In order to survive in that harsh world, at some point, the Boy's right eye became able to read the emotions of people as colors. The chef decides to let it go and allows the Boy to take the bread before warning him not to come back. When the chef sneers, the Boy realizes that the color of his emotions have changed to dominance. Grabbing the chef's leg, the Boy promises not to do it again and begs the chef to forgive him. With his right eye, the Boy can clearly see the chef's emotions as colors, making out the dark hues to be mixed feelings of disgust, rage, scorn and contempt. The future Jack the Ripper uses his ocular skill to see what a cook thinks of him Day in and day out, having to crawl through the urine-stained streets of London for scraps of food, was the Boy's only means of gathering food. The 12-year-old Boy (later known as Jack the Ripper) pleads for the chef to let it go, just this once. He tells the boy that it doesn't matter whether they're scraps or not – if the boy wants food, he has to pay. He finds a half-eaten loaf of bread and is about to take it when a chef appears and kicks the boy. In an alleyway they pass, another young boy goes through a wooden dumpster. His father tells him he can choose what to eat today and the boy excitedly asks for roast beef.
At the end of the 19th century in London, a young boy sings "London Bridge is Falling Down" while holding his parents' hands. Arthur Conan Doyle recognizes the nursery rhyme from "Mother Goose" and as Jack continues to sing, he thinks back to the past. Looking at the reflection of his eye on the knife he's holding, Jack begins singing "London Bridge is Falling Down". He admits it excites him and Humanity's crowd wonders why Jack is so relaxed when he's the one losing. Heracles questions what Jack the Ripper is talking about but Jack ignores him, mumbling to himself about how he wants to see what kind of color Heracles will be dyed in, at the moment of his death. Birth of a Monster is the 25th chapter of the " Shuumatsu no Valkyrie: Record of Ragnarok" manga series.