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 he

a new body. Yet, the information provided by the Divine Doctor, or the inheritor of

not John

man of Gaia who, as a newborn baby, had been brainwashed with the memories of John Falken from

Falken even real? Was Earth

certainty lit up within the depths of his uncertain eyes. "No." His voice grew a little more confident.

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 were fiction was so unfathomably

unless he was truly confronted with supernatural and extraordinary evidence,

memories after he died and then brainwashed fetus Rui with all his memories to believe that he was John

hadn't done that, Rui Quarrier would have gone on to become someone else. Rui would have grown to become an entirely different person with a

snuffed out the moment the fetus Rui

how…?" He couldn't fathom

was truly incomprehensible to its

the soul transference ritual required an extraordinary amount of preparation, resources, and active involvement from

did such a thing

It made no sense!

depths of Rui's metaphorical

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

strong evidence that she knew that he was a reincarnated being, yet, now he realized that there was another possibility in light of the

of this bone-chilling possibility. Did his mother truly consent

"Huff…huff…huff…"

rate accelerated as his

felt as though

was suffocating him, snuffing

mother was squeezing the life out

He didn't know.

He couldn't know.

could he possibly

the

from another world and another man? Was she uninvolved? She certainly knew; what