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.

of

death after being reborn in a new body. Yet, the information provided by the Divine Doctor, or the inheritor of the

was not

had been brainwashed with the memories of John Falken from another

real? Was Earth

as 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

he had learned and researched throughout his entire life was extremely

confronted with supernatural and extraordinary evidence,

after he died and then

done that, Rui Quarrier would have gone on to become someone else. Rui would have grown to become an entirely different person with a different

had been snuffed out the moment

how…?" He couldn't

was truly incomprehensible to its

Divine Doctor, the soul transference ritual required an extraordinary amount

such a thing happen

It made no sense!

erupted within the depths of

name, bestowed by his mother, meant 'reincarnated' in the

that she knew that he was a reincarnated being, yet, now

this bone-chilling possibility. Did his mother truly consent to having her unborn

"Huff…huff…huff…"

accelerated as his breathing grew

as though

someone was suffocating him,

though his own mother was squeezing the life out of

He didn't know.

He couldn't know.

could he

was the most horrifying part.

monster who erased the potential identity of her child with a prepared identity from another world and another man? Was she uninvolved? She certainly knew; what