In my country, the age for women to get married is 24-25 at the earliest, and 34-35 or older at the latest, so I donāt plan to get married for a while yet, you know?ā (Mitsuha)
āā¦Too late! That marriage age is way too late!!
ā¦No, no matter how much you lie, that would be a little, no, it would be too unreasonableā¦ā (Marquis Bozes)
No, well, itās no surprise that Marquis Bozes doesnāt believe me. In this world, the ideal age for marriage is from around 15 years old, which is the adult age, to around 23-24 years oldā¦
The only people over the age of 25 are those who remarried or had some other significant circumstance like they had to take care of their parents, or they lost their parents and had to raise their younger siblings, and so onā¦
Well, the social culture here is not designed for women to live alone, the mortality rate of children is high, so the idea is to have many children while they are young, and thereās no medical system that can support giving birth at an older age.
I guess I shouldnāt compare it to modern earthā¦ā¦
But I look about 12-13 years old here, so I should still not be ready for marriage.
However, itās not uncommon for nobles and royalty to get engaged right after theyāre born.
ā¦ā¦Or rather, His Highness, the Crown Prince is engaged. The only ones who are not yet engaged are the three princesses and the still-young Prince Luchen.
Some of the girls are so ambitious that they are willing to break off their engagement and go with someone better because the Society has increased their own commodity valueā¦ā¦
Arenāt I going to find a marriage partner back on Earth?
Now that Iām fluent in the languages of each country, thereās no need to limit myself to Japan, so I have a wide range of options for marriage on earthā¦
No, at the moment, I donāt have anything to offer.
And itās not like I donāt like the people of this world.
They may not have scientific knowledge of earth, but theyāre not stupid.
There are plenty of men here whoāre much more intelligent, respectable, and robust than the charlatans and idiotic ones from earth.
They will stand in the way of the flying bullets as theyāre protecting meā¦ No, nah naw nah no!
Anyway, itās not that I donāt want to get married here.
In that case, people in Japan would think that I would be single or an unmarried mother.
I wonder if my childās family register will be an illegitimate childā¦
Well, it would be better to have a family register on Earth. Just in case something happensā¦
I want them to receive their education on Earthā¦
āā¦ā¦~tsuha. Mitsuha, come back~!ā (Marquis Bozes)
āAh~ā¦ā¦ā (Mitsuha)
No good, as everyone says, I was too engrossed in my ādelusion timeāā¦
ā¦ā¦And wait, Iām seriously thinking about raising a child? Me?ā¦ā¦
āIf I must get engaged, then make a backroom deal with some nobleman to get him engaged to me in name only, then break it off a few years later and have him marry another womanā¦ā¦
Like he found true love or somethingā¦ā (Mitsuha)
āYou idiot! A nobleās marriage is for the connection between families.
If the engagement were to be broken off or something, that would mean that there was a major problem in one of the houses, and the family name would be tarnished.
If itās the eldest son and an heir or something, itās fine, but women will no longer be taken seriously in social circles.
I donāt see how you can engage then break offĀ so easily!ā (Marquis Bozes)
Ah, is that how it is?
But stillā¦ā¦
āā¦ā¦Even though you were in a marriage for love, yourselfā¦ā¦ā (Mitsuha)
āWha~! Where did you hear that?!ā (Marquis Bozes)
āAh, as expected, it was a true storyā¦ā (Mitsuha)
āGughā¦ā (Marquis Bozes)
āAlso, it seems that he proposed to a naive student at the Academy in front of a large crowd so that it would be difficult to refuseā¦ā (Mitsuha)
āWaa, wait! Who told you that! Thatās clearly an explanation by someone with malicious intent!!ā (Marquis Bozes)
āHe~ehā¦ Then, are you saying that at that time, Iris-sama wasnāt enrolled in a girlsā school?ćAnd there was no one around when you proposed to her?ā (Mitsuha)
āKuhā¦ā (Marquis Bozes)
Fuhaha, things have gotten worse for you, and you canāt escape it anymore, Marquis-samaā¦
āā¦Well, if itās with Alexisā¦ā (Marquis Bozes)
Are? Are you sure about that?
Oh, I guess it means that since the Marquis Bozesā House will be succeeded by Alexis-samaās younger brother, Theodore-sama if Alexis-sama left home after founding his own Viscounty, his own family, Marquis Bozes, will not be stigmatized even if the engagement is broken off.
ā¦But I canāt cause Alexis-sama that kind of trouble.
Moreoverā¦ā¦
āEh? But, Alexis-samaā¦ The first princess is aiming for him, isnāt she?ā (Mitsuha)
āEh?ā
āEh?ā
āEee~eh?ā
āāEeeee~eh?āā
Apparently, Count Bozesā¦ No, I mean, Marquis Bozes wasnāt aware of that.
ā¦ā¦Even now, I carelessly call him āCount-samaāā¦ā¦
I heard that itās a great insult to mispronounce a title, even a lower one, but since itās a sudden change from what I had been accustomed to calling him, itās no wonder that Iāll make a mistake.
Although the Countā¦~err, Marquis-sama doesnāt seem to mind even if I make such mistakes sometimesā¦
However, he said āDonāt make such mistakes in other places!ā, like I was about to be stabbed with a nailā¦ā¦
When it was revealed that I had misunderstood the first princessās age by nearly 10 years, Sabine-chan and Chii-neesama, the second princess, gave me an earful of lectures.
No, itās difficult for Japanese people to tell the age of a Western womanā¦
According to what I heard at that time, Princess Ichi-sama was madly in love with her fiancee when she was 10 years old. However, she continued to study social studies, political economy, industry, agriculture, and all other fields. And was praised as the [Princess of Efforts].
And even though her appearance isnāt as healing as the second princess or Sabine-chan, sheās a sufficiently beautiful woman with a distinguished and dignified feeling to her that seems to be strong-willed as a noble or royalty.
Itās just that the direction is differentā¦ Yes, sheās a beauty in Iris-samaās direction.
ā¦ā¦Nevertheless, it seems that they still come from other countries occasionally, but it seems that the king stopped them all and crushed their hopesā¦ā¦
And Sabine-chan, who was originally a genius, deliberately imitated the good parts of both the efforts of the first princess and the second princess, who has a little naturalness and is pampered without any trouble. It seems that she has become the genius little devil Sabine-chan that she is todayā¦ā¦
ā¦ā¦What the hell is she doing!!
ā¦ā¦No, well, anyway, to Princess Ichi-sama, Alexis-sama, who is the eldest son of the Marquis Bozes family and a peerage noble in terms of family status, age, ability, and good looks. Thatās why heās a good match for her.
ā¦On the contrary, no matter how much heās the eldest son of the Marquis family and has his own title, Alexis-sama is a little less powerful than his younger brother whoāll take over his familyās house, while he himself is a Viscount, but his family is broadā¦ So if the royal family wants it, a marriage would be no problem.
Heās the son of Marquis Bozes, who will be in a position to support this country from now on, and heās the older brother of Theodore-sama, who will inherit the Marquisā house in the future. The brothers are very close as wellā¦
āā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā
Ah, Marquis Bozes-sama, heās stuck in a daze, isnāt he?
Is it really that surprising?
Princess Ichi-sama, had a pretty visible attitude all this timeā¦ā¦