Chapter 28: Engagement and the Uninvited Guest

What did that child say just now? Marriage? Bloodstain? Splendid? Oh, a duel huh? I wish to duel with this Mochizuki Touya person. Yeah, I dont get it.

(tln: There are different kanji for marriageand bloodstain (), kekkon, but have the same reading which turns into splendid, kekkou, which further turns into duel, kettou. Its a stupid pun.)

Im sorry, but could you say that one more time, Yumina?

Like I said, I wish to marry Mochizuki Touya, father.

My my

At the Kings words, Princess Yumina repeated the same thing. Queen Yuela who was sitting beside the king opened her eyes wide and looked at her daughter.

The Duke was surprised as well? He glanced between niece and elder brother.

May I ask why?

Yes, there is the fact that you were saved, father the people that surround Touya-sama are all smiling. Uncle Alfred, Charlotte, as well as everyone else are so happy. He is a person of very desirable character. I wish to walk my live with this person. Its the first time Ive ever thought that.

I see.If you say as much there is no reason to object. Become happy

Father!

Please wait one moment!

I threw my hand up and butted into the conversation between parent and daughter. If I dont cut in now, it will become an even more confusing situation. No, its already plenty confusing right now!

Please dont move ahead without consulting the other party first please!

Oh, sorry about that. Please take good care of my daughter, Touya.-dono

Nononono! Thats strange! Your Majesty, youre strange!

I went and called the King you but I wasnt worried about it. My life hangs in the balance here!

Even if she is the princess of a single country, is it really alright for her to marry some guy you hardly know anything about!? I might actually be a nefarious villain you know!?

On that there is no mistake. Yumina recognized it so, at the very least you are no villain. She has the power of understanding the nature

Ha? She can understand the nature? What does that mean?

Yumina possess Evil perception. She has the power to see through to the true nature of a person. Well, you could call it intuition but, in Yuminas case, she has never been wrong.

The Duke explained. To sum it up, she can ascertain if a person is good or bad by instinct? Is that the power of heterochromia. Well if it were someone like Earl Balsa then it would be easy to tell if he was a villain, but if that ability was real, then she wouldnt be caught by a bad guy.

The princess doesnt seem like a bad person, but thats a different story.

Just how old is Princess Yumina anyways?

12 years old

Isnt marriage too early for!

No, people in the royal family regularly get engaged by 15. I myself was engaged to my wife at 14.

Gu. This is why different worlds are. My face looked like Id swallowed a bitter bug, there was a tight grasp on my coat sleeve.

Do you hate me, Touya-sama?

Princess Yumina looked at me with such sad eyes, Wai-, thats foul play! Thats unfair!

Ah- I dont hate you but

Then there is no problem, right!

Yumina broke into a sudden smile. How cutejanakute!

What should I do? I-its true that I dont really dislike this girl, I dont really have anyone I especially like either. Her parents have given their permission as well, there isnt a problem with the cost of living. Huh? There isnt any reason to refuse?

No! Marriage is lifes graveyard! My older brother cousin told me so!

He had a pregnancy marriage, and after 3 years got divorced. He didnt know why. After his wife pestered him he went and got a loan to buy a house, then he was thrown out. He had to keep paying the high loan payments and child rearing expenses for his children that he lives far away from. But, the ex-wife kept using the money however she pleased. When the family got together for New Years, everyone kept pouring sake to comfort him.

That cousins exhausted face floats in my mind.

Ok, Ill be a well-off bachelor nobleman! Well Im not a nobleman though!

In my country, men cant get married until 18 and women until 16. Furthermore, I dont know anything about the princess, so I cant think of getting married yet.

How old are you now Touya?

I am 15 years old. But, Ill be turning 16 soon.

I answered Queen Yuelas question. If I remember correctly my birthday should be about 2 months away. Im not sure if this worlds calendar matches this ones though.

Then the wedding will happen in two years. There shouldnt be a problem if you take the time to learn about her by then. So as the fianc youll have plenty of time to think about it Touya.

Wait wait wait, in 2 years Princess Yumina will be only 14 years old! This is bad, the Queen is strange too!

Touya-dono?

Yes!?

I let out a strange voice in reply to the King. It couldnt really be helped under the circumstances!

If after 2 years, you get to know Yumina and still cannot consider her for marriage then we will give up. Would that work for you?

Ha well, if its like that then.

Thats many times better than getting married all of a sudden, after a while they might cool off as well, some other man might come along too Then if they see reality and marry her to him then all the better. Arguing any further doesnt seem to do any good huh?

I gave up and accepted the conditions the other side had proposed.

Thats wonderful isnt it, Yumina. Catch Touyas heart in the next 2 years. If you do not we are sending you to the monastery, so be prepared.

Yes, mother!

Wait! What the heck is that!?

I was to rash after all! Its heavy! Far too heavy! What is this, my escape routes are being sealed one by one!

Why do I have to spend my entire life married to this girl? Isnt there someone better for her?!

I hope to get along with you from here, Touya-sama

The Princess had a shining smile. I on the other hand couldnt do anything but laugh dryly. I heard my cousins voice Dont become like me is what it felt like.

What the heck are you doing?

Well, Im not really sure whats going on myself

After returning to The Silver Moon I explained the entire situation to everyone, and Elise retorted in an astounded voice.

Touya-dono is going to get married degozaru?

What a surprise

Yae and Lindsey said with an astounded face, as they stared at the girl clinging to my left arm.

Thats right. She followed me back. It was this countrys princess

Ms. Yumina Elena Belfast.

Im Yumina Elena Belfast. I hope to get along with you all.

The princess politely bows her head at everyone while greeting them. She had an unbearably happy smile, it was heavy on my heart.

So? Why is the princess here?

Yes. As the person who saved my fathers life, I wanted to live together with Touya-sama. It seemed suitable for bridal training. I may trouble you as I am ignorant of the world but, I hope to get along with all of you.

Thats right. Right after that happened, the princess followed me. Just what was the King thinking? It is most important for her to learn about her partner. At least send a guard! Arent you at least worried about your daughter? Could it be that there are ninjas in the ceiling?

Just when I thought that, there was a noise in the ceiling Its just a rat, right?

Live together, here? Is it really alright with you being the princess?

What Elise said was most reasonable. I thought so as well. Until now, she had been surrounded by many employees, and had everything prepared for her.

Honestly, it was considerably painful and I wished she would go back

Please stop speaking formally to me, Elise. For now, I will do whatever I am able to help Touya-sama. I hope I just dont slow any one down, and will do my best!

She grasped both fists in front of her chest and had a pose like she was full of inspiration. How cutejanakute.

what do you mean exactly?

Asked Lindsey, who had raised her hand.

To begin with, Ill register with the same guild as all of you. I will take on requests as well.

Eh!?

Everyone exclaimed in harmony. Register with the guild you want to become an adventurer!?

Wa- Princess? Do you understand what it means to take on a guild request!? There are many dangerous

I understand that. Also, please stop calling me princess. Call me Yumina please, hubby.

Please dont say hubby!

Well then, Yumina

The princess smiles a pleased smile I mean Yumina. This girl is surprisingly tough.

For the time being please dont say hubby or Touya-sama. Its just Touya, Yumina.

I learned some magic from Charlotte, and learned how to shoot a bow. I think Im fairly strong.

A bow and magic Certainly, long distance attacks will be helpful. What magic attributes do you have, degozaru?

Wind, earth and shadow. I can only summon only 3 kinds of beasts however.

Wind, earth and shadow. Those where attributes that Lindsey didnt have. I dont know her strength yet though

Um, what should we do?

I face Elise, Lindsey, and Yae with my arms crossed. What to do, meaning whether or not to add her to the party.

Well for the time being we could wait and see, we could go and take a request?

I see. We could choose after seeing her strength, degozaru?

Yeah, well if its too dangerous well just get Touya to defend her. Its decided right?

I wanted to interject in several places but I decided to stay quiet. I mean, it had a feeling of me not having the right to speak.

Well head over to the guild tomorrow. It seems its been decided that Yumina would register with the guild.

After that, I arranged for a room for her with Mika (she wanted to stay with my but I absolutely refused), I made meal plans with everyone, and decided to prepare for tomorrow before going to sleep.

After going back to my room, I lay on my bed, finally alone. Im beat.Completely exhausted.

While I was sleeping like a log, I heard my ring tone that I hadnt heard for a long time and answered the phone. It was a light hearted tune, but I was a little irritated.

When I took it out the caller ID read Receiving: God

Hello

Oh, its been a while hasnt it? Congratulations on your engagement, Touya

How do you know about that? Oh wait it wouldnt be strange for God to know about that right?

Hahaha. It was just by chance. I decided to take a look at where you were, some pretty interesting things happened

Gods voice seemed to be happy.

Its not interesting at all.. Getting married at this age is unthinkable you know.

Shes a nice girl isnt she? Whats the problem?

No, well Yumina is cute and in the future will become a considerably beautiful woman you know? Her character is obedient and she is desirable too. But this and that are two different things.

Youre stubborn. In this world polygamy is actually pretty common; you should go ahead and marry as many girls as you are pleased with.

Is that how it is? Because the Duke and King only had one wife, I assumed that Nono, thats not the issue. Im not looking to make a harem. (tln; The harem is coming for you whether you like it or not)

Well, what you end up doing is of great interest of everyone here, do your best ok?

What a selfish thing toN? What do you mean by everyone?

This worlds pantheon. I showed you to everyone and they all showed some concern. Although about half were amused.

Eh? What does that mean? Isnt there just one god?

Pantheon? There are gods other than you there?

There are. Although Im tentatively the highest god there are other lower class gods, the god of Art, the god of Love, the god of the Sword, the god of agriculture among many others. The god of Love was especially interested in you.

The person that stuck their head in other people love affairs, the god of Love.

As your relatives everyone is going to attend your wedding. Ah, Im going to play the part of grandfather though.

Now see here

Were the gods that available? For all gods to attend on the bridegrooms side as relatives, what does that even mean? Its true that I dont have any relatives in this world though.

Would it be possible to keep them from interfering any further?

It would be more accurate to say that The world of gods doesnt often interfere. But, there is no problem when they come down to the world of humans.

Thats a big enough problem all on its own thoughyou lose if you retort. In myths the gods would often come down and mess around didnt they.

Well, anyway. Were rooting for you. Think hard about living a life with no regrets. We wish for your happiness. Well then, see you later

Haa

With a vague reply the phone call ended. A life without regrets.

What would happen if I were to marry 12 girls? The age difference between a freshmen in high school and a 5th grade girl, when I think about it, seems considerable, but 4 years difference isnt really that big a deal? My parents were 6 years apart. There were even performers that were married that were 30 years apart.

To start with, I hadnt even gone out with a girl, so marriage didnt click at all.

Crap, I dont get it. Im going to sleep.