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My head canon is when they were found, Elena immediately let go of the Mikado's mother and didn't fight for their relationship because of noble's duty. But I think Elena is trying to be a strong figure to the point she rival the King so when she went to Mikado's mother, no one will oppose... but she was too late tho.
Also Mikado is 1 year younger too maybe because his mom decided that for Elena to really let go, she needed to be "happy". She got the resolve and wanted the best for Elena and that's not her. ╥﹏╥
Honestly I am glad the second generation with the boys got their happy ending and their story turned out so sweet (=・ω・=)
But I can't help but wish we got more info about the mother's love story from the past and also both Male leads backgrounds in detail. Like Aloy's mother, was she a window/or maybe the king's mistress? Because they said the king would visit their castle often and her power as Marquess was said to be second to none in the kingdom...And she seemed to have loved Midory's mother Elena but cause of her duties to carry on the Aram family name they broke up? So what happened to Elena and Midory after this for her to die so tragically with her son being left alone to poverty? It seemed so interesting to get to know more of these but the story seem to only focus on the "secret/forbidden relationship" of the boys and left the rest unexplored which was a bit of a shame... (￣∇￣)
Oh and one last thing to mention is that I love how the mother was so supportive after realizing they were being serious about eo and didn't force them to make the same mistake she did...Well I think the reason also lied in the fact that the sons seemed to have a stronger resolve here and the mothers gave up on eo without as much of a fight...But I mean we do lack the details so we can't even tell what their situation was like back then...