Fates Apart! The Bitter Reunion of Two Generations of Ghost Riders

Although Johnny Blaze had theoretically awakened on his own, a careful analysis revealed that he had actually fallen into a trap jointly dug by Wang Zhen and Mephisto, two schemers!

Johnny Blaze had been calculated against by Mephisto from the very beginning. First, external circumstances had forced his hand—Johnny's father had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and did not have long to live. Then his childhood sweetheart, Roxanne, told him that summoning a demon at a crossroads would allow him to make a deal with it and obtain anything he wanted. This sequence of arrangements led the still-rebellious teenage Johnny Blaze, lacking life experience and any hard lessons from society, to summon a demon in panic and uncertainty through a deeply flawed ritual.

Mephisto took that very opportunity to openly appear before Johnny, producing the carefully prepared Demonic Contract. He wove a web of information asymmetry and persuasive rhetoric, making Johnny believe that once the deal was made, "his father's terminal cancer would be cured, and his father would not die." This clearly mistaken notion took root in his mind.

It was precisely because of that belief that Johnny Blaze decided to trade his soul in exchange for his father's recovery and freedom from death by terminal cancer.

Mephisto also used the opportunity to seal a fragment of the Demon King Zarathos's soul within Johnny's own soul. Thus, Johnny, the future strongest Ghost Rider, was born.

Although Naomi Kale noticed what was happening, Mephisto had acted personally. Even though she rushed over immediately, she was still deliberately made one step too late by Mephisto and failed to stop her son Johnny from signing that Demonic Contract. Moreover, Mephisto used Johnny's life to threaten Naomi Kale, preventing her from interfering or passing on information and knowledge about the supernatural world to