When walking back with Aiwass and Yulia, Isabel's heart suddenly lifted.
——Why, why do you still need to meet your parents!
Isabel's original calmness and calmness suddenly disappeared under Aiwass's sudden attack.
For a moment, Isabel will feel that she is no longer the queen of Avalon, but has become the little girl who is still in school and has just grown up.
"Aiwass, Aiwass..."
Isabel lowered her voice and asked with some anxiety and curiosity: "Your mother...isn't she...?"
Few people would know better than Isabel the tragedy that befell Aiwas' parents.
Because when she and Aiwass first met, they played the role of Aiwass's parents in the promotion ceremony.
From her plot briefing and mission requirements at the time, she had already guessed the fate of the original Anne Alexander - she was sneak-attacked and assassinated by the Hook Demon.
The necessary task Isabel received at that time was to protect the survival of little Aiwass, and there was no "survive" in it. And she also had a strange task, which was to go to Hanging Square.
At that time, she was still a young newcomer, and she was not as familiar with the promotion ceremony as she is now. If Isabel is now, she only needs to take a look at those tasks to roughly realize what kind of plot she may face. She should
What kind of problem-solving ideas to choose, and the fate of the role you play in the original history.
This actually means that in the original timeline, it was Aiwass's parents who went to Hanging Square and placed little Aiwass there - there were too many people there, and they would share the vaguely positioned weak curse with each other, making
The Hook Demon cannot be located through curses. If it makes a big fuss, it will attract the arrival of the supervisors immediately, and there are enough people, so there is no need to worry about little Aiwass starving to death in a corner. Then, they will lure them themselves
He opened the Hook Demon and saved Aiwass with his own life.
Another possibility is that they placed little Aiwass in the church where they were at the beginning, and then went to the Hanging Square to lure away the enemies... but the result was the same. In that promotion ceremony, "death" itself
It is one of the ways to complete the task.
It was precisely because Aiwass's parents died in that assassination that he entered the orphanage funded by the Moriarty family, met Yulia, and were later raised by James Moriarty together.
So now... where did his mother come from?
Could it be that Aiwass found his mother who had become an apostle from the dream world and took her away?
Isabel was nervous, and Yulia was equally nervous. After all, she always thought that as Aiwass's younger sister, she was already Aiwass's closest relative... But now why is there a closer relative?
And when the two wary girls followed Aiwass into the reception room of the Palace of Silver and Tin, they unexpectedly found that there were quite a lot of people here.
In addition to Sherlock, who was the original purpose of Aiwass's trip, Aiwass and Yulia's brother Edward also came back. There were two men and one woman at the table that Yulia had never seen before...
An old man with silver hair and blue eyes, a majestic appearance, a beautiful lady in her thirties who is obviously well-educated, and a handsome man with deep facial features.
Although they were not of the same age, Isabel could recognize it at a glance - the woman dressed as an aristocrat was the mother of Aiwass whom she had played in her dream!
Her mind suddenly became extremely confusing: Why is Aiwass's mother still alive? Why is she at Iris? Who is the man next to her? Why hasn't she come to Aiwass for so long?
The other party obviously heard the footsteps and raised his head to look at Isabel.
Isabel noticed that there was surprise, joy and satisfaction in her eyes, as well as a strange trace of panic and timidity. The two looked at each other for a moment, but neither one spoke immediately and remained strangely silent.
"Hello……"
After about two seconds of silence, Isabel greeted softly.
A strange sentence popped up in her mind for no reason:
——Are you also Aiwass’ mother?
Isabel was startled and shook her head quickly before swallowing the words that she almost blurted out.
Aiwass introduced her: "She is Anne de Vendôme, the third daughter of the Duke of Vendôme.
"This is Isabelle. Isabelle du Lac, my love."
...The third daughter of the Duke of Vendôme? Isn’t she “my mother”?
Isabel was stunned for a moment.
Although Yulia didn't know many of these things, she had already sensed something from the looks in their eyes. So she was very smart and didn't say a word, but stood obediently behind Aiwass.
At this moment, Aiwass suddenly smiled evilly and added: "You can also call her Lulu."
No, no, no, no, this won’t work, it won’t work, it won’t work, it won’t work…
Isabel suddenly became visibly panicked.
——Don’t say in front of your mother that I was your mother! Don’t do that kind of thing!
This is the second most embarrassing thing for Isabel.
The first embarrassing thing is probably to reveal that he called Aiwass dad in front of his father...
She was already shaking her head crazily in her heart, but she didn't show it, she just showed a reserved smile in embarrassment.
On the other hand, the old man, who was originally drinking tea and reading a book, raised his head with great interest: "Is it from "Lulu's Magic Flute"? That's very good."
Aiwas smiled and introduced Isabel in a low voice: "The goblin named Lulu who wrote "Lulu's Magic Flute" was the goblin friend of an ancestor of the Vendôme family. The first person in human society
It was a Vendôme who performed this drama in public."
This is also the reason why the Vendome family controls the profession of "piper".
But when Isabel heard this, she roughly understood part of the matter.
——Aiwass’s mother is a noble from the Vendôme family?
Grand Duke Vendôme of Iris?
Even Isabel, who was not very politically literate, knew the military-powerful Duke's transcendent status in Iris.
...But if this is the case, why did she change her name to Anne Alexander and marry Aiwass's father in Avalon? He is a genuine commoner, just a priest who has just taken office, even on the Glass Island.
I have no money to buy real estate, so I can only live in the countryside.
The love story between a duke’s daughter and a poor boy?
Could it be that she was able to survive because of the Duke Vendôme's action?
But in that case...
Isabel looked at Aiwass hesitantly.
She always noticed carefully that Aiwass never called "Anne" mother in front of her. Therefore, Isabel didn't know how to call her mother.
She was worried that Aiwass did not approve of this mother. If she changed her story in advance, it would be tantamount to kidnapping Aiwass's position.
"That's it..."
Anne seemed to be mentally prepared for the journey.
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In front of her son, who was "related only by blood", and his fiancée who was to get married tomorrow, she finally told her story and shared her life.
Used to give them a reminder - or a warning.
"When I was in college... I went to Avalon to study abroad. Study art."
Anne said softly: "I didn't stay in Iris because I was burdened with political tasks at the time..."
——This is actually a matter of course.
No one here had any reaction to this.
After all, Iris is a country of beauty and love. Art in Irises is a national skill that has been vigorously developed for hundreds of years. Its status is far higher than the alchemy of Star Antimony. As the child of the Duke of Vendôme, Anne went to Avalon to study...
…The gold content in this is roughly equivalent to a literary family coming to Europe to study Chinese language and literature, or an American coming to China to learn business English.
I feel that apart from having an easier time taking exams, this study basically leaves me feeling lonely.
"It was the time when Iris and Avalon were having a cold war," the old Duke continued, "His Majesty Sophia came to discuss something with me.
"She has a child she likes very much who is interested in art. She hopes to find a truly reliable artistic family to cultivate a relationship and establish a marriage contract. This can also be regarded as the marriage between Avalon and Iris... and with the Avalon royal family.
Marriage can also relieve this increasingly tense international situation and allow the two countries to return to a calmer stance, so I agreed.
"The people of Avalon don't want war, and neither do the people of Iris. I taught Anne the Avalon language and gave her psychological counseling. I told her how to get along with those stone men with knight heads in the palace... But
Not long after she left for Avalon, she told me something.
"——That is, the prince who was originally engaged to her has secretly married his tutor. And almost everyone in Avalon knew about it. I was furious at the time, thinking that this was
The people of Avalon humiliated me. So they asked Anne to come back and prepare for war.
"At that time, I asked Hawkeye to send an assassin to poison one of the royal heirs of Avalon as revenge.
"But Anne became rebellious...she didn't want to come back.
"After that, the famous battle happened - the Ten-Day War. In that war..."
When the old Duke said this, he sighed: "The army that was repulsed by Ms. Meg was led by me. We defeated Avalon's navy at an extremely fast speed. It was Iris' most elite army, but it was
They were repulsed by Ms. Meg alone. Everyone lost their fighting ability, but no one was killed."
Hearing this, Isabel opened her eyes slightly.
She has realized... who Anne's husband should be according to another possibility of history.
I also realized another thing...
——Because the old Duke still hasn’t said a word.
That's what happened after the Ten-Day War ended——
"When the Iris councilors clearly realized that they could not defeat Avalon with Meg... they launched another plan under the secret promotion of the Moon Children who were good at curses.
"The original purpose of this plan was actually to cut down Hawkeye's high-end assassins and use their power to force them to continuously enter Avalon to die. However, it was unexpectedly discovered that the Avalonians are particularly bad at defending against curses... So the plan changed.
It was changed to the royal family of Avalon. Later, the Star Antimony people also realized this and added fuel to the fire.
“The name of this plan is called ‘Eclipse Crown Plan’.
"——This is what the Avalonians call the 'Royal Curse'."