It slipped their minds, but the anger they had felt from Cecilia from Arkai's initial rampage told them it never slipped her mind. No. Perhaps she hadn't finished processing her feelings back then.
How could they forget?
Ruby had regressed to her child self, abandoning the throne of the Saintess and disappearing into the shadows to prepare for her own rise and return as the real Saintess.
She had vanished, only to return years later bonded with Nikolas Delanivis, the Arctic Werewolf Young Lord, a move that had prompted Arzhen to kill the fake Saintess, freeing himself from their bond and setting into motion everything that had followed.
But that was her second life. That was the timeline she had created by going back.
So what had happened in the original timeline? The world where Ruby hadn't yet regressed? The world that should have been?
In that world, Ruby had never left the Saintess Coronation. She stayed and was crowned. And so Cecilia had never been forced to replace her.
