I! Cleaner!-Chapter 779 - 713: Pastries and Bloodlines
Alright~ Since you're the princess~
After glancing at Princess Veronica's slightly flushed neck, the lady-in-waiting managed to suppress a smile, took the plate of pastries rudely handed by the princess, and cheerfully headed towards the other backstage area.
Once she entered backstage and arrived outside the groom's waiting room, she stood outside the door for a moment fiddling with the pastries, waiting for the conversation inside to temporarily halt, and took the opportunity to step into the waiting room, lightly placing the serving plate on the table beside Leon.
"Your Highness, Prince."
With both hands crossed in front of her lower abdomen, she gracefully bowed in a maid's greeting and softly addressed Leon, who was gazing with a hint of confusion:
"The princess thought you'd been busy all morning with little time to eat, and since the feast starts late, she specifically sent me here with a plate of pastries for you."
"Oh, thank you."
The color of the lady-in-waiting's uniform was basically the same as the maid's attire, and Leon, unfamiliar with the garment style, wasn't suspicious. After politely nodding at the lady-in-waiting, he took the serving plate over and, courteously offered it to the female Cleaner sitting opposite:
"Are you hungry? Would you like some?"
"Now that you mention it, I am kind of hungry..."
Although she had eaten quite a lot before arriving this morning and bought a stack of thin pancakes with beef on her way, the female Cleaner wasn't hungry at all; but as a descendant of the gluttonous lineage, she naturally had no reason to refuse a snack.
However, as she reached for the pastries, something felt off, making her pick up a broken pastry piece and look towards the lady-in-waiting puzzledly, asking:
"Why does each pastry you brought only have half?"
"The other half is with Princess Veronica."
Answering the female Cleaner's question, the lady-in-waiting who had deliberately broken the pastries outside the door slightly bowed, then smilingly made up some nonsense:
"You're from the Northern Kingdom, unfamiliar with our customs. According to the royal wedding process, a pair of loving newlyweds must share a plate of sweet pastries before the wedding.
The plate of pastries before you is what Princess Veronica selected, specifically leaving the other half for Prince Leon, and eating this pastry symbolizes their future, sweet as these pastries, mutually becoming each other's unique other half."
Oh my, so this plate of pastries is actually leftovers from that woman?
Watching the lady-in-waiting with a seemingly joyful, yet somewhat malicious smile, the female Cleaner couldn't help but put down the half-eaten pastry piece and sheepishly spoke to Leon:
"This... seems inappropriate for me to eat, how about you have it?"
"Oh..."
Unexpectedly, this plate of pastries had deeper meaning, Leon could only awkwardly laugh, picking up a piece to pop into his mouth...
"Hmm?"
After slightly smacking his lips, Leon couldn't help but turn his head and glance quizzically at the lady-in-waiting standing beside him.
"This is salty, weren't the pastries supposed to be sweet?"
Dang, I forgot about that part.
Facing Leon's puzzled gaze, the lady-in-waiting stiffened her spine, yet without changing her expression, replied:
"Life requires some adjustments; pure sweetness will get tiresome eventually, you need some variety... Plus, pastries with a bit of salt taste even sweeter, try it again and you'll see."
"..."
That makes some sense…
After eating another two pieces of pastry, Leon couldn't help but nod in agreement, then spoke to thank her:
"Thank you for your trouble; I don't need any assistance here, you can tend to other matters."
"Alright."
Glancing at the female Cleaner across who was obliviously lingering instead of leaving, the lady-in-waiting squinted displeasedly before rising and exiting the waiting room.
After the lady-in-waiting left, the button on Leon's wrist suddenly lit up, squeezing out a black goat's head.
"As expected, it's still us that handles things best!"
Stretching its stiff neck, the Black Goat looked smugly at Leon, proudly reminding:
"Kid! Pay attention! That woman was lying earlier!"
"Mm."
Reaching out to shuffle the pastries in the plate, piecing together a few pairs tightly matching, Leon calmly nodded.
"I know, these pastries should have just been broken by her… Melly, it's just an ordinary plate of pastries without any of the symbolic meaning she mentioned. If you really are hungry, go ahead and eat."
"..."
Dammit, it was a lie!
Looking at the pastries Leon had pieced together, the female Cleaner couldn't help but annoyedly snort, then grabbed the pastries in the plate and stuffed them into her mouth, while stuffing while complaining:
"You're really stingy! Not even offering some snacks!"
"It probably isn't actually about stinginess… Never mind."
Slightly shaking his head, seeing the happy expression on the still childish female Cleaner's face as she ate, presumably younger in mental age than Melanie, Leon couldn't help but slightly shake his head, then continued with the earlier topic before the lady-in-waiting interrupted:
"So can members of the royal family from various kingdoms join the Clean-up Bureau?"
"Of course."
Popping another two pieces of pastry into her mouth, the female Cleaner blissfully explained:
"After all, the ancestors of the Twelve Kingdoms were all… mmm…"
"All residents of the Watcher's Palace."
Seeing the female Cleaner abruptly stop mid-sentence and reveal an expression of hesitation, the knowing Leon completed her sentence, then reminded:
"Although I haven't yet crossed the difference between man and god for formal induction, I've already been appointed as the next Aquarius Director, there's no need to keep this information from me." 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
"Oh oh oh, right, that's how it is."
Slightly relieved, the female Cleaner swallowed the pastry in her mouth, then explained:
"In short, according to my great uncle, although the Bureau doesn't particularly promote, it also doesn't oppose descendants of the Twelve royal families joining the Clean-up Bureau, only that their identity must be kept secret; conversely, it seems there's a rule that royal bloodline holders can't be forced to join the Clean-up Bureau."
"Forced? Such things happened?"
"Yes."
The female Cleaner nodded, then recalled:
"After all, the ancestors of our Twelve royal families were mostly at director-level existence, even those slightly inferior became True Gods after becoming palace residents, and the bloodline of True Gods itself is an anomaly.
So among the royal family of the Twelve Kingdoms, especially the direct descendants, they generally have considerable talent in the Cleaner aspect. With proper development, even crossing the difference between man and god is possible, which led to several forced incidents in the past."
After listening to the female Cleaner's explanation, Leon recalled the direct royal descendants he had interacted with, subsequently nodding in agreement.
Whether it was Melly in front who passed the stringent selection of the five palaces, the future middle-aged Joshua who created [The Gate of Another World], or the siblings Andre and Feiliya of the Crolock Kingdom, they indeed possessed remarkable talent in "anomalies."
Remember, the [Abnormal Creation] secret technique of the Aquarius Palace mentioned the six qualities related to anomaly creation, namely soul and flesh, personality and emotion, past and future. Among these three pairs of qualities, having one special quality in each pair easily leads to creating anomalies exclusive to oneself.
And the [Soul] and [Flesh] of these royal bloodlines innately reach anomalous levels, and due to their bloodline influence, their [Personality] and [Emotion] tend to be unusual as well, already fulfilling two-thirds.
So with just a painful [Experience] or by diverging from their original life to have a sufficiently special [Future], completing the final missing link, awakening an anomaly is practically a foregone conclusion...
Hmm… that reminds me, among the royal members I interacted more with, it seems only Veronica is still a "normal person", so if she were to awaken an anomaly, what kind of ability would it be?
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