Requiem: Chapter 15

Norino Vastai once again faced a riddle. He was summoned in the morning by the central. Another victim of the Akai killer, same MO or not! This was already the second in the list that was not an Akai. The common denominator in all cases had always been the fact that the victim was a member of the Akai community. It had been the guideline they had held on almost with despair. Just a vendetta of a serial killer against a peace-loving group of people. And now, he and his people stood with their hands in their hair. The sum was no longer correct!

He was Akai from childhood. He wouldn't take human life if it couldn't be otherwise. Over the years, however, he had come into contact with so much meaningless violence that little by little his faith in the teachings of the Akai was shaken. There was a core of evil in the world, something that could not be eradicated by peacefulness or some kind of rehabilitation.

Norino had seen it in the eyes of murderers he questioned. He had doubted many times the release of a rehabilitated criminal. They were supposedly cured by a questionable committee. The medical officers had injected them with genetic means unknown to him that would suppress or even destroy the drive of murder, the innate anger against humanity hidden in their DNA.. He didn't believe much of it.

Often he had been right and the 'declared healed' had recapited'. Repedivists, he hated that, but also as much to the people who had given free hands to these murderers. He should have appeared before the Akai Supreme Council several times because he shot some of these people in the arrest without pardon. They had always been cases of self-defense, but the regret an Akai should feel, the feeling that one had destroyed a piece of life, he had not felt. But a slight satisfaction that there was less psycho walking around the world.