In a world ruled by heroes — fire-breathers, time-benders, gravity-walkers — monsters were supposed to be created.

Takigawa Jin was born.

Son of two legends:

Takigawa Yuna, the psychic war-hero with eyes that saw through lies,

Takigawa Ryou, the thunder-clad general who once held back a nuclear blast with his bare hands.

Jin had everything: privilege, potential, power.

But something inside him... was wrong.

He didn’t cry at birth. He laughed — loud, high, broken.

Laughed again at five, when he watched a cat drown in the koi pond.

At seven, he set the garden on fire, then sat in the ash, smiling wide-eyed at the smoke.

He painted with blood when crayons ran out.

They called him gifted. Misunderstood. A genius.

He was none of those things.

He was a void in the shape of a boy.

The Power He Shouldn’t Have

Jin didn’t get just one gift.

He had Spectral Folding — he could bend light, time, space, even emotion. Reality twitched around him. Rooms stretched too long when he entered. Voices echoed wrong.

And worse — he had a second power he never used unless bored:

Zero Point Collapse — not just erasure. Unmaking. A person’s history, relationships, thoughts, physical presence — gone, retroactively, as if they never happened.

He hated using it.

“It’s no fun if they don’t scream.”

No, Jin preferred to break people slow.

The Massacre

At 16, he turned on his elite hero school — a campus of powers and pride.

Dozens of future saviors. Trained killers. The best of the best.

He slaughtered them in 37 minutes.

• One drowned in their own blood — without a wound.

• One tore their face off because he made them feel ants crawling under their skin.

• One turned their body to flame — Jin whispered in her ear until she snuffed herself out.

He laughed through it all.

He sang while stepping over bodies.

When his parents confronted him, he said:

“You raised me to protect the world.

But I looked at it... and didn’t see anything worth saving.”

Then he disassembled them — cell by cell — while holding their hands.