[All the more reason for Rin to ask. Anything that makes Mephisto sound like that...

It can't have been sunshine and rainbows, that's for fucking sure.

Rin listens surprisingly closely, not interrupting or looking zoned out as he often was in school. Rin may be awful at lying but he's not one to go around blabbing people's secrets. It stays between them as long as Mephisto wants it to, even if the idea of the two of them sharing anything in confidence is quietly blowing his mind.

What the fuck universe.

What the fuck.]

A lotta stuff here is tied to chroma but I couldn't tell you how much of that you're gonna get back for sure even with it.

[He makes a face, worrying at his lower lip with a fang.]

I wouldn't be able to understand it completely, but... I kinda get it? When I lost my powers on that island I felt... wrong. Even before I pulled the Koma sword I had somethin' in me that was just always there and when they did that to me...

[God.

Are they actually bonding?]