In Napoli, an Italian city, lived a boy who was the only one on Earth to have no powers; he was bullied by uncountable people for this, causing him to fall into depression. He was seventeen years old, yet he was already doing a very particular part-time job: he was a murderer, a really dangerous one whose only true identity was known by his boss; he was known as "The Dark Lord" due the fact that, when he killed people, he never moved from the darkness. Despite this, he also had a public identity: the one of a high school student.
His name was Simone Vamber, a simple, slim guy with blonde-tinted hair that were naturally large-sized, an oval face, a fair and smooth skin, brown round eyes, a tiny mouth that was always sad and with full lips, a straight nose, soft cheeks, a defined jawline, a flat chest as long a crooked posture; he wore cotton clothes: a black hoodie, a yellow shirt and black pants; he also wore black gam sneakers and black wool fingerless gloves. He wasn't really social because of the countless bullies who harmed him every time they had the chance to, just because he was powerless.
On the tenth of April two thousand and twenty-seven, he was walking along a sidewalk when he saw a shop window that exposed huge black televisions that showed the same program on five channels: they were news which showed the famous scientist, Dr. Bob, hugging his daughter Tamara as she had just come back after her escape from home with her brothers. Simone widened his eyes in confusion.
Weren't they the ones I saw in Tokyo while I was killing Thomas Vramson? he thought to himself while going back to walk straight. Suddenly, he held his ear as they began hurting due to the excessive amount of sounds from people, animals, wind and more.
Why do they hurt so much..? he kept thinking to himself, confused by his own body. He started clenching his teeth, stressed and full of anger at the same time.
Sometimes I just wish I could kill everyone… he thought while walking and staring at the floor. He then saw another television from the window of a brown and little barber shop, showing the same scene as before, but this time, the camera was focused on Tamara's face, who had tears rolling down her cheeks and sobbed.
"Ok… maybe not everyone," Simone said, finding Tamara cute and adorable.
"Lucky is the man that will marry her…" he then added before starting to walk away. He entered an alleyway and pulled a wood-handled steel dagger out of his hoodie.
"Who is following me by the way?" he asked while he stared behind his back: he saw a blue fire; it was weird, simply floating behind him and whispering "help". He didn't understand what it wanted so he kicked the fire to dissolve it.
"Mmmh… that's weird. Isn't that the power of one of Dr. Bob's sons?" Simone asked himself while grabbing his chin with his thumbnail and index finger. He then went out of the alleyway and kept walking on the sidewalk while passing near many people, not even staring at them.
He walked until he reached a white black-roofed school with numerous windows; its doors were black, red-handled, and had a transparent upper part. He entered the structure and walked through the right corridor where he saw many classes, until he reached his. When he entered, there was nobody; it was Saturday, there was no one other than a guard, who was asleep in the principal's office. Simone sat on his white wood desk after picking a blue book that was titled "How to become a hero without using your powers" and starting to read it; however, it explained in which case someone could use powers during a mission as a hero, in which Simone wasn't interested in since his powerlessness. He threw the book away, out of the black window of the class, in anger.
"Stupid bitchy writer that's not even able to write a clear title!" he shouted, furiously. He then punched a desk before going out of the school and ran away.
Meanwhile, in Japan, Dr. Bob was in a dark room with Shadow and Hana.
"How dare you try to escape me?" Dr. Bob asked with cold eyes and an emotionless voice.
"L–Listen, we just can't afford this a—anymore!" Shadow shouted.
"Shadow, don't yell or else–" Hana replied before being cut mid-sentence by Dr. Bob, who threw two syringes at them which started to absorb them slowly.
"Oh shit…" Shadow said while staring at the syringe on his right arm that was absorbing him.
"Where is Entity?" Dr. Bob questioned, coldly.
"We don't know…" Hana answered while her body was getting absorbed by the syringe on her left leg.
"Useless brats…" Dr. Bob snapped as the two shadows were absorbed fully.