Chapter 2194: Confirming Truth

The question was abrupt.

"No." Emperor Rael sighed. "Your grandmother insisted it was for the better. Perhaps she was right. Perhaps not. Only time will tell."

Rui stirred at those words.

"So grandmother Nephi knew…" Rui muttered. "She knew that I would go berserk and get myself into a lot of trouble."

He would need to speak to her later.

"Yet, not even she knew why what happened, happened." Emperor Rael gazed at Rui with an intrigued look. "She just inferred that it was necessary to allow you to make your choices rather than get rid of the freedom to choose in fear of its consequences. Not even she knows what drove you to do what you did."

"…I didn't do much," Rui quietly replied. "Just put to bed some demons of the past, that's all. In the process, I learned that I wasn't as grounded in my rationality as I liked to believe."