From the following day onward, we continued focusing mainly on preparing the festival grounds.
Since the former lord, the Margrave, and Emilia-sama also had mountains of paperwork to deal with, they often only stopped by the venue for half the day.
“Boo… this is boring.”
“Ken-chan, they’re working, so it can’t be helped.”
“Okaaay…”
For Kent-chan, who usually spent his time dashing all over the venue, having everyone around for only half a day seemed terribly dull. Even when Emilia-sama explained it to him, he answered with the resigned tone of someone reluctantly accepting reality. Still, Kent-chan was young enough that he needed afternoon naps anyway, so there really wasn’t much to be done about it.
“It turned out beautifully!”
Meanwhile, Sue and the others had been working hard on the artificial flowers and stage props as well. It seemed they had taken Emilia-sama’s words about bridal training very seriously. Apparently, being told “It would be nice if you could sew clothes for your future children someday” had motivated them even more.
They occasionally helped out with cooking too, though realistically, if they married into noble households, they probably wouldn’t have many opportunities to cook themselves.
Still, seeing them put so much enthusiasm into learning was definitely a good thing.
“You should sew this part like this.”
“Ohh, that came out really nice!”
Toria-chan spent most of her time teaching sewing and handicrafts while also looking after Shiro and the others. And for some reason, Shiro turned out to have remarkable talent for sewing.
Her skills improved at an astonishing pace, and before long, she was honestly the best among all the girls. At this rate, sewing might even become Shiro’s new hobby.
“Please line up properly—!”
Fran, meanwhile, had given up on sewing almost immediately and instead devoted herself to helping with cooking and various other tasks. I did wish for her to learn at least some sewing since she was a girl too, but in the end, motivation was something only she herself could decide.
And then there was the thing that had somehow become the main monument of the entire festival—
the goddess statue Ao had created.
“How magnificent! It’s as though the goddess herself has descended before us.”
“Truly. I’ve never seen such a splendid wooden statue of the goddess in all my life.”
The elderly in particular were so moved that some even burst into tears at the mere sight of it.
Without a single objection, the statue was placed at the very center of the plaza, where it became both a symbol of prayers for prosperity and a sacred blessing for the wedding ceremony itself.
“Whew… only three days left until the festival.”
“Yes. At this point, we could probably hold it as early as tomorrow. Thank you for everything you’ve done.”
Together with Emilia-sama, I gazed out across the plaza, where the preparations were nearly complete.
Three days remaining.
Only three days—and yet, as it turned out, those three days would change everything. At that moment, none of us could have imagined that someone arriving from the royal capital would soon bring about a catastrophe unlike anything we expected.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeneijiworks.com
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