Chapter 464: Recollection 2
The throne room was still quiet as Brie began to recount more of Arthur’s ventures.
During Orochimaru’s invasion, a lot of the Leaf Village’s military apparatus came down on his head. He defeated Sasuke, Rock Lee, and Kiba at their own games because they knew little about him.
But he didn’t escape without consequence. A terrible mark was left on Jada after she had discovered his deeds.
To her, Arthur was a manipulator who pushed her to the brink and abandoned their dreams of correcting this world’s failures. The trauma forced her Sharingan to mutate into the Mangekyō.
Arthur told Brie about the look in Jada’s eyes before he fled: a promise to hunt him down and put him in the ground.
With the Leaf behind him, he was now free to roam the entire world.
His first destination was the Fire Temple, where he donned his first persona, calling himself Ryugetsu. It was there he had also found the boy named Sora. Arthur bonded with the lad because he knew that the Nine-Tails chakra inside Sora would be a massive asset down the line.
So he planted the seeds of loyalty and doubt in him before leaving.
Prior to having abandoned the Leaf Village, he had learned the means of performing the Reanimation technique from the Scroll of Seals. And rather than wasting it on foot soldiers, he went straight for the top by releasing Minato’s soul from the Reaper Death Seal and then summoning him.
Armed with a dead Kage and Simian Sage Mode, he then went bounty hunting to collect much-needed money.
Who was worth his attention other than the famed Zabuza and Haku of the Mist Village? Those shinobi, as Arthur put it, were ’meant to be dead by now.’
So he eventually cornered them and killed the Demon of the Mist alongside his apprentice. Haku’s body was also harvested for his cells. After Arthur merged them into his own bloodstream, it earned him ice style.