Goddess’ Ring
Inside the box, there are 7 rings affixed with a gemstone that sparkles in blue. This is the origin of the couple rings that Dargris and the others were trying to buy huh.
“This is a mineral that’s in the Head Shrine that’s in this Palace’s underground. Its name is True Crystal. It really possesses the Goddess’ Blessings. A ring that’s made with that is named, ‘Goddess’ Ring’. It’s named as it is though. Caroline has also appraised my ring before, right?”
Christina-sama says and lovingly strokes the ring that she wears on her left ring finger. Caro nods in regards to that matter.
“Although it has various effects, the partners who’re wearing this ring will know where the other party is when they think of them. ‘I can somehow tell that they’re in that direction even though we’re apart’, kind of feeling. It gets easier to tell the closer you get though”
Amazing. If there’s such an ability then it’ll be alright even if we get separated by any chance.
“Also, if you commit infidelity, the gem will lose its radiance and become a mere pebble so be careful”
……I’ll be fine. I’ll be fine, right?
I heard about it afterwards that it apparently has various abilities. It’s a given for it to have abilities like Stamina and Magic Power Increase; it also has abilities like Experience Points Up and defending against an attack that’ll bring one to the verge of death just once. (After that, it seems it’s unusable until its magic power accumulates though) it’s quite the ability.
“It has amazing abilities huh. But it’ll become something amazing if this is mass-produced huh”
I suppose it’ll probably become something outrageous if such abilities were to circulate outside. That was what I thought but Christina-sama says, ‘That won’t happen’.
“For some reason, this mineral only shines in the case that somebody of the Pope’s family marries. It also only started to shine this time when you and Caroline got engaged. Hence, we’re able to mine and make them. It then again returns to being the usual crystal when we mine the necessary amount. It’s a mere rock during that time so it has no abilities whatsoever”
Is this that Goddess’ playfulness? However, there’s 7. Here, there’s only me, Alexia, Ferris, Caro, Helen, and Aerith. Even though it’s a total of 6 people.
In the time while I’m thinking about that, Christina-sama starts distributing the rings to everybody. Everybody wears the ring on their left ring finger and the size changes to a size that matched their fingers. I too wear the ring that I received on my left ring finger and it changes to a size that’s just right. Neither too tight nor too loose.
“Also, the gem will crack if other people wear it so be careful”
It really is all-purpose huh, this. It’s something that I heard about afterwards; it seems when a man wears this, his vitality is augmented, and when a woman wears this, she gets easy childbirth. Just between us, Alexia and the others who talked about that happily were slightly scary.
“Also, there’s one more person for this one ring, right?”
says Christina-sama and hands the last ring to me. Perhaps
“Is this Chrona’s?”
“I don’t know who it’s for, but if there’s such a girl then it’s probably that her’s. When we try to make this ring, we’ll undoubtedly only be able to mine the share of that number of people, and we can only create the share of that number of people. The fact that there’s nevertheless still another ring besides the number of people who’re here this time around means that must be the case”
I see. In that case, this is Chrona’s huh. I want to hand it over to her directly but I want to have her quickly wear it so I guess I’ll send it through a letter.
After that, we dissolved after we received various warnings in regards to the rings. Alexia and the others have something to talk about amongst themselves so they returned to their room. It makes me happy as well looking at them making delighted faces while stroking their rings.
I too was returning to my room and thinking about what I should do hereafter, but I remembered that I have the letter from Sieg so I decided to read it.
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To Lei
You reading this letter means that you’ve acknowledged your marriage with Aerith. It’s because I have told Aerith to hand this over to you when it turned out like that.
I wasn’t that surprised since I had heard about how Aerith is feeling from Alene, but it also holds true that I have a bit of a complicated feeling.
Albeit half, you guys are still blood-related siblings after all.
Well, it also holds true that it’s unstoppable when you fall in love with somebody. I too love my wives overly much that there are times that I get scolded after all!
I’ve told Aerith to send the outcome back regardless of whether if you did or did not read this letter. If you’re reading it then you reply in her stead.
It’s just that, there’s one problem.
That problem is regarding Aerith’s proposals. I’ve currently put the ones from the surrounding nobles on hold, but I thought of rejecting it depending on the reply. It’s just that, there’s just a proposal from a certain place that I can’t quite reject.
That ‘certain place’ is, Celia Kingdom’s Second Prince. It seems he had previously come for a conference between the Nanor Kingdom and the Celia Kingdom in the capital, and it seems he fell in love at first sight with Aerith who was walking in the royal palace at that time.
After that, marriage proposals have been sent to the house repeatedly, but I’d been putting it on hold with the fact that she’s still a student, but in a recent letter, there’s a message saying that he’s going to the Nanor Kingdom at the end of this year so he wants to meet her.
I’m unable to reject it to that extent as one would expect, so I’ve given a letter of acknowledgement. I’ve already talked about it with Aerith. King Nanor will also be participating in that discussion.
Over there, Lei, I want to have you participate as well. I should actually be the one to go, but because Regalia Empire’s movements are suspicious, I’m unable to leave the territory. Alene has been arranged to go in my place though.
This is where you ought to protect Aerith as a man.
From Sieg
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Fuu~. Who would’ve thought that Aerith was being proposed from such a place. I do have a feeling that it’ll be slightly troublesome, but it’s for Aerith’s sake. I’ll have him give up no matter what.
