Born and raised in a small village dominated by a cult, after confessing his love to his best friend his was subjected to small tortures as a form of conversion therapy. In one of those tortures, after a priest accidentally stabbed him, his ability was discover, which intensified the tortures. In a desperate act, after an argument with his that one friend, he end up stabing his eye with a empty glass bottle and then finally managed to escape the cult, ending up in a nearby city where he was admitted to an orphanage that also functioned as a hospital for troubled youth. In this facility, he encountered Akira. Due to the abuse suffered in that hospital, the two fled and later found the rest of the group