To subjugate the prideful is no simple task.
If possible, Arthur would have preferred to rely on time to establish a good relationship, and then use that relationship as a bond to tie their interests together, making them inseparable.
But Arthur lacked time.
So, Arthur had no choice but to select another method—
Suppression!
Or, to be more precise, shatter the pride of the prideful.
And to shatter what the prideful took pride in was no small feat.
Just like facing Lady Amanda before him.
Arthur needed not only his identity as the 'legitimate Orange Cat,' but also to demonstrate the strength of the 'contemporary Orange Cat,' and beyond that, the strength of the new Black Cat Faction.
Although that was only the 'strength criterion' he had drawn out through his second Exquisite Human Puppet Grindelwald.
But who knows this?
