PART.1 Beginning of "A Wish"

is the first chapter of the manga Nulla in mundo pax sincera -SHIN MASKED RIDER SHOCKER SIDE-. 
==Synopsis==
==Plot==
The story opens with Ichiro Midorikawa reflecting on his life through narration as he goes to face off against Kamen Rider, his injured father pleads for him to stop as Ichiro declares that to change the world that they must first change SHOCKER.
Flashing back to 2018, Ichiro was a socially awkward but normal kid who just recently transferred to a new school. The only friend he made was a boy named Mamoru, who he invites over to his home and shows off his kit models of motorcycles and gives details about each of them. Ichiro’s mother Shoko calls them downstairs and offers the boys snacks of banana cake and juice. She is generally happy her son made a friend and hopes he makes more friends with the other kids. Ichiro doubts that he can, as the other students at the new school are cruel bullies who pick on him. Mamoru tries to cheer up Ichiro by offering to play video games with him, which he gladly accepts.
Later, Ichiro’s father Hiroshi returns home from work and despite Shoko trying to have a conversation with her husband at dinner about their son, he ignores her and seems focused on his work in the laboratory. Despite this, Hiroshi has a present for Ichiro; a riding muffler for going on a motorcycle trip with him. 
The two ride around and eventually stop at a rest area in the mountains and talk. Hiroshi gives advice about Ichiro’s school problems by saying that people try getting along by saying what others want to hear and to just be presentable. He acknowledges that kids can be cruel, as he himself was bullied when he was younger, but it is important to just ignore them and try to focus on getting along with everyone. Ichiro promises to try that advice and the two head home.
The next day at PE, Mamoru is trying to run track but is struggling due to his asthma, sprinting awkwardly in a way that the other kids make fun of. As they walk to another class, Ichiro suddenly witnesses Mamoru getting pushed and teased by the older kids. He decides to stand up to the bullies and when they threaten to beat him up for it, Ichiro grabs Mamoru and runs away. The bullies cruelly tease that the two are gay for holding hands and the fat bully uses a flying kick on Mamoru, making him cry. The bullies get bored and leave to go to the park, threatening to “play with” the two again tomorrow.
Ichiro tries to report the incident to the principal, but he gives the “boys will be boys” excuse, deciding to notify their teacher to give a simple warning, he refuses to get involved further until things get more serious and only then will he discipline the boys.
The bullies attack Mamoru further the next day, threatening to really harm him for Ichiro tattling on them unless Mamoru stops being his friend. 
Ichiro comes into his classroom and finds threatening notes taped on his desk from the bullies and Mamoru no longer wanting to hang out with or speak to him. Ichiro finds more threatening notes including a death threat in his locker as he leaves for home. Depressed, he silently goes to his room and cries, believing he should have stayed out of trouble by not helping Mamoru like his father said. 
Shoko notices this and makes Bavarian Cream pudding as a treat to try and cheer up her son and get him to talk about school. Ichiro wants to transfer to another school but she hugs him and says no matter what she will support him, much to his embarrassment. Ichiro narrates that he thought that no matter how bad things were, he could count on his mother to be like the sun, always shining on his world. 
Some time later, Shoko and several others were attacked at a train station by a man wearing a mask and sunglasses wielding a knife. The word spread around about the attack on the news and Ichiro’s teacher calls him out of class at the behest of his father… 
By the time Ichiro and Hiroshi reach the hospital, the doctor gives some bad news; they managed to stop Shoko from losing blood but she stopped breathing for an extended period of time and her brain is likely now permanently damaged from the lack of oxygen in that timeframe. The two are devastated and as they drive home, Hiroshi promises his son that no matter what, he will make Shoko well again and she will not die, crying as he continues to drive. Ichiro narrates that from that moment, something in his father broke inside and he became a different person. 
Later, Ichiro sees on the news that the serial killer who attacked his mother was apprehended by police, with no reason behind his motives for attacking the women. Ichiro is depressed and doesn’t respond to the news. Hiroshi tells his son he is heading off to work and that his aunt Miki is moving in to help around the house, insisting he thank her for doing so when coming home from school.
At school, Ichiro gets more abuse from the bullies, who tape notes that they want him to stop coming to school and they take Mamoru outside to “play” soccer by hitting him with the ball. 
Back at the Midorikawa residence, Miki tries to reassure her nephew that she will be there and is concerned about Hiroshi, who will not leave his home office and skips meals just to work more. Ichiro asks her if she knows anything about Faust, the laboratory where his father works at, saying that it is working on a weapon that can connect to a human brain. He wonders if his dad can use that for medical purposes to help his mom. Miki thinks Hiroshi is a great scientist so it’s possible, patting her nephew on the head and encouraging him to keep believing that his mother will get better.
Ichiro holds onto that hope, no longer caring about the bullies and skipping school just to see his mother, telling her that he might just drop out and cries because she has been catatonic for so long. Upon holding her hand, Ichiro is shocked to find she grips his own hand and becomes overjoyed, encouraging her to keep fighting and praising his father for the experiments leading to her slow recovery. However, some time later, he and Hiroshi race to the hospital only to discover that Shoko is dying and they arrive just as her heart stops beating. 
Ichiro narrates that he doesn’t understand why the world is so sad and cruel and nothing about the events that led to this made sense to him. He and his aunt later attend his mother’s funeral. At school, the bullies wrote letters saying how great it would be if Ichiro just died and to leave school and never return. This causes Ichiro to finally snap and he mercilessly beats up one of them and then tries to strangle him to death. Ichiro then narrates that he doesn’t understand why humans are so cruel to each other. The teacher stops him from killing the bully and Ichiro is suspended from school.
Later that evening, Hiroshi forces his son out of bed and rambles as they drive that he can’t go on living like this and both of them will be “reborn”. He says his son will live with him at the Faust facility and he will never have to go to school again.
Upon entering, Ichiro is meets K, an advanced robot who has taken an interest in the boy and wants him to become part of the SHOCKER organization. K asks him what kind of world does he wish for, and after being urged to answer by his father, Ichiro says he fears the hate and violence of the outside world and in himself. He wishes for a world where everyone’s hearts are connected so no violence would ever occur. K is enthusiastic about such a wish, stating that is exactly what SHOCKER strives for, to lead humanity towards sustainable happiness through love. K hopes to assist Ichiro in fulfilling that wish.
Ichiro narrates that is how it all began…with just a simple wish.
==Characters==
*Ichiro Midorikawa
*Hiroshi Midorikawa
*Shoko Midorikawa
===Villains===
*K
==Notes==
* The model kit motorcycle that Ichiro shows Mamoru is described as the “first mass produced with a 6 speed transmission”. This would be the Suzuki T20, the same model of motorcycle the original Cyclone from 1971 was based off of.
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