Evening, Osiris residence.
Earl Motley, who was sitting in the hall, frowned slightly as he watched the young man in a black dress walk in with a bouquet in his hand and his head held high.
"This is how you come to propose?"
Eleazar instantly stiffened, looking somewhat dully at Luna, who was sitting on a high stool and wiggling her legs, before nodding back with a somewhat far-fetched nod:
"Yes... Yes..."
Mr. Earl asked with a face full of displeasure, "Are you going to marry my daughter?"
Eleazar nods stiffly, "Yes..."
"Will you never leave her alone, no matter what the odds?"
"Exactly."
"You'll always protect her and love her, won't you?"
"Uh-huh."
Eleazar is like a relentless nodding robot.
Mr. Earl pinched his nose and admitted, "That's perfunctory, but seeing as you're so courageous, never mind..."
If his daughter hadn't already been coaxed into his hands and was dead set on it, dead admitted, he would have called out for such a shameless man to be beaten out of the house with a stick.
That's when Eleazar finally woke up too.
Yes, the daughter of an earl, the jewel of such a class, was no longer a commoner's daughter whom he could just abduct and run away with.
Some solemn courtesy must be performed to abduct the run.
The bumpkin, who didn't know what part of the process to proceed to next, stood at a bit of a loss for words.
Earl Motley glared at him, "What are you still standing there for, I've already passed the test here, you'll be considered qualified if you can stand in front of me openly and honestly."
"Oooooh!" Eleazar snapped out of it.
He doesn't know anything...
If he had known that coming over to the banquet tonight was a marriage proposal, he definitely wouldn't have had the guts to walk in so arrogantly.
Eleazar already probably understands the process.
He then walked to Mrs. Sosia's.
The Countess clasped her hands and sat slightly sideways, beaming, "I'm not that easy to get rid of, and if you can't make me happy, I'm not going to hand over my baby to you easily."
Without a word, Eleazar reaches into the inside of his shirt and appears to be pulling something out, but is turning on the space crystal.
A bright, radiant red crystal stone was then held out, its scarlet glow reflecting on the metal glassware throughout the hall.
You, who still have some remnants of your dragonborn traits, can still resist the temptation of shiny crystals?
In a flash, not to mention Mrs. Sosia, Luna on the side looked straight in the eyes.
"May I have Ms. Luna, please?"
"Mmmmmmmmmm..."
The Countess played lovingly with the transcendental red crystal, having long ago cast aside her son-in-law's ordeal.
Done!
Eleazar shrugged and walked towards the girl who had almost embarrassed him.
"Ahem..."
But Earl Motley coughed inexplicably.
Eleazar stopped and looked back, his brain quickly pondering the current situation.
Mr. Earl looked ahead without a word, while the butler and the two maids, gazed expectantly.
Ah, this...
All the people in this hall, all of them?
How many times do you have to say those embarrassing things?
Eleazar looked back at Luna, who was clasping her hands and looking up at the sky.
This guy is determined to see me make a fool of myself.
Eleazar grinds his teeth in secret hatred.
Then coming to the butler, he said in a deep voice, "Thank you for always taking care of Miss Luna, may I ask you to entrust her to me in the future?"
The butler smiled amiably, reached out a hand to straighten his tie, and smiled broadly, "Miss Luna will often think of you at night, and the old man wishes you happiness with all his heart."
With the old butler's blessing, Eleazar finally walks up to the two head maids.
One of them was full of smiles and the other had a blush on her face as she hid behind one.
The bold one, the head maid, crossed her arms and said, "We're not that easy to get rid of!"
Got it got it got it...
Eleazar reached inside his shirt again and pinched two golden beans out.
"Wow, that's very generous, we're welcome then!"
The bold head maid took the golden bean and distributed another one to her companion, then said with satisfaction:
"Well, I can safely entrust the young lady to your care."
"You must be happy."
The timid, blushing maid ventured a blessing at last.
Eleazar turned to the last man.
The figure that had been wiggling her feet on the high stool had sat upright, slightly sideways to the oncoming man, feet together and sideways, hands crossed and folded over her thighs, chin slightly lowered, very demure and ladylike.
"Will you marry me?"
Eleazar dropped to one knee, his voice deep and magnetic.
Luna's head dropped even lower, and she held out a hand blushingly.
"Uh..."
You're such a dick. You pulled a stunt like that out of the blue. I wasn't prepared for it!
Eleazar dug around in his clothes for a million years, but in the end, all he could do was pull out the heart ring that looked like a black pearl and gently slip it onto the other man's ring finger, kissing the back of his hand again lightly.
"Snap!"
The hall erupted in applause.
"Congratulations to our baby on another successful engagement~"
Mrs. Sosia clapped her hands together to announce the official start of the dinner party before looking down and playing with the red crystals again.
Earl Motley looked at his shy and incomparable daughter and inexplicably wiped the corners of his eyes with a slightly sore nose.
Unlike the previous engagement which was like a formality, this time, the daughter seems to have found her happiness.
She then smiled like an angel throughout the entire dinner.
After the engagement party, the Earl of Motley calls Eleazar into his study.
"With the engagement, Luna is already nominally your wife, and for the official wedding, let's have it when you graduate."
"After the wedding, you guys go on a honeymoon for a year, to our family estate or to travel alone to fulfill that traveler's dream of yours, and come back for a year of fun, and Luna should be pregnant by this time."
Mr. Motley carefully planned the couple's future.
"And it's almost time for you to wind down and do some business of your own, I don't care who you are in the church, and I don't want to pry into those things about you, but you have to have your industry, or at least a decent house and a steady income to house your family, and if you don't know what to invest in, you can come and ask me when the time comes."
Mr. Motley carefully planned the couple's future.
"And there's the non-negotiable condition that your first child must be returned to us to raise, that's a non-negotiable condition!"
Eleazar looked back and nodded slightly.
Mr. Motley smiled with satisfaction at this.
"Well, it's getting late, so go get some rest."
Eleazar walked out of the den in a daze and stood in the doorway thinking.
The butler came over and smiled, "Let me take you to your room of rest."
Eleazar looked back and nodded before being shown to a guest room.
"Where's Luna?"
"The lady's room is upstairs."
The butler smiled amiably and said:
"There must be an official wedding before you can share a room, until then, just bear with me."