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Teru Mikami always felt misunderstood by everyone from society to his own mother
He felt isolated from others, even unwanted, and constantly pushed aside. Whenever he tried to stand up for the weaker ones, the only “reward” he received was being called a “weirdo” in the hallways and being scolded by his teachers.
He hated this world where people found joy only in inflicting violence on others. Why wasn’t anyone like him? Why didn’t anyone try to stop it? He dreamed that some deity would step in and do something to change this sick world. Unfortunately, his dreams remained just that. From the beginning of elementary school through the end of high school, he tried to do whatever he could to change the behavior of the people around him, but sadly, people like that would never change; according to Teru, people like that deserved a cruel death.
Why bother trying when you could just wipe them out of this world? That would be possible if a savior were to come to Earth a savior for Teru and for the whole world. A savior who would share Mikami’s worldview.
If there were people like that, the world would be a much better place without murderers and rapists, right?
No one would miss them, but if anyone were to forgive these monsters in human form, they would be no better than all those criminals who murder in cold blood.
No crime in Teru's ideal world will be forgiven (and certainly not by him)
When you commit such a terrible act any crime that dehumanizes another person to any degree you will have to face justice.
And the name of justice is Teru Mikami, who will be willing to give his life so that justice may reign in the world
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The first time Teru began to fantasize about his ideal world was when he tried to defend a student a year younger than him from some school bullies
They were a head taller than Teru or even more and in any case, Mikami was much shorter than them and, as a result, weaker.
When Teru stood up for his friend, he was mocked by the bullies; although he was afraid of them, he attacked them to defend the student.
The ruffian with brown hair whom Mikami had been aiming for easily dodged the punch. After Teru’s failed punch, the brown-haired boy aimed a kick at his shins and struck Teru the black-haired defender dropped to one knee in pain. The brown-haired boy walked nonchalantly up to Teru. “If you do something like that again, I’ll smash that pretty little face of yours to pieces, you dickhead,” the bully groaned so that Mikami could hear what he was saying. After that, the brown-haired boy swung his open hand and struck Teru with all his might. Mikami stumbled backward from the blow, and his glasses fell off his nose; he touched his reddened face with one hand while searching for his glasses with the other, At that moment, the other black-haired boy approached Teru, which made it look as if Mikami were kneeling before the bully. The black-haired attacker stepped on the glasses with his boot, shattering them. The black-haired boy had already grabbed Teru by the hair, but just then the teacher walked in
As usual, the teacher didn't do anything about the bullies, but she punished Teru instead. The teacher told him to stay in the classroom after class, and Mikami obeyed and did just that. Unfortunately, he had to listen to the same old lecture about how you shouldn't get into fights, blah blah blah
Mikami is going to have to leave school after what happened his mother won't be happy eithershe's always lecturing him that he's doing the right thing but shouldn't get involved in fights like that at all.
It turned out just as Teru had suspected; his mother gave her usual lecture about fighting.
That was when Mikami realized that his mother also deserved to be eliminated, just like the evil people, because, according to Teru, she was one of them