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?
It was a possibility that Rui didn't have evidence to deny, but...
"...I would be surprised if she did know, it wouldn't make sense," Rui remarked, sharpening 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 be quite strange. She said it meant 'reincarnated.' If she truly knew the truth, she would not have reacted the way that she did."
"Is that what your name means in the Silas Dialect?" Kane's eyes widened with shock. "Doesn't that mean your mom...?"
"Yeah..." Rui's eyes darkened. "But 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 ago."
Rui felt remarkably confident about this particular inference. He felt like he had stumbled onto something important.
"I suspect that..." His eyes narrowed. "...it has something to do with making progress in the Upper Realms."
How was one supposed to maintain their composure?
The sheer shock had overwhelmed him in the heat of the moment.
His Martial Path and the drive to fulfill it had been of ineffable importance to him. After all, he once attacked a Martial Sage with bloodlust when the Sage negated his Martial Drive for just a moment.
The Divine Doctor's revelations were one thousand times worse, causing him to be overwhelmed momentarily.
"...You're not going to stop pursuing your Martial Path, Project Water, right?" Kane's eyes lit up with alarm.
Then, and only then, did certainty return to Rui's eyes.
A single answer escaped him.
"No."
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