The Martial Unity

Chapter 1025

Lashara sighed as she got up in the morning. Dawn had just cracked the veil of darkness, ushering in a new day. Mornings used to cheer her up, but these days, it only depressed her.

She wasn't the only one.

A melancholic gloom had swept up the entire Quarrier Orphanage. An undertone of grief had occupied everybody's day-to-day life, much to her dismay. It didn't help that winter was on its way, either. It meant cold and dark days for an entire season.

Of course, the orphanage was doing much better these days financially. Rui and Julian had supported the orphanage a lot financially, nourishing the orphanage, and allowing it to expand and take in more children.

It was far larger than it was just a decade ago due to this reason.

This was a great blessing and one that she hadn't even dreamed of before. She should have been happy, and she had been.

That was until recently.

It had been nearly two years since the last time she saw Rui. She recalled the day he left like it was yesterday. He had bid them goodbye with a smile as he went away.

He hadn't returned ever since.

About a year ago, an official letter from the Martial Union had personally informed them that Rui had passed on all his wealth to them out of the blue.

Apparently, he had even sent them a message.

'I'm sorry.'

that they had had

She didn't understand.

What did this mean?

Julian with his contacts

home, and every day, she would be disappointed. It wasn't until a year later after that that it became evidently clear that Rui wasn't

didn't even know what to

know

could only hope, but she felt as though the uncertainty was driving her mad. She couldn't help but fear

Rui was very competent and strong. However, that didn't mean he wasn't capable of befalling some danger that

if he had the chance to contact the Martial Union and

thus concluded that Rui was most likely alive, and had made a decision to not come back home for some reason. He suspected that Rui must have found himself in truly exceptionally dire circumstances that caused him to leave without saying more

on, but he couldn't be sure. Although Lashara appreciated his intelligent insights on the matter,

some food for Julian along

food," Julian smiled as he

happy to see that he had recovered in the

it appeared that he was finally making his way back to

other in several ways. For one, the two of them were incredibly gifted

use complex language at the

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