When he was a little kid, the Devil was not fearsome and scary like today. He was a little monster with a pair of horns on his head and everyone laughs at him as if he was a sort of freak show. Actually, he was because he was furry and horned and his appearance was not reassuring. He was still the Devil even if he was a kid.Â
Yes, precisely because  he was a kid he got more traumatized by those children who bullied him because of his appearance. Now those children (that became adult) are paying for their sins but even the Devil suffered during his childhood like so many other kids.
On the other hand, Dice has never been bullied. He was not a bully but everyone respected him because he always appeared smart and confident. He was the teacher’s favourite. We could say his classmates envied him a lot and it could happen they bullied him, too. He was not the kind of guy who let them win and he was also a little vindictive and he knew how to make them pay for their misdeeds. For this reason so many kids respected him. Sometimes, Dice protected the Devil from the evil bullies (and Dice got a strong sense of justice when he was a child, but don’t confuse it with “honesty”, now he thinks otherwise). He was a great illusionist/magician and he was able to scare those bullies using one of his tricks. Even the Devil found them so funny.Â
I can imagine they were childhood friends but maybe growing up they took different paths but then, for a reason or another, they have been reunited. Life is always weird and anybody can say what will happen tomorrow.Â