The Martial Unity

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In many ways, Lashara had been a rock in his life. No matter how crazy his life as a Martial Artist had gotten, he could always return home to the unconditional love of his mother.

It was a tether to his emotions.

He had yearned to fall back into the loving embrace of his mother after the mental turmoil he had experienced inwardly recently.

The loss of emotional feedback.

The loss of his identity.

Who could help him if not for his mother?

Who could ease his mind if not for his mother?

Yet, fate cruelly denied him this simple comfort.

No longer could he find any emotional respite in his mother's embrace.

No longer could he soothe himself in her unconditional love.

Inwardly, he felt as though he had lost more than just a person he had loved his entife life.

He had lost a haven in the Quarrier Orphanage.

While he had deep love for many of the caretakers that had raised him and had been raised alongside him, he saw them as responsibilities he ought to protect.

And while he certainly felt most protective of Lashara, a part of him felt protected by her in ineffable ways.

Now, she was no more.

Suddenly, all the power he had gathered felt useless.

He felt helpless.

What was the point of being a mighty Martial Master if he couldn't even be there for his mother? What was the point of voyaging for an absent father when it deprived him to be there for his mother?

as the truth began

grew a

It grew darker.

"Rui...?"

gazed at

she grew increasingly more anxious and scared as she bega?noticing the countless discrepancies in the man she had

light in his

see an endless darkness in its

was the warmth in

chill

single question

"How...?"

It was a whisper.

"How did she go?"

on her face. "With a smile on her face surrounded by whose who

welled up in Rui's eyes even as a fleeting melancholic smile cracked at the edge of his mouth

grew dark. "...Why did

a question, yet his

An expression of grief.

Alice's smile grew bitter.

passed on without any regrets. She lived life to the fullest for those she loved and was blessed with a life full of love. Rather than remembering her death, I remember her life.

of them. They lightened the vice that gripped Rui's heart even as

have the

that had

These children gazed at Rui reverent

some time training and playing with before

fully mature adults like Max and

and fifties. Julian, Farion, Nina, and Myra. These were among the first generation of the Quarrier Orphanage

It was heartwarming.

him, it was

to watching all of them grow

life-prolonging potions at his disposal, he was doomed to watchingg all his loved

his Martial Mind allowed him to almost

his love