The son comes home

The father immediately fell backwards out of fear. He was too shocked at the scene of blood and death before he recognised that his 13-year-old son was stabbed through the face with a spike. The right eye of the son had bulged because of the spike.

"Fumihiko..."

A gush of vomit came out of his mouth but he clenched down and swallowed the rest. All around him were bodies hanging in the air by spike tentacles that had impaled them in various places. Some were pierced through the head, chest, stomach and neck.

In Japan, which has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, his household was a King's palace. He had 5 sons and 4 daughters. All of them were suspended in the air with grotesque morbid expressions on their faces.

He looked towards the centre where the tentacles came from and saw his third oldest daughter, Chiaki. She was standing in the middle with tentacles coming out of her front and back. She had a devilish grin on her face. She looked as though she was enjoying this.

"Chiaki? Why!" Her father shouted.

This was too unreal. He couldn't believe what was happening. If she had transformed into a monster, she didn't have to kill her family. They could have supported her. He was furious. His wife was also hooked onto a tentacle.

Chiaki's face started to twist and turn and became unfamiliar. Its similarity shifted from Chiaki to Hikaru's face. The father's mouth dropped agape. He understood that it wasn't his daughter but the person in front of him who was disguised as her. A murderous look came over his face.

"Who are you and why did you come to our house!"

"..."

"To kill you... of course." Hikaru smiled sadistically.

"Sonavabitch! I'll f***ing kill you"

He started getting up to his feet but he was stabbed through the bottom chin to the top of his head in an instant. The tentacle with a spike on its end had moved faster than he could react.

Hikaru brought in some of the bodies to himself to absorb them simultaneously. More tentacles erupted from him to feed. He was using up all available surface area to maximise the absorption rate. He was looting through the memories and experiences of his victims while waiting for that to finish.

He had absorbed Chiaki when she went out to the bins and infiltrated their home in her guise. Last night he had shortened his absorption time from 3 minutes to 1 minute per body. Now it only took 20 seconds to assimilate one adult body. It was only around 9 pm and he had already consumed 120 - now 121 people. The wife was pregnant if that counted.

***

Genkei was the first parasite that Hikaru had met on the night he was infected by organism X, an experimental parasite designed by the "Architects".

Although Hikaru sarcastically called them the "benefactors", they were an advanced alien race that had captured alien parasites - most of which are nematodes - and genetically modified them to become obedient and fit for combat and stealth work.

The Architects wished to make the Earth their new home and so sent out the modified parasites to thin out their defences and occupy Earth if possible.

On the first night, Hikaru had gone downstairs and answered the door. Genkei was there because he had heard Aimi's scream and asked Hikaru if he needed help "cleaning" up the body. The truth was his wife wasn't home and he ate some meat in the fridge but was still hungry, so he hoped to freeload on Hikaru's victim. To his dismay, Hikaru had eaten Aimi whole.

Later at midnight, rookie officer Arata and sergeant Mitsunobu arrived on his front door and told him about the car accident plus murder of his wife. They brought him to the morgue and soon left. After he asked the diener for some privacy, he ravaged on her hungrily. He got his just rewards.

Daichi, the officer of Midori ward had caught him and moderately injured him with a kick. It's been almost 72 hours and his wounds had healed since then.

*Knock Knock*

Genkei was lethargically eating a severed leg of a delivery boy that he took out from the fridge when he heard that. He wiped himself with some toilet paper before getting up to open the door.

Upon opening the door, a young man in his early 20's appeared and opened his arms with a frown.

"Father! I've heard what happened to my dear mother! Is it true what they said?"

"..."

Genkei stood at the door in a daze.

"You are..."

"I know! It's been so long, 5 years? Since I left. How I regret that day! The wrongness of my decisions has plagued me since then, raptured my youth. I must say, Father, you look rather dashing albeit not your best self. Have you been taking care of yourself?"

"... My son... Fusao..."

"Father! Do you remember me?"

'Keep acting dumb you old f***' Fusao thought.

Although he was happy the way Genkei was acting, it made it easier for him to get what he wanted.

A bastard son is one that is born from an unmarried couple. Fusao would have been an illegitimate child but like many couples, they married each other when the mother found out she was pregnant.

However, illegitimate or not. He was still a bastard son of a bastard father and a bitch mother. It would have been better for the parents to either abort him or split up even while he was a kid. Instead, Fusao's mother and father were unhappily married. The kind of fights they had every day made him hate life.

Fusao had left 5 years ago when he was 19 and got into some illegal business. A drug deal went wrong and he was the only one who got out of an undercover drug bust and hid in the sewers. The cops had confiscated all the drugs. Mostly weed and some heroin.

The gang he was with, nick-named the Triad in Japan, had blamed him and said he owed them money. So, he went to his Father's house to stake it out.

He had the option of taking out a loan from the Yakuza to pay the triad and then work to pay back the Yakuza. Unfortunately, the interest rates were high and he doubted making enough to pay back within the deadline especially since he didn't want to get caught dealing drugs again. The Yakuza was the more dangerous group to owe a debt to.