K Side: Red

Prologue

Ten years ago, Japan’s map had been a little different.

Up until then, the Southern Kantou region could boast a much wider area of land. Nowadays, however, a large round-shaped dent marred it where a considerable portion had sunk into the sea and formed a crater.

“Officials” referred to it as the “Kagutsu Crater”.

“Seems like the former Red King’s power was what did it.”

That was something he’d found out from Kusanagi.

Apparently Kagutsu had been the previous Red King’s name. The name of the king before Suoh — a king who, ten years ago, had self-destructed and created that crater.

And so, the crater was said to be the form a King’s downfall took.

‘Hmph,’ Suoh thought.

He felt it wouldn’t be too bad.

If you had to bind yourself with chains in order to live in this small, narrow world, then he honestly found that abandoning yourself to a strong, overpowering urge and burning everything to ash as you met your own end was a far more enticing idea.

And it was precisely because he thought so that his stomach turned.