Beyond the Bloodline-Chapter 407: An Unexpected Reunion

Miranda arrived at the Argent Empire’s highest-level security prison, opening her pocket dimension to pull out the sealed Eldros with the intent of throwing him inside.

However, just as she was about to do so, her slowly expanding perception picked up several familiar presences gathered on the capital planet of the Argent Empire.

She froze mid-action, her attention immediately shifting as Eldros was momentarily forgotten, and in the next second, she was shooting through space straight toward Volarth.

With an eruption of flames, she appeared inside the main hall of the Imperial Palace that she shared with Jamie as the Rulers of the Argent Empire.

Inside the grand hall, along with the Captains of the Imperial Knights, several of the Empire’s highest-ranking military generals, and even her pet butterfly Lillie, stood three women whose faces Miranda knew all too well, though she had never expected to see them here.

The first was her dark-silver-haired and bright grey-eyed in-law, Jamie’s younger sister and Kaiser’s twin, Laura Fannie Westley.

The other two women were identical in appearance, both resembling Miranda herself, though their features were a bit sharper and they looked slightly older. Their hair was a deeper shade of purple compared to Miranda’s lighter purple-silver, but their eyes mirrored her own, or at least how they had once been before she became a Hybrid and her left eye turned blue.

Before Miranda could utter a single word after appearing, the three women, who had been arguing while those nearby refrained from stepping in out of equal parts respect for their identities and fear of drawing their ire, turned toward her, and within seconds, Miranda found herself wrapped in the simultaneous embrace of all three.

"Eh?" "Eh???" "Eeehhhh???"

Those were the confused sounds that escaped the three women as their arms tangled with one another in their attempt to all hug Miranda at the same time.

Their gazes immediately locked, and before the other two could react, Laura grabbed Miranda by the waist from behind and pulled her away, taking several steps back as she shouted, "Hands off Mira, you two!"

That single action was enough to make the two purple-haired women snap.

Their brows twitched, strands of their hair standing on end in response to their emotions, and their nails extended into claws while waves of magic power burst from them, slamming the nearby officers and knights against the walls.

""You thieving dog!""

"!!"

If there was one thing sure to enrage a werewolf, it was being called a dog, and the two had just done exactly that.

Laura’s grey eyes glowed with a dangerous light as her arms transformed into full wolf arms, the ears on the sides of her head vanished, replaced by two wolf ears atop her head.

Her magic power and cosmic energy flooded outward, colliding with that of the other two.

A fight was clearly about to break out, but thankfully, Miranda was there to stop it.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, what the hell is going on?"

She turned toward Laura, her confused expression changing into a faint frown as she spoke. "Put me down, Laura."

Laura reluctantly complied, though her arms remained loosely wrapped around Miranda.

Turning toward the other two women, Miranda asked, "What are you guys doing here?"

The moment she addressed them, their earlier anger disappeared as if it had never existed. They closed the distance to Miranda in an instant and pulled her from Laura’s arms as they exclaimed.

"Mira dear, it’s been so long! We’ve missed you!" the one on the left said.

"Why don’t you call us Big Sisters like before?" the other added with a warm smile.

Miranda’s brow twitched slightly at that, her pupils darting to the Argent officials in the hall before returning to the two women.

"What are both of you doing here, SISTERS?" she asked, deliberately emphasising the last word.

Her tone might have been pointed, but to her doting elder sisters, it only came across as cute, and the two of them laughed softly.

Miranda’s elder sisters, the twins Leia and Lashley, resembled each other so closely that anyone outside the family usually found it difficult to tell them apart.

They shared the same affinities for the same universal laws, had reached almost identical levels of comprehension, and could even exchange their powers.

Leia could use Lashley’s Skills and Authorities, and Lashley could use Leia’s as well.

Unless one was Miranda, their three brothers, their parents, or a few close cousins, telling one from the other was almost impossible.

But as mentioned before, Miranda always knew who was who.

Identical twins or not, they were still two separate individuals and distinct existences. For example, their blood wasn’t the same, and Miranda could sense that immediately through her vampiric side.

Putting that aside, Leia, Lashley, and Laura had clearly been arguing moments before Miranda arrived, and Miranda was curious, both about what they had been quarrelling over and why her elder sisters were even in the Argent Empire.

"I thought both of you were supposed to be with Mum and Dad. Why are you here?"

At her question, Leia and Lashley’s playful expressions faded into neutrality before Leia spoke, her tone calm but edged with unease.

"Ah, yes... there’s been a bit of an issue, Mira."

Miranda blinked. "An issue?"

She turned toward the assembled high-ranking officials of the Argent Empire, and among them, Althalos stepped forward.

"Your Majesty," he said respectfully, "it would be better if you simply reviewed this."

He extended his hand and presented a glowing cylindrical memory crystal to Miranda, which had clearly been prepared in anticipation of her arrival.

Miranda willed it into her hand and grabbed it, scanning its contents to uncover everything that had occurred in the past six months while she and the others were away.

It contained all the information she’d missed, the details that hadn’t appeared in the periodic reports sent to her while she was in ZWF4105, and everything that Jamie was, at that moment, being told on Estea’s moon.

Miranda’s expression went through several changes that everyone in the hall silently observed, moving from initial annoyance at yet another prison break to confusion over how the matter had escalated so drastically, then back to annoyance, followed by satisfaction at the backlash faced by the Supremes responsible for her earlier irritation, before returning to confusion once more, and finally ending in shock as she reached the same piece of information that Jamie had just uncovered.

She lifted her gaze toward Leia and Lashley, blinking in disbelief as she stammered, "Wait a... Is this true? What—?"

She couldn’t even form a complete sentence, too stunned to articulate her thoughts.

"Yes, it’s true," Leia and Lashley replied almost in unison. "It’s part of the reason we came looking for you, only to find out you weren’t even in the universe."

Miranda went silent at their words, and immediately after, Laura spoke, her tone laced with irritation.

"I’ve told you both over and over that information is obviously false!"

Leia and Lashley instantly countered together, ""And we’ve told you there must be some truth behind it!""

"Even if the information itself is false, it couldn’t have come from nowhere. There has to be a truth at the roots that someone coined this false claim from," Lashley added.

Laura didn’t even take a moment to consider their words.

"No. There is no root. Everything about it is false."

She stepped closer to the Scott twins, her eyes narrowing as she spoke.

"You two never knew Angela Cathedral personally, never even met her, but I did, and I’m sure even her children would agree with me that there’s no way in the entire Cosmos she’d ever let something as important as the blueprints of what she considered her ’greatest creation’ end up in someone else’s hands."

She spoke with conviction, remembering her past encounters with Angela. From everything she had seen of the woman, Laura was certain Angela would never let another woman, especially a Witch, possess such information.

That was why Laura had dismissed the claim outright.

"There’s no connection between Angela Cathedral and the Witch of Mercury," she continued. "The only thing linking them is that they both came from the now-dead Mercury Galaxy, and the Witch of Mercury just happened to be the only one who survived after Angela wiped the entire place out.

That’s probably how she’s somehow still alive even while being hunted by thousands of Law Echo Realms in the Tau Galaxy right now."

Laura’s reasoning was sound, but Leia and Lashley had their own arguments ready.

However, before they could say anything, they both realised that while Laura had been speaking, Miranda had disappeared from the hall without a single word.