The Martial Unity

Chapter 2012 Motherly Involvement

An eternity passed.

Or at least, that was how Rui felt when he opened his eyes. An eternity may as well have passed.

For a moment, he couldn't remember.

He couldn't remember where he was.

He couldn't remember the last thing he remembered.

His blurred version grew clearer as he saw the sky.

The sky of the manifold.

His eyes widened as his recollection came through, triggered by the visual stimulus.

Two years worth of memories flooded through his mind as he recollected his entering the dungeon, his meeting with the Divine Doctor, the two years of preparation for Operation Prisonbreak, his battle and breakthrough against the Chimera, and, of course…

"…Who am I?"

His Martial Drive shuddered at the question. His eyes were vacant.

Hollow.

His body loosened as he felt like a walking corpse.

Not even the inheritance of the Elder Tree made him feel that way. His Martial Drive had protected him from the worst of the inheritance, merely causing him to suffer a drastic shift in emotional quotient.

Yet, the Divine Doctor's words had struck him harder than anything the Elder Tree could have ever mustered up.

It attacked the very root of his drive.

very root of who

death after being reborn in a new body. Yet, the information provided by the Divine Doctor, or the inheritor of the Divine Doctor, had shattered this very foundation at the center

not John

of Gaia who, as a newborn baby, had

Falken even real?

lit up within the depths of his uncertain eyes. "No." His voice grew a little more confident. "John Falken was real. Earth is real. The

memories for them to be conceivably fabricated. Additionally, the knowledge that he had learned and researched throughout his entire life was extremely consistent with reality. The probability that they were fiction was so

unless he was truly confronted with supernatural and extraordinary evidence, he

died and then brainwashed fetus Rui with

have grown to become an entirely different person with a different life, different emotions, temperament, and personality, and different goals,

had been snuffed out the moment the fetus Rui

how…?" He couldn't

truly incomprehensible to its very

transference ritual required

such a thing happen without anybody

It made no sense!

the depths of

his grandmother, his name, bestowed by his

this was strong evidence that she knew that he was a reincarnated being, yet, now he realized that there was

this bone-chilling possibility. Did his mother truly consent to having her unborn child be brainwashed and hypnotized in

"Huff…huff…huff…"

rate accelerated as his breathing grew

felt as though someone

someone was suffocating him,

though his own mother was

He didn't know.

He couldn't know.

could he

that was the most horrifying

identity of her child with a prepared identity from another world and another man? Was she uninvolved? She certainly knew; what did