Chapter 139 "——All Giles are idiots!!!"
"What about the door outside?" She asked a little question, and the person in charge quickly replied, "The Giles family built it later."
The original dog hole... was really just a dog hole, attached to the outer wall of the family, and no one knew where it led to. But there was an advantage, people passing by would not suspect that there was something important inside, and at most they would sigh that the Giles family was still using such an ancient way of raising dogs.
Later, a family leader couldn't help it and built layers of protective walls here, finally making this place look like a place where treasures are hidden.
Yet most people still don't know it exists.
"Why have I never heard of it?" Langman's father turned pale. "...My status is not high enough to know this news, right?"
"Yes, even if your son becomes the next head of the family, only he can get the news, not you." The person in charge had a blank expression on his face.
"The family just wants to keep it secret."
"And how did Edith know that?"
Langman's father blurted out.
The person in charge and Langman subconsciously looked in each other's direction.
Edith stood there quietly, seemingly detached from the others, and simply ignored the question. The speaker paused for two seconds, and regretfully discovered that Edith really had no intention of speaking.
I brought these irrelevant people with me on purpose, but I didn't expect that I still couldn't trick them out.
"This is Miss Griffin's privacy." The person in charge had a faint smile on his face, looking gentle and polite. "We have no right to ask."
What a nice thing to say.
Edith walked to the dog hole under the dense gaze of the crowd, raised her eyes and glanced at the other party: "Should I tell you directly?"
"Wait, let me put my hand on the door handle."
The person in charge stepped forward, grasped the handle, and explained with a smile: "After all, it belongs to the Giles family. Only people with Giles family blood can open it. Sorry."
He emphasized the words "Giles family" as if to remind Edith not to cross the line.
Unexpectedly, Edith responded to him with a strange smile: "Of course, it's your freedom."
The person in charge vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
"Why don't I do it?" Someone behind her suddenly said enthusiastically. Edith turned around and found a man she didn't recognize at all: "Who is this?"
"My second grandfather's youngest son." Langman whispered, "My cousin."
Without knowing what exactly is in the secret room, everyone wants to get a piece of the pie.
"I can do it, too." "Let me do it." "I don't know what dangers are in there, so it's better for me to do it."
With the beginning, other sounds followed one after another. The sound of heavy breathing spread in the small space, and at a glance, everyone's eyes were shining green.
Even Langman’s father couldn’t help but give him a push: “My son is the heir, so let him come.”
"Me too!" Vincent followed in without knowing when, "I am the next head of the family, and I should inherit Louisa's estate!"
"Enough!" The person in charge shouted, stopping everyone's argument, "I am the person in charge, and no one's bloodline is purer than mine."
"I'll do it!"
After saying that, he put his hand on the door handle without hesitation.
Edith ignored the unwilling gaze behind her and took a deep breath after the person in charge nodded.
"——All Giles are idiots!!!"
The voice is loud, the words are clear, the emotions are full, and the intonation is rhythmic.
It was as if an invisible brush was pushed across the heads of all the Giles family members present at the same time, shaving their heads and letting the sound penetrate into everyone's brains from all directions. The shout echoed under the heavy stone walls and repeatedly entered everyone's ears: "They are all idiots, idiots, idiots, idiots--"
Langman's eyes turned from serious to clear in an instant.
He shook his head in a trance, trying to get rid of the sound, but the word "idiot" only seeped in deeper. The person in charge who was closer to Edith was the most affected. His hand was already against the wall, and in addition to the volume attack, the violent vibration from his hand also made him miserable.
Louisa...
Having read Louisa's biography in its entirety, he was not surprised by this command, but hearing it spoken by someone who was not his family member made him want to close his eyes and never open them again.
"It's okay, it's just a short while, just open the door..." He comforted himself and turned the handle hard.
"Why?"
He couldn't open it.
"You fool! How dare you--"
Langman's uncle was so angry about what Edith had just said that his face turned red. He waved his hand and hit her in the face, "I will teach you a lesson on behalf of your parents--"
"Shut up!"
The person in charge shouted: "This is a command!"
"It's the password, why can't it be opened?" Uncle Langman explained, "She is just deliberately making fun of us!"
"It's open." The person in charge looked unhappy. "The lock is open, but I can't open it."
In other words, the password was correct, but his bloodline was not pure enough.
Langman's father thought quickly this time and reacted quickly. He stepped forward and said, "Let me try!"
He tried his best but couldn't budge the door at all.
Afterwards, everyone eager to try stepped forward one by one, praying that they were the lucky one with pure blood, but they all failed in the end. No matter how they screamed and scratched, the door remained motionless.
"How could it be..." Langman's uncle went up trembling with excitement, and came down with a pale face, "It's impossible for there to be a bloodline purer than ours."
"Is your information wrong?"
The person in charge frowned, and Lang Man rarely saw the word tired on him: "That's right."
"The message the previous head of the family left me was this: 'The password she personally promised and her closest bloodline, the two combined, can open the secret room.'"
"The closest bloodline...is not necessarily the purest," Langman questioned.
"What other explanation is there?" Langman's father was furious. "According to family history, Louisa never showed favoritism to any of her children! But she personally designated the next head of the family. Doesn't this count as the closest bloodline?"
This news must be kept secret. Once it gets out, those guys scattered all over the kingdom who claim to be "descendants of Louisa" will definitely come to the capital to try. What if... he meant what if, what if someone in there really succeeds in opening the door of the secret room - doesn't that mean they are the orthodox ones?
Then what is the Giles family now!
Everyone was so absorbed in the argument that only Langman noticed Edith slowly moving towards the secret room door.
She gently reached out her hand, grabbed the door handle of the secret room, and turned it easily in front of him.
“—Crunch.”
The surroundings suddenly became quiet.
The quarrel was swallowed back into their stomachs, and many people's faces turned red from the words, but they all turned their heads at the same time and looked in the direction where the voice came from.
Edith silently switched the magic from Louisa back to her original self.
"...Langman, did you open it?" The person in charge looked ten years older. He stumbled towards the dark stone door, and his usually calm voice now had a hint of pleading, "Sure enough, you are the next head of the family, I knew it—"
"It wasn't me, it was Edith."
Langman closed his eyes and announced in front of everyone.
Edith shrugged and took her hand off the doorknob. "Is it hard to tell?"
"...How could it be you?" The person in charge almost choked out his breath, and it took him a long time to calm down. "You can't be the blood of the Giles family."
Flaxen hair was the hallmark of their family, and it was absolutely impossible for Edith to have blonde hair.
"I didn't say I was." Edith said lightly, looking at the people who were in disbelief, and closed the stone door with a snap.
"Wait!" Langman's father raised his hand to stop him, "We don't even know what's inside!"
It's so hard to open it, why should I close it?
"Then we can talk properly." Edith raised an eyebrow, "Now I am the only one who can open this door... How do I say it?"
......
An hour later, the situation was at a stalemate.
Edith insisted on taking the things in the secret room, but the Giles family wanted to announce to the public that the things were in the hands of the person in charge, and that Edith's existence must not be spread. "Make up any excuse, such as you took a fancy to my sword and borrowed it to chop the door." Edith said casually, "Anyway, justify why you captured me."
"I can't give you the things." The person in charge was also very firm. "You can consider other things. Whether you want money, fame, status, or even Louisa's ancient spell... the Giles family can give it to you."
"The things in Louisa's secret room belong to the Giles family."
"It seems we can't reach an agreement." Edith didn't care and stood up happily. "Then I will announce to the public that I opened the secret room. The legitimacy of the Giles family may be compromised. Is this okay?"
Langman did not participate in the discussion. He just felt his scalp tingling when he saw Edith and the person in charge going back and forth.
Here it comes, the reputation that the Giles family values most, or rather, the reputation related to Louisa.
The person in charge narrowed his eyes.
The two of them just confronted each other like this. At the beginning of the discussion, other people would interrupt and give some advice, or accuse Edith of coveting other people's things, but the more people spoke, the more resolute Edith's tone became, and the person in charge had no choice but to stop them.
An hour passed and he felt a little tired.
"Okay." He suddenly relaxed, "But we need to see what's inside in advance, otherwise it will be inconvenient to edit it for others."
Langman's heart suddenly started pounding - his uncle wanted to rob me by force!
He didn't know when his former guards disappeared from this space, and were replaced by unfamiliar men. Now that he thought about it, he probably went to find someone to block the door.
He tried to wink at Edith, but she accepted it calmly. "Finally." She smiled, "Then it's a pleasure to work with you."
The person in charge also smiled and said, "It's a pleasure to work with you."
He clapped his hands to disperse the onlookers who were trying to speak, then bent down like a gentleman and made a gesture of invitation.
The two walked to the door together. Edith once again mobilized the magic power in her body, but this time she was more careful, gently pulling Louisa's part out from her fingertips and wrapping it around the door.
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and read again: "Anyone with the last name Giles is an idiot."
The door opened.
"......It turns out that the command does not need to be shouted out." Langman was amazed.
It seemed that Edith just wanted to shout.
But at this moment, the Giles family had no time to listen to his complaints. The moment Edith stopped, everyone rushed towards the black hole impatiently, pushing and shoving their way in.
"Let Miss Griffin go first." The person in charge said indifferently, "I'm sorry, the people in the tribe are not calm enough."
Edith stood there, her expression normal, without a hint of accusation: "It's okay."
Before the person in charge could doubt it, a panicked cry came from the crowd. The nobles who used to be so glamorous fell into a ball, blocking the hole tightly. A second later, a purple light came out from the gap between the fingertips of the people, bypassed the person in charge who was blocking the way, and ran straight towards Edith.
Edith raised her finger slightly, and the light flashed into her fingertips which still retained Louisa's magic.
Before the person in charge could say no, Edith put her hand away and walked to the side as if no one was around. "I got it. Should I leave now?"
"etc!"
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