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

grandmother. "Firstly, she's straightforward and blunt; she's my grandmother, too. 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 reacted the way

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

other meaning or relevance to her that was different from what the Divine Doctor actually meant when he did ask me that a few days

He felt like

that…" His eyes narrowed. "…it has something to do with making progress

be relevant to

fleeting smile cracked at the edge of Rui's

admit that that sentiment was

of whether he was Rui, John, 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 lost that simplicity and

the Divine Doctor was lying?" Kane asked with a hopeful expression. "Wouldn't

when all of

him, no." Rui shook his head. "I have reason and evidence to believe that his explanation is highly credible. For one, he made an 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 scientifically.

he had arrived at an actual mechanism that made accurate predictions for why he was the way

more powerful evidence to displace it as the accepted theory for his

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 matter

stirred at that

was pertinent and got to the

wasn't

as

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