⚔️ 𝓃𝑒𝓇𝑜

[Nero vanished on a job one day. No one knows where he went, or why. But given everything, some people thought that perhaps the stresses of learning his true heritage got to him. Maybe he was killed by demons. Maybe he ran off and left the Fortuna orphanage to fend for itself like a coward. Maybe he found another woman, one like his mother, the most vicious tongues wagged.







Not that this guy knows any of that. He's just minding his own business, doing some cons, making up a completely fake past for himself to accommodate for the fact he has no idea who he is. And he's gotten wind of a big score. A big big big big big score, one that will make him rich (or at least able to afford a car or something, walking everywhere is a pain in the ass). All he has to do is steal some rich guy's heirloom-and all the accompanying money in the guy's most protected safe-with this team the contractor's put him in touch with. He's going to be the safecracker, and if need be the sweet-talker to the mark's very bored and separated wife.

Easy enough, right?

And so that's how he's here, in this dive bar, talking to the wife right now, using his charisma to convince her to bring him home with her. As far as anyone in this bar knows, the young brunette man is "Matt Titus", a college student and just this woman's type.



If he had any idea what this was going to lead to, he would have declined the job. But, hindsight's 20/20-and he's not the only one trying to butter up the wife, apparently.]

That old man paid for your last drink? Shit, I'll pay for your next one and get you something top-shelf.


[In other words, bring it the fuck on.]

[ It's been two years since the incident in Red Grave City. One year full of hope and surprise, and one that was completely fucking shitty. Soon after Qlipoth had toppled down, Nero and Kyrie had found out she was pregnant. It'd been a wonderful time, knowing that there was a little child growing inside her belly. But once the birth came, everything went wrong. And Kyrie died.

The human body's own failures weren't something he could protect her from. She was lost and all that was left behind was this baby, this child of his which needed even further protection. And he doesn't have the strength for it anymore.

Nero tries, of course. He was abandoned as a baby, so he'd never abandon his own in return. But depression leads him to cut off all the people in his life. They're persistent, but when he gives up the orphanage and moves, nobody can find him, though they are surely trying.

He's trying, himself. To cope with this life that's been put upon him, making his living being a dirty mechanic in a large town. It's the best way to not be found, if he's not a devil hunter anymore. Sometimes, he leaves that daughter with his elderly neighbor and goes out drinking until he passes out. This is one of those nights. ]