The carriage was stunned silence by the information they suddenly received. Not a single one of them could believe what they had just heard.
Could it be true that the Reapers were the ones who had a claim to the throne?
"That would make sense, doesn't it?" Ning asked. "I just need some confirmation, like if the original Emperor was a Reaper as well or not."
"He was," Mari said slowly. "In fact… Reapers are only born to people who have a bloodline of the royal family. My mother has… had some royal blood in her. So do I."
"So did your brother," Ning said. "And he had a claim to the throne. So if the battle was won against the republic somehow, there would be people who could claim they are of the royal family's bloodline and deserve the throne as much as anyone else. And the wannabe emperor doesn't want that."
"So what he does is he erases all the information about royals and reapers and has anyone who has their bloodline killed off," Ning said.
