Chapter 572: Who is She?

You are still thinking about milk candy, I'm about to lose my husband!

After pinching the little girl's face lovingly, just as Veronika was about to call Leon to ask why he suddenly left her behind, a hoarse and muffled voice suddenly sounded from the window next to her.

"Hello."

Startled by the sound like a sharp object scratching glass, when Veronika looked in the direction of the sound, she found an old woman with gray hair and skin like a chicken, stretching out her arms toward her direction.

"Can you return Phoebe to me?"

"Ah, okay!"

Noticing the vigilant look in the other party's eyes, and feeling that she might have misunderstood something, in order to avoid being treated as a kidnapper, Veronika hurriedly put down the little girl in her arms.

However, when she was stuffed with two silver wheels, Veronika had been stunned for a moment, and now after being delayed by the old woman who suddenly popped out, Leon on the broom had already flown far away.

Forget it, anyway, I know his address, I'll ask him later.

Looking at Leon's back as he went away, Veronika couldn't help but sigh.

Today was truly... not only encountered an assassination by rebels, but also got married without any preparation, and the Prince Consort she chose seems to be a rather strange person.

Especially just now, one second he asked her to help take care of the child, the next second he seemed to have forgotten who she was, not only becoming polite and distant in attitude, but even inexplicably giving her two silver wheels...

Truly a strange person, but since Leon is that person from the Cleaning Bureau, it seems normal to be strange?

Shaking her head with full confusion, Veronika straightened her dress and squatted down, pulling open the little girl's dirty little black hand, putting a shining silver wheel into it, and then smiled and patted the little girl's butt.

"Money is given to you, go to your real grandma and let her buy candy for you~"

"Grandma?"

Looking at the silver-white coin in her hand, the little girl tilted her head in surprise.

"Phoebe's grandma is already dead, died many years ago."

This child's grandma is already dead? Then who is the person talking to me?

Hearing the little girl's words, Veronika's brows furrowed slightly, then she looked up at the old woman in the window in the distance, and asked politely but vigilantly:

"Excuse me, who are you to this child?"

Raising her eyebrows full of fine wrinkles, looking at Veronika in front of her with deep meaning, the old woman with gray hair and skin like a chicken smiled, and replied calmly:

"My name is Lucy, I am Phoebe's sister."

???

You are Phoebe's sister?

Upon hearing this, Veronika was stunned for a moment, then the furrowed brows not only didn't loosen, but tightened even more.

Impossible! You look over sixty, little Phoebe looks only five or six years old, how can she be your sister?

"Lucy!"

Just when Veronika was frowning, starting to suspect whether the old woman had some mental problems, the little girl suddenly took a step and ran toward the old woman happily.

"Lucy be good~"

After touching the old woman's silver hair on tiptoe, the little girl held the silver coin in front of the old woman with her dirty little hand, and then learned Veronika's words just now, saying affectionately:

"You call me sister, and I'll buy candy for you~"

"..." Looking at the little girl full of innocence in front of her, the old woman flashed a trace of faint sadness in her eyes, then obediently lowered her head, letting Phoebe touch the top of her head without tiptoeing, and then answered softly with that hoarse and eerie strange voice:

"Sister, no matter what you become, you will always be my sister."

"..."

So... it turns out it's not that Grandma has mental problems, but that this child has some problems with intelligence?

Noticing the sadness in the old woman's eyes, and looking at her lowering her head and letting little Phoebe touch her, Veronika fell silent and didn't continue to disturb this pair of strange "sisters," but turned and walked back toward the main hall.

Some things are almost impossible to be changed, whether it is the innate stupidity of this little girl, or the deep-rooted greed in the human heart.

The only thing she can do is to rely on the power possessed by the identity of the Princess, try to put shackles on those excessive greeds, and let these innate sufferings be slightly happier.

And the marriage between her and Leon undoubtedly can greatly speed up this progress, so everything is worth it!

"What happened?"

"Did I faint?"

"Just now it was... Count? Wake up!"

When Veronika returned to the hall where the title succession ceremony was held, some of the people who had fainted due to 【Heartbeat Moment】 had already woken up.

It's just that those who woke up currently were some young people or attendants and guards with better bodies. People with higher status were generally older, and their physical endurance was worse, so most were still fainted. No one stood out to preside over the situation, and the hall was almost in a mess.

"Everyone, please listen to me!"

After looking at the "leaderless" situation in the hall, Veronika shook her head, then tidied up her shawl, covering the black handprint on her chest, and then clapped her hands hard to attract everyone's attention, instructing those who had woken up:

"The top priority now is to save people. People from the Vinsmoke family go find a doctor, and people from other families first carry their own fainted people upstairs."

"As for those whose whole family hasn't woken up, let the Laien family be responsible, and incidentally check the situation of the fainted people. After the Vinsmoke family brings the doctor, we can prioritize saving those whose situation is more serious."

Seems... it really should be done like this now?

After listening to Veronika's instructions, the hall, which was in a mess, quieted down for a while, and then some people began to follow suit subconsciously, and these people's actions led more people to follow, and the hall, which was in a mess, gradually became orderly.

However, even if they followed the other party's instructions subconsciously, a strange question appeared in the hearts of most people.

This woman who issued the order... who is she?

"What? You met rebels with anomalous objects again? And almost got tricked by them?"

After listening to Leon's encounter today, the red-haired director blinked her fox eyes and said with some surprise:

"Strange, although after joining the Cleaning Bureau, the possibility of encountering anomalies generally increases with the continuous improvement of the infection degree, but isn't the number of times you have accidents a bit too many?"

"I also feel it's not quite right, suspecting whether I have been cursed with something..."

Leon nodded upon hearing this, and said helplessly:

"But Black Goat said, it guarantees as a great demon that there is absolutely no abnormality on me. At least it can't see any problems, so it suggested I come directly to you to ask, to see what exactly is the situation."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 573 =====