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?

the

world grew a

It grew darker.

"Rui...?"

gazed at

scared as she bega?noticing the countless discrepancies in the man she had known

the light in his

could only see an

warmth in

frosty chill

question escaped

"How...?"

It was a whisper.

"How did she go?"

on her face surrounded by whose who loved

welled up in Rui's eyes even as a fleeting melancholic smile cracked

tone grew dark. "...Why

a question, yet his tone

An expression of grief.

Alice's smile grew bitter.

loved and was blessed with a life full of love. Rather than remembering her death, I remember her life. All those times she would read

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

her anymore, but we have the family that she created."

the Quarrier Family that had come

children who had been accepted into the orphanage relatively recently. These children gazed at Rui reverent

whom Rui had spent some time training and playing

fully mature adults like Max and Mana who had progressed well in

older, in their forties and fifties. Julian, Farion, Nina, and Myra. These were among the first generation of the Quarrier Orphanage who had helped run the orphanage when he was still a

It was heartwarming.

deep within him,

to watching all

through to the Senior Realm a while back with plenty of life-prolonging potions at his disposal, he

Mind allowed him to almost

made his