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?

that Rui didn't have

and blunt; she's my grandmother, too. Had she known, she would have just told me.

means in the Silas Dialect?" Kane's eyes widened with

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

remarkably confident about this particular inference. He felt like he had stumbled

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

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

smile cracked at

that that sentiment was

combination, or someone else entirely, the Divine Doctor's revelations complicated his situation undoubtedly. Before, he felt like he was John continuing his

Kane asked with a hopeful expression. "Wouldn't it be prudent to not put

unconscious when all of it happened,

faith and trust in 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

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

need even more powerful evidence to displace it as

who you '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

at

pertinent and got to the heart of the

wasn't that

tingled as

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