Wandering within the forest, Arcturus regains his sanity once more and questions himself for what has happened to him and his men.
Suddenly grabbing his head, feeling like a rock has been struck at him, however, flashbacks of his memory painfully returns and he
screams in agony as he realizes that he has done something horrible. The mysterious voice suddenly speaks to Arcturus once again
and begins a conversation.
"You have done well Arcturus" a sinister laughter is heard "You have partially filled my hunger for souls, therefore, I give you my
gratitude and in return I shall give you more power". Arcturus questions the voice "Who are you!? Show yourself!" the voice happily
replies "Very well then, if you want to see who I am, then look at the water in the river. There you will find your answer." Arcturus finds
a nearby river, goes to it and looks at his surroundings wondering if there was anybody nearby. He then looks at the water and again
asks for the mysterious voice to show itself. "Alright, I am at the river and looked at the water as you told me but I see nothing but my
own reflection" says Arcturus. "Look at the water again Arcturus and you will truly see who I am and do not blink." The voice replies.
Arcturus again looks at the water and in he notices something wrong. Within his reflection of the water he sees his eyes change color
and an evil grin appears. Arcturus becomes frightened and falls to the ground crawling backwards, then he sees the water take his
form though it may seem like Arcturus physically, there is a massive change, Arcturus alternate self wore a black armor, wielding soul
edge as well and his hair turned from white to black and he seemed to be more sadistic in his personality.
"Well now, are we not handsome Arcturus?" Evil Arcturus sarcastically asks. "Who…who are you? And what is the meaning of this? Why
do you have the same outlook as me but with different tone of color?" Arcturus demanded, "Well, in all honesty, this is not who I really
am but know this I am not exactly you, I am Soul Edge! The sword you carry is me and because you wield me as my host, I manifest
into my wielder's form giving them immense power as they desire in return for more souls that is. However, if you fail, I drain your life
force as you continue to hold onto me. Did I answer all of the questions you were going to ask me?" replied Evil Arcturus with a smile.
Arcturus, feeling shocked for what the evil entity told him, he tried to remove the sword from his hand and realized he cannot but still
tries in vain to do so. "Why is my hand unable to let you go? What have you done to me?" Arcturus angrily asks, "Like I said, you are
my host, so in general you cannot let go of me because I have control over you but not entirely. However, if you try to do anything
funny, such as try to chop off your hand, I can immediately stop you and there's nothing you can do about it, unless you try to not kill
anyone to feed me and as I drain your life force completely for you to die until I find a new host that can sustain my existence and even
if it takes forever for me to get a host, I can still live regardless of the time and thankfully, your father is my created me but I do not
think he would be able to counter my existence if he knew how he could destroy me entirely. Well this enough for now, all this talking
has made me hungry; time to get something to eat Arcturus" says Evil Arcturus. As the evil entity vanishes, Arcturus suddenly grabs his
head as he feels the pain has increased and realized that the sword was actually draining his life force whenever he was in pain and as
he stands up he again becomes his evil self.