From the very beginning, it never mattered whether they had actually cheated or not. Leonel truly had no proof, but that was never really the point.
Just like Minerva had said, at a certain realm, the objective truth wasn't all that mattered…
But Leonel did feel that she was wrong about something… even on the lowest levels, objective truth was hardly ever what was most important either.
The idea that truth alone should reign supreme were the ideals of an idealistic and naive individual. Truth was only as important as the way it was packaged, and the way it was packaged was dependent on era, on culture, on the immediate climate…
If one couldn't accept this, you only really needed to look at the historical trends.
By definition, every time the majority changed their minds and accepted another path as their reality, it required convincing.