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I want you to imagine... being 11 years old, walking home from school in what’s supposed to be one of the safest countries in the world. You’re thinking about homework, maybe video games, maybe what your mom cooked for dinner. And somewhere nearby… a 14-year-old boy is fantasizing about murder. Not robbery. Not revenge. Not anger. Murder for curiosity and excitement. What’s terrifying is nobody around him truly realized how dangerous he already was. Because before he killed a child, he practiced on animals. And before he became one of Japan’s most infamous juvenile killers, he was just a quiet kid blending into the background. This is the story of the Kobe Child Murders. The case of “Sakakibara Seito.” A name that terrified all of Japan in 1997.