Dante: ¡Buaghh! (spitting blood) I told you I don't know anything about her!
Gang Member: Speak now, you filthy rat! (hits him in the torso with a pipe)
Dante: I told you I don't know anything! (gasping, hunched over in pain)
A few years ago, Dante was a boy who loved causing trouble on the streets: he did graffiti and pulled pranks. One day he met Rita; as kids they dared each other and got up to mischief together. Dante lives in Tokyo, a city where the mafia, street gangs, and drug trafficking are commonplace. He always dreamed of forming his own gang, but something held him back: his mother, who begged him to stop doing stupid things, or his brother, who died thinking he was a tough street kid after a stray bullet. Without a clear purpose, at just twelve years old he began roaming the streets; he bullied other schoolkids, stole their lunches, and tried to pick up girls—though it rarely went well. Time passed and he turned fifteen. One day they captured him to get information about Rita, because she had stolen money from a street gang of roughly fifty members. (They wore blue bandanas; that color was theirs, and any gang that tried to use it was wiped out at meetups.)
Dante: I don't know anything about Rita, damn it! Leave me alone! (tears in his eyes)
Black: They call me Black, kid. I'm known in these streets; I'm someone people fear. Your friend robbed us.
Dante: How do you even know she's my friend? (confused)
(Black pulls out his phone and shows him a photo.)
Dante: (stunned) Well... yeah, I know her. That's me with her.
Black: Tonight's going to be fun: you won't eat or drink. You're a fifteen-year-old kid who thinks he's somebody, right? (grins fiercely) I'll kill your parents the moment I see them.
Dante: I got out alive by a miracle... (coughing) God, when I talk to Rita she's going to hear about this.
Arriving home he finds his brother.
Ryu: Hey, Dante, what happened to you? (smoking a cigarette and looking at the bruises and blood)
Dante: A guy from the blue gang, called Black, beat me while his friends watched. It was because Rita stole money from them...
Ryu: I see... that's why I told you not to get into adult shit, you understand, Dante?
Dante: I don't give a shit what you say! I'll start my own gang one day!
Ryu: Oh, so you want to start a gang, huh...? (smiles hard) We'll talk tonight. I have things to handle.
Ryu immediately went to talk to the green gang; that's the gang he belonged to. When he arrived, he told the bosses what had happened to Dante, and they grabbed knives and guns and went after Black and the blue gang. When they arrived, they found the fifty blue members waiting at the entrance: the boss and their commander—Black. The greens had only brought twenty-five, half of the blues.
Ryu:Black, coward. (throws his cigarette down and stomps it) You dare touch my brother thinking there will be no consequences?
Black: We outnumber you. What are you going to do?
Ryu: Very simple... (draws a gun; behind him, all the greens do the same) This won't be a street fight — it'll be a massacre, Black.
The blue boss steps forward.
Blue Boss: There's still time to negotiate. We don't want to wipe out the greens.
(One of the greens steps forward and says:) We are a hundred members. If you take out twenty-five, we'll drag almost your whole gang to hell, and the rest will finish exterminating you completely.
Ryu: You'd better run like girls. (levels his gun)
Black draws a gun.
Black: Then let it happen. If we make noise and win, maybe the rest of the greens will join us, boss. What do you say?
(The boss pulls a gun and shouts:) Go on, blues!
Ryu starts shooting, taking cover behind a pile of bricks while blues and greens fall bit by bit.
Ryu: Shit! (rushes forward) (kills two and keeps moving toward Black, but Black lands two shots that put him on the ground)
Black: This is the end for you, famous Ryu. (shoots him in the head)
(One of the greens witnessing this shouts:) RYUUUUU!!! You bastards!!! (but he falls, too)
Black: Cease fire! You're still in time. You've only killed ten; you're twenty, we're forty. Join us or die.
(The greens:) We'd rather die than join your filthy gang.
(The blues start firing again, completely slaughtering the twenty-five.)
Black: Guys, search for Ryu's brother, now!
(The blues, without another word, mount their bikes and head toward Dante's house.)
When they reached Dante's house they found his parents. The first thing they did was beat his parents brutally; after that, they took Dante to their hideout. Upon arriving, Dante felt that something was wrong: the place was lonely, dark… (his heart races). Seeing bodies with green bandanas, he knew something terrible had happened. In the distance he sees a body that looks familiar.
Dante: That... that is my brother!? BROTHER!! BROTHER!! NO!! YOU BASTARDS, WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BROTHER!? (crying, having a panic attack)
Black: I'll let you live just so you can carry the pain that your little brother... the famous street kid... was killed by me. Run, live, and let your hatred grow... I'll be waiting for you. (laughs cruelly)
Dante: Aaaaa!! (screaming while crying) It can't be!
Black: Now do us the favor of leaving.
Dante runs off, desperate, looking for his friend Rita.