Chapter 1074 Are you also Aiwass’s mother?
As Isabel walked back with Aiwas and Yulia, her heart couldn't help but rise.
——Why, why do I have to meet the parents?
Isabel's original calmness and composure disappeared instantly after Aiwass's sudden attack.
For a moment, Isabelle felt that she was no longer the Queen of Avalon, but had become the little girl who was still in school and had just come of age.
"Evans, Aiwass..."
Isabel lowered her voice and asked anxiously and curiously, "Your mother... isn't she...?"
Few people knew better than Isabel the tragedy that had befallen Aiwass's parents.
Because when she first met Aiwass, she played the roles of Aiwass's parents at the promotion ceremony.
From her own plot briefing and mission requirements at the time, she had already guessed the fate of the original Anne Alexander - she was ambushed and assassinated by the Hook Demon.
Isabel's mission was to protect little Aiwass, and there was no "staying alive" requirement. She also had a strange mission, which was to go to the Gallows Square.
Back then, she was still a naive newcomer, not as familiar with the promotion ceremony as she is now. If it were Isabel now, she only needed to glance at the tasks to roughly understand what kind of plot she might face, what solution she should choose, and the fate of the character she played in the original history.
This essentially means that in the original timeline, it was Aiwass's parents who went to the Gallows Square and placed little Aiwass there—the sheer number of people there would have shared the weak, blurring curse, preventing the Hook Demon from using it to locate him. A commotion would have immediately attracted the Overseers, and with enough people, there was no need to worry about Aiwass starving to death in a corner. Then, they went to distract the Hook Demon themselves, sacrificing their own lives to save Aiwass.
Another possibility is that they placed little Aiwass in the church where they were originally, and then went to the Hanging Square to distract the enemy...but the result was the same. In that promotion ceremony, "death" itself was one of the ways to complete the task.
It was precisely because both of Aiwass's parents died in the assassination that he entered the orphanage funded by the Moriarty family, met Yulia, and was then raised by James Moriarty.
So now... where did his mother come from?
Could it be that Aiwass found his mother who had become an apostle in the dream world and took her away?
Isabel was nervous, and so was Yulia. After all, she had always believed that as Aiwass's sister, she was Aiwass's closest relative... and now, how could an even closer relative appear?
When the two fearful girls followed Aiwass into the reception room of the Temple of Silver and Tin, they unexpectedly found that there were quite a lot of people here.
Besides Sherlock, who was the original purpose of Aiwass's trip, Aiwass and Yulia's brother Edward also returned. Also at the table were two men and a woman whom Yulia had never seen before... an elderly man with silver hair and blue eyes and a dignified appearance, a beautiful lady in her thirties who was obviously well-educated, and a handsome man with deep features.
Although the ages didn't match, Isabel recognized her at a glance - the woman dressed as an aristocrat was the mother of Aiwass, whom she had played in her dream!
Her mind was suddenly in a state of confusion: How could Aiwass's mother still be alive? Why was she at Iris? Who was the man beside her? Why hadn't she come to see Aiwass for so long?
The other party obviously heard the footsteps and looked up at Isabel.
Isabel noticed that her eyes contained surprise, joy, and satisfaction, as well as a strange hint of panic and timidity. The two looked at each other for a moment, but neither of them spoke immediately, maintaining a strange silence.
"Hello……"
After about two seconds of silence, Isabel greeted softly.
A strange sentence popped up in her mind inexplicably:
——Are you also Aiwass’s mother?
Isabel was startled and shook her head quickly, swallowing back the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
And Aiwass introduced her: "She is Anne de Vendôme, the third daughter of the Duke of Vendôme.
"This is Isabel. Isabel du Lac, my love."
...The Duke of Vendôme's third daughter? Isn't that "my mother"?
Isabel was stunned for a moment.
Although Yulia didn't know much about the situation, she had sensed something from the looks of the others. Therefore, she wisely remained silent and stood obediently behind Aiwass.
At this moment, Aiwass suddenly smiled evilly and added, "You can also call her Lulu."
No no no no no this is not possible no no no no…
Isabel suddenly became visibly panicked.
- Don't tell your mother that I used to be your mother! Don't do that!
This was the second most embarrassing thing for Isabel.
The most embarrassing thing was probably revealing to my own father that I had called Aiwass "Dad"...
She was already shaking her head wildly in her heart, but she didn't show it. She just gave an awkward and reserved smile.
The old man, who was originally drinking tea and reading, looked up with interest. "From 'Lulu's Magic Flute'? That's great."
Aiwass smiled and whispered to Isabelle, "The fairy named Lulu who wrote 'Lulu's Magic Flute' was a fairy friend of an ancestor of the Vendôme family. The first person to perform this play in public in human society was a Vendôme."
This is also the reason why the Vendôme family controls the profession of "piper".
However, after hearing this, Isabel had roughly understood part of the matter.
——Is Aiwass’ mother a noble from the Vendôme family?
The Grand Duke of Vendôme in Iris?
Even Isabel, who was not very politically savvy, knew the extraordinary status of the Duke of Military Power in Iris.
...But if that were the case, why would she change her name to Anne Alexander and marry Aiwass's father in Avalon? He was a commoner, a newly appointed pastor who couldn't even afford to buy property on Glass Island and could only live in the countryside.
The love story of the Duke's daughter and the poor boy?
Is it possible that she survived because of the intervention of the Duke of Vendôme?
But in that case...
Isabel looked at Aiwass hesitantly.
She had always carefully noticed that Aiwass had never called the other party "mother" in front of "Annie", so Isabel didn't know how to address her.
She was worried that Aiwass didn't approve of this mother. If she changed her mind in advance, it would be like hijacking Aiwass's position.
"It's like this..."
Anne seemed to have prepared herself mentally for the journey.
In front of her son, who was "only related by blood", and his fiancée who was going to get married tomorrow, she finally told her story and shared her life.
To give them a reminder—or a warning.
"I once went abroad to study in Avalon... in college. Studied art."
Anne whispered, "I didn't stay at Iris because I was burdened with a political mission..."
——This is actually a matter of course.
No one here reacted to this.
After all, Iris is a land of beauty and love. Art has been a centuries-old national art in Iris, holding a far higher status than alchemy in the land of antimony. Anne, the daughter of the Duke of Vendôme, went to study in Avalon... This was as significant as a member of a literary family studying Chinese language and literature in Europe or America, or an American studying business English in China.
I feel that apart from the fact that the exams are easier to pass, this study is basically a lonely one.
"That was when Iris and Avalon were in a cold war," the old duke continued, "and Her Majesty Sophia came to discuss something with me.
"She has a beloved child who's interested in art, and she hopes to find a truly reliable artist from a prominent family to cultivate their relationship and arrange a marriage. This could be considered a marriage between Avalon and Iris... and a marriage with the Avalonian royal family could also ease the increasingly tense international situation and restore a more calm stance between the two countries, so I agreed.
"The people of Avalon don't want war, and neither do the Iris people. I taught Anne the Avalonian language and provided her with psychological counseling. I told her how to get along with those stone figures with knight heads in the palace... But shortly after she arrived in Avalon, she told me something.
"—That is, the prince she was originally betrothed to had secretly married his own governess. And this fact was known to almost everyone in Avalon. I was furious, thinking it was an insult from the people of Avalon. So I sent Anne back and prepared for war.
"At that time, I had Hawkeye send an assassin to poison one of the royal heirs of Avalon as revenge.
"But Anne rebelled...she didn't want to come back.
"After that, the famous battle took place—the Ten Days' War. During that war..."
The old duke sighed at this point and said, "The army repelled by Madam Meg was led by me. We defeated Avalon's navy at an extremely fast speed. It was Iris's most elite army, yet Madam Meg repelled it alone. Every one of them lost their combat effectiveness, but no one was killed."
Hearing this, Isabel widened her eyes slightly.
She had realized... who Anne's husband would have been if history had played out differently.
At the same time, I also realized another thing...
——Because the old prince has not said a word yet.
That's what happened after the Ten Day War ended.
"When the Iris Councillors realized they couldn't defeat Avalon, who possessed Meg...then, under the covert instigation of the Moon Children, who were skilled in curses, they launched another plan.
"The original purpose of this plan was to eliminate Hawkeye's high-end assassins and use their power to force them into Avalon to die. However, they unexpectedly discovered that the people of Avalon were particularly weak at defending against the curse... So the plan shifted to target the Avalonian royal family. Later, the Star Antimony people also realized this and added fuel to the fire.
"The name of this plan is 'Eclipse Crown Plan'.
"—what the people of Avalon call the 'Royal Curse'."
Chapter 2, updated!
(End of this chapter)
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