The family had been left in shock over the announced death of the heirs father but they had been saved from hearing the cold and harsh truth.
With the current head of the family taking up the temporary role until one of the heirs is qualified to take up that place, many were putting their efforts even more towards supporting their chosen heir.
With Felice's growing political circle that she had grown over the years with attending many social gatherings, she was becoming a very promising candidate that was able to help the family gain support from outside influences.
The daughters of the noble families may not be able to have a great amount of power usually if there was a male heir but they were the ones that usually held great political power and were excellent at gathering information for their families.
They were able to report back to their families and let them know of potential ways that the Meridian family could cooperate with them which had made new alliances possible thanks to Felice's efforts.
There was already a large amount of support for her since she was the eldest child but there were those that supported Maximillion who was the eldest son, after her growing achievements she had been able to cause a slight shift and turn some people to her side due to the benefits gained.
Maximillion had made some achievements in the family techniques but he was still lacking in many areas as he was not showing great results in his other lessons which required imagination or the ability to think for himself.
He much preferred having a definite answer that was found in a book due to his upbringing that made him reliant on the ideas or decisions of others that he could follow without question.
He had grown up to dislike choosing between more than option available to him and he had often been told what was the most correct way to do things so he was not flexible enough to handle situations on his own.
Those conditions would make it difficult to handle as the head position when there was often many voices that would be voicing many different opinions which he would have to choose between or come to some compromises.
Pixel had recently been under greater pressure and her mother had received more scorn from those around her.
Even if it had been suppressed by the current head very publicly, there would still be those that would look for opportunities to bully those that seemed to be without power in the family and they would not fear that they would receive any punishment.
Those that were regarded as lesser than the heirs like Pixel would be judged by the family members or outsiders as those without the families support so many mistreatments would be ignored.
In some places in the world, a child that did not receive their fathers love due to various reasons would be ignored or neglected, the staff or other related family would take that neglect as a sign that something was wrong with the child and mistreat them.
Some children may suffer from their food and monthly supplies being syphoned off by those around them and the parent would not notice any difference due to their indifference and neglect.
Pixel's situation was not that harsh since her mother managed her family expenses and assets but she still had to receive and get used to the cold and mocking stares along with the occasional taunts from afar.
Ever since her previous release of Conquerers Haki, it had been kept quiet and not many talked about it due to the words of the family head but there were those that had later been intimidated by her glare when they crossed her bottom line which was her mother.
Milo had continued to show more of his bad behaviour and was greatly lacking when it came to maintaining the families face.
He lacked the awareness of what his actions or words would result in and he was very impulsive.
Without his main source to release his pent up anger, jealousy and embarrassment upon that was his twin sister, he had started to slip up a lot more as he could not hide his true self.
Even his mother was having a difficult time with him as he was growing older which showed how poorly she had raised him to make him how he had turned out and she had even less influence over her daughter who had stopped listening to her.
Cleo had taken more lessons with the family head and was slowly opening up and expressing her own needs and wants.
She was showing a little progress but she was still quite unsure of her place within the family as it would take some time to do so.
Meanwhile the family head was busy trying to keep the family going while dealing with internal and external issues but his meeting with Genghis Baan was beginning to show its results as he had called Pixel and brought her before him.
There was also a very unexpected surprise that would soon present itself and would leave her in great shock.
Something was happening somewhere else within Zou that involved a certain Mink and they would soon be fated to meet or hear about each other some time soon.