章 2016: An Opportunity

The chat with Kane had helped Rui gather his thoughts and regain his composure. The shock of the revelation had initially been truly overwhelming.

Not even the emotional desensitization of the inheritance of the Elder Tree had helped. He had been emotionally desensitized to external stimuli of pain and pleasure and surrounding emotions.

It didn't protect him against internal stimuli such as the realization that his drive had not been his own, that his memories were that of a dead man of another world.

Yet, in hindsight, he was grateful to have learned the truth.

It taught him an important lesson.

His drive would not yield even if its very foundations were ripped apart from under it. It was so powerful that it had embedded itself deep into Rui's conscious and subconscious mind.

It didn't matter if it came from another person.

It didn't matter even if it were somehow pure fiction.

Rui would make it reality.