Chapter 1002 Anne De Vendôme

Chapter 1002 Anne de Vendôme

——This can be said to be an unexpected surprise.

Aiwass never expected that he would learn the true identity of his biological mother so easily...

Anne de Vendôme.

This should be Aiwas's mother's real name before she got married.

If Anne were still alive, she would probably be in her forties now.

Yassen is almost in his forties now... and Angélique is eight years older than Assem, which means she should be at least close to fifty. She should be Anne's sister, Aiwass's aunt.

The Duke of Vendôme today is an old man. Aiwass didn't know how old he was... and since Angélique was the second daughter, he should be at least seventy years old.

But the Abigail Aiwass saw now looked only about seventeen or eighteen years old!

"Your Majesty the Duke...how many children does he have?"

Aiwass couldn't help but ask: "Generally speaking, shouldn't the fertility of high-level transcendent beings be weakened?"

"Yes, but the Duke himself is only at the fourth energy level, and the weakening is not too strong. And the blessing of the path of love allows him to have many children...he can afford to raise them anyway."

Yassen nodded: "The Duke has a total of seventeen children. My wife Angélique is the second...and the Duke's eldest son has died of illness. Because of this, I can become a member of the Vendôme family. The old Duke wants Angélique to inherit the family. "

"Duchess?"

"Well, we, Iris, have quite a few duchesses. This is different from Avalon and Star Antimony."

"What about Abigail? Which number is she?"

"The youngest one. She is only sixteen years old this year and is still in middle school. That's probably why Mia dreams about her."

In other words, Abigail should be the Duke's youngest daughter... considered Aiwass's aunt?

Although she is an aunt in terms of seniority, she is still younger than Aiwass...

And Anne should be between Angélique and Abigail, and I don’t know which daughter she is. I didn't expect Duke Vendome to have so many children, which is really rare for a family of extraordinary people.

Thinking of this, Aiwass's expression was a little subtle.

From this perspective... Yassen is actually Aiwass's uncle?

Thinking of this, Aiwass recalled the contents of the letter Sherlock sent him, and suddenly understood:

[In the process of investigating this matter, I also accidentally learned a secret that you would never imagine and is closely related to you. Please forgive me for being pretentious here, because I am so eager to see the surprise and curiosity on the face of the respected Godslayer——】

Although Shylock was under house arrest at the Duke of Vendôme's residence, he must have met Yassen's wife Angélique de Vendôme or her other sisters. There is even a good chance that I have seen the portraits of the "Vendôme" in the past, which may include Anne de Vendôme.

In the promotion ceremony that Sherlock experienced with Aiwass and Isabel for the first time, he played the newsboy and had already met Anne Alexander, played by Isabel. In other words, he actually knew Anne de Vendome's appearance.

——With Shylock's intelligence, he should have already known the origin of Aiwass's mother the moment he met the other members of the Duke of Vendôme's family. This is also a "hint" that although he wrote it in the letter, he did not express it explicitly.

Because Shylock can't "sell the truth" at all - Aiwass will definitely know this when he arrives near the Duke of Vendôme's residence. This is a fact that cannot be hidden at all. But he didn't mention this in the letter, which actually hinted that it was not convenient for him to speak due to his current situation.

If Aiwass hadn't met Yassen and didn't know that Sherlock was imprisoned in the dream world... at least he could have used this method to make Aiwass aware of Sherlock when he arrived at the Duke of Vendôme at the latest. Being in a state of being unable to communicate and communicate normally.

Fortunately, he didn't use his true appearance to come into contact with Yassen, otherwise he might have been able to see the true identity of Aiwass in an instant. This platinum hair is too iconic...especially since he has too many contacts with the Vendôme family.

But thinking of this, Aiwass was keenly aware of a problem:

Why are Abigail and Anne so similar?

If the old Duke had multiple wives, the looks of the children would be very different...but if he had only one wife, she would have gone through menopause. Abigail should not have been born.

Thinking of this, Aiwass asked: "How many wives does the old Duke have? Are they related by blood?"

"...How do you know? There were three terms before and after, but..."

Yassen was a little surprised at first, and his expression became a little subtle: "They do have some collateral blood relationship - because they all come from the Salzo family, and they are more than ten years apart. The second one is the niece of the first one. , the third is the niece of the second, two generations apart.

"But for a transcendent on the path of love, this is not too fancy... at least it's not his own daughter. For the Iris nobles, this is not considered a taboo. On the contrary, it is a kind of taboo. Fashionable. It’s just that the old man’s preference for women from the Salzo family is puzzling.”

……wrong.

Aiwass narrowed his eyes slightly.

This sounds unusual. Compared with special XP, Aiwass always felt that this was some kind of ritual.

Because the relationship between the old Duke's three wives was too regular. This kind of regular distribution like test questions is most likely a component of some kind of ritual in this world.

Speaking of which, what does the thing he asked Sherlock to investigate mean...

Aiwass suddenly fell silent and fell into deep thought.

"What's the matter, Aiwass?"

Seeing that Aiwass had not responded for a long time, Yassen was a little confused: "Still thinking about Abi?"

"...So be it."

Aiwass said vaguely.

He asked Yassen the question that concerned him the most: "Does the Duke have a daughter... who has disappeared?"

"What about being more specific?"

"For example, I once went abroad to study, and then stayed in Avalon and never came back... something like that."

Aiwass stared at Yassen and asked.

Yassen did not respond immediately.

He reached out and touched his chin and thought seriously for a while, but did not give an answer. This made Aiwass's heart sink.

"What's her age?"

Yassen asked: "Approximately how old is it?"

"She should be...in her forties now."

Aiwass said directly: "Her name is Annie."

"—Anne de Vendôme? Ah, there is indeed such a person."

Yassen said her name directly, and Aiwass's heart moved slightly.

But what Yassen said next made Aiwass feel cold all over: "But she didn't stay in Avalon, she was always at home. Maybe she went abroad before, but she didn't stay."

……What?

"So is she married?"

Aiwass asked.

"No, she has never been married. But it is said that she has someone she likes, so my father did not force her."

Yassen smiled: "After all, the Vendôme family is prosperous... and there is no need to marry into other families. It's just an idle person, and it will be no problem to raise him until he dies.

"And Miss Anne is not a pure idler - she is a very good opera singer, but now she is getting older and her voice has declined, so she stays at home... Do you know her? No wonder you care about Abi, They do look quite similar.”

"...Maybe I know him. I'm not sure."

Aiwass said slowly.

After listening to Yassen's narration, Aiwass had roughly guessed the truth——

--It's Swamp Man.

This also explains why the Duke's daughter was able to stay in Avalon and even died in Avalon without causing any diplomatic pressure. Originally Aiwass thought that the Duke's family had too many children, but now it seems... …It’s because “Annie” has gone back!

The Duke of Vendôme had no idea that he had a daughter left in Avalon!

But... is the one who stayed behind a swamp man, or the one who went back?

It was obvious from her actions that she was aware of the existence of "the other Anne." She is not married, but has someone she likes... This refers to Aiwass's father, which means that the production time of this swamp man should be after she fell in love with Aiwass's father.

For a moment, Aiwass desperately wanted to return to the material world and go to the Duke's Palace to meet this "mother's counterpart".

But he still suppressed his chaotic emotions and decided to rescue Sherlock first.

However, he changed his attitude towards sightseeing and became more serious:

"——Let's not mention that first, let's enter the dream world first."

Aiwass walked quickly to the front and shared the precious knowledge of the dream world with Yassen without hesitation: "If you want to enter the Kingdom of Shadows, you need to pass through the gap between shadows and shadow folds."

After all, Yasen and he were somewhat related - even though they were not related by blood, they could still be considered real "relatives" of Aiwass.

"This gap must be at least more than thirty degrees, but not more than one hundred and twenty degrees. And each step must deviate by at least one degree. Generally speaking, this can only be reached when you get lost in a dark forest... But there are also schools. There is such a place - the spiral staircase."

With that said, Aiwass took Yassen to a bell tower on campus.

He looked for several places...and then discovered that the stairs in the bell tower happened to be spiral.

He led Yasen up the stairs, and at the same time told Yasen: "Don't remember how many stairs there are, and don't count how many steps you have taken. Dreams are illusory and subjective... Use your imagination. To cover the imagination of the dreamer, we need to walk down this staircase a total of 3,600 degrees, which is ten turns - I know that this bell tower does not have a tenth floor, but this does not affect our walking down, do you understand? Don't worry too much about 'common sense', but focus on imagination...

"If that doesn't work, just cover your eyes."

This is just like "Platform Nine and Three Quarters". In terms of common sense, there is no such gap - just like this staircase does not have ten floors at all.

In the forest, the condition that needs to be triggered by "getting lost ten times in a row and returning to the same place ten times" can be achieved more conveniently and stably by going down the stairs.

"...I'll try my best."

Yasen said seriously, slightly nervous. Apparently Aiwass's request was still a bit difficult for him - he had to forget or even ignore the "ground on the first floor" and forcefully continue walking down...

"Don't be too nervous, and don't count how many degrees you have walked. Just listen to my footsteps. If I leave, you can leave."

Evans consoled.

As he spoke, they had already reached the top of the bell tower, closing all the doors and windows on the way. Let it be pitch black here.

He looked around, and simply tore a hole in his hat, turned it into an eye strap, and tied it on Yasen's eyes.

As for Aiwas - he didn't need the assistance of that kind of tool.

Yasen supported his shoulders, and Aiwas walked in front. They walked down step by step in the dim environment.

Sure enough.

As long as Aiwas kept going down, the spiral staircase would be infinitely extended. It had long exceeded the length when Aiwas went upstairs, but it didn't seem to stop at all...

The further he went down, the darker the surrounding environment became. He couldn't count how many steps he had taken, but at least after six hundred steps, it was so dark that he couldn't see anything.

Suddenly, Aiwas's feet touched the flat ground.

He paused and took a step forward. Let Yasen walk down as well.

Aiwas stopped Yasen who wanted to go down and untied his eye strap.

Yasen subconsciously took a step back, but found that there was no staircase behind him——

Suddenly, a thunderbolt fell, illuminating the gloomy black-gray sky.

As the thunderbolt gradually dimmed, they keenly scanned everything around them.

There was no sun or moon in the sky, and the black-gray sky was always rolling with dark clouds. Only when thunder roared could the outline of this world be vaguely seen.

They were in the vast black-gray wasteland.

There was no village in front and no shop behind.

The good news was that there were no threatening phantoms around.

The bad news was that they didn't even know which direction to go.

"We're here," Aiwas looked around and said uncertainly, "This should be the Kingdom of Shadows."

"...Should?"

Yasen was stunned: "You...haven't you been to the Dream World?"

"I haven't been here, but I should know someone here...I'll ask."

As Aiwas said this, he cancelled his mirror transformation - he wanted to use the prayer spell, but this body of the Moon Child wouldn't work.

In the moment before the light disappeared, Yasen saw Aiwas's face clearly.

At that moment, he suddenly opened his eyes wide.