"I heard from Laxus that the line was so long that you guys waited there for a long time. Is it true? I mean, was the wait really as long as he said? I'm curious to know more details about the situation since you, Lucy, not only dislike waiting but also get very annoyed when you're surrounded by people"
Mirajane asked, still with her attention focused on Lucy's beautiful blonde hair.
"That was a true hell. I don't even want to comment on that anymore"
Lucy replied with a hint of indignation in her voice, but still 100% focused on the television.
"I don't know why they're postponing the revelation of the chosen ones for a few more days. I'm almost certain that everyone from Magnolia was there"
My father said, in response to my indignation, while letting out a small laugh and making almost everyone in the room laugh along with him.
Laxus, with a mocking look on his face, addressed me provocatively:
"Did you have fun while analyzing your competitors, Lu-chan?"
He knew very well that all of that really irritated me, but I, being a generous sister, for a second thought he was just asking me a normal question, like an older brother would. However, after I saw that mocking smile, I finally realized he was clearly trying to deliberately annoy me.
Just as I was about to get up from the couch and start what seemed like a pointless argument with my brother, I was caught off guard by the sound of the national anthem coming from the television indicating that the news had started.
Immediately after the national anthem ended, a coat of arms of the Kingdom of Fiore appeared on the screen with the following message: Urgent announcement from the royal family. Upon seeing that, I looked at my family, and by their reaction, they were also concerned about what was to come.
(Who knows, maybe some war broke out somewhere and now they were trying to recruit some soldiers.)
Lucy thought with an indifferent expression on her face as she stared at her older brother, since he was the only male member of the family who could still be called to war if any summons were to happen, but before I could say anything, I was taken out of my thoughts again by the sound of the television.
After that, I turned around and was faced with a portrait of the royal family all gathered together. In the middle, Queen Grandeeney sat on her throne with all the elegance and grandeur of a true queen and, to her left, the spoiled princess Wendy with her long blue hair, and a little further away, to be more specific, behind the queen, Prince Natsu with that pink hair that, for some reason, caught a bit of my attention. But among them, there were two more people who, unfortunately, were no longer with us, and they were: the former king, son of Queen Grandeeney, Igneel, with his blank expression that gave off a vibe of a calm and serene king, but appearances were deceiving, he was actually cruel and terrifying when he was on the battlefield, but aside from all that, one of his positive points was his gentle smile that I didn't know how a person who was both cruel and cold at the same time could also be gentle and affectionate like that, and his wife Queen Mavis was the complete opposite of her husband she was beautiful and smiling, with those blonde hair like the sun and it was not for nothing that she earned the title of princess of the rising sun.
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"Mom?"
Lucy whispered cautiously as she nudged her mother and at the same time glanced at her father so as not to distract him since he was so engrossed in the television.
"What is it?"
Layla responded also in a soft whisper, indicating that she was completely open and receptive to hearing what her daughter had to say.
"I was kind of curious, but what was Queen Mavis before the Selection?"
Lucy asked, trying to hide her curiosity a little without showing that she was really interested in that subject.
"Queen Mavis, before her ascension to the throne, if I'm not mistaken, I think she was a simple 'five.' She had no real status or connection to royalty before being chosen as one of the participants in the Selection"
My mother replied quickly, simply, and precisely, so that I wouldn't ask any more questions and also to not extend that conversation, senseless for a few more minutes.
The former queen, having been a 'five' before becoming a royal, most likely learned some kind of musical instrument in her childhood. After all, to support herself, she was certainly either a singer or a dancer. But whatever she was before she joined the royal family, she certainly did it in a majestic way. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to attract King Igneel's attention, she could only be a girl brimming with talent. But I can't blame them either, it's easy to love someone full of talent. It's hard to love someone who, apart from having nothing, only knew how to carry sacks of manure and saddle horses. That was sad.
But even with all these inconveniences of fate (my mother), I didn't care, after all I didn't even want to become queen or anything like that. So, if I could do anything to make this selection go wrong for me, you can be sure that I would manipulate it into happening. Of course, without my mother knowing, otherwise I'd basically be signing my suicide will, if she didn't find out about my betrayal first and then break up with me, which would be murder.
Meanwhile, in our living room, after the newspaper has shown a portrait of all the members of the royal family from a few years ago, out of nowhere everything goes black again and then the camera pans back to Queen Grandeeney.
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