Monster

(text-colour:"black")[//As you prep to perform surgery on the young boy you overhear your superior having what seems like an intense discussion just outside. You lean into the door to get a better listen.//] (text-style: "smear")+(text-colour:"red")["...Doctor Tenma, yes, he's the best brain surgeon at this hospital. Mayor Yoshida just arrived, I'm assigning him to Tenma-"] ''"Sir, I'm afraid someone is already occupying my time."'' (text-style: "smear")+(text-colour:"red")["I'm well aware, but if you want that promotion to head surgeon I suggest you do as you are told."] (text-colour:"black")[//You stand there in shock as you realize the [[dilenma]] you're in.//]

<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/236x/2e/11/05/2e110520f7d0525e1f4c57299e9db0ec--monster-manga-monster-anime-johan.jpg" width="500" height="462" alt="Homunculus 8 by Hideo Yamamoto"> Not only are you prompted with choosing one patients life over another's but now your job is at stake. You look at both the patients background [[paper work]] one last time before making the decision but you still can't shake the thought of the little boy.

(text-colour:"black")[Name: Hiro Nashimodo Age: 8 yrs Injury: (dropdown: bind _origin, "fractured skull", "brain damage by bullet wound") Severity: Fatal Condition: Critial] (text-colour:"black")[Name: Mayor Yoshido Age: 57 yrs Injury: a coma cause by an airbag deploying Severity: Fatal Condition: Critical] ''Releasing a deep sigh you remember you don't have much time to waste and make your final decision.'' //Which will you save?// (click-replace: "save")[ [[Hiro]] or [[Mayor Yoshida]]]

//Stepping into the operation room you take a deep breath.// ''This is good for me, the hospital will get a good rep, I'll get a promotion, and the town won't have to mourn the mayor...'' ''Death is the only thing humans are equal in,'' //you say shakily as you make the [[first incision]].//

//You decide to save Hiro. After 12 hours in the operation room the procedure is successful but you decided to check up on the child and wish him a smooth recovery, as you do with all of your patients.// 'He's still resting. Oh no matter, I can still wish him well,' you think as you walk over to the sleeping boy. ''I saved you because you deserved to live, the Mayor deserved to live too but you got here first and you have your whole life ahead of you...people like my boss...they deserve to die... I'm gonna lose a lot because I chose you, but I know I did the right thing.'' //As you're exiting the room a (click-goto: "grin", "10 years later") mischiveous grin forms on the little boys face.//

//As you're exiting the Yashida's room you spot his wife in the hospital lounge crying. You try to turn and look away but just as you're about to, you both lock eyes.// (text-style: "shudder")+(text-colour:"lavender")[How could you?!] she shouts at you, tears staining her periwinkle blouse. ''I did what I could. He was gone even before I declared him dead,''you reply before continuing down the hall, ashamed at what you had done. Not only had you been demoted as a result of the failed operation but you played god and lost. [[Two lives were lost today.]]

<img src="https://scontent-yyz1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/c110.0.540.540a/122254809_170728968005504_3653648897355278913_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=108&_nc_ohc=KlNy84HCpa0AX-7uE_B&oh=0c9b309e3067a55838b5163f9744cf56&oe=5FC676D6" width="540" height="540" alt="Operating Table"> //You and your team work tirelessly to ensure the Mayor is at the very least stabilized by the end of today but things aren't looking up. You decide you'll have to result to an [[unconventional alternative.]]//

An unconventional Alternative. (click-replace:" An unconventional Alternative")[Trepanation] <img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkYSaSRGZgw6tPxcwqwgAQOEkD5ETSQIkPyA&usqp=CAU" width="500" height="462" alt="Homunculus 8 by Hideo Yamamoto"> (text-colour:"black")[//Trepanation is the drilling of a hole into ones skull. It's believed to grant the person powers. Others say it's the key to our sixth sense.//] (text-colour:"red")[''Right now I believe it's the answer to this problem.''](text-colour:"black")[//The only thing that might pull [[Mayor Tadashi Yoshida]] out of his coma//]

4:47PM (text-colour:"black")[//Mayor Tadashi Yoshida had a wife and three kids, one of which was on the way. He was the youngest mayor to ever be elected in their town and had dreams of one day taking the seat as govenor. He was on the way to his wifes ultrasound after a meeting that had ran late. He had even stopped to get her flowers as an apology for his tardiness. Better late than never though, right?//] ''I- you know I picked you because there was one thing you and me had in common.We were both men with a lot at stake. A lot to [[lose]].''

//It's been 10 years since your wife left. 10 years since you've been demoted. You live in the same loft your wife left you in. The same loft you planned to move from once you got that promotion. Everyday feels the same. Work then come home and catch up on local news. You don't really care but it makes you feel like you're a part of something. Your job used to do that, it used to do more than that. It used to make you feel like a hero. You didn't have to pretend to care either... You sit back in your recliner as you (t8n-depart:"dissolve")[[Recall that day]].//

(text-colour:"red")["So you see Doc, I am doing god's work. People can't see what I see but with my help, I ensure they see. This world is filled with robots trying to fit in, hiding behind their secrets, living in fear. Not me. They put me away because I wanted to show them the truth; but you Doctor Tenma you get me. You saved my life. I heard you that day when you sad at my bedside. You said your director deserves to die and we all deserve to die, that's the only time we're equal. But you saw past that and you saved me because you saw what I could be and what I can do. I'm carrying out your legacy."] ''Hiro this is wrong. Thi- this operation you are conducting on people unwillingly, i- it's wrong. Because of your efforts you have 20 plus casualities. Who knows how many more people you will hurt? This is dangerous. You shouldn't play god like this'' (text-colour:"red")["I thought you'd understand Doc. But I can see you've allowed the world around you to render you blind".] //He sniffles as he pulls a gun from his back pocket.//(text-colour:"red") ["It's your turn to see. Don't worry it won't be a fatal wound. //You'll be like me."//] //You don't move. You don't fight back. Instead you point to your forhead. What's the point? You gave eveything up 10 years ago and it's led to this exact moment.// <img src="https://hansangel.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/monster-43370.jpg" width="500" height="462" alt="Homunculus 8 by Hideo Yamamoto"> //He lowers the gun, turns and walks away.//(text-colour:"red")[It's not your time. I'll find you again.] //You stand there watching him walk away as the rain soaks your clothes. What what that phrase he said?// ''The only thing humans are equal in...is death...'' (click-goto: "The only thing humans are equal in...is death..." , "A Revelation")

''Where did I go wrong? I used to think every human life was at face value, the same. It was their current path that set them apart from others, individualized us. I decided later that day it was impossible to determine any persons fate, dead or alive. I only can impact my own. Is there such a thing as redemption?'' <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/66/d5/1466d564c55e412c30fa5317badb64cc.png" width="540" height="540" alt="Operating Table">

<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4d/62/ca/4d62cab824fc8ae7ea1bc4ef41420ace.jpg" width="540" height="540" alt="Operating Table"> Your name is Doctor Tenma, you're the number one brain (text-colour:"black")[surgeon in the entire] hospital, sheesh, the entire county, and everyone knows it. (text-colour:"black")[You're soo close to the] promotion to head surgeon. And you're currently engaged (text-colour:"black")[to the love of your life. ] ''Everything is perfect,'' //you think as you walk down the (text-colour:"black")[dully lit hospital halls] to your next patient. A nine year old boy named Hiro. Moments (text-colour:"black")[away from] being presented with a life changing [[ultimatum]].// <audio src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q2TdOhxFwZfjtmpJF7hr-IRSW9i-BTXj/view" autoplay>

(text-colour:"black")[A Killer] <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/E5uZfzqYRLIRQFZw1oTKId1CnobbfHT7Q1FsR76UG9P9ukdDD0O8HSk0wJWy1WnQsiabeOk66h1Vg-b23bYuqX1uCm4" width="500" height="462" alt="Homunculus 8 by Hideo Yamamoto"> //After escaping a psychiatric ward bodies trailed Hiro. No one knows or understands the purpose behind this all but one thing is for sure, he's dangerous.// (text-colour:"black")[A Hero] <img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx1zmkmJPJ1r4xqamo1_500.jpg" width="500" height="462" alt="Homunculus 8 by Hideo Yamamoto"> (text-colour:"black")[//10 years ago after he healed from his (dropdown: bind _origin, "fractured skull", "brain damage by bullet wound") he began seeing things. Weird things like distorted people sometimes alien-like. Months after his realization he finally insisted he be taken to the hospital to get the area checked out. It was confirmed there was a hole in his head. No other answers were given. He did the research himself and came across the term "trepanation." Trepanation is the drilling of a hole into ones skull. It's believed to grant the person powers. Others say it's the key to our sixth sense.//] (click-goto: "A Hero", "Face to Face")

Visuals begin to flood your memories as you think back to that day. The day you saved the boy. That sweet young boy. (text-style: "shudder")+(text-colour:"lavender")+(text-style:"blur")[How could you?!] (text-colour:"green")+(text-style:"blur")["You had one job, to save the mayor and you fucked it all up! You fucked your only chance at being head surgeon. I was gonna be the head surgeons beautiful wife..."] //You're immediately brought out of the trance when you hear a familiar name on television. You turn the volume up to ensure you heard the newscaster correctly// (text-style:"smear")+(text-colour:"black")["More than 20 people have died at the hands of Hiro Nashimodo. One thing all his victims have in common is a whole in their skull. Investigators are speculating they're experiments gone wrong. He was last seen in Buckingham Park."] <img src="https://zjcdn.mangahere.org/store/manga/789/14-008.0/compressed/ihomunculus_v15p322.jpg" width="500" height="462" alt="Homunculus 8 by Hideo Yamamoto"> ''Who is Hiro Nashimodo?'' (click-goto: "Hiro Nashimodo", "Who is Hiro?") //Just then an unknown number texts you. The message reads:// (text-colour:"red")[//"I finally got them to notice me doc. I'm doing god's work."//] You decide to message back. This is your mess after all. ''Why are you doing this? Where are you now? You have to stop.'' (text-colour:"red")[Meet me behind the hospital I'll tell you everything you want to know."]

(text-colour:"green")["Two lives were lost today Shokan."] ''Shokan, I haven't been addressed by my first name since I was a child. Maybe that's her intention, to make me feel small, like a child.'' //you think to yourself as you stare into your fiances amber eyes, which in this very moment seem to burning with fiery fulled by fresh ember.// (text-colour:"green")["You had one job, to save the mayor and you fucked it all up! You fucked your only chance at being head surgeon. I was gonna be the head surgeons beautiful wife..."] She pauses abruptly as a calm demeanor encases her body. ''Was-'' (text-colour:"green")["Yes. Was. I'm leaving you. If you can't provide the future you promised me then I have no reason to stay. Goodbye Shokah"] (click-goto: "wife", "A Revelation")