(Teacher) “There was once a time in the universe where worlds were clashing together, colliding and being destroyed only to be made anew…that being said with as much chaos going on at that time, some universes survived while others failed to. Ours is one that was lucky enough to survive. With that being said, many universes had their size either enlarged or shrunken, with ours being shrunken. And when universes shrink, abnormalities begin to take effect”, the teacher explained.

“How do we know that ours shrunk or was large in the first place?”, one student asked curiously.

The face of the teacher brightened up and he began explaining.

“Ah, that's a good question, you see, remember the part where I said that there were “abnormalities” when a universe shrinks, that also happens when one enlarges. There is this agency that was capable of discovering the theory and process that was able to calculate how our universe existed, through years of studying and research they was finally able to get the technology capable of traversing other universes-”

(Gaizen) “So teach, your telling me that we could possibly travel to another world if we wanted? Pfffft!! Hahahaha wow ok im outta here.” Gaizen rudely interrupted. 

The teacher just sighed.

(Teacher) "Sigh…Look you might as well stay out Gaiz. You are already behind in the class, i mean look,  you wont stay in class and you don't do the work that's asked of you to do,......and y-your parents arent there for you….which i'm so sorry for your loss, but you can't just go and try and get sympathy from us by doing all of your antics, so you might as well stay out Gaiz!!” 

(Gaizen) ”.......Heh, so teach you think i go out just to skip school? Is that what you're saying, to go out just because I'm sad and lonely?”

(Teacher) “Y-yea, everybody does.”

Gaizen then looked at the eyes of the other students in the classroom. Eyes of hate, disgust, eyes with no mercy for one another met his.

(Gaizen) ¨ Heh…so everybody is against me eh? So yall think i’ll go out of this classroom to goof around?!? Not to-to try and work at my JOB and take care of my grandmother… no…no y’all think i want  empathy from y’all!?! Y’all think I ¨do antics just because?!? Do any of you know how it feels to sit in a dark, cold room with your one and only family member, who have Alzheimer’s and dementia, to be shivering in the cold, hungry because you need to save money for your grandmother's medicine, to see your only family member shiver in the cold while only eating damn porridge!?!

Cockroaches squirming around on you, in your food, your clothes!!  Do any of you know how much the medicine costs?!? Do any of you know what it feels like to work and work and work with no parents around and to come home to a house that’s empty?!? Huh!! Do you?!?”As he talked he became progressively louder, nearly screaming at the end.

 Everybody in the class was silent, but then one snickered, then the other, then the class was laughing as if they saw something so funny they wouldn’t be able to breathe. Gaizen simply looked at their eyes, they weren’t laughing beacause it was funny….they were laughing because it was enjoyable to them to see a person do things they themselves would never do, things that were so idiotic to them that they couldn’t help but laugh, things that they themselves thought could never happen to a person, since they didnt live a life as hard as Gaizen’s.

Seeing how  everyone simply did not care about his struggles, to the point of laughing about them, he lost his will to continue. So Gaizen simply got his things and headed out of the class. He turned one last time only to see even the teacher struggling to not laugh. That day for Gaizen was a day he would never forget, a story to be told later to his descendants, as the faces they made were one of the devil himself, possessing the children and teacher. As he left the classroom, he headed outside the building to be greeted by his only friend in the world, Shijah.

(Shijah) “Oh hey, Gaizen!”

She waved to him, excited to see him.

(Gaizen) “Oh hey Shijah,…how's it going?¨

Shijah, before saying anything, saw the bags under his eyes, and found in his eyes a soul bound to break after but one more slight push. She then smiled widely.

(Shijah) “Hey Gaizen…are you ok? You look like you went through a war and came back…as if having fought a battle you only could have lost!!”

(Gaizen) “Y-yea i guess you can say that…but well I need to go to my j- !”

She put her finger on his lips and shut him off.

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(Shijah) "Shhh shhh shhh, go home Gaizen!! You need a break. I will cover you!! If you go to work now you will probably collapse!” 

(Gaizen) “O-oh ok I-I’ll go home then….thank you.”

Shijah then looked with a grin at Gaizen walking in the direction of his house. She clapped her hands. This caused 2 men to immediately get out of a nearby car they had themselves hidden in. “Make sure he never wants to come to work again…you get what i'm saying right?” 

(Man1) “Yes ma'am! We know exactly what you mean….”

(Man2) “Hehehe….this is gonna be fun.” 

Gaizen arrived at his home and entered. As he entered, he shouted:

”Hey grandma I'm home!!”

(Gaizen) “...She must be asleep,” he muttered. 

(Gaizen) “Guess I'll go in the living room- oh there you are!! Heh, you know I had a tough day today like usual…h-hey grand-!!! Gr-GRANDMA!!! You’re bleeding!…Your stomach…you, you got stabbed!!”

Thoughts racing, he tried to think of something he could do, only to find that he couldn't do anything. Should he call the ambulance? Should he search for something to stop the bleeding? His thoughts got interrupted as she coughed heavily.

(Grandma) “Gaizen….is t-that y-you? I-i have s-something to ask and give t-to you.” 

(Gaizen) “W-who would do this, wh-why!!” 

(Grandma) ¨S-Son, i give you this…please take me to the mountain top.”

Gaizen took the amulet she pressed into his hand and looked into her eyes and saw that she was in her right mind now. He knew her time was near…so he pulled himself together, got her wheelchair, opened the back door in the backyard, and went up the mountain. It was tough for him, he knew he didn't have enough time to be with her so while he was carrying her up, he was talking to her as if they were on a trip to the mountains, reminiscing the past and the fun times……but by the time they got there she was already breathing heavy and alot more blood was spilling.

He tried putting pressure on it while going up the mountain, but it didn't help at all, only making his hands sullied with her blood.  So he sat down with his grandmother at the edge of the cliff. They both looked down at the beautiful view of cars passing by on the highway, tall buildings where executives have meetings, the fresh cool air hitting their faces, the trees rustling with their leaves in the back while the grass was comfortably cool and the night sky twinkling with dancing stars in the sky. Yet even with this magnificent view before him, Gaizen felt empty. Numb to it. What sense does it make to look at beauty when you soon will have nobody to share it with anymore?

His grandmother coughed again. 

(Grandma) ”I-I would like to be buried here too…..”

With her last breath as she was looking at Gaizen...she wished for her last request. As he looked into her eyes, he could tell that she wasn't sad nor mad….but happy to be with her family once again, which gave Gaizen a smile as wide as the sky, but tears as salty as the ocean. Hearing rustling behind him he got up holding the amulet tight….and to his amazement saw the police. He was about to burst into tears out of relief but then he got rushed down, tased 3 times and cuffed as if he was a criminal in the act. 

(Policemen) “STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!”

One of the policemen even shouted. Lying on the ground Gaizen could hear him inform his colleagues. 

(Policemen) “I got him, i got him!! The killer was here all along!!”

(Gaizen) “Wh-what!?! I called you here because someone stabbed my grandma!! I'm the one who called you all here!!”

One of the policemen, probably a police chief of some sorts due to his differently looking uniform looked different, frowned.

(Police Chief) ”So the killer tried to call the cops because he's feeling guilty after killing a poor old lady who was even a grandma!?! Did you think we wouldn't see your bloody hands or what?! You demented scum!! Take him out of my damn sight!!” 

As Gaizen was forced down the hill, he saw the police chief look at his grandmother, then at him, grinning and then kicking her body down the cliff. When Gaizen saw that, he felt anger he had never felt before. He shoved the officers off of him with the suddenly rising adrenaline inside  him, took one of the officers' guns, aimed the gun at the chief and shot.

The unexpected recoil of the gun proved to be too much for him to handle causing him to fall back on the ground where the police men again forced him down with a gun to his head. But before he fell down he saw the chief smile….as if he was the winner and Gaizen…the one who lost. He was then escorted to a police car, he then drove past the police station and into an abandoned one where he was greeted by a guy wearing dirty blood clothes and a grin of sadisticism. 

Startled and slightly panicking, he asked,

(Gaizen) “W-where am i!?! What is this place!?!”

Coming out of a slick black car unharmed, the police chief said,

(Police Chief) “Well, this here is a place where we are going to interrogate you”

Now really panicking,

(Gaizen) “Wh-what!! Interrogate me!?! I didn't kill my grandmother, someone else did!! I'm the one who called you in the first place so why would I do that if not for me being innocent in the first place!?! And why the fuck are you alive? ”

(Police Chief) “Heh, but we have evidence that just exactly you did indeed do it. This knife here was found around your neighborhood in a similar situation, boy!! And on it is the blood of the poor old grandma you have killed! The same blood that is on your hands! We ran tests of the blood on your hands and on the knife and it matched!! We even asked those in the neighborhood about you, seemingly enough they all said with confidence that you were out, late at night with baggy clothes and a walk that only a serial killer would have!! So you're the mad killer on the loose here!! And we will get everything out of you!!”

They then sedated and took him inside. When he woke up, he woke up in a chair with 6 thick straps on each limb. As he looked at his surroundings he saw things he would have never thought he’d ever see in a dimly lit room with him. The only thought he could muster in his still somewhat sedated state being that this would be

“Severe one sided torture”.

A man entered and greeted him with an unnerving smile.

(Torturer) “Well, well, well, looks like you're awake!!! Ahhh yes, welcome, welcome, welcome, this is my room of fun! NOW, LET US GET STARTED!”