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Nice. Nice. Put that respect on Star Designers.

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Nah, I wasn't angry. But sure, good luck on your novel.

Regaedless th fact that you feel this way means I didn't do a good job justifying myself. I shall correct that error in the next few chapters. Thank you for your input.

I've refuted the memories=identity logic in the chapter quite thoroughly. As for being unemotional, it is said that the external stimuli needed to trigger neurotransmitters like dopamine and oxytocin are higher. That does not mean he cannot experience immense emotional distress from internal stimuli, such as the realization that he is not John and that his Martial Path is not his own. And no, I did not force it. The realization that his path isn't his own is enough for a mental breakdown based on consistently established and reaffirmed facts that he is extremely sensitive to things rekating Project Water. It is also why he attacked a Martial Sage(which is suicidal) when said Martial Sage momentarily negated his Martial Drive. It is entirely consistent and justified.

Listen, I understand your POV. But you need to understand that being convinced you were a brainwashed deluded person who was hypnotized to believe you are John is a horrifying revelation. It's an existential crisis and I don't want to downplay how bad it is in favor of making Rui a chad or something.

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I'm inclined to agree. But the circunstances you described are different from Rui's circumstances. Rui and John are not only entirely different in biology but also in environment.

Identifying his rebirth the way the Divine Doctor did is evidence of reliability. Science is defined by predictiveness and falisfiability, be correctly inferred the timing of Rui's rebirth by gauging the available evidence, what he did would be considered as powerful evidence by scientific standards.

Drive =/= confidence. Or mental self-certainty. Or confidence in sense of self. Even if Rui's drive was infinite, he would still have the mental breakdown. These are mutually exclusive. He never had proof that the doctor's evaluation couldn't be trusted, just his rationality which is categorically separate from his scientific credibility. DD said it was impossible because the soul transference ritual could not be done without him, but even he clarified that it is possible if someone stole it from them. And I absolutely can say it is all explained by science. If any fantasy reader wishes to stop reading, I fully respect that decision. But all fantasy in TMU is science. Every ounce of it. Make of that information what you will. However, I am the author of this story and I bend to nobody. I am also absolute in my intention to finish this story no matter what, even if it has 0 readers. I see this story to the end and write it however I want.

That being said, the first paragraph is a valid and sound concern and his thought process will be expounded on.

Everything is definite science. While there is evidence that something else is additionally ongoing, that does not dispute the process by which he was 'reincarnated,' the why and the who do not change the how, for which he has stientific evidence to believe was done in accordance to the manner the Divine Doctor described. It is actually more probable than souls which he previously accepted because there was evidnece, now he has a much more powerful scientific explanation in the form of the soul transference ritual. There are no contradictions and all of his inferences are consistent with the process of scientific induction. If you disagree, feel free to bring up evidence and I will adress it.

It is no less scientifically plausible than a soul traveling from world to world.

You're basically inventing your own canon with many of those statements. There is absolutely no scientific evidence the Earth is alive, irl or in TMU, it's also irrelevant. The evidence for Rui being reborn is not half-baked, it's quite irrefutable by the standards of scientific inquiry (falsifiability amd predictiveness). The laws of Physics are not all over the place otherwise none of Rui's techniques would work, esoteric reality has always been described as distinctly different rather than the norm. There have not been 3 or 4 identities of Rui thus far, this has literally never been stated anywhere in the novel. Rui does not consider religion to be scientific evidence of anything so the VF is irrelevant. Never ever has it been stated in this story that self-certainty has anything to do with Martial progress, only drive does. Crushing people with thought has absolutely no correlation with propensity for mental breakdowns. Him being a sage while Transcendents exist does not dispute the scientific soundness of his claims, also human sages do not fall under the taxonomy of Martial Art so the comparison is entirely illogical on your part. And again, Rui doesn't care about angels. They are no more than beasts in his eyes. This is the second time that I sense you are projecting tropes/narratives/ideas from outside the story into the story. As long as you do that, you will continue to have confusions like this. Engage only with facts established in the story and things will make sense, because I objectively derive story from core axiomatic facts established within the story.

The doctor produced irrefutable evidence by correctly identifying his rebirth by tell-tale signs of the soul transference ritual. This is scientific evidence. His mother loved him, but that doesn't necessarily mean she wasn't involved. She was a devout adherant of a faith that believed in an otherworldly being and Rui doesn't think highly of religious fundamentalists. And there is absolutely no evidence that he could not have experienced said method. So your statement is unsubstantiated.