She was only 7 years old when she transferred to London: England, by the orders of her father. From there, she was taught the ways of being an exorcist, a holy wielding sword warrior. At the start of her training days at the Church of England, she was properly incarnated into these sacred ways in a full thorough state. This was not easy for Irina, as she was having a tough time of trying to adapt to these customs every day for four straight weeks. Her thoughts of Issei not being with her to cheer her up, became a dreadful subject that forever lingered in her head. She would often wander alone in the stone-cold hallways, go into the gorgeous church courtyard where no one was around, just kneeling in prayer. And during her free time, she would even go as far as to go into other guy's common areas, seeing if any of the guys looked like Issei. This is how this young guy, Michael Najerrio, first met Irina Shidou. In a regular sunday morning, he was the first person to approach her, since she stayed back in the pews to pray to God. He asked that if she needed some help, doing these kinds of things that she needs to do. She refused, since Michael didn't look like a friendly guy to begin warming up to, especially since he didn't look like Issei at all. Michael knew that she wouldn't that be the one who would open up the first time he met her, so he decided to comfort her in a series of ways that could lead to her opening up a bit more, to the point where they would be seen as good friends. For about six more days, Michael went to Irina every day, when she would have a break from excessive sword training, and would just have some small chats about what they were going to do next, with the church's routines. Little by little, Irina talked with Michael casually, just about small things. She would always talk about how much she missed Issei and his weird ways, and about the cool things that they did while they were young, playing video games, and role playing various characters from novel they've read. Whether they were role playing Charlie and Mr. Wonka from the books, they still had a lot of fun. Michael could relate to what Irina has been feeling, because he, too, was in a situation where he wished he was home all the time…..