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[PRESENT]
Eclipse still remembered that conversations he had with the Marquis from that time and with his stage acting, the Marquis find a reasonable excuse to confine the Marchioness within her quarters for an indefinite period of time.
For sure, while the Marchioness was detained and locked to her own quarters, the Marquis could now move properly without being watched or spied about since the Marchioness was out of the picture for a while however, Eclipse knew that it won't be that long.
'I have a feeling that the Emperor also knew about this matter, but it seems like those two acted as if it was nothing. Also, there are some information that wasn't match neither within the [System Archive] nor my vague memories from my first life as Ezekiel.'
Of course, given that his memories from his first life couldn't be counted as an actual information gathering since Eclipse couldn't remember most of it and could only have vague details from it, he could only rely on the details within the [System Archive] that he had with him.
Since the novel worldline of [Mystique Enchantress] only focuses on the heroine and her six male leads in a romantic-fantasy school setting, other irrelevant or minor characters aren't that important, and they only serves as a steppingstone for the main characters development throughout the entire story.
And of course, one of the minor characters was Eclipse, current identity as Ezekiel Zephyr Chevalier, a minor villain in the early volume of [Mystique Enchantress], a noble young master who was a mediocre and an outcast amongst his fellow peers.
'Yeah, right. Your typical cliché fantasy world plot of a minor villain's role for the sake of the development of the main characters and would be treated as nothing but mere cannon fodders….'
Well, Eclipse had played plenty of roles because of his job as a dimensional traveler who transverses the stars and space to enter different worldlines, however, never had he taken roles that would be considered as villains or cannon fodders.
'Sometimes, I do wonder if Sir Raven had a hand for all my mission task roles since aside from the fact that he's one of the Higher Councils within the Dimensional Department, he is also one of the direct subordinates of HIM…'
No matter how he thought about it, after millennium years as a dimensional traveler, Eclipse never got an answer to that matter.
In the original script, Ezekiel was first introduced as a bad-tempered, ill-mannered young master with a sharp tongue that would often lash out with everyone he sees.
Because of his inability to possess his family's bloodline ability, Ezekiel became jealous of his three older half-siblings and whenever he went, he was always being compared to them and his temper became worse as days went by.
However, Aryna Asterrix, his biological mother, taught Ezekiel to never abuse his authority or took advantage of his family's name to bully or undermine other lower-rank noble children.
Ezekiel was raised by his mother alone before the Marquis found them.
Yes, that's right.
Ezekiel wasn't born within the Marquis Chevalier household because his biological mother, Aryna Asterrix, accidentally shared a one passionate night with Marquis Augustus Rynus Chevalier and the next day, after knowing the identity of the man she shared a night with, she immediately fled away and cried out of shame because of what happened.
She went hiding and never confided in her family about the incident that happened to her and after a month had passed, she learned that she's pregnant with the Marquis' child.
Aryna Asterrix might be the eldest young lady of the Asterrix family and her father, the one who leads the Merchant Alliance as the Headmaster, within the eyes of the noble society, Aryna Asterrix is still a commoner at birth.
She didn't tell her family about her pregnancy and after months had passed; she gave birth to a son and chose to run away with her newborn baby. She knew her son wouldn't be accepted within the noble society because of his half-blood lineage, and she didn't want her family to bear the shame that she did and gone into hiding for eight years.
Of course, Ezekiel's background origin came from the [System Archive] when Eclipse was thrown back to his original world and for some reason, even though Eclipse doesn't have Silver with him as his system guide and companion, he can still access his own system interface, which makes things a lot easier for him.
'However, it's a shame that the Marquis' trusted subordinates managed to find them. I vaguely remember that they didn't force us to come with them but gave us some time to think about it. In the end, my mother reluctantly agreed, and they escorted both of us back to the Marquis Chevalier household.'
Back then, he was just a child who craved paternal affection, since he saw that most kids his age had a father with them, unlike him.
'Just thinking about how immature and pathetic I am for begging familial affection to my oh-so-called father of mine, it cringes the hell out of me and almost wanted to puke myself in disgust.'
It's been more than a week since the incident happened, and at the moment, he is still in his temporary quarters as his old quarters are still under renovation because of the incident that happened there.
Although Eclipse wasn't the type of person to be sentimental over things however, he didn't want to move out from that place because for him, it holds the last piece that connects him to his late biological mother who died five years ago.
'But at the same time, I won't be here that long enough. At the end, I'll abandoned everything from here…'
They weren't in the main household, as requested by his late biological mother, who wasn't comfortable to be within the presence of the main family members. Especially, the Marchioness.
'Tsk! Just thinking about that old hag, it disgusted me to the core that I wanted to rip off her neck!'
Eclipse refused to be part of that family, and it disgusted him to the point that whenever someone addressed him as "young master Ezekiel", or "third young master" by the people around him, he almost lash out to them and almost forgot that he's a traumatized teenager who was a victim of "assault" by the Marchioness.
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