Should I raise you too?

Even in first class, the rooms are still cramped. A single bed fixed to one wall, a cushioned bench fixed to the other wall, a desk, and a narrow washroom are all that's in first class.

The room is about 10 feet wide, or a little over 3 meters.

“Seventy pounds for a room like this.” Simon sat on a bench, spreading out the newspaper he had bought at the dock, lamenting the harsh conditions and the high price.

The trunks arrived, and Eve and Maria unpacked them and tidied the room. The entire trip would take about 20 days, and Simon would need to stay in this room for almost a month.

“If you don’t buy first-class tickets for me and Eve, we could easily stay in a suite.” Maria glanced at Simon, her eyes filled with exasperation at his wasteful spending.

First class is divided into three types: first class suite, first class single cabin, and first class double cabin. The suite has much more space and a small lounge.

“We can’t let you stay in the chauffeur cabin; those are eight-person cabins.” Simon turned a page of the newspaper and looked at Eve.

The young maid was a little scared as she arrived at the new place. While packing her things, she nervously looked around.

"Guess why the attendant cabin is called the attendant cabin?" Maria asked quickly and sharply.

Simon closed the newspaper and turned to look at the housekeeper, who had switched back into her maid outfit: "Ms. Maria, why do I feel like you're targeting me?"

“I didn’t… Well, I thought Mr. Simon was going to take us to some new young lady’s manor, but I didn’t expect you to be the master.” Maria was a little dejected.

She and Eve had been living in Ashburn with Simon for a week, waiting for the ocean liner, but she still couldn't get used to it.

She had thought that her marriage proposal might take a new turn after leaving Miss Elisa, but who knew that Mr. Simon would become Mr. Simon!

The gap in their social status widened suddenly, and Ms. Maria was unable to accept it for a while.

Hearing her words, Simon felt relieved and resumed reading the newspaper: "You don't need to treat me like a master, I have no objection. Ms. Maria can continue to supervise my work, and of course, I will also try my best to slack off. Eve can also come to me anytime if she wants to play meditation games."

Eve looked up; she needed a round of meditation to relax. "Now..." she asked excitedly.

"No!" Maria stopped Eve. "It's working time, Miss Eve. Please hurry up."

Eve gave a disappointed "oh" and continued wiping the furniture in the room with a rag.

First class has public attendants who clean the rooms daily, but they're not very attentive. Eve quickly swept up a pile of soot.

On steamships, coal dust is like air; it cannot be isolated or avoided.

First class is close to the deck and far from the steam boilers, so there is only slightly more coal ash than regular dust.

In second class and economy class, the coal dust problem is even more severe, with the poorly ventilated air filled with coal dust and a damp smell.

After cleaning, Eve and Maria left Simon's room and went down to the next floor, which was the ladies' area.

The maid led them to their first-class double cabin, which was the same size as the one above, with bunk beds.

They tidied up their rooms.

Simon stayed in his room, reading the newspaper. In the distance, he could hear the commotion at the dock; the Kingdom Star had not yet set sail, and passengers in economy class were still boarding.

The standard cabins were basically like large dormitory rooms, with dozens of people in each cabin. There was absolutely no private space, and the air was damp, stuffy, and almost stagnant. The roar of the steam engine would be directly overhead, creating a nightmare-like experience.

Besides economy class, there is another type of passenger called deck ticket holders. As the name suggests, they do not have cabins and sleep on the deck. The Kingdom Star is an ocean liner and does not sell deck tickets.

Simon turned to another page of the newspaper and saw a headline.

Queen Elizabeth II grants a pardon.

A pardon is a routine procedure for a new king after his ascension to the throne, used to demonstrate his benevolence.

“I hope she can be a good queen, not like her ancestors,” Simon said deliberately.

"Who are you implying?!" Alysand's voice rang out from the pocket watch in his breast pocket. "When I was on the throne, I was deeply loved by the people. The mad king is a slander by those rebels!"

"Heh, does being deeply loved by the people mean you're planning to drag all the people into the Soul Society?"

“Anyway, they will all go to the Soul Society after they die. I just helped them skip the painful middle process. I am really merciful.”

"...As expected of the Mad King."

"Stop talking nonsense and quickly find me a body with the bloodline of Augusta, and I will grant you the rank of Soul Society Executor!"

“That sounds good, but I refuse.” Simon closed the newspaper.

Alysander paused, then asked in confusion, "What exactly do you want to do? Where did you put my finger bones? How can you use my power to resurrect? What was that light screen you used before?"

Simon proposed a paid Q&A program: "There is no such thing as free knowledge in this world. I want the treasures of the old dynasty. Money is fine with me, and extraordinary items are also acceptable."

Alexandra snorted coldly and said nothing more.

Simon wasn't in a hurry, since Alysand was already in his hands.

In his original plan, he would succeed if he could steal the body of the old king, Lucius, or the priest. But things went much more smoothly than he expected. He obtained ten finger bones and even captured Alysander.

He stood up, opened the porthole in front of his desk, and the Kingdom Star finally sailed away from the dock, revealing the azure sea before his eyes.

Chapter 93 Mabel praying...

“Mabel!” The new Queen Elisa pushed open the door and entered the room.

Mabel sat at the round table by the window, drinking tea, and turned to look at Elisa.

Elisa looked around but didn't see anyone else. Disappointed, she asked, "Has Eleanor already left?"

“She left this morning, and specifically told me not to tell you.” Mabel put down her teacup. “She originally planned to travel by sea to Ashburn to catch a ship; she had already booked the ticket for the Kingdom Star.”

The red-haired girl grinned mischievously: "But I told her about the cruise ship environment I'd heard about, and she gave up on that idea. She decided to take the train first, then board a ship at the port closest to the Southern Continent. She should be on the train by now."

"I see." Elisa was a little disappointed. She took off her crown, casually placed it aside, and sat down opposite Mabel.

"Is there something wrong, Lisa?" Mabel noticed Lisa's tense waist, saw her inner turmoil, and poured her some black tea.

Elisa picked up her teacup and took a sip, her gaze fixed on the table, a mixture of confusion, relief, and annoyance in her eyes.

She looked up at Mabel and said, "That bastard might not be dead!"

Elisa was deeply moved upon receiving "Simon's message in a bottle." She hadn't expected the servant to know her birthday and prepare birthday wishes for her; he must have delivered it several days in advance.

After her eyes welled up with tears, Elisa gradually realized something was wrong.

Was that message in a bottle really prepared in advance by the male servant? Even if he did, why would he prepare it beforehand? Did he already know he couldn't send his blessings?

Elisa had been so preoccupied with her grief that she hadn't considered that possibility, but now that she was suspicious, she immediately found many inconsistencies.

Let's not talk about the light screen for now... Damn it, just thinking about it makes me angry. I thought I was raising a male servant, but it turns out the male servant used despicable means to seduce me into raising him!

Elisa thought of an archipelago proverb: "The best hunters often appear as the prey."

The male servant arranged everything. I thought I was spying on him in my journal, but actually he deliberately exposed himself to me. How is this any different from those exhibitionists in the archipelago!

No wonder the information in the log was always unclear and sometimes made me misunderstand. I thought there was something wrong with my intelligence, but now it seems that they were all traps set by the male servant!

The male servant knew everything from beginning to end about me pretending to be a busty teacher and using the magic mirror to make money!

After taking a big gulp of black tea, Elisa tried to calm herself down and continued to think about the flaws left by the male servant.

The biggest flaw is that he already knew about Alysander's resurgence, and he had Susanna and the others leave the capital to hide several days before the fog incident.

In addition, he misappropriated the "Lighthouse" funds a second time, taking cash. I searched everywhere but couldn't find where he had put the £13 in cash.

His extraordinary items, including the extraordinary materials obtained from the "Gateway in the Woods" ritual, have also mysteriously disappeared.

It's important to know that the backlash from the "Fire Thief" only erases the user's "fate" and does not affect other items. His clothes were preserved, but the extraordinary items and materials disappeared!

I used to think that he had destroyed them all, but now it seems more likely that he took them with him!

“I did a lot of research. There are many other stories, but I’ll just mention one.” Elisa looked at Mabel. “Eve and Maria said they wanted to resign from the manor. I thought that although they had forgotten Simon, the sadness still lingered, so I gave them a leave of absence to rest for a while.”

"And then?" Mabel asked.

"And then they disappeared!" Elisa slammed her hand on the table. "Neither the intelligence agencies in the capital nor the archipelago could find them! How could two ordinary people vanish so completely!"

"So?" Mabel blinked.

"So, it must have been Simon who took them away. Simon was closest to them at the manor! I checked... I saw Simon before, asking them if they wanted to switch jobs together. Now that I think about it, he was planning to take the two of them with him and fake his death to escape!"

Mabel lowered her head and thought for a moment, then asked in confusion, "But ordinary people have already forgotten Mr. Simon."

Elisa remained silent. This was the biggest point of contention in Simon's theory of feigned death. Apart from the superhumans and Mabel, who had unexpectedly become a superhuman, all the ordinary people had forgotten about the male servant, including Susanna.

If the male servant hadn't died, why did the side effect of the "Fire Stealer" breaking down his destiny still occur?

Or perhaps the male servant died, but then came back to life?

But the power of "revival" involves the authority of gods, and must be at least at the level of angels. How could a male servant possibly possess it?

Is it "Alisand's finger bone"? But even Alisand herself needed someone else's body to be resurrected, let alone her male servant.

There are too many suspicious points and too many unreasonable things in this story, but the male servant has many unreasonable aspects from the moment he appears.

Elisa chose to trust her intuition and give herself a glimmer of hope.

She looked at Mabel intently: "Anyway, I think that bastard is still alive. Mabel, how come you're not angry at all?"

Mabel shook her head: "Wouldn't it be better if Mr. Simon were still alive? Why be angry?"

“He abandoned us and ran away, making us heartbroken for so long!” Elisa clenched her fists.

“Mr. Simon must have had a compelling reason,” Mabel said calmly.

"No matter what his reasons are, I'll remember this grudge! I'm going to find him, and then, heh heh... Since he can be resurrected, I can drain his blood without any problems." Elisa's face was sinister.

“How is Elisa going to find Mr. Simon?” Mabel asked.

“Ordinary people have no memory of him, and all the information about him is gone. It’s very difficult to find him through legitimate means.”