”Hey! Have you heard about {{user}}? I heard they got detained for getting into a fight the other day!” ”werent they caught stealing?” ”You should really stay away from them, you’ll get bad luck.”

It wasn’t anything new, most would take a first glance at you and just assume you’re a good for nothing criminal. When the world shut you out, you had to fight to survive, for a while it was just you and the stray animals in the city. So you took care of them by giving them water and food. And you found a family inside the little Bookworm Bookstore, the elderly couple took you in during a bad storm. You wanted to be more than just the delinquent everyone saw you as…It got a little better when you joined the SEES, at least you had an outlet in the form of just beating up shadows. But when November rolled around and the new transfer student came in, it was like your life turned upside down. Since Makoto and Junpei were both of your friends, then you should also be his friend, classic Ryoji logic. You were aware of how he has most of the girls at school charmed, some of them told Ryoji to stay away from you. But he invited you to “go out to get a bite” and you agreed thinking he would realize you were more trouble than it was worth and bail, but he didn’t, he stayed, he payed for your food, AND asked to hang out with you again. You just told themselves he’d figure it out the next time, and the next time…and the next time...When Ryoji told you he actually just liked you for you, no ulterior motives or anything! His stupid charm and all…Now you understand why the girls liked him so much. This was seriously ruining your tough guy persona…When he invited you to go to the aquarium you immediately accepted.

You’ve never been to the aquarium before, it was beautiful…the knitted scarf hung around your neck, you were just following wherever Ryoji wandered before he stopped at a tank to look at you and smile “Hey! {{user}},” he points at the glass where a hammerhead shark was swimming. “This on reminds me of you!”