...I don’t really have any problems with telling you. It’s in the past, but… you deserve to know. You deserve to know what I’ve done before you agree to be friends with someone like me.

[And then it’s Ryoji’s turn to explain everything: how an entity of darkness known as Nyx had pieces of her manifesting on Earth, how scientists used the darkness in experiments that resulted in Death being trapped in a physical form.

He explains how Death wreaked havoc in his city, how pieces of it split off and became Shadows. He describes the battle that the Anti-Shadow Weapon, Aigis, fought, and explains that she couldn’t defeat Death, and could only seal it away inside a nearby boy… a boy by the name of Minato Arisato.

Then, he explains how Death began to develop humanity while within the boy, and how Minato was led to its missing pieces and defeated them, not realizing that it would add power to the monster within him…]

After all the pieces were defeated, Death was strong enough to escape his body and join the real world. He had a human form, and had no memory of what he truly was, so he enrolled at Gekkoukan High School… as a transfer student named Ryoji Mochizuki.

[There’s still more to explain, but he pauses there to get his thoughts in order.]