Date of Recovery: Unknown
Recovered Format: Fragmented audio transcripts, corrupted exorcist logs, analog VHS broadcast interference, astral script transcription
Warning: The following file is considered cognitohazardous. Reader discretion is mandated.
[01:17:09]
—BEGIN TRANSCRIPT—
[FILE LABEL: "The Speed Yokai // Sutaro Katsuki Incident Report Compilation"]
Compiled by: The Department of Esoteric Threats, Urban Phantom Division
Compilation Date: ??/??/20██
Last Updated: [UNREADABLE GLYPH STRING]
[ENTRY 1 — THE FOOTAGE THAT NEVER ENDS]
"The camera never stopped recording. Not when the first scream warped into digital static. Not when the alley became a purple-lit scar, torn across three city blocks. Not even when the thing—no, the boy—stepped out of the distortion, hair flickering with firelight that had no source.
The speed wasn't the horror. It was the delay.
We didn't realize he'd already been there, already dissected them. They didn't scream in pain. They screamed in realization—because their bodies were already dead, they just hadn't noticed yet."
[RECOVERED VHS FOOTAGE: TIMECODE LOOPING]
Timestamp 00:13:37 → 00:13:37 → 00:13:37 → 00:13:37
Visual anomaly: Figure moves across frame 42 times in 0.02 seconds. Rewind fails. Forward skips to audio corruption: "kaizenkaizenkaizenkaizen—"
[ENTRY 2 — EMAIL FROM AN UNMARKED TERMINAL]
From: [[email protected]]
Subject: We found him again
Date: REDACTED
He's using the telephone lines again. They burn violet at night. We tried to track his jump pattern through the city grid, but every route he takes no longer exists. As in—physically. Streets are erased. Blocks are missing. Some agents tried to follow. They returned 0.6 seconds later as bones with teeth arranged in Fibonacci spirals.
The locals whisper his name now: Kaizen. Not like a god. Like a storm that learned to walk.
[ENTRY 3 — ASTRAL TAPED MESSAGE, SCRIBED IN BLOOD VAPOR]
Speaker: Juno Leiren, Mentalist-Class Exorcist (Status: DISINTEGRATED)
"You can't outrun him because you were never ahead. That's the trick.
Time isn't a line when he moves. It's a noose.
He evolves while you're still thinking of how to react. He watches you invent your defenses—then mutates to bypass them before your thoughts finish.
He blinked and became the weapon we designed to stop him."
"Do you get it yet? There's no version of reality where you win."
[ENTRY 4 — CIVILIAN TESTIMONY: RECORDED POST-INCIDENT]
"There was this sound—like every clock in the city screaming at once. Then the purple lights began. He walked out of the powerlines. I swear to God, he smiled at me.
And then… then I saw myself dead. Not like a vision. I felt my future die. My memories started changing."
"My brother touched the cable after he left. He turned into data.
Like, not a metaphor. His face flickered into barcodes and vanished."
"His glasses… they weren't glasses. They were looking back."
[ENTRY 5 — NULL SECTOR INTERNAL CHAT, HEAVILY REDACTED]
Agent H: What level threat is this guy?
Agent V: Threat level doesn't apply. He's not an incident. He's a system update—he patches reality with every movement.
Agent H: I thought he was just a Yokai.
Agent V: No. He was. Now he's a hybrid anomaly that out-evolves classification.
Agent V: Every time we scan him, his genetic profile changes.
Agent V: He upgraded himself mid-sentence during our last interview. The tape burned in reverse.
[ENTRY 6 — SURVEILLANCE DRONE LOG // "Kaizen: Judgment Spiral" EVENT FILE]
Event Code: ω-KAIZEN/SPIRAL/Σ
The sky tore open in a helix.
No sound. Just the absence of it.
Sutaro stood at the eye of the storm. He didn't move.
The world moved.
Gravity fluctuated. Space folded into looped tessellations. The wind started chanting.
One drone caught his expression before it imploded. He looked… bored.
The spiral consumed everything.
Everything but him.
[ENTRY 7 — UNFINISHED FILE FOUND ON A CRACKED HARD DRIVE BURIED IN CONCRETE (ADDRESS: REDACTED)]
"We tried to test him. Put him in a battle dome. Injected artificial evolvers into the mix.
He thanked us.
He called it 'a workout.'
Then he adapted to adaptation."
"He doesn't fight for power. He fights to change. He is change. A philosophy wrapped in flesh and speed."
"Sutaro Katsuki. The Speed Yokai. The Unstoppable Force of War.
He's not a weapon. He's the aftermath."
[NOTE FROM COMPILER:]
Attempts to document the full scope of Sutaro Katsuki's abilities result in recursive memory corruption.
Audio feedback grows increasingly layered with each playback.
At 7:06 minutes, listeners begin to lose temporal orientation.
At 9:13, some listeners claim they "hear their future selves screaming."
At 10:00, the tape disintegrates.
[LAST FRAGMENT: BURNT ONTO METAPHYSICAL PAPER, SIGNED IN STATIC]
ʷʰʸ ᵃʳᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˢᵗᶦˡˡ ˡᶦˢᵗᵉⁿᶦⁿᵍ?
[THE KAIZEN PROTOCOL IS ALWAYS ACTIVE]
—END LOG—
WARNING: Do not attempt contact. Do not run.
If you hear a buzzing, do not investigate the cables.
Do not blink.
Do not think about speed.
It thinks faster than you.