The Martial Unity

Chapter 2014

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

Had she known, she would have just told me. She wouldn't have kept it a secret. Secondly, she found my name to be quite strange. She said it meant 'reincarnated.' If she truly knew the truth, she would not have

the Silas Dialect?" Kane's eyes widened with shock.

"But my grandmother most likely doesn't know. This means that the question 'Who are you?' had some other meaning or relevance to her that was different from what the Divine Doctor actually meant when he did ask me that

about this particular inference. He felt like he had stumbled onto

that…" His eyes narrowed. "…it has something to

you…" Kane murmured to himself. "How can such a question possibly be relevant to Martial Art? If it is relevant, then man, I am not going to

cracked at the

that that sentiment was something he

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

asked with a hopeful expression. "Wouldn't it be prudent to not put so much weight in his

sense. Unfortunately, he was unconscious when all of it happened, and he didn't know all of

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 scientifically. Information, brainwashing, and hypnosis,

scientific inquiry. He 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,

more powerful evidence to displace it

'technically' are?" Kane pondered. "You have a past, present, and future, you know? You have people you care about, who care about you, things you want to do. Things you have to do. How much does it

at

and got to the

wasn't

atmosphere tingled as Rui

thought Project Water was born of me and came along with 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 Quarrier was born. Nothing causally traveled from John to Rui

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