Without pen and paper, Tang Qi could only memorize as much of it as possible.
He did not believe there was any falsehood in Elder Bell Deer's candor.
After all, his explanation perfectly accounted for every previous doubt. This utopian society was remarkably seamless, and Tang Qi truly could not find any loopholes.
"But I still have a few questions I hope you can answer. For instance, regarding Rumi's mother—the woman he was holding at the end, was she really his mother?"
"No."
Markwen had handled Rumi's problem from start to finish, and he did not begrudge revealing the truth. "Her name is Vera. She was once a renowned cook, and her [Harvest Mash] could practically be considered an Ebony Forest specialty.
But—yes, she was not Rumi's mother. Her child became a member of the Breeding Assembly, which meant we had to sever the familial bond between mother and son. So we used [Memory Alteration] to correct that portion.
We could erase the stretch marks on her body, but we could not erase her love for her child. When those memories quietly began to awaken, we had no choice but to bring her to the Wish Palace."
Tang Qi felt that he had heard that name somewhere before.
As he recalled the past, he remembered that Ponto's notebook had recorded that mother's wish.
She was not even allowed to stand at a distance and look upon her child just once.
"So, like combining like terms, you used the rules of the Reciprocity Law to take away part of something they possessed, then filled that gap with something else?
She lost her child, so you gave her a child—but she would never again remember who she truly was, and thus became Rumi's mother.
Rumi was the same. He wanted to find