[while he would like nothing more than to press Daylight to come out with whatever's so uncomfortable, because it's probably important, Cao Pi decides to tackle that later. Not in public, where it could derail good discussions.]

Then, if that's true...the World Eater has already been here. If it caused the darkness, then what reason would it have to come back? What is it actually eating, what is its purpose?

[nothing they can really answer right now, but he feels like casting rhetoricals into the audience might get them all thinking the same thing, and lead to routes to uncover the answers]