The Martial Unity

Chapter 2014 A Significant Question

Kane frowned at Rui's words. "What does your identity issue have to do with impeding Project Water?"

"…I don't know," Rui admitted.

Kane stared at him, confused.

"I don't know what it has to do with Project Water," Rui elaborated. "But I do have strong reasons to think that it has something to do with it."

"…Like what?"

Rui's eyes turned back to Kane. "…One of the things that my grandmother's prophecy before we left Kandria foresaw was the Divine Doctor asking me, 'Who are you?'"

Kane's eyes widened with surprise. "You mean that you knew that all of this was going to happen?"

Rui shook his head impassively. "…I didn't know that this specifically would happen. All I saw and heard in the prophecy was the Divine Doctor asking me that question. I didn't have any other context. More importantly, my grandmother's reaction to it was… strange."

Kane tilted his head. "How so?"

"…She acted as though that question meant something to her." Rui narrowed his eyes. "She muttered something like 'meddling unnecessarily.'"

Kane's eyebrows furrowed with surprise. "You mean to say your grandmother may have known your true identity all this time? No, not just your true identity, but the truth about how 'you' came to this world?

possibility that Rui didn't have evidence to

she's my grandmother, too. Had she known, she

that what your name means in the Silas Dialect?" Kane's eyes widened with shock. "Doesn't

means that the question 'Who are you?' had some other meaning or relevance to her that was different from what the Divine Doctor

particular inference. He felt like he had stumbled

"…it has something to do with making progress in the

relevant to

cracked at the

to admit that that

some bizarre combination, or someone else entirely, the Divine Doctor's revelations complicated his situation undoubtedly. Before, he felt like he was John continuing his path in a new life. Now, he had

a hopeful expression. "Wouldn't it be prudent to not put so

all of it happened, and he didn't know all

accurate inference based on the explanation. If a theory leads to verifiably accurate predictions, then one can have high confidence that it is more truthful than other theories that don't. It explains much and is backed by evidence more than anything else. It's also a better explanation than 'souls,' the existence of which has never been proven or demonstrated

had tentatively accepted the theory of souls as a placeholder for an explanation, but now that he had arrived at an actual mechanism that made accurate predictions for why he was the way he was, the scientist

need even more powerful evidence to displace

about, who care about you, things you

stirred at that

to the heart of the

it wasn't

tingled as Rui closed

me from one life to another," he whispered. "Now, I am confronted with powerful evidence that it was passed on to me from a being who died before Rui