1 month has pasted since the great earthquake that destroyed 70% of Tokyo. People had died, families were torn, it became complete carnage. But it didn't matter for Kuro. As long as he remembers, he has always been alone by himself, with neither mother, nor father to take care of him. But that didn't matter as well for Kuro. Even during the seven past years spent in this orphanage, he could stand by himself without asking any of the employees any kind of help. He hadn't gotten friends as well back then. Kuro found them way to dependent of the employees of the orphanage, seeing them weak. They even stood far away from Kuro, scared of the dark aura that seemed to manifest from his very figure. Not only from his black hair, but his name came has well from his "dark aura" and from his solitary attitude. Just like darkness, Kuro gave you a chilly effect down your spine and liked to "stand in the shadows". The employees didn't really mind it, for Kuro wasn't scaring the other children on purpose and wasn't the trouble maker at all. They all believed that he would brighten up one day. But now, the orphanage, the employees and the kids were all gone, casted away from existence thanks to the monstrous earthquake.
Kuro was thinking about all that as he was lying on his back, on the roof of the building he took as his home. The sky he was looking at had an ugly gray color. "It's going to rain soon." Kuro said in his head. So he jumped off the roof and used the "magic" as a rope to climb down the wall of the building safely, until he went through a window of the third floor.
During the past month, Kuro didn't have too much trouble to survive "the apocalypse". Thanks to his habit of having a low profile, he didn't have too much trouble in stealing food and other necessary supplies he would need to live. He had a pretty good natural skill for sneaking in places without being noticed, just like darkness: it comes without you realizing it. Of course, because he was still a seven years old child, he got himself a teddy bear to keep him company.
But he also got another "skill" as well: "the magic", as Kuro calls it. He first discovered it in a more than unpleasant way: around a week after the earthquake, he had gotten attacked by a group of thugs in the middle of the night and they wounded him with a cut on his left cheek. His low profile didn't work out so good this time. One of the thugs had pinned the boy to the wall of the alley they were in and thought about "having his way with the kid". When he felt his pants being pulled down, Kuro panicked and tried to punch and kick the man to save himself.
And this is how he activated "the magic". The alley resonated with a gust of wind-like sound and in the next moment, the thug that was about to rape Kuro was being sliced in half, accompanied by a rain of blood. Completely shocked, nobody in the alley reacted at first, still questioning what just happened. Until one of the thugs pointed a finger towards the boy and screamed: "W... W... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?"
Out of Kuro's wound on his cheek was growing a red thread-like thing that seemed to look like a barbed wire. It was floating in mid-air around Kuro's head, who was looking at it with great curiosity. "Did I do this? I...I can use MAGIC?" Kuro thought. It was normal for him to see it as magic, every kid his age would think the same. On the thugs's side, they were pretty panicked. The kid they wanted to rub of his belongings ended up having a weird power and KILLED one of them with it.
"Shit, he's just like that other cop freak! We're screwed now!" said one of the bandits, ready to run away.
"W...What do you mean "we're screwed now"?" replied another one, trying to build up some courage back. "He's just a fucking kid and he seems just as surprised as us. I bet he's so scared of it that he's just about to pee in his pants." he concluded, now with an evil looking grin on his face.
His speech seemed to get the wanted effect because his three remaining companions now all looked at Kuro with an evil looking smile as well, ready to take care of the boy for what he did to their companion. But the thing is, Kuro wasn't scared at all. On the contrary, it was like "the magic" had triggered something in his mind, like a great realization. It made him realize that he was strong, maybe even more than those four other men.
"The magic... MY magic was stronger than the mean man, right?" Kuro thought by looking at the sliced in half corpse on the ground. "So, my magic should be stronger than them too, right?" he then thought by looking at the four remaining men. When he got stuck in this alley, cornered by the thugs, he was scared, scared of what would happen to him. He didn't have any reason to be scared anymore. So, with a smile, Kuro tried to focus his mind on the "magic spiky string" to make it move, and succeeded when he "felt it", as if it was one of his own limbs and pointed it in the direction of the thugs as if it was a spear.
"You should leave, I'm stronger than you." Kuro said with a calm voice, still smiling.
When they saw the "whip" point straight at them, the thugs backed away a bit, not so sure anymore if they wanted to kill the kid. But the one who brought back some courage to them saw the words the boy said as a huge provocation, and with eyes burning with rage, he charged straight at Kuro with his knife raised while screaming: "DON'T FUCK WITH US, YOU LITTLE USE..." He never finished because Kuro, still focusing on the "magic spiky string" and without a second of hesitation, made it perform a fast circular movement that sliced the thug's skull in half, cutting him off mid-sentence.
In his mind, Kuro knew that what he just did was wrong, REALLY wrong. But it was a question of life and death; if he hadn't done anything, the other mean man would have killed him.
"Besides, they're criminals, maybe even killers, so it's right to punish them." Kuro said to himself, giving him the confirmation that he had the right to do this.
When they saw their second friend fall at the hands of the boy, the three remaining criminals all just gave up at the same time and went to run out of the alley, back to the streets. Unfortunately for them, Kuro didn't saw it like that and generated two more "magic spiky strings" and grabbed the three fleeing men with them by the legs and lifted them up in mid-air. He knew that he could just let the mean men run away, but Kuro really wanted to "test out the magic" more. There was this thrill as well, this exquisite feeling of power that acted like a drug, pushing him to go on with his "new found game". So, he jammed one of the "magic spiky strings" in the "pooping hole" of a first mean man all the way down until it came out of the top of his head, he smashed a second one on the walls and the ground of the alley until he was just like a rag doll and the third mean man, he simply lunched him in the air and let him crash head first on the ground with a sickening sound of breaking bones.
When he was done, Kuro looked at "his work" and brought his pants back on, which got removed by the first mean man. Anyone else would've just freaked out after doing such a monstrous thing, but not Kuro. This act of barbary actually brought him another realization: only the strongest can survive and the weak die. That's why everyone at the orphanage died, because they were weak, unlike Kuro who was strong. Killing five mean adults when he was just seven years old was a perfect proof. He then got an idea. He knew that there were other mean people in the area around the building he took as his home, forcing him to be extremely cautious. Now that he had "the magic", it was time to show them who the real strongest was.
Kuro didn't know it yet, but that night in the alley, he had started to become one of the most feared and powerful Deadmen that would walk the Earth, one that will equal even the "Wretched Egg". The one that will come to be known as "Raptor".
Back in present time, in an underground facility...
Hagire was at his desk, looking at his laptop that was showing a fresh information that came from one of his men this morning. It mentioned a child spotted near an abandoned building, in the ruins of Tokyo. But that wasn't what interested Hagire. The thing was that the report had a picture of the said child. It showed him, surrounded by what looked like a red thread, but Hagire knew that "it" wasn't a thread. With a smile on his face he said: "Hmm. My interest is of 40%."
After that, the scientist closed his laptop an ordered a group of soldiers to accompany him to the abandoned building where the picture was taken. "Perhaps this boy is the key." thought Hagire.
He was just about to join a squad of seven ready soldiers at the door when he felt something pull his jacket from behind. Surprised, the man of science turned around to see a little girl with white hair and skin accompanied by red eyes. It was Shiro, the girl that bitch Sorae decided to use as a guinea pig instead of her son. She was surely his greatest creation ever.
"Grandpa, where are you going?" Shiro asked softly, looking a bit intimidated by the soldiers near the door. Hagire bent down and while patting Shiro's head, he said: "I'm going to bring you a great surprise, so wait here and be nice, I'll be right back." On that, Hagire and the soldiers exited the facility, while Shiro had a huge smile on her face, expecting her upcoming surprise.