard kicked a stiffened man in the abdomen.
The metal armor distorts and dents, bending his body into a dogleg and blowing him out of the ring. Falling under the ring, the man convulses violently while vomiting blood.
The remaining six panicked. There were those who lost their fighting spirit that had been lacking from the start and cringed, and there were those who swung their weapons at Leonard in desperation, but the developments after that were all pretty much the same. A one-sided massacre unfolds with an instantaneous power and physical strength that cannot be thought of as that of a human being.
"Forgive me... forgive me..."
The last remaining woman falls on her knees and looks up at Leonard with a tearful face, begging for her life.
"Don't worry, sir. I don't pretend to raise my hand to a woman."
Leonard looks down at her woman, grins, and opens her arms.
Right after that, Leonard's legs, with her arms outstretched, moved at a speed that even his eyes couldn't catch, kicking up the woman's chin.
"But put your feet up. Nanchatte, tehepero."
Turning to the unconscious and collapsed woman, Leonard raises her hand in a triumphant pose.
As promised, he didn't kill the last woman. I just fainted.
In fact, Leonard didn't really like killing women by hand. There is still a conscience that makes me feel reluctant to take care of the weak such as women, children and old people.
However, even if this woman, whom I didn't kill just now, survives here, she won't be able to live long anyway because she was sold to this organization, and Leonard is aware of that, but he doesn't want to kill her directly. It doesn't matter if you don't.
Leonard returns to the dressing room, where he encounters a familiar face. That said, his face was covered with a mask like his own.
Waiting for Leonard's return in the waiting room was a middle-aged man in a suit wearing a mask resembling a bird.
"Good afternoon. How are you, Shita? You're in a place like this."
"Today's show is part of my project. Mike is also here, so I'm just here to say hello."
The words of the man in the bird mask made Leonard feel suspicious. It's not like all of the big executives are on good terms with each other. Rather, this bird-masked man doesn't fit well with Leonard. Principles are often in conflict.
Since the bosses of the organization almost disappeared several years ago, the formalin-soaked president has been run by a few senior executives. As much as possible, it is a style of doing business by making projects freely among the top executives.
However, when an organization-wide problem arises, the top executives discuss it, and there are often conflicting opinions.
"Tomorrow, the co-starring with Miss Junko Yukioka, who you are in charge of, will finally be the climax. Even if it's in a winning state, it's not well-balanced for a series."
said the man in the bird mask.
"In that case, it would be fine if you put her all into it and crush her.
Knowing that it didn't suit the organization's intentions, Leonard sarcastically.
"There's no reason to do that when she's making her profit by working with her. And if we're serious about it, our loss would be a joke."
"So, how do you say Seyo, Death?"
As we talked, I could tell Leonard was hesitant about what the man in the bird mask said. Leonard knows what he wants to say.
"I know, but ne. Is it okay if I say it clearly even so?"
"Let's be clear, then. I heard that some of the other senior executives want to cut ties with Yukioka."
"The man in the bird mask said." Of course Leonard knows that. There are affirmative and negative groups regarding the current relationship with Junko Yukioka. The man in the bird mask is an affirmative, so Leonard guesses that he had a hard time communicating that to himself.
Leonard himself was in charge of negotiating with Junko Yukioka, but he didn't have any intention of actively having a relationship, nor did he think he wanted to refuse.
If there is a situation where they can use each other, they will take advantage of each other. However, because he is a neutralist, it is possible that he will lean either way depending on the situation of the organization.
"If so many branches have been destroyed. Some people think that no matter how much money they make, they lose face. Even if I belong to the organization, I don't want to be in a mood where I'll die right away in a conflict with Junko Yukioka."
"That's right, death. Then, with the destruction of the Seventh Branch as a milestone, let's go in the direction of doing hand-to-hand with Junko Yukioka Mars."
Unusually for him, Leonard was able to fully agree with the words of the man in the bird mask, and thought that the conversation went smoothly.
"Will you be able to control Miss Yukioka that much?"
Leonard was irritated by the words of the man in the bird mask, who did not provoke or incite him, but simply asked questions.
"Deshita and others who think I can't do it, why don't you ask someone else to take care of it? Death.
"It's because we're close that it's hard for me to be in charge. Because I have the eyes of the opposition. You're a neutral person, so you're the right person."
The man in the bird mask gave a clear answer to Leonard who was sarcastic even though he knew it.
From Leonard's point of view, the most disgusting thing about this man is that he only takes things at face value. He often takes sarcasm and jokes seriously, so he is often annoyed or annoyed in conversation.
"Well, I understand what you're saying, and I'll try going in that direction."
Judging that further conversation would likely lead to a fight, Leonard unilaterally ended the conversation and went into the shower room.
The Kumozuka family had an old tradition.
"Make at least three children." If you don't have one, take the adopted child and have three. And it is to thoroughly discriminate the worst child and motivate other children.
The worst-performing child becomes the target, but the child who becomes the first target usually cannot get out of the target. Even giving up trying.
Akira's eldest daughter was exactly like that. In front of Akira, she was yelled at and beaten, she was discriminated against for eating alone, and when she went out to play, she was not taken alone. Akira was horrified that her sister was being bullied like that.
Because it was such a house, neither Akira nor any of his brothers could bring their friends home.
On the contrary, at some point, even his brothers began to harass his eldest daughter. As if he's going to play sesame on his parents. Akira asked his parents and brothers' complexion, but he could never imitate their actions.
Akira's father is a follower of Kumozuka's ideas, and he believes that thanks to this family motto, he himself became a splendid person thanks to the stepping stones of his unsuccessful brothers.
Akira's mother was a closeted daughter who grew up in a house with a family precept that women should be obedient to men, and Akira's father chose such a partner and had an arranged marriage.
At first, Akira's mother felt that Kumozuka's house was abnormal and showed her resistance, but she eventually adapted, and she began to actively face Kumozuka's family discrimination and abuse. became. She believes it is the right thing to do.
When Akira was seven years old, the target changed to Akira due to the vaporization of his older sister. Akira, like his older sister, has no energy to resist, and has transformed into a shy and dark child who does not speak at all at home. He's the complete opposite of that cheerful Akira outside the house, and he's the kind of person you don't want to see in Toya.
In elementary school, Akira endured his family's unreasonable treatment, but somehow gave up on his misfortune as something that could not be helped, but after becoming a junior high school student, his thoughts gradually changed. rice field.
his own family is crazy. Aware that it was the worst family that tormented his relatives with cruel family precepts, Akira began to grow hatred and anger.
After entering junior high school, Akira became strangely conscious of the opposite sex, and would go around randomly picking on the opposite sex he liked. It's about a certain person.
There was a rumor that Makoto Aizawa, the legendary delinquent in Anrakuji, had built a harem in the school, so Akira tried to imitate it.
The result was terrible, with the woman he was dating crying and beating him.
To that extent, Akira admired Makoto Aizawa, a person he had never met. In addition to the many unconventional legends, he also learned that he fell into a back alley after that, where he became famous as a skilled killer.
At some point, Akira's admiration for the back streets gave him a dangerous impulse. He wants to end the evil traditions of Kumozuka that have tormented him and so many people.
And he began to think seriously that he could now kill the demons who practiced the precepts and use the back alleys to escape from sin.
Originally, he was Akira, who had more power than others, but he was hesitant to take that step. However, it was only a matter of time until the accumulation of abuse reached the limit of patience.
It's not like there was a particularly dramatic reason for this. I simply hit the limit of my patience.
Unable to endure his family's treatment, Akira muttered a word with a fierce smile in front of his parents.
"Already... it's about time... is that okay?"
Akira's parents had never seen Akira laugh before, so they suspected that Akira had finally lost his mind.
Knowing Akira's smile and the meaning of his words, his parents, while enjoying plenty of fear and despair, exposed their disgraceful behavior and even begged for their lives, and their lives were cut off by Akira's hands. His brother followed suit as well.
Even after crossing the irreversible line, Akira remained calm.
He had already decided what he was going to do. He had done his research beforehand. He had no fear, no remorse, and a sense of liberation. He felt a sense of accomplishment. There should be no guilt.
"But there was one thing that really bothered me."
It's about Toya, his best friend. What will Touya think when she learns this fact? "That's all I'm worried about." I fear that. I wondered if Touya would hate or despise me.
The news that flowed at the Yukioka Research Institute quickly exposed the matter, but while he was relieved that Touya didn't look down on him, Touya's appearance was slightly strange. Akira also noticed.