Born in 1997, in Nagaoka, Niigata.
From an early age, Sakurai Haruka developed more slowly compared to his peers.
His overprotective
parents would not accept that their
child had developmental delays, and did not provide him with an educational environment suited to his needs.
The gap in developmental achievements between him and his peers kept widening, so much so that when Haruka reached 15 years old, he could still not adequately read kanji.
It was around that time that his
parents simply gave up, and they shift from overprotectiveness to disinterest. From then forth, his
parents acted as if Haruka did not exist. Haruka tried to regain his
parents' attention by causing problems and disturbances, but his
parents' attention was never directed at him again.
The victim of Prisoner 001 was a small
child, clearly much less powerful than himself. It was the day of the fireworks festival. He targeted a child who had strayed from her
parents. Haruka weeps, as he clumsily hides the body.
"This child's life was probably much more valuable than my own"
"A future much brighter than mine was probably awaiting this child"
"Why did I end up like this?"
Haruka cried, night after night after that, and repented. He thinks about the future of the child he murdered, and claws at his chest.
When he came to, he was strangling the neck of a second child.
Ultimately, Haruka had starved.
