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there was an old lady who had a head condition/senility so she believes she is living in the world 10 years ago. the old lady worked at the castle and knew illian as the young lady of the house before her brother and mother died. the old lady first met with crystal when they went with milo to the village to see the apothecary and the old lady mentioned the 'young master and lady' which piqued crystal's curiosity. later, crystal sees illian smiling and realizes that it looks like the secret portrait they found with julia in the former duke's library (julia hinted to crystal that this was illian but left it as a mystery for crystal to solve). crystal realizes that the little girl in the portrait was illian and that they were both hiding their identities
So crystal knows that illan is a girl? I assumed before it was a mistranslation, knowing wouldn’t change much but with this chapter it made me curious