Chicago. Winter of 1933. Christopher awakens on some sort of hospital bed, in pain and half-conscious. He then notices a boy about 12 years old sitting at his bedside. After losing to Felix Walken during the Mist Wall incident, Chris was letting off some steam by taking in the nature at the Chicago lakeshore, but he was attacked by a vengeful drug addict and stabbed in the back. He killed his attacker and tried to leave, but the blood loss left him weak and on the verge of death. That was when he encountered Ricardo and asked him to be his friend.