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"That is to ask Lord Norma to be heir to the governor. However, when Gyps grows up, I ask Gyps to take an oath to give up the housekeeper."
Norma was not surprised. Because she, with her pitiful brains, was aware of the possibility.
"I am a fool in the Goncourt family. Rather than that, my grandmother and mother were eulogized. Many of your relatives don't know I exist."
"Fortunately, only Gaips and Elephus, who draw Narae's blood, remain in our house, plus Yurilla, Dopps' daughter. Relatives also have a voice of sympathy for Roxona, who was rather ostracized by Narae. At least Lord Norma hasn't given his relatives a bad heart."
"Why now?
"Yeah?"
"Why are you telling me this story now that the funeral of Lord Dops is not over?"
'Cause it's too late after the funeral.'
Norma looked at Prado as she asked.
"We have to have a kinship meeting after the funeral. At that time, if Xandria insists on the Goncourt family heir of the three sons, no one in the kinship will ever appear in tune. Connect with the Bordolins."
"How many are you, Master Xandria's three sons?"
"Twenty."
That is a formidable enemy for Gaips. More than that, you can't win.
"Can Lady Xandria, who has been married to another house, go to the Goncourt family meeting? Are you sure you want to rush out of Bantaroy in the first place?
"Xandria is in this mansion now. Three men, too. He's my father, and I've come to meet three proud men."
For a moment, Norma was stunned.
For Xandria, the Goncourt family is home. Although at home, he was married to the Bordolin family in Bantaroy. That brings my son aboard the Goncourt family in Voca. To push my son into the succession of the Goncourt family. That's just a little unusual. Besides, Dops died during Xandria's stay. This is also an unusual way of poisoning.
That's all I thought about, Norma thought.
(poisoning my nephew to push my three sons into my parents' inheritance)
(Not unlikely story, but a little too steep and too forceful)
(Then maybe it's not necessarily Xandria's idea)
"Master Xandria and his son will have a great deal to offer."
"Hmm? Oh, there are twelve. Two men, two knights, two maids, two squire knights, two small names, two trinkets."
"I ask you something hard to ask. Do you think that Prado's misfortune was brought about by one of them?"
"That's all I can think about. Dops was fine until yesterday. No way, my nephew..."
"Is there any evidence that Master Xandria knows about the matter?"
"What?"
"We're asking just in case. Even if this misfortune was caused by one of them, Master Xandria may not have known about it."
"No way."
"My lord. Speaking of which, at dinner two days ago, Lady Xandria said something odd."
A cannel pinched his mouth listening in silence.
"Weird things? I wonder what that said."
"Dops, don't push it," he said.
"Ooh. You said that. What's wrong with that?"
"My lord. When I heard what Norma said right now, I thought it was a fluke. How about if Xandria was blown in by someone so that Dops has a serious illness and only a few lives left?"
Prado mocked the meaning of the word for a while.
"Um... female fox!
"With that in mind, even if Master Xandria thinks that we need to have a solid successor soon in order to survive the Goncourt family, I don't think we can."
Again Prado was silent for a while. And he turned away and covered his face with his hands.
"This is happening so suddenly that I seem to be moving a little too. I don't think we're gonna make it this far."
"Is it not possible that it is on purpose other than the Bordolin family?
Prado looked at the cannel. Cannell replied to Norma.
"I don't know. In the first place, I never thought that Master Dops might be assassinated, etc., until today. However, Mr. Dops, who was well, died suddenly, and because the color of his lips and skin was not normal, he immediately called Lord Ospar."
"Why didn't you call me?
"Cannell said we should call Lord Norma. I disagreed. He said we shouldn't get involved. But Lord Ospar diagnosed it as probably poisonous death and said that only Lord Norma could determine what poison was proper. I thought this was destiny. So I let him pick you up."
"Dear Norma. Honestly, I don't know now who the assassin is and who ordered the assassination. What we know now is that Master Xandria is staying in this mansion so that he can take his son as the heir to this Goncourt family, and that Master Dops has passed away in that situation."
"Hmm. I roughly understood the situation. I'd like to ask you something."