Shepherd Tantra

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 immediately after Aiwass's sudden attack.

For a moment, Isabel felt that she was no longer the Queen of Avalon, but had become the little girl who was still in school and had just become an adult.

"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 Edwards' 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.

The necessary task Isabel received at that time was to protect the survival of little Aiwass, and there was no "staying alive" in it. She also had a strange task, which was to go to the Gallows Square.

At that time, 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 take a look at those tasks to roughly understand what kind of plot she might face, what kind of solution she should choose, and the fate of the character she played in the original history.

This actually means that in the original timeline, it was Aiwas's parents who went to the Hanging Square and put little Aiwas there - there were too many people there, and they would share the weak curse of blurring the location, making it impossible for the Iron Hook Demon to locate it through the curse. If the situation got out of hand, it would attract the arrival of the Supervisor immediately, and there were enough people, so there was no need to worry about little Aiwas starving to death in a corner. Then, they led the Iron Hook Demon away by themselves and saved Aiwas with their own lives.

Another possibility is that they put little Aiwass in the church where they were at the beginning, and then went to the Hanging Square to lure away the enemy...but the result is the same. In that promotion ceremony, "death" itself is 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 subsequently 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 there was a closer relative?

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.

In addition to Sherlock, who was the original purpose of Aiwas's trip, Aiwas 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 and a dignified appearance, a beautiful lady in her thirties who was obviously well-educated, and a handsome man with deep facial features.

Although the ages did not 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 suddenly became extremely confused: How could Aiwass's mother still be alive? Why was she in Iris? Who was the man next to her? Why didn't she come to see Aiwass for such a long time?
The other party obviously heard the footsteps and looked up at Isabel.

Isabel noticed that her eyes were filled with surprise, joy, and satisfaction, as well as a strange sense of panic and timidity. The two looked at each other for a moment, but no one spoke immediately, and they remained strangely silent.

"Hello……"

After about two seconds of silence, Isabel greeted softly.

A strange sentence popped up in her mind inexplicably:
——Are you Aiwass’s mother too?
Isabel was startled and shook her head quickly, swallowing back the words that were about to come out of her mouth.

And Aiwas introduced her: "She is Anne de Vendome, the third daughter of the Duke of Vendome.

"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 many of the things, she had sensed something from the looks of the others. So she was very smart and didn't say a word, but stood obediently behind Aiwas.

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 was your mother! Don't do that!

This was the second most embarrassing thing for Isabel.

The first embarrassing thing was probably revealing in front of my own father that I had called Edwards dad...

She was already shaking her head wildly in her heart, but she didn't show it. She just gave a reserved smile with some embarrassment.

The old man, who was drinking tea and reading a book, 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" is the fairy friend of an ancestor of the Vendôme family. The first person to perform this drama in public in human society was a Vendôme." This is also the reason why the Vendôme family mastered the profession of "pipe player".

But 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 military duke in Iris.

...But if that was the case, why did she change her name to Anne Alexander and marry Aiwass's father in Avalon? He was a real commoner, just a priest who had just taken office. He didn't even have the money to buy a house on Glass Island and could only live in the countryside.

The love story of the Duke's daughter and the poor boy?
Was it because of the Duke of Vendôme's intervention that she was able to survive?

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 the other party.

She was worried that Aiwass did not recognize this mother. If she changed her mind in advance, it would be like kidnapping Aiwass's position.

"Is such that……"

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.

Used 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 had a political mission at the time..."

——This is actually a matter of course.

No one here reacted to this.

After all, Iris is the land of beauty and love. Art has been vigorously developed in Iris for hundreds of years, and its status is far higher than the alchemy of Xingti. Anne, as the child of the Duke of Vendôme, went to Avalon to study... The value of this is roughly equivalent to a literary family going to Europe and the United States to study Chinese language and literature, or an American going to China to learn business English.

I feel that apart from the fact that the exams are easier to pass, this study is basically just a lonely one.

“That was when Iris and Avalon were in a cold war,” the old duke continued, “Her Majesty Sophia came to discuss something with me.

"She has a child she loves very much and is interested in art. She hopes to find a truly reliable artist to cultivate feelings for and establish an engagement. This can also be regarded as a marriage between Avalon and Iris... and a marriage with the royal family of Avalon can also resolve this increasingly tense international situation and allow the two countries to return to a more calm stance, so I agreed.

"The people of Avalon don't want war, and neither do the people of Iris. I taught Anne the Avalonian 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 went to Avalon, she told me one thing.

"——That is, the prince who had been engaged to her had secretly married his tutor. And almost everyone in Avalon knew about this. I was furious at the time, thinking that this was an insult to me by the people of Avalon. So I asked Anne to come back and prepare for war.

"At that time, I had Hawkeye send an assassin to poison an heir to the royal family 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. In that war..."

The old duke sighed when he said this: "The army that was repelled by Madam Meg was led by me. We defeated the navy of Avalon at a very fast speed. That was the most elite army of Iris, but it was repelled by Madam Meg alone. Everyone 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 gone another way.

At the same time, I also realized another thing...

——Because the old prince has not said a word yet.

That is what happened after the Ten Day War ended.

"When the Iris councillors clearly realized that they could not defeat Avalon with Meg...then, under the covert promotion of the Moon Children who were good at cursing, they launched another plan.

"The original purpose of this plan was to reduce Hawkeye's high-end assassins and use their power to force them to enter Avalon and die. However, it was unexpectedly discovered that the people of Avalon were particularly bad at defending against curses... So the plan changed and 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 'Eclipse Crown Plan'.

"—what the people of Avalon call the 'royal curse'."

(End of this chapter)