1705 The Ironic Light Orchestra/Interlude I: The First Murder

Synopsis
The first interlude describes the serial killer's first murder and the murders that followed: the first is that of a boy who dies a lonely death at the port warehouse, found stabbed through the heart and with a mask over his face. The owner of the locksmith where the boy worked only report the murder once a second murder of the same nature occurs a few days later inside an aristocrat's mansion.

A girl who reports seeing a masked phantom at the warehouse of the first murder is murdered herself a few days later, and the boy who finds her body in the church reports to the police he saw a masked figure—a figure the police had not spoken publicly about at that time. Two weeks later, the boy becomes the seventh victim.