However, he knew that that number would soon grow even higher in the long run once he started triggering breakthroughs in the training manifold.
After his meeting with Alice, he ran into all of the first and second-generation members of the original Quarrier Orphanage. It was pleasant, yet bittersweet to Rui in the back of his head.
It reminded him of human mortality.
Each of them had gray or white hair and a face full of wrinkles.
Yet they each possessed eyes of peace and serenity.
It wasn't easy living in an orphanage, but things had gotten easier, especially after Rui had become a Martial Artist, and Julian had become a research scholar at the Kandrian Institute of Sciences. The two supplied the orphanage with as much money as they needed and more. They had managed to live a meaningful life, dedicating themselves to giving a home and family to children who had neither.
