>>283536918
You are remembering right.
Pk mutation started to be a bit more common, but still rare enough to be a minority, however they are strong enough to be a solo batallion.
This led to the destruction of society because you only need a few greedy and sociopathic pkers to sow chaos, it first started with discrimination every pkers due to the acts of a few and things escalated, destroying modern society.
Normal human kingdoms, Pker empire, bandits and weak societies, the last two having pkers and regular humans being more or less equal.
Then there was a third faction, mostly composed of pkers who wanted to keep humanity so they developed a way to bioengineer pkers to use their own powers to kill themselves if they harm humans.
Pkers won the war and fully conquered the world, enslaving the non pker race, but then it came the issue of infighting so they took the bioengeneering route and a new problem was born. Non pkers can't kill themselves on command because they don't have the power to instant kill them (it's kinda implied that you can make them hyperventilate, but is not a surefire way to kill them as using pk to stop your bodily functions) and the solution was the bakenezumi.
Then there are more fucked up issues. Pk parents don't guarantee that a pk baby will be born so they have to be killed. Psychos who don't see other humans as humans don't trigger the suicide mechanism. Pkers who can't control their powers will passively kill everyone.
The solution for that were the bakeneko.
Ironically, the pk suicide mechanism and the bakeneko degradation was a way to give them equal chances of fighting, but it was an excuse at the end. Pkers won the war. We can go as far as saying that Pk slaver empire are the current dominant civilization.