Chapter 17: Captain Vivian Moore
Motivation is a strong thing. Motivation moves mountains, recurves rivers, raises up civilizations, and razes down others. To a certain Edith, motivation came from duty.
What is duty? It is a sense of responsibility that originates from listening to a higher calling as a source of belief. Some see their jobs as their duty from the belief that they become better people through it, thus it acts as the motivation to push them further and further through the golden path of glory.
Edith Black is nothing but that, a force driven by belief and a perfectionist chasing after a dream. She is a patriot who believes in the Empire despite the fact that her family does a lot of dirty laundry for the King.
That was also used in the most cunning way by her brother Edmond, who kindly suggested that she may lead the investigation of the Murder of the Baron’s Son. Why would he be so kind? Well, aside from the fact that someone as diligent as he likes to keep throwing his tasks around for his overqualified underlings, he knows how his sister’s mindset works.
Edith Black is a loyal fanatic for the Empire even among her family that is considered to be the most loyal to the Crown. To her, the existence of a person whom the Royal Family cast away is the most abhorrent thing in the world.
Vivian Moore is such a person to Edith.
She was the Prince’s Fiancée until she acted out of manner and disturbed the Prince, causing her to fall out of favor and be cast away. Even when the Royal Family decided to get rid of her, she refused to go down without a fight and her family assassinated the groom picked by the Crown.
Now Edith wasn’t an idiot or a simple-minded person. She would have done the same, but she is not the same. House Black doesn’t only protect the Empire from the outside but also from the inside as they are the only House aside from the Royal Family that can confront and punish other aristocrats.
Also, House Moore is important and strong, they have a lot of wealth and they fund the Empire’s most crucial operations. But Vivian, she’s a bad weed. A family is normally driven to protect its members and no matter what, the Empire must not have someone like that in the High Society.
With those thoughts in her teenage tomboy head, Edith walked down from her carriage accompanied by ten knights of her family that may be necessary to act as an arrest force.
"Standby." She spoke as she stepped forward on her own.