Haruto Nozomu. A 16 year old highschooler, constantly looked down upon for his skinny and weak build, and for his nerdy interests like strategy games.
It didn't help that when he was 10 years old, his mother was raped by some Yakuza members. After that tragic and traumatic experience, she took her own life. After that, his father then left and disappeared.
Leaving 10 year old Haruto to fend for himself. He worked some jobs for his neighbors that are fit for his age. Delivering packages and doing manual labour like mowing lawns.
The kids around him often made fun of him and bully him because of his lack of parents and financial problems.
When he reached highschool he still faced bullying due to the same reason, his grades were pretty average as he cannot balance work and academics.
One Morning....
Haruto wakes up late for school.
"Late again... I've given up at life at this point."
Haruto goes to school late.
As he hears mutters constantly surrounding him in the hallway all about him and his past and current situation. At this point Haruto doesn't even care—but his day worsens.
He attends his classes but he leaves early for work.
Some hours later. It's 9pm. He decided to return to home after a hard days work. He decided to take his usual path. Walk down the street then walk towards an alleyway.
But then.....
2 gangsters approached him and pulled out a gun
Haruto clearly startled. He was able to nervously ask..
"What do y-you want?"
One of the gangsters asked his ally
"Is this the guy?"
"Yeah... That's him. Kid, your mother raped by one of our member, a few years back. And you may be the key that leads to his arrest."
"W-Wait!!"
On the spot. There was a loud bang in the alley.
Haruto was killed
There was a bright light... Haruto feels disoriented, like an out of body experience, his head feels dizzy. But when he was able to get his head to clear. He saw his lifeless body on the alleyway with the gangsters nowhere to be seen.
"Wait..... Am i dead?..... Never expected to end like this..."
He realized that he had a chain on his chest that is starting to corrode.
Suddenly, an excruciating amount of pain hits him.
His chain starts eating himself as the pain continues.
His soul starts to form a monstrous appearance.
The chain on his chest is starting to form a hole.
His physique starting to enlarge.
His skin color is changing.
A white monstrous mask forms over his face.
Haruto continous to scream in pain
The process ends....
Haruto is officially. A Hollow.
Haruto. Still stunned. Looked at his body.
"What... Am i?"
"I feel so..... Hungry and.... Aggressive"
Before he could examine further. A man with a black Kimono with a sword appears and speaks.
"What a pain... This area is filled to the brim with hollows"
"Hollows?"
He unseathes it sword.
Haruto tried to talk it out with him.
"Wait! Im not gonn-"
The man doesn't listen. He charges at Haruto with the intent to eliminate him.
Haruto tries to run, but the man was trained to use a high speed technique, Shunpoe.
Haruto clearly wasn't an experienced fighter.
He did the best he can to block the slashes from his sword.
But was knocked down.
This triggered Haruto's flight or fight response. Haruto overwhelmed the man through sheer brute force by simply punching as much as he can.
"This hollow doesn't even know any fighting techniques yet he's overwhelming me!"
Haruto just continues to overwhelm him until the man lowered his guard, Haruto took his chance and dealt a critical blow to the man's face, knocking him down.
Haruto grabs the man and lifts him up. The man is scared for his life, trying his best to fight back.
But Haruto couldn't bring himself to kill him.
2 hollows in the distance immediately pounced towards Haruto.
One of them grabbed the man and proclaimed:
"This is our meal now!!"
The other hollow started beating him up.
Haruto still on the mood to fight. Starts beating him up recklessly....
The other hollow got knocked out and went unconscious.
Haruto's hunger started to get worse.
"I can't.... Stop my.... No!"
Believing that the new World that was introduced to him too quickly still had any sense of order. He tried his best not to kill the unconscious hollow.
But his hunger overcomes his mind.
He began knawing on the the hollow's arms. His mind with regret but his body satiated.
Haruto wasn't a violent man. He had experienced things a normal person should never ever experience, but he never wanted others to endure his pain or any sort of it.
Consuming the Hollow goes against his principles.
The remaining Hollow immediately refocused his attention to Haruto.
"My friend has faced countless battles! I never expected him to lose to a random Hollow!"
The Hollow comes running at Haruto. With the intent to avenge his friend.
But Haruto punched the hollow on its head.
The hollow was momentarily stunned, knocking him off of his feet
He continued to throw another punch, and another, and another, and another, and another. Until the hollow's face was mutilated.
He started to consuming the remains of the hollow.
The man with the black kimono was still clearly horrified.
Haruto couldn't bring himself to kill the man.
Haruto immediately left.
He retreated at the back of a restaurant. He contemplates his decisions so far as he already killed 2 people in his afterlife.
He decides to discover more about his new world.
He tries to interact with living beings but he realizes that people just faze through him.
He then revisits his old home and reminisces of how his parents would play with him before the incident,
"I don't even have much connections in this World... Am I really that pathetic?"
He relapses about his life.
The bullying, the hard work he's injured.
"I could've had a better life..... I could've done.... Better. But THEY took it from ME! Those damned GANGSTERS! And now I am now stuck as this monstrous.... THING."
As Haruto's emotional state grew. His spiritual pressure begin to fluctuate. His pressure was so large that every Hollow within 300 meters we're alerted.
The hollows within that area immediately ran towards Haruto's location believing it was orey worth defeating.
Haruto hears noises of countless hollows coming to his area. He immediately began running for his life.
With his spiritual pressure still going off radar, he accidentally forms a portal leading to somewhere in front of him and enters it.