Initially, Ruby didn't want to use the Emperor's assassination as a prophecy. The imperial family was dangerous, and she truly didn't want to be their enemy.
Damon Iondora was a violent, ruthless tyrant, she knew that very well in her previous life. After sending the assassin to kill his father, he ascended the throne. He brought House Leclerc to the ground and imprisoned Lady Vera, sending his half-siblings away to the borders.
He truly seemed like a man who had been planning this outcome long before the blade fell, who had constructed his own empire precisely to survive the transition from crown prince to emperor, from hidden power to manifest.
Of course, no one could actually prove that he was the one who killed his father. That, or no one dared. His reputation had been notoriously proven in many other ways.
