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That’s the thing, whether people could see the depths of Guren as a person! It is why the prequel novels are extra important for giving Guren some very welcome backstory, and of course a viewpoint into the central events like the apocalypse and the rise of Guren, and Kureto’s factions which heavily shape the wider story.

Where Yu, even people viewing the story could have thought that Guren had simply forgotten the prophecy, and Yu’s training in general, it’s now more likely it was just Guren allowing Yu to be a child and enjoy a (non experimental) minimal risk environment, then with the insistence he go to school and make friends to help with his happiness issues.

Here in the prequel novels we have the first hand account of Guren shaping his own path, with characters like Kureto for example, to show why Guren’s nice choices matter.