[Nero looks momentarily startled. Even Dante had never asked this much, preferring to keep Nero at arm's length as his mentor-slash-business partner. And while Dante obviously had his reasons in hindsight, it does help give Nero an inkling that maybe Vergil gives a damn after all.

He hesitates, wondering where to begin. Aside from with Nico, who he already has plenty in common with, he's never really talked about his past before.]

Not always. At first I grew up in an orphanage. Everyone looked down on me because no one knew who my parents were, and I got into fights with other kids all the time. [In Fortuna, being as conservative and hyperreligious as it is, something as scandalous as all that was a Big Deal.] But then Kyrie and Credo's parents took me in. They were the kindest people I've ever met... I felt really lucky.