592 THE LIGHT SAINTESS’ REQUEST
“I KNOW it’s a hard request. After all, you just gave birth to your firstborn son,” Monik said to Glenn and his wife, Brigitte– the queen of the Hazelden Kingdom. “Hence, I will understand if you cannot adopt as your daughter. I’m not also asking you to give an answer right now. Take your ti.”
She asked Glenn and Brigitte to adopt her because she needed a powerful family to protect her until she could move on her own.
Knowing Glenn, that big softie, she knew that he would accept her request.
However, this was the first ti that she t the queen. She knew that Glenn wouldn’t choose a horrible woman for a wife. However, what did she know?
[I was never interested in romance, but I know love could make a person blind or crazy.]
Nikolai was a pri example of that.
“Your Majesty, we don’t need ti to decide,” Glenn said politely, then he put a hand over Brigitte’s hand. “Of course, we will welco you into our family.”
Huh?
[That easy?]
.....
Brigitte, who was on the bed because she hadn’t fully recovered yet, smiled and nodded. “We will process the adoption as soon as possible, Your Majesty.”
“Really?” Monik asked, confused. “Isn’t this sothing that you should discuss first?”
“Your Majesty, I failed to protect you when I was appointed to serve you in the past,” Glenn said in a cracked voice. Even though he was already a family man, he was still a crybaby, huh? “I’ll do anything and everything to make sure Your Majesty will attain peace and happiness this ti.” After saying that, he turned to his wife. “I’m sorry, my queen. It might be selfish of to ask you this, but it will make happy if we can adopt Empress Juliet into our family.”
“Glenn, you don’t have to apologize,” Brigitte said, smiling warmly at her husband. “I know it won’t be easy for us because this is the first ti we’re going to be parents to two babies, but I also know that everything we’ll be fine as long as we’re together.”
[They really love each other.]
Monik was happy for Glenn.
[He’s like a younger brother to . I honestly worried about Glenn before since he was too loyal to Nikolai. I thought he wouldn’t get married. But I’m glad that he found soone to cherish and spend the rest of his life with.]
“Empress Juliet, this is my first ti becoming a mother,” Brigitte said politely. “I may be lacking, but I’ll do my best to be a good mother to Your Majesty and our Prince Skylus.”
She wanted to say that she’d be fine since she wasn’t really a child.
However, she would lose her mories soon. And she wasn’t sure how she was going to behave by then. It was the pri reason why she needed a guardian that could beco a good influence on her in the first place.
“I trust Glenn, and I also trust the choices he makes,” Monik said as gently as she could. Glenn and the others were used to her sternness. But she didn’t want to scare the queen, so she was being careful. “Moreover, Neoma only said good things about you, Queen Brigitte. I know that I’m in good hands.”
Brigitte smiled as if she was shy. “Thank you for trusting , Your Majesty.”
“I should be the one thanking you,” she said. “I know it’s not easy to accept a stranger to be your daughter. Especially since you’re a royal family.”
“Please don’t worry about that, Your Majesty,” Glenn assured her. “We’re happy to have a bigger family.”
The queen smiled and nodded.
[I can trust these people.]
Speaking of trust…
Monik frowned when she rembered sothing unpleasant. “Nikolai told Kyle Sprouse betrayed him and shared the royal twins’ confidential information with the crows.”
Glenn’s face turned grim when he nodded. “That’s right, Your Majesty. That Kyle Sprouse turned out to be a traitor in the end.”
“And he claid that he betrayed Nikolai for ?”
The king nodded again. “Foolish, isn’t he? He didn’t even notice that the current Lady Sloane that he’s serving is a fake.”
To be fair, even Mona and Nikolai didn’t notice it.
However, that didn’t an she would forgive Kyle Sprouse easily.
“Mona, Nikolai, and I devised a plan to expose the fake Juliet,” Monik said, clenching her tiny hands. “I may have already lost my mories during that ti. But once Nikolai and Mona caught Kyle Sprouse, could you bring to him, Glenn? Tell him that I was the reincarnation of the Juliet that he claid to “love.” But, of course, don’t do it in front of . I don’t wish to know that I was the empress in my past life.”
Glenn nodded politely. “As you wish, Your Majesty.”
“You can stop addressing by my title now, Glenn and Queen Brigitte,” Mona said, then she put a hand over her chest. “From now on, just call ‘Monik.’ It’s the na Mona and Nikolai gave . And just speak informally to .”
“If that’s your wish, Monik,” Glenn said awkwardly, then he smiled sheepishly. “It’s kind of awkward, but I guess it’s weirder to talk to our daughter formally.”
She nodded. “That’s right.”
“Monik, can I hug you?” the queen asked, then she opened her arms. “I want to hug my daughter.”
Okay, for so reason, she suddenly felt shy.
But she set that thought aside.
Monik moved the transparent egg, her personal flying vehicle, towards the queen. And when the transparent egg vanished, Brigitte caught her in her arms. “Nice catch, Mother.”
Brigitte’s face turned red, then she smiled warmly at her. “Welco to our family, daughter.”
Glenn didn’t say anything, but he smiled kindly before hugging Brigitte and Monik.
[This is my new family now.]
***
“LORD MANU, I entrust Prince Skylus and Baby Monik to you,” Neoma, who was sitting on Brigitte unnie’s lap, said while rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand. “Please raise them as the Moon Saint and Light Saintess respectively.”
Brigitte unnie and Uncle Glenn would surely raise Skylus and Monik as their children.
But they needed Manu’s guidance, since the children were destined to be a saint and a saintess.
“I will,” Manu, who was watching Skylus and Monik sleep on two different cribs that were next to each other, said. Then the Moon Priest turned to him with knitted eyebrows. “How about you, Neoma de Moonasterio? Are you going to be stuck as a baby?”
The adults were talking about a serious topic because Skylus and Monik were both sleeping.
[And they look like little angels!]
“That’s what I want to know, too, Princess Neoma,” Brigitte unnie said worriedly. “I was so surprised when I saw you in that state, Your Royal Highness.”
“Ruto said that I’ll return to normal soon, and I trust him.”
Speaking of Ruto…
[He stepped out and accompanied Uncle Glenn in patrolling the area around the main palace since Ruto said he felt a strange presence earlier.]
Gosh, her man was so dependable.
[And I feel like a burden now that I can’t even sense the presence of other strong individuals.]
“I’m glad that this is only temporary,” Brigitte unnie said, then she gently pinched her cheeks. “And I’m also grateful to see you in your baby form, Princess Neoma. You might just be the cutest baby on the entire continent!”
“That’s a given, unnie. But you shouldn’t say that,” Neoma said, complaining lightly. “Prince Skylus might get jealous if you say that I’m the cutest baby on the continent even though it’s true.”
“But it’s not like my son can understand us…” the queen trailed off, then she asked nervously. “Can he?”
“He can,” Neoma confird. “In fact, he just gave a prophecy to earlier.”
[A cruel prophecy, that is.]
Brigitte unnie gasped.
“As expected, he already awakened as a saint even though his divine power was taken away from him,” Manu said, sighing. Then he turned to the queen. “Brigitte Griffiths, all the saints born in this world already have the ntal maturity of a young adult, at least. And as they grow, they will only beco more and more mature. After all, before they were sent into this world, they have already reached adulthood back in the world where they have co from. Since the saints are representatives of the Moon God, they get to keep the mories of their past life.”
[Ah, Monik ntioned sothing similar. She said that once she forgets her mories as Empress Juliet, her head will be filled with Lady Roxana’s words that will help her establish the temple for the Light Goddess in the future.]
“Most of the won who gave birth to the saints died,” the Moon Priest continued. “Hence, most of the saints were raised by their mother’s relatives. However, normal humans had the tendency to hate the saints for being born with a developed mind.”
Neoma could relate.
[The de Moonasterion children are also born more mature than kids our age.]
During her childhood, even though she was posing as Nero back then, most of the kids her age avoided her for being mature.
[To be fair, I’m an adult inside.]
But she rembered that even in her first life, her mind developed faster than normal children.
[Unfortunately, the de Moonasterion children don’t get to have a normal childhood because of how our brains are wired. Is that the reason why most of us go crazy? Or are we just really born this way?]
How curious.
“I hope Prince Skylus’ maturity doesn’t scare or disgust you, young queen,” Manu said, putting a hand over his chest. “That’s my earnest wish as the Moon Priest.”
“Don’t worry, Lord Manu,” Brigitte unnie said firmly. “There’s no way my son will scare or disgust . Glenn and I will love him with all that we have.”
Manu smiled at that assurance.
Neoma smiled, too, but she was distracted when Ruto suddenly appeared in the middle of the room…
… while grabbing an old man by the collar.
[And that old man… the one that I want to adopt!]
“Grandpa, why are you already here?” Neoma asked, shocked. “Where are my children…”
She trailed off when the old man’s appearance changed.
.....
Suddenly, Neoma was looking at a very beautiful young woman with wavy white hair, ash-gray eyes, and pale skin.
“Huh?” Neoma asked, confused. “A de Moonasterio?”
“Yes,” Ruto said calmly. “That face belongs to Princess Aruna de Moonasterio.”
Say what?!
[Isn’t Princess Aruna de Moonasterio the twin sister of the Arche de Moonasterio— the most incompetent emperor in history?!]
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