Chapter 0:

4/9-Akira sighs as he steps off the train in Shibuya.

Maybe this wouldn't be so bad, he thought. Akira pulls out his phone and begins walking along the path his maps app shows him to his destination. He can't stop thinking about the last couple of weeks. It all runs through his head in a flash of blurry images. Helping that woman being attacked was the biggest mistake he could've made. No, it wasn't a mistake. He'd done the right thing but was simply a victim of a corrupt man using a corrupt system to do what he'd done to Akira. Akira was so blind with rage and shock at the time he never got the man's name or what his face looked like. Now just a man lost to the public.

As Akira crosses the street, he notices the world around him grow quieter. As he looks around to discern what's caused this, he notices that the people around him have stopped moving. Actually, everyone has stopped moving. The world is silent and frozen in time as Akira hears the ping from his phone. It's a red eye icon on his phone he's never seen before. As he wonders what it is, the sound of crackling fire catches his attention and just as Akira glances at it, he sees what looks like a large man standing amidst blue flames, eyes dark and jagged red. And as soon as he's seen the man in flames, Akira blinks and he's hit with a wall of noise and bumped from behind by a man. As soon as it had all started it was over.

Must be this damned heat, he thinks. With that, he deletes the icon from his phone. Not wanting to be in the way he continues his walk, unsure of what he had seen or if he had even seen it. Tokyo sure is weird.