"Once more, welcome to the Lionheart family. Thank you for coming," Gilead commenced the dialogue as he sat before Eugene, Sienna, and Kristina in the family's reception room. The conversation proceeded naturally and casually.

Oh, thank you for acknowledging Eugene as your successor.

Ah, how could I not take such an exceptional child as my successor?

"Please feel free to speak casually,” Gilead said after a while.

Sienna would not typically refuse such an invitation. Rather, she might have eased into speaking casually even before Gilead suggested it, and Sienna herself thought this was the norm.

Why wouldn't it be? After all, it was a fact that Sienna had been alive for more than three hundred years.

Gilead looked to be middle-aged, while Sienna was a youthful, pure young lady in appearance. But regardless of their exterior, Gilead was a distant descendant of Vermouth to Sienna.

'Right? You guys would prefer that, too, right? You know your grandfather’s grandfather, your ancestor Vermouth… I used to casually banter with him. Ah, you know, I thought I was going to die having to speak all spiffy.’

She desired to say such words, but she held herself back. She couldn’t speak such words here, not in the Lionheart mansion — the reason being solely Eugene, who was sitting next to her.

"Hmm… no, it's okay. I respect my friend Vermouth, and in the same manner, I respect his descendants, the Lionheart clan, you all, in short." Sienna played coy. She didn’t think it would give off a good impression acting so casually in front of Eugene’s foster father, foster mother, and his birth father.

Simply put, Sienna held a somewhat romanticized view of calling them by their formal titles such as mother-in-law, father-in-law, father, mother, etcetera.…

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