The hero's gender is yet to be determined after rebirth.

She looked behind Queen Percy and saw only a bookshelf.

"It's nothing, hahaha."

“No, Mother, I know very well that you always have this expression when you play pranks.” Kurara stared at her mother with a serious expression.

“Your temper is just like your father’s, so stubborn. Fine, I won’t hide it from you anymore.” Queen Percy stopped trying to deny it and turned around to snatch the book away.

A small door to a dark room appeared, accompanied by a soft sound of movement.

Kurara exclaimed in surprise: "A secret room?"

She knew there were secret passages in many parts of the palace, but this was the first time she had ever heard of them.

"It's a dark room, you can see many places," Queen Percy whispered to her, making a soft gesture before gently pulling Kurara into the passageway leading to the dark room and closing the mechanism inside.

The two walked up and down the stairs for a while, and suddenly came to a small, dark room. There were no windows to let in light; the magic crystals automatically turned on to illuminate the room after someone entered, but the light was clearly deliberately kept very dim.

"You must speak softly here, or you'll be easily overheard from outside," the Queen reminded Kurara.

There was even a chair here. The Queen had Kurara sit in the chair and then activated a mechanism.

Many small mirrors were visible on the surrounding walls.

These are reflections from small mirrors. Through several cleverly designed reflections, the situation in multiple rooms inside the side hall and even outside the side shop is collected here.

There were no sunglasses on the outside; the magic crystals only slightly amplified the light midway through its reflection, ensuring minimal light loss. This minimized the chance of the magical fluctuations being detected.

Kurara whispered in surprise, "This is a spying room? It can see so many places?"

The queen said proudly, as if showing off a treasure to her daughter, "Yes, it's very interesting! I sit here watching some people busy themselves, some people slacking off, and even some little things they do, like sneaking a bite, flirting, or talking behind people's backs. It's all very interesting!"

"No wonder I sometimes can't see you; you've been hiding here all the time?" Kurara frowned. "Mother, I never knew you had such a penchant for spying on others..."

Even with her thick skin, Queen Percy couldn't help but cover her face after being spoken to like that by her daughter.

"But it is indeed a little exciting..." Kurara chuckled playfully and began to examine the images on the small mirrors.

Queen Percy knew that her daughter was saying this out of consideration to avoid embarrassing her, and said with satisfaction, "She is indeed my daughter."

Kurala surprisingly chatted with her unreliable mother with great interest: "Hey, Mother, look, what is this servant secretly hiding behind the house? How interesting."

The Queen also shared various amusing images: "Hehe, my dear daughter, look! This maid is sleeping so soundly, though her posture is a bit awkward."

She kept her eyes covered by a small mirror, and then deliberately asked Kurara quietly, "You know your father called you back this time for a blind date, right? Why did you agree to come back?"

Kurara's face darkened, and she lost all interest in looking in the small mirror. She suppressed her voice and said, "I had a fight with my friend."

"Did you have a falling out with Loren?"

“…Yes.” Kurara’s expression worsened.

The Queen saw all this and suddenly said, "You like him, no, you love him, you've fallen in love with him."

"Ah..." Kurara covered her lips, not daring to make a sound in the dark room.

Her mother's words were too blunt; she still couldn't quite accept them.

“You’re at that age now, why should I be shy with my mother?” the Queen said with a smile.

"Yes...Mother, you're right. But how did you find out?"

The Queen's gaze softened as she gently stroked Kurara's blonde hair as she sat in the chair: "In the letters you sent me, almost every line talked about Loren. Even the dumbest mother could tell her child was in love."

This time, it was Kurala's turn to want to cover her face. Was her letter really that straightforward? The letter to her mother was just something she wrote on a whim, simply to introduce her friend. She never expected it to be seen through so easily.

"Then let me guess why you've returned?" the Queen asked with a smile. "Could it be that you are..."

Kurala looked up at her mother. Could her mother possibly have guessed this?

"Could it be that you, Kurara, have fallen for someone else?" the Queen asked with a smile.

"...Mother, this is not funny at all."

“Alright, I’ll be frank…” the Queen hesitated for a moment, “You know a secret about Loren.”

Kurara's eyes widened instantly. If the light had been bright enough, the Queen would have noticed that the child's pupils had dilated instantly.

"You want to ask me how I know?" The Queen smiled gently. "I also know this secret. I've known it for fifteen years."

"Mother, you..." Kurala thought of many things in an instant.

The queen almost burst out laughing: "No, Mother, I'm not smitten by Aise! Do you think I'm that infatuated?"

"..." Kurara blinked, genuinely puzzled, and asked, "Who is Aisei?"

"Oh dear, Mother has inadvertently confessed." If the Queen hadn't been in a dark room, she would have laughed to cover her embarrassment. "I forgot you couldn't possibly know that much. Anyway, just think of it this way: many of Mother's close friends were tricked by Loren's mother."

"Lorenwei's mother?" Kurala couldn't understand at first.

“Aise was the name of Loren’s mother, Aisser, before she was officially a man. Anyway, don’t worry, when Loren’s mother appeared at the academy as a handsome man, she was already married to your father, so she wasn’t interested at all.” The Queen raised her chin at a forty-five-degree angle, seemingly reminiscing about the past. “Of course, if it had been a few years earlier, who knows…”

"..." Kurara gradually understood. It must be because of the Sevi tribe. She never imagined that the legendary heroine Aisser was actually a Sevi.

The Queen was still reminiscing about the past when she said something that surprised Kurara: "However, back then, I really did think that if my child and your father's child met with Sevi's child in the future, it would be nice if they could get married!"

"..." Kurara sensed something else. Could it be that the bond between me and Lorenve was already subtly connected fifteen years ago?

"Oh dear, I was so caught up in reminiscing about the past that I almost forgot there's something beautiful here!" The Queen suddenly remembered that Lorenve was still changing clothes and quickly turned around to look at a mirror behind her.

This is a reflection from the changing room. The magic crystal and candlelight over there are very bright, and even with several reflections from the mirror in the dark room, you can still see them clearly.

The angle was from a dark corner of the ceiling above, and it was clear that Lorenwei was still choosing clothes.

Kurara clenched her fists, excitedly muttering to herself, "Lorenve, she, she's come all the way to the Grand Duchy of Posey?"

"Look at you, you've forgotten how to speak properly."

Kurala ignored her mother's teasing, her gaze fixed on Lorenwei in the small mirror: "When did she arrive? How did we get separated? But how did she get into the palace? Will Father mind? Why is she dressed as a woman?"

"You have so many questions," the Queen said gently, noticing her daughter's unwavering gaze and flushed face. She knew her daughter was deeply engrossed and wrapped her arms around her neck from behind. "She sneaked in as a cook, your father didn't know. Of course, I spotted her easily and even gave her a little help. If she didn't come in dressed as a woman, would she have entered the inner palace dressed as a man? That would have been incredibly difficult."

Kurara looked at Lorenwei in the small mirror, her eyes glistening with tears, and gently scolded, "That silly girl, she actually lost track of the person she was chasing and even got ahead of her!"

She stopped talking and just stared.

The queen instead took her hand and squeezed in with her daughter to sit on the chair.

Looking in the small mirror, Lorenwei hesitated, unable to decide which outfit to wear. The differences were simply too great.

As she flipped through the pages, Lorenwei picked out one... No, she couldn't wear it.

"..." Kurara was speechless.

The queen pretended not to notice and offered no explanation.

As she flipped through the clothes, Lorenwei picked out another garment, but then thought, "Never mind, it doesn't suit me." She realized she must be looking at things wrong. After flipping through so many items, she increasingly wondered if she was looking in the wrong direction. She decided to try a different approach.

Kurara couldn't help but glance at her mother. When did she prepare so many clothes? And even Lorenwei couldn't wear them...

The queen, forcing a smile, made an excuse: "Life is so boring, young people, you don't understand!"

Kurara coughed lightly: "Father's health is not good..."

"He's perfectly fine! You've never seen the toy room... cough cough cough..." The Queen blurted out and quickly coughed to cover it up.

Kula pretended not to hear... what else could she do? As a child, she certainly couldn't express her own opinion, right?

After a long while, Lorenwei in the dressing room gave up and could only choose the most ordinary robe to change into. As for the clothes underneath, she could replace many ordinary styles that she hadn't worn yet.

They're all women's styles, of course...

But for Lorenwei, who had been used to this for over a decade, it was no big deal; it was just a game.

Kurara suddenly realized what was happening when Lorenvei began to unbutton her dark black dress.

"Ah, please, please don't look!" Kula stretched out her hand to block her mother's eyes.

"The Sevilles don't have genders, what's wrong with looking at them?" the Queen muttered, leaving with regret, and softly complaining, "Really, daughters grow up and leave home."

After watching her mother leave, Kula blushed and quietly turned around, looking embarrassed with her head down. But she quickly and resolutely raised her head again and carefully examined the reflection in the small mirror.

This is a judgment that concerns my future, and the basis for whether I should severely blame Lorenwei. Are the Sevilles truly a genderless race?

Kurara clenched her two small, white fists and held them in front of her face, seemingly trying to block her vision, but her eyes were wide open.

Looking at the reflected image, she thought to herself: So this is what the Seville people are like. It really is just as she described…

What Lorenwei said is true; the Seville bloodline is indeed quite remarkable.

Without clothes, Kurara could see clearly that it was impossible to tell whether the person was male or female. But once they put on women's clothing, it became obvious that they were a girl. How strange.

It wasn't easy to keep it a secret until now, Kurara thought to herself. When she was dressed as a man, although she looked handsome, she probably still relieved herself in a girl's way... Kurara suddenly felt like laughing, wondering how she had managed all these years?

Kurala finally breathed a sigh of relief when Lorenve had changed her clothes, packed up her original black night outfit, and was about to leave the dressing room.

Ah, this is even more tiring than exercising. Kula touched the sweat that had somehow seeped onto her forehead and slumped weakly into the chair.

After a long while, Kurara suddenly curled the corners of her mouth and muttered to herself, "We've both seen each other's bodies, so we're even now..."

But she quickly pouted her red lips again: "Let's just forget about this debt, but the thing that's been lying to me for so long isn't over yet."

She got up and went outside to meet Queen Percy.

"Aren't you going to meet her yet?" The Queen was slightly surprised, but quickly understood. "Yes, yes, our daughter is so clever. If we meet her now, wouldn't it make us seem less precious? We need to make Lorenvei anxious and restless! Let her know that it's not so easy to invite a wife back to her parents' home!"

"Mother, what nonsense are you talking about..." Kula tugged at her mother.

The two quietly began to discuss how to mess with Lorenwei.

"Huh? Is anyone there?" Lorenwei came out of the room but couldn't find anyone for a moment.

Where is that noblewoman?

She called out many times, wandering aimlessly through the maze-like side hall with its numerous corridors and paths.

By chance, a mechanism was triggered, and a door suddenly opened in the wall.

She asked who was inside, but no one was there. Curious, she peeked inside.

Uh, this looks like a storage room? There are even fire-based lighting fixtures and carriage-driving equipment here?

Chapter 171, which was updated last night, was frozen. It will be made available over the weekend.

Last night's chapter 171 was reported. Don't worry, it didn't get reported, and I'll still be updating 10,000 words daily this weekend. Reports are nothing; the more reports, the more I'll update! I won't stop writing!

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