Surviving the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 2290

Rute, Are You Okay?

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After sweeping away the mists that had blinded her in the past, Shar had gained a clearer understanding of her sister.

The reason she had never been able to tell what Selûne's actions were truly intended to accomplish was that Selûne genuinely did care for her, at least a little.

But hidden beneath that sincerity were Selûne's selfish thoughts and private motives.

It was a desire to control Shar, one that perhaps even Selûne herself could not distinguish.

It was the first time Shar had realized this.

The main reason Selûne had never cared about the devastating destruction Shar caused, and could even bear it with such composure, was that the Silver Moon Maiden had never felt Shar's actions were beyond her understanding.

In Selûne's heart, Shar's behavior was merely her younger sister venting recklessly out of frustration at her own helplessness. Though hateful, it was also pitiful, so Selûne did not take it too seriously.

After all, Shar could not truly kill her, could she?

Although Selûne was the one who had constantly been hiding and fleeing, looking thoroughly aggrieved, she instead felt psychologically that she occupied the high ground.

So she allowed Shar to create every sort of disaster on Toril, and even lent Shar a hand in certain places.

Because Selûne believed that humanity on Toril had come into being due to Shar's tremendous losses... so letting their insignificant, fleeting lives serve as an outlet for Shar's anger was not really wrong.

She had imagined it beautifully, but what was sacrificed were other people's lives.

Now, whenever Shar recalled the past, she found it unbelievable... Was that person, like someone with a ring through her nose being led around by a rope, really her?

When had she become so... insane?

She had looked calm, but in truth,

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