This very much looks like those kind of plots where the main protagonist assumes to be the do-gooder only to finally come to know that all that which he thought to be good deeds has played into the hands of the malintended antagonists' ulterior motives. Like a puppet on a string. Again I remember Jemima's words: "don't even trust my words", so in a way all those main characters like Jemima, Asimov, Gladstone knew about K-Rox latent power and tried to direct him into certain ways for their own benefit.