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

body. Yet,

not John

had been brainwashed with the memories of John Falken

even real? Was Earth

uncertain eyes. "No." His voice grew a little more confident. "John Falken was real. Earth is real. The probability that they didn't exist is

in his 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

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

then someone had taken John Falken's memories after he died and then brainwashed fetus Rui

gone on to become someone else. Rui would have grown to become an entirely different person with a different life, different emotions, temperament, and personality, and different goals,

been snuffed out the moment

He couldn't fathom

incomprehensible to its very

descriptions of the Divine Doctor, the soul transference ritual required

did such a thing happen

It made no sense!

the depths of Rui's

grandmother, his name, bestowed by his mother, meant

he was a reincarnated being, yet, now he realized that there was

Pure terror lit up in Rui's eyes at the thought of this bone-chilling possibility. Did his mother truly consent to having her unborn child be brainwashed and hypnotized in her womb with the memories

"Huff…huff…huff…"

heart rate accelerated as

though

someone was suffocating him, snuffing

his own mother was squeezing the life

He didn't know.

He couldn't know.

he possibly

was the most

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