Chapter 1:
Akira sat in his room above Café Leblanc. He knew his welcome shouldn't be warm, but his new guardian, Sojiro Sakura, really made him aware that he hadn't wanted Akira there. He had said that he knew someone who knew Akira's parents and had offered to take him in for the year.
He may say he doesn't want me here, but he offered to take me. Wonder if that old man has a heart under there somewhere, he thinks to himself. Akira can still remember the day he left his parents. His dad had been one of the officers to arrive at the scene when Akira was arrested. He was a rookie officer at the time, still is, but he was so ashamed to have to put his own son in cuffs he barely listened to Akira trying to tell him he was innocent. On the day of his sentencing he could hear his parents wonder if he truly did do it. The man had said the kid must've been jealous to see young love in the streets and charged him. The woman Akira had saved had corroborated this story so here he now is. Parents who don't believe his innocence. Thinking about it every day still makes him upset but by now there's nothing he can do about it. Who would believe him?
Akira finishes up sweeping the floor of the attic he now calls his room and sits on the bed. It's time to sleep for the night, although he isn't tired, he feels as if something is forcing him to lie down and close his eyes. With that, he drifts off.
Minutes or hours pass, Akira cannot be sure. He awakes to the sound of clinking chains, and the chuckle of a small girl. As he sits up in his bed, Akira realizes that he is not in his room, but is in a cell. Just outside the door to his cell stand two young blonde girls, each sporting matching but opposing eyepatches. They appear to be dressed in blue suits and Akira looks down to see chains attached to his ankles and wrists. A shabby striped prison uniform hangs loosely over his body.
As Akira stands and moves to the door of his cell, he sees a man, with an absurdly long nose and grimacing smile that is far too wide for his face looking at him.
"Trickster, welcome to my Velvet Room…" the man says.
A/N: To stay true to the game timeline and characters, the initial part of this story will rush through the tutorial section of the game until the player would have free control of Akira. This is done to say I've covered the beginning and to get me in the habit of writing again. Once we've reached that point then the story will begin to take an approach to more of what I'm wanting to write.