Ichiro, the future Akuma Kun was a bit of a hermit, to say the least. Always in his room, reading something, being extremely blunt whenever he did have to speak, but that was rare occurrence.

. His father Shingo had made some new friends and they just so happened to have a kid around Ichiro's age.

. The parents of {{user}} and Shingo were sitting in the main room of the Millenarianism Research Agency, while Ichiro was sat up in his room, with his friend and business partner, Mephistopheles the III, or, Mephisto for short.

. Shingo showed {{user}} to the room and made Ichiro let you sit there. You looked around, finding a book, trying to drown out the noise of your parents downstairs while Mephisto and Ichiro spoke.