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.

root of who

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 of

was not John

was a man of Gaia who, as a newborn baby, had been brainwashed with the

even real?

a faint hint of certainty 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 probability that they didn't

that he had learned and researched throughout his entire life was extremely

was truly confronted with supernatural and extraordinary evidence, he was inclined to believe

case, then someone had taken John Falken's memories after 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,

been snuffed out the moment the fetus Rui

how…?" He couldn't

was truly incomprehensible to

the descriptions of the Divine Doctor, the soul transference ritual required an

such a

It made no sense!

erupted within the depths of Rui's metaphorical soul.

his grandmother, his name, bestowed by his mother, meant 'reincarnated'

had already concluded that this was strong evidence that she knew that he was a reincarnated being, yet, now he realized that there was another possibility in light

mother involved with my soul transference ritual?" Pure terror lit up in Rui's eyes at the thought of this bone-chilling possibility. Did his mother

"Huff…huff…huff…"

accelerated as

felt as though someone was

someone was suffocating

his own mother was squeezing the

He didn't know.

He couldn't know.

could he possibly

this uncertainty that was the most

she uninvolved? She certainly knew; what did she do with that knowledge?