A few decades ago, when Yorinobu was only twenty-one, his father Saburo took him to the bedroom the day after he graduated from the University of Tokyo and explained the original purpose behind Arasaka's founding:
—To restore Japan to its former glory, turn it into an economic superpower, grow stronger, and dominate the world economically and politically.
Unlike Kei Arasaka, who quickly understood and chose to support his father, Yorinobu was shocked by his father's vision.
He had worked himself to the bone at Todai, but not to become a fanatical militarist. Nor did he wish to spread terror and death throughout the world.
So, that night, after the banquet held in his honor had ended,
Yorinobu quietly left the estate.
And disappeared into Tokyo's vast darkness.
Later, Yorinobu founded the Steel Dragons and actively traveled around, working to bring down Arasaka.
Although the Steel Dragons were active in Japan for a time, they eventually fell apart under external suppression and internal conflicts.
Kei Arasaka captured "Yorinobu." To punish him, he extracted "Yorinobu's" consciousness and turned it into a complete engram.
That was September 24, 2022.
It was also Yorinobu's twenty-seventh birthday.
Of course, it was later proven that the "Yorinobu" who had been captured was actually a body double, used to ensure that no one could track the real Yorinobu's whereabouts.
The real Yorinobu appeared again at Kei Arasaka's funeral, after the end of the Fourth Corporate War.
Yes, Kei Arasaka had died during the Fourth Corporate War.
At Kei Arasaka's funeral, Raijin Arasaka requested to return to the Arasaka family.
He had realized that Arasaka could not truly be defeated from the outside, so he decided to destroy it from within instead.
Although the consciousness extracted by Kei Arasaka had belonged to a body double, and although several