Are you safe

The only time a monster was used in a competition was before the current era. The distinction between monsters and human are small but important. But the problem is that if you can’t tell, the government workers will knock on your door, and no one wants that. It was this thought that had Nako nervous. He finally was helpful to someone and that person was a monster. He looks at the mark on his hand and wanted to scratch it away, even if made him lose a chunk of flesh.

The worst experience of his life was saving that stupid girl and seeing that awful mark on his hand, the black sheep skull shape mocking him as he knew it mark him for death. He whimpers as he hears a knock on his apartment door. He hears the neighbor’s young wife screaming for help, only to overwhelmed by a gunshot. He could tell from sound was that the gun was a bigger firearm, the workers were using a rifle or a shotgun. The sounds of someone crying broke Nako’s train of thought.

The killer was not quiet either as he was demanding where was the monster, Nano felt his heart racing, practically jumping out of his chest. The seconds crawl into forever as he didn’t know what to do. A woman was dead and the workers were only here because someone reported his presence in the building. He didn’t know if it would be right to say he was lucky that no one what he looked like. Guilt was creeping into his heart; he bit his lip and focused on the pain. He needed to get away. He felt a breeze and look out onto the balcony. He wondered if he would survive a jump. The person who kills her was going to kill him with a gun, will that be worse than dying from a fall?

Why are they killing us was an idea that had floated around on social media on occasion as people often criticized the monster culling as being barbarism. The honesty of the dehumanization rubbed people the wrong way and the justification is just as atrocious, there’s only so many times the slogan, “This for the safety of others,” can push aside the corpses. There are films that criticize the way these people were targeted by hateful rhetoric. The way they are treated now is marginally better. They have rights but the government has been taking those rights, and they are allowed to target these people.

The monsters and their allies, however, didn’t initially take these abuses from the government. But the problem was they resorted to tactical protest while clever and receive praise from the public, the worst people happened to have the power to have the ear of elites. Allies went online and point out the problems with the Human’s Rights Activists, the most vocal monster hunters, and their ideology. They would clip the moments of HRA higher ups would admit to something that contradict their organization’s mission statements and would show open disgust towards their followers. These methods were defeated with the maddening declaration that the protesters were monsters and the elites’ words found an audience, a vocal and connected audience.

Farcical or not, the public, at first, mock the elite’s followers but when the first shot went off and a “human” died, the public changed their view. Of course, the true story of the first shot is that a shop owner was trying to kill an unarmed teen, and the “human” woman was trying to save said teen. But this context is absent to sell the story. The public didn’t care enough to discover true story. It was depressingly easy to find. The killer had been praised by the elites and their followers as a tragic hero for not killing the monster. He led a mob to avenge his failure and then wept for his victim and pray that the murder of the “monster” would appease her soul.

This led to the Diana Act, named after the victim of the shooting. These led legalized hunting of the “monsters,” but this led to greater instability as people kept accusing people regardless of circumstance of being a 'monster". Obviously, the public sphere made note of it. There were people making video essays and specials about it. Nothing changed and yet, what else could've been done.

The teens today are clearly divided on this. There are posts and videos on teens taking part on "monsters" sting. There are also teens critiquing the validity of whether these hunts are just as a smokescreen. There was a controversy that was happening around the time that was hurting the government's image.

Nako wondered what went wrong even before the man killed his neighbors. The day was only going to get worse. There was never anything that was going to make things better. And that he could always blame a post on social media. There was a storyline that was being written and Nako was not going to do been not going to be a part of this. It wasn’t funny but it all started when Jeffrey came to work this morning and just sat there staring into oblivion wondering what was going to be next.

Jeffrey was a man partnered with Nako as a campaign manager, specifically the online side of the campaign, for a specific legislative candidate. Jeffrey had husband and two kids and often showed off photos of them. That was the end of their presence in Nako’s life until Jeffrey called Nako telling him that government workers were appearing near his children’s school and one of them made mention of his husband. The noise was deafening as the people went on social media to defend a minor celebrity on social to defend Jeffrey but as soon someone mentioned that Jeffery’s husband was guilty of something, they turned against him and labeled the children as well as monsters. Jeffrey lost his family.

Jeffrey noticed Nako having a concerned look and apologized for the betrayal. Nako wondered what he meant until he saw the government workers at his door and hid until they went to his neighbor’s home asking where he was. Nako pondered all this as jump from the balcony.

The crunch that came as he made it to the ground was the worst part of the jump. The death null was that the fall caused his ribs to poke-poking out of stomach. The killings would be less painful than being shot. The bright side of his situation though was that at least he could die by his own hand. So, Nako closes his eyes and drift off to the unending darkness.

The darkness was interrupted was by the sound of the second gunshot. Nako looks around his apartment and wondered if he dreamed his freedom, he ran towards the balcony and suddenly a blood covered suit wearing man with a shotgun kicked the door down. He looked around but noticed the running Nako Yabuki sprinting towards the balcony. He took aim and shot Nako’s leg. A good chunk of his leg came off. Nako repositioned and ran to the side, avoiding the second shot. Nothing was taken but Nako’s sense of safety. He was confused. Just what is it that they want from him? The label “monster” didn’t mean anything. But then, he knew they wanted him dead. 52 panel 2, that was where on the newspaper that Nako saw his first mob lynching of “Monster”. Killings have been a part of Nako’s life; it had been just something that plays in the background. It should not be something that involve him.

Another gunshot interrupted his panicking mind. It forced a calm feeling that Nako did feel in his mind. Anything and everything were calculating through Nako’s mind. He looked through the reddish alleys of the overpopulated city. The marriage of brick and metal made him frustrated as he needed some way to get out of this dangerous situation. The mental acuteness of Nako’s mind registered that he was heaviest when his feet were in the air mid run. The shots were coming and he was going as hard he can. He saw his opportunity.