I Was Chosen as the Saint’s Husband - Chapter 165
165 – Side story, we need to decide how to repay the gift.
In fact, the party itself didn’t feel particularly unusual because we’d done it a few times with our family.
Even if it is a party for foreign nobles, it is only a party that welcomes polite and curious people.
Nothing unexpected happened that I was worried about.
What kind of trouble is this?
For example, openly ignoring Sister Stella, who is a saint… things like that.
In the first place, none of the nobles who go abroad for diplomatic issues would engage in such flawed behavior.
At least they must have been carefully selected and sent.
If you watch Japanese cartoons, you always hear accidents happening.
Oh, is that because it’s a party held among nobles in their own country?
“Hahaha, shouldn’t your wife and mama go out soon?”
“Your Majesty has already left first.”
Nobles from other countries who were talking to me just now.
We had a really fun conversation because he and I both have a hobby of collecting watches.
Ah… it’s really fun to talk about various things with people who have the same collecting tendencies.
The party lasted for 4 hours, but it went by quickly as if we only talked for about 30 minutes.
As we chatted and had fun like that, the party was over before we knew it and people started leaving one by one, with Stella taking the lead.
Normally, it is said that the person with the highest status appears last in a party and is the first to leave.
Oh, so did I miss the right time to leave?
But since he is the wife of a saint, there is nothing special, so I think I can go out slowly.
“Haha, then I’ll just leave. It’s my luck that I met like-minded people and had a fun conversation.”
“That’s right. I had no idea that your famous husband, Mama, would have a hobby for watches.”
“This is why, when I return to my home country, I will have to send you a watch that suits you.”
“Oh, that sounds good.”
As I was about to say hello to everyone and leave, they said they wanted to give me a watch as a gift.
I got a little excited because if it was a personal gift, I wouldn’t refuse it.
It’s a foreign watch…
Honestly, I’m so excited.
It’s so fun to see the different designs in each country and the quartz inside the watch.
It’s not for nothing that I spend time in the room where Stella keeps her watch when she’s working.
“Hehehe… If you send it to me, I will treasure it.”
“Hahaha. I really liked this part of my husband and mama. Should I say he doesn’t have a mask?”
“That’s right. In aristocratic society, there are people who always wear masks, which makes me feel uncomfortable, but it’s really nice that there is no such thing in the Church of Christ.”
The denominational bureau does not have a caste system.
The only ones that exist are positions within the religious order such as saint/pope/cardinal.
In terms of status, everyone is equal.
The only thing that comes from having a position is being treated better or having stronger security.
Is there anything that can be called a privilege?
Other than being a saint, there is nothing that can be said to be a privilege.
Afterwards, I chatted some more with nobles from other countries and left the party.
I wanted to stay a little longer, but Stella had already left, so I had no choice but to leave.
Then, I was guided to the locker room where I had changed my clothes earlier and returned…
Stella was waiting for me there.
“Sister? What are you doing here?”
“I was waiting for you, Seobang~”
Now I see that he has already changed his clothes and is sitting on a chair.
So, I decided to just do it and headed to the hanger where I hung my clothes.
Now I’m not embarrassed to show myself changing clothes.
I took off my clothes and changed them.
I’ve often heard people say that tuxedos are uncomfortable, but now that I can actually experience it, I immediately understand what they mean.
Should I say that the fabric of the clothes is too stiff?
For me, who used to wear loose, comfortable clothes, this is the worst outfit.
“Can I help you?”
“It’s okay. It must be hard, but please rest.”
“Oh, it’s hard. The child needs to exercise this much to be born healthy.”
It must have been quite tiring to attend the party with a child in your stomach.
I wanted to tell him not to go to the party, but I held back.
Even though I stopped her, Stella came back and started helping me here and there.
I changed my clothes very quickly, thinking that I would just end this quickly and take him home to rest.
The priests will clean up after you.
***
The meeting with nobles from other countries lasted about a week.
Since they were given full authority, they proposed various compromises, and the church headquarters also seemed to agree that the division of interests would be ok at this point.
In fact, from my perspective, having found the oasis and obtained the key, I wondered if there was any need to lend part of it to other countries.
Basically, it’s our country’s land, but that land is something that can never be obtained in general, right?
Additionally, it is a land with an oasis leading to the sea.
Even if we use 80% of the port area, the profit we get from the remaining 20% doesn’t seem like a joke.
Well, it’s not something I care about…
Because I gave the key itself to Stella.
“The higher-ups will take care of it.”
Dave said not to worry and yawned loudly.
It doesn’t look like he’s particularly interested.
Well, what’s a low-level priest to care about that?
I shouldn’t worry too much.
“But how many of these will there be?”
“At least 30…”
It doesn’t really matter to us now what happens to the land in the neutral zone.
We have to solve this problem that confronts us somehow.
A watch was said to be a gift given to nobles when they returned to their home country.
It all arrived this morning.
Are nobles still nobles?
The delivery service is also the fastest.
So we need to sort this out.
It’s a good thing I reserved space in advance just in case.
“How long will it take if there are 30?”
“I need to think about it for about two days.”
“Ha… I guess becoming a guardian priest was the worst choice of my life.”
“Uh huh, stop complaining and go ahead and open the box.”
“Yayyyy…”
Only then did Dave begin to open the boxes one by one.
Every time I opened a box, one or two fancy or simple cases began to appear.
In the end, about 40 came out of 30 boxes this time.
It’s a lot more than I expected.
“What percentage of the collection is this?”
“About 20%?”
From noble mtl dot come
I have about 200 watches.
It’s a shame that I put it in an easy-to-manage showcase so I don’t have to take care of every single thing, but if I kept it in a regular storage box or something, I would be cleaning my watch every day.
Humidity, dust, etc.
Because there are so many bad things about watches in this world.
“How many watches did you buy?”
“Why? Are you curious?”
“I wonder how grandly they built it so they’re so proud of it.”
“Really? Then go in and see later.”
I also want to collect things when I have someone to show them off to.
So, I hope you can see it with your own eyes and spread rumors around.
*
Organizing the clock, which was thought to take more than two days, was completed in one day.
All I had to do was take it out, check the quartz, close it again, wipe it, and put it into the showcase one by one.
Expensive watches are different.
Cheap or old watches need to be maintained and replaced, but all the watches sent by nobles were recently made and new.
So it didn’t need much maintenance.
“Now all I have to do is send a thank you note.”
“But are you going to write and send the contents of each letter separately?”
“I guess so, right?”
“Do you remember who everyone is?”
“ah.”
right.
There were only one or two people I had fun talking to at the party, so I wasn’t able to memorize all their names.
“What should I do?”
“What can I do? It was fun competing together that day, and I should send each of them something different to thank them for sending me a gift.”
“Uhm…”
I can’t help it.
It’s not like I’m copying and pasting it, but since it’s the same as receiving a gift, all I have to do is say thank you for it.
But the letter aside…
Shouldn’t I also send one gift in return?
What would be better?
Since nobles are all rich, they probably have everything they need or want.
“There is nothing suitable.”
“Then why don’t you send some special products?”
“Specialty products?”
What special products does the Church of Christ have?
Isn’t there only meat and milk?
No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know.
As I continued to think with my arms crossed, Dave sighed and held something out to me.
“This is it. A talisman.”
“A talisman? But aren’t amulets a good gift?”
In Korea, amulets are something that is exchanged between family members.
Other than that, there was a strong tendency to be reluctant, saying it was unlucky.
But is this world a little different?
No, even so, it is difficult to send amulets because there are so many different types.
“I don’t know, I’ll just send it as a talisman.”
“Living in a religious country, what better gift is there than an amulet?”
“But what does the goddess have to do with amulets?”
“Don’t you know? Isn’t the amulet more about the heart than faith?”
Did this guy ask me to give it as a gift without even knowing that?
I guess I’ll have to do more research and send it to you.