Her father was born and raised in Trento, Italy. He performed with a troupe of performers based in Japan as a psychic, making dazzling predictions and performing all kinds of unbelievable feats. Over the years he became very well-known, his fame spreading overseas, at least when he was targeted by famed skeptic James Randi, who exposed him as a fraud. This tore his heart out, tearing his family apart in the process. He never actually divorced his wife, instead simply walking out on them and moving away when Makoto was four. She was raised by her mother alone, growing to resent not only her father, feeling him a coward, but others in his line of work as well.

When Nuncio left, he left behind several books and props allowing her to study the basics of magic. This got her interested in studying the practice further, however she had no interest in performing, no. Instead, she had the goal of exposing those performers who claimed to have legitimate magic or psychic powers as frauds. She started small, crashing a few nightclub performers’ acts and flawlessly replicating their ‘powers’. Over time, people started taking notice. She soon turned her attention to a famous medium, proving her a fraud live on her own television show. Nonetheless, this was what got her noticed by Hope’s Peak Academy, earning her the title of Super High School Level Skeptic.