Hill tipped his head back and thought for a moment before speaking again. "Did I ever tell you where Delifus came from?"
"Hm? You mean how he was a product of the dual-core experiment? Ah..." Shar suddenly understood. "You're saying quite a few children in their family underwent that experiment, and even those who failed back then might have descendants with dual cores. Is that it?"
"Yes." Hill nodded. "Since a dual-core child is bound to be a mage, I think dual cores probably appeared more often among their mage descendants.
"When all the families of the Defense Tower lived on their own estates, they could still hide it.
"But once they came to this Refugee Camp, they definitely couldn't keep it hidden.
"Dual-core children ultimately either go mad or kill the sibling within their own souls, losing almost all their emotions... The other families might have married into theirs before they knew, but..."
She abruptly caught on. "That's the real reason those families were willing to suppress the Dreyfus Family as Joss wanted, isn't it?"
Hill felt that was the main reason.
Those who married their daughters into the family were one thing. Given the habits of those mage families, children with magical talent hardly needed their mothers to look after them.
The children who remained with those mothers were bound to be normal.
But those who married girls from the Dreyfus Family into their own households would be in trouble if they actually had a dual-core child.
Joss clearly disliked the Dreyfus Family's practices... And he could also recognize those inherently evil, cold-blooded dual-core children.
Although this Dawn Chosen only singled out certain families and beings, and merely chose to keep them out of sight and out of mind, any child worth cultivating in the families of this