Marriage, Divorce, and Beyond: The White Mage and Black Knight's Romance Reignited Volume 2 by Takasugi Naturu

Author:Takasugi Naturu [Naturu, Takasugi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club

Chapter 5: The Rural Couple and the New Year’s Bash

Kingdom of Mert Calendar Year 787

One year in the Mert calendar was divided into twelve months. The new year began in the first month, while new periods in public institutions and schools began every year in the ninth month. Each of the five regions—north, south, east, west, and central—held celebrations to welcome the new year at the end of the first month. The royal family also hosted a spring celebration in the royal capital at the end of the third month.

With the eastern New Year’s celebration just a day away, Countess Carlton’s fortified manse was a frenzy of preparations. Servants and cooks were busy setting up, and even noblewomen who would be in attendance were occupied with refining their looks and fixing their hair—or at least they were supposed to be.

Without a word of advance warning, a guest arrived at the house Joshua and I lived in here in Countess Carlton’s territory. It was only the second time that I had ever met this visitor. The first occasion had been in the courtyard of the Aston capital treatment center, when she had appeared out of nowhere and spoke without any restraint before going home. Just like then, she said whatever she liked.

“My, this looks just like a plebian’s house,” Lady Florence huffed. “My sympathies go out to Joshua for living in such a shabby hovel. I could never do it. If Joshua is to continue his temporary assignment here, Lotte and I simply must return to the royal capital to live there. Her education and social life is of paramount importance. I must tell Joshua that we need to buy a residence in the nobles’ district.”

“Lady Florence Hughley,” I greeted her, keeping my tone incredibly polite. “What matter brings you here today?”

She was as beautiful as she had been the last time we met. She wore a shiny day dress that was beige with an orange tint, and opal jewelry that glittered in a rainbow of colors. She held a white folding fan decorated with delicate fretwork.

The rented house Joshua and I lived in together was small. It had been prepared for the civil servants who worked under the Frontier Countess to use, and it was not as large or luxurious as one might expect a high-ranking aristocrat to live in. Of course, the parlor we sat in was proportionately small, and only plain furniture sat inside. Lady Florence, what with her extravagant day dress, jewelry, and complicated-looking updo, seemed out of place amid the utilitarian room.

“Well, I’m sure you have heard about me from that girl—Earl Aston’s wife.” Lady Florence concealed her mouth with her white folding fan, but her eyes flared with hatred for Lady Margot. “While I am overjoyed that she fell in status from a marquis’s family member to the wife of a backwater earl, the detestable fact that she is Joshua’s blood-related sister will, lamentably, never change. A while ago, I went out of my way to visit Joshua, only for her to turn me away because he was ‘not available.

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