After Lily returned to the Silver and Tin Palace, she began checking what she needed to bring for tomorrow's trip.
She hummed softly as she cheerfully went over her luggage again and again.
Actually, compared with Iver, Lily was the one more excited about the trip. She was genuinely looking forward to it.
She had never left Glass Island since the day she was born. Before entering the Moriarty Family, she had lived in Lloyd District; afterward, she had gone to White Queen District.
Even before Iver took her to the Silver and Tin Palace and asked Isabel to secure her a place at the school... Lily had already gone several years without leaving Moriarty Manor, let alone White Queen District or Glass Island.
It wasn't that Iver refused to give her time off.
It was because Lily used her rare holidays to study and improve herself.
—However, that wasn't because Lily disliked going out.
For one thing, she didn't have much free time to begin with, and she yearned to study. The reason she wanted to study was that, instinctively, she didn't want to spend the rest of her life as an ignorant maid, muddling through each day.
In that respect, it also proved that the insatiable blood of the Drosts truly flowed through Lily's veins.
On the other hand... Lily didn't want to be away from Iver for too long.
Because she had read so many books, she knew more about the world than the other servants. Thus, she knew that girls who served as personal maids were generally not as fortunate as she was.
They had scheduled holidays, generous wages, permission to read their masters' books, and sometimes even the chance to eat with them when there were no outsiders around. Moreover, the master they served was