Jiro held the handset to his ear in 1 hand and the phone cradle in the other, as he leaned against the wall listening to the other end ring, hoping they answered. He needed to tell them that their suspicions had been confirmed; there was a Vos Nest under Blackverde Highschool. On the eighth ring he hung up. Frustrated, he lightly thumped his head on the wall and put the phone back on the small side table in the hallway between bedrooms.

A long time ago there was war against a Demon species called the Vos. No one remembers why the war happened anymore, just that it destroyed everything. In the wake of that destruction a man – now blind – found himself to be the last survivor on a moon in the skies of a planet made of clouds. He had no memories of how he got there, nor who he was.

Finding no one else except the echoes of a voice in the form of a message instructing him on what to do to survive, he remained alone for a very long time as he set about fixing whatever he could. Eventually, over time, he found out why he was the only survivor; it was a pyrrhic victory. If the Vos had gotten past him the enemy would have had a foothold and gotten to the civilian population and destroyed everything. In order to prevent that he had evacuated everyone and tapped into a latent power that he had hidden from everyone.

He told them that he was going to destroy the base.

He did not lie to them; he simply didn't tell them how he was going to go about it.

When the enemy came and they had him surrounded he had let his power loose, destroyed the Vos and forcibly and permenantly closed their Gate. The backlash knocked him out and left him blind.