"You will never understand the Ancestor's greatness."
The Third Generation's younger daughter replied softly to Shade. With her right hand, she lifted the young dragon she had been holding in her arms. As black light gathered around her hand, the dragon transformed into a massive black sword whose surface patterns seemed to breathe. The sword did not resemble metal at all, but some kind of living substance. Even Shade could not identify it.
"Was that scene just now meant to show me your twisted feelings for your brother?"
Rather than discussing whether the "Ancestor" was great, Shade asked directly. Gluttony Edwards nodded lightly, her voice clear and cold:
"That woman did not belong to the Edwardz family. Giving the family three children was already more than enough. Though the Ancestor considered it necessary, her bloodline still tainted the family's purity. I always knew she was unworthy of my brother, and her descendants were unworthy of inheriting my brother's bloodline."
Shade looked at the madwoman before him.
"What exactly are you trying to tell me?"
"The fourth generation's bloodline was tainted because of that woman. Fortunately, at my pleading, the ancestor preserved one branch of the family's pure bloodline. Last time, didn't you come here with her?"
Gluttony Edwards asked Shade. The armor around her neck liquefied, and the liquid armor multiplied upward, becoming a helmet that gradually enclosed her head while leaving room for her two pairs of horns.
"Pure bloodline."
Realizing something, Shade's pupils contracted as he looked at her. The woman nodded slightly.
"That woman believed Alphonse really was merely a child my brother had adopted according to Father's wishes. But in truth, Alphonse was—"
"Wait! Don't tell me!"
Shade swung his sword forward, completely unwilling to hear about the origins of Megan and Audrey's father. If it