Aria's nameless father actually carries a royal blood so basically aria is also a royal bl...

I am sorry for the misunderstading..








I just read this so I am so sorry but they say that aria's father is actually a duke or a marquis son(I'm not sure what it is actually)

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Big spoiler about Aria’s dad and paternal grandparents




I think the dad is a marquis or a count at first, but his dad (so aria’s granddad) is indeed a duke in a neighbouring country. Her hourglass ability comes from her dad’s mother (so her grandmother, also the current duchess in that neighbouring country) specifically!

If I remember well, Aria doesn’t have a drop of royal blood, it’s from her grandmother who had to get married to a royal in the country Aria lives in now. During the wedding ceremony of a member of the royal family, the partner that isn’t a royal has to drink water from a special pond in the castle. I think her grandmother was pregnant already or got pregnant by the duke around that time?
So Aria doesn’t have royal blood, but the pond water her grandmother drank granted them the possibility of having an ability.
This also explains why Aria has to sleep so much after using the hourglass: because she’s not a “pure” blood or whatever, the drawback is huge on her body.

*Also abilities are extremely rare, even among the royal family.

And if anyone wonders why the grandmother is now the duchess: her “cheating” was found out and she was cast aside along with her son.
She was in love with the duke of that other country from the beginning btw. I’m pretty sure she didn’t want to get married to the royal guy, but was forced to!!! (⊙…⊙ )

He is the son of a marquis but from another country. The reason why Aria has her power (the hourglass) is because her father's mother used to be married into the royal family of the nation Aria lives in, I believe, but was shunned and kicked out because she had a son with another man (the son is Aria's father). In the duration of her stay with the royal family the mother actually ended up touching? drinking? the source of the powers the royal family has, which is a fountain of some type of holy water. Because of that Aria ended up with her power and is also why she could technically be considered "royal".