March 1, morning.
Avalon, Glass Island, Silver and Tin Palace.
Isabel had eaten breakfast early and was sitting in the study, intently looking through something.
But she wasn't handling documents. She was secretly reading a novel.
It was a "banned book" that had recently begun circulating quietly throughout Avalon—a story about the political struggle and office romance between Minister of Everything Iver and Queen Isabel.
This was mainly because Iver and Isabel were both young, attractive, and accomplished at an early age. Combined with Iver's previous scandal with Miss Aleister, this young Minister of Everything, exceptionally appointed by the former queen, had become the young queen's rival and ally in the public imagination.
Normally, anything involving the royal family would definitely be discovered and dealt with immediately.
More likely than not, the author would end up as a piece of dried meat hanging in Gallows Square.
But after people bought and treasured it with pounding hearts and the thought, At last, I managed to get my hands on the legendary out-of-print banned book's glorious first issue today, they were surprised to discover that it hadn't been banned.
Not only had it not been banned, it was even being serialized!
People immediately connected it with the news from back then that "Miss Aleister was driven out of Avalon," and suddenly understood—oh, so that was what Her Majesty the Queen had meant.
So this was a royal-sanctioned—or even royal-supported—legitimate enterprise! In an instant, similar jokes and novels sprang up like mushrooms after the rain. Some were independently printed and sold, some were serialized in newspapers, and some artists even received commissions to draw similar pictures.
It was only because people still retained some sense that nobody had written an opera on the subject. The things mentioned earlier could still be explained as