The only difference between them and the protagonist is fiction, he has the same thoughts as the edgy kids but he can truly commit them on his fictional world. His thoughts are the law because of thicc plot armor.

He is able to act stoic while thinking "Police is close, but I love challenges" while wondering if being a cannibal would be fun.

If he says he commited a perfect crime because x and y, it *will* be a perfect crime. No clues in sight.

He is able to say things like "You deserve judgement, Im justice" while dismembering someone and people on the internet will respect him because serial killers vigilantes are cool right??

There will be this kind of suspense when the police is close to trap him but... What? It turns out he was in another place altogether and fooled the police as he always does? Who would have seen that coming.

It became kind of a fantasy of mine.

If only the protagonist was a normal human being who has to suddenly deal with the fact that he has to kill people to remain sane.

Killing to survive but still having to deal with the weight of discovering and re enacting gruesome mu*ders one after another, expanding his understanding of how cruel humans can be, learning without choice skills like hiding, killing or deceiving.

Then this story would be so much better, seriously the protagonist is such a turndown no matter how cool and calculating he tries to be.

he raped a completely innocent person who had no ties to anything, just because he wanted her to leave him alone. I do not understand the reasoning for this sort of action, as he wasn't controlled nor influenced by one of his personalities. I can forgive gruesome mu*der, but I draw the line at s*xual assault.

maybe it's some sort of commentary on how being close to and understanding monsters had made him into one? Unlikely.

The police are s*upid as hell in this novel, never fully using their abilities. I don't understand how hard it is to track a livestream's IP address, compare body types and alibis to find ANYONE.

also, apart from the first few cases, he doesn't really bother erasing his DNA from the crime scene. I think the author just omitted it because it would be quite repetitive, but different crime scenes would have different ways of clearing the evidence.

The repetitiveness could also serve as a somewhat minor plot point, representing that no matter how psychopathic they are, they all think and act the same but that's probably me just overthinking it.

He used his victim's phone. Like an idiot. 'Oh it's the perfect burner pho-' burner phones are meant to be discarded. Using a phone or possession registered to someone else is surprisingly easy to track.

The livestream sh*t is idiotic. I can forgive it when there is no IP tracking nor any incriminating evidence, but all it contains is evidence against the MC.