Tatsumi’s whole body shivered once at Giuseppe’s suggestion. </h5>
This was because ever since the matter with the Gargadon mother and child, he had been thinking of this too.
“Earlier I asked you what you thought about marriage. I myself want to respect your opinion. And if you said wait, then Calsey herself would wait no matter how long it takes.”
Giuseppe took a quick glance at Calcedonia who was sitting next to Tatsumi, and she softly smiled.
[I want to wait till I have a job good enough to maintain a family.]
Calcedonia was aware off Tatsumi thought’s concerning marriage.
Though Tatsumi said it was a boring reason, she in the contrary was happy. Because that was proof of how much importance Tatsumi put into his life together with her.
That’s why just as her grandfather said, till Tatsumi assented she would wait.
“You have already become a senior priest. On top of that you are a clerical knight. Compared to the average men in the town your salary from these two should be much higher. Of course, I am aware that your end goal is to become an exorcist. But, at least I think it should be fine for you two to get officially engaged… what do you think?”
Formerly taking Calcedonia as his fiancé.
Even though he was living together with her for half a year now, thinking about this again he was still feeling shy.
“W-Well…. I actually don’t mind, getting engaged with Chiiko officially… No, I think that would be for the better. However solidly speaking… what are we going to do?”
In his previous world, let along engagement he never even dated a girl.
As he had this vague kind of image of marriage, he didn’t even know what they had to fundamentally do for engagement. Obviously, it was not part of his knowledge.
“About that. The general way is to hold a ceremony in the temple. There will be a temple priest watching over the ceremony as witness. Along with him, the parties’ concerned would be the only ones present there. God— Of course, receiving the blessing of the God of marriage, Savaiv is the motif. Basically this would be it. And yes, if you want to hold the ceremony I can act as the witness.”
As Giuseppe was giving a rough explanation of the ceremony while stroking his long, white beard, Calcedonia opened her eyes wide in wonder.
“I-Is that really okay? The only time the supreme pontiff acts as the witness, is when royals get married. At most for the highest of the nobility, no?”
“Well you are correct but. Son-in-law has been taking care of you a lot. As Calsey’s grandfather… no foster father, I should at least do this much.”
Even though Tatsumi was called over to this world against his will, he neither blamed nor admonished Calcedonia. On top of that he faced everything from the front and now, he was even pleasantly living together with her.
Though Tatsumi would always say he was the one in Calcedonia’s care, Giuseppe had always been grateful to Tatsumi on how he treated his adopted daughter.
Giuseppe wanted to repay that favour by acting as the witness of their betrothal ceremony. This was what he thought to do.
Of course, he said that while considering the pressure he would receive from the various parties because he will act as the witness as the supreme pontiff.
“I understand. Then, I’ll leave the matter relating to the ceremony to Mister Giuseppe. By the way, when will we hold the ceremony?”
After being relieved with Tatsumi’s affirmation, Giuseppe did a quick calculation in his head.
“Fumu…… The temple itself has some circumstances so, ten days from now. How does that sound?”
Tatsumi compliantly agreed Giuseppe’s proposal.
And behind him, Calcedonia was happily smiling.
***
“Huh? You want me to tell you about shops that handle Jewelry?”
The day after the matter of engagement was discussed with Giuseppe.
After finishing his training as a knight for the day, he asked Verse who was likewise finished with his daily practice.
“Yeah. I haven’t really gone around the town that much. So if you know a shop that is good at handling jewelry, please tell me.”
“Well I don’t mind but, why would you suddenly….Ah! I get it.”
After suddenly realizing something, Verse grinned at him with deep implications.
And being read so easily, Tatsumi became embarrassed as his eyes started so wander around.
“If it’s about that then you should as the Niez brothers no? Though they are an arms shop mainly dealing with Monster Hunters, I hear their business has been going on for a really really long time. If it’s about this town’s merchants than they should know more about it than me.”
“I-Is that so. Then, I’ll go as them.”
“Yeah, do that. And make sure to buy a good piece you hear me?”
“S-Shut up!!”
As Tatsumi walked away flustered with a quick pace, Verse looked at his back with amazement.
“Even though they’ve been living under the same roof for half a year already, just how long is he panning on staying that innocent? Well, that makes Tatsumi Tatsumi I guess.”
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***
And so, the time period of ten days passed in the blink of an eye. These ten days, Tatsumi had truly been very busy.
He went to a store recommended by Niez, and bought the things he needed for the ceremony.
It seems like in this world, they don’t really use rings for engagement. But Earrings, pierces and ear ornaments like those.
After consulting it with the shop assistant, he bought a pair of earrings that he thought would suit Calcedonia.
But since it was over his budget, he even had to go borrow money from Giuseppe.
Because yeah, he couldn’t borrow money from Calcedonia if she was the one he was going to give the earrings to.
Tatsumi leaves all the money he gets from working at the temple to Calcedonia, and from that he takes a bit for personal use. The so called ‘Pocket money’.
If the ceremony wasn’t held on such short notice, then he could’ve taken things more slowly.
Between all this, he met with Giuseppe’s family.
He met with Giuseppe’s wife, and his sons. Giuseppe had 3 sons, all of whom had already married. They even had children.
Thinking about Giuseppe’s age, it was understandable. Well as they were Calcedonia’s foster brothers who were a bit apart from her in age, Tatsumi’s impression of them was noble.
Though the edginess Tatsumi felt when he was to meet them wasn’t small, because they already heard of this from Giuseppe and Calcedonia, they welcomed him warmly.
Nevertheless still as he was the partner of their foster sister — Considering the age Calcedonia could even pose as their foster daughter— the 3 brothers looked at Tatsumi with a somewhat strict way.
Though in the end it didn’t take long for them to open their hearts. Specially Giuseppe’s second son who was the Knight high commander of the Clerical Knights.
For Tatsumi, he was his superior. And Tatsumi heard many good things about him before.
By the way Giuseppe’s wife was the leader of the Temple of the Sea God Dragabe, eldest son was a Royal Knight, and the third son was a knight for the Temple of the Sun god Golaiva. Certainly, a family with very colourful backgrounds.
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