The world has never favored me. I rely on pain to carry me through my every day. The ones that claim sanity, they are scared of me, they have labeled me as insane. I've taken up this title with my prestige. I love the taste of blood, and they say that's scary, horrifying. It's just how I work. Pain is of a great importance to me; I love taking physical pain and serving all kinds of pain to watch the broken faces of the ones who claim sanity. The clear precision and beauty of a blade. Run a blade across my tongue, feel the steel slice through the muscle and relish the pain and taste of the sweet, yet salty crimson miracle called blood, that runs through the bodies of every living being.I'm a product of world, I'm the one they call Raven. I'm a Deadman, stuck here in this playground of death they called the Deadman Wonderland.
My name is Zarakata Airiso, known now as the Deadman Raven. I'm in here on so many murders, each one which was self defense, but as more and more kills were on my tally, the more I did with their corpses. I cut them, licked off the blood, and I would loose myself to my growing insanity. They say I must have this thing called Branch of Sin, and also they pulled red crystals from my chest. I don't know how it got there, but I feel them in my chest now. It's my first day in G-block. I have seen the bloodied commercial for a reality gameshow they call Carnival Corpse, where one deadman is pitted against the other.
Not even a full day passes before I'm thrown into the game of oblivion they call Carnival Corpse. I'm facing the one they call hummingbird. I'm lowered into the arena. Hummingbird looks like a nice girl, I hope I don't hurt her too much. Tears form at the corners of her eyes as the countdown begins. "I'm so sorry I have to fight you, I don't want to play this game, but they force all of us to do it for profit and entertainment!" she sobbed out as the countdown rang out a zero, initiating the fight. "I'll make your knockout as painless as possible then. I hope this can be put in the past after this." I exclaim, and then see her eyes shift and she pulls out her earrings, with blood ripping to her hair.
" It looks like you are so going to die, new dick! Screw your sanity, it's useless" she yells as her blood rips forward in a streak, as I almost dodge and it slightly cuts me. Blood first leaks a little from the cut, but turns from crimson to an amazing black, and forms two blades like a ninja's on my forearms to a foot from the end of my middle finger, and it also forms a handle perfect to my hands, with the addition of small shards formed by my blood floating in air. I lick these blood blades, the sensation is more surreal than any other taste and sensation of slicing, and I can feel my eyes almost as if they were cracking, this feeling is amazing. I smile and laugh as I send the 20 or so black blood shards flying with her, each one sliced through the air with a resounding "zwee". Her whip, as I thought of it, deflected 14 of the shards, but the 6 that got her went in twice the depth of their small, one inch length, and I took the opportunity to attack. Slice, slice, and one more as I cut through the blood whip, tasting some blood that landed in my mouth. 5 more shards came from the small wound hummingbird inflicted upon me, and the all flew off at such a close ranged she could not react, and as she barely stood, she attempted to use more blood to increase her power, but the shards had clogged the wounds they inflicted. I slashed with the tip of my blood blade, which was the final blow.
I had won, and seemingly, I felt better than before I entered the match. "How am I using so much blood? I should be near the point of passing out from all this." was my first thought as I walked away from the arena, but not before I walked over to hummingbird, and softly from my lips sounded the words "I'm sorry, I wish I didn't have to do that." I thought to myself, "I think licking my blood blade kept me from doing anything more to her after I won."
My Branch of Sin I named "Crystalline Darkness". I was now the most feared Deadman. I decided to purchase new fingerless gloves to replace my current one, these ones having blades in the straps to let me cut myself to use my Branch of Sin. I was lucky they also let me keep my black steel-toed boots. I had eaten the candy, I knew it was the antidote for the poison the necklace they had placed on my neck was injecting. I heard a male voice call from my doorway. The man at my door was well built, and he said his name was Shinji. It turns out, among the Deadmen, I was the most respected for my apology to hummingbird.