𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬

Chapter 51

"W-What are you saying?"

She looked away, her lips slightly trembling, and her skin seemingly paler than usual as she turned around, "I found a photograph in Nonna's room."

My sister paused as her eyes stared at the grass, contemplating whether to actually tell me. I took a step forward, but she took another step away, and I stopped. She then sighed lowly before finally looking at me once again and saying, "It was a photo of our family with the past nobles of our kingdom, before I destroyed them all."

When my sister was crowned queen, she did not stick to tradition like Mother and Nonna, no, she immediately chose to abolish the names held by those noblemen. She did not care for whatever power they claimed to have, for she was queen, therefore her words were absolute. I remembered when we talked about it, and how my sister held so much anger in her eyes. The previous noblemen of our kingdom were not fair people, they were selfish and were only after the wealth and power their titles gave them. Of course, this did not sit well with my sister, and she immediately took action upon sitting on the throne. She exiled all of them and brought upon a new generation of fair and just nobles under her own selection.

Even though the previous nobles did not leave without a fight, none of them had enough skill to truly stand a chance against my sister, thus, they were all tossed to the woods, left alone to fend for themselves. They started the first revolution in Weiss' reign, and predictably, they lost. However, it was not until their fourth loss when the only survivors finally decided to give up and hide in a different continent. We never heard of them again after that.

"What of it?"

"She was there." My sister whispered, her voice barely audible to human ears. She ran a hand through her hair as she let out another exhausted sigh, "She was there, standing, smiling, she was a noble."

So the bitch had history with our family? I expected to at least feel a bit of clarity upon learning of this information, but nothing came. Usually, when something so significant was revealed, one would feel clarity, and would then realize something extremely important, but in my case, there was nothing. To be honest, what Weiss told me only raised even more raging questions in my unstable mind. However, if that wretched witch was truly a noble during my Mother's reign, my sister and I, as children, couldn't have known her still. This was because during Mother's reign, although most past nobles were close to our family, it was different when it came to Weiss and I since Father never let them speak to even one of us. We were raised behind private doors and would only be in their presence under the supervision of one of our family members. But even if we were in the same room as them, we were prohibited from speaking to a noble as Father was paranoid that one of them would try to corrupt us. Mother did not feel the same way, but to make Father happy, she obliged in keeping us away from them, which I was grateful for, especially after learning of the nobles' true colors. Father was right all along, and it truly was for the better that Weiss exiled them.

I cleared my throat before responding, "That does not mean it is your fault that she's powerful, she could have known from Mother or Father! Hell, even our grandmothers!" I did not want to put the blame on my other family members, truly, but seeing my sister beat herself up pained me, and I couldn't think of other ways to comfort her with my words.

"I highly doubt that sister, Mother hid that magic better than Nonna, and Nonna hid it better than I did. She could not have known from someone else, Willow. She must have hated me so much that she snuck into the castle and stalked me for days, desperately searching for anything to use as leverage over me until I finally came to Nonna's room!"

"Even if that is the case, you wouldn't have known! You were too busy fixing our kingdo-"

"But I should have! I'm the queen! I should have always been on my guard!" She snapped, her eyes turning bright yellow as she gazed into my own. A shiver went down my spine, and I gulped, hoping that Weiss' yellow would fade away as soon as possible.