Levis was entertaining Bosky Pansy, a viscount—an elite Earth Knight of the pill-taking school, born into the Pansy Family.
This family's fief was located in Rainbow City on Blue Dragon Island. They were also a count's family.
The family was prolific, and most of its members served in the Blue Blood Knights—indeed, families like the Pansy Family were known as the Blue Blood Alliance, meaning "an alliance of families vassal to the Blue Blood Knights." They were not standard noble lords, but nobles of a pioneering nature.
They were the Sapphire Family's whip of power. They held no large islands as fiefs and engaged in no production; all their wealth came from rewards and plunder.
The Blue Blood Alliance generally intermarried within its own small circle and maintained a considerable distance from the fief lords.
Moreover, female members of the Sapphire Family who were not from the direct line would usually become the mistresses of families within the Blue Blood Alliance, helping the Sapphire Family maintain control over the alliance. For instance, Bosky's mother, the countess of Rainbow City, was the Sapphire Grand Duke's distant niece.
Levis wanted to pry some information from Bosky, but received no direct response. "My apologies, Sir Levis. I don't know what has happened. I only know that the Grand Duke ordered me to deliver this decree, obey the Count's command, and carry out the Grand Duke's next orders."
"Of course. The Grand Duke's decree is the guiding principle of our Tulip Family's actions." Levis could only trade courtesies with him.
Elsewhere.
In the study, William Tulip had already opened the letter with its black cover. The Sapphire Dragon seal on it was perfectly intact, proving that it had indeed come from the Grand Duke rather than being forged.
Together with the three-masted fast sailing