Logan opened the thick dossier Yashida had prepared for him with rare unease. As he turned page after page of photographs and written records, the floodgates of memory in his mind gradually loosened.
In 1845, an unprecedented murder took place in Canada's Northwest Territories. One night, a drunken gardener shot the manor's master dead with a double-barreled shotgun. Little James—the master's son—was traumatized into awakening the Mutant gene within him, killing the murderous gardener, Logan, with bone claws that grew from his arms.
Yet it was actually a melodramatic story. The dead gardener had been little James's biological father. The terrified child fled the estate and relied on his brother Victor for survival. They were both Mutants, blessed with long lives that aged only slowly.
The two joined the Civil War, the Battle of Verdun in World War I, the Normandy landings in World War II, and even the later Vietnam War... These brothers could be said to have lived through the entirety of American history, until they were recruited by an officer named William Stryker for special operations and became soldiers serving their country.
During a brutal massacre, Logan—then still called James Howlett—had grown weary of endless killing. He left Stryker's special unit on his own, went to work as a lumberjack in the Canadian Rockies, officially changed his name to Logan, fell in love with a woman named Kayla, and started a family.
Had the story ended there, it would have been nothing more than a lone wolf retiring to the countryside. Unfortunately, real life rarely offered love as beautiful as a fairy tale.
Kayla was also a Mutant, codenamed Silver Fox. She had approached Logan with hidden motives, while his long-lost brother Victor, Sabretooth, began coming after him as well. Trouble arrived one after another.
His lover