
“So, what is all this? Why is Miss Ellie here?” scarlesia asked to see Ellie the owner of the boutique in her pavilion.
“Miss, I am here on orders from His Majesty Duke,” replied Ellie.
“Command from Dad?”
“Iya Miss! Did you forget that in 2 months there will be a celebration of maturity for you Miss!” erin Sumringah.
“But it is still 2 months away so why from now the preparation?”
Scarlesia did not understand at all about the celebration of maturity, she seemed confused because she saw her father, her brother, and other residents of the mansion busy preparing for the celebration of her maturity which will be held within 2 months.
“Your Majesty the Duke asked me to prepare the most beautiful dress for Miss from now on,” Ellie said.
“Come Miss, you must comply. I want to see Miss become the most beautiful woman at the time of your maturity celebration,” said Erin encouraged Scarlesia to get closer to Ellie for her body measurements.
“Haha well I will obey,” resigned Scarlesia.
Ellie took out her measuring device to measure Scarlesia's body, Erin and Hana were very excited considering Scarlesia was about to hold a celebration of her maturity.
“Nona, I think you will be very suitable if you wear a gold-colored dress. The aura you release seems to be fused with gold,” Ellie said.
“I agree with what Mrs Ellie said,” Hana said.
“I think so too. Miss looks different when wearing gold clothes, as if the gold color was only created specifically for Miss,” timpal Erin is embraced by Ellie and Hana.
Scarlesia let out a long sigh, “Ya already, it's up to you guys.”
When Eldrick was meeting at the imperial palace, he came with Carlen who was his next heir. While Aldert was busy with Oliver doing magic research in the magic tower. The atmosphere of the meeting room was somewhat different than usual as the entire noble brought his heirs to the meeting this time around.
The purpose of today's meeting was to determine the next step regarding the imperial leadership. The throne was now empty as the emperor and empress were gone, and Stella, the only remaining concubine, also left the imperial court. That's why they are here all for the sake of establishing the absolute decision of the empire in the future.
“It looks like we should hasten the appointment of the crown prince as emperor,” Eldrick said.
“I agree with His Majesty Duke. We cannot leave the position of emperor empty for too long as this will be a disgrace to our empire,”
“Then we must also advance the marriage between the crown prince and Miss Nieva. With this position the empress will also not be empty,”
“Betul! We must immediately cover the vacancy of the throne of leadership,”
All the nobles expressed their voices except for Marquess Javar who had just silently lowered his head, whereas when the meeting was usually Marquess Javar who spoke the most but for this time he looked different.
“Marquess Javar, why have you been silent since?” ask one of the nobles.
However, it seemed that Marquess Javar had not heard what the noble was asking.
“Dad! Is Dad okay?” tanya Darrel, son of Marquess Javar who is his next heir.
Darrel patted his father's shoulder, Marquess Javar was shocked by Darrel.
“Huh? What's up?” marquess Javar asked confusedly.
“Marquess, are you okay? Looks like you're not well huh,”
“I'm fine. Just continue the meeting,”
They then resumed their meeting, again, the final decision of the meeting has been unanimous that it accelerate the appointment of the crown prince as emperor and advance the marriage between the crown prince and Nieva which is planned to be held in 2 weeks.
“Your Highness Duke, Young Master, since I was curious about the circular object on your wrists both. Is that a clock?” asked a noble who was curious about the watches belonging to Eldrick and Carlen.
“This? This is the watch my daughter gave me,” Eldrick replied as he boasted about his daughter.
“That's because my sister is a genius,” Carlen also brags Scarlesia to the others.
“Woah this watch will be very useful for nobles like us. Your Majesty, can you ask Miss where she got her watch?”
“Later I will try to ask Sia,” said Eldrick.
“By the way Your Majesty, Miss Eginhardt will soon be holding a celebration of maturity, right? It's time for Miss to have a fiancee,”
“Yes, Miss Eginhardt has entered adulthood to get married. Have you found the right candidate? I heard some time ago Miss received a lot of cover letters but all of them were rejected by her,”
Eldrick and Carlen's ears are hot hearing they all keep questioning regarding Scarlesia's future husband.
“My daughter has the right to choose her own partner, she can choose anyone she likes but for now she still wants to live with me. So, you guys please shut up and keep a deep question about my son's future husband,” press Eldrick trying to stay calm.
“B-good Your Highness, we are sorry for all of you touching him,”
After that, today's meeting officially ended. Eldrick and Carlen returned home with a tangled look on their faces. Their mood got bad because the nobles who dared to offend about Scarlesia who still had no fiancee. Upon arrival at the residence, Eldrick immediately called Xeon and the other men into his room to discuss this matter.
“Who among you will marry my daughter?” ask Eldrick seriously.
All of them, except Xeon, held their hands high up.
“Xeon, don't you want to marry my sister?” ask Carlen.
“Hahh??? I am a god, where I might marry her,” Xeon said.
“Good. Put your hands down, Sia will soon be 18 years old. Sia does not want to get married but if engaged is okay, right? I don't want to hear the nobles ask about her future husband anymore and I don't want other men to send her a cover letter either. So, I want one of you to be engaged to him,” Eldrick explained.
“Bet engaged? Then I'll,” Elios offers himself.
“No! You pale demon, I will be engaged to Sia,” even Zenon does not want to lose.
“I'll just me,” said Louis raised his hand.
“I will be engaged to Sia,” between Andreas.
“Other of you. The most deserving to be Sia's fiance is me,” Oliver said.
Eldrick shook his head to see those who were scrambling to get engaged to his own son.
“Duke Eldrick,” call Xeon.
“Ya?”
“They should all marry Sia,”
“What? But why?”
“They are Sia's life, their common thread connected to Sia's heart. If one of them dies, Sia will also die,” replied Xeon putting on a cold face mimic.
“Sia can die you say? So Sia really should marry all of them? Is this part of the plan of gods and goddesses too?” ask Carlen.
Xeon responded by nodding.
“THEN YOU ALL MARRY ONLY SIA!” eldrick got up from his seat.
“Eh? EHH? EEEEHHHHHHH,”