A/N: Just a tiny oneshot about Mephisto just before his appearance in episode 2. For me it's about one friendship I believe in.


The sky is overcast with absolutely unsophisticated clouds. And it's raining.

In Gehenna it never rains. Well, they don't mourn the dead over there either.

But today not only it's raining but the wind is blowing, and it makes the white coat stream quite elegantly behind one's back. If you're standing on top of the tower and watching over the Academy - and the city beyond.

Such a funny city. Such a funny world. You just never grow tired of it.

And the funniest of it all - no one even suspects what our real plans are, do they?

In his right hand Mephisto holds a pink umbrella with variegated patches, the left is stretched out in a theatrical gesture, one would expect a small mirror in it, but there's actually a cellphone in the same shade of pink.

So then, Shiro, it has only just begun?

And almost like in response to those words, the telephone in his hand starts ringing.

On the screen it glows and blinks:

Fujimoto Shiro calling...