When the plot-skips players into the game world

Chapter 260 "Night Rabbit Secret Continuation

After returning to the Hall of Silver and Tin, Lily began to confirm the items she needed to bring for the journey tomorrow.

She hummed a tune softly, vivaciously double-checking her luggage.

Actually, compared to Aiwass, it was Lily who was more excited about the trip. She was truly looking forward to this journey.

Since birth, she had never left Glass Island—before joining the Moriarty Family, she lived in the Lohar District; and afterwards, she moved to the White Queen District.

Even before Aiwass took her to the Hall of Silver and Tin to request a spot for her from Isabel... Lily had not left Moriarty Manor for several years, let alone the White Queen District and Glass Island.

It wasn't that Aiwass didn't give her time off.

It was because Lily would use her rare vacation days to read, to enrich herself.

——However, this wasn't because Lily disliked going out.

On one hand, she had little free time to begin with, and she yearned for reading; the reason she wanted to read was because she instinctively didn't want to live out her days as an ignorant maid, blundering aimlessly through life.

In this regard, it was evident that Lily indeed had the insatiably greedy Drost Blood flowing within her.

On the other hand... it was because Lily didn't want to leave Aiwass for too long.

Because she had read many books, she knew more than the other servants. Hence, she understood that girls who served as personal maids generally weren't as fortunate as herself.

To have regular holidays, generous wages, be allowed to read the master's books, to sometimes dine together when there are no outsiders, and to serve a master who is as young, intelligent, handsome, and gentle...

Lily knew she was lucky.

Therefore, she did not wish to miss out on this fortune.

Even on her days off, she was reluctant to leave Moriarty Manor. What if Aiwass needed her precisely on the day she took her holiday? What if Aiwass had an accident the day she wasn't at home? What if someone else took care of Aiwass by then, and when she returned, she was no longer his personal maid?

After all, in Avalon, real, influential figures generally did not have personal maids. Explore more stories at My Virtual Library Empire

Heirs of such families usually were accompanied by personal male servants from a young age.

They were stronger and more robust, able to help with heavy lifting, and could protect their master. Growing up together, they were often closer than real brothers, exploring everywhere side by side. They could serve as chauffeurs, bodyguards, cooks, assistants, secretaries... This was far more liberated than the personal maids, who need to maintain beauty and decorum.

In the past, Edward had not yet joined the Supervisory Court, so he could have inherited the Moriarty Family. Thus, James was assigned as Edward's manservant, and a maidservant for Aiwass.

After that, Edward joined the Supervisory Court. According to Avalon's rules, one cannot engage in family business after joining the Supervisory Court—to prevent abuse of power. Mainly, because the Inspectors' primary duties are to monitor the various Knight Families.

In other words.

"...Huh?"

Lily suddenly paused, her eyes slightly widened in surprise.

Her power from the Path of Adaptation suddenly calmed her down.

"Why..."

She was astonished by her own sudden wild fantasies.

It was then that Lily felt a slight anomaly in the room.

Guided by an indistinct urge within her, she walked over.

She found it was the birdcage the young master had left on his desk during the day.

Inside the cage was supposed to be a book. It was the "Morning Crow Scripture" the young master had been reading a few days ago, during which his clothes had burned off and his hair had grown longer.

——But.

Lily's eyes suddenly widened, her heart skipping a beat, "The book... it's gone?"

Where the book should have been inside the birdcage, there was now a snow-white rabbit.

The rabbit's crimson gaze fixed upon her, unblinkingly causing Lily some unease.

But what really made her anxious was that the young master's Codex Book was gone.

"Damn it, how could this..."

Lily walked over subconsciously, wanting to check if the rabbit was sitting on the book.

But as she neared the rabbit, a hallucination suddenly appeared before her eyes—

She saw the birdcage door suddenly fling open, and the rabbit leaped out from inside.

The world around her instantly turned into a snowy landscape—she was no longer in the room, but found herself amidst a deep, snowy night.

The rabbit glanced back at her before running ahead.

"Don't run!"

A surge of intense irritation and raging anger welled up inside Lily, her sanity vanishing without a trace.

Unaware of how abnormal this snowy night was, she instinctively chased after it, "Come back here!"