398.Chapter 390 – I’ll Carry a Sky

Chapter 390 – I’ll Carry a Sky
Ligeia went out and saw Yanis standing at the door waiting for her.

Yanis beckoned Ligeia to come over and then led Ligeia into the study.

Ligeia went in, found a seat on her butt, and asked with a big grin, “What do you want me to do?”

“What are you doing staring at them in your room?”

Janice didn’t answer, but instead opened her mouth to ask a rhetorical question.

Hearing this Ligeia was directly happy, “Hey, this matter ah …… I’m not watching them.”

“Watch what?”

“If accidentally pregnant how bad.”

Ligeia said unapologetically, “Her Majesty hasn’t been officially crowned yet. According to the formal etiquette process, it will have to come in the summer of next year, and her belly will be big by then. This is definitely undignified.”

“This worry of yours is reasonable …… but what are you afraid of, isn’t Lily watching from inside?”

Janice sighed helplessly, “Worry about it when you see Lily kicked out.”

“Huh?”

Ligeia asked rhetorically, “Isn’t Lily that kid’s personal maid? I remember that she was the one who enlightened Aiwas …… That kid was thirteen or fourteen at that time, right?”

At this Yanis froze for a moment, “There’s still this? Impossible.”

“She said it herself. It seems to be some sort of tradition, but I’m a village girl and I don’t know anything about that.”

Ligeia shrugged, “Although I’ve known for a long time that each of these big families in Avalon are pretty messed up, I didn’t realize that personal maids had this kind of tradition ……”

“…… Tradition?”

Janice repeated.

Her expression instantly became odd.

Ligeia noticed her expression and was a bit puzzled, “What’s wrong?”

Yanis asked rhetorically, “Did she tell you that the personal maids enlightened the noble young masters in order to prevent them from falling in love outside and giving birth to illegitimate children?”

“…… did say that, is there a problem?”

Ligeia responded.

Janice poofed out a laugh and slapped Ligeia on the shoulder.

“I told her that,” Janice arched an eyebrow, “but I made it up.”

“Huh?”

Ligeia froze.

“Use your head,” Janice couldn’t help but speak up, “If Avalon really has this tradition, where did Lily get herself from? Do you think the Droste family has a shortage of maids?”

“…… Not necessarily.”

Ligeia retorted with her hands clasped over her chest and her fingers pointing at her arms, “Maybe he’s good for it?”

“That can’t be good for everyone, right? If there were such a rule, wouldn’t it be more appropriate for the eldest son who inherits the family business and the name of a knight to be paired with a maid? Wouldn’t it be more dishonorable for them to give birth to a bastard than for a child to be born to a child who never had the right to inherit?

“Indeed it is the tradition of the Star Antimony people, where the nobles are not like the Avalonians, where one offspring is limited to one servant, and certainly more than one personal maid. Nobles on their side of the world are able to have female servants as well as male servants.

“And going back to the roots, this is from the research of scholars during the Imperial period – back when they hadn’t yet figured out the principles of the Dawnguard impulse, and viewed it as a bastard’s curse. It was thought that bastards were more likely to ‘go mad’, which is why the curse was lifted by having a maid give birth to a child and then killing the child.

“Future generations of scholars also understood that there was no such thing as a ‘bastard’s curse’ anymore, but Star Antimony and Iris still inherited some of this tradition. The nobles on the Star Antimony side have a large number of maids, and the most illegitimate children are born to them, also to vent their dao impulses, because there are a lot of political marriages on the Star Antimony side, and the couples are basically united by interest, with little emotional foundation.

“The Iris Kingdom side, on the other hand, is not called ‘maids’ at all, but ‘guardian knights’. Even the noble ladies occasionally like to recruit their own ‘knights’, who are actually lovers. It occasionally happened in Avalon, but it certainly wasn’t common. How else would Lily have dared to directly introduce herself as Avalon’s personal maid when she was in school?”

Yanis laughed, reaching out to rub Ligeia’s tiny round head, “Besides, it’s the Moriarty family, so what’s there to be afraid of in terms of illegitimacy?”

“…… Right oh.”

Ligeia suddenly reacted.

There was no such thing as illegitimate children in the Moriarty family-

According to the rules of the Moriarty family, any biological child born out of wedlock could not inherit the family business and family name. It must be an adopted child that is raised to inherit the family. There is no such thing as a bastard.

“You ninety-something spinster must not understand this.”

Yanis laughed harshly, “Which do you think has a stronger desire at thirteen or fourteen or seventeen or eighteen? Is it possible that after tasting meat at thirteen, you start not eating meat at eighteen?”

“How am I ninety, I’m not even a year old yet oh.”

Ligeia subconsciously responded, but she suddenly reacted just as her words left her mouth, “How do you know that Aiwas hasn’t eaten? Could it be ……”

“I watch every night, it’s not like elves have to sleep anyway.” Janice said with a straight face.

“What are you doing peeking at other little boys sleeping?!”

“Keeping him safe,” Janice said seriously, “Ivars has been sneak attacked more than once while he sleeps, right? Oswald’s away, and if I’m not a little more vigilant, he’ll be killed one day and you won’t even know it. You don’t really think the Shadow Demon’s protection is safe, do you? He wouldn’t have survived Graham that time alone.” “…… That’s okay, isn’t it? No, Janice – what were you lying about that for then?”

Ligeia asked rhetorically with a disgruntled opening.

Yanis was also justified, “That was when Ivars first met with Isabel. I had to test him to see if he was a playboy? Didn’t you also find out about his pile of affair debts?”

“I say it’s an affair debt, but it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with him.”

“It does.”

Janice commented, “His own attitude doesn’t matter, but as long as he has so many suitors, he’s bound to cause trouble for Isabel. I was just trying to get Isabel, who was still a princess, to stay away from him, she couldn’t handle a man like that.

“Because when faced with this kind of topic, no matter whether to explain or not to explain, in Isabel’s side will certainly deduct points. It might just calm her down – it’s too outrageous for two people who haven’t even met or gotten along with each other to have a heart-to-heart or something just because they met in a promotion ceremony. If you were in my position, you’d have stopped it too.”

“Also,” Ligeia nodded slowly, “it’s true …… and I also think now that Isabel may not be able to handle that boy.”

Janice clasped her hands to her chest and added, “And yeah, Ligeia. Lily, she learned the Secret Continuation of the Night Rabbit you know? It’s a legacy of the Duchy of Buffy, where only a virgin can transform into a primitive werewolf capable of eating flesh and drinking blood normally – a restriction from the Way of Love path. The Children of the Moon have a similar taboo. That’s proof enough that she was lying at the time.”

Ligeia smacked her lips, “Tsk ……”

“What are you smacking your lips for.”

Yanis said nonchalantly, “Lily that child is not the type to lie with a good face, it must have been that little fox that signaled her to lie. Instead of me doing something, I’d rather say it was you.”

“I didn’t do anything either ……”

Ligeia let out a childish voice, innocently screaming.

She really couldn’t recall what she had said at the time.

It seemed like it was hyping up the marriage? Anyway, it was all instinctive chatting at the time, it didn’t cross her mind at all, so she really couldn’t remember.

“But since Lily lied so smoothly, she fooled you too.”

Janice narrowed her eyes slightly, “I think, more than likely, she likes Ivars too. It’s not surprising though, that little fox is likable. Not to mention getting along for so long.

“Lily does have a close relationship with him, after all, she was the personal maid who bathed Ivars as a child. When Aiwas had mobility problems before, it must have been Lily who helped him bathe as well. But perhaps it’s also because it’s too familiar that she’s able to act as if it’s nothing.”

“…… Bad.”

Ligeia hammered the back of her hand and panicked a little, “I told Isabel about this at the time!”

“What did you say?” Janice pursued.

“I just said it straight ……”

Ligeia anxiously jumped up from her chair and circled around Janice, “So is this a rumor I’m making? I have to explain this to Isabel?”

“…… No, and there’s no rush.”

Janice thought for a moment and reached out to press Ligeia, “It may not be a bad thing.”

“Are you sure?”

“Uh-huh. Don’t look at Isabel looking soft and weak, but this little queen of ours is actually very aggressive subconsciously, and actually cares very much and must get her hands on things she values. And the closer she gets to losing, the more obsessive she becomes. It is just that she failed to get used to …… if not in a hurry, she will be slow to do it, want to be 100% able to take it before they will strike.

“That’s the reason I wanted to make her fail once before. She is the kind of character that is soft on the outside and hard on the inside, once she is pushed, she will awaken.”

The elf painter analyzed this student of his, “But this situation right now is different. The fact that Ivars used Lily to push your urging over means that he doesn’t think that much yet. In other words, Isabel likes Ivars, but Ivars doesn’t like her that much yet.

“This kind of time if she continues to hesitate, wanting to wait for Aiwas himself to start liking her before confessing …… might drag things out, after all, that little fox is said to be a fan of ten thousand people is not an exaggeration. With this Lily thing crowding her out a bit, Isabel would start to get antsy – she’d have to get antsy before she dared to act.

“It’s better to really grow up and become mature than to lose something completely and have it hurt. Rather, it would be better to just continue like this for now. She might become hesitant again if she feels like she’s a sure thing.”

Yanis summarized, “Anyway, don’t tell Isabel yet.”

Ligeia sighed, “Forget it, I don’t have a brain, so I’ll listen to you first. This matter is also my fault …… Anyway, you don’t play it off ah.”

On the other side, Aiwas looked at Isabel, who was sitting on her quilt and still somewhat clumsily handling the not too troublesome political affairs, and also sighed silently.

Forget it, let’s slowly teach it that way for now. Avalon wasn’t in that much of a hurry now anyway.

Although she was still a bit young, it was better than the “Flower Queen Isabelle” who only grew up and became mature and rational after losing everything.

The spirit of enduring suffering is worth praising, and the queen who rises from suffering is worth honoring. But suffering itself is not worthy of praise.

Suffering is suffering.

Having come into this world, Ivars cannot come in vain.

Not for any justice or to save the world. And simply what was within his reach and power, and as a man whose heart was not so hardened, he could not see so much wailing and misery.

–That kind of bloody growth, don’t want it.

He could carry his own weight.

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