After hearing this, Naruto finally understood the strange things that had happened to him. Why he was different from everyone else, why he had reincarnated with his memories intact without passing through the legendary six paths of reincarnation, and why his soul had not completely dispersed in the spatial turbulence-it turned out a powerful being had been helping him.
Naruto asked in confusion, "I understand everything you've told me, including why I kept my memories when I reincarnated. But there's something I want to ask you, Ao Ming. Why did you attach yourself to my soul? There had to be something that brought it about, or it wouldn't make sense, would it?"
Ao Ming replied, "As for that, do you remember this?" He took out a black jade pendant.
The sight of the pendant startled Naruto. "Isn't that the one I bought at a roadside stall for two hundred? How did you get it?"
Ao Ming replied, "Then do you know what happened after you bought this pendant?"
Naruto shook his head. "I don't remember. All I remember is that I was living in poverty, and a fortune-teller told me I needed to wear jade to change my luck. Then the fortune-teller gave me this pendant. But when I got home, I suddenly fainted, and when I woke up, the pendant was gone. I was only eight then. After that, I went with my master and learned how to kill people from him. I became an assassin, until the wife I'd loved deeply for eight years betrayed me and shot me dead. Heh. When you put it that way, my life really was one enormous joke."
Ao Ming replied coldly, "I was the one who arranged for that fortune-teller to approach you. And, frankly, I was also the reason misfortune