Content Warning: This text deals with dark themes including suicide and features scenes of murder and sexual behavior. The source text also contains anti-LGBTQ+ bias, including anti-transgender bias.

This section clarifies the language used by the McMasters school and, like the foreword and the Dean’s interjections throughout the narrative, addresses the reader directly. “Deletion” is the preferred term for murder. “Executive” is the person you, the reader, will be murdering. Using this term helps keep you safe in case you’re being recorded. “Executor” is you, the killer, and the word has an emphasis on the second syllable. “Deletist” is a graduate, and “homidcidalist” is a person who got away with murder despite not having a McMasters education. “The Enemy” are people conspiring against McMasters. This doesn’t include the FBI, as too many are alumni.

The Dean of the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts congratulates the person buying this book on taking their first step toward homicide, addressing the reader directly. A McMasters education in how to get away with murder has been too expensive for many years, and the Dean wants this book to provide an alternative option for aspiring murderers.

The mantra behind the school’s teaching includes four questions, also known as “The Four Enquiries,” which one must answer before moving forward: “Is this murder necessary? […] have you given your target every last chance to redeem themselves? […] What innocent person might suffer by your actions? […]Will this deletion improve the life of others?” (2-3).