Rui could understand why his father was so stubborn about not wanting to get rid of the esoteric matter on the continent on a psychological level. It spoke to just how ingrained the presence of esoteric matter in the continent was for his father. The very notion of exorcising them from the continent was simply entering intolerable territory as far as his father was concerned.
Of course, his father was smart and offered extremely good reasons not to remove esoteric matter from the continent. For one, it was nigh impossible, not without immense economic and environmental catastrophe that would likely rival what ancestral humanity in the true world had experienced during the Age of Tumult.
