'Ruth' blinked with interest, ready to have a long talk with dear Lucimar that lasted all night.
A chill ran through Lucimar as he gathered information, and he couldn't help looking back. With things already this bad, what worse luck could possibly be waiting for him?
Life had grown a little too exciting, but Lucimar still overcame every obstacle and pinned down all the information he wanted. Some of it came straight from 'Ruth' herself.
After all, there were things Ruth would never tell him, but 'Ruth' would.
In the end, they found a clue: the lady had vanished completely during the social seasons twelve and fifteen years ago.
Link that to Lucia's appearance, and it was obvious Lucimar's replacement had already been born.
But there was something Lucimar couldn't understand.
His father must have made some agreement with the Ismail Family when he arrived in this world, which made him particularly sensitive to the existence of his own children. That intuition was rooted in the laws themselves. It would be hard to hide anything from him.
If the lady really had secretly borne children twice without Grand Sage Ismael knowing, only a fool would fail to realize something was wrong, wouldn't he?
Ismael might have blinded himself to her smaller schemes out of lingering guilt and affection. Especially after one of his lovers had harmed Lucimar, the Grand Sage had genuinely overlooked quite a few of his wife's little moves.
Perhaps he felt that, though he could not hurt his other lover and child over it, he had no right to interfere if his wife took revenge herself.
Maybe he still carried an attitude from his previous world: women should fight their own battles, and women should stay out of men's. Even in this world, where gender meant nothing