Her eyes widened in terror, and she let out a piercing scream. With all her strength, she pushed the man violently abusing her off, but the man, laughing psychotically, hit her as one would strike an animal.

She struggled hopelessly, just like Teyat, but there was no way to save herself or her daughter.

As she struggled in despair, she saw her son collapsed on the ground, his face filled with a traumatic shock, an expression of fear and helplessness. He looked at her with wide, pain-filled eyes, a few tears falling as he reached out his hand toward his mother.

Suddenly, she stopped and shouted at Teyat.

"TEYAT! RUN!!!"

But as Teyat reached out his hand toward his mother, his father quickly stabbed a long knife into his outstretched hand.

Teyat, traumatized, didn't even notice that the monster, his father, was coming.

When Teyat felt the knife pierce his hand and the sharp pain it caused, he screamed in agony, grabbing his injured wrist with his other hand.

Seeing her son writhing in pain and covered in blood, his mother's eyes widened in terror. She tried to rush to Teyat with all her strength, but the blonde man struck her again, this time with the strongest blow from the chain.

Teyat's mother fainted, blood pouring from a severe wound to her head.

Teyat, the unfortunate slave of fate, saw his mother faint in a pool of blood.

His eyes widened further in fear, and he stammered.

"M-mother…"

•

As Teyat groaned in pain on the ground, his anger took over the pain when his mother fainted. With all his hatred, all his pain, and all his rage, he let out a furious scream.

"I will kill you, you filthy bastard! I will kill you and all monsters like you, and I will take pleasure in skinning you alive and tearing your faces apart! I will give you the worst deaths! I swear I will wipe out all the lowly monsters with my own hands!"

He paused briefly and then screamed at the top of his lungs.

"And I swear to you, I will torture you so much that you'll wish for death! Even God will call me the son of the Devil!!! I SWEAR IT!"

Hearing these screams of rage and hatred, his father let out a psychotic laugh.

Suddenly, he grabbed Teyat by the neck and lifted him off the ground.

He looked at Teyat with a crazed smile and laughed.

"Oh, I forgot! Welcome to the monster show, son! But since your father is the director, you can't watch the show for free, you freeloading little bastard! You need to be part of the show! You need to become a monster too, but don't worry, I'll show you how. Consider it a favor!"

But Teyat had already unleashed the monster within himself.

There was madness and terror in his eyes. All he wanted to do was kill. The pain didn't matter anymore. All he wanted was to kill.

Suddenly, he grabbed the knife stuck in his hand and swiftly attacked, aiming for his father's throat.

But his father dodged with quick reflexes, and instead of cutting his throat, Teyat only managed to slice his father's cheeks.

Teyat's eyes turned red with hatred and rage as he shouted.

"I will kill you and those like you with my own hands, you lowlife! I'll give you a real monster show, you sons of bitches! I will make you taste death with my own hands! This is a promise, to you, to God, to the Devil, to the universe, to everything, you cursed bastards!"

He screamed with all the hatred he had.

"I will destroy you with my own hands, you damned bastards!!!"

He continued to vent his unrelenting fury, screaming at the top of his lungs.

His father, seeing the cut on his cheek, suddenly exploded in rage. He yanked the knife from Teyat's hand and was about to stab him in the throat when he suddenly stopped, his rage-filled eyes widening in shock.

The blood flowing from his cheek didn't matter to him. All he wanted was to make a spectacle of the day.

Suddenly, he looked at Teyat with surprise and then started moving erratically, wildly staggering side to side.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, I forgot, I'm sorry… I forgot the first rule of being a monster, I'm sorry, I'm sorry…"

He stood still, his eyes widening as if he'd just remembered something, and suddenly rushed toward Teyat.

"Good job, little bastard! You followed the first rule without me even telling you! The first rule: To become a monster, you must hurt a monster stronger than you…! Well done, my son, you passed the first stage! Now, I will show you the second step, listen carefully!!!"

His father suddenly turned around.

He looked maniacally at the terrified customers who were staring at him in horror.

The bald man started stammering.

"D-dude, I think we went a bit too far, let's just grab a drink and-"

He was cut off…

Because Teyat's father pulled a gun from his belt and shot the bald man in the head.

The blonde man suddenly panicked and desperately looked for an escape route, but it was already too late.

His father pointed the gun at his heart and fired,

"Bam!"

Two monsters were dead. Only two monsters and two victims remained in the monster show.

Teyat no longer knew what to feel.

Hatred, pain, sadness, horror, fear, and more. He had lived through what would forever be remembered as the "Bloody Night."

Suddenly, his father struck Teyat on the neck with the gun and knocked him out...