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

his gaze as his mind coursed through various memories of conversations with his 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

Silas Dialect?" Kane's

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 a few days

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

narrowed. "…it has something to do with making progress in

possibly be relevant to Martial Art?

fleeting smile cracked at the edge of Rui's

to admit that that sentiment was something he felt

his situation undoubtedly. Before, he felt like he was John continuing his path in a new life. Now, he had lost that

hopeful expression. "Wouldn't it be prudent

all of it happened, and he

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

an explanation, but now that he had arrived at an actual mechanism that made accurate predictions

displace it

past, present, and future, you know? You have people you care about, who care about you, things you want to do.

stirred at that

and got to the heart

it wasn't

tingled as Rui closed

"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 like a soul. There was no ball of energy