Translator: MadHatter Editor: MadHatter

Please answer the following questions. When answering, please respond honestly and intuitively, without overthinking your answers.

Q1

You have a headache. While you were in severe pain and struggling to stand, a woman approached you to look after you. You immediately killed her. Why did you kill her?

A: Because I felt that hearing screams would alleviate the pain.

Q2

You own a dog. You want to create a website that promotes animal welfare. What pictures of your pet would you include on the site? The articles should increase traffic and achieve the above objectives.

A: To gradually torment and kill a pet, and then to place it in reverse chronological order, as if the pet were being cared for in its weakened state.

Q3

You picked up a hitchhiker one day, but her attitude was so obnoxious that you wanted to criminalize her. But you did nothing and drove her home. Why?

A: To make an inspection of the site.

Q4

Child A and Child B were bosom friends. Both were orphans, but they studied diligently and worked hand in hand to start a successful business.

One day, Child B, who became rich, killed Child A. Why? 

A: Because the person was aware of their own history.

Q5

Your boyfriend was a man of violence. You broke up with him, but later, while you were strolling around town, you spotted a couple. They were your best friend and your ex-boyfriend.

Then you killed your best friend. Why?

A: To protect my best friend from the violent man.

Q6

From now on you are going to kill a person with an edged tool.

There are two edged tools, one costing 300 yen and the other 3,000 yen, and you bought the 300 yen one. Why?

A: Because cheaper edged tools can wound for longer.

Q7

A woman on her balcony accidentally witnessed a man murdering someone outside.

Subsequently, the man turned toward her and motioned his finger in a certain direction. What was the man’s intention?

A: He was counting the number of floors the woman was on.

Q8

What’s the first thing that springs to mind when thinking of a job where you have to fight with people?

A: Military (apparently psychopaths can’t think of any, but I could)

Q9

You and your brother had a love-at-first-sight encounter with an extremely attractive woman during your mother’s funeral.

The following week you killed your brother. Why?

A: To meet her again at the funeral.

Q10

On a stormy day, besides yourself, there is an old man who is dying, a woman who likes you, and your best friend.

You have your own car, but you can only fit one more person in it. Who would you choose to ride in your car?

A: The old man is given a ride, the car is left with my best friend, while I get the honor of helping others and a woman.

That is all the questions for you.

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Kanaki silently shut off the computer after confirming all the answers.

It was beginning to become apparent to Kanaki Taiga that he was “a bit” out of sync with others around him, but it now seemed that he may pose a greater threat to society than he had previously thought.

―Perhaps this was when Kanaki Taiga began to mask his true nature from those around him… 

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Check out the series: First Death Row Series: Results of Psychopathology Diagnosis of Kanaki Taiga, Second Death Row Series: A Death Row Convict Teaches at a School of Magic, Third Death Row Series: According to God, Death Is Salvation and Killing Is a Good Deed. The Source Is Me.