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?

his skin as the truth began

grew a few

It grew darker.

"Rui...?"

at him with

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

the light

could only see an

was the warmth in his

frosty chill had overtaken

single question escaped

"How...?"

It was a whisper.

"How did she go?"

emerged on her face. "With a smile on her face surrounded by

even as a fleeting melancholic smile cracked at the edge of his mouth

His tone grew dark. "...Why did

were a question, yet his

An expression of grief.

Alice's smile grew bitter.

full of love. Rather than remembering her death,

grew warm as a symphony positive memories flooded both of them. They lightened the vice that gripped Rui's heart even

have the

the many members of the Quarrier Family that

relatively recently. These children

them were older adolescents whom Rui had spent some time training and playing with before he departed for the Beast

Max and Mana who

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

It was heartwarming.

within him,

watching all of

back with plenty of life-prolonging potions at his disposal, he was doomed to watchingg

Mind allowed him to almost see their

his love