The command chamber had fallen into uneasy silence.
Not acceptance.
Not disbelief either.
Something far more uncomfortable.
Uncertainty.
Military elders exchanged tense looks while researchers quietly reviewed data projected across floating holographic displays. Some still looked skeptical. Others looked deeply disturbed.
And at the center of it all—
Kaien stood beside Vijaya while Nyra and Lyss silently struggled against fragments of memories neither fully understood yet.
The atmosphere felt heavy now.
Like reality itself had become unstable inside that room.
But not everyone was willing to accept it.
Elder Magnus slowly leaned back into his seat afterward while folding his arms sharply.
"I still refuse to believe this."
The tension instantly returned.
Magnus continued coldly,
"Dreams and emotional reactions are not evidence of reincarnation."
Several others nodded cautiously afterward.
One senior strategist spoke next.
"And even if some part of this story holds truth…"
His eyes narrowed toward Kaien afterward.
"…how convenient that everything centers around him."
Kaien remained silent.
The strategist continued harshly,
"A mysterious weapon."
"Ancient memories."
"Connections to important officials."
"Impossible combat abilities."
He scoffed afterward.
"It sounds more like delusion mixed with battlefield trauma."
Nyra immediately frowned afterward.
"You weren't there."
The strategist ignored her completely.
Instead his attention shifted toward Elias Veyr afterward.
"And frankly…"
His voice hardened.
"…I find it concerning that Deputy Commander Elias allowed this situation to escalate in the first place."
The room became tense again immediately.
Magnus nodded slowly afterward.
"Agreed."
Another elder joined in too.
"Your son violated containment protocol."
"He stole restricted military property."
"And now he's destabilizing command with absurd supernatural claims."
Several eyes turned toward Elias afterward.
The accusations grew harsher quickly.
"You should have controlled him."
"How much did you know beforehand?"
"Did you hide information regarding the weapon?"
"Was this entire incident manipulated from the start?"
Kaien's eyes slowly darkened.
At first—
he stayed quiet.
He could tolerate criticism toward himself.
But hearing them attack his father after everything Elias had done for him throughout this life—
something inside him started breaking apart.
The memories.
The exhaustion.
The pressure.
Everything he carried across lives surged violently now beneath the surface.
One elder spoke again afterward.
"This entire situation exists because Elias failed to discipline his own child properly."
Another added sharply,
"A teenager with delusions shouldn't be trusted with a weapon of this scale."
Then finally—
something snapped.
"ENOUGH."
The roar exploded throughout the chamber violently.
Everyone froze instantly.
Kaien's voice no longer sounded normal.
It echoed unnaturally through the room with terrifying force.
And the moment he shouted—
Vijaya reacted.
The spear resting atop the tactical table suddenly vanished.
Gasps erupted throughout the chamber immediately afterward.
Then golden-black light exploded beside Kaien—
and Vijaya reappeared directly in his hand.
The room froze completely.
No one moved.
No one even breathed properly.
Because the weapon hadn't merely moved.
It teleported.
Like space itself obeyed Kaien's will instinctively.
Then something even worse happened.
The sunlight outside changed.
The skies over Novaris had been drowned beneath storms for days now. Endless rain. Endless clouds.
But suddenly—
light broke through.
Golden sunlight erupted across the command chamber windows with blinding intensity.
Everyone instinctively turned afterward.
And what they saw made the entire room fall silent.
The sun itself had become brighter above Novaris.
Not the entire world.
Not even the whole city.
Just this section of it.
Just the military district surrounding the command tower.
The golden light intensified unnaturally while Vijaya began glowing violently in Kaien's hand. Ancient symbols ignited across the spear's surface like burning fire while heat spread faintly through the chamber itself.
Several researchers stared at environmental readings in horror afterward.
"Localized solar amplification…"
"That's impossible…"
"The radiation output is increasing only above this sector—"
Kaien himself barely noticed any of it.
His breathing had become uneven now while anger and memory surged violently through his soul.
Fragments exploded behind his eyes.
Kurukshetra.
The burning sky.
Surya's blessing.
The feeling of divine sunlight surrounding him.
The pressure inside the chamber became unbearable.
Some officers physically stepped backward now.
Because Kaien no longer felt human in that moment.
The golden sunlight pouring through the windows illuminated him completely while Vijaya pulsed like a living star in his hand.
And for one terrifying second—
everyone inside the room understood something instinctively.
This boy truly might not be lying.
Then suddenly—
"Kaien!"
Elias's voice cut through the tension sharply.
Nyra stood immediately afterward too.
"Kaien, calm down!"
Lyss moved closer as well afterward despite obvious fear in the room.
"Please…"
The sound of their voices reached him through the chaos inside his mind.
Kaien's grip around Vijaya tightened briefly afterward.
Then slowly—
his breathing steadied.
The overwhelming pressure inside the chamber gradually faded afterward while the spear's violent glow weakened little by little.
Outside, the impossible sunlight slowly returned toward normal brightness too.
The room remained dead silent afterward.
Nobody dared speak immediately.
Because they had all just witnessed something impossible with their own eyes.
Kaien slowly lowered Vijaya afterward while trying to stabilize his breathing completely again.
Then quietly—
"…sorry."
No one answered at first.
The atmosphere had fundamentally changed now.
The skepticism from earlier no longer carried the same confidence.
Fear existed there now too.
Not fear of Kaien attacking them.
Fear that his story might actually be true.
Dr. Seraphine eventually broke the silence afterward.
The researcher slowly stood while staring toward the environmental data projections still floating above the tactical table.
Then toward Kaien.
Finally—
she spoke quietly.
"This alone proves he's telling the truth."
The chamber immediately focused on her afterward.
Magnus frowned sharply.
"What are you talking about?"
Seraphine turned toward the others calmly afterward.
"In the Mahabharata…"
She paused briefly.
"…Karna was the son of Surya."
Several researchers immediately understood where she was going afterward.
"The child of the Sun God," she continued quietly.
"Ancient descriptions repeatedly mention the sun responding to his presence."
She pointed toward the windows afterward where traces of golden light still lingered faintly above the military district.
"The weather over Novaris has been storm-locked for days."
"Yet moments after his emotional destabilization…"
Her eyes slowly shifted back toward Kaien.
"…the sun itself intensified directly above this command sector alone."
No one interrupted her now.
Because they all saw it happen themselves.
Seraphine continued carefully,
"Localized atmospheric solar amplification without technological interference should be impossible."
"Yet it happened."
She glanced toward Vijaya afterward.
"And the weapon reacted simultaneously."
The chamber fell silent again.
This time heavier than before.
Not argument anymore.
Realization.
Even Magnus no longer immediately dismissed it.
Because logic itself had started collapsing around the situation.
Nyra slowly looked toward Kaien afterward while the sunlight reflected faintly in her golden eyes.
Then quietly—
"…Suryaputra."
The word escaped her mouth unconsciously.
Kaien froze.
So did Lyss.
Because the moment Nyra spoke that ancient title—
another fragment of memory surfaced between all three of them simultaneously.
A battlefield beneath a burning golden sky.
A warrior standing alone against thousands.
The sun itself shining behind him.
Karna.
Not myth.
Not story.
Memory.
And for the first time since this entire confrontation began—
the room no longer looked at Kaien Veyr merely as a gifted teenager carrying an impossible weapon.
Now they looked at him like something ancient had returned to the world.