[Guess that's a reasonable thing to think. That he unbrainwashed himself and escaped. The Order isn't like that -- entirely -- but it sort of is, too. At least with the way Sanctus led it. Not that Nero had ever believed much of it, even when he was a kid.

Once you watch demons slaughter your parents -- adoptive or not -- you kind of catch on to how bad the church is at protecting you. And if any god protects those that love them, then Kyrie's parents would've been the last to die. No one was ever more devout.

It's true he doesn't want to talk about it. Even with Nico, he doesn't. But something about Steve's questions tips him to the idea he's not really trying to interrogate him, but. Maybe it's just curiousity. Maybe Nero's just that cool. He doesn't get from Steve that any of this is an act.]

Well, I killed the vicar, and the whole thing sort of crumbled after that. [He shrugs, looking sharply away, like that's all there is to it. A little murder and it solved itself.

Not that Sanctus was human at that point, anyway.] Once they found out he was trying to turn into a demon and take over the fuckin' world... kind of shakes even the staunchest believer. Anyway, after that, there weren't many people with the pedigree to kill demons, and they just love breakin' into the human world.